Old home town – 40 years ago today

Only 275 took the year’s second military draft deferment test at Kansas University after more than 2,000 had turned out for the first such test.

Bob Skahan, the veteran, led the KU football Whites to a spring scrimmage victory over the Blues, led by freshman quarterback Bob Douglass. The Whites won by a 16-10 score. Jack Mitchell was KU coach.