From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for May 8, 1989:

• Lawrence resident Fred Patterson celebrated his 100th birthday this week with more than a dozen family members, who gathered at the home of Fred and his wife Mary for a family picnic. Patterson said he came of long-lived stock, with a grandmother who lived to be 115 and who hitched up her own horse and buggy without help until the day she died. Patterson said he remembered coming to Lawrence in a covered wagon in 1903, when Massachusetts Street was paved with brick but all the other streets were still dirt. Patterson had worked a number of jobs over his long life, including farming, construction, running a baggage wagon, and working as a pile driver for the railroad.
• A Kansas University senior died this week as a result of internal injuries he received when a soft drink vending machine fell on him in the dining room of Stephenson Scholarship Hall. Lance Foster had passed away at the Kansas University Medical Center. Students at the scholarship hall were planning a memorial service today at the St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center, to precede the funeral services to be held in Foster’s hometown of Stillwater, Oklahoma. Student-run radio station KJHK, where Foster had served as programming director, also aired tributes throughout the day. Foster had been just two weeks from graduating from KU with dual majors in biology and political science; he had been accepted by at least three graduate programs.
• In Washington, a federal committee today rejected a proposal to require seat belts on the nation’s more than 300,000 larger school buses. The committee had concluded that the change would cost $40 million and would save an average of just one life a year.