From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Jan. 27, 1971:

• After nearly a year’s delay, the city’s new sanitary landfill site on the North Lawrence Flood Control levee received an operating permit. The permit, issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, was valid for a one-year period. After the start of operations at the new site, the old landfill on Drag Strip Road was scheduled to be closed up and fenced off.
• A new report from the U.S. Surgeon General’s office revealed new evidence that cigarette was harmful during pregnancy. Recent research was also providing more evidence that smoking caused lung cancer, bronchitis and emphysema.
• A story from Indiana reported that a female clerk earning $77 a week in the Indianapolis sheriff’s department had been fired for the length of her skirt. Orders had been issued that the minimum length be one inch above the knee, but the woman’s skirts were four inches higher. She objected that she had attempted to lower the hem when the order had come out, but that there hadn’t been enough material in the skirts to do so, and that she could not immediately afford new clothes. The sheriff responded, “Sex crimes have increased since skirts were shortened. I can’t criticize the public if our girls walk around exposed.”