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Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall will meet in Washington, D. C., May 24 with representatives of several major electronics companies to explore ways of expanding industrial job opportunities for American Indians.

Mr. Udall said the meeting is the first step in an all-out drive to spur large-scale commercial activity in Indian areas.

Warren W. Frebel, Vice President and Director of Purchasing for the Magnavox Company, will serve as chairman of the meeting.

The electronics companies which have indicated they will be represented at the meeting include: American Broadcasting Company, Cinch Manufacturing Company, CTS Corporation, Litton Industries, Inc., P. R. Mallory Company, Radio Corporation of America, Sylvania Electronics Company, The Magnavox Company, Thompson-Ramo-Wooldridge, Warwick-Sears, and Westinghouse Electric Corp.

Discussions will focus on (1) location of potential sites for electronics plants; (2) availability of Indian workers; (3) BIA financed on-the-job training programs; and (4) special problems such as the impact of industry on life in a semi-rural Indian community.

The May 24 meeting is part of Secretary Udall's plan to draw upon the advice and experience of American business in solving economic problems of reservation Indians.

Industries in the electronics field have been gravitating toward Indian areas recently in the search for expansion sites. Spokesmen for companies already employing Indians report that they respond quickly to training and have a natural dexterity that makes them excellent electronics workers.

The transfer of three Indian Agency superintendents in Arizona has been announced by Robert L. Bennett, Commissioner of Indian Affairs.

Homer M. Gilliland, Superintendent at the Co1brado River Reservation, has been named Superintendent at the Hopi Reservation. He replaces Clyde W. Pensoneau who is retiring from Federal service.

Succeeding Gilliland at Colorado River will be John H. Artichoker, Jr., now Superintendent of the Papago Reservation. Artichoker will be succeeded by Joseph M. Lucero, now an administrative manager and acting superintendent at the Hopi Agency.

Gilliland, 56, was born in Tremont, Miss., and was graduated from Mississippi State College He joined the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1943 as principal of the Cherokee school in North Carolina.

Artichoker, 38, was born at Pine Ridge, S. D., and is a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe. He holds a bachelor's and master's degree from South Dakota State University. Artichoker was Director of Indian Education for South Dakota before joining the Interior Department's Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1962 as a tribal operations officer at Billings, Mont.

Lucero, 51, was born in Koehler, N. M., and attended Albuquerque Business College. He entered Federal service as a clerk in the Forest Service in 1937. In 1962 he joined the Bureau of Indian Affairs as an administrative officer at the Fort Apache Reservation in Arizona.

All three transfers are effective August 11.

American Indian schools, fortified with a recent $9 million grant from the U.S. Office of Education, are trying out new ways to overcome the communications gap between Indian customs and conventional school methods.

The $9 million was made available to the Bureau of Indian Affairs during the fiscal year which ended last June 30, under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. It has enabled BIA to initiate projects it could not have funded otherwise, even though about 65 percent of its regular budget goes for education. Title I money generally is intended for innovative and exploratory projects in the education field.

BIA, an agency of the Department of the Interior, maintains nearly 250 schools for some 55,000 Indian elementary and secondary students. The largest has more than 1,000 enrolled; the smallest, only about 30. Some are boarding schools serving Indian youngsters who live in areas too remote to permit daily attendance at schools close to home; others are day schools in places where the States and local communities cannot effectively serve Indian needs.

Problems vary widely. In certain regions, Indians want specialized training. It will help their children land good jobs in the United States economic mainstream. In others, the schools seem to many Indians too formal, too unrelated to the realities of reservation life. There is a widespread concern that Indian culture and identity may be overwhelmed by conventional teaching.

Because of this diversity of problems, the money has been put to work in a wide variety of ways. Some are long-range, others are aimed at immediate effect.

So that Indians will feel a part of these programs, some of the money is used to involve students and parents in developing a course of study that is Indian-oriented.

These long-range research projects include a detailed study to check on which areas of education Indian students and their parents consider most vital; one which sets out along innovative lines to find just where Indian students stand, scholastically, in various subject areas; and others for development of new social studies curricula which recognize the beauty and worth of native culture and provide refinements in the teaching of English to Indian children who have spoken only their native language.

Other research is being devoted to development of intelligence and achievement tests especially for Indians.

