| Show MERMAID IDEA IS BLASTED AT U OF U professors at the university of utah are not only called upon to render rende r knowledge service to the students of the state school but recently one was vas I 1 called upon to t determine if a race of mermaids ever realty really existed I 1 I 1 I 1 dr ang angus angs s tr BF woodbury of the biology department st at the university ot of utah was recently accosted by afi an idaho woman wibb a shoe box what she believed to be an authentic mermaid after a cor complete of the mermaid dr declared that it 1 was a fako but a very good one the mermaid which has ban abe been een in the famias fam ilys eion for over a century and is esli estimated mated to be over threes three centuries old was brought to this coun county oy from norway where formerly the primitive people there belie believe ye I 1 in in the sirens sirens from the sea the mermaid which was supposed to have been found in the norwegian sea was composed of a mummified monkeys head with all the bones intact said dr woodbury a body minus ik a back bone and composed of a stuffed eirp amphibian hibian skin with spi ral ra like ribs distine distinctly aly showing the tail of a fish fiah and amphibian appendages for arms with fingers and glued apart ith timith parchment that the mermaid wn found out to the he not a nd hut rather a very beautiful hoax wis was because the ribs went around ark an d around instead of coming out where re they should have at the sternum |
