IN 1978

The Haskell Indian Junior College budget had shown a 164 percent increase since 1970. Officials were hoping this and other recent improvements would lead to speedy, all-out accreditation of the school by the nation’s major evaluation entities.

The mycoplasmal pneumonia which had laid so many so low here during the Christmas holiday period seemed to be on the rise throughout the rest of the state, even though the peak apparently had been surpassed locally.

IN 1963

Lawrence’s 1962 fire loss, according to the annual report, was just less than $155,000, unusually high, according to chief F.C. Sanders. Heaviest losses were $50,000 at the First Presbyterian Church, $35,000 at Goble’s Market and $15,000 for a Massachusetts Street apartment locale.

Final figures and last-minute estimates showed that the final building total here ran about $21.5 million during 1962, with Kansas University providing about $10 million of that amount. Second biggest boost came from the $7 million expansion project at the Cooperative Farm Chemicals Assn. plant east of town, a facility no longer in operation in 2003.

IN 1903

From the Lawrence Daily World of Jan. 12, 1903: “John Harrell of Lawrence visited yesterday and said that on Christmas practically everybody was drunk in Hannibal, Mo., where he spent the day. There was not a drunken man reported in Lawrence on Christmas. Prohibition is worth something after all. … Rev. Stauffer, the new English Lutheran minister, makes a mighty nice appearance. … One man we talked to claims to have married his wife while drunk. The fact is, the woman must have been drinking herself.”