IN 1963

John Anderson, Republican from Johnson County, began his second two-year term as governor of Kansas with a plea for states to keep government as close to the people as possible to prevent power from being drained to Washington.

The third phase of the free public oral polio vaccine program began here.

IN 1903

From the Lawrence Daily World of Jan. 15, 1903: “Winfield is about to lose the Carnegie library funding because it cannot agree upon a site. Lawrence has the site selected but no library to date. . . . The matter of establishing a summer school at the university is still under discussion. Something definite will be decided on in the near future, we are told. … This forenoon, John Strong’s buggy was run into by a switch engine in the Union Pacific yards and demolished.”