From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for June 10, 1990:

• Crowds were enjoying the fifth annual Tonganoxie Days celebration this week at the Leavenworth County Fairgrounds. The festival included a “gunfighter competition,” a Miss Tonganoxie Days Pageant for girls 8 years and younger, and a rodeo, in addition to more than 130 crafts and concession vendors. Several thousand people had entered the fairgrounds following the opening parade, which had traveled through downtown Tonganoxie.
• A plan designed to standardize prison sentences statewide would have disastrous results, according to Douglas County administrative district judge Mike Malone. Malone said he was “very concerned” about the state Sentencing Commission’s recommendation that Kansas establish a system of specific prison sentence, a plan that would end the practice of judges having discretion in sentencing defendants. The plan would also abolish parole and time off for good behavior. “I’m opposed to grid sentencing,” Malone said. “The cure is worse than the illness. The illness, of course, is that there’s too much discretion in the courts. But I don’t necessarily feel that disparity is bad.”