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Show THE Page AIU DAILY' HERALD, Prwi, Luh, Suoday, January 26, 1W7 Teacher looking for former students Scientists find stone tools made 2 million years ago NEW YORK (AP) Scientists have found thousands of stone tools in Ethiopia from more than 2 12 million years ago, the oldest known objects made by human ancestors. But just who made them? The conventional answer is that the finding, which pushes back the record of tool making about 200 .(XX) years, represents the earliest sign of Homo. This evolutionary group includes modern humans and their closest extinct relatives. is traditionally considered a mark of Homo. But some scientists say the newfound tools may have been rela-tie- s made by smaller-braine- d of Homo. No fossils of Homo or anything else were found with the tools to help settle the matter, said Sileshi Semaw of Rutgers University, principal author of the paper announcing the discovery Thursday in ihe journal Nature. Semaw said he believes early members of Homo made the iearlv 3. (XX) stone tools found between 1992 and 1994 in the Gona area of northeastern collection The Ethiopia. d Includes rounded, tones and small, sharp-edge- d -- Tool-maki- fist-size- BARRY: Continued from Page A9) MRST PLAYER: ...e, e.i. There! SECOND PLAYER: "gleet?" What the hell is "gleet?" MRST PLAYER: 1 have no idea, but if you can use "pood." can se 1 "gleet." The thing is. according to the American Heritage Dictionary, both 'gleet" and "pood" really ARE words, as are "kloof," "fremitus" and "woomera." It turns out that, if you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word, which means you can put down any old letters you want and claim it's a legal move.' Of course you hav e to be careful whom you're playing with. iie number of violent Scrabble-relate- d incidents 1s on the rise. I have here a newt, item from the 1 DEAR FINDERS: I am trying to locale four of my former stue dents who vkere in my class in 1956 al Sullivan Elementary School in the Murphy School dents. Their names are Arthur Brayer, Donald Smith, Sherry Lewis and Janice Johnson. Man in C. Siegel DEAR FINDERS: Since losing my w ife, Madeline, to cancer five years ago and reaching 1 have years plenty of time to think of pleasant memories. Suze Bankert w as one of those pleasant ones. Petite, witty, bright, curious and a beautiful sense of humor. We had wonderful times together w ith her brother Paul. Suze's real name was Beatrice. She lived in Seaford, Long Island, N.V. I think she might have moved to Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., at one time. As I said before, being alone gives one plenty of time to think, mostly about the past. I would like to think that Suze is surrounded by family and enjoying good health and all the other things life has to fifth-grad- flakes. The larger stones had been smashed together to create the flakes. The tools were probably used to crack nuts and sharpen sticks for digging up food, such as tubers. Semaw said. They may have been used to cut dead animals too, but the excavation found no ev idence of carcasses with the tools, he said. Semaw and said the tools showed a surprisingly sophisticated control of the flaking process, and that they generally resembled tools from elsewhere that were made nearly 1 million years later. That refutes predictions that tools made so long ago would be inferior to the later ones, Semaw said. Similar tools had been reported before from the area but their ages could not be so well fied. The newfound tools are between 2.5 million and 2.6 million years old. based on dating of the volcanic ash above and din below the layer where about half the tools were found. "This firmly establishes that the Gona tools are very old. indeed the oldest artifact assemblage we know of." said Alison Brooks, an anthropology professor at George Washington EMofo 1 1 Suite 272 tLJ 816 Auto Mall Road Bloomington, IN 47401 rs Michael R. Evans District in Phoenix. They were 10 years of age in 1956. They are now 50 years of age. It w as my first year in the teaching profession. That profession lasted 28 years for me, and they were mv most memorable stu offer. Edwin J. OHare OTHER SEARCHES: Robert A. Warwick seeks Melvin M. York, once of Burbank. Calif. Bellavoine seeks Catherine Barnezet. once of London Frank T. McKim seeks George Anne-Margar- et McCool. once of Kauai, Hawaii Barbara M. Wally seeks any relatives of Louis and Margaret Grant,, once of Chicago; George Reardon, once of St. Louis; and Anne Reardon Moran. once of Chicago . Elizabeth