IN 1977
The Lawrence City Commission gave approval to a final plat for a new 30-acre subdivision, called Westridge Heights, a 19-lot layout at the northwest corner of the Trail Road and Kasold Drive intersections.
J.O. Marzluff and Dan Watkins of Lawrence were scheduled to attend the presidential inauguration of Jimmy Carter in Washington. Marzluff, a retired Navy officer and real estate man, had been at Annapolis as an upper-class mentor when Carter was a midshipman. Watkins, an assistant attorney general, had been a legal counselor for the Carter election campaign in Kansas the preceding fall.
IN 1962
Bob Devaney, head coach at Wyoming, was hired as the new football coach at Nebraska replacing the ousted Bill Jennings. Jennings had since taken an assistantship at Kansas under Jack Mitchell. Devaney had been one of the contenders for the KU job when Mitchell was hired away from Arkansas in November 1957. And just the past season, it had been Devaney's Wyoming team that tied Mitchell's highly touted Bluebonnet Bowl championship team 6-6 in a game in Lawrence.
Lawrence pushed into the $5 million building permit category during 1961, with new home construction leading the way to the record figure.
IN 1902
On Jan. 12, 1902, the Lawrence World asked, "Will Lawrence do any paving this year? The majority of people are in favor of paving, but most of them want it done on some other street. The chances are that the council will order a good deal this summer. Lawrence never has made such progress as has been made the past two years, and it is not likely that there will be a stop now."
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