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3Jeltrott4free3)res0 SECTION In This Section Features Editorials SUNDAY, JANUARY 9, 1972 Amusements Travel Pages 6-9 Pages 10-15 1 Ocean. An artist's depiction of Atlantis in Hearst's American tist's contention that the migration of eels indicated have once more confirmed the theory of continuing Weekly in 1945: The Wegener theory of continental Atlantis had plunged into the sea when South Amer- continental drift, drift was being sharply debunked as was the scien- ica split off from Africa eons ago. Recently, scientists BIMINI'S STRANGE STONEWORKS A New Chapter in an Age-Old Search: Do Bahamas Hold Key to Atlantis! WWtJimwwwi in in umn mmmm of the Bahamas Islands would they be developed for mineral exploration, industry? Cayce told what he foresaw: Many large and modern hotels gathered in particular areas; a hydroelectric plant at the mouth of a harbor channel; a search for rich oil deposits that would lau; and the re mains of a once mighty continent. "Is this the continent known as Alta, or Poseida (Atlantis)?" "A temple of the Poseidians was in a portion of this land," he answered. "How deep in the ground will that be?" "In the wall that would be builded from the western portion of the south island in the 12 to 15-foot levels extending in the northeast-southwest direction 7) Sam guided the boat to a place about a half mile off the western shoreline not far from Paradise Point.

The water was 12 to 15 feet deep. Valentine jumped in, and the others followed, cavorting. Below the surface chop, the water was clear as air. On the liusing Will Be Ordered A decision in the Richmond, school integration case, which is almost identical to the Detroit suit, is expected shortly. Reliable sources say U.S.

district judge will order metropolitan, cross-district busing to integrate the Richmond schools, which would be the firp- such court order in the nation. Richmond's school system, like Detroit's, is about 65 percent black and has virtually 1 all-white suburban school systems in two adjoining counties. A decision in the Detroit case is expected from U.S. District Judge Stephen J. Roth in several months.

No Hippie Freaks, Please The exclusive University Club, the lunchtime retreat of some administration and faculty members in the student union at the University of Michigan, won't be honoring the new state law which allows persons between the ages of 18 and 21 to drink. Explained a club official: "We don't want any of those hippie freaks coming in here." Levin vs. Calialan? Some Wayne County Democrats, disillusioned with Prosecutor William Cahalan, are looking for a candidate to oppose him in his bid for re-election next fall. Several party members are trying to convince first-term Common Council member Carl Levin that he should be the man. Levin, whose council term doesn't expire unti! 1974, says he considered and rejected the idea but hasn't "finally closed the door." BY BILL BARRY Special to th Frt Prtu THERE is a curious thing that certain birds do.

Sometimes the birds fly out from the coastal mainlands in chattering flocks, heading pur-posively for open sea. The last island flecks finally pass below, but they continue on. And far out In mid-Atlantic, the flocks veer off, circling, crying, looking down, expectant, as if there is supposed to-be something there. Only a vast and unbroken expanse of deep ocean is there. The flocks chatter in confusion, streaking downward helter-skelter, then soaring up to circle, and circle, and circle baffled and bewildereduntil they die, exhausted, and fall into the open sea, dead.

Men possessed of the dream say that in the birds it is memory, inherited memory, which recurs through the collective instinct of millenia, secured to the time long ago, when the ancestors of the birds gathered flocks on the continent of Atlantis i Sam never dreamed of Atlantis. He never heard of it. All his life he lived on the island of Bimini, in the Bahamas. He knew where the fish were, and Americans hired him to take them to fish. One thing Sam knew about Americans they were all a little batty.

Nothing they did surprised him anymore. So, one day a tall old skinny American asked Sam if he could find the mountain in the water. The Pinnacle, was what the American called it. It was 60 feet down in the Gulf Stream, and its sides dropped straight down out of sight, maybe 3,000 feet or more. The top of it was a long, elliptical shelf.

"Oh, yah," Sam said. "I know de place. The fishin's no good. The charks is much too baddere." "We're not going fishing," the old man said. "We're going diving." "Ho, boy," Sam laughed.

"Okay. We go." So they went, on Robert An-gove's 30-foot cabin cruiser out of Fort Lauderdale. It was Labor Day, Sept. 2, 1968. THE OLD MAN was Dr.

J. Manson Valentine, naturalist and earth scientist. A very slight but exuberant French-m a was aboard, Jacques Mayol, who held the world's underwater free dive record 250 feet down, on his own air. There was a chill in the air, and the water was choppy. They set sea anchors, then the Frenchman went over the side, wearing just a mask snorkel and flippers.

The Frenchman didn't come up. And after a while, he still didn't come up. And minutes later, no Frenchman. No man got that much air, never. Ho, boy, Sam was thinking, those charks those charks.

The Frenchman's head popped awash out of water, not even gasping. "Some i he said, thumbing downward, and he shrugged, unsure. So then the old man went over, a little rusty in his joints. A long way below the water's surface, there was indeed something. But Valentine could not be sure that it was the key he sought the mountain which once stood on the land.

He could not hang on it for a real close look, as Jacques could do. The current was bad, and there were shadowy shapes gliding about, staying just out of ken, a little frightening. Come on, back to the boat, Valentine signaled. They climbed aboard. "I think we ought to head in," Valentine said.

