From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for March 7, 1975:

• Employees at Craftman Marble Manufacturing Co., 710 E. 22nd, were out of work today after the plant suffered a mid-morning fire. After an alarm was reported to the Lawrence Fire Department at 8:13 a.m., firefighters responded and had the fire extinguished by 9 a.m. The blaze occurred just a month after the company had begun to rebuild its work force after a three-month layoff. The company manufactured bathroom vanity fixtures using a mix of ground marble and epoxy. Workers said the layoff had come in October as the result of a slow-down in the construction industry.
• Two sets of drawings and plans for the two new spans of the Kansas River bridge at Lawrence were ready to be sent today to the Coast Guard and the state division of water resources for approval. It was expected to take anywhere from 90 days to five or six months to get the plans approved by all agencies involved. The approval of the Coast Guard and the Corps of Engineers was necessary because the river was designated as a “navigable” stream by Congress for the purpose of bridge administration.