Old Home Town – 40 years ago

A Kansas Board of Regents report showed Kansas University was the only one of the state schools to measure up to enrollment predictions for the fall of 1967, with 15,791 students.

Chairman Odd Williams named a committee of 14 to help work for promotion of the $2.25 million Citizens for Progress bond effort in the Nov. 28 election. At stake were two new fire stations, a public swimming pool, an airport relocation project and a city warehouse-garage.