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1 1 5 1 Health Pg. C2 Crossword Pg.C3 Pg.C4 Sunday, November 22.1987 2. 1 1 X7 i7 Lm Kimberly couples 1920 case aired ducers of the show, the South Idaho Press prepared a special press run to produce a copy of the Sunday, August 30, 1981, front page that had the first of a two-part story on the mystery. "What happened was one of researchers ran across the story through conversations with an investigator, then ran across the article in the paper," he said. "Apparently, it was the first time the whole story had been put together in By ALLAN LAZO BURLEY In 1928, Glenn and Bessie Hyde disappeared while on a honeymoon rafting trip in the Grand Canyon.

Next Sunday, they will reappear through the magic of Hollywood. About six months after their April 10, 1928, wedding in Twin Falls, the Kimberly couple headed down the wild Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. Their trip made headlines as We felt their story was so intriguing and had so many fascinating elements that it Was hard for US to resist it. Unsolved Mysteries writer Scot Thybony. "He has done a lot of research into the story and he was able to provide us some interesting anecdotes." Among the stories Thybony tells is "an interesting and mysterious incident," Schwartz said, which occur- red in 1971.

Thybony says a woman claiming to be a former Bessie Hyde, told a group of people around a campfire she had murdered her husband Glenn on a rafting trip and started out a new life for herself. "Of course, she later denied being Bessie Hyde and later denied the story," Schwartz said. "And we -have no way of knowing the truth. We can't say that's the way it really happend, but it is something somebody relayed to us, and it really gives the story an interesting twist." He said the fact Bessie Hyde may still be alive also drew the company to the story. Although the show does not solve the Hyde mystery, they do advance a few theories, including the "possibility that Glenn and Bessie Hyde had an altercation, and she went on, based on the story we heard," Schwartz said.

"Another possibility is, of course, that their boat capsized and they drowned and their bodies were never found. That is a theory a lot of people feel is most likely." As for who the mysterious skeleton is and why it was found in the boathouse of Emery Kolb, the famous Grand Canyon guide and explorer, Schwartz said, "no one has really any idea." "In talking to people who knew Emery Kolb when he was alive, people said he would explore the Grand Canyon, and in the would sometimes venture into the Grand Canyon and never be heard from again," he said. "According to a check of the records, the only missing people in that time frame are Glenn and Bessie Hyde." Although Schwartz could not say how much the segment cost, he said "let's just say in the thousands of dollars." The segment, which took four days to shoot, contains not only interviews, but also exciting re enactments of the Whitewater raft trip through the Grand Canyon. The show, which is a limited series of specials, is scheduled to air next in Bessie Hyde attempted to become the first woman to conquer the river. Instead, however, the trip ended in tragedy, or so it would seem: The Hydes disappeared around the end of November, 1928.

Next Sunday, the Hydes, as por-ffayed by actors, along with a cast of real-life characters surrounding the mystery, will attempt to re-create die drama in hopes of coming up with a solution on a special NBC program called "Unsolved Mysteries." 2 "We felt their story was so intriguing and had so many fascinating elements that it was hard for us to resist it," said Stewart Schwartz, the co-ordinating producer of the ahow. "Most of the stories we do are of a contemporary nature," he said. TThis is kind of a new area for us, (Joing something historical." The program's researchers Stumbled onto the mystery through Conversations with a private investigator, and their research eventually led them to a 1981 article in $ie South Idaho Press. "Robert Stack is our new host, and ih introducing the story, he does an on-camera segment in which he holds up a newspaper and says: The disappearance of a honeymoon couple and the remains found in a boathouse ocurred almost 50 years but are connected in a 1981 article in this Idaho newspaper and by Arizona law Scwartzsaid. After being contacted by the pro- Twists fislp add interest to mystery ALLAN LAZO KIMBERLY A nearly 60-year-bld mystery with as many twists as the Colorado River it is set on could get new new life, thanks to a segment on NBC's "Unsolved "Mysteries." "That is what we are hoping tor," said Coconino County Sheriff's Department Lt.

Jack Judd, who helped lead the 1981 investigation in-tp a mysterious set of bones found holds a copy of the SIP during the of an "Unsolved Mysteries" story Nov. 29 on NBC about the 1928 disappearance a Kimberly couple. one place, recently anyway. "So, one thing led to another and we contacted the key people and sent one of our out to meet everybody and make sure the story was everything everyone claimed it to be," Schwartz said. Although the nearly 6C-year-old mystery remains unsolved despite the show's investigation, the 10-minute piece, titled "Honeymoon Bones," does bring up some intriguing possibilites, Schwartz said.

Along with the fact the Hydes, or their remains, were never seen again, the mystery takes twists that include a set of bones dating back to around the time the Hydes were missing and a woman, claiming to be Bessie Hyde, that said she had killed her husband. In the segment, the story travels to Arizona, to talk with the Coconino County detective who in 1981 examined a set of bones found among a famous Grand Canyon guide's belongings in 1977, and to Tuscon, to hear from Dr. Walter Birkby, a forensic anthropologist at the Arizona State Museum on the University of Arizona campus. Dr. Birkby examined the bones, which had a bullet hole in the skull and a projectile inside the skull, and determined they were not the remains of Glenn Hyde.

