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Museum curator
finds old whale
By WILLIAM STRACENER
COLUMBIA, S.C. (UPI) —
Major parts of a 40-million
year-old whale skeleton, includ
ing teeth the size of a man’s
fist, have been unearthed in a
limestone quarry 70 miles
inland from the South Carolina
coast.
The discovery was made by
Richard D. Dayvault, curator
of the L.L. Smith Geology
Museum of the University of
South Carolina, during a
routine field investigation at the
Great Portland Cement Co.’s
huge oval shaped quarry near
Harleyville.
“It’s one of the few finds
where there is a large of
amount of skeleton left,” said
Rudy Mancke, staff naturalist
for the South Carolina Museum
Commission. “Usually, when
they die, the waters jostle the
bones about and their bones are
scattered.”
The discovery of the 40-to 60-
foot yoke-toothed whale is
significant because most of it is
intact and it is one of the oldest
fossilized remains of a verte
brate ever found in South
Carolina.
“The fossils of dinosaurs
have long since eroded away,”
said Mancke.
Dayvault and six to eight of
his associates have been
removing parts of the whale
from the quarry for the last
two months. They have recov
ered the skull, teeth, ribs and
vertebrae.
“Flippers do fossilize someti
mes, but you generally don’t
find them,” said Mancke.
“The whale was well offshore
when he died,” he said. “Ocean
levels have fluctuated many
times. The seashore was a little
below Columbia 40 million
years ago.”
“Limestone itself is an
underwater marine deposit.
Limestone always says, ‘There
used to be ocean here.”’
“There’s not a lot of
information from this area on
fossilized whales. All the
material we’ve got doesn’t fit
into any category. It may be a
new species of toothed whale,
but you need a lot of material
to be precise.”
Mancke said the same
general variety of whale has
been found throughout the
Southeast, especially in Alaba
ma, and in Egypt.
The species, now extinct, is
an ancestor of the modern
toothed whales such as the
sperm whale, and competed
with large sharks and other sea
creatures for food, he said.
Geologists also found shark
teeth near the whale, Mancke
said. The whale, obviously an
older adult from its well-worn
teeth, rivals the size of the
great killer shark in the recent
movie “Jaws.” Scientists place
the huge mammal, technically
known as an archaeocete
whale, in the eocene age, which
was in existence 40 to 60 million
years ago.
The area where the whale
was found has been quarried
since the 19405, but up until
now only shellfish, sand dollars
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and some shark teeth had been
recovered, Mancke said. Own
ers of the quarry cooperated
with the geologists, roping off
the area to prevent large earth
moving equipment from enter
ing it until the remains were
removed.
Dayvault said he hopes to put
the skeleton on display in a few
weeks.
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Brezhnev saw letters before congressmen did
By NICHOLAS DANILOFF
WASHINGTON (UPI) -
President Ford has taken the
unusual step of giving Soviet
leader Leonid Brezhnev a peek
at letters he wrote privately to
two congressmen before the
congressmen had a chance to
read them.
In the letters Ford announced
his intention to seek “reme
dial” legislation from Congress
to improve trade terms for the
Soviet Union.
Senate Republican leader
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letters to Brezhnev when he
and a 14-member senatorial
delegation met with the Soviet
chief in the Kremlin July 2
during the recent congressional
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Ford’s letters were dated
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recess which ended July 7.
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suppose he knows who I am!”
Long said.
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— Griffin Daily News Saturday, July 19,1975
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