From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Jan. 24, 1971:

• In his State of the Union message to Congress, President Nixon had outlined several goals, including welfare reform with a guaranteed annual income for every family with children, improved health care, and an extra $100 million to help find a cure for cancer. He also proposed reduction and consolidation of the present twelve Cabinet departments to eight and new programs to fight air and water pollution.
• The latest chapter in the continuing story of the tangled intersection at Sixth and Massachusetts unfolded this week when city workers began allowing left turns at Sixth onto Vermont. The pattern of traffic flow had changed six weeks earlier when the traffic coming off the river bridge had been prevented from continuing straight onto Massachusetts. Vehicles had been allowed only to turn right onto Sixth or left onto New Hampshire. After some downtown merchants complained, traffic had been once again allowed to flow directly toward Mass Street.