Old Home Town – 40 years ago
A record enrollment in the Baldwin City school district topped estimates by at least 80. The total was listed at 924.
A 58-year-old man committed suicide by hanging himself at the Douglas County Jail. He had been arrested for drunken driving.
The special nine-day teal season opened here, and most local hunters reported good flights and full bags of ducks.
The summer of 1967 was officially placed on the books as one of the mildest on record here. Resort-like morning temperatures had been more the rule than the exception, and rainfall had been ample though erratic.

