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Skull Of Near-Human Is 1.5 Million Years Old Washington (UPI) Two anthropologists Monday reported the separate discoveries in Africa of a skull almost identical to the famous Peking man and a collection of 3 million-year-old hand bones with capabilities similar to humans. Richard Leakey, director of the National Museums of Kenya, said the skull that closely matches the cranium of Peking man is about 1.5 million years old more than twice the age most often given the fossils found in China more than 40 years ago and which disappeared during World War Leakey said the newly found skull is the most complete and oldest head specimen yet found of the species Homo erectus that is a direct ancestor of Homo to which humans belong. It suggests the Chinese fossils are older than previously believed or else the early man had uniform characteristics over a long period of time and on different continents. The skull was discovered last September with only its protruding eyebrows sticking out of the dirt of a rocky hillside at Koobi Fora at Lake Turkana, formerly known as Lake Rudolf, in northern Kenya. Since the skull was found in an area where fossil bones of an ape-man of a different species are also present, Leakey said it proves ancestors existed as more than one contemporary species more than 1 million years ago.

The discovery of the hand bones was reported by Dr. Donald C. Johanson, from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, at a National Geographic Society news conference at which he and Leakey discussed their work publicly together for the first time. Johanson said the 35 bones were found at the site of an apparent catastrophic flood 3 to 3.5 million years ago in what are now desolate badlands at Hodar in the Afar region of Ethiopia. He and his associates assembled a nearly complete hand of bones taken from several individuals and said it appears the hand was capable of the kinds of movements that human hands can make.

He said they belonged to the genus Homo but their species is unknown. Study of the bones does not support the idea that human ancestors underwent a knuckle walking stage like the chimpanzees and gorilla, Johanson said. Tuesday, March 9, 1976 The Lincoln Star 3 Court Rejects Church's Claims About Poison Snake Practices DISCOVERIES ore reported by anthropologists Johanson left and Leakey. Asbestos Found In 10 Of 19 Baby, Body Powders NEW YORK (AP) Ten out of 19 body and baby powders tested at Mount Sinai Hospital here were contaminated with asbestos fibers capable of causing a rare form of chest and abdominal cancer, researchers said Monday. Dr.

Arthur Rohl, who conducted the tests with Dr Arthur Langer, said there has been no investigation of the dangers from asbestos in such powders. Iowa Man Killed In Auto Crash Sterling, Colo. (UPI) Roger McNamara, an assistant vice president of the American Trust and Savings Bank in Dubuque, Iowa, was killed Sunday when the car in which he was riding left Interstate SOS near here and struck a parked semi-trailer truck Colorado state police said McNamara, 36, was a passenger in a car driven by Howard J. Meloy, 28, a rural Bernard farmer who was injured in the mishap. should be some sort of quality control instituted either by the industry or by congressional he said in an interview.

The researchers said the contamination usually was found in the talc used in the powders. Asbestos fibers can cause mesothelioma, a chest and abdominal cancer, and can also result in the scarring of lung tissue and gastromtestional difficulties. Rohl said. The researchers said: of the 19 American samples contained from to asbestos fibers. The highest concentration was in ZBT Baby Powder with Baby Oil; Cashmere Bouquet Body Talc, Coty Airspun Face Powder and Rosemary Talc.

These were in the to bracket. also contained quartz. -Bauer Black Baby Talc, which is no longer on the market, had a concentration. powders containing less than asbestos were Faberge Brut Talc, Yardley Invisible Talc, Yardley Black Label Body Powder, Mennen Shave Talc and English Leather After Shave Talc. The manufacturers of Rosemary could not be reached for cdtnment, but the others said they were convinced their products were safe and said their own tests had shown no asbestos.

The baby and body powder tests were undertaken as part of a study of the dangers involved in occupational exposure to asbestos, Rohl said. "There is no firm evidence on low level or intermittent exposure such as from using talcum he said. We don't know for sure what the danger level is." The tests at Mount Sinai used electron microscopy. Heinz Eirmann. director of cosmetics technology- in the U.S.

Food and Drug Administration, said it was too expensive and time consuming for the agency to use. There is no method, he said. The products which the two doctors found uncontaminated with asbestos fibers were Medicated Powder; Avon Bird of Paradise Beauty Dust; Diaperene Medicated Body Powder, two Baby Powders one made here and one in Britain; Johnsons Medicated Powder; Mennen Bath Talc; Yardley After Shave Powder and Yardley Original Body Powder. Rohl said he and Langer had done a parallel survey of body and baby powders manufactured in Britain and found "very few of those were contaminated and those that were, were considerably less so than tjiose made He said the reason was that British manufacturers used Italian and Chinese talc which are not contaminated American talc deposits are usually contaminated The experiments- at Mount Sinai were financed by a grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Services and began in 1973. Washington (UPI) The Supreme Court Monday rejected claims by a rural fennessee church that the First Amendment allows the congregation to drink poison and handle dangerous snakes to test the good will of God.

The justices unanimously turned down an appeal by the Holiness Church of God in Jesus Name. The church was contesting a Tennessee Supreme Court decision which barred the poison practices after two members of the congregation drank strychnine and died The church pastor, Liston Pack, and a member of the congregation, Alfred Ball, were fined and ordered jailed for violating court orders and permitting the poison-drinking and snake-handling. highest court affirmed the sentences and said the need to protect the health of its citizens outweighed the rights of church members to worship in a dangerous fashion. Pack told the U.S. Supreme Court when seeking review that church members do not risk death when testing their own faith, because they do so to prove the disciple Mark was right when he wrote that those who worship God take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt Pack was not available immediately for comment on the ruling, but his wife, contacted in Tennessee, said, continue to handle snakes according to our Pack has said, during the past three years in which his small congregation gained international attention, that no court ruling can stop him from snake handling.

law of man cannot stand against the law of he said. Ball has since started another church in another section of Cocke County In other action Monday, the high court 's newest justice. John Paul Stevens, issued his first two dissents. He opposed issuance of Supreme Court orders to state and federal courts in both cases, arguing that circumstances made them unnecessary. Before starting a two-week recess, the justices also Cleared the way for a trial of Indian activist Russell Means' civil rights suit against Oglaia Sioux tribal Means claims the leaders used improoer practices to win a 1974 election.

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