25 years ago: Smoking ordinance suggested at commission meeting

From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for June 12, 1986:

  • During the “miscellaneous comments” portion of a recent meeting, Lawrence City Commissioner Ernest Angino suggested that the city consider banning smoking in city-owned buildings. Mike Amyx, the only commissioner who smoked, smiled as he said that he didn’t think the city needed to consider such an ordinance; however, Mayor Sandy Praeger immediately voiced her approval of the idea, while Commissioner Howard Hill said that if it could be made enforceable, he would consider supporting it. According to the article, the proposal eventually might have been expected to “rival recent regulations on handguns and pit bulls for stirring debate.”
  • Sam Campbell, president of local financial services firm Campbell-Becker Inc., announced plans to break ground for the second building in the University Corporate and Research Park in western Lawrence. The company, then operating at 901 Kentucky, would join the Hall-Kimbrell building on the west side of Wakarusa Drive near 15th Street.