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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1969
Page
7
The ruff is a small European wading bird related to sandpipers and plovers, rarer in the New World. Males grow distinctive neck ruffs during mating, while females are called rev ees. They often fight during nesting season, likened to gamecocks, with varied chestnut buff or brown coloring and long beaks used for pecking.
Sylvia Porter notes the sharp drop in American long-distance rail travel by 1969 with through California to New York service fading since 1958. She cites 20 percent postwar losses, 296 million passengers, 1 percent share of long-distance travel by train, and rising car and air use. Proposals include Hartke’s bill to subsidize and modernize rail, plus a private corps to run high speed trains in dense corridors.
Fayette Mississippi mayor Charles Evers says a white city employee and her Negro husband were terminated after their planned marriage. Evers stated he opposed nothing about the union but feared it would complicate his campaign to show Negroes can win elections and govern. The couple, Monroe and Mrs Jenkins, had both worked for the Fayette police and city.
Sen. Walter Mondale of Minnesota urged a reordering of national priorities to focus on hunger health and education during a St. Paul lecture. He criticized delaying hunger relief while funding White House conferences and called for declaring hunger a national disaster.
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