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DESTRUCTION IN ALLERTON PARK 
One of the important water developments projected by the Federal government 
for Illinois is the Oakley Reservoir. This is to be provided by a dam on the 
Sangamon near the north edge of Decatur, which will back the water up to 
. near Monticello, 
Conservationists in the area, and the State Department of Conservation, are 
pleased with the over-all contemplated results of the project. In addition to 
providing a sizable body of water for consumption and recreation uses, plans 
call for extensive state acquisitions of park lands, and the counties involved, 
Macon and Piatt, generally plan to acquire considerable adjoining land for 
their respective Forest Preserve and Conservation Districts, In addition, 
there is now in process of formation a five-county organization to plan the 
‘ general development, for the public good, of the Sangamon Watershed in this 
general area, The project can and should be the backbone of a substantial 
| reforestration, conservation, park and recreation development in this area, 
and the project as a whole has been and is the object of an encouraging 
amount of cooperative planning by a number of interested governments and 
public spirited bodies, 
As is often the case, however, the project also has its unfortunate aspects 
for conservation. One which has come to public attention is that the reservoir 
Hi will flood approximately 600 acres of lowland in Allerton Park, part, at least, 
Hay of which are low woodlands, which are being used by the University of Illinois 
for research, Apparently no practical method exists to keep the flood from 
il thebe! Tunis! 
The University trustees have reluctantly decided not to oppose the project 
because of the importance of the project to water supply, and recreation. 
- Lloyd F. Latendresse. 
i REPRESENTATIVES FROM ILLINOIS IN 90th CONGRESS - 1967-1968 | 
lM PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, Lyndon B. Johnson, Dem, 
VICE-PRESIDENT, Hubert H. Humphrey, Dem, 
UNITED STATES SENATOR 
Charles Percy, Rep., Kenilworth, 111.--Everett McKinley Dirksen, Rep., Pekin, Ill. 
REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS 
| Dist. DIST. 
1, William L, Dawson, Dem., Chicago 13. Donald Rumsfeld, Rep., Glenview 
2, Barratt O'Hara, Dem., Chicago 1. John N. Erlenborn, Rep., Elmhurst 
3. William T. Murphy, Dem., Chicago 15. Charlotte T. Reid, Rep., Aurora 
4. Edward J. Derwinski, Rep., — 16, John B. Anderson, Rep., Rockford 
South Holland, Chicago 17, Leslie C. Arends, Rep., Melvin 
5. John C. Kluczynski, Dem, Chicago 18, Robert H. Michel, Rep., Peoria 
6. Daniel J, Ronan, Dem., Chicago 19, Thomas Railsback, Rep., Moline 
7. Frank Annunzio, Dem., Chicago 20. Paul Findley, Rep., Pittsfield 
8, Daniel D. Rostenkowski, Dem., Chicago 21, Kenneth J. Gray, Dem., West Frankfort 
9. Sidney R. Yates, Dem., Chicago 22, William L. Springer, Rep., Champaign 
10, Harold R. Collier, Rep., Berwyn 23. George E. Shipley, Dem., Olney | 
11. Roman C. Pucinski, Dem., Chicago 2. Melvin Price, Dem, East St. Louis 
12, Robert McClory, Rep., Lake Bluff 
( NOTE: SAVE THIS LIST FOR READY REFERENCE. CONSERVATIONISTS ARE OFTEN ASKED TO WRITE 
—— HEIR CONGRESSMEN, HOUSE OFFICE BLDG., WASHINGTON, D.C. ) 

