IN 1977

Sam C. Norwood, 30, was found slain near the south bank of the Kansas River in East Lawrence. He had been the manager of the local F.W. Woolworth store. No arrests had been made, although police said they had a strong suspect.

Delays in obtaining title insurance for the site of the planned new city hall threatened to set back the project, city manager Buford Watson said.

The gates on Clinton Dam were officially closed to begin impoundment of water in the new lake four miles southwest of Lawrence. In past times, the emergency filling of the lake had knocked the crest off a number of flood threats. Now the filling was to be “formal” and “official.”

IN 1962

Five deer had been reported hit by Kansas Turnpike travelers in the Lawrence area for the Thanksgiving weekend period, and at least two of the animals were killed. There was uncertainty about the welfare of the other three deer, which had limped off into the underbrush, according to witnesses to the accidents.

IN 1902

From the Lawrence Daily World of Nov. 29, 1902: “It is a great pity that Lane University is to be submerged. It may possibly be better for the school, but it never will find an abiding place where it will be so tenderly nursed and its every interest made paramount as has been done at Lecompton. … Adjutant Gen. Corbin (of Kansas), who has been married a month, advises his fellow officers against getting married. The adjutant general ought to have waited at least a year before making such a declaration. His wife, being new, is probably sensitive, but in a year she will agree with him perfectly.”