Three additional personnel moves involved in the reorganization of the Bureau of Indian Affairs were announced today by Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay.
W. Wendell Palmer, superintendent, Wind River Agency, Fort Washakie, Wyo., will be transferred to the same position at Klamath Agency, Oreg., replacing Erastus J. Diehl who retires June 30. Glenn R. Landbloom, Bureau extension and credit officer at Aberdeen, s. Pak., will replace Palmer. Both transfers are effective June 13.
Palmer entered the Indian Service in 1950 at Wind River. Prior to that he was with the Bureau of Reclamation at Minot, N. Dak. and Bismarck, N,.· Dak. During World War II he was with the War Relocation Authority and operated his own farm at Malad, Idaho, from 1945 to 1947. He received a B.S. degree in agronomy from the University of Idaho in 1923.
Mr. Landbloom was born in Fargo, North Dakota in 1909, and has been with the Bureau for 16 years, entering the service as a trainee at the United Pueblos Agency, Albuquerque, N. Mex., under a Rockefeller Foundation grant, He has held various responsible Bureau positions in Montana and South Dakota and was in the military service from 1942 to 1945. He is a graduate of North Dakota Agricultural College, Fargo, N. Dak., with a B.S. degree in economics in 1932 and an M.S. degree in agricultural economics in 1938.
Mr. Diehl, a native of North Platte, Nebr., started with the Bureau in 1932 as a dairyman and farm leader at the Fort Hall Agency, Fort Hall., Idaho. He was assigned to the Uintah and Ouray Agency, Fort Duchesne, Utah. He was also superintendent of the former Western Shoshone Agency, Owyhee, Nev., and superintendent at Fort Peck Agency, Poplar, Mont., before transferring to Klamath Agency in 1950. He is a graduate of Utah State Agr1.cultural College, Logan, Utah and a veteran of World War I.
