From the Lawrence Daily World for Sept. 23, 1982: “A number of farmers appeared before the city-county planning commission to seek wider restrictions on the “gobbling up” of farm areas by urban interests.

A new zoning classification intended to solve what some said was an old problem in Lawrence’s older neighborhoods was endorsed by the planning commission endorsement. The commission recommended a compromise plan that would create the 29th zoning district in Lawrence, to restrict most building on the city’s older and smaller original townsites to a maximum of three dwelling units in one building.

Sculptor Dale Eldred, creator of “Salina Piece,” a controversial steel girder production, had been out of the country and the “Piece” lay unassembled, looking for a new home. It had been removed from a spot near Indiana Street south of the campus after protests about its “unsightliness.” Evidence was the assemblage would be relocated to some Kansas University west campus site.