The Department of the Interior today announced the selection of Clyde W. Hobbs, superintendent of the Crow Indian Agency in Montana for the past four years, to head the Wind River Agency, Fort Washakie, Wyoming, effective June 4.
He succeeds Arthur N. Arnston who has been superintendent at Wind River since 1954 and is being assigned to complete the wind-up of Indian Bureau responsibilities on the Catawba Reservation in South Carolina as provided by a 1959 law.
A native of Schaberg, Arkansas in 1917, Hobbs grew up on a farm in Oklahoma and graduated from Oklahoma A &M College with a degree in agronomy in 1942. After four years of military service in World War II, which brought him to the rank of captain, he joined the Indian Bureau as a soil conservationist at Anadarko, Okla., in 1946 and was transferred later that same year to Eufaula, Okla. In 1948 he moved to the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana and six years later was promoted to soil conservationist in the Billings area office. He was named superintendent of the Crow Agency in early 1957.
A new superintendent at Crow has not yet been named.
