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THE CAPITAL TIMES '" MADISON, rise. 1) 65.7C9 MAY 13 1969 ^ [Ttrilfto at Bearing Berg Shell Co. Game Manager Denies DDT Is Harmful to Wildlife * y >VH1TNEY GOULD^ j GuMy admitted that ht was Gusey acknowledged that fed Stafford called Dr. Hoy w TtaM# no expert m peregrine* and eral monitoring efforts (which Rleobroufh, a marine biologist A Shell Chemical Co. gamt'Other raptor*. He said tha mam* test pesticide content of water, at theUnlveraity ol California at manaper Monday denied that' mai populhtlon of the U. S. was oir and soil) have "anno weak Berkolty, In an effort to pursue the pesticide DDT U a threat tojiD a jcund itate," however, spots,0 partly because by the tha conbntion of industry wit w 11 d 11 (e. and pointed to to Md cited upward trends in the time one report is proparod, nesses that tha real "villain" in icreasts in the populations of(populations of big game, amaU new analysis techniques make it I the Great Pesticide Debate Is jv a r 1 o u birds throughout the U and S. mammals game, and upland game birds, .almost ' jai well U robins in the eutenij obsolete. 4 not DDT. but another compound, tht "PCB," (polychlorinated bi | The w i t n e i s was William (hall of tbs country. The lanky (am. mamger alio phenyl). `Gusey of Rockville, Md.. a wild*] ** look a few potehob at what ho PCBt, plietlebon which an {life specialist with Shell's agrM He attributed a decrease In]'celled "the wildlife and environ* mod widely by ladmtry, an, cultural chemicals division, fohe mallard dugk population prl* mental taterarb," who, ho laid, Ilka DDT, found throughout the j fThe Capital Times reported In* pnarily to the decline in wetlands "haw literally peaeded knot, globe. correctly lest week that Shell Sreas with encroaching urban!' lata tha heeds af chemical com- makes DDT; U does not.) ` jution. (Laboratory experts in police far reported cllecta aa , Gufry, former employe of (which mallards were fed DDT the eavlroamaat that map have the l S. Department of Inter!' [pnd experienced subsequent re* I from tha am at lame nr'& Kurrmi of Sport Fisheries) productive failures were cited chemical.. ,M and Wildlife, and an ex*slaff of' by antLDDT scientists in the "It'a vary aaip la erMetn," luvr with the l.S. Department earlier helf of the hearingi.) Imld Giuey. "Bat erittetsm b .1 of Agriculture's Pesticides Reg* in a review of federal pesti* little vatao II ooma aart of femeulsllon Division, testified at thejcId* regulations procedures, 'dbl aotloa to act offered." Hej stale Natural Resources depart*IGusey aaid there were probably contended that pesticide critic*! Industry witnesses claimed that PCBs also tend to be have much Ukt DDT and tie breakdown products la mUut detection analyses. SUfford Monday brandished recenf researc^'ma tar tali (some of them fr Rtaebrougt mrnt's continuing bearings on a! more registrations for DDT use have failed to provide "advice, ihbnselO. which found that PCBs petition to ban further use of than tor any other pesticide, and or guidance" to chemical com also shared with DDT the caps* DDT in Wisconsin. '"It wooM not-bo ueommoa to panies. "other than carnally." `tty to Induct tnxymea to toe The hearings launched into the third Monday; week o(l perhaps review eight per week." to IS regts- "Aboat tha oaly Ihbg they (ln-1 dually) aver heard wu 'stop,'1 liver. ,. .; ; Rlsebiqugh seld that although , testimony in defense of the em'battled pesticide, by ' or `baa,' " ha complained. "Aadi this wet true, there Is no proof I* e apparent attainpt to la a saasa th"is waaa"T piaorrttleleat*-| at the moment that PCBs alone {lor the chemical industry. oewtar the paUUonon' suggei- larty helpful." i |can cause thin ejgshelti. 1 Witnesses had earlier supporting linked DDT to Itlon that DDT teibtratldn data tl aet ohdata. Guaay naiad thet the]jMBUtDA had la recent years I Ha predicted, however, that i He said ftat aD avaUablo evl- |lnduatry would make protar' luso of taviramnoDtal aaparb In' dence show* that DDE (a break* decline in populations of corulaloumtuatod racommandatlona for the future. birds of prey such as the . DDT use as a mosquito larv* down product of DDT which 1* I stored to the body fat of birds, grin* falcon, whosa calcium cldc and as an Ingredient In fll- mammals and even man) to tabolism was said to be dis*{ tor fly compounds In sswa| din- In n surprise move late in tha "much more responsible for ruptrd by the pesticide. DDT,' pci planu. afternoon, Madiwm Atty. Vila the thin eggshell phenomenon/j they found, induces anzymte In n denied raftolralion of a pta-j lard SUfford, roprosentlni the than PCB. the bird's liver which brook ,)clde lor dog fly control, he chemical industry, called no an down mi hormpnas and lead lo uid, and curbed lb DDT-for-l advene witness om of till scien thin-shelled CKSW Dutch aim disaaae recommend.- tists who had testiflad .gainst Uons, after tha peatldde was DDT in the first part of tha de tied lo robin mortality. He atao partment's hearings. asserted that federal afenclas have stopped uslnf the pesticide in forests and p*lk ar*a>. MQNS 030A48