From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for April 5, 1971:

• A bill to lower the legal dividing line between male juveniles and adults from 18 to 16 was struck down by the Kansas House. The bill, which had previously passed the Senate, was defeated 59-53. “The juvenile judges don’t want to go with this solution,” said one representative. “THey wish they had the facilities, but they don’t.” Another mentioned the common complaint that 16- and 17-year-old juveniles under present law committed “offense after offense because nothing can be done with them.”
• Lawrence public school students were scheduled to get one day less of spring vacation due to an excess of snow days earlier in the year. Students were to be dismissed from classes all day Friday, but were to return Monday morning. St. John’s students were being dismissed at noon Thursday and returning to school Tuesday morning.
• Nine-year-old Christine Miller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Miller, 1700 La., had received a letter from President Richard Nixon. Christine had written to the President with her concerns about wild horses whose open range lands were disappearing in the West. President Nixon responded with information about an area on the Montana-Wyoming border in which wild horses would be allowed to roam.