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t V i ■ \ \ v“ i THURSDAY, OCTOBER •, 1982. UNCOVER WORKSHOP „ 50,000 YEARS OLD -V- Archeologist Makes Discov ery in Southern France. Washington.—Discovery of a great Solutrean workshopjn 'the foothills of ♦he Pyrenees in southern France is announced by the Smithsonian insti tution. This open-air factory where drafts men of approximately 50,000 years ago fashioned tools and weapons out of flints and quartzite extended Over sev eral acres and now is covered try a forest. J. Townsend Kussell, collabo rating archeologist of the Smithsoni an staff, made the discovery while passing through the forest over a rain- washetl cart track. His attention was drawn to some obviously man-made flint flakes, and soundings made through the area revealed the width and extent of the ancient workshop. It is within-m few miles of the cave of Marsoulas where the Smithsonian institution and the University of Tou louse are conducting a joint archeo logical enterprise. The workmanship of the Solutrean artisans represents an important stage in human culture—the acme of the chipped-stone industry and the transi tion to the stage when stone tools and weapons were fashioned by grinding. It is the second stage in the chro nology of cave-man culture. The cul ture is distinguished by the so-called "laurel-leaf” blades of stone knives or^ daggers. Pieces of flint were beauti fully flaked on both sides to produce sharp-cutting edges. The ancient workmen made large, thin spearheads, scrapers and saws by the chipping process, at which they had acquired great skill. These artisans presuma bly were cave dwellers, although there may already have been some special ization of craftsmen. Toward the end of the Solutrean period came the revolutionary discov ery of the possibility of making tools by grinding instead of chipping. This was one of the great transition points in human culture, but resulted for a time in a marked artistic deterioration while rhe new method was being per fected by many generations of tool- makers. The site discovered by Itus- sell is believed to mark a transition stage from the Solutrean to the suc ceeding Aurignacean period. Twenty-One Soundings Made. Hassell made twenty-one soundings through the forest. Below a level of humus varying from about sixty cen timeters to more than a meter in thick ness was a layer fifty centimeters thick, consisting of quartzite pebbles and flint nodtiles of poor quality tight ly packed with earth. This'nrea had been superficially quarried from .the surface. Artifacts and debris of man ufacture were found in this level, as well as in the lower part of the hu mus. In one sounding a considerable quantity of flints was found where the quarry layer appeared to have been dug into deeper than elsewhere. The stone had been thrown aside so as to make a cuplike depression, whose borders were covered by only a few centimeters of humus. Despite the extent of the workshop, Russell reports, the yield of the sta tion is meager and the proportion of worked flints and finished tools is only about 15 per cent of the whole. In the nearby cave of Tarte, Rus sell reports finding traces of a hither to neglected Aurignacean industry in poor quality quartzite. Two layers of artifacts were found, but the form of the quartzite articles was limited by the poor quality of the material, and no particular form was recognizable, rr They' may have been qiade'Jri fhe near* by workshop. The possibility is sug gested that even the cave man had his ch&p and his expensive artifacts. The Tarte material consists mostly of crude choppers and scrapers, stones retouched on one side only. THE BARNWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL. BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA VALUABLE METALS FOUND IN OREGON Method of Extraction Problem for Inventors. Expert Studies Effects of Chess on Children Leipsic.—Whether or not playing chess affects the formation of the body, and especially that of the skull, is at present being investigated by Dr. R. Grau of the Institute for Ethnol ogy and Anthropology, at the Univer sity of Leipsic. Doctor Grau is lucky, for he has at his disposal -the most unique material for his studies— namely, the entire population of the little village of Stroebeck. province of Saxony, known as the “chess village,” where the royal game has been played now for close to 1,000 years. In Stroebeck chess is played in every house by young and old. Chess even forms part of the obligatory cur riculum at the Stroebeck school. Ultra-Violet Rays New Cancer Weapon Denver. — Organic solutions which bombard the human body with tiny but powerful' ultra-vio let rays are the latest weapons brought by science into the battle against cancer. ? 