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...past times, the area teemed with thousands of breeding gulls. Wheeling overhead, they scavenged for dead fish and refuse-and picked the beaches clean. In 1962, William C. Scharf, a biologist at Northwestern Michigan College, counted 2,500 gulls' nests on nearby Bellows Island alone. This spring he found only 300. Why? Scharf partly blames dune-buggy drivers who careen through nesting grounds, plus harmful human discards like pop-top beer-can rings, which can injure hungry gulls. But the chief reason is heavy use of chlorinated hydrocarbons: DDT and its chemical cousins, dieldrin and chlordane...
...food chain. When gulls eat fish, they also take in a concentrated dose of poison. As a result, they lay eggs with such thin shells that most do not hatch. "Gulls here produce .42 chicks per nest compared with 1.22 chicks per nest in less polluted areas," Scharf explains. He fears for the human population too. "The Government has linked DDT with cancer in laboratory experiments. We know that it has the same type of effect on mammals as on birds. Nature is flashing a danger signal...
...Bertram Scharf Professor of Psychology Northeastern University...
...fact formally proposed by the Fiirstenwalde session. Regarded as a moderate on the question of East-West relations, Dietzfelbinger was chosen over the pre-synod favorite, Hannover's Bishop Hanns Lilje, who is more closely identified with Germany's political controversies. Dietzfelbinger succeeds Bishop Kurt Scharf of Berlin-Brandenburg, who hopes to return to East Berlin, from which he was expelled...
Died. Adolf Scharf, 74, President of Austria since 1957, a Viennese Socialist who, as vice chancellor during the postwar years, shares credit with the late Chancellor Julius Raab for Austria's economic recovery and the 1955 departure of Russian occupation troops, later, as President, quelled a series of rebellions within his Socialist party, thus keeping alive the government's 19-year-old Socialist-Conservative coalition; of liver cancer; in Vienna...