298 HUMANE TREATMENT OF ANIMALS USED IN RESEARCH 
This legislation is sorely needed and long overdue, and we hope you make every 
effort to speed the enactment of this bill into law. 
Sincerely yours, 
Lee T. Dixon, 
President, Business & Professional Women, 
All Souls Unitarian Church. 
Ontario County Society 
foe the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Inc., 
Geneva, N.Y., July 19, 1962. 
Copy of resolution passed by the board of directors of the Ontario County SPCA, 
Inc., at their regular meeting held in Canandaigua, N.Y., on January 16, 1961 
“Resolved, That this society approves and supports the hill which provides for 
the supervision of vivisection as embodied in H.R. 1937 (also referred to as the 
Cooper bill) ; and be it further 
“ Resolved , That the secretary of this society convey this information to the 
Honorable Oren Harris, of the House of Representatives, and urge that hearings 
be held on this bill as soon as possible.” 
Catharine B. Mellen, Secretary. 
Sparks Humane Society, 
July 16, 1962. 
Resolved, That the Sparks Humane Society, of Sparks, Nev., go on record 
as favoring the passage of H.R. 1937, authorized by U.S. Representative Martha 
Griffiths, providing for the proper treatment of animals used in experimentation 
and the society further urges its members to write to their individual congres- 
sional Representatives requesting favorable consideration of this legislation. 
Art Riggle, President. 
Resolution of Paramus Animal Welfare Society 
Whereas the Paramus Animal Welfare Society was founded to encourage the 
education of the people of the borough of Paramus and the public generally in 
the humane care of dogs and other animals, to serve animal welfare, to help 
find them homes when necessary, and to combat any activities which may be det- 
rimental to the welfare or humane treatment of dogs, cats, and other animals: 
and 
Whereas the members of the Paramus Animal Welfare Society finds the 
bill H.R. 1937, sponsored by the Honorable Martha Griffiths on the human 
treatment of experimental animals or animals used for experimental purposes 
by research laboratories, necessary to the protection and furtherance of humane 
care of such animals : Now, therefore, 
The members of said Paramus Animal Welfare Society proclaim their com- 
plete support and agreement with said bill, H.R. 1937, and its prompt enactment 
into law by the Government of the United States of America. 
Respectfully submitted. 
E. C. Lindenmeyer, Recording Secretary. 
Columbia County Humane Society, 
Portage, Wis., February 9, 1962. 
Mrs. Christine Stevens, 
New York 22, N.Y.: 
The Columbia County Humane Society unanimously has passed a resolution 
urging the passage of bill H.R. 1937. 
Mrs. E. P. Andrews, 
Secretary, Columbia County Humane Society. 
