Jess T. Town, 39, Choctaw Indian from Talihina, Okla., was today named Superintendent of the Rosebud Agency, Rosebud, His appointment is effective August 8. Town will move to this post from one as Area Field Representative of the Bureau in Riverside, Calif.
Town was graduated from Chilocco Indian School in Oklahoma in May 1950, and attended Phoenix College, Phoenix, Ariz. He began his Federal service in the Phoenix Indian School in 1954.
He became a fiscal accountant with the Uintah and Ouray Agency of the Bureau at Fort Duschene, Utah, and then a supervisory administrative officer at the San Carlos Agency, San Carlos, Ariz. After serving as tribal operations officer at the Western Washington Agency, Everett, Wash., he held that same post at the Sacramento Area Office. He became Area Field Representative, Riverside Field Office of the Bureau in 196'7, a post he held until his present appointment.
He served in the United States Army from September 1952 to that same month in 1954.
