From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for April 14, 1974:

• Enforcement of the new 55 miles per hour speed limit continued to make a big difference in the number of speeding tickets issued by deputy sheriffs and highway patrolmen. The tickets turned in to Douglas County Court during the first eight days of April were more than double the number for the same time the previous year. Court clerks had received and logged 76 speeding tickets from April 1 to 8 this year, compared with 29 during the first eight days of April, 1973. Thirty-three of this year’s tickets had been issued on the Kansas Turnpike and the other 43 on state or county roads.
• A planned merger of two school district programs was to be discussed at an upcoming open meeting. On the table was a proposed merger of the Image and Trades programs at Lawrence School District 497 into an alternative program for junior high and high school students who were having difficulties in regular classrooms.