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BANS PROGRESSING FOR EDWARDSVILLE MEETING IN MAY 
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he Southwest Chapter, Ridgeway Chapter in Olney and the Kaskaskia Chapter in Centralia are 
1 cooperating to make the Annual Meeting on May sl, 2, 3, one of the most successful. 
he main speaker for the banquet will be Dr. David Gates, the Director of the Missouri 
ytanical Garden (also known as Shaw's Garden) “iu St. 4bouis.. Dr.) Gates has made Shaw's 
irden an outstanding center for ecological research; and he is one of the nation's leading 
ithorities on the "environmental crisis", Our Lieutenant Governor, Paul Simon, has also 
aciously accepted our invitation to speak; and there will be many other interesting guests 
Mthe program, 
lie meeting will be held on the Edwardsville campus of Southern Illinois University. An 
ft exhibit is also being planned, and those interested in exhibiting their work should 
mtact Mrs. June Jones, (Mrs. B. R.), Route 2, Centralia, Illinois 62801. It is hoped that 
ch chapter will be represented at the show. 
you haven't got the European Tree Sparrow on your life list, this will be the time to see 
e€. Field Trips to Pere Marquette State Park, the Mark Twain Wildlife Refuge, Principia 
plege, the Lewis and Clark Park and the Cahokia Mounds State Park are being planned. If 
u have never seen an Indian mound, be sure to visit Cahokia Mounds; one of the mounds 
ere is larger than the great pyramid at Cheops. 
lspecial trip to the Prairie Chicken booming grounds is also being planned if there are 
sough members who sign up. The prairie chicken refuge is about 120 miles east of Edwards- 
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rile in Bogota, Illinois. Those who would like to observe the booming, should plan to stay 
fernight in the area on April 30, so that they can be in the blinds before sunrise on May l. 
| you are interested, write to J. W. Galbreath, 14 Bonanza Dr., Centralia, allise62801.. Bull 
tails of the May meeting will appear in the February issue, 
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IMES IN THE NEWS 
A.S. vice-president, Darlene Fiske, is now a full-fledged cover girl.  Darlene's photograph 
peared in full color on the cover of the St. Louis Glove-Democrat's Sunday magazine supple- 
Int. The newspaper ran a feature story on the special Ozark birding trip which followed the 
gular meeting of the National Audubon nectety Ini St. /Lottas. 
fn Duerr, who serves on the National Affairs Committee of the IAS, was the subject for a 
cent news feature. Instead of going on to get his Ph.D., John has taken a job as a biology 
Structor at the Waubonsee Community College. He feels that he is doing an important job 
the community college level in attacking the average citizen's basic ignorance of ecological 
Mcepts and the value of conservation, 
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RBAGE, GARBAGE EVERYWHERE - Each year our advanced United States technology produces the 
llowing byproducts: 142 million tons of smoke, 7 million junked cars, 20 million tons of 
Ste paper, 48 billion cans, 26 billion bottles, 3 billion tons of waste rock and mill 
Stes, and 50 trillion gallons of hot water, 
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