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Show have been preserved and revived re-vived by a sympathetic government. govern-ment. The gathering which annually an-nually attracts Indians from all parts of the West, opens August 20 and will continue through August Au-gust 23, the Office of Indian Affairs Af-fairs reported to the Secretry of Interior this week. WASHINGTON NOTES PETROLEUM Acting to protect the small, independent in-dependent gasoline dealers from the hardships due to inability to get supplies, the Office of Petroleum Petrol-eum Coordinator for National Defense De-fense today called for information which, will permit for planning of a program to assure that they will get deliveries. Figures establishing the effectiveness effec-tiveness of the civilian allocation program for gasoline begun August Au-gust 15 in 17 Atlantic Coast States and the District of Columbia Colum-bia were released this week. They showed that gasoline deliveries de-liveries to East Coast filling stations stat-ions by 17 companies during the week ending August 29 totaled 113,273,947 gallons as compared with 126,015,076 gallons for the week ending August 22. This represents rep-resents a decrease of 12,741,129 gallons, or 10.1 percent under the previous week . FARM PRODUCTION A farm production campaign for 1942 providing for a complete mobilization of American agriculture agri-culture to adjust production to domestic needs for national needs for national defense and to the needs of the nations resisting aggression, ag-gression, was announced this week. j I INDIAN AFFAIRS That Indian life in the United States at least is as vivid and dramatic in 1941 as it was in the days before Columbus landed is j one of the many facts the Indians of Oklahoma hope to prove during dur-ing a four day ceremonial gathering gather-ing beginning this week at Ana-darke. Ana-darke. Okla., in which more than 50 tribes are scheduled to participate. partici-pate. Called the "American Indian EiNposition" the ceremonial is operated entirely by Indians and calls attention to the extent to( which Indian handicraft, Indian ceremonials and rich Indian lore I |