From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for April 30, 1986:

• Krystopher Degenstein, a 9-year-old from Eudora, had recently learned that he had won a top prize in a national coloring contest. “Kritter,” as his family called him, had decided to share his prize – a $500 shopping spree at Wal-Mart – with other children. He said he wanted to use part of the prize to buy toys for the Ronald McDonald House near the Kansas University Medical Center in Kansas City, “just ’cause there’re lots of sick kids out there,” he explained.
• United States officials were stepping up radiation monitoring across the country as the radioactive cloud from the Chernobyl accident spread, but they assured Americans that the radiation would pose little danger to the country. “Be sensible. The sky is not falling. This is a radioactive world,” said former Washington state governor Dixy Lee Ray, who had also served as head of the old Atomic Energy Commission. In Moscow, the Soviet government was acknowledging that two people had died in the accident, but unofficial reports were putting the death toll much higher.