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Show apr eens Sale on Slacks! Brush Denim Flares in Stripes and Leather Look. Valuesto $14.50 30% Suit Sale USING THEIR FINGERS TO ‘SEE’ SANTA little Lisa Cosy, 5, and her other blind com- Select suits in all wools and woolblends. Sialew bier rnd Nick at partyin Chicago sponsored by the Blind Se Horintsky Botany Midi-Shade Ancient Remains Sought in Pool NORTH PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. (UPI)—Underwater explorers pitched camp Tuesday at the lip of a jungle-hidden sinkhole which has been swallowing man and beast more than 5,000 years. They plan to plunge into the deep murky pool in search of the bones of creatures that roamed Florida mnnafeds of centuries ago. e Archaeologist catuae refer:to theperils of diving in the 210-foot deep spring which flares out at the bottom like an hour glass. “At 150 feet or so, you sometimes start getting giddy,” he said. “It’s a phenomenon known as nitrogen narcosis. The last time I went to the bottom, I got tangled up in my lines. When I got loose and got to the surface, I broke out laughing for no reason atall.” But despite his experience with “rapture of the deep,” as scuba divers call the symptom, Claussen late last month plucked the bones of a 5,000year-old Indian girl from the ledges of the underwater cavern, It seems little Salt Spring, as residents of South Sarasota County may prove to be the mostimportantfind of its type in the hemisphere,” said the 34year-old Claussen, who wears a heavy moustache and hair to his neck. and thesalt has preserved most of the relics down there. There is no oxygen to speak of in the water below five feet. The Main Reason The absence of oxygen, Claussen explained,is the main reason the bones and artifacts he brought up in a preliminary dive in November were in such good shape. He found skull, pelvic and leg bone of an Indian Off! girl scientists judged to be eight or nine years old. Tests Little Salt Spring has some dated the bones at 5,000 years, unusual qualities. It is a plus. circular pool 250 feet wide at the surface and about that at “Tf you saw her today, the bottom with a narrow Claussen said, Lape jwotetly passage between the upper and would look very much like the lower chambers. It is fed by Indians who inhabited the slow salt water seepage and southeast at the time Columbus rain water. arrived.” “Because of the nature of the Claussen theorizes that it water,” he said, “skeletal probably was a major watering remains of both human beings and animals have been preserved in near perfect condition. The environment is stable 0% hole for men and animals. Many, he says, apparently fell victims to its slippery banks and plunged to,their deaths. Open ey Night ‘till 9:00 Plenty of Free Spacious Parking. Use our Flexi-Charge .... No carrying Charge until Jan. 25th. Gift Pack Hankerchiefs Shirt Sale (Special group on hangers) reg. $1.25 reg. °11.00 Sale Price 99: Straight leg Cords Shirt Sale reg. $12.50 reg. values to 10.00 Now $ 3 99 Traditional cut - Baby Cord SLACKS Sale Price $ 3 a All Straight leg PermanentPress Slacks *4°° OFF! CHRISTMAS ACTIVITIES AT TAYLOR'S ipped back were from Mexico, Peru and Ecuador and apparently sneaked across the Mexican border, some as muchas a year ago. SALE PRICE $7 Flares Valuesto *12.00 reg. *12.95 im. esas they are eSae Sale Price $6°° CENTERPIECE CLINIC DEC. 16 7:00 P.M. DIXON JR. HIGH CHRISTMAS BAND CONCERT DEC. 17, 6:00 P.M. Sale Price $g00 SMART SANTAS TAKE NOTE OF THIS SALE! AYLOR’S Your Christmas Store 200 West200 North Provo : |