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THE BATTLE FOR THE INDIANA DUNES GOES ON 
DR. WILLIAM J. BEECHER, Director of the Chicago Academy of Sciences, writing in 
the June 12, 1962 issue of THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, declared: "It would be barbaric to 
use the Dunes for anything but a National Monument. . . We have an obligation to 
preserve such an area in our time; we will live to regret it if we do not. The 
Indiana Dunes have the unique value of serving both for recreation and education 
without mutual interference, since it is mostly the beach that is used for the 
former. The determination of Bethlehem Steel to destroy the area designated as 
Unit 2 in the Douglas bill for a National Monument is not even supported by many 
Bethlehem stockholders, Miss Marjorie Barker of Chicago phoned today to tell me 
that she is turning over her June 1 common dividend on 400 shares ($240.00) to 
the Save the Dunes Council, That's news!" 

-- EVEN ON TV -- 
LEN O'CONNOR, outspoken news commentator, must be giving some steel company offi- 
cials and Indiana politicians a good many gray hairs these days. He has been quick 
to expose the falsehoods and double-talk of those who have claimed that (a) the 
Dunes have been levelled (they have not); (b) Northwestern University can get the 
vast amounts of fill it needs only by paying for whole sand dunes (actually, they 
have been offered free fill, all they want, from the Chicago Sanitary District); 
(c) that Indiana mist use the dunes for industrial development (which can be lo- 
cated just as well elsewhore), You can get some more colorful statements by 
tuning in "Len O'Connor Comments" on TV Channel 5 at 12:05 aom. week-nights. 
-- AND IN THE SAVE THE DUNES COUNCIL NEWS 
From the June 1962 Report: "On Jan. 22, 1960, a secret agreement was signed between 
Midwest Steel and the State of Indiana which obligated the state to locate a harbor 
adjacent to Midwest and Bethlehem Stcel Companies. This was before the port bill 
was written, the Port Commission formed, and the site theoretically selected. 
Court proceedings exposed this agreement and revealed the "public hearings" of the 
Indiana Port Commission as a sham. By some strange coincidence, the site selected 
by the Port Commission was the same one specified in the secret deal with Midwest. 
"The Save the Dunes Council attorneys introduced the secret agreement into the 
record of the Senate Intcrior Committee hearings and charged the state with fraud 
and duplicity. The revelations rated prominent coverage in Washington, D.C. papers, 
but not a word in Indiana. (In fact, it has been impossible to get newspapers in 
Indiana to give both sidesof the Dunes National Seashore story.) 
"Indiana now has four harbors on Lake Michigan, shipping 40% more tonnage than 
Chicago harbors. Improvements at existing harbors could handle all of the tonnage 
assumed for Burns Ditch. . e e If we want to save the Duncs, we must defeat the 
Burns Ditch Harbor proposal first. Key members of Congressional Committees have 
publicly stated that no action will be taken on the "Sovo the Dunes" bills until 
the harbor issue is settled. . .« « 
"Even if the Dunes Monument were not in conflict with the harbor site, Burns 
Ditch Harbor should be opposed by citizens everywhere. As long as one cent of 
federal money is to be used, the port is the justifiable business of everyone in 
the 50 states. The effects of conservation do not stop at man-made boundaries. 
Eventually, as stated by the National Park Service, the present Indiana Dunes State 
Park beach would become polluted and the dunes destroyed by overcrowling." 
PLEASE WRITB YOUR OWN SENATORS AND CONGRESSMEN AT ONCE, GIVING YOUR REASONS 
FOR OPPOSING BURNS DITCH HARBOR AND SUPPORTING THE DUNES NATIONAL SEASHORE. 
