Old home town – 40 years ago today

The Lawrence City Commission was planning to annex 575 more acres and the area of the city was due to be a third larger in a four-month period if all the annexation proposals cleared. The new 575 acres was to boost the 1966 annexation figure to 2,172 acres. The total acreage of the city after all the additions was to be just under 8,200 acres.