Word: shaye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
When not busy selling stamps and sorting mail. Postmaster Shay kept digging systematically 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...
...varsity basketball team, like the famed one-horse shay, ran and ran and then finally came apart last night at the Blockhouse to lose, 76 to 63, to Boston College. The Crimson played a sound, commendable game; it just could not withstand the pressure that B.C. applied for the entire 40 minutes...
...Spares: Shay, Yale (28), Bothfeld, Princeton (21), Murphy, Brown (19), Greeley, Harvard (16), and Priestly, Brown...
First Period--goals: Shay (Y) (Brown), 11:17; Brown (Y) Shay, McNamara...