From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Mar. 5, 1971:

In what was called “one of the most mind-boggling elections in Lawrence history,” 16 candidates were campaigning for the primary election for the Lawrence School District board of education. The eight candidates who survived the election were to face the voters again at the general election on April 6. Only one current school board member was seeking re-election; all other incumbents had decided against seeking another four-year term. The broad population cross-section of the large slate of candidates was proving confusing for some Lawrence residents. Among the candidates were a Kansas University education professor, a KU student, a self-employed painter, a librarian, a grocer, a housewife, a plumbing superintendent, a highway engineer and a musical instrument businessman. Twenty polling places were to be open for voting, 16 of which would be inside the Lawrence city limits.