Old Home Town – 40 years ago

John Derrick, county welfare director, said patients might have to be moved from the Guardian Angel rest home here after the home had been ordered closed by the state.

Plans for the city’s first condominium townhouse project were announced by builder Carl Hird Jr. It was to be at Jana and Holiday drives. There were to be 22 living units to begin with.

Faculty members of the Kansas University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences decided that ROTC programs should be available in some form for students but that there needed to be deep discussion on how much credit such courses should receive. Anti-Vietnam War sentiment had fueled the issue.

Work was continuing on the still-delayed Deerfield School project.