From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for March 30, 1972:

• Faculty turnover at Kansas University this year was likely not to be as great as had been feared, according to Francis Heller, vice chancellor for academic affairs. The assessment of probable attrition took into account such factors as a 5 percent increase in money for faculty salaries which had been voted by the state legislature as well as general quality of life in Lawrence and at KU. Chancellor Laurence Chalmers said that the recent budget recommendations represented “a return to the more positive tradition in this state.”
• Local doctors returning from a four-day conference at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, were reporting that the medical community now considered cigarette smoking as the No. 1 cause of lung cancer. According to Lawrence surgeon Dr. Wayne Hird, the survival rates for lung cancer with early detection and surgery had recent from 9 percent to 25 percent in the past 20 years, but incidence of smoking was still on the rise. “We have the knowledge, the methods and the equipment to accomplish great things in this field,” Dr. Hird said, “but we are powerless to do this unless we also get cooperation from patients…. Regular exams are imperative if a person is determined to smoke. Any smoker who ignores this advice is risking a long-range form of suicide.”