Old Home Town – 40 years ago

Street-paving policy, the impact of Kansas University on taxpayers and discussions of a $10 motor vehicle, or “wheel,” tax were major items during a newly instituted Town Hall discussion here.

A third-generation Kansas University graduate, Martin B. Dickinson Jr., had returned to the KU campus to teach in the School of Law. His mother, father, grandfather and father-in-law were all KU alumni. Dickinson later served as dean of the KU law school.