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Show I Reservation News ... I ffl About The x ft UINTAH-OURAY INDIAN RESERVATION SOCIAL WORKER VISITS i Visiting at the Uintah and Ouray Reservation on Thursday and Friday of last week was Dr. Parkin Vakharia, dean of the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Baroda, India. She is one of twelve visitors from Indian and the Middle East who received grants from the Ford Foundation to permit them to attend the Seventh International In-ternational Conference of Social Work in Toronto, Canada, June 27 to July 2. The grants provide also for two months of observation observa-tion of agencies and institutions in their fields of work. The International In-ternational Exchange Project of the National Social Welfare Assembly As-sembly is arranging the observation obser-vation program. Miss Vakharia had two main objectives for her visits in the United States following the International In-ternational Conference of Social So-cial Work: the observation of schools of social work with emphasis em-phasis on the administrative aspects, as-pects, and programs of child guidance. She planned to renew re-new acquaintances with former New York school students and i staff of the New York School of Social Work and to observe agencies working on the integration inte-gration of American Indians into in-to community life. Miss Monica Schumacher, the public health nurse for the Indian In-dian Service, accompanied JMiss Vakharia on a tour of the reservation. res-ervation. R-N INDIAN SERVICE EMPLOYEE RECEIVES CASH AWARD Elbridge M. Axtell, irrigation engineer at the Uintah and Ouray Ou-ray Agency, Fort Duchesne, last week received a $35.00 cash award from the Incentive Award .Committee of the Bureau Bur-eau of Indian Affairs in Washington, Wash-ington, D. C, for making a suggestion sug-gestion to improve the operation opera-tion of the Bureau. His suggestion, sugges-tion, it is estimated, would save approximately 25 days labor each wear in connection with issuing irrigation operation, maintenance and construction bills at Fort Duchesne. There are numerous other irrigation projects that would adopt the new procedure, which would amount to approximately $1000 saving per year on a Bureau-wide Bureau-wide basis. In addition to the cash award Mr. Axtell received letters of commendation from the Indian Service central office in Wash-I Wash-I ing'ton, D. C. and from the area director at Phoenix, Arizona. Mr. Axtell has served as irrigation ir-rigation engineer at Fort Duchesne Du-chesne since September, 1950, when he was transferred from the Colorado River Indian Agency Ag-ency in Parker, Arizona. |