IN 1977

Kansas Gov. Robert Bennett warned Kansas University officials they could expect their budget requests for occupancy of the medical center’s new hospital to be cut, perhaps sharply. “We simply cannot fund all your requests,” Bennett told KU chancellor Archie Dykes.

City employees, including police officers and firefighters, were to be allowed to live outside Lawrence in specified areas of Douglas County – but not all the county – under a proposal by city administrators. Non-Lawrence residence had been a sticking point with uniformed employees, and the city was trying to include non-city areas that would be acceptable.

Expanded student administration and maintenance of current bus fleet size were the top priorities for Kansas University’s bus service recommended in Lawrence’s comprehensive transit study. The KU on Wheels bus system headed by Steve McMurry contracted with the Lawrence Bus Co. for services. Later, McMurry got into serious trouble because of mishandling of bus operation funds.

IN 1962

Lawrence merchants talked optimistically about the prospects for a banner Christmas shopping season and many were expecting record volumes. Some felt they might go as much as 10 percent beyond their 1961 figures.

Many local residents were going by bus, car and plane to the Kansas-Missouri football game in Columbia where KU was a slight favorite over the Tigers. KU had won in 1960 at Columbia but had to forfeit the win and then had been upset by MU in 1961 at Lawrence prior to going to the Bluebonnet Bowl.

Lawrence’s planning commission OK’d zoning for a shopping center-business area on the northeast corner of Iowa Street at Second Street. However, it delayed action on a policy that would favor light industrial zoning in an area several blocks to the east.

IN 1902

From the Lawrence Daily World of Nov. 25, 1902: “The Union Pacific Football Special for the Kansas-Missouri game in Kansas City on Thanksgiving Day will leave Lawrence at 8:30 a.m. The return trip will leave Kansas City at 11:30 p.m. : The Freshmen of Kansas University will give a class party the coming Friday evening at the I.O.O.F. Hall. : Some fellows pretending to represent a bootblacks union raided the Majors barber shop this morning. They ought all to have been arrested.”