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Show Hr U.S. Pim Md Permit N. 1 .Utah Q Volume 10, Number 6 PubWehed by Us Trtbe . Port Duchesne, Utah Thursday, June 27, 1174 MOM At Bottiu HoMow Enterprises Gather for First Annual Conference at Resort One of the best conferences Ive been in to three years, was the way Bureau of Indian Affairs Superintendent William livestock Enterprise Livestock Enterprise manager Art Streitz evaluated the First Annual Enterprise Conference held June 8 at Bottle Hollow Resort. Managers and assistant managers of y the Ute businesses met in two 17-1- one-quart- full-da- sessions to discuss their progress, Q objectives, and problems with Business Committee members, Resource personnel, and. Superintendent Streitz. Legal counsel Steve Boyden, tribal Treasurer Bea Warden, Accountant Albert LaRose, Neil Duncan, Certified Public Accountant and Irene Cuch, administrative officer provided advice in their respective fields. Dennis Mower, conference chairman, noted early in the meeting that the enterprises should eventually provide the income currently received from oil leasing. Oil is a depletaMe resource and will not continue to provide income to the Tribe indefinitely. The enterprises should be viewed as a long range source of tribal income. Discussions of finances, personnel difficulties and whether the goal of the enterprises should be to provide employment or to make a profit dominated the reports by enterprise managers. Committee Reveals Pow Wow Program The 1974 Fourth of July Committee promises a bigger and better celebration is in store for dancers, singers, and spectators who will participate in the sixth annual pow wow which starts next week in Fort Duchesne. Early risers may witness the opening flag ceremony at sunrise on the July 4. The sunrise flag raising ceremony will commence each morning during the celebration. Outstanding war dances from throughout the pow wow circuit have been invited to compete for top prises. Dancers from tiny tots who have barely learned to walk to senior citizens will vie for contest honors. as Returning after a years absence emcee is Ted Great lightning Bison of Sayre, Okla. Clifford Duncan of Whiterocks will execute the duties of the arena director. A complete schedule of events is listed in tiii issue of The Ute Bulletin. Brown reported that his enterprise cleared a net profit of $398,495 last year. He further stated that the enterprise has of a million dollars paid over during the last four years in dividends to tribal members. Due to the national situation on beef prices, however. Brown said the outlook for the coming year is dim. He noted that calves are worth thirty cents a pound less this year then they were at this time last year. Through he cited his objective this year will be to keep the enterprise above water, Brown said 1975 looks like a promising year. The profit from last year will be used to pay enterprise expenses this year and no tribal funds rill be necessary, the manager saiu. In answer to a question, Brown stated that it would be possible for tribal members to purchase cattle from the enterprise at the going rate to start their own herds. It was suggested, however, that it would not be appropriate to give cattle to tribal members from the enterprise as Ute Livestock is set up to make a profit for the tribe as a whole. Dennis Mower printed out that if all tribal members wanted livestock from the enterprise, each would only receive two or three head. Brown said he would be happy to give advice on the livestock business to any interested tribal member. Ute Ute Research Lab is gaining a Mtinnwi reputation. Manager Jack Ruckman told the conference, citing inquires from as far away as South Carolina, Alabama and Columbia. Currently the lab has more work than it can handle and in a recent one month period received eight contracts totaling approximately $64,000. According to Ruckman, the lab needs more Indian employees with technical training. The manager noted that he must perform a great deal of extra work himself as most of his employees have no formal training in chemistry except what he has taught them. He would like to hire an Indian assistant manager who would be willing to enroll in university chemistry courses. Ruckman emphasized that it would not be necessary for an assistant manager to ' earn a four-yea- r degree. Turning to the finances of the enterprise, Ruckman reported that six months ago the lab had a defidt of $245,000 but has since brought that figure down to $89,000. Both the Salt Lake lab and the Fort Duchesne lab are (Continued on Page 8) . er . . Utes Announce Dedication Plano; Bureau Official Scheduled to Speak The 1974 Independence Day holiday on the Uintah and Ouray Reservation will go "off with a bang" with a dedication ceremony on July 3 to officially open two Ute projects in Fort Duchesne. The grand-openifestivities of the recently completed Justice Facility kick-o- ff Annual Ute the three-da- y complex and the Industrial Park will also Fourth of July Celebration and Pow Wow in Fort Duchesne. ng John Artichoker (Ogbria Sioux), Direc-tor of the Phoenix Area Bureau of Indian Affairs Offices in Arizona, is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at 10:80 a.m. Artichoker holds a BS. ami MA. degrees in education from the University of South Dakota. He became director of Indian education for the State of South Dakota in 1951. He joined the federal government in 1962 as Tribal Affairs Officer for the Billings Area Office of the BLA. Later that year he transferred to the Division of Indian Health, Aberdeen, S.D., as tribal relations officer. In 1968 Artichoker returned to the Bureau as superintendent of the North- ern Cheyenne Agency m Montana. After three years he was transferred to the supeintendeney of the Papago Agency in Arizona, where he remained until his reassignment in 1968 to the Colorado River Agency also in Arizona. He was appointed Phoenix Area Director in June, 1971. Artichoker recieved the Junior Chain- - ber of Commerces Ten Outstanding Young Mens Award in 1964 and the Indian Achievement Award in 1965. He was born on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. The first phase of the Justice Facility provides dormitory space far men and women, maximum security area, conference and counseling rooms and offices for tribal police operations. The project was funded by the Law Enforcement Assistance Agency through the Denver regional office. The second phase will include additional offices and a court room. e Industrial Park was conThe structed through a grant from the Eeo- Two limr Development Administration. located are Tribe enterprises of the Ute oq the park and include the Ute Research Laboratories and the Ute Fabricating comMBipny complex which is nearing pletion. State and national Indian leaders have been invited to share the opening day of the two projects with the Ute people. 90-acr- |