Immediate improvement in Indian education is the aim of programs involving both university and in-school workshops for teachers to update them on latest teaching methods The main uses of the money, though, were for special projects in local Indian schools, most of which are designed to persQna1ize the environment of the schools for ultimate benefit of the student. Examples:

--Rock Point residential school in Chinle, Ariz., which has about 200 students –

from beginners through fourth grade -- living and studying there during the school year, Indian adults into the dormitories and classrooms to speak to children in their doubles. All this is done in an attempt to eliminate homesickness among the students and to alleviate their lonesomeness.

--Five residential schools near Tuba City, Ariz., have each set up a homemaking center to teach their upper elementary students -- and some Indian adults from the surrounding area -- such things as sewing, nutrition, child care, sanitation, grooming and other useful but non-academic subjects.

--Sequoyah residential high school, Tahlequah, Okla., houses its 400 students in small residential units, instead of a large dormitory, to help students avoid the impersonality of a large dormitory and to find a small community or family of their own.

--Wingate residential high school at Fort Wingate, N.M., is using a flexible scheduling system within which each of its 1,000 students can find more independence and freedom to study what he needs. Wingate also has an intensified course in English as a second language.

--Pima Central school at Sacaton, Ariz., an elementary day school for 300 students, has begun a series of planned field trips to improve the motivation of its children. Intensive study precedes each trip, so students already have a good idea of what they will see and can refine their observations when they get there. A journey to a nearby canyon, for example, comes only after the students learn about the rock and rock layers visible there.

--Chemawa residential high school, Salem, Ore., this summer sent teams of five six teachers to visit students and their parents at their homes. Most of the Chemawa students come from Alaska. Purpose of the visits was to see how the children live, meet their parents, describe the school and its program, and thus help alleviate parental worry at sending their children away to school. Chemawa also provides a wide vocational education program, including a special course to train Eskimo students to become bush pilots.

--The Institute of American Indian Arts, a residential high school and post-high school at Santa Fe, N.M., this summer sent its drama and dance and music ensembles to centers of Indian concentration in Oregon and Washington, where they gave performances and help workshops to increase Indian pride and skill in their native arts.

"Hoss" Cartwright of "Bonanza" and Sergeant O'Rourke of "F Troop" are in there pitching for the American Indians.

The Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs announced that the two television personalities--Dan Blocker and Forrest Tucker--are making radio and TV spot announcements for the Bureau-sponsored campaign: "See America first with the first Americans."

The campaign is intended to encourage more summer vacationists to visit Indian reservations, become better acquainted with Indian life and history, enjoy the hunting and fishing, and buy Indian arts and handicrafts.

Tribal councils have been urged by the Bureau to determine how they can make best use of the anticipated increase in tourist dollars. The councils are expected to improve existing tourist facilities, build new ones, and in some cases, employ guides to show tourists highlights of reservation life.

Blocker and Tucker are donating their services, the Bureau of Indian Affairs said, because of "their desire to help improve the lot of Indian tribes.

Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall announced today award of a $2,369,756.55 contract to construct 25.076 miles of 34-foot finished width, two-lane highway, between Lechee Rock and Kaibito, Ariz., on the Navajo Reservation.

The work to be done under this contract and under two other contracts previously awarded will leave only 20 miles of construction needed to complete the connection between Page, Ariz., and State Route 164 south of Shonto, Ariz.

The new contract covers construction of the highway, drainage structures, cattle underpasses, right-of-way fencing and other minor construction.

The successful low bid was by S. S. Mullen, Inc., of Salt Lake City, Utah. Two other bids were received, ranging to a high of $2,541,235.65.

The Bureau of Indian Affairs has announced the award of a $737,093 contract for construction of a new school at Tyonek, Alaska, a native community on Cook Inlet.

The new building replaces a dilapidated structure that was built in 1930. Contract specifications call for: three classrooms; a kitchen; multi-purpose room; library; offices; a gymnasium with a stage; a storage area and janitor facilities. Also included will be a sewerage system; utilities; concrete sidewalks; play areas and site grading. There are now approximately 60 Indian children enrolled at the Tyonek School.

Tyonek villagers, who last year accepted $11 million in oil and gas bids for some 8,500 acres of their lands, will contribute $143,965 toward construction of the new facility.

Successful bidder was Corvi Construction Co., Inc., of Spenard, Alaska. Three other bids were received, ranging to a high of $838,000.

