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PLAN NOW FOR YOUR FUTURE ENGINEERING EXTENSION SERVICE Texas A&M University 18 Months of Training Next Class Begins January 17, 1972 TEXAS A&M RESEARCH ANNEX 822-2323 Page 4 College Station, Texas Wednesday, December 15, 1971 THE BATTALIOlL— G Explorer finds evidence that Amazons existed MEXICO CITY hP>—Tales of a tribe of tall, blonde women war riors in the Amazon jungle are more than just a legend, accord ing to explorer Gene Savoy. Savoy recently returned from a reconaissance expedition into the jungle to find out if the tribe described by the Spaniards in the 1500’s and reported as recently as last year really existed. “We found real evidence of the Amazons,” the 44-year-old seasoned explorer, a native of Bellingham, Wash., stated. “It’s turning legend into fact.” The Spanish explorers, whose accounts led Savoy to Yilcabamba, the lost city of the Incas, to the discovery of an indigenous white race and to the ruins of 40 ancient cities, all in the South American jungle, said the women ranged in height from five feet, six inches, to five feet, ten inches. According to the Spanish, they lived near a high, windswept mountain^ barren at its summit, and had access to the Amazon River. Their treasures, the Span ish chronicles read, “would enrich the world.” Savoy said he found the moun tain on the 50-day expedition which took him down the Amazon, named after the tribe of women, from Manaus to Santarem in Bra zil. “There can be no other moun tain that matches that descrip tion,” Savoy explained. It would have provided building materials for stone roads in the area, also mentioned by the Spaniards and We're Having A sate STA-PREST SLACKS New designs - new colors & fabrics all flares - button thrus, patch pockets, pleated pockets, slit pockets. Reg. $12.00- 14.00 NOW 25% OFF NOT SECONDS KNIT TOPS l BELL JEANS KNIT JEANS 25% OFF Reg. $13.00 - $20.00 For chicks & guys bleeding heart & broken egg design. Reg. $10.00 to $12.00 J\fOW T/2 PRICE Brought to you by 822-4670 The "NOW" Market 801 TEXAS AVE. ClEARANCE l SELECTED GROUP OF CLOTHING REDUCED OFF REGULAR PRICE , ^ COATS Reg. Price $38.00 S ALE PRICE SJOOO SPORTS SHIRTS Reg. Price $7.00 NOW $3 SLACKS and DRESS PANTS Reg. Price $10.00 NOW ONLY $e:oo 5 LOUPOT'S North Gate . ‘ sighted during his expedition, he added. Savoy found a tableland of forests with high mountain peaks, inexplicably barren, at its north ern end. Two tributaries of the Amazon, interrupted by 72 water falls, ran along while an alligator- filled swamp behind it added to its inaccessibility. Hostile tribes ringed the region, considered “taboo” locally. Natives in the area produced specimens of what may have con stituted the “treasures” in the form of amethysts, one weighing 5,000 karats, and emeralds, Savoy said. From one of two small airplanes used on the expeditions Savoy said he sighted evidence of con tour farming, while land explor ations yielded large ceramic pieces, both indications of human inhabitation. Savoy and his brother, Bill K. Dailey of Portland, Oregon, who served as cartographer for the trek, confirmed that the hostile tribes, also mentioned by the Spanish, still exist. An arrow held next to his scalp was enough to make Dailey, on his first ex pedition in the area, keep his distance from the natives. Savoy, in his years of experience with South American Indians, has learned how to command their respect and usually has less trouble with them. The hostile women were be lieved to command armies of men, but killed all male infants or put them in canoes to float away. Evidence of their existence Savoy called “the greatest dis covery of my whole career.” He declined to say exactly where he found the mountain. In the past when he has reveal ed the locations of ruins, he ex plained, they were plundered and destroyed. a&m His expedition, sponsored h * ere the Andean Explorers Club 0 1 “ ve an Lima, used a 72-foot river boa ^ be with a 12-man crew as a baseo ^ " operations and travelled up many, tributaries in motor-driven dug! tlil)uted out canoes, covering about c miles. Savoy estimated the 'm at $16,000. The team also included Joaquin Beserra de Arauja, a Brazilian who served as translator, arn Irene Kavula of Walcott, Conn, secretary of the Andean