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Spearhead & Rib. Postmaster Oscar Shay, an enthusiastic amateur of Portales, N. Mex., recently found what is probably the first authentic bone of Folsom Man, a mysterious race of hunters who lived 10,000 years ago. Shay went bone-hunting with Jerry Ainsworth, a student at Eastern New Mexico College. Near a small stream called Blackwater Draw, they found the skeleton of a "dire wolf," a husky, toothy, carnivorous beast that died out toward the end of the glacial period...
Dire wolves are respectable finds for any amateur digger, but among the bones of this one was something even choicer: a stone spearhead with oddly fluted sides. It proved that the dire wolf had been speared and possibly killed by a Folsom hunter. It also hinted that other Folsom remains might be found near by. In Pleistocene times Blackwater Draw must have been a sizable river, just the place for ancient hunters to use as a camp site...
...near Blackwater Draw. At last he found what looked like a human bone. He took it to Archaeologist Frank Hibben of the University of New Mexico, who identified it as a human rib. Since it came from the same stratum as the dire wolf that had tangled with a Folsom hunter. Dr. Hibben believes that it is a Folsom bone, the first ever found. He hopes that further digging will turn up the rest of the skeleton. Then science will get a real look at shadowy Folsom Man, who has been known thus far only by his typical fluted spearheads...
Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey said that Smith was assigned to Undersecretary Folsom, with responsibility for analysis and planning fax policy. At Harvard Smith directed the writing, and publication of a special fax study to determine the effects of taxes on industry...
...Marion Bayard Folsom, 59, of Rochester, treasurer of the $464 million Eastman Kodak Co., who will be Under Secretary, giving particular attention to tax policies. Folsom served (1934-35) on the council which developed the Social Security program and on other business advisory groups appointed by Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman. Since 1950 he has been the brilliant chairman of the Committee for Economic Development, a private, nonprofit research organization. ¶Horace Chapman ("Chappie") Rose, 45, Cleveland corporation lawyer, who will be Assistant Secretary. Rose's firm (Jones, Day, Cockley & Reavis) represents Humphrey's mammoth M. A. Hanna...