From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Jan. 22, 1975:

• City and county commissioners met this week with Mrs. Raymond Cerf and the owners of Cherry Manor, 3015 W. 31st Street, to discuss the possibility of a county purchase of the nursing home. Emerson Pomeroy, one of five owners of Cherry Manor, said today, “If circumstances were right we would be willing to sell.” He added, however, that the facility was an expensive operation and that the county might not be interested because of the cost. “I’m not sure it’s what they want,” he said. “They may be looking for something less expensive.”
• Nearly one million more Americans had filed new claims for unemployment insurance during the first full week of 1975, the Labor Department in Washington said today, signalling a big jump in the nation’s unemployment rate for January. The department said 970,200 new claims had been filed in the week ending Jan. 11, an increase of 289,000 over the previous week and the highest in any week since unemployment compensation had first been paid in 1937.