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

• The Pinckney neighborhood association was planning to ask the Lawrence Traffic Safety Commission to recommend a 20 mph speed limit on Tennessee between Fifth and Sixth and on Fifth between Ohio and Tennessee streets. Suzanne Perry, PNA president, said that the group was concerned about the number of accidents and near-accidents in the area. City Engineer Terese Gardner had submitted a report saying that the average speed in the area was already 22.7 mph (it was a 30 mph zone) and that only two accidents had been official listed for the intersection during a recent four-year period.
• Bill Penny of Penny Concrete Co. said this week he had given up plans to build a satellite plant near Crossgate Drive and Wakarusa Township Road 29-A, but he added that the company would continue to look for a site in western Lawrence. In August, nearly 800 area residents had petitioned the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission to deny Penny’s request to build at the site about half a mile south of Clinton Parkway.
• Results of a statewide survey showed that radon levels in Douglas County homes were slightly below the state average. However, tests of 36 homes in the county revealed that eight had above-average levels of the odorless, radioactive gas — a health risk equivalent to smoking a pack of cigarettes a day, according to authorities.