From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for July 15, 1989:

• Lawrence stores this week were gearing up for the annual sidewalk sale, which this year would combine merchants’ summer sales with the efforts of nonprofit groups attempting to raise money by selling food and beverages. As many as 20,000 people were expected to attend the one-day event. Suggested store hours, according to Carolyn Church of Downtown Lawrence Inc., were 7 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., but some merchants, such as Maurice’s, 708 Mass., were planning to open as early as 5 a.m. “That means that I will be here at 3:30 along with my staff to get set up and ready,” said Kathy McClung, a store manager at Maurice’s. “We want to be open early so that the people who have to work can have the opportunity to come by.” The Town Crier Bookstore, 930 Mass., and Arensberg Shoes, 825 Mass., were among the stores planning to open according to the Downtown Lawrence start time of 7 a.m. “I don’t care what time you open, people still will be there and will be waiting to get in,” said co-owner Jeff Arensberg. “The time seems to get earlier and earlier each year, so we figured this was early enough.”
• In Atlanta, the AIDS Program of the federal Centers for Disease Control were expecting a call this week that would signify a watershed moment — a report of a case which would put the number of diagnosed AIDS cases in the United States over 100,000. In the eight years since a “bizarre array of seemingly unrelated rare diseases” had been identified in otherwise healthy individuals, the acronym AIDS had become part of the national vocabulary and consciousness. “Although AIDS no longer inspires the frenzied headlines and public hysteria that heralded its arrival, the number of cases continues to rise exponentially,” according to a San Francisco Chronicle article today, reprinted in the Journal-World. “It took 6 1/2 years of the epidemic to get the first 50,000 cases in America; it took only 18 months to get the second 50,000 cases.”