From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Feb. 8, 1974:

• A bill providing for mandatory revocation of a driver’s license for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs was passed today by the Kansas House, 105-15. The measure would give the judge one option in a case involving driving under the influence. When a person’s livelihood depended on driving, the judge could allow the plaintiff to drive only to and from work, or to drive a vehicle if it was a necessary part of employment. Another bill, which would have made photographs of an applicant mandatory on his or her driver’s license, had been killed by the House, receiving only 47 votes.
• Lawrence drivers were facing a wide range of gasoline prices this week, but all of their choices were 10 to 20 cents higher than the year before. A Journal-World survey showed prices for a gallon of regular gasoline ranging from 39.6 cents at a self-service station to 54.9 cents.
• Skylab 3’s astronauts ended mankind’s longest sojourn in space up to that time, today returning from their 84-day orbital flight which the national space agency said proved “America can do anything in manned space flight that it so desires.”