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The award was presented on March 8 in a public ceremony at the 
Chicago Natural History Museum by Betty Groth, Vice President for Con- 
servation, to Dr. S. Glidden Baldwin, who accepted on behalf of the Ver- 
milion County Audubon Society. Dr. Baldwin, founder, past president, and 
director of the Society, spearheaded the effort to save the park from strip- 
mine devastation after a telephone tip that the bill had been quietly passed 
by the Legislature in the last few hectic days of June 1963. 
The Dr. Alfred Lewy Memorial Book Award, which consists of $25 
worth of nature books, recognizes the courageous and tireless efforts of 
the Vermilion County Audubon Society to secure thousands of petition 
signatures, alert and win over an indifferent local press, and send out 
warnings that resulted in more than 5,000 protest letters to Governor 
Kerner. Ayrshire Collieres’ second attack on the park was thereby defeated. 
A loyal group of Vermilion County Audubon Society members came 
north with Dr. Baldwin to share well-deserved honors, including his wife, 
President of the Society; H. A. Anderson, a past president; and Mrs. Doris 
Westfall, whose warning bulletin alerted the Illinois Audubon Society to 
join the fight. The award ceremony was followed by the last Audubon 
Wildlife Film of the season, PENGUIN SUMMER, by Dr. Olin Sewall 
Pettingill of Cornell University, Secretary of the National Audubon Society. 
In the interest of conservation education, the Dr. Alfred Lewy Memorial 
Award books are to be distributed to schools and libraries in Vermilion 
County, and a report of this distribution will be sent to the Illinois Audubon 
Society. ; 
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LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION FUND 
SECOND TO THE WILDERNESS BILL in importance is the Land and 
Water Conservation Fund Bill (HR 3846). The Citizens’ Committee on 
Natural Resources states that “More than one million acres of American 
landscape will be engulfed by urban sprawl” this year alone. Beaches, 
campgrounds, state and national parks are already becoming overcrowded. 
Within 35 years the population of America will double. 
The Land and Water Conservation Fund will provide grants-in-aid to 
states on a 50-50 basis and provide for planning, acquiring, developing 
state and local outdoor recreation areas. The bill will permit acquisition 
of private in-holdings within our national parks, national forests, and wild- 
life refuges. It will help to obtain land to save wildlifle species threatened 
with extinction, and will assure development of recreation land near federal 
reservoirs. 
The money will come from fees paid by users of certain federal recrea- 
tion areas and facilities. Taxes now paid on motorboat fuel will be desig- 
nated for the Fund; $25 million should be obtained from this source alone. 
User fees now exist in many areas, including some national parks and 
forests. About $60 million may be obtained from this source. 
The bill is supported by the AFL-CIO, the Izaak Walton League, the 
National Audubon Society, the National Parks Association, American Fish- 
ing Tackle Manufacturers Association, and many other groups. HR 3846 
has passed the House Interior Committee. It should soon be released from: 
the House Rules Committee. It has not yet passed the Senate. The Citizens’ 
Committee on Natural Resources urges all conservationists to support the 
bill by writing to their Congressmen and Senators. 
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