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Show Young Ute Actress Featured On Movie Magazine Cover A granddaughter of a Ute tribal member who made her movie debut last spring is featured on the cover of a magazine. Lynna Marie Murdock, granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bishop Arrowchis, starred with Burt Reynolds and Sarah Miles in The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing. According to a story in Life magazine (November issue), visited at length with Rey- Marie Lynna nolds and Dinah Shore at the premiere of the movie. The story stated Lynna reminded Dinah of her children when they were young. The little movie star is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.' Mitchell Murdock of Los Angeles, Calif. Mrs. Murdock is the former Joyce Arrowchis, a member of the Ute Tribe. The little girls father is a Kickapoo-Shawnefrom Oklahoma who is employed by General Motors in L.A. ld . TV-Mov- ie La-poi- TV-Pictu- re ' and is a member of the Los Angeles Drum and Feather Chib. It was through the L.A. Indian Center that Lynna Marie was auditioned for the movie. Her grandmother, Mrs. Arrowchis, said Lynna has been asked to do a Disney movie as well as various television commercials. While her mother is considering the commercials, she said Mrs. Murdock is not sold on movie life for Lynna who must be on set from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. whether or not she is in the scenes being filmed. It is also necessary to hire a private tutor for her during filming. Mrs. Murdock stated it is a very strenuous routine for a first grader. Mrs. Arrowchis said, although the movie was not what the title led one to believe, she did enjoy seeing her granddaughter on the screen and sat through the movie twice when it was shown in Vernal - , e ' ; ,v ' ,;V ii'-- s ' ' .r .4,-- . J S. AND THE WALLS CAME TUMBLING DOWN - When s ' the second explosion in a month rocked the Whiterocks laundromat Oct.6. Debra and Evelyn Hoopes, of the danghters at Mr. and Mrs. Janies Hoopes, were in the building at the time explosion. Although the girls do not redly recall how they got out of the building, neighbors who saw them crossing the street with smoke coining from their hair, theorized their flight was prompted by the force of the explosion. They were of their hair and eyebrows. It is bebeved the uninjured except for slight did explosion was caused by a gas leak in the rear of the complex which, ironically, be to believed and not burn. The first explosion Sept. 20 caused slight damage fint'MCldcilte of ttfllfj ill um wav. Hm Imntwlramai wii viMlt it til tins ths NEW IMAGE? She Crashed the Academy , Now Playboy Magazine SI - - SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. (AIPA) Indian Actress Sacheen Littlefeather, who photo essay in the October issue of the posed in the nude for a three-pag- e decision to appear nude but says she for her some criticism Playboy magazine, gets has no regrets. Indian time --a day and a half before the I still have the same friends and live the same way, she says, but maybe it's ceremony. The reason he did mas that I still too soon to tell. One older Indian 'am a member of the Screen Actors Guild, woman told me recently, Indian women working with its Minority Image don't pose in the nude.' Thats a bunch of Committee. I'm an official in the San Francisco chapter. bull. Indian women do everything Im not a militant or a radical. I didnt everybody else does. They smoke do it for ego, publicity or more movie Marlboro cigarettes, they fly in air- roles. I did it from my heart because planes, ride in Mustangs, and many live Hollywood has had a hand in dealing with in suburban houses. This is 1973. We the Indian unfairly. Theyve created the have to face these facts. The body is a gift savage image. Theyve made over 3,000 of the Great Spirit. films with Indians in them and theyve She posed for Playboy, she says in profited economically. order to have the money to go to Europe One thing for sure. Shes added a new to attend a theater festival. dimension to the Indian image in the " Many traditional people feel that most striking way possible - the bare other people who pose tn the nude in that facts. kind of magazine are awfuL The Playboy full-col- ' w HSMICtft.. . 'i v ' ,Vl. s 'Sp 3As-'vV-- ,j 'v'k X' 2 I?" '' '"'.'A'Sd'.