16 ILLINOIS AUDUBON BULLETIN 
Kay Scharf presenting first place elementary 
school plaque to Ron Starke, student at 
Marengo Elementary School; science instructor 
Dale Ward looks on. 
OH YEAH? 
PIERRE, SOUTH DAKOTA — A bird is more than some flesh and 
feathers on the wing. Equity Oil Company learned that the hard way 
last fall when a federal judge ordered it to pay $500 for each of 
fourteen waterfowl which drowned in an uncovered oil pit. 
Federal Judge Willis Ritter, Salt Lake City, Utah, fined the com- 
pany $7000 for unlawfully killing migratory game birds by not cover- 
ing an oil pit in the Ashley Creek Oil Field in northwestern Utah. The 
U.S. Attorney said that 13 ducks and an egret mistook the oil for water 
and drowned when they landed on the small pond. 
