Laurel outlook., 1949-10-19
Hamlet Named
KiWaniS Head
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concentrations were unanimousl,
adopted without further nomina
lions from the floor. Acceptance
Of the committees report wa!
equivalent to election.
Guests were Wesley Henley, Jr.
and Dick Duncan of the higl
school Key club, introduced by
Walter Menello; Ben Jordan Of
Laurel, operator of a truck line
between Cody, Wyo., and point;
west, by Neal Baker, and Corwir
Bowen by Lee Hamlet.
Hamlet as PRESIDENT elect
thanked the club for the honor the
members had seen fit to bestow,
and as current program chairman
called Floyd Beane to introduce the
speaker of the evening, DIR. Bur-
nice Beane of Legrand, Iowa. DR..
Beane, 70, is a second cousin of
Floyd Beane.
Mentioning paleontology in gen.
eral at times, the speaker in his
address confined himself princi-
pally with crinoids and particular
ly to the varieties discovered more
tran so years ago and since in an
extensive limestone quarry at Le-
grand. The specimens obtained
there are among the choicest of
their kind in the world, and many
have never been found elsewhere.
Tie psychologists they are we'll
nigh priceless. DR.. Beane, who
holds a degree of doctor of science
from the University of Pennsyl-
v&nia, has devoted most of his life
to crinoidea and has supplied spe-
cimens to the principal universities
and colleges in America and to
several abroad. He became inter-
ested in the subject when he was
boy.
Crinoidea constitute a large
group, usually ranking as a class,
Of life attached to the bottom of
the sea $50 to 300 million years
ago. They were somewhere be-
tween the fifth and seventh forms
u life known to present science,
and occurred in the Paleozoic era.
More precisely, DR.. Beane placed
hem in the Mississippian period
If the Paleozoic, the age of am
ohibians which followed the age of
fishes and preceded the age of
'eptiles. The typical forms had
more or less cup-shaped bodies and
we're provided with five or more
arms, CDR. Beane had
'cme with only four) bearing pin
lies. Their food was minute life
IL the warm water of the sea that
las long since vanished from over
resent Iowa and several adjoin-
ng states. In most varieties their
yer borne on a long joint
q column, whose bases were often
into rootlike processes. DR..
seane had several specimens with I
i'm, which illustrated his descrip- !
ions.
Conditions varied from time to +
in the vicinity of the small r
cwn of Legrand as the warm r
cas- currents changed. Some were v
cry favorable, resulting in perfect s
reservation by fossilization of the 9
crms of life then existing. At
Their times the water was unfa- n
Drable, breaking up and destroy !,
lg the delicate creatures. Their Ii
chris now constitute layers be-
veen the strata containing the
examples. All the layers
AXE up a deposit of limestone -,
'at has been quarried more than |
. years for building material. .
About 40 species of different !
'lors of crinoidea have been found '
Why some r differently {
,lored from the others is not =
Gown. In one very large piece .
rock which DIR. Beane bought g
it was removed, a number =
new species were found. That =
as early in his career. Later, =
lie of his discoveries was widely
lblished, which led eventually to
S supplying specimens to the
liversities and colleges as we'll as G
museums. All such are labeled bl
tn numbers and are catalogued ii
r the conveniences of paleontol- O,
lists, specialists in the larger Y
Ids of geology, who spent many of
urs studying them. j.
Once with a companion, a DIR. 30
WIDEN from Oklahoma, the pair
covered, described, named and l.
)lished IL new species-some-
ng that was rather epochal.
long the discoveries we're star =
hes, also of much value, as well
other life forms which DR..
me mentioned casually in pass
And, to make it ever inter
more new forms r being
nd from time to time. Il
me of the cashable values of
fossils is that they are definite
s or labels which tell accurate y
The identity and time period of (
material in which they are /
nd. Psychologists are on the
rolls of mining and oil COM
les to identify the different