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GIEANINGS FROM RECENT I. A. S. BOARD MEETINGS : 

Full support was urged for THE NATURE PRESERVES BILL, SB 579, and for the proposed 
PESTICIDES CONTROL BILLS, HB 723 and 724. It was felt both of these had a good 
chance for success because of the wonderful work done by the Citizen's Committee 
for Nature Conservation and by Rachel Carson's book, SILENT SPRING. 
It was moved that the I.A.S. join many Chicago civic and conservation organizations 
in opposing the construction of a concrete Music Bowl in Grant Park at Monroe Street 
near the Lake Front. Construction would destroy the present open spaces at the site. 
It was also voted that the Society should go on record as expressing its opposition 
to the payment of any bounties for the killing of any wildlife in Illinois. 
Director Frank McVey was authorized to set up and circulate a new set of I. A. S. 
Native Songbird Slides for distribution to affiliated groups on a loan basis. 
Many of these slides are prize winners taken by Director Alfred Reuss. 
It was voted that the I. A. S. endorse passage of SB 574 - 577, authorizing an 
addition to the state cigarette tax of 1/2 eent to finance an Outdoor Recreational 
and Development Fund for Illinois. 
Paul Schulze, Membership Chairman, reportcd that we gained ten new members in April 
and six more in May. We also added a new affiliate - the Cottage Garden Club of 
Aurora. Our membcrship is up for the year, but figures are incomplcte as yet. 
An International Compact has been arranged between the United States and Great 
Britain to aid the rare Kirtland's Warbler by increasing the area of the special 
habitat it requires. Over 4,000 acres are to be sct aside in the Huron National 
Forest in Michigan. U.S. logging crews will thin out old forest to encourage 
growth of young Jack Pines, preferred by these threatened warblers for nesting. 
Director Betty Groth reported on the " Aid-to-the-Bluebird" Project of the Humblo 
Oil and Refining Company. This spring their Esso Dealers, as a public relations 
gesture, have been passing out gifts-of-the-month to regular customers - houses 
designed especially for Bluebirds - over 1,250,000 of them! 
| Give the Non in Your Life a Necktic This Year | 
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The Prairie Chicken Foundation of Illincis, through the imaginative efforts of a 
sponsoring organization, is offering PRAIRIE CHICKEN NECKTIES for just $2.50 each. 
The modest profit from every sale helps to defray the loan on the Yeatter Prairie 
Chicken Sanctuary and will permit purchase of more preserve lands. The ties come 
in four colors - red, bluc, black, or brovm. Each tie shows two Prairie Chickens 
in flight. Below, a male bird struts through high gress. Here's an ideal gift to 
the outdoorsman you know - or to yourself. Tics are sent POSTPAID; kindly enclose 
payment with ordcr. MAKE CHECKS AND MONEY ORDERS OUT TO TLLINOIS AUDUBON SOCIETY. 
TO: LeRoy Tunstall, Chairman, Book Service Committee, 323 FE. Wesley, Wheaton, Ill. 
Please send me Prairie Chicken Necktics @ $2.50 each. Colors preferred: 
Maroon Blue Black Brovm. Amount enclosed $ 
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