Show Krug Asks For Aid to te Navajos WASHINGTON April 20 UP UPi Secretary of ot Interior J. J 1 A. A Krug asked congress Tuesday to sta start t a year 10 program to rescue the Navajo Indians from Lab abject poverty and to meet this country's heavy moral obligation I to the tribe It I I consider the inception of t a a. comprehensive Navajo pr program gram gramone one of the major responsibilities of the interior department the thc co con congress con con- gress and the nation Krug said He was the first witness at j Joint int senate house-senate hearings on a a. a bill to promote rehabilitation of both bath Navajo and Hopi Indians Krug said his plans included both tribes but his remarks were devoted mainly to the Navajos s. s They live on a reservation in Arizona New Mexico and Utah notable for both its beauty and poor land Krug said The land affords the Navajo families an average year yearly y Income of only They lack adequate health education and welfare facilities Of the Indian children only can attend s school ho l Krug said I He proposed a program program for making makIng making mak mak- ing families families' supporting self-supporting on the pres present nt Reservation A thousand other other families would be shifted to the Colorado River Indian Indian Indian In In- dian reservation and 2600 would be besent besent besent sent to the San Shiprock-San Juan project Suitable reservation off employment would be found for forthe forthe forthe the remaining 1450 families Krug estimated that a program for tor soil and water conservation on the present reservation reservation reser reser- would create a living for 2400 families Extension of ot Irrigation irrigation irrigation gation facilities for would mean a living for 1500 fam tam tiles mes |