I.A.S. Newsletter, April 1966 - 5 - 
IT COULD BE YOU (Continued) 
publications, including their own "house organ" the AMA 
Journal, condemning the widespread use and misapplication 
of pesticides, In many cases individuals and groups have 
been responsible for educating physicians and town council- 
men to this fact, a responsibility which should be a function 
of state health departments who are Supposed to have the 
clinical means and know-how, 
In the final analysis, it would seem important for every 
conservation group in the Nation to unite to form a most 
audible voice informing and being informed of ALL aspects of 
pesticide and petrochemical pollution. For is it not so that 
the flora, the fauna, the good earth are rapidly being effaced 
or weakened? 
eee Mrs, Alex Kapner 
501 S. Greenwood 
Park Ridge, Illinois 
PESTICIDES MEETING REPORTED 
As the IAS representative, I attended the Pesticides Symposium, 
conducted by the National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, 
during the first week of February, in Washington, D.C. For three straight 
days, we listened to speakers of renown from the Scientific and govern- 
mental worlds, Some spoke of Seolaeical approaches, and others discussed 
new research. Benefits and hazards of pesticides were well covered, 
It was apparent a new spirit is being felt in the pesticides 
controversy, evidenced by the growing approval of integrated control, which 
combines chemical with biological and cultural controls, Chemicals will 
continue to be prominent in the picture, but they not be as major. There 
will be the constant aim to make them mre Specific and bio-degradable. 
This means they will hit only the intended target and will not persist, 
eeee Continued 

