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HOW DID YOUR CONGRESSMAN RATE ON THE CONSERVATION SCORECARD? 
The League of Conservation Voters is a newly formed conservation organization that is affiliated with former Sierra Club 
head, David Brower’s, Friends of the Earth. Unlike other groups, the League plans to actively campaign for and against 
politicians, according to their stands on conservation issues. 
Based on ten major conservation votes, the league has compiled a score for all U.S. Congressman; and although this is not a 
score of a congressman’s overall record, it is a good indication of his attitude on conservation issues. The ten votes which were 
used in the ratings include: funding for SST, Timber Supply Bill, clean water appropriations, San Rafael Wilderness area, 
preservation of estuaries, Indiana Dunes Lakeshore boundaries, clean air, mass transit, water pollution control, and reduction 
of funds for Army Engineers construction projects. 
According to the rating system, the highest possible score is plus 28. The highest score made by any congressman was plus 
25 — with honors going to Henry Reuss of Wisconsin and Mrs. Leonor K. Sullivan of Missouri. The booby prize (minus 25) is 
shared by Page Belcher of Oklahoma and IIlinois’s own Leslie Arends. 
The following is the list of Illinois congressmen, an” after the name means that the person was not in Congress during the 
entire scoring period. 
John B. Anderson — minus 13 Robert Michel — minus 12 
Frank Annunzio * — plus 6 Abner Mikva * — plus 6 
Leslie Arends — minus 25 William Murphy — plus 12 
Harold Collier — minus 13 Melvin Price — plus 12 
Phillip Crane *~ — plus 6 Roman Pucinski — plus 15 
William Dawson — plus 3 Tom Railsback * — plus 4 
Edward Derwinski — minus 4 Charlotte Reid ~ — minus 6 
John Erlenborn * — minus 16 Dan Rostenkowski — plus 2 
Paul Findley — minus 16 George Shipley — minus 2 
Kenneth Gray — plus 6 William Springer — O 
John Kluczynski — plus 9 Sidney Yates — plus 16 
Robert McClory * — plus 3 
Ne EC SO Cre Ve a nae OTe 
LITTERING IS EXPENSIVE — The State of Illinois Highway Department finds that is cost an average of $119 per mile 
annually to pick up litter. William Celini, Illinois Public Works Director, has estimated that it costs the taxpayers 63 
cents to pick up each beverage can thrown along the roadside. 
It might become necessary for Illinois to follow the example of British Columbia; that Canadian province now has a 
regulation making all beverage containers returnable. Under the new law, merchants must pay a 2-cent refund on any 
soda or beer bottle, plastic or metal container that is brought back to them. 

WAKE UP ON SLEEPING BEAR DUNES 
THE TIME IS RIPE FOR SAVING SOME OF THE FINEST FRUITS OF OUR OUTDOOR HERITAGE. For over five years 
the fate of the APOSTLE ISLANDS has hung in the balance as a national lakeshore. Private estates on these 12 rock & 
timbered islands in blue Lake Superior want to keep them private, but experience shows that the next generation often sells 
out to the bulldozers. We would like to save an area of this beauty for the generations of Americans to come as a National 
Lakeshore. 
SLEEPING BEAR DUNES has 53,000 acres of wild scenery at stake in HR 11829. Private owners have fought for protection 
for years....and each year with population pressures, the bulldozers move in closer, nibbling at incredibly outstanding 
natural beauty at the tip of Michigan near Minnesota. An exciting report of a fantastic ride at Sleeping Bear in a 
DUNES—MOBILE was captured in writing by Mrs. Samuel S. Holmes, Jr., of Geneva, and sent to Congressman Charlotte 
Reid to encourage appropriation for adequate national protection. 
HOPE 1S HELD FOR PASSAGE OF APPROPRIATIONS IF ENOUGH PUBLIC SUPPORT IS SHOWN. 
THE BIG THICKET IN TEXAS, once 3% million acres, now hang in the balance in the Senate and House with 100,000 acres 
sought as a national park. .. and chain-saws and bulldozers knocking out magnificient virgin pine, beech, etc., rapidly every 
day to try to destroy it before it can get an appropriation for protection. S-4 would save the BIG THICKET with your help. 
Betty Groth, Vice President Conservation 
