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• THE SUNDAY STAR, Washington, D. C.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 14, 19SS
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* National Monument near Jensen, Utah, chisels out dinosaur bones buried a
hundred million years ago. Chief Ranger Oscar Dick looks on.—AP Photo.
Skeletons of Dinosaurs
Sought in Utah Quarry
By GORDON G. GAUSS
AiKMlittd Press Bt»S Writer
JENSEN, Utah. Aug. 13 (IP).—
Those misunderstood monsters,
the dinosaurs, may become bet
ter known as the result of a
project to chisel away, inch by
inch, a sandstone bluff envelop
ing prehistoric skeletons.
When the Job is finished, the
manner in which these reptile
giants were buried there helter
■kelter by nature a hundred mil
lion years ago should be evident.
Fragments of skeletons im
bedded in rock “give some idea
of the size of the creatures,
largest things which ever walked
the earth. Some were 80 feet
long and weighed 40 tons, yet
had one-pound brains to direct
their massive bodies.
Discovered in 1909
Scene of the search into the
far distant past is a quarry at
the 80-acre headquarters of;
Dinosaur National Monument, 7
miles north of Jensen. Scientists
first learned of it in 1909, years
after Indians and cowboys had
passed by without realizing its
significance.
Apparently, dinosaurs in this
area in extreme Eastern Utah
were wiped out suddenly by
catastrophe or plague and their
carcasses were washed into some
depression. Sapd and silt cov-j
ered the remains and eventually
hardened into stone. The earth’s
shifting crust buried the land
under a sea, then lifted it up
Into the Units Mountains, where;
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[weather finally exposed the now-
I fossilized bones.
J Several skeletons were exca
, vated from the rare deposit and
’ were shipped to museums. Then j
' the work languished. Although!
1 it was preserved as a national
monument in 1915, Dinosaur was
- almost forgotten until a storm
i arose over plans to build a $176
dam and reservoir at
5 Echo Park, across the Colorado
; border
r By that time, the original
. monument had been expanded
. to 325 square miles through in-;
- 1 elusion of spectacular canyons ofj 1
i the Green and Yampa Rivers.
Echo Park was part of this ad-
I dition. I 1
Dinosaur monument has flour- '
ished as a byproduct of the,
[controversy. Tourists began
! driving over from U. S. Highway
40 to see. what the argument was I
about. Congress took note of
the area and began voting ]
' larger appropriations. There is
talk of elevating the monument
to the status of a national park. ; i
Tourist Boom <
Attendance, negligible a few 1
years ago, leaped to 57,000 last
i year and may hit 80.000 during ]
! 1955. Nine-tenths of these]
visitors went to the headquarters, 1
rather than to the Inaccessible, i
undeveloped canyon country. \
j Current appropriations of j
about $200,000 a year have per
mitted work to start on the \
ambitious project to display 5
bones of the monsters just as 1
ithey are uncovered in the quarry, if
Monument officials refer to it as
an “in place” exhibit.
Under the direction of Theo
dore E. White, a vertebrate pal
eontologist, the soft sandstone
is being removed carefully. As
each new bone is located, it is
shellacked to prevent disintegra
tion.
Work is proceeding on a bank
several hundred feed long and
perhaps 50 feet high. Some of it 1
already has been placed under
a metal shelter.
Plans are to bring the bones
out in relief from the stone
along a 200-foot, surface, then
to build a museum around it
with .the bank forming one wall.
The scraping project has been
under way more than a year
and. at its-present rate, will re
quire another four years to
finish.
Meanwhile, Monument head
quarters is in another building
and still is wothout an assembled
dinosaur skeleton of its own to
display.
Geodetic Survey
Headed by Karo
Rear Admiral H. Arnold Karo
was appointed director of the;
Coast and Geodetic Survey by
President Eisenhower yesterday.
Admiral Karo, who lives In
Bethesda, received a recess ap
pointment to his new post. The
White House will submit his
name for Senate confirmation!
when Congress returns In Janu
ary.
