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Show fiaUIL ; Bottle Hollow Construction Bid Awarded to Salt Lake Company Construction of the two million t PY the total cost of the complex, dollar addition to Bottle Hollow J. Designs of Van Nuys, Calif, was Resort will get underway next week, .given the interior and furnishing The Idea Construction Company of contract for $375,000. According to Salt Lake City was awarded the bid to Jim Peltier, general manager of build Phase III by the Tribal Business Bottle Hollow, UTEFAB will make most of the furniture for the Committee on Aug. 12. The low bid submitted by the complex, The completion of Phase III will company totaled $1,765)000 to construct the 350 seat convention provide a major convention facility in center and 80 additional motel units. the Uintah Basin. Three hundred and sixty-fiv- e Federal granf funds of $ 1 ,067,000 and tribal monies in the amount calendar days have been set for the of $ 1 , 1 88,000 have been committed completion of the project. . ' . ARCHITECTS CONCEPT Of tbe Bottle Below Reseifs Phase HI. Construction of the phase wfll begin scat week. The bid was awarded to Idea Construction Company of Salt Lake CSty. The complex ladades a 350 seat convention eeater and 80 additional nits. Hew U.S. President "Won't Take for any Indian Policies" U-Tu- Ute Educator Cited in National Award Program for Achievements A Ute teacher was named as an Outstanding Elementary Teacher of America this month. According to the citation from Dr. V. Gilbert Bern, director of the. national awards, Phyllis Joan Noble Heavy Runner was selected in recognition of her contribution to the advancement of elementary education and service to her lum guide for math teachers in the State of Montana. Joan had the distinction of being the only Native American invited to participate in the curriculum project Mrs. Heavy Runner was recently hired to head the reading program for the Adult Basic Education Pregram for the rns BY RICHARD WASHINGTON, D.C. -(- AIPA)- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr., who on Aug. 9 was sworn in as President of the United States, wont for any Indian policies but will continue the take any Indian policies of his predecessor, Richard M. Nixon, according to a White House staffer who met recently with him. U-tur- ns School System in northern Montana' where she: has taught for the past four years. policies. community. Mrs. Heavy Runner was one of five teachers who were nominated for the honor by principals in the Browning the Provo school Mrs. Heavy Runners 15 years of experience include teaching posts at Todd Elementary School at Fort Duchesne; Ashley and Central elementary schools at Vernal; Intermountain School at Brigham City; Whiterocks Elementary; and Heart Butte and Browning schools in Montana. In addition to her teaching assignments, Joan was administrative assistant for a VISTA training program at the University of Utah. ' While she was working on the Black-feReservation, Mrs. Heavy Runner was selected to a team of three elementary school teachers and ten university professors to compile and write a curricu now-defun- Now Faces et Joan Heavy Runner If President Fords Indian polices do continue those of Nixon, there will nevertheless be new faces and new top level personnel in the White House itself. AIPA 'has learned that Leonard Gar- -' ment, Nixon's special counsel on minority affairs and the arts, and thus the topmost Indian affairs official in the White House-undeNixon, had made known this intention to Nixon that he would leave the White House as soon as impeachment matters had reached their conclusion so that his children could begin the fall school term in September in their home town of New York. Expected to emerge in some high level capacity at the White House level in Indian affairs was William E. Casselman H, named legal council to then-Vic- e President Ford when Ford was designated Viee President last October. Casselman has handled, almost all Indian affrurs matters for Ford since that time, including proposal to replace the mechanisms of the National Council on Indian Opportunity (NCIO) with an Indian Affairs Committee on the White House Domestic Council in the White House, and 'with the creation of two national Indian advisory councils. On the day Nixon resigned, Aug. 9, Ford asked Morton and other Cabinet officials to remain in their present posts. close Morton, however, a long-tim- e friend of was named the Ford, personal Transitto a following day ion team to monitor what Ford labelled an orderly transition of power. Top national columnists immediately speculated that Morton might leave the Interior Department for a White House assignment, either as White House chief of staff or in another top role in domestic affairs. Should Morton leave Interior, he would likely be succeeded by Interior Under Secretary John Whitaker. Morton was scheduled to appear at the Crow Fair Aug. 16 and 17, where it was expected he would draw the major outlines of the continuation in Indian policy between Nixon and Ford. single-handedl- U-tu- rn The award winner entered Brigham Young University after she was graduated from Union High School. In 1999, she earned a Bachelor of Science degree from . , Bradley Patterson Jr., who met with Ford in February of this year on Indian policy matters personally, gave this assessment to AIPA: He it forthright and interetted and progressive tn Indian affairs. Indian people can look forward wider Mr. Ford more of the same to the same hxnd-a- nd kin- d- of serious interest and concern. Theres no question of any diversion. Well continue on the same track. There for any Indian wont be any Ute Tribe. The outstanding educator married to Floyd Heavy Runner of Browning Mont and they are the parents of two children. She is the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Joe Noble.' LA COURSE ct four-memb-er r (Continued on page 2) . : y, |