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month to 18%o tons in the downtown area. Our paper companies 

 have stopped putting sulphite liquor into two rivers. The collected 

 fly ash is used commercially. We have had our river banks cleaned 

 and beautified with the help of the Outboard Motor Club. I want 

 to stress the point that all this was done on an expenditure of $50, 

 half of which came from the Green Bay, Wisconsin League of Women 

 Voters and half from the Business and Professional Women's Club. 



Industry is wonderful if you force or encourage action. 



Ten thousand children in our park recreation program signed the 

 Litterbug Pledge. Parks compete for cleanliness prizes. They are 

 beautified by the city. Litterbug poster and slogan contests are con- 

 ducted. Children clean our historical markers for Kiwanis Club 

 prizes. 



All organizations belonging to the Mayor's Committee for a 

 Cleaner and More Beautiful Green Bay have projects which they get 

 credit for. There is fine school cooperation. We try to educate 

 the parents through the children. We won a 1965 National Munic- 

 ipal League-Look Magazine All- America City Award this year. We 

 are very proud of that honor. 



The Rt. Rev. CHANDLER STERLING, Dr. PAUL DOUGLASS, and the 

 Rev. WARREN W. OST. The National Council of the Churches of 

 Christ in the U.S.A., through its interdivisional Task Force on Lei- 

 sure and its Commission on A Christian Ministry With People in 

 Leisure-Recreation, on the occasion of the White House Conference 

 on Natural Beauty, May 24-25, 1965, recalling that "the earth 

 is the Lord's and the fulness thereof" and addressing itself to the 

 encouragement of the President of the United States to activate 

 private citizens in their own efforts, restates its commitment and 

 states : 



1 . That the church is, by the obligation of its mission, both con- 

 cerned with and involved in the movement for the preservation of 

 natural resources, as our President has said, "to the inner prosperity 

 of the human spirit." 



2. That the accelerating tempo of urbanization, which deprives 

 man of the beautiful, summons the church to meet the call for the 

 creation of beauty which our heavily industrialized society in the 

 era of advanced technology so desperately needs. 



3. That because the performance of our free economic system 

 provides increasing guarantees of disposable time, money, and energy, 



