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Show Skyscraper Idea New? Mysterious Race Used It 1,000 Years Age America with tewns having min-iatuie min-iatuie sky crapers whan England 7a.s a wilderness inhabited by savages sav-ages who dressed in the skins of wild animals and painted their bod-le bod-le 1 blue! Such was the picture of civiliza tion in ure section of the America that existed in the days of William the Conqueror, accoiding to Carv-eth Carv-eth Wells, who will take his radio audience to the site of this ccun-try's ccun-try's early "sk. scraper '" Mesa Verde in the Continental Oil Company broadcast, "Explrring America with Conoco and Carveth Wells," over station KSL. Salt Lake City at 6:45-7.00 Sunday night. Situot d in the extreme southwest south-west ccrner cf Colorado, Mesa! Ve de i? fifteen miles long and eight mile- wide. "As yet." ex-1 plains th; p pular explorer-report-I :'. "the rid: le of this region's mys- terious ruins remains unsolved. But the. hundreds of prehistoric lift' dwellings that have be;n discovered dis-covered at Mesa Verde prove that this gieat Green Table was one? inhabited b - hundreds of thousands cf people who, for some unknown reason, seem to have suddenly debited de-bited their homes and left them as ghostly reminders of aw America 'hef. was nourishing mere than a thousand years ago." Of perticula; interest in the travel proeram. will be Wells' des-e' des-e' ipti n of the Cliff Palace a group "f buildings having (even floor lev Is or terraces with a total of 200 rooms. |