Designation of Carl Beck to supervise Indian Bureau activities aimed at giving Indians wider opportunities for improving their economic status was announced today by Acting Commissioner W. Barton Greenwood.
Mr. Beck, a veteran of 21 years' service with the Bureau, has served since 1953 as field representative of Commissioner Glenn L. Emmons. In his new assignment he will supervise the Bureau's program of assistance to Indians who want to relocate away from the reservations in communities where job opportunities are more plentiful. He will also be responsible for encouraging the establishment of private commercial and industrial enterprises near the major centers of Indian population.
Mr. Beck, a long-time resident of Arizona, first came with the Bureau on the Navajo Reservation in 1929 and subsequently served in a variety of positions. He was superintendent of the Western Shoshone Agency, Owyhee, Nev., from 1938 to 1943 and then transferred to the same position at Fort Hall Agency, Fort Hall, Idaho, where he served for five years.
In 1948 he resigned from the Bureau to enter private business. He returned as a consultant in April 1953, and was named as the Commissioner's field representative eight months later.
His title in his new assignment will be Assistant to the Commissioner.
