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SAVE OUR SHORELINES — SAVE THE DUNES 
By Betty Groth 
Now-or-never success is in sight to save our lakeshore and sand dune heritage 
in Indiana. This area has brought beauty, recreation, and mental and 
physical health to generations of people in the midwest. Today the Indiana 
Dunes are of national and even international importance, but “progress’”’ 
has blinded many, particularly the money-wise, to the basic values involved. 
The long-discussed bill to create an Indiana Sand Dunes National Lake- 
shore along the south end of Lake Michigan was re-introduced in the Senate 
recently. Sponsors of the Senate bill are pushing for quick passage to give 
adequate time for consideration in the House. Please write to your Senators, 
and particularly to the Senate Interior Committee, to act promptly to save 
the dunes. Only with backing of people like you can this proposed National 
Park become law. In 1959 I wrote my first article on this subject, when the 
fate of the dunes was almost sealed. Today, the Save-the-Dunes Council has 
almost worked a conservation miracle, but they need strong public support 
to achieve their goal. This support must come from you. 
The bill authorizes the creation of an 11,800 acre park that will include 
10.8 miles of shoreline and beaches. The park, if Indiana permits, would 
include the Indiana Dunes State Park. Since the proposed park includes 
some land the Inland Steel Company intends for its steel mills, the contro- 
versy which has threatened the bill from the beginning is expected to reach 
major proportions. 
Senator Henry M. Jackson (D. Washington), Chairman of the Interior 
Committee, introduced the bill for himself and Senator Paul H. Douglas 
(D., Illinois), Vance Hartke (D., Indiana), Birch Bayh (D., Indiana), and 
Clinton P. Anderson, (D., New Mexico). The bill is identical to the Indiana 
Dunes National Lakeshore bill which the Senate passed on September 30, 
1964 — lost because the House did not have time to act on it. Therefore, 
we need support from you in letters to your Congressmen in Washington 
and the House Interior Committee. Your part is important. Send your “Dollars 
for the Dunes” to the Save-the-Dunes Council, Box 303, Chesterton, Indiana. 
179 Villa Road, Addison, Ill. 60601 
GOOD MORNING, SPRING! 
By J. W. Galbreath 
Often, when life hangs by a slender thread, the will to live makes the difference 
between survival and extinction of an individual or a species. In the words 
of Dr. Ralph E. Yeatter, dean of Prairie Chicken research in Illinois: ‘‘Pin- 
nated Grouse demonstrate a tenacious spirit to live.” 
From time immemorial, long before any vestige of primitive man gazed 
upon the fields of rolling blue stem, the Prairie Chicken carried out its 
courtship ceremonies in rhythmical harmony with spring. This species typifies 
the true spirit of the freedom and open space it demands; a place to strut 
and boom undisturbed, at peace with nature. 
