European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 3, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday september 3, 1978 the stars and stripes Page 7 North America s oldest human footprints found Victorville Calif. A the oldest human footprints Ever found in North America record what seems to have been a family stroll through the Cottonwood Trees that lined the Mojave River some 4.300 years ago scientists say. The discovery of 54 footprints was announced last week by archaeologists from the University of California Riverside. Two sets of adult prints one larger than the other were found preserved in the once soggy ground. These Barefoot adults seem to have walked purposely southward taking longer Steps now and then to avoid puddles. One lost his or her footing and skidded in the mud. Two smaller sets of footprints Point in Many directions suggesting two Chil Dren who scurried Here and there. The Trail of footprints gives the impression of mom and dad and two kids walking along James Swenson curs senior archaeologist said during a press tour of the site. But he added that s mostly sup position. All we can really say for sure is that somebody was walking by  Swenson said specialists will be considering for years to come questions of who the people were what they looked like where they were going and Why. He speculated that the footprints sur Vived because a fire swept the area hardening the mud and its Trail of foot prints not Long after the four prehistoric people walked through. Powdered charcoal found with the tracks allowed archaeologists to use radioactive dating techniques that showed the fire occurred Between 4,200 and 4,400 years ago. The footprints Are by no Means the oldest relics of civilization in North America. Skeletons tools and other Evi Dence have been found dating Back at least 10,000 years. But the oldest footprints found previously in the North America Are a Mere 400 years old Swenson said. Those prints also Are in Southern California near the Salton sea. Swenson said the Mojave River tracks had been covered by dust then by layers of Silt from the River. The River later changed its course moving a few Hundred Yards eastward. Then perhaps 1,600 years ago another prehistoric group walked along the River. This group probably ancestors of the Serrano indians who still live in Southern California built huts of twigs and Brush. The Village was in turn abandoned and buried beneath centuries of Sand and bilt. It was while excavating that Village in july that the Trail of footprints was discovered almost three feet beneath the surface said Carol Rector who directed about 40 students working on the project. The Village itself was a valuable find she said since we have very Little information on the desert Serra  Carter orders 20% Cut in travel budget Washington a president car Ter Friday ordered the executive Branch of the Federal government to slash its $3 Bil lion travel budget by an estimated $60 Mil lion to $75 million next year. Citing the need to contain inflation he requested Heads of executive departments and agencies to Cut their administrative travel costs by 20 percent for the fiscal year beginning oct. 1. He also asked that they attempt to re Duce costs of operational travel but set no specific target for that reduction. Of the the $3 billion budget for All Federal travel Only $300 million or so is estimated to be for administrative travel which is not directly related or essential to Federal programs. The rest goes for such things As travel for military personnel changing station internal Revenue service agents travelling to audit Sites and Federal marshals trans porting prisoners. Whitney Shoemaker a spokesman for the office of management and budget which will oversee the reduction said this Means the 20 percent Cut would affect such items As travel to conferences non Essen tial training and general purpose visits to Field off ices. Mother keeps nerve racking Vigil Linda Sadlak of Chicago sits behind her son Michael 7, in his third Grade class in Case the boy s heart stops beating. Michael who was born with an enlarged heart almost died of a heart attack last february. Sadlak attended school with him daily until teachers Learned How to administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation. A photo inventors deny it could threaten Security spy Agency clamps ban on anti Bug device Washington a an inexpensive device designed to protect private conversations from eavesdropping is being kept off the Market by the government because the nation s most secret intelligence Agency claims the unit might threaten National  cannot imagine any legitimate threat to National Security from our devices said William Raike of Monterey Calif., in a Telephone interview. In fact it was de signed so As to not threaten National Secu  the government has issued a secrecy or Der against Raike and three other inventors warning them not to discuss their de vice. If they do they could be subject to  secrecy order is the third time in two years the National Security Agency the government s least known spy Agency has moved to Rifle a development in the obscure area to devices which protect conversations and computers from eavesdrop  is its usual practice the Asa the government Agency which is in charge of codes code breaking and eavesdropping on foreign governments had no comment on the latest  of the secrecy order which was actually issued by the . Patent office first appeared in an article by Deborah Shapley in science Magazine. Carl Nicolai Carl Quale David Miller All of the Seattle wash., area and Raike developed the device for use with citizens band and other  specifically invented this for non military non government applications. It s for individuals for private use Nico Lai  secrecy order prevents the four from discussing their device in any detail. About All any of them would say is that the device would Cost less than $100 and would easily work with currently available a  could be adapted to work with Tele phone conversations the inventors say. The device apparently uses a new tech Nique to scramble or encode the voices so that an eavesdropper would hear nothing but garble. The intended recipient of the signal would also have one of the devices that would make the voice intelligible. Voice scramblers Are currently Avail Able but they Are quite expensive and have not been adapted for uses such As cd  four inventors applied for a Patent for their device a necessary step in convincing a manufacturer to produce it. In March of this year six months after the application they received the secrecy  application has been found to con Tain subject matter the unauthorized Dis closure of which might be detrimental to National Security the order read. Such secrecy orders Are authorized under Law and Are usually used to protect inventions developed under government con tract or by government personnel from foreign intelligence agencies. But that is not the Case for this invention. I feel very strange about the Law. It is extremely strange for it to be a crime for inventing something something that is totally privately funded that Means you lose your Freedom of speech said Nicolai in a Telephone interview. Raike is on leave from his Job As a pro Fessor at the . Naval postgraduate school but he said the device was devel oped on his own time and without any involvement of the  Olwell the inventor s Washington representative said it took two months to find out that the Asa was the source for the secrecy order. Letters from Asa to the inventors state that the Agency is now reviewing the Pat ent application to see if the original determination that the device jeopardized National Security was  Asa has not elaborated on Why it considers the device a threat but Nicolai has an idea about the Agency s motivation. It appears a part of a general plan by the Asa to limit the privacy of the Ameri can people. They be been bugging people s telephones for years and now someone comes along with a device that makes this a Little harder to do and they oppose it under the Guise of National  last year an Asa employee wrote a let Ter to a group of scientists warning them not to discuss their work in the Field of cryptography. Earlier this year George i. Davida a University of Wisconsin professor was hit with a secrecy order for his attempt to Pat ent a computer Security method. That or Der has since been lifted