| Show Indian Service Retirement Brings Sixty-Five Friends To Party Honoring Lawrence Appah 16 Lawrence Appah of jf who retired 1 from the dlan Selective was ed at a banquet and social at the Frontier Grill in Approximately sixty-five Indian V Service employees and partners participated in the evening ban and Special guests present were Carl program officer from Harry L. assistant area director from John O. Fort v Jason chairman of the Ute Tribal Business Reginald O. Ute Tribal executive Merrell a life-long land operations and and Tom son and daughter-in-law of Toastmaster for the occasion was Gail Talks were given by I Stevens and From 1906 to the a full-blood has been in the Indian Service Employment most of the and is highly respected by all his people for his his leadership and for the many fine decisions made to many stock and Indian land He has displayed great foresight many times in various Indian Appah was employed in 1906 in the U. S. Army as a stable In 1907 he served as assistant clerk under Hall in charge of troops stationed in Ft In 1908 he was assistant mechanic for extension Was Cowhand From to 1916 Appah worked outside the Indian as a general cowhand with stockmen in the During this time he helped care for the cattle of James who owned approximately head of cattle 1200 From 1916 to 1918 he was em by the U. S. government as a working under L. T. as a He worked in the same capacity with Ross extension in and from 1920 to 1925 he was employed as a forest guard and range Left Service In 1925 He left the government service in 1925 and raised cattle for In 1932 he again was employed by the government as a forest guard under Charles forest I He again left the government service for a period of but in 1939 rejoined the government working with Joe forest and has been a full-time worker serving as a range rider and as a range management until the date of his retirement on A gift was presented to Appah from the agency for his constant and fine efforts during his Robert Moon of visited in Duchesne last Friday with the Elmer Moons and other ii i mi mi TT n I l nil f RETIRES Lawrence a member of the Ute Indian Tribe and an employee for 50 has retired from active service with the |
