A “crude but very effective” pipe bomb was found and dismantled in a Raytown, Mo., shopping center parking lot just before midnight. The six-inch bomb had been wired to explode at 3 a.m. and would have been capable of blowing out the windows of every shop in the area and killing anyone in a radius of several feet.

Kansas University grounds crews were busily bobbing for pumpkins on campus. As an apparent early-Halloween prank, some unknown persons had filled the Chi Omega fountain with the big orange gourds.

A lawsuit brought by the family of a boy contesting the dress code at a Baldwin school was headed for the Kansas Supreme Court. Craig Cyr, age 11, was not permitted to attend school until his hair was cut.