The Kansas House gave preliminary approval to a corrective severance tax bill and advanced it to a final roll call vote.

Douglas County commissioners, about to make their first public comments on a controversial rock quarry proposal, were using a process their legal counselors termed “cautious.” The commissioners had been pondering the matter privately but seemed near a decision. The site involved about 40 acres some six miles south of Lawrence on the Robert Bigsby property, Neighbors were opposing the venture.