From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for June 27, 1974:

• The Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission this week voted 4-3 to deny general commercial zoning for five lots on the west side of the 500 block of Florida Street behind what was then Wood’s Lumber. The rezoning effort had attracted the objections of nearby property owners. Lucinda Eaves, 500 Fla., said, “I think it would be better if we’d have some single-family dwellings.” Maxine Newman, 415 Illinois, disagreed strongly with the lumber store owner’s contention that his expansion plans represented “progress.” “I cannot see business encroaching on a residential area,” Newman said. “We don’t need any more business in the Pinckney area.” In other action, the commission unanimously denied industrial zoning for Homer Fickel of a nine-acre tract near Big Springs and unanimously approved a preliminary plat for Yankee Tank Subdivision Estates, the first major subdivision in the Clinton Lake area.
• A recent survey by the Kansas Center for Regional Progress showed that several Kansas towns with populations under $50,000 were underserved by medical professionals. Nine towns and cities in the Lawrence area indicated a need for more doctors in their communities, according to Jim Childe, director of the center. The survey showed that Eudora, DeSoto, Oskaloosa, Ottawa, Winchester, and Osawatomie each were in need of a general practitioner. Perry needed a general practitioner and an osteopath; Valley Falls needed two GPs and an osteopath, and Olathe was in need of 32 doctors of all descriptions. One problem in the past, Childe said, had been that efforts by rural areas and small towns to get doctors were mostly “a hit and miss affair,” with communities relying on local residents going to medical school.