McKee seeks Dorothy Marie Daly, once of Harlem, N.Y. How to find someone Finders is a nationwide column. To find someone, send a short letter (200 words or less) to Finders, co Suite 272, 816 Auto Mall Road, Bloomington, IN 47401. Include your name, address and phone number as well as the name of the person you are trying to find. Also include a paragraph or two about your relationship and why you want to find this person again. All letters become the property of Finders. is try ing to find you send a short column: this through note to the above address indicating whether you, too, would like to get back in touch. If both parties are willing, Finders will forward If someone the letter. Western words, phrases highlighted in new book g. Nov. 29. 1996. Hagerslown. Md.. Morning Herald, sent to me by alert readers Bill and Louisa Son-niHere are the first two sentences of this item, w hich I am not making up: A Hager"SMITHSBL'RG slown woman was charged with second-degre- e assault on Wednesday night after her husband w as struck in the forehead with a Scrabble game board, according 10 the Washington County Sheriff's Department. The incident happened w hen the man tried to restrain the woman after she threw the Thanksgiving turkey into the variants show up: "all-e- e all-e- e meaning a rough shelter of reeds w hat you call out oxen free" and poles, quite unlike the comw hen you end a game of forts of the motel chain that has 1 or kick the can; "barassumed the name. rowborrow pit," the sure sign of Although this book has been rural Great Basin breeding; "cattle produced by an academic, its audience is ordinary Westerners guard," a term we might wrongly assume any intelligent American and those who visit us. There are adult would know; "corrugate," an likely enough Westernisms to fill irrigation furrow (we called it a volumes, but Clark has focused on the interesting kind of language "corrugation"); "Danites," an lore one might hear if one hung avenging band of Mormons, "suparound enough Western communiposedly organized within the Mormon church to silence dissenters," ties (including Alaska) long and many other interesting entries. enough to hear lots of locals talk. Sixteen phrases, plus the names There are many photographs and of many plants and animals, derive illustrations. The page layout is from the word "California," a extremely attractive open name first appearing in a 16th censpace, effective use of boldface tury text. The area was first called print, closely integrated illustra"Alta (higher) California," in contions. Even the Valley Girls make trast to "Baja" (lower) California," an appearance. areas now known as simply CaliBy the way, "bizzing" goes fornia and the Baja Peninsula. The back far beyond the 1960s. 1 know who claim to name "Texas" has been likewise some in the century. it used have dozen three early productive, nearly Don Norton English pro- phrases deriving from it. "Ramada" is a Spanish word feasor at BYU. number of Western word hounds. Many languages are represented, notably Indian tongues; Spanish; n. Also called ski "Bizzing The "joggmg, bumper-bamminact of hanging on the rear bumper of a moving vehicle on an icy or snow-slic- k street. Mainly used in Central Utah. (From 1960s) See also hookey bob."j WordWise has mentioned this peculiar term ('"bizziiig") before; it's in the Dictionary of American Regional English. The quote above is from a new book that may interest many local readers: "Western Lore and Language, a Dictionary for Enthusiasts of the American West," by Thomas L. Clark, a professor of English and linguistics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. (The publisher is the University of Utah Press.) This is "the first dictionary to document the extraordinary range pf words that are an integral part of the West, old and new," the fly leaf says. Clark has done his homework, draw ing on such varied sources as dictionaries, newspapers, existing w ord books, oral histories and a f IpI Den Norton hide-and-se- TO-j- WordWise local English dialects; the Mormon, mining, logging, gambling and cow boy jargons; Western flora and fauna; slang and terms brought in by groups of immi-granfrom specific dialect areas east of Western America. There's even language from the Las Vegas shows a little too risque to mention here. Some of my favorite dialectal ls old-time- rs ian yard." The item does not state WHY the woman threw the turkey, but 1 would not be surprised to learn that a word like "gleet" had something to do with it. 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