1 Dr. Ellice McDonald, director of cancer research in the graduate school of medicine at the Univer sity of Pennsylvania described the discovery of the ray producing sub stances. "Organic solutions,” he said, “when properly excited, generate Invisible ultra-violet radiation of great power which brings speedy destruction to cancer cells.” Medford, Ore.—Billions of dollars worth of complex metals lie in the ground of southern Oregon—but the master key for their extraction is lacking. “Southern Oregon has more rare metals than any other district in the world, besides large quantities of the commonly used commercial metals, but they art all mixed together,” de- ciared one expert. These rare metals sell from $10 to $75 an ounce. The mining of them remains as a chdltengfe to the metal-.' lurgical lyorld. They are so mixed with each other and with baser metals that their full value never has been properly appreciated. But it is agreed among mining au thorities familiar with the region that the chemist, or metallurgist, who <^- vises a process of separating the pre cious metals not only will build him self a great fortune, but will cause Oregon to become the most important mineral producing state of the West ern hemisphere—or perhaps of the world. Millions of dollars in placer gold al ready has been taken from southern Oregon soil and millions more will be taken. A vast project financed by eastern capitalists and calling for de velopment of the rich Mount Emily and Grave creek deposits on a 50 year basis was recently launched. Large quantities of gold have been taken from “pockets,” or from oxi dized free milling ores. But as soon as these ores went below the oxidized zone complex sulphides were encoun tered and were rejected as too com plex or refractory to treat. Tiie experts declare that southern Oregon holds vast deposits which com pound together chrome-iron, gold, platinum, paladium, iridium, Osmium, ruthenium, tantalium and other rare metals. Ores that ran from 10 to 20 pounds of tantalium a ton have been reported. , Maybe It Was a Shark That Swallowed Jonah ‘ Chicago.—If a whale had not swal lowed Jonah, a prehistoric shark could have. Except for the fact that such sharks, which had jaws about five feet wide, lived a good many million years before Jonah’s time. , Based on the evidence produced by the research of paleontologists, a model of a great pair of jaws of the extinct shark knowji as Charcharadon is on exhibition at Field Museum of Natural History. Actual teeth of this huge creature which inhabited the wa ters off the Carolina coast in Mio cene time, some 111.000.000 to 23,000.- 000 years ago, have been set in the model of the jaws. These teeth are three to five inches in breadth. To provide contrast there is exhibited with the model a pair of jaws of a modern shark with a spread-only a fraction of the five-foot gape of the ancient creature.. “Fossil teeth of this great shark, flat and triangular in shape, are found in the phosphate beds of Carolina and Florida and in ‘shell-rock’ as far west as Texas.” says Elmer S. Riggs, associate curator of paleontology. Bell Has Rung for 92 Years^Without Repairs London.—There is a bell in Oxford which has been ringing unceasingly for 02 years of its own accord. It was made by a Charing Cross In strument maker in 1840, and stands in the Calrendon laboratory. It has never.been repaired or had a part re placed. * The bell is worked by a ‘‘dry pile” battery consisting of 5,000 small paper disks coated with zinc and copper and encased in two glass tubes. A little metal gong is connected by wire to each tube, and between the gongs hangs by a silk thread a small metal ball. As the battery charges each gong, the ball, attracted and repelled, swings to and fro, and the ringing can be heard seven feet away, though the apparatus is in a sealed glass case only 10 inches high. Victim of Heat Freezes His Ears With Dry Ice Chicago.