From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Jan. 20, 1972:

• City Manager Buford Watson announced today that Lawrence had been awarded $104,960 in federal funding for the Holcom Sports Complex. Lawrence Parks and Recreation Director Wayne Bly said that he was “very happy” about the funding but noted that formal approval still needed to come from federal officials. The grants were to be matched 50-50 with city funds. The sports complex was expected to cost roughly $200,000 and was to include four lighted baseball diamonds, bleachers, parking, and a building on a 40-acre tract between 25th and 26th Streets about two blocks west of Iowa.
• Back in December, an accountant in Kansas University’s Strong Hall had noticed a particularly frisky squirrel in the trees outside the window of her second-floor office. She and other workers in her office area recently had cooperated to rig a mop-handle bridge linking a nearby tree with the ledge outside the window, enabling the squirrel to reach food that the women put out for it. The animal had a nest nearby, and its antics continued to provide “a furry bit of sunshine in Strong Hall on gray days like today,” according to an article.