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Department, between 18 and 20 Dye was a member of the Sigma Nu false fire calls were answered in Senate ends year fraternity and also of the honorary ser about a two-month period, begin By ANNETTE McMILLAN vice Fangs. ning on Apr. 15. These all occurred Reporter Funeral services for Dye will be held at Roskie, North Hedges and South At last night's meeting, the ASMSU . at 1: 30 this afternoon at Dokken-Nelson Hedges. Senate discussed changes in the Sunset Chapel with burial at Sunset Hills Firefighter Dewey Johnson esti office policy concerning use the Cemetery. mated the cost for answering the office radio. calls at close to $3000. "There isn't Senator Stuart Anderson moved Crash In Cincinnati anything we can do except re to accept the changes, which in spond," he said. cluded a statement encouraging (UPI) Airport officials say at least 23 Response time for each alarm is the office radio to be tuned to KGL T. people were killed last night when an Air five or six minutes. Then, it takes ten Speaking on his motion. Ander Canada DC-9 burst into flames and to 15 minutes to check out the build· son said , "We ought to support crash landed at the Greater Cincinnati ing. "Nobody is at either station for KGL T, since we own it , by listening Airport. The plane with 46 people aboard that time," said Johnson, except to it in the office. However. when it is was en route from Dallas-Fort Worth to someone called in momentarily." All not conducive to working, there can Toronto the equipment is up there," he said, be alternatives." The plane attempted an emergency so the department is unable to President Mike Stoeckig felt the landing shortly after the pilot reported to answer other calls during that time. alternative to KGL T on the office the regional air control center in India A notice about the alarms ap radio was to merely to turn it off. napolis that an engine was on fire. The peared in Crimestoppers last week, Senator Porche Everson pro pilot was instructed to make an emer with a reward ottered for information. posed a friendly amendment of gency landing at Cincinnati Airport, and According to On-Campus Living allowing alternative stations, but pre witnesses said it was engulfed in flames Director Elaine Green, part of the ference would be given to anyone when it touched down. problem is due to mechanical d1ffi· wanting to listen to KGL T. Observers said the plane came to a culties with the newly-installed alarm The office policy was accepted halt in the middle of a runway. They also system. "They're putting in a new with Anderson's changes and Ever sa id there were a number of holes in the system across campus," Green son's amendment. body of the plane from the fire. said. The Senate accepted the resig "It's sort of like a new toy for resi nation of Senators David Crawford Aerialist speaks dents to playw1th," she said. "It has and Roger Hammer. a very different sound ...kind of lik~ Crawford resigned because he (UPI) Larry Walters, the Californian Space Invaders." will be working in a civil engineering who attached weather balloons to a The new alarm system is a $ .5 internship in Billings during the fall lawn chair and floated high in the sky, is million project, with smoke and heat quarter. Hammer will also be in Bil· the guest speaker Saturday for the Mon detectors in public areas and smoke lings attending Rocky Mountain Col tana Pilots Association annual conven detectors in each room. "It's a much lege. tion in Bozeman. Walters tied 42 weather safer system," sai Green. It is sche· The appointments of Colleen balloons to his lawn chair and soared duled to be completed by the end of Donaldson and Zach Russell were 5000 meters in the air last July. Walters the summer. accepted as the director and as said he did the stunt to fulfill a lifelong Green has some concerns over sistant director. respectively, of the dream. He paid a $1500 fine for his fun. the false alarms. "The more false Community University staff. The pilots are gathering today and tomor alarms there are, the longer it takes Vice-president Lori Takala an row in Bozeman. to get people moving. That could nounced July 13 as the tentative backfire some day," she said. date for the summer elections, giv In an attempt to deal with the ing time to publicize. Klansman surrenders problem, she has brought up the In committee reports, the Legisla (UPI) White supremacist J.B. Stoner, a issue with the AHA / On-Campus tive Research Committee ex fugitive for five months, surprised Ala· Liv;~.g Advisory Committee, as well pressed goals of bringing as many bama authorities yesterday by surred· as meeting with staff members. legislators to the university as pos nering, to begin serving ten years for the Green also posted the Crimestop sible and of improving the phone 1958 bombing of a black church. pers articles and other posters. She tree. The Health Committee sel Stoner 1s a lawyer and former mouth· has met twice with the fire depart- guidelines for the Health Service for piece for the Ku Klux Klan . He disap· ment to evaluate response pro the Senate to look over and offer peared last January, just before he was cedures. suggestions. to go to prison. With finals just around the corner. students are crackmg down with last "We will continue to work with the minute cramming. (Stall photos by Dave Smith) 2EXPONENT ~ . June 3, 1983 Archaeologists expose history By MICHELLE WING students are working on a special mapping project. New• Editor They are surveying the fields below the mine, record Miles off the highway, surrounded by dry fields and ing each piece of fire-broken rock, which is rock dirt roads, a small hill hides the past under its rocks. heated at a high temperature until it cracks. Mapping Eleven years of digging 1s slowly uncovering the the rock will reveal a pattern of occupation in the field . mystery. The goal of the workers is to recover 100% of the Here, above the Missouri west of Trident, is a chert dig "It's the only way we can find out why they stop mine of the Peoples of the Pelican Lake culture, dating ped ... 1f the chert ran out, if other people ran them out or back to 1350 BC. Chert 1s a glassy rock material used 1f they lost interest," said Davis. for tool making, often imbedded in limestone. So far, no human skeletal remains have been found. Nearly 1000 MSU students have participated in this " We infer the presence of humans with tools, etc.," archaeological dig, the Schmitt Site , under the direc said Davis. The people were probably a New World , tion of Anthropology Professor Leslie Davis. "It 1s a mongoloid type , according to the archaeologist. "These unique mine 1n this part of the country, because it's people disappeared here or became something else underground," said Davis " It has a standing roof over 1600 years ago." Davis added. the top." The Pelican Lake People were hunters and gather The mine was used for a period of 1700 years, by 40 ers. Their meat came mainly from wapati (elk), mule generations of a single people. " Chert is a very excep deer, whitetail deer, bison and big horn sheep. They tional chipping variety rock," said Davis. "They exerted also ate clams from the river, beaver, skunk, jack energy here because they were a stone-age people." rabbit and cottontail. These prehistoric miners dug the chert out and then ''They also had dogs," said Davis " We found two, back-filled it with limestone fragments, bones, tools one adult and one unborn." The animals were dwarf and antlers. "This was an exceptionally accessible dogs, with very short legs, like bulldogs The adult dog area, because 1t was weathered," said Davis "The had been butchered and eaten only tool they had to get into that stuff were bones "The men had wrists twice the size of ours," said (from a wide variety of animals), antlers (from elk, mule Davis, speaking of the powerful stature of these pre deer and white tail deer) and river cobbles used in the historic people. "The women could crush your leg 1n hand, without any modifications, to hammer" their hand." The chert was inside high-fracture density limes The Pelican Lake People were probably organized tone , as well as an abundance of manganese and iron. in extended family bands of 25 to 40 members during "They used percussion to break off the limestone cast, the seasons of abundance.