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Show Page 6 Hi Ute Bulletin IIjndgJttnHQjijm Visitors Make Hit at Headstart - was the reaction Health CoorHeadstart when recently the Workman, surprised dinator, Mary children by wearing her uniform rather street clothes to work. Indeed she is a real nurse and has been for 31 years since her graduation from St. Marys Hospital School of Nursing in Clarksburg W. Va. While a student at St. Mary's, which was affiliated with Columbia University, Mrs. Workman trained at New Yorks Bellevue Hospital. Since then she has enjoyed a variety of nursing exper- Shes A Real Norse at the Ft. Ducbesae Headstart and Day Cire Ceater was Arden Stewart, Uintah Caaaty Sheriff. The Idds were impressed - anyone who can sit on the floor and read a story aloud, like Sheriff Stewart did, cant be that scary. MAKING FRIENDS Getting to know those community helpers in uniform was a recent project at the Ft. Duchesne Headstart and Day Care Center. Visiting with the children were Sheriff Arden Stewart of Uintah County and Leonard Ferguson of the Utah Highway Patrol. The uniformed law officers discussed safety precautions in bike riding, street crossing and meeting strangers and presented a film. A friend to the children. Nurse Mary Workman, gained new rewell-know-n spect when she traded her usual street clothes for her nurses uniform for one During World War II, Mrs. Workman served with the Army Nurse Corp in Europe. Her particular Assignment was aboard a hospital train carrying the wounded soldiers from the front lines. Mrs. Workman has also served as an industrial nurse, a public health nurse and has spent several years at Cottonwood Maternity Hospital and Duchesne County Hospital. For the past four years, the children of the Ft. Duchesne Headstart and Day Care Center have been lucky enough to benefit from Mrs. Workmans helping hands. day. Ecumenical Movement Sets Annual Conference In Canada WINNEPEG, Manitoba (AIPA) The North American Indian Ecumenical Movement will hold its fifth annual conference on the Stoney Reserve in Morley, Alberta, a western Canadian province, from July 31 to August 3 this year. The members of the movement, who believe the pending destruction of the world can only be averted if the basic beliefs of the North American Indian are session heeded, will spend the four-da- y and ancient truths instructing reviewing the young. It is expected that the conference, as in years past, will bring together hundreds of Indian religions leaders of both the traditional Indian and Christian faiths from all over the North American hemisphere. A series of regional meetings will be arranged to preceed the Canadian conference so that every North American Indian will have an opportunity to participate in the movement, according to ecumenical spokesmen. A regional meeting in the Southwestern United Mary Workman States will be organized by Stewart Etsitty, Navajo. A similar meeting will be conducted in Oklahoma by Chief Andrew Dreadfulwater, Cherokee. Planning for the fifth annual late summer religious conference was completed here in Winnepeg at the end of a three-da- y meeting of the Service Committee of the North American Indian Ecumenical Movement and its 20 committee members, who are religious leaders representing tribes from all over North America. According to ecumenical spokesman, doctrines central to the movement's beliefs are: The destruction of Native religion will mean their own destruction; Indians were placed in North America by the Great Spirit and charged with the responsibility for the land and the environment; they are the real keepers of this land and it is their reason for being; they know how to live in harmony with nature. Western and Eastern religions have failed to achieve a harmonious world, thus necessitating this movement; and Water Rate Increase Announced Because of the increase in cost of materials and equipment needed for the maintenance and repairs necessary for the operation of a water system and to give the best possible service to its customers, the Ute Tribal Water System finds it necessary to increase the water rates effective Jan. 1, 1974. This rate increase will be on the billings received by customers for the period ending March 31, 1974. This rate change was recommended by the Tribal Domestic Water Board and approved by the Tribal Business Committee after a thorough study of the rates charged by the other systems in the Uintah Basin. All retail customers of the Tribal Water System will be charged the same. Example of charges based on quarterly billings (3 months) are as follows: Minimum charge per 30,000 gallon per quarter will be $15.00 Next 30.000 gallon used per quarter will be charged 25c per All usage over 60.000 gallon will be 1,000 gallon 20c per 1,000 gallon Indian's native language is central to his existence, as it is a means for expressing feelings and a vehicle for communicating with the Great Spirit and must therefore be preserved. John Snow, chairman of the movements Service Committee, said: uIf you protect nature now, youre protecting yourself in the future, and conversely, if you destroy nature now, you are destroying yourself in the future. The destruction of Mother Earth will make orphans of us all. New Commissioner Promises Tribal Involvement The fifth Native American in history to head the Bureau of Indian Affairs, stated he will use his honeymoon period to define what Indian people really want to be done through meetings and briefings with Indian people. Newly sworn-i- n Indian commissioner Morris Thompson said, Hopefully we will arrive at the collective thinking. ...Im going to look for the goals, aspirations, thoughts and ideas of anyone who has something reasonable. Since his name was submitted to the White House by Interior Secretary Rogers C.B. Morton, Thompson has met informally with the National Congress of American Indians, National Tribal Chairmens Association, Americans for Indian Opportunity, the Indian members of the National Council on Indian Opportunity and other top level Indian groups. Thompson feels Indians have a distrust of government akin to that of the overall society, a distrust which has grown by magnitudes following the trail of revelatins concerning the Watergate scandal in the Nixon administration. Indian people must feel the BIA is a service organization delivering services in a competent manner. They must receive assurances from the Congress that termination is not a policy. Indian g issues people want to see long-standin- resolved by government. Indian Preference Policy Receives Stay of Execution Washington, D.C. - (AIPA) - Indian preference has received a stay of execution for the present in the form of a decision by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, to delay the implementation of a decision by a U.A. district court in New Mexico which had opposed the policy. The New Mexico decision, Mancari v. Morton of June 1973, would have prevented the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and the Indian Health Service (IHS) from using and Indian preference policy in their employment practices on the grounds that such a policy violated the Equal Opportunity Act of 1972. The Marshall decision, handed down here Aug. 16, only delays implementation of the Mancari decision until a higher court reviews the Indian preference policy. This delay will, however, permit the BIA to fill some of the 2,141 job vacancies it now has. These positions will have to be filled by Indians under the stipulations of a previous court decision. Freeman v. Morton made in December 1972, which orders that the Indian preference policy must be used at every stage of employment in the BIA and IHS. The Interior Department had sought and was denied a stay of the Freeman derision which had been handed down by a district court in Washington, D.C. UntO the Freeman decision last December, the BIA had been using Indian preference only at the initial hiring stage of employment, and not in the promotion, reassignment or reduction in work force stages. After the Freeman decision the Bureau changed its policy somewhat to conform to the decision, but not entirely. The Indian preference statutes themselves go back as far as 1882. Another statute was enacted in 1894 guaranteeing Indian preference. The latest statute is the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act which explicitly directed that Indians be given preference in employment without 'regard to Civil Service regulations. |