From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Dec. 5, 1970:

• The Prairie National Park Advisory Committee in Topeka voted unanimously to ask for introduction of legislation in Congress that would create a Prairie Park in Kansas. The committee did not take a stand on the location or size of such a park, but figures of 30,000 to 50,000 acres has been mentioned. It would be designed to preserve the tall prairie grasses which were then present in a broad belt running north and south through Kansas.
• A letter to the editor was published in response to a recent editorial on “the end of passenger train service.” The letter-writer was surprised that the editor had not mentioned the two cross-country trains still serving Lawrence at that time, the Union Pacific from east to west, and the Santa Fe’s Texas Chief which ran from Chicago to Houston. She went on to praise the well-maintained Pullman and “chair” cars, as well as the efficient, pleasant, and courteous staff, and said that the train was always well filled whenever she took it.