A Topeka legislator asked the director of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation for “clarification” on a marijuana field raid in Leavenworth County earlier in the week, saying there was public sentiment that the operation was a “bungled publicity stunt.” Rep. Vic Miller, D-Topeka, made the request to KBI Director Thomas Kelly concerning a raid where an estimated 58,000 plants were cut and burned by KBI agents with no arrests being made. Kansas Atty. Gen. Bob Stephan had taken part in the raid.

Carol Duffy McDowell had resigned as attorney for Friends of Cedar Crest because there was no funding, no contracts and inadequate planning on a project to install a swimming pool at the governor’s mansion in Topeka. There was criticism that the pool was the idea of Karen Carlin, wife of the governor, and that poor planning was a major problem for the estimated $6,000 venture.

Two women who had “borrowed” a golf cart at the Orchards golf course to go to a local watering hole to the north of the project entered diversion agreements to avoid prosecution. They had returned the cart without any damage.