The Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior, has announced transfers of four men which will affect two field offices and two Central Office posts.
William T. Schlick of Iowa has been promoted to a newly established position of Assistant to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Washington, D. C. He will be staff assistant for liaison and program coordination with other Federal agencies, including the Office of Economic Opportunity. Since January, 1965, Schlick has been the Bureau's Job Corps Conservation Center Officer.
A native of Ames, Iowa, he holds a bachelor of science degree in forestry from Iowa State University. In October, 1950, he was named forester at the Bureau of Indian Affairs' Colville Agency in the State of Washington. He since has served in progressively responsible assignments in the field and Central Office.
He will be succeeded as Job Corps Conservation Center Officer by his deputy, Harry A. Rainbolt. Rainbolt, a Pima Indian, was born on the Fort Apache Reservation, White River, Ariz. He is a career employee of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and received an award for sustained superior performance in 1962. He was assigned to work on the Job Corps Center program in February, 1965.
Paul A. Krause of Montana, superintendent of the Chinle Agency on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona since 1962, has been transferred to the Minneapolis, Minn., area office as superintendent for the Bemidji Agency.
Krause has been employed by the Bureau since 1941. His assignments have involved range and forest surveys on Indian lands in Utah, Nevada, and Arizona and service at the Uintah and Ouray Agency, Ft. Duchesne, Utah.
Krause was born in Kalispell, Mont., and received his bachelor of science degree from Montana State University in 1939.
John J. Weber of Illinois has been named superintendent of the Cheyenne River Agency, S. D. (Sioux) to succeed Howard S. Dushane, who was transferred to the Albuquerque, N. M., area office as credit officer. Weber moved from the Northern Idaho Agency, Lapwai, Idaho, where he was assistant superintendent.
A native of Nauvoo, Ill., Weber began his Federal career in 1949 with the Department of Agriculture as a soil conservationist. He joined the Bureau of Indian Affairs at the Northern Idaho Agency in 1957. That same year he was transferred to the Colville, Wash., Agency as range conservationist and land operations officer and remained there until 1962, when he returned to Lapwai as assistant superintendent.
Weber holds a bachelor of science degree in forestry from Montana State University.
