Show Anticipated e Payment Brings Survey Of Tribe A preliminary to the per capita payment to members of the Ute Indian i is currently being made on I the Uintah-Ouray Indian Reserva- f This disbursement will be J the first step in implementing the recently approved ten year Ute ir Tribal Development This comprehensive study is now being made to ascertain cur- rent indebtedness and the social and economic needs of some Full Blood Ute families and unmarried It is that upon completion of this survey and the setting up of administrative units to supervise r the vast expenditure program of six million dollars that the tion of individual family programs will be Individual family programs are intended to assist the Full Blood Ute people to become self-support- t ing and independent citizens of their various To Start In Six Weeks Tribal officials are hopeful that the program will get underway within six It has been on Back Pagel ANTICIPATED PAYMENT from Pace the Ute people that before development of a program provide enterprises assuring of a they must clear their many existing obligations to Ute Tribe and Uintah Basin Tribal officials have warned the Ute people that the tribe will not be responsible for the payment of individual debts and that this obligation lies with It has been reported that many merchants are preparing to send accumulated bills of Ute In- to the Uintah-Ouray Agency in of It is pointed out by Agency and Tribal officials that one of the greatest detriments ito improvement of social and economic conditions on the reservation is the malicious practice of In merchants have used this method in competing with one another for Indian Local merchants can be of great help in individual rehabilitation of the Ute Indians by refraining from extending raising offering cheap or shoddy merchandise and advising the Indians to invest Buying On Credit Some merchants arc reporting that many Indians arc already lay ing away merchandise or securing it on Tribal officials emphasize that allowances from the per capita payment will not be made until the total individual family plan has been approved by the Committees appointed by the Indians and other It anticipated that the individual Ute families will fall into several categories in respect to receiving their per capita Some families who are completely earn their own living and are accustomed to handling their own will receive the full per capita On the other many have sizeable loans from the Ute Tribal revolving loan These loans have previously been invested in land or Invest In Education A third category includes young people who have no assets or indebtedness and who lack training in occupational These persons are being encouraged to invest their per capita payments in education or vocational There are other individuals who for personal or social reasons will be unable to execute investment plan Members of this group will probably receive their money in budgeted monthly allowances to be used for living To Leave In Treasury Another category includes persons needing special assistance who will be under the supervision of the Agency Minors' funds will be restricted in use and left in the United States Under certain conditions up to one-half of a minor's funds may be invested or used to meet special needs not otherwise When minors come of they will be expected to enter into various plans which will assure their independent The Ute Development Program was planned as a result of the so-called partition act under Public Law which divided the Ute Indian Tribe into the Affiliated Ute Citizens and the Full Blood Ute groups and which is itself the product of the long-term programming entered into by the Ute Indian Tribe in |