City commissioners declined to consider a request to review the animal control ordinance. A Kansas University graduate student had requested the commission to revise the ordinance to allow pet miniature pigs in the city.

A newly elected school board member, as well as some other people involved in the reorganization, were protesting that the board had moved too quickly in its recent decisions to expand some existing schools and not build new schools right away. The board president insisted that the overcrowded buildings and increased enrollment created a situation that required quick decisions.

The Lawrence Paper Co. withdrew its recent request for $2 million in industrial revenue bonds. The firm’s treasurer said that the firm had discovered an accounting error and a misinterpretation of the IRB rules and that it could not seek additional bonds without exceeding an IRS limitation.