Admiral Karo, who has been;
with the Coast and Geodetic!
Survey since 1923, will succeed
Rear Admiral Robert F. *A.'
iStudds who has retired.
TODAY IN MEDICINE
Gimmicks and Gadgets
Clutter Medical Talks
By JOHN McKELWAY
One mark of the medical pro
fession which distinguishes it
from others is that doctors never
make “speeches." They give
Tapers,” at least in public.
' A paper Is actually a scientific
report, the result of an investi
gation of some kind. And it is,
perhaps, the chief means Dr. X
has of telling the rest of the
medical world what Dr. X has
been up to.
Dr. X may have tried out a
new antibiotic on a stream of
patients or he might have felt
over-emphasis was being placed
on a duct in the pancreas. At
any rate he’s found something
and he seeks to add rhat* some
thing to the tremendous store
house of medical knowledge. Dr.
X on presenting the paper will
receive a certain amount of
prestige—if he gets his facts
straight—along with the hos
pital or medical school he rep
resents.
Tools Are Hindrance
Papers are presented at dig
nified medical meetings. But
for some strange reason, the
tools a doctor has at his com
mand in the actual presentation
of his report have not kept pace
with the march of medicine. The
tools become hindrances.
Doctors usually color their i
papers with lantern slides. And
the order by the speaker. “May
I have the first slide, please,”
is usually accompanied by a
certain amount of tenseness.
For. almost invariably, the
first slide appears either upside
down or is so out of focus that
it fills the meeting hall.
At a recent medical meeting
here, the speaker—who incident
ally was speaking of the pancreas
—asked for the first slide.
Mechanical Troubles
As the slide appeared, ' the
speaker found the illustrated
pancreas stretched from the i
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ceiling and covered most •t his
face. As he stood obliterated tby
the organ, the focus was cor
! rected and the paper presented.
Frequently, however, micro
scopic slides of portions of the
pancreas are presented in focus,
but upside down. Even' the
speaker must take a second look
to correct this one. And in doing
this, he takes a certain gamble.
For slide operators are notorious
in their ability to get completely
mixed up and far ahead of the
talk. Some doctors feel itji best
to let them alone when they set
out to turn an upside down pan
creas up. Others leave it upside
; down Complicated grafts cause
just as much trouble.
Doctors—like others who speak
—have their troubles with micro
phones. More than one medical
meeting has been halted because
of a screaming or completely
dead public address system. But
a particularly dangerous micro
phone is located at the District
Medical Society.
Dangerous Risk
What makes the instrument
dangerous is that it fits snugly
around the neck, the speaking
part jutting up conveniently near
the mouth. Often a doctor will
become so engrossed in what he’s
saying that, upon finishing, he
• ; will stride off the rostrum only to
[ be Jerked back again by the wire
, around his neck. No one has
■ [been injured as yet for the audi-
Jence usually warns the victim
jin time
. 1 Electric pointers—to under
score significant portions of a
[slide —also have their faults.
Built like flashlights, the bat
.iteries are usually dead or the
“pointer” has no point to it.
The result is that the audience
is never too sure what Dr. X is
pointing to. And Dr. X is so close
to the magnified picture he often
can’t find what he’d like to point
to. ,
A Baltimore doctor, in Wash-
ington to report on artificial hip
joints, sadly told his audience as
he rose to speak that a thief had
stolen all his slides from his
automobile—just another of the
many hazards of presenting a
"paper.” He proceeded with the
talk, however, wondering aloud
what In the world the thief would
think of the slides when he
opened up the loot.
TV, Movies Used
Movies and television are grad
ually replacing what used to be
the presentation of papers at
small medical meetings. Fre
quently staged nowadays are the
so-called “closed telecasts”
beamed to points throughout the
United States. Audiences, under
this system, can be counted in
the thousands.
But even under streamlined
conditions, topics of a medical
nature are presented not with
out difficulty.
