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Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall today announced the reappointment of Floyd E. Maytubby, Oklahoma City, as Governor of the Chickasaw Indian Tribe and the appointment of Waldo E McIntosh of Tulsa as Principal Chief of the Oklahoma Creek Indian Tribe.

Under a 1906 law the President was empowered to appoint a Principal Chief periodically for each of the so-called "Five Civilized Tribes" of Oklahoma-- Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole and Creek. In 1951 this appointing authority was delegated to the Secretary of the Interior.

Mr. Maytubby has served in the office continuously since October 1939. Secretary Udall noted in advising Mr. Maytubby of his reappointment for a two-year term that he had served “with dignity and integrity".

Mr. McIntosh has long been active in tribal affairs. In advising him of the two-year appointment, Secretary Udall wrote that "as a public servant you have long had the confidence of your fellow tribesmens as well as other Indian leaders and non-Indian people in your community." Mr. McIntosh has served a number of years as County Assessor, Tulsa County, and is now serving his second term as County Treasurer of that County. He succeeds Turner Bear, of Checotah, Oklahoma, who has served as Principal Chief since 1957.

The primary functions of the Chickasaw Governor and the Creek Principal Chief are to represent the tribe on public occasions and in the execution of documents relating to tribal property.

Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall announced today that from November 14 through 19 he will consult on outstanding Indian problems in Phoenix, Ariz., with five Indian leaders and eight prominent non-Indians interested in Indian affairs.

One of the consultants invited to the meeting is W. W. Keeler of Bartlesville, Okla., oil company executive and principal chief of Oklahoma's Cherokees, who served as chairman of Secretary Udall's Task Force on Indian Affairs earlier this year. The 12 other consultants are:

Barry DeRose, Globe, Ariz., attorney for Indian tribes;

Joe H. Herrera, Santa Fe, N. Mex., secretary of the All Pueblo Council;

Hon. Ralph Herseth, Houghton, S. Dak., former governor of South Dakota;

W. F. Johnston, Lewiston, Idaho, editor of the Lewiston TRIBUNE;

Oliver La Farge, Santa Fe, N. Mex., president, Association on American Indian Affairs, Inc.;

Maurice McCabe, Window Rock} Ariz., secretary-treasurer of the Navajo Tribal Council;

Bishop Philip F. McNairy, Minneapolis, Minn., Suffragan Bishop (Episcopal) of Minnesota;

Lincoln O’Brien, Farmington, N. Mex., publisher of the Farmington DAILY TIMES;

Rev. Billy Osceola, Hollywood, Fla., chairman, Seminole Indian Tribe of Florida;

Hugh J. Wade, Juneau, Alaska, secretary of state of Alaska,

Walter Wetzel, Cut Bank, Mont., president, National Congress of American Indians;

William Zimmerman, Jr., Arlington, Va., former Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs.

One of the topics scheduled for discussion is the recommendation made last July by the Task Force on Indian Affairs for establishment of a statutory Advisory Board on Indian Affairs composed of both Indian leaders and non-Indians prominent in the field. Secretary Udall has endorsed this recommendation.

"Our goals in Indian affairs," the Secretary said, “are (1) maximum Indian self-sufficiency, (2) full participation of Indians in American life, and (3) equal citizenship privileges and responsibilities for Indians. As we shape up our new plans and programs for moving toward these objectives, I feel it is tremendously important that we have the benefit of the wisest and most experienced counsel we can get from non-governmental sources.

"The men we have invited to meet with us in Phoenix were selected with the help of Congressional delegations from states with major Indian populations. They are all exceptionally well qualified and competent students of Indian affairs and I have every confidence they can provide us with invaluable assistance in charting our course to better the lot of Indian people."

Plans call for the consultants to visit a number of major economic developments benefiting Indians within easy traveling distance of Phoenix.

Appointment of Kenneth L. Payton as superintendent of the Mescalero Indian Agency, Mescalero, N. Mex., effective November 12 was reported today by the Department of the Interior.

He succeeds Hobart Johnson who transferred from Mescalero in September to be superintendent of the Indian Bureau's Intermountain School at Brigham, Utah.

Payton, 35, joined the Bureau of Indian Affairs in early 1950 after graduating from Oklahoma A&M College in 1949. His first assignment was as a soil conservation engineer in the Hopi jurisdiction at Keams Canyon, Ariz. Subsequently he served at several locations on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona and New Mexico.

In 1958 he was transferred to the Consolidated Ute Agency, Ignacio, Colo., as a land operations officer. Since 1960 he has been in charge of land operations work at this agency. He is a native of Picher, Okla., and served in the Navy during World War II.

Promotion of Jose A. Zuni, an Indian career employee of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, to the position of superintendent of the Consolidated Ute Agency, Ignacio, Colorado, was reported today by the Department of the Interior.

