IN 1978

Winter had settled into the region in a big way. The ground was covered with snow, lows were in the zero to 10-degree range and the legendary groundhog didn’t even bother to come out to check for a shadow, the skies were so dreary and foreboding.

Three Lawrence state legislators introduced a bill to exempt farm machinery and manufacturing equipment from the city’s half-cent sales tax. The legislators were Reps. Mike Glover and Lloyd Buzzi and Sen. John Vogel.

It appeared that a college tuition tax credit bill might take a back seat to other tax relief measures being considered by the Kansas Legislature. State Rep. Ruth Watkins, D-Topeka, was sponsor of the measure to give middle-income families help financing education costs.

A new $42,000 city trash truck that had been giving maintenance people trouble was to be given a new trial after repairs had been made. There still, however, was City Commission sentiment to send back the “lemon” vehicle and demand a new one that was trouble-free and less costly to operate

IN 1963

Joseph McGuire, professor of business administration at Washington University, Seattle, was named new dean of the Kansas University School of Business. McGuire was succeeding James Surface who recently had been named a KU vice chancellor.

IN 1903

From the Lawrence Daily World of Feb. 2, 1903: “Miss Gertrude Sellards and Miss Elizabeth Sellards will give a card party this evening at their home on Kentucky Street. …

“The Weaver store front is being refinished. When the plaster coat, now being removed, was first put on, it was the swell thing of the town. …

“Several local leaders went to Topeka today for a meeting. We wonder if that could mean trouble for some firms here.”