From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for April 25, 1971:

• An investigation of a Lawrence business owner ended in the cessation of the man’s $46 monthly aid from the Douglas County Welfare Department. John Tredo, owner of the recently opened Tredo’s Italian Restaurant and Delicatessen, 944 Mass., had received $12,500 from two loans while receiving welfare checks. In addition, Tredo was reported to own his own residence at 832 La. and three motor vehicles. “I asked him,” said Welfare Director John Derrick, “if he had all that money, what in hell was he doing getting money from us. He said he didn’t know.”
• A front-page photo showed a group of Lawrence High School students walking on the Vinland Road leading to Baldwin. The students, hiking from LHS to Douglas County State Lake, had bagged an estimated 1,000 to 1,500 pounds of trash. “Of the original troupe who started about 2 p.m.,” the caption reads, “22 crossed the finish line 15 miles later about 7 p.m.”