From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for March 13, 1975:

• The Kansas House of Representatives today approved a measure reducing the age requirement for city commission candidates from 25 to 18 years. The bill, which received only 18 negative votes, also reduced the city residency requirement from three years to 20 days, which was the residency period for a citizen to register to vote. Today’s House action had passed the Senate the previous week. The bill brought city candidate requirements in line with requirements for state officials, but it applied only to first- and second-class cities.
• Estimated construction costs for the proposed new Lawrence hospital were possibly more than $2 million higher than earlier figures, and officials and architects were now trying to figure out ways to reduce the costs. “When you face something like this, you either have to reduce the size of the project or reduce the quality and this is a rather uncomfortable position,” an unnamed source close to the project told the Journal-World.