IN 1977

The Baldwin City Council decided to negotiate with low bidders on the city’s proposed water pipeline to try to reduce the project’s costs. The line was to be fed to Baldwin via the new Clinton Water Treatment Plant being built in Lawrence.

The director of the state property valuation division indicated Douglas County might be lagging behind as much as 90 percent of the state’s other counties in work on the division’s plan for gradual reappraisal of real estate.

Anderson Construction Co. said it still hoped the first of two new bridge spans over the Kansas River could be open by Dec. 15.

The 1977 corn crop was almost in, and yields in Douglas County in some cases were double what they had been the year before even though the total acreage was down. When they weren’t busy with fall tilling and planting, county farmers were keeping an eye on the markets to see best how to handle their crops for marketing.

After salary adjustments resulting form a recent pay study, 10 Lawrence city administrators were earning more than $20,000 a year. An additional 22 city workers were topping $15,000 a year.

IN 1962

A membership drive got under way for a 7-acre Holiday Park living area, west of Ninth Street and Lawrence Avenue, which was to include a swimming pool.

A spokesman for Asian Indian students at Kansas University said the students would return to India regardless of their education status if the country needed them for the increased border fighting with Communist China.

Ronald West of Eudora, claiming he was a staunch Democrat, arrived at the Eudora City Hall on Election Day riding a donkey he said was named Harry Truman. Understandably, his voting process drew quite a bit of areawide attention. West said he voted “strictly Democratic.”

IN 1902

From the Lawrence Daily World of Nov. 6, 1902: “The election result was not in any sense a surprise. The entire Republican ticket was elected, and that was expected. The vote was distressingly small, and the interest was not great. The average voter was so well satisfied with things as they are that he stayed at home and left his more interested brothers to do the work. . . . In Douglas County, the vote was smaller than it has been in years, but the result was the same, and Eudora elected a Republican ticket for the first time in years. Rep. Bowersock did not get the unanimous vote he should have, but he won handily and should be considered for election to the U.S. Senate. Generally, Republicans made great gains throughout Kansas.”