FND N SOLTH AMERICA
Garbage Dump Reveals
Link to Lost Civilization
By REGINALD L. WOOD
Buenos Aires, June 29 Scientists digging in a pre-historic
garbage dump have found new traces of South America's oldest
civilizations. '
Milciades Alojo Vignati, pro
fessor of anthropology at La
Plata university museum, and
a group of other scientists, dis
covered the ruins which tell a
new story of prehistoric Indian
culture.
The discoveries were made in
Patagonia, a vast, desolate ta
bleland and mountainous re
gion stretching from the terri
tory of Chubut to Tierra Del
Fuego, Argentina's southern
most territory.
The lost civilization which
Vignati and his companions
found, probably was the fore
runner of the tribes which once
formed the powerful Patagonian
Indian nation whose warriors
were known for their extreme
height and big feet.
Cyclist Ends Cross-Country Ride George F. French III,
19-year-old Princeton senior, holds up twin bottles of water
after driving his bicycle into the Pacific ocean at Santa Moni
ca, Calif., to end a coast-to-coast bike ride that began at As
bury Park, N. J., nearly 24 days previously. One bottle con
tains Atlantic ocean water, the other newly filled Pacific
Ocean water. He had made several bets totalling more than
$350 he could make the 3,046.2-mile trip in less than 30 days.
(AP Wirephoto)
Jury Turns Down
Damage Asked
Dallas A Polk county circuit
court jury deliverated nearly
ten hours before returning a
verdict for the defendant. Miss
Lucille Houk, in an auto damage
action instituted by Mrs. Ethel
Story, plaintiff. Mrs. Story was
seeking a total of $3450 damages
as the result of a two-car colli
sion at the Suver junction on
highway 99-W on April 9, 1948.
Mrs. Story alleged in her com
plaint that she had received
sprains and other injuries in the
accident that occurred when she
was driving east across the high
way from the Suver road. Miss
Houk's auto was traveling north
on the highway. The complaint
stated that Miss Houk was tra
veling at a speed that was great
er than prudent and that she
failed to keep a proper lookout.
The plaintiff asked $2500
special damages, $200 for medi
cal care and $750 for damages to
her auto.
trim was n e a r a ueiore
Judge Arlie G. Walker. Attor
neys for the plaintiff were Wal
ter T. Durgan and Fred McHen
ry of Corvallis while the firm
Medical School fo
Open Laboratory
Portland, June 29 VP) The
University of Oregon medical
school opened its laboratory for
experiments with radioactive
material for humanitarian pur
poses yesterday.
It is believed to be the first
of its kind in the Pacific north
west. Headed by Dr. Edward S.
West, the laboratory will con
duct experiments on diabetes. It
also may do research in cancer
and leukemia.
West, head of the department
of biochemistry, will be assisted
by Dr. John T. Van Bruggen.
Both were trained at the Oak
Ridge atomic plant.
The laboratory has a grant of
$5000 from the atomic energy
commision and one of $10,000
from the U. S. public health service.
Use of the water clock began
in Greece in the fifth century
before Christ, at about the time
Hippocrates began the develop
ment of medical science.
of Boss and Lewelling, Salem,
represented the defendant.
The scientists found their clue
to the lost civilization while
poking through a pile of mol
lusk shells which turned out to
be an age-old garbage dump.
They found broken dishes and
other utensils made of stone and
bone.
During two months of work
in Patagonia, Vignati said he
and his companions had found
shelters carved in rock, brightly
painted walls and pictographs.
Vignati said only the surface
of the vast Indian culture had
been touched. More extensive
excavations will be made during
January, February and March
the southern hemisphere's sum
mer months. .
The explorations ranged from
Comodoro Rividavia on the
Gulf of Saint George, about 950
airline miles southwest of Bue
nos Aires, to Lake Buenos Aires,
parts of which lie in both Ar
gentina and Chile.
Vignati and his companions
found one pictograph more than
600 feet long which told a vivid
history of primitive life, love
and the hunt. Other traces of In
dian culture were found in the
Bajo Caracoles and Cerro Fivre
regions.
During their work the scien
tists also sought a link between
the Spanish language and the
tongue spoken by the Patagon
ian Indians centuries ago.
Vignati said the explorers
were excited when they found
an aged Indian woman able to
speak the Teshuen tongue, the
language used by the Chehua-che-Kenks,
one of three tribes
which Ion gago flourished in Pa
tagonia.
With her help, he said, the sci
entists were able to reconstruct
a large part of the Teshuen vo
cabulary which he had believed
lost to modern civilization.
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A bid for construction of a
parking area between the state
office building and the supreme
court building by J. T. Patzer of
Salem for $3924 has been re
ferred to Highway Engineer R,
H. Baldock for award by the
state highway commission.
A low bid of $447,885 for con
struction of a new Ferry street
bridge at Eugene was referred
to the state highway engineer
for study and power to award
Other awards made by the com
mission at its two-day monthly
meeting included:
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During the early stone age
about 50,000 years ago in Eur
ope, prehistoric man developed
stone tools, used the first hatchet
and made fire by chipping flint,
3,000 B.C.
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Search Made for
Missing Biplane
Anchorage, Alaska, June 29
(P) Through soupy skies, 10th
rescue squadron craft pushed
their search today for an old
Waco biplane which lost its
landing gear in a collision with
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another plane, made for Anchor
age and was not sighted or heard
from again.
Its pilot was Tom Maloney.
Jr., 26, son of the Alaska Steam
ship company agent here. Ano
ther passenger, unidentified, was
also aboard.
The civil aeronautics admin
istration reported Maloney, a
Kenai cannery employe, clipped
the other aircraft Monday night
while stunting. Apparently un
damaged except for the loss of
the undercarriage, the wheelless
Waco soared off toward Anchorage.
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Stayton, June 29 Walter Hin
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budget was approved as the re
sult of the annual school elec
tion held Monday evening. Hin
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one write in each for Waltei
Bell and Harold Pendleton. The?
budget was approved 65 to
while the voters approved ex
ceeding the six per cent limita
tion, 62 to 2.
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