Tyonek School is one of five in the Kenai Borough scheduled for transfer of title to the State of Alaska next year. The schools are now operated by the State but funded by Federal monies administered by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which holds title of ownership, Under the Johnson-O’Malley Act, Federal funds are made available to support needy public school districts with large enrollments of American Indian, Aleut, and Eskimo children.

On July 1, 1966, five similarly funded schools in Kodiak Borough will be transferred to State ownership.

Timber harvesting on Indian reservations set records during the 1967 calendar' year in terms of both cash and timber volume, a final tabulation by the Bureau of Indian Affairs shows.

Cash sales exceeded 900 million board-feet and provided gross receipts of $17.9 million. This compares with a total of 527 million board-feet and $10.7 million gross sales ten years ago, and about 802 million board-feet, with $15.4 million in cash sales for 1966, and 811 million board-feet and approximately $13 million in cash sales in 1965.

The 1967 sales provided an estimated 6,300 year-long jobs in the forest industries on or near Indian reservations.

Average stumpage price was $19.85 per thousand board-feet.

In addition, Indians cut over 93 million board-feet of timber for their own use, valued at $311,000, for house logs, corral poles, fencing, and fuel wood. Hogan logs on the Navajo Reservation, alone, account for about 1 million board-feet per year.

Over the past 50 years, 27.8 billion board-feet of timber, valued at $261 million has been harvested from Indian tribal and allotted lands.

The Indian owners are working closely with the Bureau to improve forestry practices in the harvest of the timber, including replanting of cut areas, and regulating the amount of the cut to insure their tribes a sound, economic base on which they can draw forever.

Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall today announced three appointments to high-level positions in the Bureau of Indian Affairs and said the appointments were "key steps in making the Bureau more responsive to the needs of the Indian people."

Named to the top-level posts under Commissioner of Indian Affairs Robert LaFollette Bennett were:

-- Theodore W. Taylor, a career civil servant, to be Deputy Commissioner. Taylor has been Assistant to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution since 1959, and is a veteran of Interior and BIA service.

-- Carl L. Marburger, currently Assistant Superintendent of Schools at Detroit, to be Assistant Commissioner for Education.

-- William R. Carmack, Administrative Assistant to Senator Fred R. Harris of Oklahoma, to be Assistant Commissioner for Social and Governmental Affairs.

“The choice of these three officials marks the culmination of a Nationwide search for the finest talent we could secure in an effort to strengthen the Bureau of Indian Affairs as a top team," Secretary Udall said.

Deputy Commissioner Taylor holds a doctoral degree from Harvard University with a dissertation based on the regional organization of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. His Government service, which began with the Rural Electrification Administration in 1936, includes 13 years in the Department of the Interior.

Taylor served four years, from 1946 to 1950, as Executive Officer of Interior's Office of Territories, followed by six years as Chief of Management Planning for the Bureau of Indian Affairs. In 1956 he began a three-year tour of duty as mobilization officer for defense electric power in the office of the Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Water and Power. Before joining Interior, Taylor worked as administrative assistant to the director of the Agriculture Department's Federal Extension Service. He holds degrees from the University of Arizona and Syracuse University as well as Harvard. A native of Berkeley, California, he grew up in Tucson, Arizona.

Marburger, who has a doctorate in education from Wayne State University, has been Assistant Superintendent of Schools for Special Projects at Detroit since 1964. He has devoted most of his efforts during recent years to improvement of educational opportunities for the disadvantaged. He has been serving as a consultant to the U. S. Office of Education on implementation of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. From March through December of 1964 he was a special assistant to the Commissioner of Education. He has also headed the Task Force for the Disadvantaged, a joint committee of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare and the Office of Economic Opportunity.

A former classroom teacher in Detroit, and later a high school principal, Marburger in 1963 was named director of curriculum studies for that city's schools, and helped establish the Great Cities Project--a tailored program of education for socially and economically underprivileged students in public schools, in which about 20 major cities participated, with Ford Foundation funding. His published works include papers on education in depressed areas and upgrading of public schools in pursuit of excellence. He is a native of Detroit and attended schools and college there. He will head up a network of more than 250 Indian day and boarding schools, most of whose pupils must overcome cultural and language barriers to achieve their full potential.

