From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for May 1, 1986:

• Local Democratic and Republican party officials were already gearing up for Fall 1986 elections. The June 10 filing deadline was less than six weeks away for county and state offices. The four Douglas County seats in the Kansas House and the 1st District seat on the Douglas County Commission were all up for grabs. Lawrence’s three Democratic House incumbents, Rep. Jessie Branson, Rep. John Solbach, and Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, all said they intended to run again but would wait until later to make official announcements.
• The Air Defense Center Federal Credit Union, whose main office was at 603 W. Ninth, had also had a Kansas University campus branch for about 23 years, but the lease for its campus office recently had been terminated by KU. The credit union had received notice from KU officials about two weeks previously that it would have to vacate its office in Carruth-O’Leary Hall by June 30 because the university needed the space.
• May 1, 1986, was “Tax Freedom Day”, which was a day designated by the Tax Foundation (a nonpartisan research organization) as the day on which the average American would have earned enough money since the new year to pay the following year’s tax bill. [Tax Freedom Day in the current year of 2011 was considerably earlier, having been designated as April 12.]