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Show r .... Tr- 7 I 7'" " '"7C"" I i i BKi&SSttii LITTLE OF EVERYTHING There's a wide range of interesting exhibits on hand at the Gem Show in Ogden. minerals, crystals of many kinds, Indian artifacts, and fossilized plants and animals that lived on the earth long before be-fore the dawn of recorded history. his-tory. INCLUDED in the fossils will be trilobites, shells, corals, cor-als, and some strange, lumpy stones called coprolite, reportedly re-portedly the droppings of long-dead long-dead dinosaurs. A card beside each item will give, in braille and in words, the name of the specimen and something about it. After the students from the School for the Blind have "seen" this exhibit on Friday morning, it will be opened to everyone for the rest of the show. In past years, this exhibit ex-hibit has been almost as popular popu-lar with the sighted as it is with the blind. For after a few hours of looking at rocks and minerals miner-als in glass enclosed cases, everyone seems to have an un controllable urge to run their fingers over the smooth surface sur-face of an agate, or feel a gritty slab of sandstone. IN ADDITION to the displays dis-plays , experts will demons trate cutting and polishing gemstones, making jewelry casting objects in silver, scrim' shawing, and other lapidary arts. Dealers will display their wares, and students from the Uinta Elementary school win demonstrate polishing gem-stones gem-stones with handmade equip-ment. equip-ment. Grab bags, containing rocks and minerals in the rough, can be purchased for a nominal fee, and students can "mine" sparkling gemstones that have been tumbled and polished. Dealers will have rare specimens speci-mens of crystals and minerals for the serious collectors, and a space will be set aside where rocks can be traded. |