40 years ago: Cleanup continues at grocery-store fire site

From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for June 5, 1974:

  • As cleanup efforts continued at the site of the Dillon’s and Calhoun’s fire at 1800 Massachusetts, Fire Chief F. C. Sanders corrected a quote in which he had been reported to say that low water pressure had hampered the firefighters’ work at the scene. Lack of operating hoses had been the culprit, Sanders said today. More than the usual number of trucks had responded to the fire, and off-duty men had been called in, but Sanders said today that the department didn’t have enough manpower on hand at any one time to quell a fire of that size.
  • Martin Dickinson, dean of the Kansas University School of Law, said this week that the “Uncle Jimmy” statue in front of the old law building (now Lippincott Hall) could definitely be expected to be moved when the law school moved to a new building in the fall of 1977. “The alumni feeling has been very strong about moving Uncle Jimmy,” Dickinson said, referring to the 50-year-old statue depicting James W. Green, who had come to KU in 1868 to head up the newly organized department of law. “He has been a very strong part of the law school’s tradition. We don’t know where he will be placed as yet, but he will be somewhere outside in a prominent place.”