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Show X About The $ UINTAH-OURAYINDIAN RESERVATION MUST GET PURCHASE ORDER I Effective Oct. 12, 1953, no purchases chargeable to the Ute Indian Tribe or divisions there-f there-f excepting the Whiterocks Trading Post, will be made un- S purchase orders are issued and cleared through the Accounting Ac-counting Division, headed by albert LaRose, is a statement made by the Tribal Committee bv R. - Curry, chairman. In order for the accounting division to properly obligate funds against the various costs accounts, it will be necessary ; mV11s be stl"ictlv adherred to. All divisions that have pur-cahse pur-cahse order books in their possession, pos-session, will please turn them over to Mr. LaRose's division. In the future-, anyone needing to purchase items should call at Mr. LaRose's office for a purchase order and should try to1 anticipate purchase orders in advance, in order to have purchase pur-chase orders written at the time they are needed. This will also advise that effective ef-fective October 12 all bills rendered ren-dered the Ute Indian Tribe ot divisions thereof, will be paid through Mr. LaRose's office. The Tribal secretary's office will no longer perform this function. R-N TO DISCUSS PROGRAMS WITH ALL INDIANS According to a bulletin issued recently by R. O. Curry, Tribal business manager, the Uintah and Ouray Tribal Business Committee Com-mittee would like to' meet with the Indians to discuss future programming. It is imperative that the Ute Indians present a comprehensive comprehen-sive plan to Congress next year that will meet the needs of the Indian people and will allow each member of the Tribe some participation in Tribal benefits. The present three-year program expires in August, 1954, and if they expect to utilize any of the other moneys not committed in the three-year program, they must have congressional approval. appro-val. Under the present program, 33 1-3 for judgment funds was authorized to be used and ' none of the other two-thirds can be used unless a submitted I plan is approved by Congress. I A meeting is called for all interested Indians to discuss the I matter and begin a program, for I Wednesday, Oct. 14, at 1 p.m. at the Fort Duchesne Commun-,ity Commun-,ity House. The Business Committee Com-mittee has authorized the serv-; serv-; ing of a lunch at 12:00 noon, to be followed by a discussion on . planning. All are urged to attend the meeting and participate in the planning, as officials of the I Planning Division from the 1 Washington office are sched- uled to arrive about Nov. 6, to ; see what steps have been taken. R-N I FOREST AND RANGE NEWS This summer the Ute Tribe has done considerable work on 1 existing fences, range roads and springs. There has been 12 miles of new fence constructed. Nine miles of this new fence is on the Reservation boundary between the Green River and the White River. Two and a half miles of new fence was constructed on the Rock Creek grazing area. About 8 miles of new range access road has been completed in the Hill Creek area and repair re-pair work done on existing I roads. I At the present time a crew is developing springs in the John Starr area and another i crew is repairing fence in the ' Uintah River region, i There has been very little maintenance work on improvements improve-ments on the Reservation since the CCC days, and the present improvement program is going to be of great benefit to the Indian stockmen and their neighbors R-N WASHINGTON OFFICIALS TO VISIT RESERVATION Mr. Carl Beck, consultant to Mr. Orme Lewis, assistant Secretary Sec-retary of the Interior, and Mr. Robert L. Bennett, programming program-ming officer for the Commissioner Commission-er of Indian Affairs from the Washington office, will be at Ft. Duchesne on Nov. 2, 1953. They will discuss general matters affecting af-fecting the Ute Indians with Tribal and Federal officials. They will also visit other Indian tribes in Utah while in the state. Mr. Bennett will return to Fort Duchesne on Nov. 6th for a week of program planning and Mr. Beck will proceed to Phoenix, Phoe-nix, Arizona. R-N ITALIAN JOURNALIST TO VISIT RESERVATION Miss Clara Falcone, Italian journalist, now traveling in the United States under the aus-picies aus-picies of the Department of State, will visit the Reservation during the week of October 25. The purpose of her visit is to learn something about Indian life in the United States, so she can write an article on the subject sub-ject for the Italian newspapers. R-N Charles Reed and Connie Denver, Den-ver, members of the Ute Board of Education, are attending the Utah State Education Convention Conven-tion in Salt Lake City this week. R-N Violet Natchees, Gary and Glenda Gardner left last week for Logan, Utah, where they will attend the Utah State Agricultural Ag-ricultural College. It is the second sec-ond year for Violet; however, it will be an entirely new experience ex-perience for Glenda and Gary. R-N Barbara Murray, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Julius Murray, of Whiterocks, left last Saturday for Salt Lake City, where she is enrolled, in the University School of Nursing. Barbara has selected the five-year course in public health nursing and upon completion of the course will receive a Master's Degree in public health nursing. R-N Ulysis Grant left by bus Tuesday Tues-day for Tacoma, Wash., where he will enter the Indian Service Hospital for medical treatment and surgery. R-N On Wednesday of last week, Roy Adams, Ashel Perry and Paul Howard, of the Agency staff, inspected range conditions in the Hill Creek - Willow Creek areas. They report the range in fair conditions but suffering from the extreme drought. R-N Miss Monica Schumacher reported re-ported for duty at Fort Duchesne Du-chesne Indian Agency on Sept. 29, 1953. Immediately upon her arrival she conferred with Superintendent Sup-erintendent Gilmore and others in the office. Miss Schumacher came from St. Louis, Missouri, where she was employed as public health nurse for the Municipal Health Department. She graduated from DePaul Hospital School of Nursing and attended St. Louis University, where she received her Bache- ; lor of Science degree in Public ' Health Nursing. I R-N 1 In cooperation with Jtie medical medi-cal officer, emphasis will be placed on preventive medicine and public health, which will 1 include visits to' Indian homes to teach and demonstrate good health, give emergency bedside care and arrange for some member mem-ber of the family to carry out procedures between visits, instruct in-struct in prevention of infection infec-tion to others, make arrangements arrange-ments for the hospitalization of patients and other special care as indicated. |