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Show 1 Reservation News . . . I About The x UINTAH-OURAY INDIAN RESERVATION j? TO MOVE EQUIPMENT A. M. Axtell, Irrigation Engineer, En-gineer, left Tuesday morning for St. George to transport heavy government equipment and property to Fort Duchesne. It is the plan of the Indian Bureau to remove all equipment equip-ment and property from the Kaibab, Kanosh, Shivwits and Koosharem Reservations. P. E. , Church, Field Representative, stationed at Kanab, has been transferred to Myton as Water Master for that area. Mr. ' Church has been at Kanab for the. past 20 years, supervising farming, stock raising, irrigation, irriga-tion, construction and other Bureau activities for the six small reservations in that area under the jurisdiction of the Uintah and Ouray Agency. This is in accordance with Senate Bill S-2670 to terminate all Bureau services for those res ervations. R-N GONE TO ARIZONA ' Lon Logan, Supervisor of Construction and Maintenance, Roads Division, left Tuesday morning with a crew for Trux-ton Trux-ton Canyon, Arizona to accept delivery of heavy road equipment equip-ment to be tranferred to this jurisdiction. They will move it to Kaibab Reservation in northern north-ern Arizona where they plan to grade and improve the road system from Fredonia to Moccasin, Moc-casin, Arizona. Upon the completion com-pletion of the road work on the Kaibab Reservation, the equip ment will be transferred to Ft. Duchesne. The heavy equipment upon arrival at Fort Duchesne will be placed in operation in the clearing of right-of-way, tar pit construction and realigning realign-ing on routes 1, 2 and 3. R-N BACK FROM WASHINGTON Superintendent H.W. Gilmore returned from Washington, D. C. on Monday morning where he has been the past 10 days to' discuss Bill S-2670 introduced by Senator Watkins to terminate termin-ate Federal supervision over the Trust and Restricted prop erty of Paiute Indians in Utah. While in Washington, Mr. Gil-more Gil-more conferred with - Indian Bureau officials concerning the Long Range Ute Program now in the advanced stages of completion. com-pletion. R-N VETERANS HONORED Twenty-one returned Korean Veterans were honored Monday, February 22, by the Uintah and Ouray Post No. 126 of the American Am-erican Legion in the Ute Recreation Re-creation Hall at Fort Duchesne. A very impressive program was presented with addresses being given by Mrs. Eva Ashton, Past National Auxiliary President, Mr. Otto A. Wiesley, chairman of Utah State Industrial Com mission, who was representing Governor J. Bracken Lee, Mr. Lloyd Wignall, Adjutant of the Utah State Department of the American Legion, Parley Jensen,, Jen-sen,, Grand Chef of 40-8 and William Sutteer, Comander of Utah State Department of the American Legion. Two musical numbers were given by the Union High School A'Cappella Choir and several dances were presented by Carol Gardner's Dance School. The Invocation was given by Rev. Nolan N. Beaird of the Gusher Baptist Church and the Benediction by James Bacon, Indian Mission President, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. About 200 guests were present. R-N LEAVE FOR WASHINGTON A delegation of five Ute Indians In-dians including Francis McKin-ley, McKin-ley, Sarah Hackford, Julius Murray and Vincent Sireech left Fort Duchesne Tuesday, Feb. 23, on a trip to Washington, Washing-ton, D. C. to' attend a special meeting called by Joseph Garry, Gar-ry, President of the National Congress of American Indians. The conference or meetings will be held beginning Feb. 25 and ending Feb. 28. The National Congress of American Indians has sent out a special request to Indians throuhout the United States to attend the meeting for the purpose of planning and supporting a movement by the Indiana throughout the United States to object to so called Freedom Bills which would allow al-low the Indians to pay, taxes on their real estate. It is reported that some 46 tribes have already al-ready sent notices that they will have delegates in attendance. attend-ance. The National Congress of American Indians is an all Indian In-dian organization and is one of the larest of the Indian organizations organ-izations representing Indians throughout the United States and Alaska. R-N INCOME TAX TIME The Treasury Department advises ad-vises that they will h?ve income tax officials in the Uintah and Ouray Agency beginning March 1st through March 5th for ths purpose of helping Indians file their incbme tax returns. All Indians who have not done so should make an effort to have their returns completed by these gentlemen or by Homer Secakaku of the Tribal office, who will also be available to help in filing your 1953 returns. It is anticipated that the Treasury Treas-ury Department will also have a collecting agent available in Fort Duchesne so that you may make your payments direct to them without the bother of mailing the payments to Salt Lake City. R-N PER CAPITA PAYMENT This will advise that the Tribal Business Committee has authorized a per capita payment pay-ment from local oil bonuses in the amount of $100.00 to each Indian enrolled and entitled to enrollment as of 12:00 midnight, mid-night, February 19, 1954. The payment will be processed and paid out per capita in White-rocks, White-rocks, Fort Duchesne and Rand-lett Rand-lett beginning at 9:00, March 4, 1954. R-N WIN A THRILLER The Fort Duchesne "Huskies" travelled to Ignacio', Colorado, Saturday for a return game with an Ignacio All-Star team. The Huskies can be justly proud since this was Ignacio All-Star's first defeat on their home floor. It was a thriller with the final score being 83-77. Huskies made the trip in 2 Tribal-owned cars. While at Ig-Inacio Ig-Inacio the Northern Utes stayed in the Little Boys' building and ate very tastey meals at the Student's Dining Room with the students. All in all, they reported to have had a very tiresome, but, enjoyable trip. The members of the Huskies would like to extend their appreciation ap-preciation to the Ignacio All-Star All-Star basketball team and to the Ute Indian Tribe for making mak-ing this trip possible. |