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Show Lions Hear About Indian Program From Tribal Group Members of the Ute Tribal committee, Rex O. Curry, chair-1 man, Albert Harris and Francis McKinley, were guests of the Roosevelt Lions club meeting last Thursday and briefly told about the program now being planned and carried out for the Ute Indian tribes in the Uintah Basin. Mr. Curry, who is chairman , of the committee and has spent i considerable time the past few months in Washington, D. C. in the interest of the allocation be-' ing sought from the government, ! reported that all' that remains to 1 make the act a law is Presi-' dent Truman's signature, and j that was expected daily. He called on the merchant's of Roosevelt to assist the Indian ! when he receives the $1000 al-1 location per person to 'spend and invest his money wisely. "Sell them practical clothing and food and encourage them to buy farm machinery and equipment to help make them more self sustaining and independent. inde-pendent. Don't be like the merchant mer-chant who sold the Indian o Tutfedo dregs suit and then failed to provide him a place to wear it," Mr. Curry suggested. suggest-ed. "It is our hope to get the Indian kids into1 the public schools and to make their inheritance in-heritance an asset rather than a liability for them, and you-business you-business men and women can help us do the trick," the speak-I speak-I er said. |
