The city planning department projected a doubling of the non-student population in the next 20 years. Added to an increase in KU students, this would place the total population of Lawrence at 98,500 by the year 1990. Planners accounted for future growth by the development of Clinton Reservoir, the expected growth of Kansas City, and the construction of Kansas City International Airport.

The Board of Directors of the Lawrence United Fund approved a drive goal of $140,845 for the 1970-1971 drive. The funds raised were to meet the needs of the same 13 agencies that had benefited from the previous year’s drive.

Fleetwood Enterprises announced that it would build a new manufacturing plant on a tract near 29th and Haskell. The plant was expected to employ 150 people.

Kansas geologist A. E. Angino appeared before the U.S. Senate Public Works Committee in Washington to urge legislation banning the use of arsenic-producing phosphates in detergents.