The Department of the Interior announced today the appointment of Charles J. Rives as superintendent of the San Carlos Indian Agency, San Carlos, Ariz., effective December 13. He succeeds Thomas H. Dodge who transferred last November to the superintendency of the Osage Agency at Pawhuska, Okla. His appointment was recommended by the San Carlos Tribal Council.
Mr. Rives has been serving as soil conservation staff officer at the Navajo Agency, Window Rock, Ariz., Since February 1957. He received his first appointment as soil conservation engineer at the former Southern Plains Agency, Clinton, Oklahoma in July 1949, and has had more than nine years' experience in the Indian Bureau in increasingly responsible positions. In July 1950, he transferred to the Washington Office of the Bureau, as soil conservation engineer in the Branch of Land Operations. In September 1951, he transferred to the San Carlos Agency as soil conservationist. He later became Land Operations Officer at San Carlos before moving over to the Navajo Agency.
Born at Clayton, New Mexico in 1924, Mr. Rives received a degree from the New Mexico A & M College, State College, N. Mex., in agricultural engineering in 1949. He also attended Pre-Flight and Advanced Naval School at San Marcos, Texas, in 1944, and later served in the Air-Transport Command (Military).