A recent color telecast of an
operation pictured the patient
in a greenish hue throughout the
program—a color not exactly de
sireable for a patient on an
operating table.
Os course the chief trouble
with closed telecasts of medical
papers—one was recently beamed
here from Ann Arbor, Mich., and
had as its topic the Salk polio
vaccine—is that the audience
can’t ask any questions.
For if a doctor can get through
the question and answer period
safely, despite all his other me
chanical troubles, he might get
the ultimate reward which comes!
with a handshake and the re-1
mark from a colleague: “I liked
your paper, doctor.”
Marine Recruit Dies
Using Potato Sheer
PARRIS ISLAND, S. C., Aug.
13 (/P).—Pvt. Kenneth D. Cox of
Ellerson, Va„ a recruit at this
marine basic training camp, died
Friday while operating a potato
slicing machine.
Authorities said the machine
could have given Pvt. Cox an
electrical shock, "but it is not
believed that this would have 1
. been of sufficient Intensity to j
cause death.” An investigation
, continued.
McKay Asks U. S. Limit
On Saving Historic Sites
CHAMPOEG, Oreg., Aug. 13
(ff). —Secretary of the Interior
McKay dedicated another his
torical site today, but warned
“there is a limit to what the
Federal Government can and
should do in the field of pre
serving historic sites.”
Mr. McKay said the Depart
ment of Interior “finds that its
limited appropriations are scarce
ly adequate for the proper care
and development” of the 123
historical properties now admin
istered by the department.
“Far from seeking new acqui
sitions, the Department of the
Interior is conducting a re-ap
praisal of some of these areas
to see If they might not be more
properly administered by State
or local governments,” the Sec
retary said in a speech at the
dedication of the pioneer Rob
ert Newell House at Champoeg,
where early settlers formed the
provisional government that
eventually brought this area Into
the United States.
Mr. McKay noted that the
Refrigeration
Hearing Slated
Twenty witnesses are sched
uled to testify tomorrow at the
second public hearing on pro
posed District regulations to re
quire licensing and bonding of
refrigeration and air condition-;
lng contractors and mechanics. ;
The Commissioners’ hearing
will begin at 10 a.m. In the Board
Room of the District building.
Heading the opposition will be
Ringgold Hart, appearing for the
Air Conditioning Division of the
Merchants and Manufacturers
Association.
Declaring the proposed regu
jlations are too detailed and
restrictive, Mr. Hart said he will
offer a substitute draft.
1 The first hearing was held
I boyhood home of ex-President
r Hoover was dedicated as a his
■ toric site earlier this week after
i being restored by a group of
! private citizens, and that the
I Newell house was being restored
■ as a project to tbe Daughters
of the American Revolution.
He said he was “gratified”
: that only in the case of Fort
■ Vancouver—because of the size
: of that project—was the Federal
I Government called upon for
• financial and other help.
The Secretary, a former Ore
■ gon Governor, said he was
! deeply interested in historical
■ sites and well aware of tbe law
i that calls upon him to preserve
! sites of national significance.
! But, he said, the key is “na
■ tional significance,” and, “surely
! the taxpayers of the United
■ States should not be called upon
, to maintain, and operate any
! site or structure which is of
: more Importance and Interest to
i the local community, State or
region than to the people of
i the Nation as a whole.”
January 17 and produced so
much disagieement that a spe
cial committee of District offi
cials was set up to redraft the
regulations.
C. Braswell Collins, counsel for
the Refrigeration Trade Asso
ciation of the District, will ap
pear as chief proponent of the
regulation. His organization be
gan urging the license regula
tions, he said yesterday, after
District officials threatened to
prosecute refrigeration mechan
ics for working without licenses
as plumbers and electricians.
Both these trades are involved in
air conditioning and refrigera
tion installations.
Review of Youth Aid
Police Inspector John E.
Winters will discuss the progress
of the Youth Aid Division of the
Metropolitan Police at a lunch
eon of the National Capital
Optimist Club at 12:15 p.m.
Wednesday at the Willard Hotel.