Explor ers Club. Savoy says he believes the dt scendents of the Amazons may still exist in the area in a primi tive state and he plans to go bad f | e ted next year with a larger group 0! improve anthropologists and archaeolo Czech gists to confirm it. ^ s pi But, he added, the question ii ' m P r< how to enter the area—by canon ^ cs ’ helicopter, land, or by quietly de scending in a dirigible. Freedoms on collision course, Horsfall says Two big freedoms — the right to a clean environment and the privilege of pollution — are on a collision course. Dr. J. G. Horsfall, director of the Connecticut Agricultural Ex periment Station, said Tuesday the time is coming when these freedoms can no longer exist side by side. The director was the lead-off speaker for the fourth annual Texas Conference on Insect, Plant Disease, Weed and Brush Control Dec. 14-15 at A&M. Horsfall told about 125 persons attending the session that the main conflict now is between an ever-growing population and a finite or limited environment. “Everybody has a right to clean air, but too many people think they also have the right to pol- C of C donates $1,000 to TAMU The Bryan- College Station Chamber of Commerce Tuesday presented A&M a $1,000 check for unrestricted use by the insti tution. Chamber President Joe Sawyer formally presented the funds to A&M President Jack K. Williams in brief campus ceremonies. Sawyer was accompanied by Ronnie Hale, the chamber’s presi dent-elect, and Pat Mann, execu tive vice president. The local organization of mer chants, business and professional men and women has made similar cash awards to the university for several years. Dr. Williams emphasized the value of such unrestricted funds in meeting needs for which fctate money is not available. lute. In some cities, there may not be enough air to go around,” the speaker said. He likened the situation to the commons of colonial times, a pas ture area in the center of town used to graze livestock. But as the towns grew, the commons were pressured out. Similar conflicts are found to day, both in cities and on farms, Horsfall pointed out. He said the farmer has long held the right to build any size feedlot, for example, and let the waste flow into a nearby stream. The stream is the “commons.” But people downstream have the right to clean water. The result is conflict and a “tragedy of the commons.” Horsfall emphasized that the conflict is a major problem in agriculture, where fertilizers and other chemicals have received considerable public blame for pol lution. Yet the industry has been obliged to use these materials to boost production and keep pace with increasing population demands. Agriculture has become a dirty word to many people, he said, Several agricultural schools, sens ing am dual-tr ers. Stud M fo Reno' space w expansi Tburmc tor. Mode ead I zdditioi two Ac suable tooths, departr 1,000 £ The shout space, tile, 1 I said. I other |dent-fi Lanp lOc F A<y ROBERT HALSELL TRAVEL SERVICE AIRLINE SCHEDULE INFORMATION FARES AND TICKETS DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL ■■■BBS H§ CALL 82Z-3737 itive to public image, have even changed their names to schools of “natural resources.” “I’m glad to hear that Texi A&M still has a College of Agri-j lab for culture,” the speaker added. Horsfall urged agronomists find ways to get polluting fei izer nitrates back into the airai out of ground water, and he ask( the plant pathologists to ft livestock manure processing sy terns through enzyme action. “We in agriculture have thi responsibility to produce pleni of food, but we also must use 0111 knowledge to prevent pollutioi and more tragedy of the comlmentl mons,” he said. lof Gu The conference was sponsored! occurr by A&M University, the TexJlions- Agricultural Extension Serviceipolluti and the Texas Agricultural:Exl Dr periment Station. Iment tsponsc 1 Progr Thef Chevr Gulf, j Philli] Wil Iassoci said seeps Brow ers a I largei mines floati | which Hip | have the g and t at t porte in th 1016 Texas Avenue *— Bryan Beechwood Ageing could be an advertising gimmick. But it isn’t. (For instance, last year we bought almost 2V2 million pounds of Beechwood I strips ... enough to fill 67 freight cars.) WHEN YOU SAY Budweiser. YOU’VE SAID IT ALL! ANHEUSER-BUSCH, INC. • ST. LOUIS