From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Sept. 9, 1988:

• Officers from the city-county drug unit this week arrested two local men who had received a shipment of what was believed to be crack, described in an article today as “a highly potent, inexpensive and highly addictive form of cocaine.” Officers had seized a solid, hard lump of the off-white substance, about the size of a tennis ball, at the men’s apartment in the 800 block of Michigan. The substance had been sent to a Kansas Bureau of Investigation laboratory for analysis. If it did turn out to be crack, police believed it was the first time the drug had been confiscated in Lawrence.
• The Overland Park City Council was meeting in special session this week to review a proposal from Kansas University officials to build a $5 million Regents Center there. KU Chancellor Gene Budig had sent a letter to Overland Park Mayor Ed Eilert listing nine conditions that the city was required to meet if the university was to build the new center at 127th Street and Quivira Road. The new facility was to replace the Regents Center that had been operating since 1975 in a former elementary school building at 9900 Mission Road.