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SUNDAY, JULY 19, THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR PAGE 18 SEC. 1 Pesticide Research Hampered Berkeley, Calif. (UPl)-The PLAN YOUR NEXT BANKING MOVE TO SKIP VIRGINIA AVENUE (FOR THE PRESENT) Indiana National's former main office at 3 Virginia Avenue now is completely relocated in the 37-story Indiana National Bank Administrative offices of the bank, headquarters of bank affiliates, and a beautiful new Tower banking office await you at One Indiana Square. But, "skip" 3 Virginia Avenue only for the present, for after the new owners of the building complete their renovation, we'll be back with a brand new banking office on the street level of that building. i outcry over lingering pesticides is hampering the search for an acceptable alternative to DDT, U.S.

Forest Service researchers complain. Researchers have lab-tested a dozen new "ecologically sane" compounds for controlling forest insects. But public "fear and overrcaction" is so intense they can't get them into the field. Even if they could be field tested, a chemical industry spokesman said, the Agriculture Department has imposed a moratorium on new compounds. IRONICALLY until these new, highly selective compounds ran be tested in the field, the Forest Service will have to continue to use the old methods including limited amounts of DDT for the nation's forests.

One chemical which researchers say has been thoroughly lab-tested for every imaginable effect and under every condition, is called Zectran. An expensive compound, it probably will never be pro-d commercially without government subsidy. Researchers developed Zectran for use against one particular destructive pest, the spruce budworm, but they believe it might be useful against DETOUR AHEAD IMniAMA As an added convenience to our customers downtown, we've established a temporary banking office right-across, the street from 3 Virginia Avenue, on the southwest corner of Washington and Pennsylvania streets (the former location of the bank's mortgage, and installment loan offices). Manager Joe Bryan and his staff look forward to serving you there. NATIONAL.

ifim others. "THERE'S so much public fear and overreaction to the use of new compounds that they don't even want you to do the testing," said Carl Crisp, plant physiologist for, the For est Service. "If there are going to be al ternatives to DDT, somewhere along the line the experimental work has to be done and it has to be done In the environ ment." -111 il III II II fX Crisp said small-scale field III li A A' experiments were necessary, with researchers publicizing 11 ill II il iftii i what they were doing and im 111 II II II II II II II I I I I Ml I ill mediately dropping any project the public didn approve of. "IT'S RIDICULOUS to give 111 11 III II II II II tf I bru I I us money for research and not 111 let us take the next Crisp said. "It's like building a ii mm' v.va i km mm -mrm hm rocket for the moon and not fir' ing it." $lJ ry, Raymond Miskus, a chemist on the team of Forest Service researchers, said an extensive project was launched in 1964 for the specific purpose of eliminating DDT in forests.

vm "We've investigated a whole GO DIRECTLY variety of methods of control that aren't just chemically ori ented that aren't just a sim pie evaluation of an insecticide on an insect," Miscus said "We're concerned with better a of application, better TO MARKET With all the changes in our downtown locations, we want to assure our customers that our banking office at 120 East Market Street stays right where it is, and if it's more convenient for you downtown, manager Tom Crump Invites you to do your banking at Market Street. timing and the total effect on wildlife, fish, other insects and the region's ecology." MISKUS SAID more data has gone into the study of Zectran, for example, than any other compound in forestry research history. Dow Chemical Company was supposed to produce Zectran company spokesman said it still could be done if Forest Service requirements were large enough to make it eco ADVANCE TO INDIANA SQUARE nomically feasible, but even thrn the Agriculture Depart ment would have to clear it first. The spokesman added that the department's moratorium Our Tower bank manager Harold Wright and his staff invite you to begin using our newest office on the street level of the Indiana National Bank Tower. Soon, we will announce our grand opening plans and then we'll invite all of Indiana to tour the State's most beautiful building.

In the meantime, we're open and ready to serve all your financial needs at One Indiana Square. against anything used for con trol is so all-inclusive "you couldn't clear ordinary table mm salt." FAR IN THE are "third-generation pesticides" biological 1 hor moncs and sterilization. The in vestlgations carried out with these will be similar to those with chemicals, but more ex pensive and time consuming, researchers said. YOU'RE THE WINNER Everyone wins by banking at Indiana National. Thirty-five offices, countywide, offer the best in banking.

All our olfices are open from 9 A.M. to 2:30 P.M., Monday through Thursday, and from 9 A.M. to 7 P.M. on Friday. Downtown offices close at 6 P.M.

on Friday. Indiana National is, now more than ever, The Bank in Indianal And even these so-called "natural" compounds are part of the life system, regardless of 1 how they re categorized. "They're all foreign mole rules when introduced into a zr- -v new living system," Crisp said. "SiiRar Is a potential toxic If ALL MOVES EFFECTIVE MONDAY JULY 20 you eat pnough of it." The U.S. research is being applied In some measure, how ever, Crisp added, even If not in this country.

Canadian for esiry omciais nave put some of the new compounds to work in their own forests. THE BANK INDIANA NATIONAL Thant To Get Rock United Nations, N.Y. (AP) -A four-ounce moon rork will be presented to U.N. Secretary fieneral Thant tomorrow to mark the first anniversary of the Apollo-ll moon landing, of-ficials said. Dr.

Thomas Paine, head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administraiion, will make the presentation. MEMBER FDIC i I i mm mm.