From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Feb. 17, 1975:

• The Lawrence area was resting between storms today, recovering from a recent ice storm while awaiting an expected snow storm tonight and tomorrow. City and county road crews had been salting, sanding, and blading roads throughout the weekend and all byways were reported “cleared or passable” this morning. However, the city expected trouble if the next storm lived up to its forecast. Lawrence was running short of salt and probably would not be able to get more before the storm arrived, said Arnold Wiley, city street superintendent, today. Wiley said Hutchinson, where the salt was stored, had been hit hard by an eight-inch snowfall and was using large supplies there. Lawrence was unable to stockpile much salt because there was no place to store it, Wiley said.
• In New York City, Fire Commissioner John O’Hagan was worried about the lack of automatic sprinkler systems in many of the city’s high-rises. “I’d sleep a lot better at night if the World Trade Center had sprinklers,” O’Hagan had stated the previous week. Although required in some states, the automated systems were not mandatory under the city’s fire codes. When flames had broken out in the World Trade Center’s north tower two days earlier, the blaze had spread to parts of six floors before it had been contained.