Local building continued to lag because of rainy weather and flooding in low areas. Farmers also were being plagued by muddy fields and the inability to get to work.

Luann Corn, 16, was named queen of the Kansas High School Rodeo in Topeka. There had been 28 contestants.

The Kansas Banking Board approved a charter for a fourth bank in Lawrence – an establishment due to be named the University State Bank, located in the Hillcrest Shopping center to the south of the Sears catalog outlet. Approval of the charter for a 13-man group came after local groups had been turned down in 1965 in bids for federal and state charters. Construction was due to begin soon. John Brand Jr., an attorney and one of the 13 in the group, said, “This is great news and we plan to get moving as soon as we can.”