Appointment of three new relocation officers to take charge of the Indian Bureau’s field relocation offices in California at San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Jose was announced today by the Department of the Interior.
At San Francisco George M. Felshaw from the Bureau’s area office at Muskogee, Okla., will move in January 13, 1957, replacing H. M. Mathiesen who retires November 30.
In the Los Angeles office Miss Ola Beckett, who has been in charge of the community adjustment section there, has been designated to take over the top position in an acting capacity when Mrs. Mary Nan Gamble leaves January 13 to join the Bureau’s relocation services staff in Washington, Mrs. Gamble will specialize in community adjustment work.
At San Jose Rudolph Russell, who has been on the staff at San Francisco, will take charge of the office December 16 replacing Edward T. Kerley who joins the staff at Los Angeles.
Mr. Felshaw first joined the Bureau in 1938 and has been engaged in relocation or job placement work for the past eight years. Before coming to the Muskogee office as area relocation officer in 1955, he was engaged in similar work at the Navajo Agency, Window Rock, Ariz. He was born at Pima, Ariz., in 1913 and attended Gila Junior College, Thatcher, Ariz.
