From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Nov. 15, 1973:

• State officials released information today stating that the main tower at the Cooperative Farm Chemicals Association was putting out five times the amount of non-toxic particulate matter allowed by state air quality standards. The second tower, which was already using emission control equipment on an experimental basis, was putting out less than half the allowable level. Reports from CFCA also revealed continual breakdowns and shutdowns of equipment to control toxic fumes from six nitric acid production units. The plant reported 109 hours of production time during October when the fume abatement equipment had not been operating, releasing nitrogen dioxide as a yellow vapor. Although nitrogen dioxide had, according to a state health department handbook, been “independently associated with respiratory diseases,” Kansas officials said they did not regard the reported “down time” of the emissions equipment to be excessive or dangerous.
• Lawrence police had responded to a lost pet this week when a stump tail macaque monkey owned by Jerry Hetherington, 619 1/2 W. 4th St., had broken loose from his chain and headed for a tall tree. According to a photo caption today, “Someone called the police and the city came out with its ‘cherry picker.’ The monkey grabbed a banana from police and returned to the top of the tree. The cherry picker couldn’t get close enough to the evasive macaque, but he eventually came down when his owner came home, and after bystanders backed away. Then he gratefully took a cool glass of milk offered by his owner.”