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Show THE Moundkiildcrs Were g Hore Than Modem Races LEADER Thursday, August 14 1952 Peace-Lovin- JACKSONVILLE, 111. Many cenwhen Europe was divided Into many armed camps, two Indian tribes lived peacefully, onty a apart, amid their corn fields in the rolling hills of the Illinois river valley. The site is along McGee's creek, across the river from Meredosia and just north of Chambersburg. There University of Illinois archaeologists are uncovering evidence of turies ago, half-mil- e , these peaceful neighbors who, to carbon-1dates, lived 20 or 25 centuries ago. They were members of an Indian culture known as Hopewell which ; 4 J For The Convenience Of Our Cu (then occupied all of the midwest, Sometimes these people are called "moundbuilders" from their burials chiefs. But it Is in the everyday life-r- iot the burials of these prehistoric Illinoians that the university Is in terested.. Two years ago Prof. John ;C. McGregor brought an expedition here. Working from camp at Illinois College, he uncovered an ancient village with its trash heaps, on the east side of McGee's creek. This year, with another group of j lf STAIR students he's uncovering another village site, west of the creek. While there are many similarities in the pottery, tools, and other objects found,, there also are differences ' 'Indicating separate tribes. There li, .evidence, too, of trade, or it may well be of intermarriage, !for'sorne east side types are found mixed among the west side trash, 'and some west side were on the east side. It is evident that those many ago the tribe on the east side, ;in what is now the Robert Poole, farm, lived as peaceably with the tribe on the west side, on the present Edward Irving farm, as do 'those two neighboring famines of be-ji- IP cen-ituri- i today. mm , New Island Emerges Ib View of Sailors NEW BRUNSWICK. B.C.- -A man who says he saw the birth of an island thinks some. one should place a flag on It "before the Russians claim it." Nell S. Jamieson, 21 years old, third officer aboard the 7,500-toBritish freighter Queene Anne that berthed here recently told the story. He and ether officers and crew of the freighter said they saw the volcanic island emerge from the ocean, floor about 200 miles northwest of Cape Engano. at the northern Up of Luzon In the Philippine. sight "It was an to see the eruption with its pall of black smoke and steam and millions of gallons of water being thrown up." he said. "My first reaction was disbelief and we were all rather skeptical of whet was taking place. "At first.' I thought it was a storm in the distance because of the black cloud." From .a distance of five miles the ship's' company said they saw' the' 1,000-fohigh rock emerge fro mthe sea. It seemed of a mile to be n misty ie g In The Space ran Formerly Occupied By The Post Office ot three-quarte- wide. Officers found that the volcano lay in .the path. of a fault that runs from Siberia through the Japaoesa.islands.And the Philip-pine- s. Islands have been known to appear and sometimes disappear again in this area of the As Soon As Arrangements Are Completed We Pian To Have A Full Line Of OFFICE SUPPLIES and EQUIPMENT In Connection With Our Business Office. Pacific. Stranger Nonchalantly Takes $2,400 in Tens NEW YORK CITY One bank tell told another that a stranger In the bank bad stolen some money from a cage at the midtown Lexington Avenue branch of the Manu- , er i facturers Trust Company.,. "Oh. you're crazy," the , .replied., Their conversation i- - was about man in a green shirt who strolled . away from a cage with a wad of bills. The Cage 13 teller was out to lunch, as were tellers occupying ' cages on either side. Phone 5121 GIVE US A CALL , The suspicious employee, Miss called a bank 'official. Missing from Cage 13 was $2,400 In $10 bills. The man had casu- lally opened the bronze cage grille, ''reached in, - helped himself, and sauntered out. Bank employees raced to the . street, but the thief bad disappeared. Elsie Hawkins, 21, Lengtn of Sun Eclipse Depends on Conditions ' How long can a total eclipse of the T Sun lastT : ; Such toUleclpseoccurs when thm Unm comes In front of the Sun. If all conditions are exactly right .! (something which very rareiy the Sun can be hidden for as inn as seven and a half minutes. The longest Hi modern times was one that happened In 1037, and which could be seen from the Pacific Ocean. At that time the total clisse lasted for a maximum of even minutes and four seconds. In June, IMS, there will be one, visible and the Philippines, which . In Asia will last several seconds longer. -- i And We Will Order Any Item You Want ! We Now Offer A Complete Printing Service ! s) HLB'iftlD'B SERVING THE BEAR RIVER VALLEY 1 |