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January, February, March, 1970
HEARINGS ON BILL TO PROHIBIT
SHOOTING ANIMALS FROM AIRPLANES
in openitg heai-ng' March 161b on IIR. 15188 b
pttwitd a criminal pcnalty for shoting ,at birds and
anlinals fro'm aitcraft. Congre ssmlan John Dingell (D.,
Mich.), Chirman of the Suborrittee on Fishcries
anid Wik11ifte Conservation of hIlie House Mr-cha t
M\ arine and I-s.heies Coninittee, sJated tiht i More mal1
had be- receiveod on this bill than on any otier leisi
lation before the Committee in the past fourteen years.
Congressman John P. Saylor (R., Pa.), chief spon-
sor of the bill, delivcred an eloquent and forceful plea
for its passage, and proposed strengthening anend-
ments including criminal penalties for anyone who
would hunt a wolf front any motorized vehicle. He
noted that government officials are also involved in
shooting animals from airplanes. H.R. 15188 as intro-
duced would exempt government agencies from its
provisions, but Congressman Saylor, sneaking extem-
poraneously said, Frankly, Mr. Chairman, I am not
sure there should be anty exclusion, He expressed the
view that the Congress should tell the Department of
he Interior to cease mai of their practices, especially
shooting from airplanes.
Congressman Dingell notcd that the Department of
the Interior has given an adverse report on T.R. 15188
and asked Congressman Saylor to comment on this.
Congressman Saylor expressed extreme displeasure
with the Predator and Rodent Control (PARC) people
in the Department, describing them as career employees
dedicated to self-preservation - preserving their Own
jobs and getting a promotion. Congressnian Saylor
asked what kind of people they are who would want
to condoine such pra;tics, lceding onlY itat they
could be classed as hou soli'ns. but questiointg
whehther Tec could be described as human beings.
Cngrestan itngell indicated that the Departnent
*f the Inter'or could expecf stiff quetioning at a future
learing ot polisoning of iAl in its Prt(tor and
Rod-nt Control piogra. H expr eed coicern, too.
aLout the shooftig of Gr'5 ly' ir front a private plane
in Ala wlic t e eat o during a tcreet visit to
the State.
C-ng-retsman Thons M ply ( i a slh), rank-
i tj epbicat me'bet of the Subcoittte, con
ime_ ded Contgrssnan Savyot an statel his desit' to
worltk w itl himr so wQ can get this legisation pa is ed.
it rpoin'e to qutiestioina, Deprtmet of the In
etilor spoktsmen ag-reed th A tht 'k-gslation should be
broadened to include hearr] mn' t a, vll is shooti'
from 'ny mo torial v khi ), r exaiple, mowinbilcs,
's wel as aitcaft 1Howkever, thei I hot it s risd Il it all
he oone byv the state goveirnments.
Congresi jscph Karth, D., linn.) taed fil-
totrior spoikesmen witih 'plaadoxical fe tirotn 'n
asked how much money was being 'pent aniinudy,, ty
the Dcartmetnt on predaltor cortrl. He vais 'itfainned
that 93,340,000 was 'eing spent by the Fderal Gov-
ernment and that cooperatively -with [he funds pro-
vided by the st'ates, the anount was $7,500,000. Poth
federally owned and contract aircraft were used to kill
about 5,000 coyotes last year by shooting fron aircraft.
kiother approxinately 65,000 coyotes were 'killed by
ot'her mteans, mainly poison.
In a spirited col'oquy between Congressman Saylot'
and Conigressmean Dingell concerning deaths of sheep
attributed to predators, Congressmnan Saylor noted
that most such sheep are not lost to predators Rcfer-
ring to the accidental drift of poison in ai Army test,
he pointied out that the Army killed tnore last year than
predators had killed in ten. He eiphasized the very
low fee paid by sheep growers for permitting their shep
to graze oi the Public Lands belonging to the United
States.
Congessman Dav Obey (D., WNis.), a co-sponsor of
HR. 15188, stated in his testimony for the bill that in
the last five years, hunters in one state killed more
wolves than the total now alive in this countiry.
ANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE
Box 3492, Grand Central Station, New York, NY 10017
Vol. 19, No. 1
CRUELTY ELIMINATED AT 1970
WESTINGHOUSE SCIENCE
TALENT SEARCH
Th is air's \Westingliote Science Talent Search ex-
hibition, held Febiary 28, 1970, at the Shorehami
iotel, Washington, D.C, presented the work of the
fol y Filists, none of whosto prodcts caused pain or
stffering Q/ animals. Tio is a tplendid huitntatne pre-
cedent which tvery institution awaiding prize- fo sci-
ence projects and every science fair shoiid emulate.
A report from Dr. Barbara Orlans of the AWI
Scientific Coniittee, who examined the exhibits in
1966, 1967, 1969 and 1970, states in part: Two bi-
ology projects, both on bacteria, were awarded $6,000
and $4,000 each. One of these young boys had nide
his own experiments on pigmentation of certain 1
teria and how it could be altered. Tite other boy stutd-
ied optical diffractio n of bacterial flagella. One enter-
prising youngster obtained some tissue cells and sub-
jected thetm to diffe.ernt tvpesi of vilnatory stress with
a machine he built hi'nself. This work wa- conducted
in his bedroon-indeed most o' these competition pro-
jects are done at homte. Mic-oscopic e'xatintion rc-
vealed various changes in the cell strulcture resulting
from the danaging effects of vibration. The boy thought
thi- may have sorne rlevance to vbratory daiage re-
sulting from the use of hydrailic drills and various
imachine operations in factories. He, like the otler
finalists, received $250 and a five-day expense-free trip
to Washington.
Of two teenagers who studied plants, one grew
tobacco in his garden and at summer camp and tried
to see if he could make the plants immtune to tobacco
o virus. The othr student invsu't',at]A root tipt
of con( te p ojots e' we- on hact'ri DNA, re
geno (on f s'rngle miroscopic orpunmism which the
tucdut et into st-' i'on, and a stdyi , cie.s eif-
ernceo hm- globin, Lt re pigmet of yld-.
Thse exhiits reprent t t'-o petolc cc-tny:' on
tu pval t of Ih,- Wes iutti-oe orIpi 0 i ut intl, pt
it by it-, a5vsor, ec-inut, -etce, btih of whom
(ion! on page 2)
Humane bit being substituted for painful bit by infirmier
Hanitah at Khenisset Souk, Morocco.
For more photographs showing the progress of the hu-
mane bit campaign conducted by The Society for the
Protection of Ainials in North Africa see page 3.
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