Bureau of Indian Affairs today announced changes in two superintendencies in the Pacific Northwest involving the Yakima, Colville and Klamath agencies.
Portland Area Director Don C. Foster said that Floyd H. Phillips, superintendent of the Colville Agency since 1951, i, being transferred to the Yakima Agency to replace Dannie E. LeCrone, who transferred recently to the Phoenix area office. and Elmo Miller will transfer from the Klamath Agency where he has been superintendent since June, 1957. to the Colville Agency to replace Phillips. Martin Zollar will be acting superintendent at Klamath pending designation of a new superintendent for that agency. The changes are effective November 2.
Phillips, a native of Wisconsin and a graduate of the University of Montana in forestry, has been with the Bureau of Indian Affairs since his graduation in 1930. His first position was as a forest ranger on the Klamath reservation in southern Oregon and he moved from there in 1934 to become forest supervisor at the Black Feet Agency at Browning. Montana. where he served until 1939. He served successively as superintendent of the Red Lake (Minnesota) Agency in 1939 and 1940, superintendent of the Taholah (Washington) Agency in 1940 to 1943. regional forester for the forest area from 1943 to 1945, regional forester at Spokane in 1945 and 1946, and regional forester in the Portland Area office 1n 1946 to January 1951, when he became superintendent of the Colville Agency.
Miller's appointment represents a return to the Colville Agency where he served from April, 1951, to January, 1955, as agricultural extension agent. He is a native of Utah and came to the Pacific Northwest after serving with BIA in Alaska as administrative officer at Nome. A graduate of Utah State Agricultural College, he was a farmer and rancher before joining BIA as a field 41de in May. 1941, at the Cheyenne River Agency in South Dakota. He also did agricultural work at Tongue River Agency in Montana. He was at Nome, Alaska, for four years before coming to the Pacific Northwest .8 superintendent of the Northern Idaho Indian, Agency in January, 1955. He became superintendent of the Klamath Agency in June. 1957.
