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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1967
Page
11
In San Antonio the zoo cares for a baby wh ooping crane hatched Sunday. Director Fred W. Stark keeps the eight-inch chick in his living room after a first hatchling was lost when Rosie the crane nested. The chick feeds on meal worms and is part of a pair from Rosie and Crip, the captive breeding pair.
Stark says the captive baby whooping crane is healthy and growing fast despite its need for calcium to avoid rickets. The article notes only 13 cranes are in captivity, 43 remain in the wild, with winters spent at the Arkansas National Wildlife Refuge and spring migrations to the Great Slave Lake region in northwestern Canada.
The IRS will name a committee of art experts to review valuations of works donated to museums and other institutions. The panel will help prevent inflated values used for tax deductions. The move comes amid concerns about donor valuations and tax dodges.
Detroit United Auto Workers chief Walter Reuther outlines a broad set of demands to Chrysler including a big wage hike and guaranteed annual income but positions profit sharing as the top objective for a three year contract. He notes productivity gains and company growth benefiting stockholders while workers see no equity.
Washington writer Dick West laments his scrawny neck and asks why male fashion models must be tall and tapered. He visits designer John Weitz in New York to compare a jacket and his padded shoulders and concludes designers favor coat hangers over real bodies. He offers to model a suit for $125 an hour.
Reports from San Francisco London Washington and Detroit feature residents and leaders commenting on social events politics and labor issues. Maria Dietrich hears noise from a party with Fonteyn and Nureyev. Lynda Bird Johnson’s skirt debate draws Harry Fox’s concern. Rep Quillen criticizes Carmichael and riot incitement. Walter Reuther discusses union wage demands. a note mentions lions hunting in prides.
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