Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall next week will be in Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico and Arizona on water resource and park missions and to see some Indian achievements.
Udall will fly to Denver Tuesday morning, September 5, and will hold a news conference there upon his arrival.
The secretary then will be flown to Cheyenne, where he will meet with Gov. Stanley Hathaway of Wyoming at a noon luncheon.
Returning to Denver, Udall will see Gov. John A. Love, then will speak at 10:30 Wednesday morning to a national conference of State and Federal Water officials at the Denver Hilton Hotel.
At 11:30 Wednesday, September 6, the secretary will leave Denver by plane for Santa Fe, N.M., where he will be met by Walter O. Olson, area director for the Bureau of Indian Affairs; Will Rogers, Jr., a special assistant to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and a former congressman from California; and officials of the Cochiti Pueblo.
The party will tour the Cochiti Pueblo, including a visit to the site to Cochiti Dam, now under construction, with return to Santa Fe through the Santa Domingo Pueblo.
During the afternoon Wednesday, Secretary Udall plans a meeting in Santa Fe with Gov. David F. Cargo of New Mexico.
Early on Thursday, September 7, the secretary is to arrive in Gallup, N.M., to be met by Bureau of Indian Affairs officials and officials of the Zuni Pueblo. He will tour the Zuni village and meet with members of the Zuni Pueblo Council. At 10 a.m., Udall will dedicate the Blackrock Industrial Park, being developed by the Zunis. Ground was broken last week for the first industrial plant at the park.
After the industrial park exercises, Secretary Udall and his party plan a visit at about noon to Window Rock, Ariz., 'headquarters for the Navajo Area Office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and to attend a barbeque and the Navajo Fair there.
At 4 p.m. on Thursday, Udall will dedicate the Hubbell Trading Post' National Historic Site at Ganado, Ari-zona, and then go to Phoenix to spend the night.
The secretary plans to fly back to Washington on Friday, Sept. 8
