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Show 1 Reservation News . . . I 8 About The j? A UINTAH-OURAY INDIAN RESERVATION )? BUILDING CHIEF HERE Clyde H. Powers, area chief, Branch of Buildings and Maintenance Main-tenance from the Phoenix office, of-fice, spent Thursday of last week at the Uintah and Ouray Agency on official business. He made an inspection of the water systems at Fort Duchesne and Whiterocks. Recommendations will be made for a complete rehabilitation of the water system sys-tem at Fort Duchesne just as soon as Mr. Powers can provide the necessary specifications. Albert Al-bert Danials, local buildings and utility officer assisted Mr. Powers in the survey work. R-N NEW BILL INTRODUCED R. O. Curry, Tribal Business Manager, received a telegram from Senator Watkins, Tuesday afternoon, stating that Bill, H. R-3790 was passed by the Sen ate Sub-Committee. The Bill, if finally enacted into law, will allow the Ute Indians an additional ad-ditional $1,800,000.00 for the three-year-program. The Bill prohibits charging past per capita cap-ita payments from interest against the three-year-program funds. R-N Public Law 281 - 83rd Congress Chapter 506 - 1st Session AN ACT to terminate certain Federal restrictions upon Indians. In-dians. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America Amer-ica in Congress assembled, that Section 467 and 2136 of the Revised Re-vised Statutes (25 U.S.C. sec. 266) and section 2135 of the Revised Re-vised Statutes (25 U.S.C, sec. , 265), all of the said laws being laws which forbid the sale, pur chase, or possession by Indians of personal property which may be sold, purchased, or possessed by non-Indians are hereby repealed. re-pealed. Sec. 2 (a) Section 1157 of title 18 of the United States Code as amended is further amended by striking the period at the end thereof and adding the following: follow-ing: "Provided, that this section shall apply only to livestock purchased by or for Indians with funds provided from the revolving loan fund established pursuant to the Act of June 18, 1934 (48 Stat. 984), and June 26, 1936 (49 Stat. 1967), as amended and supplemented, or from tribal loan funds used under regulations of the Secretary Secre-tary of the Interior, and to livestock live-stock issued to Indians as loans repayable 'in kind,' and to' the increase of all such livestock, and only until such time as such loans are repaid; Provided further, that it shall be the duty of any purchaser of Indian In-dian livestock to use reasonable diligence to ascertain that such livestock is not subject to' such loans." (b) Section 1 of the Act of July 4, 1884 (23 Stat. 94, 26 U S.C, sec, 195), is repealed. Approved August 15, 1953. R-N Be Prepared Before You Burn This time of year people are burning trash, fields, brush and other such things, and often the fire gets away from them. There is a good deal of the river bottom lands that burning burn-ing will improve and we are not trying to stop such burning, but do want to urge anyone who wants to burn to be prepared pre-pared before they burn. REMEMBER Under State and Federal laws, you are held responsible for fires you start. If they get out of control you may be held responsible for costs of suppressing the fire, damage costs to' other property, and are subject to fine and imprisonment. im-prisonment. Usually a few hours with a plow, making a fire break and backfiring along this fire break in the worst spots, will give you good control over your fire. You should all have men available avail-able and equipped to put out any fires starting outside your firebreak. The time and money you spent in this manner will be small compared to what you might have to pay if the fire gets out of control and causes serious damage. Be Prepared Before You Burn ! R-N NETfS BRIEFS At a meeting held at Fort Duchesne on April 8, 1954, by the Mixed Blood group of the Ute Indian tribe, Albert Harris, Preston Allen and Lorena Iorg were elected to represent this group according to the Tribal Resolution adopted at a General Gener-al Council meeting held March 31, 1954. R-N Mary Harris, that Grand Old Lady, who boasts the age of 96, has recovered from her recent re-cent illness and her many friends are happy to' know that Mrs. Harris is once more able to be up and around tending to her housework and many other interests, that many of us hope that we will be able to accomplish accom-plish at this young age. R-N Harriet Taveapont returned last week from Phoenix, Ariz., where she took her daughter, Beatrice, to have plastic surgery sur-gery done for burns received on her face and neck. The many friends of Beatrice wish her a speedy recovery. R-N Eldon Denver, a former resident resi-dent of the Uintah Basin, has been visiting his many friends and relatives for a few days. Mr. Denver lives in Ogden with his family. R-N At a regular meeting of the American Legion Auxiliary, Unit 126, held at Ft. Duchesne on April 2, 1954, Agnes Denver was elected sergeant-at-arms, and Lorena Iorg was elected as historian. Mrs. JoAnn Talboe, district president was a special guest. .The next regular meeting will be held Friday, April 16, and all members and prospective prospec-tive members are urged to be present. |