From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Nov. 28, 1973:

• Extensive cleanup operations today followed an overnight fire at the Lawrence Launderers and Dry Cleaners commercial laundry facility, 10th and New Hampshire. Damage was still being estimated, but company president Robert E. Shmalberg said that only linens used by the commercial leasing department had been affected and that no customer-owned articles had been damaged in the blaze. Three nearly-simultaneous reports of the fire had been called in to dispatchers just after 11:30 p.m., and 34 firefighters had battled for about an hour in freezing temperatures to get the flames under control. (The next day’s Journal-World reported the losses to be estimated at $250,000 and the cause of the blaze to be still undetermined.)
• Don Gardner, referred to as “a city engineering employee with a close involvement in local athletics,” was announced this week as the winner of the first-prize 15-pound turkey in the regular-season Journal-World Football Contest for the previous week. Gardner, who also assisted as a trainer for the Lawrence High and KU football teams, had “missed two games on a slate of upsets and had edged out another two-misser, Mrs. Frank S. Allen of Kansas City, on the basis of the Kansas-Missouri score.” Runner-up Mrs. Allen was to receive a 10-pound turkey as her prize. Upsets had ruled the day in this week’s contest, with Kansas State winning over Colorado, Northwestern over Illinois and Duke over North Carolina. Most turkey-contest entries, however, had picked KU to edge out the Missouri Tigers, which the Jayhawks had achieved with a heart-stopping score of 14-13.