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I.A.S, PRESIDENT RAYMOND MOSTEK 
PROMPTS NATIONAL ACTION ON "BILLBOARD BLIGHT! 


A recent issue of the National Audubon Society's "Leader Conservation Guide! 
Stated: "President Reymond Mostek of the Illinois sudubon Society is author of 
an article in Outdoor Illinois entitled, 'Can Illinois Control Billboard Blight?! 
At Mr. Mostek's Suggestion, the revival of the National Roadside Council was dis- 
cussed at the Oct. 25-26 meeting of the Nationel Resources Council of America at 
Sugar Loaf Mountain in Maryland, Some action is expected to grow out of it," 
In his article Mr. Mostek raised the following questions: Does one industry have 
any more "right" to pollute a highway than another has a "right" to pollute a 
river? Is the outdoor billboard industry composed of "professional litterbugs?™ 
These are some of the questions that motorists are asking in increasing numbers 
as America re-discovers her past glories, 
Billboard blight cen be reduced in the Prairie State if enough citizens work toward 
that goal, A free sheet of 42 stickers reading "PROTECT AMERICA'S ROADSIDES: 
FIGHT BILLBOARD BLIGHT" will ve scent on request to Raymond Mostek, 615 Rochdale 
Circle, Iombard, Ill, 
THE ICE AGE "ILL ENDURE. ..IF CONGRESS WILLS It 

Or at least remnants of it will, The ICE AGE National Scientific Reserve Bill, 
H.R. 1096, proposing a Naticnel Perk unit in “lisconsin, has been reported favor- 
ably by the House Committee cn Intericr and Insular Affairs, Federal and state- 
owned areas would be useé in a plan to preserve and interpret remnants of the 
glacial age on the Wiseccnsin landscape. 
WE'RE OFF TO THE BIG CITIES 
Census figures reveal that some 60% of us now live in cities. We are becoming a 
haticn of city dwellers, Thirty-one millicn penple now live in the interurban 
super-city along the East Coast frem Portland, Maine, to Richmend, Virginia. 
Similar city belts are developing along the shores of the Great Lakes and on the 
Pacific Coast, 
In four states-New Jersey, New York, California and Massachusetts, over 75% of the 
people live in a "city clustor® cf 50,000 or more inhabitants. Only fcur states 
in the 50 have no urban areas cf 90,900 or more-Alaska, Idaho, Vermont and 
Wyoming, 
LITTER BAGS REDUCE HIGHWAY KILLING 
The Defenders of Wildlife is moaking available plastic litter bags to be used in 
cars for focd and food conteiners and wrappings, Eech year thousands of animals 
are killed on the highweys while scavenging food careless motorists have throw 
there, The bag ig made of heavy guage plastic and measures seven by nine inches, 
You can get one or more of the bags by sending 50 cents fcr exch to Defenders of 
Wildlife, €09 DuPont Circle Building, Vashington, D.C, 
SOME ACTIONS ON THE LEGISLATIVE FRONT 
A "CLEAN AIR ACT," H.R. 6518, setting up a federal progrem for the control of sir 
pollution that would be similer in many respects tc the federal Water Polluticn 
Contrcl act, was passed by the Senate. The bill is now in the hands of a confer- 
ence committee appointed te iron out differences in the House and Senate versicns, 
when finally enacted, this measure will constitute an inportent conservaticn 
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