IN 1977

Heavy overnight rain and hail beat ripening wheat to the ground here. Some locales got nearly four inches of rain and the Pleasant Grove area was particularly hard-hit, with heavy onslaughts of hail. Some people in the area said there had been times during the storm when vision was 10 feet or less. No serious injuries were reported, however.

Local teachers and school board personnel were winding down contract negotiations for the coming year and seemed in general agreement on a salary-benefit package.

Recent heavy rains had left local reservoirs at “surplus” levels, considerably above normal conservation pool levels. Neary Perry Lake was about 2.5 feet above normal.

IN 1962

Among the early registrants pictured signing up for the 10th reunion of the Kansas University Class of 1952 were Dwight Boring Jr., Tom Murphy, Gene Haley, Gene Hurwitz, Ralph King and the Rev. Don Hull, the class president. The reunion was part of KU’s many 90th commencement festivities.

The city was opening the second phase in a three-part program of mass immunization of Douglas County residents against polio with the use of the Sabin oral vaccine. Early response had been weak but the drive had gained momentum.

Lawrence’s Charles Edmondson, former warden of the Kansas State Penitentiary at Lansing, was named a special assistant in the Kansas attorney general’s office. Edmondson, 57, was to head up a new department designed for the investigation of consumer fraud in Kansas.

IN 1902

On June 2, 1902, the Lawrence Journal observed “Edison thinks one of his new inventions is going to knock the horse out of business. The horse has been knocked out of business by every new invention of the kind since the steam cars first began to run, and yet he is doing more work today than he ever did before. The inventors, like the politicians and the circuses, do not live up to their advance notices.”