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College Station, Texas
Wednesday, March 29, 1972
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Stone age cave dwellers still exist in Southern Philippines jVI
TASADAY FOREST, Philip
pines t®—The Tasadays, a gentle
people who have no weapons in
their Stone Age culture, have shy
ly but warmly received the first
outsiders ever to see their cave
homes.
Anthropologists with the expe
dition to the southern Philippines
say this is the first occasion in
MSC
announces
holiday schedule
Memorial Student Center activ
ities and services will observe
A&M faculty-staff holidays for
Easter and be closed Friday, Sat
urday, Sunday and Monday.
Director J. Wayne Stark said
all MSC service and commercial
areas except the U. S. Post Office
will be affected by the four-day
holiday.
Areas including the barber and
gift shops, main desk and general
offices will close at 5 p.m. Thurs
day and reopen at 8 a.m. Tuesday,
April 4. The snack bar will close
a half hour earlier Wednesday
and reopen at 8 a.m. Wednesday,
April 5.
Veterans may
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for benefits
Those who wish to receive GI
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the Student Affairs Office, Room
110, YMCA.
Veterans should sign up before
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and show the number of hours
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Four hours per session is con
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is considered three-fourths time.
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A major Houston radio station
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KTRH—740 on the dial—will
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7:45 and 8:15 a.m. as the feature
segments of its morning report,
Announcer Jack Ford said Tues
day. Each segment runs three and
one-half minutes.
Ford and associates spent a
day on the campus interviewing
A&M officials and students about
university activities and pro
grams. President Jack Williams
and others described life at Aggie-
land in the interviews.
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that a people has
living as cave
modern times
been found
dwellers.
A Philippine-led anthropolog
ical expedition reached the caves
of the band of 24 tan-skinned
Tasadays last week not knowing
how they would react to seeing
outsiders, including several white
skinned foreigners, at their home-
site.
days they appeared to have lost
much of their timidity.
A young man tried to blow on
a flashlight to start a fire. Chil
dren began bringing samples of
Tasaday food—such as wild palm
pith—to the expedition camp that
outsiders have set up about half
way between three large caves
in which the Tasadays live and
a stream some 600 feet below.
wear leaves for clothes and for
age for food instreams in the
dense jungle that surrounds them.
The tribe appeared to be in ex
cellent physical condition, show
ing little discomfort from the
cool, wet weather and 4,000-foot
elevation.
At first the Tasadays were
cautious but friendly. After a few
The Tasadays use stone tools
and make fire by friction. They
They have lived in the caves as
far back as anyone can remember
and they appear to find complete
harmony with their environment.
The Tasadays, speaking through
interpreters, say they have no
enemies and thus no weapons.
They say they have never heard
of unfriendly people, either among
themselves or other tribes living
in the general area.
However, the Tasadays already
are using long knives called bolos
given to them by members of an
other expedition that met them
at the edge of their forest ■ last
June.
The expedition has spent the
last few days observing Tasaday
customs, food gathering and liv
ing habits. It is sponsored by
Panamin, a government-supported
foundation set up to help Philip
pine minorities.
Led by Manuel Elizalde Jr.,
president of Panamin, the expe
dition wants to define the Tasa
day area to protect it from log
gers and farmers who are slowly
but steadily approaching.
Members of the current expe
dition, including the Ameri«
aviator and conservations tr j]
Charles A. Lindbergh, several at
thropologists and a photograplj to’
and writer for the National Geo
graphic magazine, reai
Tasaday area by jumping out(
a helicopter onto a special woodt
platform atop a 75-foot high trei
The platform had been
a Panamin team which
hiked into the Tasaday forestle j
by Tasaday guides.
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