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SOME ACTIONS ON THE LEGISLATIVE FRONT - Continued 
The OREGON DUNES NATIONAL SEASHORE bill, S. 1137, was cleared by the Senate 
Interior Committee. The measure was amended to provide for a preserve of some 
35,000 acres with a total shoreline length of 31 miles. 
A NEW PESTICIDES bill introduced by Rep. Kenneth Roberts (Ala.) would amend the 
Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act to give the Secretary of Health, Education 
and Welfare control over the registration and labeling of pesticide chemicals 
considered hazardous to humen health. The act also proposes federal grants to 
assist the States "in carrying out programs to protect the public health by con- 
trolling the use of pesticide chemicals..." H.R. 8901 has been referred to the 
House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. 
The OZARK NATIONAL RIVERS bill, S. 16, wes passed by the Senate. It would 
establish a new unit of the Naticnal Park System of some 94,000 acres to protect 
101 miles of the scenic Current River and 39 miles of the tributary Jacks Forks 
in southern Missouri. The House Committee on Netional Parks approved H.R. 1803, 
a similar bill. 
RANDOM ITEMS OF AUDUBON INTEREST 
The flamingoes of the Camergue in the Rhone delta of southern France, the only 
colony breeding in Eurcpe, are destroying the islands as they sccop up mud to 
build their curious nests. Now, aided by a erent from the Yiorld Wildlife Fund, 
the Societe Naticnale de Protecticn de la Neture is going to restore the islands.. 
Governor John i. Reynolds of Visecnsin signed a legislative act that will ban the 
sale of nen-bicdegradable detergents in the state after Dec. 31, 1965.... Five 
thousand pesters asking the public to help "Save the Bald Eagle" are being dis- 
tributed in Michigan by conserveticnists. The posters are designed and sponsored 
by the Michigan and Detroit Audubon Sccietics. 





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