That's the first twist: What happened to the Hyde's, and if those aren't the remains of Glenn Hyde, whose bones are they? In addition the segment includes aniimg the possessions of a Grand Canyon guide. "When the program contacted me, we wanted to do it in hopes someone may remember something from that era and contact us," Judd said Fri-r day afternoon from Flagstaff Ariz. So far, the mysterious disappearance of Glenn and Bessie Hyde and the mysterious appearance of a set of bones, believed to be from about the same time period as the Hydes' disappearance, among the belongings of Emory Kolb have yielded few clues. When the bones were examined in 1981, after being in the possession of the National Park Service since 1977, an Arizona forensic anthropologist, Dr. Walter Birkby, said they were definitely not those of Glenn Hyde, based on physical, chemical and forensic studies of the bones as well as a chemical dating of few months.

This is due, in part, to the communities increased awareness of airline activity at Twin Falls resutling from the Southern Idaho Regional Airport Authority's "Fly Smart" campaign. Jardine contines, "with this increase we were faced with the decision as to wheter we should increase our frequency, of flights or provide large aircraft service. The availability of the EMB-120 at Salt Lake City due to our new Palm Springs-Salt Lake City non-stop service helped to make the decision much easier. As an added bounus to our Twin Falls A UjO Lul vl uL ijiaii-j tiyon waters, which had been navigated successfully only nine times since Major John Wesley Powell completed the 217-mile journey in 1869," the SIP reported. That, however, would never come to pass.

Sometime near, the end of November, after dropping off A.G. Sutro, who had ridden with the cou- Ele for about seven miles and eading into the final and, according to an Associated Press account of the time, "most dangerous leg of their long journey to Needles," the Hydes disappeared. After a long search turned up the Hyde's boat, a Dec. 28, 1928, AP account, the SIP reported in 1981, said "that the couple had apparently 'perished in the swirling waters of the Nearly 50 years later, when the over its 38 city route system. The St.

George, Utah-based regional carrier holds firm orders on 7 EMB-120's and options on an additional 14. Beginning December 15, SkyWest will offer five non-stop, roundtrip 'Ik Jlf Robert Stack opening scene to be aired of Sunday at 9 p.m. on NBC. i the J. Aiirj he surrounding the unidentified bones was a bullet hole as well as a projectile in theskull.

"We still have them, and we have done a lot of examination on the projectile in the head of the bones, dated those, gone through the clothing, and done a lot of research," Judd said Friday. "Our main problem is a lack of records in that time period." Apparently, the Hydes are listed as the only people missing in that time period whose remains have not yet been found. The Hydes' story begins April 10, 1928, when they were married in a Twin Falls church. After residing in Kimberly for a short time, the Hydes set out on their adventrous honeymoon about six months after their wedding. passengers, we will now be able to offer direct flights between Twin Falls and Palm Springs." The pressurized 30-passenger EMB-120, manufactured by the Em-braer of Brazil, is one of the fastest aircraft in the class of large, "new turboprops with a cruise speed of over 300 miles per hour at an altitude of 30,000 feet.

Powered by Pratt and Whitney PW118 engines, the EMB-120 features low R.P.M. curved propellers to greatly reduce cabin noise. On board, passengers will enjoy the EMB-120's spacious seating, August JO, 1'jJl, MP arucio that the "Unsolved Mysteries" program uses in part to outline the mystery, former SIP reporter Dave Horsman, using contemporary accounts of the trip, describes the events surrounding the honeymoon: "Slightly more than six months after they exchanged vows, on Oct. 22, Glenn and Bessie Hyde put their homemade, fiat-bottomed wooden scow a 20-foot craft guided by long sweeps at bow and stern into the Green River at Green River, Utah. "They would ride the Green to its confluence with the Colorado and then challenge that mighty river as far as Needles, where the Colorado emerges from the Grand Canyon.

They planned to reach Needles by Dec. 6 and take a train to Los Angeles. "Bessie would be the first woman EMB-120 overhead luggage bins, and in-flight snack and beverage service. Sky West currently operates a fleet of five EMB-120's and 38 Metroliners -Lr iL'. Twin Falls-Salt Lake route gets larger plane I Wk-wmrwmmMiriiMjlfy.

2i i A- i 7 i ST. GEORGE, Utah Skywest Airlines, has announced it will its 30-passenger EMB-120 1 Brasilia) airliner between Twin Falls and Salt Lake City beginning December 15. Current service is provided with 17- and 19-passenger Metroliners. Donna Jardine, Director of Marketing, cites increasing demand 'and the availability of the large aircraft at Salt Lake City as the primary factors involved inthe airline's decision. "We have ex- -perienced a substantial increase in passenger traffic during the past destroy some ild' haman bones they'd had since 1977, the mystery of the Hydes was After examining the bones, Dr.

