Papre 4 Collepre Station, Texas Wednesday, October 20, 1971 THE BATTALIOthe B Indians tell Senate that government did not protect their rights B WASHINGTON (A 5 ) _ Indians told a Senate subcommittee Tues day they’ve been robbed of land and water rights while their sup posed guardian, the federal gov ernment, didn’t protect them and many times helped the encroach- ers. They testified at the opening of a Senate Judiciary subcom mittee inquiry into what Sen. Oceanography receives grant to study Gulf A&M’s Oceanography Depart ment has been awarded a $29,780 grant for geophysical studies along the continental shelf of the Gulf of Mexico, announced Cong. Olin E. Teague. The funds were provided by the U. S. Geological Survey of the Department of the Interior. Dr. Richard A. Geyer, Ocean ography Department head, said the grant provides continued sup port for a project which could lead to better understanding of the gulf’s geologic history, includ ing its formation. TTI is awarded $200,000 contract A&M’s Texas Transportation Institute has been awarded a $200,000 contract to develop a better highway pavement marking technique for nationwide use. TTI Director Jack Keese said the three-year research project is supported by the National Coop erative Highway Research Pro gram administered by the High way Research Board. Keese noted conventional high way markings, whether painted or bonded to the pavement surfaces, perform well under dry conditions, but their reflective qualities de teriorate sharply on wet nights— when most needed. Raised mark ers solve the rain problem, but they are often destroyed by snow plows. • .at»' iu noui}. TTI wilP attempt'tfy dtevfel6p“a marking system effective on pave ments covered by a quarter-inch of water and practical under high speed snow-plowing conditions with steel blades in contact with the road surface. Keese said possibilities include design of markers which can be easily and economically replaced if destroyed by snow plows or which yield to the scraping ac tion and restore themselves to their original condition. Another approach involves light-emitting markers mounted flush with the pavement, using electrical or radioactive light sources. Co-principal investigators for the project are Dr. W. M. Moore, associate research engineer, and Gilbert Swift, research instrumen tation engineer. A&M Wheelmen reschedule ride The A&M Wheelman, the uni versity’s first organization of bi cyclists, has rescheduled its rain- ed-out ride to Texas World Speed way for Saturday. Wheelman president Andre Pi azza of Houston said Texas World Speedway, formerly Texas Inter national Speedway, is about eight miles south of College Station on Highway 6. The ride will start at 9 a.m. in front of G. Rollie White Coliseum and will not conflict with the A&M-Baylor football game, he promised. Piazza said the excursion is open to everyone, although chil dren under 12 should be accom panied by parents. Multi-speed bikes in good condition are rec ommended. He suggested riders bring wa ter and candy or other snacks. The group is expected to return to College Station by noon. No Job Too Big Or Too Small mi printing center 603 Sulphur Springs Road 822-462S Bryan F~ostest Service In Town Blueline - Blacklines Auto positives Enlargements / Reductions Report Publishing Collating / Binding Edward F. Kennedy, D-Mass., called “the federal government’s flagrant abdication of its trust responsibilities to the Indian peo ple.” “The taking of Indian land and water and the infringement of Indian rights did not end in the last century,” Kennedy, the sub committee chairman, said in an opening statement. “The lawlessness and immorali ty perpetuated by the government continues right now and it will continue tomorrow unless the United States does more than pay lip service to its sacred treaty obligations to Indian tribes.” Kennedy said the Northern Paiutes see Pyramid Lake shrink ing, the Agua Calientes see ground water disappearing, the Navajos see their clean air cloud ing, and the lower-Colorado River tribes see their reservations shrinking. “And all the while the Indians’ trustee, advocate and protector— the U.S. government—stands idly, if not menacingly, by,” Kennedy said. Angelo Butterfield, a Lumni Indian from Idaho, said that dur ing World War II “the Army came out to our reservation and told the leaders it was their pa triotic duty to allow them to build an air base right within the reservation, without going to Con gress for permission.” The chiefs trusted the military men’s promises that their prop erty would be returned even more valuable than before, she said. “Our leaders were deceived,” she said. “At the end of the war, the two communities on the edge of the reservation came to Con gress to fight over who’d get the Indian lands. The city of Poca tello got it for $1.” Mel Tonasket, chairman of the Coleville Tribal Council in Wash ington state, said a few years ago a dam was built blocking a river running across the.reserva tion. “The Bureau of Indian Affairs superintendent told the Army Corps of Engineers that salmon wasn’t very important so there was no sense in putting in ‘lad ders’,” Tonasket said. 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