From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Jan. 26, 1974:

• The number of roads in Douglas County eligible for federal secondary road construction funds were in danger of being cut by 50 percent in the coming two years. The Federal Highways Act of 1973 required roads on the secondary system to be designated “rural major collector routes,” or road connecting minor country roads with major highways. A recent study would reduce the state secondary system from 22,000 miles to 7,300 miles, according to Glenn Koontz, director of secondary roads for the Kansas Highway Department.
• Don Elliott and Judith Ann Cox were found guilty this morning of using pinball machines as gambling devices. The two had been cited in July after agents of the Kansas Attorney General had impounded three pinball machines, which they said had been used for gambling.