8 2 HE A U;DiU'B*O N YB Usiei ee re ier 
A Billion Dollars for Natural Resources in Illinois! 
Governor Otto Kerner approves legislation authorizing a refer- 
endum for a bond issue of $1 billion for the development 
and management of the natural resources of Illinois. Attending 
the bill signing ceremonies were: (seated, left to right) Gene 
H. Graves, director, Illinois Department of Business and 
Economic Development; Mrs. Raymond E. Robertson, presi- 
dent, Illinois League of Women Voters; Governor Kerner; 
(back row, left to right) William L. McCullough, president, 
Illinois Association of Park Districts; William L. Rutherford, 
administrative vice president, Forest Park Foundation; Hillard 
D. Morris, president, Illinois Soil and Water Conservation 
District; Vern Greening, representing the Illinois Audubon 
Society; Mrs. Samuel Rome, State Water Resource Chairman, 
Illinois League of Women Voters; Leo G. Windish, past presi- 
dent, Izaak Walton League of America, Illinois Division; 
Gunnar A. Peterson, director, Open Lands Project Welfare 
Council of Metropolitan Chicago; Ace Extrom, Illinois Federa- 
tion of Sportsmen’s Clubs; William T. Lodge, director, Illinois 
Department of Conservation; Dan Malkovich, editor and pub- 
lisher, Outdoor Illinois Magazine; Timothy Soldwedel, chairman, 
advisory board, Illinois Department of Conservation, Clarence 
Klassen, chief sanitary engineer, Department of Public Health; 
Oren Bolin, president, Illinois Federation of Sportsmen’s Clubs; 
and Mrs. Luke Gaule, president, Springfield Garden Club, 
representing the Garden Clubs of Illinois. 
