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A PROCLAMATION 
State of [llinots — Executive Department 
WHEREAS, The Illinois Audubon Society has requested 
that the month of October 1965 be known as Hawk and Ow] 
Protection Month in Illinois, and 
WHEREAS, Progressive legislation passed in 1957 and 1959 
concerning the protection of predator birds should not be ignored 
by our citizens, and 
WHEREAS, Extensive damage to agriculture by rats, mice, 
rabbits, squirrels and gophers can be controlled if hunters would 
stop the indiscriminate killing of hawks and owls, those useful 
predators and aids of man, 7 
NOW THEREFORE, I, Otto Kerner, Governor of the State 
of Illinois, do hereby proclaim that the month of October 1965 
be known as HAWK AND OWL PROTECTION MONTH in 
Illinois, and request that all of our citizens, as well as our public 
officials in our 102 counties, uphod the law regarding our predator 
birds. 
In Witness Whereof, | have hereunto set my hand and caused 
the Great Seal of the State of Illinois to be affixed. 
Done at the Capitol, in the City of Springfield, 
the SECOND day of AUGUST, in the Year 
GoigA TL) of Our Lotd one thousand nine hundred and 
sixty-five, and of the State of Illinois the one 
hundred and forty-seventh. 
(Signed) Otto J. Kerner, Governor 
West Suburban Audubon Wildlife Films 
The Du Page Audubon Society, in cooperation with the Rotary Club of 
Wheaton, Illinois, and the National Audubon Society, is presenting a second 
series of Audubon Wildlife Films at Wheaton College. The color movies 
will be shown in Edman Chapel on North Washington Street at the college. 
Adult season tickets are $4.00 each; family season tickets are $9.00, and 
single admissions are $1.00 each, with half prices to students. Each lecture, 
personally narrated by a noted wildlife photographer, begins at 8:00 p.m. 
on the following dates: 
Monday, October 4: New England Saga, by John D. Bulger. 
Wednesday, November 3: Teton Trails, by Charles T. Hotchkiss. 
Wednesday, November 24: Island Treasure, by Walter J. Breckenridge. 
Thursday, February 3, 1966: The Right to Live, by C. P. Lyons. 
Thursday, March 10, 1966: Alberta Outdoors, by Edgar T. Jones. 
Mail orders for tickets should be sent to The Rotary Club of Wheaton, 
c/o Clifford Carrison, 411 S. President Street, Wheaton, Illinois. 
