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For Immediate Release: January 1, 1971

Commissioner of Indian Affairs Louis R. Bruce today announced the appointment of William F. Streitz, 44" to be Superintendent of the Uintah and Ouray Agency, Fort Duchesne, Utah. Now Superintendent of the Sisseton Agency; S. Dak., Streitz will assume the Utah post January 2.

Streitz, a native of Belle Plaine, Minn., has a B.S. degree in history and social science from St. Cloud state College, Minn. He I began his career with the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1949 on the Cheyenne River Reservation, S. Dak., as a school teacher. He then held teaching and administrative posts on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, S. Dak., Standing Rock Indian Reservation, N. Dak., Field Employment Assistance Office, Cleveland. He became Superintendent of the Sisseton Agency in 1967.

Streitz served in the U. S. Navy from 1944 to 1952 with the U. S. Pacific Fleet: in personnel accounting. Married, he is the father of three children.