-r- K' SOMETHING NEW - Has been added for the convenience of bench and Whiterocks residents. The Indian Bench Trading Post, located exactly half way up the Whiterocks highway, is tenadvely slated to open Nov. 15, according to the owners, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Chapoose. The 40 x 76 foot steel building will house a grocery store featuring a complete line of grocery and household needs and a beauty parlor with two stations. Gas pumps may be installed at a later date, according to Chapoose. Ufe Secures SBA Loan For Business Venflure grand opening is owned and operatnew Ute for a planned ed business on the reservation. The Indian Bench Trading Post and Beauty Salon, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Lester Chapoose, will be managed by Mrs. Chapoose. A licensed beautician, beaushe will also operate a Mrs. Gary (Betty) Poowegup ty salon. has been employed as cashier in the store. The 40x76 foot steel building was secured through a Small Business Administration loan granted to the couple who also used $15,000 personal finances for the venture. The building, a Garco Prefab, was constructed by Calvin Squire, Roosevelt. Experience in Business Chapoose, presently serving as vice chairman of the Ute Tribe Bumness Committee, gained his business experience at Grand Central Stores, Salt Lake City. He attended Southern Utah State College three years as well as Steven Henegar Business College, Salt Lake City. He was employed by the Tribal ac1972 counting department until July of OffiAdministrative named when he was cer for the tribe. In April of 1973 he was A mid-Novemb-er two-statio- n elected to the Tribal Business Committee. Mrs. Chapoose, the former Isabell Gardner, received her cosmetology training at Weber State College, Ogden. She was recently employed three years as medical records clerk at the Indian Health Clinic, Roosevelt. SPECIALTIES Chapoose stated the Trading Post will have a full line of grocery and household items but, at the present, will not stock dry goods. A limited selection of local beadwork will be on sale when the supply permits. Mrs. Chapoose plans to employ a licensed beautician to assist her in the salon. pictures were art photography, not pornography. Tm not Linda Lovelace. It was strictly a business agreement. I needed the money to get to Europe and back, I went with other Indians to the International Theater Festival in Nancy, France. Playboy treats all their people fantastically. Ms. Littlefeather was born in Salinas, Calif., south of San Francisco, where her parents had just moved from the White Mountain Apache Reservation in Arizona. Due to a mixup in birth records at the Salinas Hospital, she explained, her parents had to seek legal recourse to get them straightened out. Rumors that she was not an Indian began . circulating in a Hank Adams, The river rights patriot, will soon have his first bode published by Harold Rinehart L Winston. Its title which is as complex as the man is: "I Am in the Bronze and in the Grave A Journal of Experience of an American Indian who has shared six centuries of struggle in quest of justice.1 Our Most Deadly Enemy I am more powerful than the combined armies of the world; I have destroyed more men than all the wars of the nation; I am more deadly than bullets, and I have wrecked more homes than the mightiest of guns; I am the worlds slyest thief, I steal millions of dollars each year; I spare no one, and I find my victims national scandal rag, the National among the rich and poor alike, the Enquirer, after the Academy Awards young and the old, the strong and the ceremony in Hollywood this past March weak; widows and orphans know me; when she was asked by Actor Marlon I loom up to such proportions that I cast Brando to decline the Oscar in his place. my shadow over every field of She . appeared that night in a full I lurk in unseen places, and do most labor, of my buckskin dress and hair ties and outraged work silently; many of the top film stars and industry executives with her speech. iuu naL NUT; And shes had a lot of problems resulting I am relentless; from her stand-i- n for Brando. I am everywherein the home, on tl Jane Fonda thinks shes been street, in the factory, in the offic boycotted for her political work, but shes and on the sea; got nothing on me. Brandos a big name. They cant get at him, but they can get at v TCCIV W IUC me. They can take it out on me and use I destroy and crush, I give nothing me as a whipping post. But why should an take all; actress who cares about her people be I am your worst enemy. I defamed? ALCOHOL. Sacheen says her Oscar appearance uxisn't my decision. Brando chose me one-minu- Patriot Publishes Book or te |