From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for June 12, 1988:

• Parents of children with hearing impairments were planning to attend the next meeting of the Lawrence school board to propose the creation of a task force to develop a long-term placement plan for their children. The plan would cover preschool through high school. One parent wrote in a letter to the board that such a plan would “alleviate our seemingly yearly struggle for a stable learning environment for our children.” In other action, the board was to consider approving increases in textbook rental fees, from $11.50 to $13 for kindergarten fees and from $23 to $26 for grades one through 12. Also on the agenda: The approval of the purchase of “micro computer equipment” for the business education department at Lawrence High School, office furniture totaling $12,213 at Kennedy School, and three new gymnasium scoreboards, two for LHS and one for Central Junior High, with a total cost of $6,490.
• The Kansas Geological Survey was soon to release an analysis of rocks taken from a 11,400-foot well drilled into a billion-year-old Kansas rock formation. Texaco officials had turned the ancient rocks over to the KGS from a well dug in 1984 on a farm in Washington County. “We’re looking at history that has never been seen,” said Lee Gerhard, director of the survey. “We’re looking back a billion years into Kansas history.”