From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for June 29, 1971:

• The Kansas University reclamation center, unofficially known as the “whomper,” was in danger of fading away due to lack of funds. The program, which had been started in 1970, was focused on the crushing and recycling of cans and bottles. The Kansas Union had been paying for 55 hours of labor a week at the site, and the KU Student Executive Committee had recently voted to extend financial aid to the program. The whomper was recycling only a very small percentage of cans and bottles discarded in the city, perhaps as little as one-half of one percent. More public response was needed for the program to become self-sustaining.
• A local man had suffered cuts and bruises when a small wagon he had been pulling was run over by a switch engine. The man had failed to immediately let go of the wagon’s handle and had been pulled back into the side of the engine. The man told Lawrence police that he had failed to see the train coming.