From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Nov. 13, 1973:

• For the first time, the Lawrence City Commission agreed to take legal action against landlords who failed to correct housing code violations. At their weekly meeting, commissioners had voted 4-1 to prosecute, if necessary, four landlords who had failed to fix code violations discovered almost two years earlier in a survey of 77 houses east of the Kansas University campus. Commissioner Fred Pence, who had voted against the motion to require compliance, said he favored enforcing rules against “unsafe things” but queried, “What’s wrong with a man living in a house with a hole in the plaster?”
• The upcoming Sunday was to be the 88th birthday for Dr. F. C. (Phog) Allen, the well-known Kansas University personality who was considered by many to be the father of basketball coaching. According to a news brief today, Allen had retired in 1955-56 after 39 years as KU’s basketball coach. “A close friend of James Naismith, who invented basketball and once taught here, Allen once told Naismith he was going to become a coach,” today’s article explained. “Naismith told Allen, ‘Forrest, you don’t coach basketball, you just play it.'” Allen had kept busy with clinics and speaking engagements for several years following his retirement, but recently he had been staying at his home at 831 Louisiana St.
• Kansas University’s department of electrical engineering was to dedicate a new laboratory this week. The new lab, only the second of its type in the U.S., was designed to train students in the electric power generation and transmission field. The lab was located in Room 122 of Learned Hall and had been made possible through a gift to KU from the Kansas Power and Light Company.
• The use of studded tires had become legal this week, according to the Kansas Highway Patrol. The tires could be legally used on vehicles until April 15.