A 36-year career in the Bureau of Indian Affairs ended on July 31 when Leroy D. Arnold, Chief Forest and Range Managemen, retired, Mr,. Arnold who lives at 2110 Hildarose Drive, Silver Spring, Md., began work with the Indian service as a forest fire guard at Warm Springs Indian Agency, Oregon, June 1917. He has served as forest ranger at Warm Springs and Yakima agencies and was deputy forest supervisor at Tulalip Agency, Washington. He also served for a time as superintendent of Klamath Agency, Oregon and since 1941 has been chief of the Bureau's Forest and Range Management branch.
Born in Kansas in 1888, he was educated in local schools and taught school for four years before he was graduated from the University of Michigan in 1917 with a bachelor of science degree in forestry.
Another personnel change in the Bureau was the transfer of Peru Farver, superintendent at Turtle Mountain Consolidated Agency, Belcourt, N. Dak., to the superintendency at Fort Hall Agency, Fort Hall, Idaho. He succeeds Earl Wooldridge who has retired.
Supt. Farver, a Choctaw Indian has been at Turtle Mountain for two years, He entered the Bureau service in 1910 as a teacher at Union Agency, Muskogee, Okla. He has had various assignments in the service including superintendencies at Tomah Agency, S. Dak.; Red Lake, Minn.; and Cheyenne River, S. Dak. No successor has been named at Turtle Mountain.