Born on the Isleta Pueblo near Albuquerque in 1921, Zuni graduated from the University of New Mexico with a degree in business administration in 1949 and joined the Bureau as a budget analyst in Albuquerque the same year. In 1954 he was promoted to administrative assistant at Albuquerque and two years later was transferred to the Area Office at Gallup in a similar position. In 1958 he returned to Albuquerque as tribal relations officer and a year later was promoted to his most recent position as assistant to the General Superintendent of the United Pueblos Agency. He served in the Air Force during World War II.

At Ignacio, Zuni succeeds James F. Canan, who has been superintendent there since 1956 and is transferring to the office at Gallup as assistant area director.

Award of a $868,653 contract for construction of school facilities to accommodate 188 Indian children not now in school at Dilcon, Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation was reported today by the Department of the Interior.

The contract calls for construction of a 7-classroom structure with a multipurpose room, a 128-pupil dormitory, a kitchen and dining room, employees' quarters, a bus garage, and a storage and utility building.

The facilities are being built at a location on the Navajo Reservation where the Bureau of Indian Affairs has been operating a temporary school for the past several years. When completed, they will provide for the present enrollment of 22 children at Dilcon and for 188 others not now in school.

The successful bidder was Lembke Construction Co., Albuquerque, N. Mex. Ten higher bids, ranging from $877,191 to $1,022,831, were received.

The Department of the Interior today proposed new regulations so Indian tribes having organized forest enterprises may be able to sell lumber and other forest products without supervision by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Bureau guidance over sales, the Department explained, is needed for small scale operations where the tribal enterprise organization has limited experience in conducting such sales. It also serves a purpose where there is no formal agreement between the tribal forest enterprise and the tribal or individual Indian owners of the forest land.

The situation is different, however, in the case of larger and better organized tribal enterprises such as the Navajo Forest Products Industries operating on the reservation in Arizona and New Mexico and the Fort Apache Sawmill Enterprise in Arizona. In these cases, the Department's policy is to delegate broad responsibilities for the sale of forest products produced by the enterprise and retain the trust responsibility for management of the timberlands by a formal agreement between the tribal enterprise and the timber land owners. The change in the regulations is intended to effectuate this policy.

Interested persons may submit comments or objections to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Washington 25, D. C., within 30 days after publication of the proposed amendment in the Federal Register.

The Bureau of Indian Affairs has agreed to make loans that may be needed for reactivation of a tribally operated steer enterprise on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in Montana, the Department of the Interior announced today.

Prime significance of the move, Commissioner Philleo Nash pointed out, is that it will permit the Northern Cheyenne Indians to make use of their own lands in a business which holds promise of providing good economic returns to the Tribe and job opportunities for individual tribal members. The enterprise will be owned and operated by the Tribe as a Federal corporation and individual tribal members will, in effect, be stockholders.

Plans developed by the Tribe call for eventually building up a herd of 5,000 head, for hiring a professional manager, and for seeking technical help from Montana State College.

The Northern Cheyenne Steer Enterprise was established in 1937 and was financed by loans received from the Bureau over a period of 10 years. All of these were repaid in full. In 1947, the Enterprise had 2,000 head of cattle on hand, debt free, and about $50,000 in cash. Subsequently, however, the condition of the Enterprise deteriorated and it was terminated in 1957.

"Reactivation of the program," Commissioner Nash said, "has been under consideration for a long time. With the experience gained in operation of the Enterprise, it should be possible to develop a plan which will overcome the difficulties experienced in the past. “

The Tribe is planning to make its first purchase of steers in the spring of 1963.

Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall will dedicate Navajo Dam, first completed major storage unit of the Colorado River Storage Project, in New Mexico on Saturday, September 15, and the new Four Corners marker and highway across the Navajo Indian Reservation on Sunday, September 16. The Four Corners marker designates where boundaries of New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and Arizona come together, the only such point in the United States.

Secretary Udall will leave Washington Friday for Farmington, New Mexico. Navajo Dam is on the San Juan River, approximately 45 miles from Farmington. The New Mexico Congressional delegation and the Governors of the Four Corners States have been invited to participate.

Navajo Dam has been under construction for four years by a joint venture company consisting of Morrison-Knudsen Company, Inc., Henry J. Kaiser, and the F &S Contracting Company on a contract for $26,195,000. Total expenditure to date on the entire unit has reached $35,000,000. First storage of water was accomplished last July.

The impoundment of water at Navajo was the first at any of the storage units of the Colorado River Storage Project. Plans are to begin storage in the Flaming Gorge Reservoir in November 1962, and in Lake Powell, behind Glen Canyon Dam, early in 1963.

