From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Feb. 10, 1975:

• The Lawrence City Commission was scheduled to hear a report this week on whether a petition for a referendum on the location of the city maintenance garage contained enough signatures to call for an election. At the previous week’s meeting, commissioners had denied a referendum vote on the grounds the location was not a legislative matter. The decision was expected to be argued today in Douglas County District Court, along with a hearing to determine if an injunction should be filed to stop the city from continuing work on the project. The referendum petition and the injunction petition had been filed by residents of the Pinckney and Old West Lawrence neighborhoods.
• Alf M. Landon, former Kansas governor and 1936 presidential nominee, was invited this week to meet President Gerald Ford during the President’s upcoming visit to Topeka. The White House had called Landon three days earlier to extend the special invitation to the 87-year-old Topeka resident, who was planning to bring a souvenir to the meeting. Landon had a program from a 1933 Michigan-Ohio State football game which contained a picture of Ford, who played for Michigan, and F. B. Conrad, manager of the Topeka plant of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., who played for Ohio State. Landon said today he was planning to ask Ford to autograph the program for Conrad.