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Shuttle buses serve off-campus students THE BATTALION Page 3C WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1976 JH record 6,000 Texas A&M Uni- ersity students are expected to use he shuttle bus service which starts t7a.m. Aug. 30, predict university ifficials. Riders will have access to 16 buses his year, two more than in the past, is service expands southward to the I'M 2818 bypass, eastward to Scar- ett O’Hara Drive and northward to Country Club Drive. ■tudents and staff at Texas A&M lay purchase semester passes for ■ service at the University Police Pfepartment. Costs are $15 per stu- lent, $22.50 per student and spouse ind $20 per staff member. Individual, 10-ride booklets are IB available from the cashier in the Soke Building for $1.50 per student land $2 per staff member. I All shuttle routes begin service at ^3$ 7 a.m., note organizers, with end- of-line departures every 10 minutes until 5:30. After that time, buses leave every 30 minutes on the hour and half-hour from campus stops. Last bus leaves campus at 9:30 p. m. One change has been made in the shuttle service maps made available to subscribers, say officials. On the northern route, the jaunt from S. College Ave. onto North St., Cavitt, Villa Maria Rd. and back to S. College has been abolished until es tablishment of a traffic signal at S. College and Villa Maria. Instead, the buses on that route continue on S. College, turn left onto Country Club Dr., proceed around Lakeview and Lynn streets and turn back onto S. College toward campus. Northern route service stops at A&M married student housing, S. College and North St., S. College and Pleasant, Lakeview and Ehlinger, Fairway Apts., Tri-State Sporting Goods, Triangle Bowling Lanes, 4212 Apts., Country Place, Casa Blanca and College Main be fore stopping on campus at the Reed McDonald Building. Eastern routes halt between Plan tation Oaks and Briarwood on O’Hara Drive, after 9 a.m. at Butler and Highway 30, Travis House, Bar celona and Sausolido. Buses stop on campus between Teague Center and the golf course. Southern buses stop at University Terrace, Monaco I & II, Scandia I & II, Seville, Glade East and Holick Square, Doux Chene, Oak Forest, Parkway and Bee Creek, Southwest Village, West Knoll and Willowick. Two buses simultaneously serve worn torrt HREE SOUTH ftOUTK) PIVE EAST ELITES ONE TUO d & y q$? r } % REDMOND DR. Mastadon remains found By TERRY WEIDE HIDDEN TIMBER, S.D. (AP) — A team of four Rapid City men has unearthed the remains of a giant mastodan that probably roamed the earth 70 million years ago. B'What’s so exciting about this find is the condition of the skull, and the tusks, too,” said Peter Larson, 24, a ider of the excavation team. | “I don’t think we will have to re place more than 1 or 2 per cent of the bone in the skull.” ||Remains of the mastodon were dug out of a hill near Hidden Timber on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in south-central South Dakota early this summer. ilhe mastodon is an ancestor to the elephant and roamed semi-tropical forests just before the Ice Age. i The team found most of the skele ton intact and well preserved. One rear leg, the tail, some foot bones and an upper leg were the only bones missing. The excavation team included Jim Honert of Rapid City who, with Lar son, operates a business specializing in minerals and fossils. Also digging were Larson’s younger brother, Neal Larson, Jr., who is a senior geology student, and Robert Tate, 13, son of a local rancher. “We went out there, not really ex pecting anything, and started dig ging. But then we found vertebrae, then a femur, then some ribs. By now the dirt was really flying,” said Pete Larson. The skull measured seven feet one inch, from the tip of the tusks to the back of the skull. The tusks had been worn down during the mammal’s lifetime, but were intact and mea sured 47 inches. 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A service users is the opportunity this permit allows students to park on the Police headquarters. skulls have been found, but there are not very many,” Larson said. Examination of the molars indi cated the beast was at least 60 years old when it died, he said. It probably stood 10 feet tall at the shoulder. The skull and other remains were dabbed with a preservative mixture of water and glue to guard against the deteriorating effects of sunlight and oxygen. The skull was also cast in plaster of pan's. Although fossil fragments of a saber-toothed tiger and a rhinoceros were found by the diggers, Larson said he does not believe the elephant died of violence. He theorizes that the mastodon died of old age in a quick-sand pit or a stream bed at the discovery site. Commercial collectors have been known to pay thousands of dollars for assembled mastodons, but Larson declined to set any value on the specimen he helped find. “It’s just impossible to place a value on it as far as human enjoy ment goes,” said Larson, a graduate student at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Larson said he would like to see it given to the school museum. The skeleton belongs to the Tribal Council of the federal government, though the council voted to allow the excavators to crate the bones to send to Rapid City, he said. Ahead of Larson are plans to write a paper on the discovery and, he hopes, at least help with the as sembling of the skeleton for display, which could take two years. 200 E. UNIVERSITY DRIVE COLLEGE STATION 846-0711 DINE IN DRIVE THRU TAKE OUT Serving Delicious Mexican Food TACOS * CHALUPAS * FRIJOLES BURRITOS * NACHOS * CHILI ENCHI BURROS * TACO BURGERS AGGIE SPECIAL COLD 10 OZ. MUG OF SCHLITZ BEER ONLY 15c