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Show Times Newspaper Wednesday, January 14, 1998 Page 2 is''- : 1 fee Me mmtii mm limo to tei A mammoth of a skull is on display at the SCERA Museum Debate on bill 189 comes to Orem on January 15 On January 15, Larry Echohawk will debate Rep. Tammy Rowan (R-Orem) over the merits of her proposed "English as the Official Language Lan-guage of Utah" bill. Utah House Bill 189, sponsored spon-sored by Rep. Rowan, will be voted on in the upcoming Utah legislative session. It proposes to declare English as Utah's official language and (with several exceptions) ex-ceptions) would prohibit the state or its political subdivisions or employees from conducting government business or printing information in any language but English. The debate will be held in Orem on January 15 (Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday), at 7 p.m. at the Utah Valley State College Student Center, Room 213-B. The debate is hosted by the UVSC Center for the Study of Ethics, and is sponsored by Student Review. The debate's moderator will be David Keller, assistant professor profes-sor of philosophy, UVSC Department Depart-ment of Humanities and Philosophy and The Center for the Study of Ethics. The UVSC campus is located near 1-15 exit 272, and just off of Orem's 1200 South. A map of the campus can be found at http:www.uvsc.eduinfomap . For more information on the debate or the proposed law, contact con-tact Rep. Rowan or visit http:members.tripod.comN OEnglishOnly .r Mountain, V N ' ' Kelly Smith, Construction Specialist Mountain Fuel "We've ' After 60 years in Salt Lake City, Orem's oldest citizen has returned home to spend its time in the gallery of the new SCERA Center in Orem. The resident is the skull of a prehistoric Columbian mammoth, mam-moth, an Ice Age relation of the modern elephant that was discovered dis-covered and unearthed in Orem in 1937. It became part of the permanent collection at the University of Utah Museum of Natural History until the museum agreed to give it to SCERA on indefinite loan this year. "We are delighted to see the skull displayed in Orem," says Ann Hannibal, the assistant director of community relations for the museum. "This will allow many people to see a part of their history. It is an important artifact ar-tifact and the fact that it weights 1,000 pounds makes it hard to miss in the SCERA lobby." Unlike many valuable art exhibits ex-hibits which have a "look, but don't touch" policy, the skull is open for hands-on discovery by children and adults alike. "It's only appropriate that the Mammoth has returned to Orem since that is where it lived and died," adds Norm Nielsen, SCERA President. He adds that he, too, is delighted to have the skull at SCERA. "It is a highly significant find." Nielsen contacted con-tacted the museum after reading about it as part of an historical tour, and after showing him several bones from the original excavation, agreed to offer the skull, the showpiece of the dig. The mammoth may have remained indefinitely beneath the earth in Orem except that juuidinrr ft chaneed our hats Not our The new name Daniel Thomas wanted his farm house connected to the growing town's water system. Several homes had been built before Orem incorporated in 1919, and they were not included in Orem's culinary water system. Yet when the city offered to connect the, c ) residents to water lines if they.'; ' provided plumbingto the streets, J Thomas accepted the offer, t i As he worked in his yard on a fCTisoNovembermoniineinl937,, 4 ;he unearthed what appeared to 4 j be a large tooth. According to the i museum of Natural History, U of i U archaeologists joined the scene J and found the complete skeleton remains of a mammoth that ?jj t:roamed the Great Basin millen- I nia ago. jf i, "Local papers apparently covered the event, which was a .full-scale dig," Nielsen says. 1 1 "Spectators came to the property Ji to watch the scientists work." Ac-..' Ac-..' cording to old paper accounts, ' Thomas took great delight in showing off the mammoth bones ''1 to the crowds before ar-chaeologists ar-chaeologists wrapped each bone . ( in burlap after they were ex-?4 ex-?4 humed. The strain of digging the water trench, however, taxed Thomas' health, says Hannibal. He suffered a stroke and died in January 1938 two months after finding the tooth. The Thomas home was razed in 1993 to provide a site for the present Dixon Paper Store. With the expansion of - ' SCERA into an arts and cultural center, Hannibal says the Orem center is an ideal place for the skull. "SCERA is a place where . families come, and that means a lot of children," she says. "I Kelly Smith, Construction Specialist Quedtar Gad service. for Mountain believe children get so excited about prehistoric animals because be-cause they are magical and so fantastic that they seem almost alien. Children love fairy stories, and dinosaurs and mammoths offer the same kind of drama and fantasy. In a small children learn The horsetail is sometimes called scouring rush because It was once used to polish metal. All parts of the plant contain silica, an abrasive material. .(USPS Published Weekly by Utah Valley Publishing Company 801-225-1340 Fax 801-225-1341 546 South State Street, Orem, UT 84058 Periodical Postasa Pea in Orem, UT 84058 Postmaster sand clssnss of stress Ratios to: The Oram Geneva Times. 543 South State Street Orem, UT 84858 Subscription in advance per year $16.00 Out of County Subscription per year $26.00 Per Copy $.50 ra QUESTS Gas ft Fuel. the complicated taxonomy of prehistorical animals. Having it at SCERA is a way for many children to see something strange, yet still of this earth." The SCERA Gallery is open-10 open-10 a.m. to 9 p.m. weekdays and on Saturdays from noon to 9 p.m. 411 - 700) |