From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Feb. 17, 1971:

• A bill legalizing the sale of mixed drinks in Kansas restaurants was approved by the State and Local Affairs Committee in the Kansas Senate and was to be recommended to the floor of the Senate for passage. The bill stipulated that restaurants that could seat at least 40 patrons and earned at least 50 percent on food sales could served mixed drinks.
• Meanwhile, the Kansas House voted down a proposed change in state law which would have legalized the package sale of 3.2 beer on Sundays.
• Further investigation continued into the cause of the fire which had destroyed a classroom building at Haskell. Four fires had been discovered almost simultaneously in or near Sacajawea Hall, leading Lawrence Fire Chief F. C. Sanders to term the fire’s origin as “suspicious.”