Old Home Town – 25 years ago

Altering the findings of a preliminary report, a New York accounting firm said Kansas University had slightly overestimated its space needs for a planned science-technology library, but added the proposal was well within reason and merited implementation as soon as possible.

The County Commission decided to stay with Blue Cross Blue Shield as its health insurance provider.

A decline in area construction helped push Lawrence’s unemployment rate for April slightly above where it had been a year earlier – 4 percent compared with 3.7 percent in April of 1981.