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The Christian Sender monitor Saturday, November \, vm u M \ I *The insidious nature \ / of world pollution . * ir> Stmlhvutit Asm \ .'.MMft UftV, CiCttfRC C. WullftCC i. *.*iieu before beginning a nine* `i l.r third-party proldcnt)l ...i4 ilif tour only ft "/nct-flud- iiosped, however, olher lac* . v,! ro(. I ..mm; increasingly concentrated , t v'.lvr voters, many ol them .n-n or grandchildren in .the titvu, the city has ft Sizable ! riuren* of eastern and south-. >... origin--whose children attend . i Ui.uuls. the liM'i.e "mili" mill vole in . ic Seventh Ward, for ex- ' u contribute. to the re .... T.-c Seventh Ward even V-v.ot pro-mill vole in the n. i dueled by the Youngs* s 0iutmrrt! and Youngs* ' *..\* i i'y, while finding no `. vole from citizens ,.n ; ;;-m, suggests that -. :.t block (hut ques- * ! levy iiK'ii'lines. In par* ' *:;.-l *:ivi-y turned up nega- f'x.r . * r j, -e O. > incomes of less than $0,000 " CCUp'n. w;:h less than an eighth* i vdh parochial-school children. ?'-U ` .-.Ij t!.u year arc qulc); to note v-,ttvtiV:y n0 organised opposi?.3-mi)l levy from the who heads up the In* 1 I oh.'-lwoikcrs, says thol "so t:\mntfi, we're not in opposi- * h* t'gjftirh points out, however, r.*l speak for the total union I* r. and that ''undoubtedly some ; ' `I ie` against thv renewal.") ' ' -until I W at least-had Ii-mHS. Continued from Togo 1 at times, have practically shut ofl some It is impossible to estimate their num kinds of Ashing. bers. Far more birds may be involved than have been found so far. Sonic reports speak of 10,000 birds perishing. Certainly, many thousands were involved in the trag edy. ' At this writing, no expert can more lha.n guess what happened. Many birds avo so Swedes Icuni lesson Not all the pollution comes from Sweden. Other Baltic countries contribute to it. But Sweden has loomed a lesson in how bleallh- lly an environmental poison can buiU up to be a serious problem. . emaciated they appear to have starved. Commenting on this, Dr. Bengt Lundli^lin, But did they starve for lack of food or secretary of Sweden's Kcologicul Research were they ill or poisoned and hence un Committee, has explained: . we have able to eat? found tiu.t Die jiic-i c.-uvy levels started to Did strong winds and other bad weather rise in the Nordic environment at the end conditions of recent weeks also play n role? of tile last century [when the wood pulp Some of the species arc molting and hence business, which uses mercury, began]. couldn't fly away from bud weather or a "It took roughly ?0 years before the efletls food-short region. appeared and society was taken by sur Dr. Norman W. Moore, head of the Toxic prise. This could have been avoided if we Chemicals and Wildlife Division of Britain's had continuously followed the levels of Nature Conservancy, says a confluence of heavy metals [which arc poisonous] in the various factors may be involved. Indeed, environment." experts may never know exactly what hap You could say the same thing for lead pened. today. Coming from automobile engine.* and More (jncfttiona umnmvorcd But the incidental finding of the IJCBs has raised the question ot whether more atten tion should be paid to such pollution, quite apart from the bird death mystery. levels 10 to 12 times the amount of PCIis found in bird specimens used in routine monitoring tests were found in eight of nine of the seabirds examined by Nature Con servancy experts. This suggests that rather heavy PCB pollution maybe occurring some where along British coasts. The chemicals were found partly because tests for them are similar to tests for DDT and its relatives. But, in testing for poisons, experts only find, what they look for. Often they haven't looked for PCBs. And il other kinds of poisons are getting into the en vironment, they, too, may go undetected because no one thinks to luck for them. This is how massive mercury poisoning caught Sweden off guard. The deadly metal seems to have come from seed dressings used to protect seeds against fungi ard from various industrial processes. Mercury pollution attracted attention when pheasants and olher birds began dying in unusual num bers about 1063. Subsequent studies found some Industrial processes, the level oi this metal in air is rising. From time to time, reports of this break into the news. But, as yet, no one knows to what extent (he con tamination is spreading or how seriously / to take it. To help And out, a team from Scrlpps Institution of Oceanography has been .sampling "pure" air far at sea to measure the natural background of lead in the at mosphere. Even here, they recently re ported, they find enough lead to indicate pollution. The "pure" air isn't so "pure" after all. The contamination is 100 to 1,000 times less than in San Diego. Still they judge it to be above what they would bclievo to be a historical naturol level. . This merely suggests that lead is spread ing through the lower atmosphere. A lot more research will be noedod to pin down the lead-pollution hazard. But, like mercury, even a slow buildup of environmental lead must be taken very seriously. All of this illustrates the complex nature of man's chemical assault on his environ ment. Recent moves to ban or restrict DDT and related poisons In some countries may give a false impression that this assault is being the poison spread widely, especially Into contained. Important as such steps arc, fish in both fresh end salt water. they scarcely begin to avert the chemical Sweden has taken energetic measures to poison hazard. Indeed, scientists have combat this pollution. It has, for example, scarcely begun (o understand the nature banned mercury seed dressings* It has set and scope of the hazard, let alone figure, standards of contamination for flsh that, out what to do about it. HONS 031625 HJ.S.5 vSits jreotajfiit A-toossw# By the Associated Press Oentvt Til* Tlnfl^.1 >  !\y.. -inu-rl ' Mdtra'JvR, ::* .1! R'v.ith*. lurrrd lh? * >)!;>' -r< h l!i*' *k:j'rviw Cr.'ti lc termed liic rvliug'a "criminal e l*/ the federal governsswU" and ^easlilutkn by the court."' jf Please turn to Pi?c 3 ALA. j-t >IF _ ARK. -ill- FLA. GA, LA.'"'MISS.' N.C. S.C. TENN. TEXAS YA. msidious Mre 'of chemical ipoUmmof^ ii" menaced by pollution , By Robert C- Cowen J . Natural science editor of The Chrlsiinr. Science Monitor i' London Britain's massive, and puzzling, die-off of seabirds a has dramatized the insidious nature of chemical poliu- jj tion. jj While people point accusing lingers at DDT and ? related bug sprays, other poisonous cherVic?.ls spread' jj into our environment unpublieized and virtually unde- | tected. . Tints researchers got something of a surprise to !;*; find that some of the dead birds had heavy body burdens % j|, | fat-luring processes. As with lead from automobile exhaust, asbestos from brake linings, or mercury from seed dressing and in dustry, pollution experts have been aware that the PCBs were a potential problem. Bert little track has been kept of them, so liUJc was known about, their environmental spread. Finding hundreds of parts per million of FC3s in seabirds suggests that Britain, and by implication other countries, may be pouring far more of this class of chemical into tire environment than suspected. ' ' Even the fact the PCB$ may be menacing birds would net have come to light if wildlife experts here were not pushing a crash investigation into the spec tacular seabird.disaster. . Somewhere at sea, a tragedy has been taking place. It was unknown until mid-December when dead and dying birds began washing rshorc. lancing on ships, and dropping out of the sky. They include a number of species -- cormorants, gannets. guillemots, pufiins, razorbills, and shags. "ft* Please turn to Page 13 IVoicnilier 1, 1909 // 1 c z i, to