

GLEANINGS FROM AUDUBON BOARD MEETINGS 
By Alice Webster 
IAS is using spot announcements on radio to "advertise" its Food and Shelter 
for Birds" leaflet, Listeners send in one dime to cover costs, Almost 1000 
requests have been received so far, some as far as Texas and New York, 
Helen Wilson will conduct Bird Walks in Grant Park in Chicago every Thursday 
morning from 7:30 am to 8:30 am starting April 18, 25 and May 2, 9, 16, 23, 
The Board approved support for the National Audubon Society in their opposition 
to the construction of a road thru Glover-Archbold Park in Washington, DC. A bill 
for such road has been introduced by Cong. John Kluczynski at the behest of the 
highway lobby, He is a member of the House Roads Sub-Committee, 
Joe Galbreath has moved to Centralia, Ill. from East St. Louis, 
Kay Fohrman will do a series of articles for the Newsletter on the wolf, 
Alligator, Coyote and Bald Eagle, 
A program on Falconry has been promised for the 1969 meeting at Aurora, 
Mr. Vinton Bacon, Genl Supt of the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Chge, 
will be our main speake: at the 1968 fall campout at Kankakee Hotel, 
IAS is now advertising its Sanctuary Signs in Outdoor Illinois Magazine, 
A 17-year old boy arrested in Centralia for Shooting an immature Bald 
Eagle has been fined $25.00. The bird is now at the Illinois State Museum in 
Springfield, Ill, 
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Preston Davies, Education Vice-President, announces that tentative dates 
have been set for the IAS Wildlife Films to be shown at the Field Museum of 
Natural History in Chicago, They are all on Sunday: Oct. 27, Dec. 1, Jan. 12, 
Mar. 23, and Apr. 13. We have been assured that Allan Cruickshank will show his 
magnificent new film "Land of the Giant Cactus" next season, 
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LOOKING FOR AN AUDUBON CREDIT CARD??? Tell us what you've done lately, and 
we'll give you credit, 
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing, because you can only 
do a little. Do what you can.....Sydney Smith 
Found near Grant Park in 1967: Water Birds, Game Birds, and Birds of Prey 
by Chester Reed, 1930. Well marked and personal, If you know who lost this 
book, ask them to call BEELINE of the Chicago Daily News, 
Have you sent in your IAS Volunteer Corps Form? De you know where it is? 
We can use your help on many projects, Ask us for another one if you wish te 
help the Audubon-conservation movement, 
The North Central Audubon Council will meet at George Williams College 
Campus at Lake Geneva, Wisc., on October 12, 1968, Delegates will hear from 
Allan Morgan, Executive Vice-President of the Massa, Audubon Society. 

I.A.S, Newsletter, April 1968-9 - 

