From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for May 9, 1974:

• Grading and approach work began this week on the Mud Creek Bridge located at the Jefferson-Douglas County line. The grading contract, with May, Ransom and Sheetz Contractors Inc., Topeka, had been let in December. The construction contract had been bid three times, but each time the bid had been over the county estimate. The county was now seeking a legal opinion to determine if a recent bid could be negotiated.
• Kansas Insurance Commissioner Fletcher Bell today announced his candidacy for the Republican renomination for the post. Bell was completing his second two-year term as insurance commissioner after serving 13 years in the insurance department.
• In Washington, the House Judiciary Committee opened its historic hearing of evidence on the possible impeachment of President Nixon today and almost immediately voted 31-6 to move into executive session, choosing to receive the “complex and controversial” data joined only by committee staffers and lawyers for the President.