Show Safety Assured for Ohio's Famous Indian Mounds Permanent safety for tor th the famed mysterious earthworks at Newark Ohio has been assured by action converting the land into a state park The Thc plan of the thc earthworks which In prehistoric times covered twelve miles is an amazing design of ot circles cirdes cir dr cir cir- des cles squares octagons and long ave aye How or why prehistoric In Indians Indians Indians In- In carried out so 80 complex and ex extensive ex- ex a project has hilS puzzled visitors to the thc site from the time when the thc earliest white men reached the mid raid It is now believed that elaborate Indian ceremonies must h have nave vc taken ke place at the thc carefully I planned setting The modern town of or Newark has obscured part of the pattern but two large portions escaped and these form lorm the new state park One portion por par lion tion lies In a fair ground The other escaped being leveled when minded cally-minded golfers took It for lor a golf course using the thc Indian ridges ditches and mounds just as they arc are areto to make mOlke a picturesque course Telling of ol long efforts to save Newark's important Indian ruins from rom being entirely leveled and lost Dr H. H C. C Shetrone director of the Ohio St State te museum here said that steps are arc now being taken toward having the earthworks c established as ns a national monument by the thc federal fed eral government The Thc Newark earthworks said Dr are the largest and best jest preserved of their class in ex ex- There are three three- principal types type of Indian earthworks representing three types of oC mound building cul- cul tUre The geometric enclosures to which the Newark earthworks belong belong be- be long ong are arc characteristic of the Hopewell Hopewell Hope Hope- well culture which was the thc highest culture developed by any Indian people people peo peo- pie north of Mexico The Newark earthworks were ceremonial in pur- pur pose Dose A second tyee is the defensive kind cind of ol earthworks represented by Fort Ancient which is a state park And the thc third form lorm which the thc earthworks earth earth- works took Js is the effigy style in Jn which the mounds were shaped to resemble resemble re re- re birds and animals The Great serpent Mound the finest of oC these is s a state park |