25 years ago: Popular restaurant to reopen under new ownership

From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Jan. 21, 1986:

The Cornucopia Restaurant, which had been closed on Jan. 13, was tentatively scheduled to reopen in late February or early March under new ownership. The partnership of Michael Roark and Ken Creasey said that the name of the restaurant would remain the same and that most menu items would be unchanged.

“Baby John Doe,” the infant who had been found abandoned earlier in the week, was getting a lot of loving attention from the nursing staff at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, whose workers were describing him as “gorgeous” and “adorable.” Meanwhile, police had not yet found the baby’s mother and were still investigating the situation.

Kansas University’s electrical and computer engineering department and the KU Medical Center had been awarded a grant from AT&T. The engineering department was to receive $500,000, while the School of Allied Health at KUMC was slated to get $175,000. Kansas State University’s computer science department was also awarded a $300,000 share in the grant.