"There isn't much light left. Maybe Sam can find us a nice shallow reef we can all dive on, just for the fun." On a hot August day, in 1927, Edgar Cayce in trance was being asked about the future commercial prospects Joe Engressia: "His whistles, it seems, match perfectly the pulses of Bell's switching equipment, and enable him to make free calls anywhere in the LSA and most places outside of it." Phone Freak No. 1 And the Big Battle With Poor Ma Bell Muhammad Ali William Cahalan bottom, there was no coral reef. Instead, there were two rows of enormous rocks, which on first sight had all the appearance of having been laid there as part of a giant Cyclopean roadway. They all saw it at once, and shot up, hollering, snorkels askew.

"What is it?" "We've struck it rich," Valentine yelled. "We have really got something here. This is really something!" And he dove down again. The rows were exactly parallel, extending In a northeast-southwest direction. closer look, they appeared to form walls, huge loaves of stone placed down one after the other, some as large as rooms, interdicted by sandy avenues.

Smaller squares and hexagonals formed mosaics, and there appeared to be deeper layers cf stone beneath the topmost. They dove again and again, roving over the structure. Val-e i excitement overwhelmed him. He lost his weight belt, but kept diving, fighting to stay down. The rocks were composed of eo-lithic sandy limestone, typical Bahamian beach rock, simple to quarry.

But if man had done the work, not nature, the wall would have been built when the land was above water, and that would have to have been At least 10,000 years before! Then, perhaps, Valentine even said the word. Atlantis. The antediluvian world, before the earth's magnetic poles went blooey, hurling the world topsy-turvy on its axis, the great Ice Age of Turn to Page 4B, Col. 1 WEST PALM BEACH BY MARK McHARRY Special to tht Free Presj NEW YORK, N.Y. Joe Engressia sounded tired, his voice dry with a peculiarly fuzzy sound, as it traveled over the wires and switching systems from Milling-ton, where he had taken refuge at the end of a long battle with police, telephone security agents and federal law enforcement officials.

"It's just that I'm a little drunk, that's all. The FBI was just here," he said. JOE ENGRESSIA is the original blind phone freak genius. This begins, but does not fully describe, his escapades with the equipment of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, an adventure that has already cost the utility thousands of dollars. Joe has made free calls all over the country and the world, without the company's knowledge, and at Its expense.

He would use his special talent, also, he says, to improve service, clear up technical difficulties, and otherwise help the system along in its complex path of providing service to millions of customers. The phone company takes quite a different view however. They called in the FBI to keep watch on Joe after he was convicted for theft of service in Memphis, Joe's base of operations. Engressia is not the only person involved in phone freaking. He may be the most altruistic of those involved but to the phone company's dismay, he was also the catalyst that brought many scattered individuals together into a cohesive unit that possesses the potential for seriously damaging Bell.

First, there was the publicity Joe received after the University of South Florida warned him about whistling into his dormitory phone. His whistles, it seems, match perfectly the pulses of Bell's switching equipment, and enable him to make free calls anywhere in the USA and most places outside of it. When phone freaks found out about his special ability they got in touch with him, eager to learn how this feat was accomplished. Joe, happy to hear about the vagaries of the phone system in whatever part of the country, swapped information with anyone who called, putting people in touch with one another, and holding back only on extremely sensitive information. HE GLADLY gave out information on blue boxing, on the theory that if people were going to rip off the phone company by giving the operator a fake credit card number, a widespread practice, they might as well be more efficient about it.

A blue box does electronically what Joe can do with his whistle. It is the same type of control the operator uses to place a call, except that as it is used with a pay phone, there is no way of tracking down its location. A blue box has 10 buttons on It, just like a Touchtone phone, plus three extra ones. A user merely dials a toll-free call to an 800 number from any convenient pay phone. He waits until it's ringing, then pushes down a button on the box which emits an audible frequency (2600 cycles per second).

This frequency tells the phone company switching equipment that the user has hung up the pay phone, which of course he hasn't. Turn to Page 4B, Col. 1 WEST END FREEPORT GRAND BAHAMA Ali May Help Jail Inmates A group of Detroit labor and business leaders trying to raise money to develop a recreation program for inmates at the Wayne County Jaii may get some help from former heavyweight boxing champ Muhammad Ali. Initial contracts have been made in an effort to convince Ali to come to Detroit to tight Blue Lewis, a local boxer. The proposal calls for a substantial portion of the take from Olympia Stadium to be donated to the project, perhaps as much as $400,000.

Hart Recall Failing It appears the drive to recall U.S. Sen. Philip Hart will fizzle out Monday, the deadline for submitting petitions. Officials of the anti-busing Roseville Action Group won't say how many of ihe 654,000 required signatures they have collected, but one official conceded there probably aren't enough. Anybody Home? An anonymous telephone call came in to Detroit's City Hall Central complaint service this week about an abandoned with the front door open at 13101 Mack.

The complaint was sent down to the Department of Buildings and Safety Engineering, which sent out an inspector. He reported back last week about the action taken: "None, 13101 is the address of the Neighborhood City Hall." Tuition Hike Less An official of the University of Detroit says tuition for the Arts College is not going up $150 a semester to $1,000, as an earlier report said. The increase, which still must be approved by the board of trustees, will be somewhere between $30 and $30, promises the official. Ci FT. LAUDERDALE GRQ Of MIAMI N.

BIMINI S. BIMINI CAT CAY The marks the area near Bimini where underwater exploration first revealed strange rock.