Carmack's newly created position includes responsibility for Indian participation in the War on Poverty, Indian employment assistance and welfare, and tribal operations and community development.

He has worked for Senator Harris since the latter's election in 1964, dealing with the problems of constituents, who include many Indian groups. Prior to his Senate staff service, Carmack was director of the University of Oklahoma's Human Relations Center, which originated and developed five Indian adult education centers serving communities through the western half of that State. The centers provided training and consultation for communities facing various kinds of potential conflicts, such as race relations, religion in the public schools and other problems.

Carmack established the Human Relations Center and directed its activities three years. Formerly he was an associate professor of speech at the University of Oklahoma. He has a doctorate in communication from the University of Illinois, and bachelor's and master's degrees from Abilene Christian College in Abilene, Texas, and Florida State University, respectively. A native of Decatur, Alabama, he grew up in Lawton, Oklahoma, and attended public schools there.

Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall has announced the appointment of Henry B. Taliaferro, Jr., of Oklahoma, as an Associate Solicitor to head the Division of Indian Affairs in the Office of the Solicitor in Washington, D. C.

Taliaferro, 36, is a native of Shawnee, Okla., who graduated from high school in Oklahoma City and holds a bachelor of arts and a law degree from the University of Oklahoma.

From August 1967 until recently, he was a staff member of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission). For about a year prior to that time, he organized, staffed and inaugurated a Neighborhood Legal Services program for Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, under a grant from the Office of Economic Opportunity, heading a staff of 23 persons.

Taliaferro practiced law in Oklahoma City from 1956 to 1966, first as an associate and later as a partner, in the firm of Monnet, Hayes, Bullis, Grubb and Thompson, with experience in corporate and individual business counseling, considerable trial and appellate advocacy, oil and gas law, and probate and estate planning.

He is a member of phi Beta Kappa and served as managing editor of the Oklahoma Law Review. Active in civic work, he has held office with the Oklahoma Symphony Society, Travelers Aid Society, Oklahoma County Bar Association, Oklahoma Rehabilitation Association, State Mental Health Association, Rotary Club, and fraternal groups. He has been active also in Episcopal Church activities. He is married to the former Janet Stewart Myers, and they have three children.

In the summer of 1911 President Howard Taft was in the White House; the territory of Arizona was a frontier outpost, with a population of 205,000 scattered sparsely over its 113,575 lonely and arid square miles; and 34-year-old Sheriff Carl Hayden of Maricopa County, then a major in the National Guard, was at Camp Perry, Ohio, competing successfully in the national rifle matches.

A few Navajo Indians were pasturing their sheep on the scrub of Manson Mesa over there where Page now stands, and the Colorado River was much as Major John Powell had viewed it 42 years earlier, when he and his party first explored the dark deep gorges and unexpected rapids of the wild, mysterious river.

Noting in an Ohio newspaper that his territory was about to attain statehood, the crack marksman from Arizona went home to announce he would run for Congress. He did and with the same success he had experienced on the rifle range, in his Tempe flour mill, and throughout Maricopa County, where he had served as councilman, treasurer, and sheriff.

Today we see evidence of the wisdom displayed by the people of Arizona in sending Carl Hayden to Washington in 1912 to represent them and keeping him there ever since.

The former sheriff of Maricopa is the one person most responsible for transforming the raw frontier that was the Arizona of 1912 into the prosperous, progressive and popular state of 1968, the fastest growing of also states of the Union.

This great dam and lake and bridge are not unique in being monuments to the vision, ability and hard work of Senator Hayden and a long line of like-minded westerners in Congress. Throughout not only Arizona, but all the West there are literally hundreds of such monuments to Carl Hayden--dams, reservoirs, parks, highways, power lines, airports, crop lands on what once was desert, and thriving towns and cities.

Actually, as Senator Hayden completes his nearly 57 years' service in Congress, he could contemplate the great American West and see the good life it provides millions of men, women and children as a manifestation of his own handiwork. Not that he would so consider the results of his long-time efforts, of course. For Carl Hayden, a tough and able man, also is a humble and simple man.

When his colleagues in the Senate paid tribute to him recently, they stressed not only his many and varied accomplishments as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee and as the senior and most powerful member of the Senate; they remembered his myriad kindnesses, his humility, and his tireless energy in advancing the welfare of all sections of the Nation.

