Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay announced the appointment of Guy C. Williams as Superintendent of the United Pueblos Indian Agency, Albuquerque, N. Mex., effective April 1.
The appointment results from the recently announced reorganization of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Mr. Williams since 1950 has been assistant director of the Albuquerque Area Office which is being discontinued. He will head the agency headquarters at Albuquerque which serves the 19 Indian Pueblos of the Rio Grande Valley.
Mr. Williams entered the Indian Service in 1927 as a teacher at Tesuque, N. Mex. He later was chief clerk at agencies in Nevada and Idaho until 1936, and for four years was a special agent in the Division of Investigations of Interior at Albuquerque and Billings, Mont.
In 1940 he returned to the Indian Bureau as an accountant at Albuquerque and Minneapolis, From 1945 to 1949 he served at national headquarters of the Bureau first as chief of the budget and operations division and later as acting chief administrative officer. In July 1949 he became chief of the Branch of Management Planning and remained in that post until he transferred to the Albuquerque Area Office in late 1950.
Born in Lebanon, Indiana, in 1895, Mr. Williams was educated in the public schools of that co1mnunity and later attended Central Normal College and Anthony Wayne Institute. He is a veteran of World War I and had several years of experience in farming, public school teaching and cost accounting before joining the Government service.
