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REPORT FROM INDIANA 
How The Dunes Battle Was Won 
In a recent newsletter, the Save the Dunes Council told how they won the 
battle to save the Indiana Dunes. Here’s the report: 
It was all due, said the newsletter, to the magnificent team work 
of Indiana Senators Hartke and Bayh, Congressmen Madden and Roush 
and others in both houses of Congress, to kids trudging door-to-door with 
petitions for adult signatures, and to the many friends of the Save the 
Dunes Council. “We were working against time,’ wrote Florence Broady 
in the newsletter, “not knowing what day the Conference committee would 
meet to decide our fate but knowing that it was immenent. 
“In the late afternoon of June 6 word came that the committee would 
meet the next morning. The opposition was rampant, leaving no stone 
unturned to defeat us, but our appeal to members produced results beyond 
our wildest hopes. Telegrams and letters poured into Washington. They 
were running 13 to 1 in our favor! Petitions with thousands of signatures 
urging the appropriation poured into the Save the Dunes mailbox. That 
evening, over 8,200 signatures had been received. Of these, over 5,600 were 
Indiana signatures and all this in less than two weeks! Triumphantly the 
count was telephoned to Washington with copies following by mail to 
prove it.” 
When the Conference Committee men met on June 7 they appropriated 
$1,500,000 for purchase of land in the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. 
The House and Senate promptly passed the appropriation bill and the 
new park was actually on its way. 
But, now, only the first battle has been won. The Council is seeking 
continued support because each year they must send people to Washington 
to plead their case before the committees, especially the House Appropria- 
tions sub-committee. “The $1,500,000 is an adequate beginning,” wrote 
Miss Broady, “but there is still a long way to go. Next year we must 
do better, and the year after that and the year after that ...” 
The Illinois Audubon Society urges its members and friends to support 
the work of the Save the Dunes Council. Contributions and communica- 
tions should be sent to the Council at P.O. Box 303, Chesterton, Indiana. 
A THANK YOU FROM SENATOR HARTKE ... 
In a letter dated July 6, 1967, to the Illinois Audubon Society, Senator 
Vince Hartke of Indiana wrote: 
“Thank you for your kind letter with regard to the appropriations 
to begin land acquisition in the Dunes National Lakeshore. 