Walter Birkby, a forensic anthropologist with the Arizona State Museum, told the South Idaho Press in an August 31, 1981, story: "So far, it's looking rather strongly like this could be the missing Glenn Hyde." He had based that opinion on a physical description -or up from the bones that resembled Hyde's, but further investigation since has left the investigators believing the bones, complete with a bullet hole in the head, do not belong to Glenn Hyde. Whose bones are those? Where are Glenn and Bessie Hyde? "Unsolved Mysteries" hopes someone out there has some answers. flights from twin Falls to Salt Lake International Airport. As a "Delta Connection" carrier, SkyWest offers convenient connections to Delta Air Line's vast network of domestic and international flights. Winterhalter said the round crater, which is 45 feet across and 10 feet deep, represents the damage a 750-pound bomb would cause.

Engineers would fill it with rubble, dirt and stone, level it off and lay a fiberglass mat on top to keep stones from being kicked up into a plane's engine and to give the plane something more solid to run across, Winterhalter said. "We're talking about being able to put a seriously damaged runway-back in three to four hours," said Lt. Col. Philip M. Brooks, operations' officer of the 200th Civil Engineering squadron of the Air National Guard at Camp Perry near Port Clinton.

The Vietnam-era repair method was similar, but used a much heavier aluminum mat, Winterhalter said. Because planes bounce when they hit such heavy mats, they weren't effective much closer than 300 yards apart, but fiberglass has shortened that con-' sidcrably, Brooks said. Pre-bombed runways helping engineers to learn to rebuild The Nature of Things By MIRIAM SPENCER "The world is so full of a number of things "I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings." R.L. Stevenson Man. How does he differ from other animals? Physically a human being is just an animal.

A pig is so similiar to a human being that it developes the same stress related diseases. On the zoological scale that rates animals by their complexity of structure and place in evolution, humans rank only a little above dogs and cats and below rats, mice, and squirrels. It was long said that the human being was the only tool using animal. That is what made him different, made him special. Then it was discovered that certain birds use twigs to get to insects in holes.

So the statement was modified to read 'tool maker' Then chimpanzees were found taking the bark off twigs to make them fit into termite holes so they could use them to collect the bugs to eat. That definition was finally thrown out. Philosophers defined man as the only thinking animal. That got complicated. Thinking.

How do you define it? I know my cats think. Maybe they don't have abstract thinking but then they don't discuss their thoughts with me. I can only judge by their actions. If someone were to judge human thoughts only by their actions he'd probably come to the conclusion they don't think at all. Some people believe dolphins out rank humans in brain power.

Maybe they do. Their brains are larger for their size than are those of humans. And at times they cetainly act more intelligently. They don't fight or go to wars. Thinking was dropped as a criteria for the human beings superiority over animals.

What does that leave us? As I sit on my chair writing in my note pad, warming me toes on the base board heater, looking at the yet unfinished painting I'm working on, it seems to me that we could define man as the only animal that changes his enviroment to suit his needs. Then I get to thinking about beavers. While other animals build nests and dens, the beaver goes one step further. He builds a dam to create a pond in which to build his home. So I'll do a revision.

Man is the only animal that radically changes his enviroment. The beaver may build a dam and then his house. But does he put in electric heat to keep him warm in the winter? Wasps, bees, and termites build complicated houses. The bower bird builds his shelter. Birds build nests, sometimes elaborate ones.

But none of them build four lane interstate highways. None of them build factories that belch out smoke to pollute the air. None of them plow, seed, and irrigate land for crops. None of them can live in the Artie or Antartic at the same air temperature that they do in the tropics, by heating or cooling the air as needed. Other animals may not be able to make these changes themselves but there are a number who take advantage of man's efforts.

The cockroach is native to tropical areas. Today it is found world wide, even in Antar-tica. The only way it can do it, since it can't survive freezing temperatures, is to live in man's modified enviroment heated buildings of all kinds. At one time termites were considered strictly a southern problem. Now they're found in wooden structures in the north, because these structures have central heating.

Man alters the enviroment but sometimes I wonder if the cockroaches and termites aren't smarter. They get the benefits without having to pay the bills! DAYTON, Ohio (AP) In a remote part of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, civil engineering crews are building a new runway "with a twist this one has bomb craters already built in. The $80,000 project is to be completed by this fall, one of three at bases around the country using mock runways designed to teach engineers how to repair bomb craters quickly in case of war. Simulated bombed runways also are being built at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico and Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida, said Lt. Thomas'A.

Winterhalter of the 2750th Civil Engineering Squadron at Wright-Patterson. "They're testing it out at these three bases, and if it's deemed sue-, cessful, it will be installed at every Air Force base," he said. The runway will be a stub strip of asphalt about 700 feet long. Into it are built two craters, one round and one square, for teaching different reconstruction methods..