Old Home Town – 25 years ago

The Lawrence Chamber of Commerce asked the City Commission to delay consideration of an updated anti-discrimination ordinance until local employers could review the measure more thoroughly.

The Lawrence school board approved the main components of a major five-year capital expenditure plan but held off on deciding whether to buy a bus fleet until the proposal could be studied further.

Former Kansas University Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy was one of the 13 Beta Theta Pi fraternity pledges who returned for a reunion of the noted The Iron Men of Beta from 50 years earlier, 1933.