From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Dec. 18, 1974:

The Lawrence City Commission today voted against Commissioner Barkley Clark’s recommendation that the city exempt persons running for commission from the state requirement to be at least 25 years old and a resident of the city for at least three years. The recommendation only received two votes; four were required for a charter ordinance. Clark had argued that the state law, passed in 1907, was not a “independent act” of the city commission and that there had been many changes since its passage, including women’s suffrage, elimination of property-owning voting restrictions, and the 18-year-old vote. Clark had proposed that the city require an age limit of 21 and a one-year residency, adding that only two Big Eight cities, Manhattan and Stillwater, Okla., had requirements similar to Lawrence’s. Clark also pointed out that there was no age requirements for state legislator or the Governor of Kansas. However, Mayor Jack Rose said that a charter ordinance was an “extraordinary measure” and that if the state made the present law, the state should have the responsibility of changing it.