Women's suffrage is an outstanding monument to this far-seeing American, who in 1919 sponsored the Constitutional amendment to give women the right to vote. The 1931 Hayden-Cartwright law marked the beginning of the Interstate Highway System. The Federal Home Administration, authorizing government-insured loans to farmers, and the G. I. Bill of Rights are other Hayden legislative milestones.

One could go on, literally for hours. As an inscription in St. Paul's Cathedral in London directs, on behalf of the renowned architect, Sir Christopher Wren, "If you seek my monuments, look about you." Anywhere we look at the evidence of progress in this country we are likely to see evidence of the work of this son of Arizona, Carl Hayden.

President Johnson, paying tribute to his old friend, said: "His work was the arduous kind that is done in the committee rooms. It was long; it was painstaking; it was nighttime sessions. It was poring over testimony and figures of a thousand appropriation bills involving billions of dollars, trying to serve his main client: the people, the people of the United States -- serve them with integrity, with imagination, and always with great care.

"America is stronger for what you have done in these 56 years, and it is going to be poorer when you have left these halls," the President told Senator Hayden.

We Arizonans, along with most Westerners, are especially mindful of the force of Senator Hayden's efforts in promoting and bringing to fruition development of the Colorado River, lifeline a seven-state area of the arid West.

In 1920 he introduced a bill to apportion the waters of the "Big Red" between the upper and lower basin states, legislation which materialized into the Colorado River Compact of 1922. When the Boulder Canyon Project, including Hoover Dam, was proposed in 1927 Carl Hayden fought to include in the measure provisions that would protect the water rights of his state. As usual, he won.

He was a Co-sponsor of the first bill introduced in Congress to construct the Colorado River Storage Project, of which this Glen Canyon Dam, power plant and beautiful Lake Powell are key features. Before the Glen Canyon Dam was built the river ran through here, red with sediment, and the back-country was a no-man's land except for a handful of shepherds and those fortunate few visitors who were able to make their hazardous way through nearly impassable rugged terrain to Rainbow Bridge and other marvels of the side canyons.

Today, thanks to the dam, the Colorado flows clear, and boaters on jewel like Lake Powell may float up hidden canyons and feast their eyes on some of the most fantastic and gorgeous scenery in the world.

We are proud that Glen Canyon Dam was awarded the American Civil Society of Civil Engineers award for the outstanding civil engineering achievement of 1963. And while the Glen Canyon unit furnishes us superb scenery, glorious boating, and excellent fishing, it is also generating hydroelectric power that will pay for construction of the facilities and for other basin development to come.

The basis for this is a policy strongly supported and bolstered by Senator Hayden to permit commercial sale of surplus Reclamation hydropower to help pay the costs of Reclamation development. Through the years the Arizona solon sponsored several laws strengthening and expanding this policy.

Down river about 70 miles is another outstanding monument to Carl Hayden's foresight, the Grand Canyon National Park, featuring probably the most famous natural wonder of the world. In 1919 Representative Hayden introduced and ushered through the House the bill to establish this park so as to preserve for the enjoyment of all people that impressive stretch of the Colorado.

One of the greatest monuments to Senator Haydn is still to be built, the Central Arizona Project. The crowning achievement of this Westerner's outstanding public service was the recent passage by the Congress of legislation authorizing the Colorado River Basin Project, which will so greatly advance the economic growth of Arizona and the west.

This legislation is the result of nearly two decades of unrelenting, and frequently discouraging, effort -- by Senator Hayden and many other Westerners in Congress; in the White House---President Johnson urged its enactment in his 1968 Budget message to Congress---; and in the Department of the Interior, where it has been a chief objective during my administration.

Senator Hayden sponsored and guided through the Senate bills to authorize the Central Arizona Project in 1950, 1951, and 1967, but not until this year did the bill make it to the floor of the House. All through these years the Senator and hundreds of others, in and out of government, worked arduously to perfect a bill that would meet the objections of the different states in the basin, the opposition of some who at times seemed to be pure obstructionists for the sake of obstructing, and others who, mostly, simply did not, or would not, comprehend the great need of the parched Southwest for water. But now a good bill has been hammered out and is about to become 1aw--President Johnson is expected to sign the legislation within a few days.

