From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for June 9, 1973:

• “The days when Americans could use all the energy they wanted, to power everything from air conditioners to can openers, are over,” stated a Journal-World article today. “There is not enough energy to go around.” Physician and local resident Dale Clinton said that he was planning to build a windmill to provide electricity for lights and small appliances in a home that he was building on a farm in Jefferson County. He explained that windmills were “very faithful in Kansas, where the wind is always blowing.”
• A notice today reminded readers that Kansas statutes required all persons driving a tractor or other mechanized equipment on roads between sunset and sunrise must have a driver’s license. The relevant provision (KSA 8-236) said such equipment driven across or along a road at night must be operated by a licensed driver, even if the fields separated by the road were worked as one farm unit.
• Debris in a trailer had caught fire at Anderson Rentals, 812 New Hampshire, with damage to the trailer listed at $25. Other overnight fire calls included a gas tank on a junked car leaking fuel which ignited at Auto Wrecking and Junk Co., 712 E. Ninth, a kitchen fire at 500 Ohio, and a city trash dumpster at Fleetwood Mobile Homes, 807 E. 29th, which had caught fire for unknown reasons.