From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Oct. 25, 1971:

• The Douglas County Master Street and Road Plan, then pending adoption, featured three new four-lane freeways for the county. One would have extended from the south edge of Lawrence at Haskell Ave., south to the county line. It would have been built parallel to the existing U.S. 59. The other two freeways would have made a loop around the city, starting at the east county border near K-10 and splitting near the southeast corner of the city, joining again on the northwest, where it would have become U.S. 24 going into Topeka.
• Holly Allen, a 20-year-old sophomore, was crowned the 1971 Haskell Indian Junior College homecoming queen during halftime ceremonies at a recent football game. Holly was a physical education major and the daughter of Coach and Mrs. Noah Allen. She was listed as a member of the Cherokee-Quapaw-Euchee tribes.