From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Oct. 2, 1971:

An employee of B. A. Green Construction Co. had fallen from the second floor of the new city library, under construction at Seventh and Vermont. Meliton Guana, 36, of 1030 N.J., had fallen about 20 feet, suffering several broken bones in his back and shoulder area, and was reported to be in fair condition at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.

The Cooperative Farm Chemicals Assn. fertilizer plant on Highway 10 had been making efforts to clean up their emissions. After the orange-tinted smoke and the white mist emitted from the plant had been the subject of numerous letters to the Journal-World editor, the plant’s general manager had ordered equipment to eliminate the orange smoke. The system was priced at around $100,000, he said. The system for removing the white smoke from the air was still a year or two away, he said.