From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Jan. 2, 1972:

According to a poll of Associated Press newspaper editors and radio-television news directors, the top news story in Kansas for the year just ended involved the “spectacular” drug and gambling raids by Atty. Gen. Vern Miller. Miller’s raids, following his campaign pledge to “leap into the hippie-drug commune of Lawrence with both feet,” had included an early-morning visit on Feb. 26, 1971, with 150 law officers which had resulted in the arrests of 30 young people. Coming in at second place was the controversial nuclear waste depository at Lyons, Kansas, and the third choice involved welfare and education cuts in a Republican-dominated legislature. Others in the top ten included the fight for the legalization of bingo, the state’s record wheat crop, and the huge February snowstorm in late February which had shut down businesses across the state and stranded motorists on Kansas highways.