From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Jan. 25, 1986:

• Employees of a Mexican restaurant located at 2600 Iowa were dismayed when their salad bar disappeared. The bar on wheels, valued at the time at $200, had vanished after employees had placed it outside the back of the restaurant to drain. Police were investigating the incident.
• A representative of Hall-Kimbrell Services Inc., a Lawrence-based environmental engineering firm, spoke about the Environmental Protection Agency’s recently announced plan to reduce the use of asbestos nationwide. The EPA’s plan would have banned all new uses of the cancer-causing material, but it didn’t address existing asbestos. It was expected to take up to a year for the EPA to implement the ban.
• Two native Kansans were honored in Topeka by the Native Sons and Daughters of Kansas. U.S. District Court Judge Richard D. Rogers of Topeka was cited as Distinguished Kansan of the Year, while composer, author and internationally acclaimed photographer Gordon Parks was recognized as Kansan of the Year.