Promotion of Theodore B. Hall from the position of Superintendent, Osage Indian Agency, Pawhuska., Oklahoma, to Assistant Area Director for the Indian Bureau at Gallup, New Mexico, effective October 30, was announced today by Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay.
A successor to Mr. Hall at Osage Agency has not yet been selected.
Mr. Hall, a veteran of 24 years with the Indian Bureau, has been Superintendent of the Osage Agency since 1940. Prior to that he served for six years as Superintendent of the Papago Agency, Sells, Ariz. He joined the Bureau in 1930 as an appraiser at Quapaw Agency, Miami, Okla. and had a few years of service at Leupp and Sacaton, Ariz., in the early 1930's. Before coming with the Bureau, he had several years of experience in school teaching and private business in Oklahoma. He was born at Whitfield, Okla., in 1902.