Transfer of Charles S. Spencer, superintendent of the Flathead Indian Agency in Montana, to head the Fort Hall Agency in Idaho, effective May 15, 1961 was announced today by the Department of the Interior. He replaces Frell M. Owl who has been superintendent at Fort Hall since 1954 and is now joining the branch of tribal programs in the Bureau's central office at Washington, D. C.
A successor to Spencer at the Flathead Agency has not yet been selected.
Spencer has been with the Bureau since 1931 when he was appointed farm agent at Crow Agency, Mont. He spent four ye8rs there. Then he worked for seven years as extension agent at Western Shoshone Agency, Owyhee, Nev., and for ten years as soil conservationist at Wind River Agency, Fort Washakie, Wyo. He was named superintendent at Standing Rock Agency, Fort Yates, S. Dak., in 1952 and transferred to Blackfeet Agency in Montana in 1954 and to Flathead three years later. He is a native of Victor, Idaho, and was graduated from the University of Idaho with a B. S. degree in agriculture in 1929.
