From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for March 11, 1974:

• Today’s front page featured a photo showing the new “Town Center” sign at Sixth and Massachusetts which was to greet visitors coming over the Kansas River bridge. The newly-landscaped area south of the city’s north entrance was nearly completed, with only the flagpole installation and scaffolding removal left to do. Another page showed another beautification project, the “arcade” on the east side of the 700 block of Massachusetts Street, which was to include planters and benches in the walkway from Massachusetts to the parking lot on the east side of New Hampshire Street.
• Bill Pahdocony, Haskell Junior College personnel officer, bowled a perfect 300 game this week and ended up with a 759 series, helping his team take the lead at the Southwest Bowling Association Tournament this past weekend in Wichita. It was Pahdocony’s first “perfect game” in his 13 years of bowling and marked the first time a 300 had ever been posted in the Southwest tourney. “Things just happened to be going right and I never really started sweating until the end,” Pahdocony said today.