It is landmark legislation which constitutes an historic breakthrough in the water thinking of the West. It initiates a new brand of water resource development, bold and broad-gauged. And it marks the opening of an era of water cooperation in the West, replacing the bitter rivalries of the past. This embodies a regional concept, working toward the best possible solutions for the mounting water supply problems of the states of the Colorado basin and setting a pattern for solution of the problems of other regions.

The $1.3 billion Colorado River Basin project authorization is the largest; single-package Reclamation authorization bill ever approved. It not only implements the Supreme Court Decree of 1964 by making it possible for Arizona to utilize an average of 1.2 million acre-feet of water annually from the Colorado main stem; it also approves participating projects in other states of the basin and directs studies to solve chronic water problems of the West.

The $832 million Central Arizona project will pump water from Lake Havasu on the Colorado River and transport it by aqueduct some 300 miles to the burgeoning Phoenix-Tucson area, one of the fastest growing sections in the Nation. We are all aware of the fabulous expansion of this sun-drenched area during the past decade and of the prospects for even greater growth in the future. Reclamation has made the past progress possible, and this Reclamation project will help it to continue. A $100 million distribution system will convey the water from the aqueduct system to thirsty farmlands/and communities.

A dam on the Gila River in New Mexico, and five irrigation projects in Colorado and New Mexico are also authorized for construction by the new law. In addition the Dixie Project in Utah is reauthorized and another Utah project conditionally authorized. Other provisions of the legislation establish a basin fund to finance water development in the basin; provide for participation in a non-Federally built steam electric plant and transmission facilities to furnish low-cost pumping power; give California a priority to use 4.4 million acre-feet of Colorado River water annually; make the delivery of the 1.5 million acre-feet of water for Mexico, as required by treaty, a national obligation; and provide for a reconnaissance study by the Secretary of the Interior, leading to a general plan to meet the water needs of the western United States.

Those of us who have labored long for this Central Arizona project are now permitting ourselves a look in the crystal ball at the changes it will foster in what most surely would have been our dark future without it. We see tremendous economic and social progress.

The Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of Arizona estimates that the economy of the State would lose $1,364 million if the means to prevent the ultimate disappearance of that part of its agriculture now dependent on pumped water were not supplied by the Central Arizona Project. Prevention of such a loss far surpasses the cost of building the project.

But our crystal ball shows us much more than a measurable economic gain to be reaped from this great Reclamation development. It shows us lovely shaded city streets, with trees nourished by CAP water; cool, green public parks; gardens of colorful flowers; hundreds of men and women employed in project construction and operation, and also in project-related business and industry; happy people enjoying the carefree outdoor life in the sunny Southwest--people who could not migrate to the area without this water supply provided by the CAP.

It shows us, too, Department of the Interior officials and members of Congress working in harness during the early years of construction to assure that appropriations closely follow authorization. The example of Senator Hayden will stand us in good stead here, as new men pick up where he left off to keep the construction of the project facilities moving at a proper pace.

It is most fitting that we name the visitor center here at Glen Canyon in honor of Senator Hayden, for, if it were not for him, this complex--like many other water resource facilities through the West--might not exist.

It will not be the first place to bear the long-time solon's family name, however. He was born in 1877 on the Salt River near Phoenix at Hayden's Ferry, which was named for his father, Charles Trumbull Hayden, son of a soldier who fought in the American Revolution. Mr. Hayden founded a flour mill and merchandising business in Tempe. He also founded Arizona Territorial Normal school in Tempe, from which his son Carl was graduated in 1896 before entering Stanford University. And far to the north and nearly a continent's span west of Hayden's Ferry, there is a Hayden's Landing on the Connecticut River, named for Charles Trumbull Hayden's family long before he began the westward trek, which took him finally to Arizona.

All of Senator Hayden's friends--among whom I have been privileged to count myself ever since I can remember--hope that he will come to this center many times to enjoy the fine view of some of his work.

In closing, I submit it is most appropriate that implementation of Carl Hayden's Central Arizona project is starting today and will continue tomorrow. Although now his life span has stretched to nearly half that of this nation, he has always been a young man in his vision, a sage in his wisdom. We read in the Bible, "Your old men shall dream dreams and your young men shall see visions."

Carl Hayden has done both all of his life, and he has translated both dreams, and visions into realities. The State and the Nation are looking forward to many more years of his counsel and guidance.