Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-07-16 | Page 4 | Gum Chewers Helping Archeological Work

Gum GInn Chewers Helping Archeological Work Like to chew gum Go right ahead the ahead the archeologists are all for i it it too and the art of crunching a healthy molar In a tasty bit of soon may become a sort of pleasant duty a sign that youre you're willing to do your bit for the advancement ad advancement of civilization Chewing gum owes Its rise in Intellectual Intellectual Intel Intel- l esteem to the fa fact t that it was the indirect cause of one of the most valuable archeological discoveries discoveries' in recent months deep in the jungles of or Guatemala A hunter looking for more V for gum hungry Americans w was s responsible for the find Dr John C. C Merriam president of the Carnegie Carne Came gle gie institution reported The chic chic- lero whose business It is to locate the chico sapote a tree from which the elastic Ingredient of chewing gum Is derived came upon a section of the jungle which was Wa laid out in regular avenues and sections with trees following fol id- lowing the lines of ancient walls and creepers growing over pyramids pyramids' and andst st stone ne shafts Investigation revealed an V ancient Mayan city apparently once the center of much of the Mayan civilization