IN 1978 – The Douglas County Commission approved a change in construction standards for roads serving rural homes. The vote was considered a break for homeowners because it allowed “less permanent” roads that would cost less to install.

Hearing not a single word of public opposition, members of the city-county planning commission gave a favorable recommendation to Southwestern Bell’s proposed telecommunications tower in downtown Lawrence. There earlier had been objections to the proposed spire as a potential eyesore and “environment blight.”

IN 1963 – Engineers were instructed to begin drawing plans for a Kaw River bridge at Eudora, even though financing had not been completed by the Douglas and Leavenworth county commissioners. The old bridge had been out of use since an ice jam wrecked it in late January 1962.

IN 1903 – From the Lawrence Daily World of May 27, 1903: “The rains came down terribly hard last night and the river was higher this morning than it has been this spring. Trainmen on the Rock Island trains report a three-mile washout on the Union Pacific near Brookfield, Mo. Union Pacific through trains received orders today to run on the Rock Island track from Topeka to Limon, Colo. There are many problems of transportation and our streets are quite messy. … Dr. (Frank) Strong returned this morning from a two-weeks trip through the east where he had been looking over men who have made application for positions on the Kansas University faculty. Ten men will be added to the faculty this year. Chancellor Strong recommends people to the board of regents and they make the selections.”