Reclamation Commissioner Floyd E. Dominy, who will also attend the dedication, said Navajo Dam is the second largest earth dam constructed by the Bureau of Reclamation. It stands about 40 stories high, stretches 3,800 feet from wall to wall of the narrow valley through which the San Juan River flows, and contains 26,300,000 cubic yards of compacted earth and rock-fill. Approximately 1,750 man years of on-site labor were expended in its construction with a total payroll of over $12 million and an additional $24 million was expended for services, equipment and supplies which reached to all parts of the country.

When filled, Navajo reservoir will be 35 miles long with a total storage capacity of 1,709,000 acre-feet. About 100,000 acre-feet has been impounded this summer and development of recreational facilities and fishery resources is already under way. The reservoir is in both New Mexico and Colorado, and appropriate agencies of both States are undertaking administration of public-use facilities.

Navajo Dam and reservoir will make possible the direct diversion of water for the Navajo Indian Irrigation Project and also the transmountain upstream diversion required for the San Juan-Chama Project which will benefit lands and municipalities along the Rio Grande River. Both projects were authorized by Congress this year.

The Navajo road dedication will mark successful c6mpletion of long-time efforts by the Navajo Trail Association for construction of an all-weather primary highway across southern Colorado into and through the Indian reservation country of the Four Corners area. The new highway is a link in Secretary Udall's "Golden Circle" plan to connect major parks and monuments in the region by adequate roads. The new highway will be a key link between Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado and the Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona and Zion National Park in Utah.

The new Four Corners marker was designed by the Bureau of Land Management and constructed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

The three top officials of the Bureau of Indian Affairs--Commissioner Philleo Nash, Deputy Commissioner John O. Crow, and Associate Commissioner James E. Officer--will travel extensively through Indian areas of Oklahoma, consulting with Indian leaders and visiting Indian families in their homes, during the week starting March 4, the Department of the Interior announced today.

On the afternoon of Sunday, March 4, the three officials will attend a meeting at Ponca City with representatives of the Pawnee, Otoe-Missouri, Ponca, and Tonkawa tribes in western Oklahoma and the Potawatomie, Sac and Fox, Iowa and Kickapoo tribes of Kansas. In traveling to the meeting from Oklahoma City by automobile Sunday morning, they will go through Guthrie and Perry and visit Indian families in their homes.

On March 5 through 7 they will meet with all ten Area Directors of the Bureau of Indian Affairs at Oklahoma City for a periodic review of Bureau programs and policies.

On the afternoon of Thursday, March 8, the three men will meet at Concho with Cheyenne and Arapaho representatives and that evening Commissioner Nash will be principal speaker at a chamber of commerce banquet in El Reno. In the morning they will travel by automobile through Geary, Watonga and Clinton to visit additional Indian families in their homes. On this trip they will be accompanied by Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal Chairman Woodrow Wilson.

On Friday, March 9, the three officials will meet in the morning at the Riverside School in Anadarko with representatives of the Caddo, Wichita and Delaware tribes and in the afternoon with Kiowa, Comanche and Apache tribal members at Lawton.

On Saturday, March 10, a morning conference will be held at Shawnee with representatives of the Potawatomie, Sac and Fox, Iowa and Kickapoo tribes of Oklahoma and an afternoon meeting will take place at Pawhuska with Osage tribal members.

The three officials will return to Washington Sunday, March 11.

Appointment of Roderick H. Riley, former economic advisor to the U. S. Information Agency, as assistant and economic advisor to Commissioner of Indian Affairs Philleo Nash was reported today by the Department of the Interior.

A career civil servant and native of Antigo, Wisc., Riley entered Federal service in 1933 as research assistant to the late Senator Robert M. La Follette, In He has been with USIA for the past two years.

Riley's other Federal positions have included those of executive director of the Joint Economic Committee of Congress (1958-60), economic advisor to the small Defense Plants Administration (1952-53), special assistant to the Secretary of Commerce (1948-51), and director of research in the Office of Price Administration (1941-4'7).

In 1945 he served on the U. S. Strategic Bombing Survey in Germany and in 1951-52 was an economist in the Bureau of German Affairs, Department of State. Riley's Federal career was interrupted for temporary appointments as assistant professor of economics at the University of Texas (1933-36) and the University of Cincinnati (1938-39), as well as by private practice as a consulting economist in Milwaukee from 1954 to 1958.

He was graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Wisconsin in 1930 where he subsequently received the M.A. and Ph. D. degrees. In 1930-31 he studied at the University of Muenster in Germany under an exchange fellowship.

His published work includes his doctoral dissertation, in the field of U. S. financial history, and two monographs written in collaboration with others: the official report on "The Effects of strategic Bombing on the German War Economy" (1945) and a Stanford Research Institute study of the economic feasibility of expanded defense budgets (1960).

Riley is a member of the American Economic Association, the Royal Economic Society, the Cosmos Club of Washington, D. C., and the Wisconsin Union of Madison, Wise.

He currently makes his home in Bethesda, Md., is married and has three daughters.