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YE § | | THURSDAY, JULY 3%, 1946 THE. INDIANAPOLIS: TIMES : | Wa ¢ : . ” : a Lone Flint Worker Keeps 4000-Year-Old Craft Alive MOORE'S SUPER ™ FARE “1 By DAVID M. NICHOL The sole practicing flint-knapper|enough, he says, to keep himself S oan who *. served seven Years'| ® Ice Cold Cantaloupe ? F / 001 Times Foreign Correspondent today is 50-year-old John W. New-|and his wife. apprenticeship and is the business: || Fresh. Fruits, o fo Cold Watermelon Wine & Beer Lo LBRANDO DOR, Hest Butioll; Xing, ton, and he's at the job by accl-| Mr. Newton chips out about 30,000 man of the combination. He has | Vegelables, se nfo Carry oF TAL will. ey tradition | dent: Mr. Newton was a “timber-|gun flints each month, working on|hopes of teaching some younger Meals Out : : ER of almost 4000 years is so near ex-| feller” or Jumberiech until his leg bright days under a canvas in the men, and is modernizing the shed, ! 2 Ibs. 2 | , V2 VV Ji 7 tinction that only one man here, ug Srushed y & tree more an backyard of “The Flint-Knappers'|with its two huge tree stumps " ® ® Ice Cream--Pis. and Qts. # fin, . and Jrobaily Snywhere, still is. &n- In his more sedentary, but almost|Arms,” & new pub on an ancient | benches, which serves as a wirter | 2403 N. ILLINOIS Open Seven Days = | PHONE: TA-6185 ; WH 1 Ll Po Boiivey > |equally dangerous present occupa-|site which is run now by Herbert| workshop. ' Until Midnight i tion, he earns about $18 a week, | Edwards. right. : o Indianapolls s Kl y 4 the samt halt of his I es wages, but Mr. Edwards himself is a skilled ern To hdl Bling : Na with tools which A little Roman Cleanser in may be traced di- § washing water each week will rectly to his nec. keep dresses, suits, slacks, lithic forebears, household linens snowy-white he is “knapping — and save the work and wear bits of glossy of hard rubbing and boiling. Mack Si into 3 S. Ronn’ Cleanser &lso removes Once Dap were many. kinds of stains; simple knives and scrap- Mr. Nichol directions given on the label. ers for men just émerging into hisGrocers sell Roman Cleanser tory. Centuries later, in the guns . —quaris and half-gallon jugs. of the revolutionists, they helped to make America free, and in Wellington's armies, turned back the challenge of Napoleon at Waterloo. Today they provide food and pro- 4 » tection for native hunters in the y deep jungles of West Africa and|] Su) » the Gold Coast when a paternalis-|] tic colonial administration decides|] = they are sufficiently truthworthy to || ec : be given the antique flintlocks. he At Miller Used by U.e8. Marksmen = Jewelry Co. But Africa isn't the only market. The flints are used also by fastidia ous marksmen in the United States. | More rarely, they make surgical in-| a. “JOAN" struments for the specialists in| -— d London. In coarsely-quartered | ere DIAMOND blocks, they supply a building ma- || == RRL terial that is typical of this part|] ee ( Y of Eastern England. I] mesesnen ¥ RE Even the mines, in nearby Ling! s Heath, are not much different from || mss— lo 4s offer hese 1 ike dim centuries before) —— > rist. en still go down 45 feet mm — - thick . . into the chalk, and claw out me | Quality Meats, Fish and Poultry u Fruits and Vegetables — Always Fresh uel. 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