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meets on the third Thursday of each month at the YMCA, 59 East Monroe 
St., Chicago, at noon. Current topics on conservation are discussed .. . 
The National Park Service has announced purchase of 1,567 acre tract of 
land for the new Point Reyes National Seashore near California. About 
3500 feet of ocean front was obtained. The park was dedicated by Mrs. 
Lyndon Johnson in 1966. This investment in America’s future totaled over 
$1,500,000 — paid to a single land-owner. 
The December issue of Living Museum, published by Illinois State 
Museum in Springfield, Ill., carries a story by Barbara Parmalee on the 
hazards which tall TV towers present to migratory birds. In the past, 
Audubon members and scientists were concerned about tall buildings, 
lighthouses and monuments, but these structures present much less a 
menace than do the TV towers. Some structures are responsible for losses 
as high as 300 to 500 birds in a single night. Interested scientists are urged 
to continue to collect data on the subject ... The Bob White Quail has de- 
creased 50% over population figures in 1963. The Illinois Natural History 
Survey is conducting field investigations into the matter . .. Speaker 
Ralph Smith of Alton has appointed State Rep. Carl Klein of Chicago as 
Chairman of the House Water Resource Committee in the General Assembly 
... sam Parr, long-time administrative aid in the Illinois Conservation 
Department died recently of a heart attack ...IAS Board Member Mrs. 
Lee Jens, who is chairman of the IAS Pesticide Committee, was honored 
as Citizen of the Week recently by the Press Publications of DuPage county. 
Mrs. Jens also serves on the Board of the Natural Resources Council of 
Illinois. Secretary of Interior Udall announced that a three-man team of 
specialists from the NPS will go to Tanzania in East Africa to study the 
national park potential of Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest mountain system. 
The team study will be financed by a grant from a private foundation. The 
Kilimanjaro wildlife area is host to elephants, leopards and lions. The 
increasing human population of Africa is having an adverse effect on some 
of the world’s great animals. Poachers and agriculture practices pose 
serious threats to their very survival. Many new African governments are 
not yet educated to the needs of preservation of wildlife and wild areas. 
—.615 Rochdale Circle, Lombard, Ill. 60148 
GRUB CONTROL THAT'S FREE 
Mr. and Mrs. Del Kamin of Des Plaines were much concerned 
last summer when a dozen or two robins converged on their 
back yard daily for more than two months. The flock made small 
holes over the entire lawn. Brown patches showed. 
Damage from robins? Not at all. It was an infestation of 
grubs! The robins were keeping them under control. At times, 
Kamin says, the robins “listened” — standing stock still for five 
to ten minutes — and then they “attacked.” 
