IN 1977 – City administrators suggested setting up new staff positions, including that of staff attorney. The feeling was that consulting attorneys should be phased out and a full-time city lawyer should be available.

The Douglas County Commission agreed to assist Lawrence School District 497 in seeking federal funds to build an $800,000 indoor-outdoor swimming pool at Lawrence High for year-round use. A Johnson County architect was approved as planned for the proposed project.

The 4.93 percent pay boost granted school district administrators meant half of those 38 people covered by the move were making $20,000 a year or more. Topping the list was Supt. Carl Knox with a $34,900 annual salary.

The school board stuck to a previous decision against increasing textbook rental fees for secondary school students.

Investigators were still trying to determine the cause of a $450,000 fire at the Royal College Shoe Store at 837 Mass.

Kansas University’s libraries seemed unlikely to get as much financial help as had been requested. A board of regents committee had sharply slashed the KU bid and it did not appear likely there would be much chance for appeal.

Kansas Gov. Robert Bennett named Kansas University chancellor emeritus Raymond Nichols to the Kansas Advisory Council on Aging.

IN 1962 – Lynn Peddicord was elected governor of Sunflower Girls’ State in session at Kansas University.

The Kansas Board of Regents announced the sale of $1.95 million in Kansas University dormitory bonds for a 645-student unit in the complex east of Iowa and south of 15th Street. No name had been assigned to the facility.

Rains were due to delay new harvest activity here. There had been some unusually early wheat loads brought to local elevators, then there had been hardly any activity for about a week. Now the rain was due to cause more delays.

IN 1902 – On June 17, 1902, the Lawrence Journal noted the competition for the location of the first federal building in the city when it commented, “The Federal building in Lawrence is no dream; bring on your sites and name your price.” The eventual location would be the northwest corner of Winthrop (now Seventh) and New Hampshire streets.