—Karl Marvin froze his ears while the temperature stood at 97 de grees. Like hundreds of thousands of other persons,Marvin was seeking ways to get relief from the heat It oc curred to him that it might help to put ice on liis head. He tried regular ice, but it melted and the water ran down his neck. Then he thought of using dry ice. A few minutes after he had applied the dry ice, his ears began to burn and turn white. A doc tor informed him that they had been frozen. , , , Bible Now Printed in 655 Languages, Dialects ' Stockholm.—The Bible is now trans lated into C55 different languages or dialects, it was announced here by the returning Swedish delegate to the an nual meeting in London of the For eign Bible association. Gold Dust Replaces Money Canyon City; Ore.—A pair of gold scales has replaced the cash register in the store of Roy Davenport here. “\ye don’t need any money in Grant county.” said the proprietor Id mak ing the change, “we can do Sil our buainen with gold dust/* s'. \ ■ , •••: :• • r- v ^ Ife: V, ' . • mm mmm. •y.;Ev’y. - . . . '•X-'vXvXvX;' if ;.y.y.'V.y.v.v.-.v.v.v.vX'.v' • - x " x ’ y ’ ’ • • • : x ;:-x x : x ::v>: mmmm cssolube THE “ESSO” OF MOTOR OILS HYDROFINED BY “STANDARD” STEIN’S I Young Men’s Shop 1438 MAIN STREET COLUMBIA, S. C. * Better Breakfasts A BETTER breakfast Is one that will make you feel like beginning your work for the day with a burst of speed. This implies plenty of fruits, something substantial to supply you with plenty of .fuel to burn up in said burst of speed, appe tizing auxiliaries and the right kind of coffee. A Good Start A gjood way‘.to start a better breakfast is with a Sunrise Cock tail which is made a/s follows; Drain the syrup from an 8- ounce 'can of raspberries without crushing the berries, and com bine this syrup with the contents of a Nor 2 can of grapefruit juice. Chill thoroughly and serve. •' Then go on from there by serv ing the berries with a rt&dy-to- eat ,cere&] apd cream, grilled Canadian bacon, buttermilk bis cuits and the coffee. There are lots of good brands of coffee on the market, but all of the best kinds have this in common—that they arc vacuum packed. For when the green coffee bean is roasted it develops carbon dioxide gas. This is the same gas which develops in bis cuit dough when you add the liquid to the dry ingredients con taining baking powder, and makes the biscuits rise when they are baked. This gas exerts more than 50 pounds pressure per squarre inch. inside the roasted coffee bean. And when the roasted bean is ground, the gaa comes flying out with such force that 65% <ff it has disappeared in 24 hours, taking with it a great deal of the' aromatic or volatile oil which contains the aroma or flavor of the coffee.* When in Columbia visit our store and see the greatest values in Suits and Coats at $12.50 Values that cannot be equaled anywhere. Sizes 33 to 48 $12.50 £1.5CH-6 J 25 Cents CMs •IMES can’t be so bad when | you can get a dinner like the following at an average cost of a quarter per person; Scallions Radishes 10^ Corn Omelet 12f Bacon Strips 22f Broiled TonuUoes 20c French Bread and Butter 18f W aldorf Salad 25< Pear Cobbler with Cream 284 Coffee with Cream 10< Corn Omelet: Separate six eggs, and heat yolks until thick and whites until stiff. Add six tablespoons hot water, three- fourths teaspoon salt and one- third teaspoon pepper to the yolks, then fold in the whites. Add the contents of an 8-ounce can of corn, and pour into a but tered, hot skillet, or, better, into ^Wo smaller ones. Cook slowly until brown on the bottom, then place in a moderate oven* 350 s , until firm and top dried off. Fold over, and turn out onto a hot platter, garnish with bacon strips, and serve at once. > Serves six liberally. Pear Cobbler: Mix two table spoons sugar with oue-half table spoon flour, add with one table spoon butter to the pears from a eue-pound can, bring to boUini/~ and pour into a baking dish. Make a baking powder biscuit dough of one cup flour, two tea spoons baking powder, one-half teaspoon salt, two tablespoons shortening, one tablespoon sugar, six tablespoons milk, and drop by spoonfuls on top of the pears. Bake in hot—450*—oven for ten to twelve minutes. ; Serve hot , with one cup light cream.* ONE THING . YOU CANT AFFORD TO MISS South Carolina - State Fair ALL NEXT WEEK. COLUMBIA Oct. 17,18,19, 20, 21,22 SIX BIG DAYS AND SIX BIG NIGHTS Lowest Railroad Rates in StateV His tory. UnusiriAly fine program of Education and amusement. Two football Caroline-Clemson Noon Thursday, vs. Cacey-Brookland Friday. AH School Children Free on Friday.