From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for June 11, 1975:

• In its weekly meeting, the Lawrence City Commission voted to rescind a contract with the Veterans of Foreign Wars to purchase land near Second and Indiana, a proposed site for a new city garage. The city had contracted earlier this year to purchase the land from the VFW at a price of $37,000. Some commissioners were having second thoughts about the purchase because of uncertainty over how the Corps of Engineers was going to proceed with development of the nearby riverfront park.
• In other action this week, city commissioners passed the “Mibeck Cancer-stick Motion” by a vote of 3-2, authorizing the placement of a No Smoking sign in the commission meeting room. Commissioner Fred Pence, “calmly puffing at his pipe during the discussion,” mentioned a clause of recent state legislation defining unlawful smoking as the smoking of tobacco. “I’ll start smoking peat moss,” he stated, joining fellow smoker Donald Binns in voting against the motion.