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Show San Juan County Navajos Will Benefit from Funds By C. Sharp Utah's Indian Affairs Division now is allowed to spend Navajo Trust Fund money for all Navajos Na-vajos in San Juan County. Bruce G. Parry, division divi-sion director, said $500, 000 a year interest from this royalty money totaling total-ing $8 million now is spent. Since U.S. District Judge Willis W. Ritter's decision early last year that the money could be spent only for Navajos within the 1933 extension to the reservation, Ritter's Rit-ter's directive has been followed. Parry said San Juan County has about 5,000 , Navajos who now can receive benefits of education, edu-cation, roads, health, economic and industrial development, housing, water, sewer and electrical elec-trical projects. About one-third of the 5,000 live in the areas added to the reservation in 1933 who under Ritter's Rit-ter's earlier decision would have to receive all the benefits. Members of the Indian Affairs Board are cleared clear-ed of possible liability for having spent funds earlier for all Navajos in the country. This includes in-cludes $100,000 from the fund spent to help build the Sand Island Bridge i across the San Juan Ri- ' ver near Bluff. |
