From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for April 23, 1971:

• City officials announced the installation of new traffic signals in nine locations which permitted a so-called “California-style” innovation — a right turn after red. “After the red light,” the article said in explaining the new traffic ordinance, “a driver may come to a stop, check to see if the road is clear and then proceed with the right turn.” The intersections marked for the new traffic pattern were Ninth St. at Vermont, Kentucky, and Tennessee; Eighth at Vermont and Kentucky; Massachusetts at Sixth, 14th and 19th; and Seventh and New Hampshire.
• A Topeka man, fishing for carp in Hughes Lake, a pay lake about six miles west of Lawrence, reeled in a strange fish that he could not then identify. Later encountering game protector Bill Burlew, he asked what the fish was. It proved to be a bowfin, a fish normally found in fresh water in the Mississippi Valley. It was a mystery how the fish had gotten itself into Hughes Lake.