Union Pacific officials accepted a plan by KU’s rowing crew to move the UP depot from North Lawrence to the south bank of the Kansas River for use as a boathouse. Crew members were planning to dismantle the building stone by stone, and then store the parts until they had raised $236,800 to rebuild the depot on riverfront land.

The management of Ridgeview Estate Mobile Home Park, 1908 E. 19th, were locked in a dispute with the city finance department. The park managers owed over $16,000 to the city for overdue water, sewer and sanitation bills. The park claimed that the bills were from when International Portfolios Inc. had taken over management in 1983. Residents were upset at the prospect of losing water service when they had paid their rent, part of which was supposed to be earmarked for water and sewer services.

A paramedic team from Lawrence had recently won a second-place ranking in a national emergency services competition.