From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for April 21, 1971:

• Trouble in River City! The city commissioners of Lawrence had recently voted to allow pool halls to be open on Sundays. The city had had a long-standing and usually-overlooked ordinance banning pool halls from being open between the hours of midnight Saturday to 6 a.m. Monday. The ordinance had not been enforced until recently, when city police had unearthed it and requested that it be respected. However, city legal advisors had told the commissioners that the old law was discriminatory, so the commission passed a new ordinance to repeal the closed-on-Sunday rule.
• In an event which marked the first time the Supreme Court had ruled on an abortion law, the court in a split decision authorized doctors in the District of Columbia to end pregnancies for the sake of the expectant mother’s “mental health.”
• Also in Washington, a member of the House Ways and Means Committee had introduced legislation for a quick hike in the minimum wage from $1.60 to $2.00 per hour.