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Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall today announced the reappointment of Vincent Price, the actor and art connoisseur, for an additional four-year term as a member of the Indian Arts and Crafts Board.

Mr. Price, of Los Angeles, Calif., was first appointed to the Board in 1957 to fill the unexpired term of William J. Lippincott. In light of his distinguished service in the advancement of Indian arts and crafts, he was reappointed to the board again in 1959. His current term started July 6 and expires July 6, 1967.

As one of the five commissioners on the Board, Mr. Price will share the responsibility of operating two Indian museums. He will also aid in the establishment of policies for the many field staffs which work directly "with the Indian craftsmen and artists--giving them advisory assistance in the production, pricing, publicity, marketing, and the maintaining of trade standards.

Mr. Price will serve on the present Board with its chairman, Dr. Frederick J. Dockstader, director of the Museum of the American Indian, New York, N. Y.; Rene d’Harnoncourt, director, Museum of Modern Art, New York, N. Y.; Erich Kohlberg, international dealer in arts and crafts, of Denver, Colo.; and Lloyd New Kiva, artist-craftsman and director of arts at the Institute of American Indian Art in Santa Fe, N. Mex.

The Indian Arts and Crafts Board was created as a part of the Department of the Interior by an act of Congress in 1935. Its function and duty is the promotion of economic welfare of Indian people through the development of their arts and crafts and the expansion of the market for such products. Members of the Board are appointed by the Secretary of the Interior and serve "without pay.

The Department of the Interior today announced proposed regulations governing the preparation of a membership roll of the Ponca Indian Tribe of Nebraska.

The roll is to be compiled under provisions of a law approved by the President in September 1962 which gives enrolled tribal members an opportunity to express themselves for or against division of the tribal assets among themselves. Those on the roll would be the beneficiaries if division of the assets is approved.

Under the proposed rules those eligible for enrollment would include (1), all persons living on September 5, 1962, whose names appear on the Ponca census roll of April 1, 1934 and the supplement thereto of January 1, 1935, regardless of their degree of Ponca blood, (2) descendants of such persons having one fourth or more Ponca blood, and (3) children of tribal members adopted by non-Indians if they are otherwise qualified. The Department believes that there are eligible individuals now living in widely scattered localities throughout the United States.

The full text of the regulations will be published shortly in the Federal Register. Applications for enrollment must be filed within two months after such publication and application forms may be obtained from the Area Director, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 820 So. Main St., Aberdeen, S. Dak. Superintendent, Winnebago Agency, Winnebago, Nebr.; or the Ponca Negotiating Committee, Niobrara, Nebr.

Interested parties are invited to submit comments concerning the proposed regulations within 30 days after their publication in the Federal Register to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Washington 25, D. C.

Commissioner of Indian Affairs Philleo Nash will make his first official visit to Indian Bureau installations and native villages in the State of Alaska January 20 through 29, the Department of the Interior announced today.

Mr. Nash will dedicate new school buildings constructed by the Bureau at Kotzebue on January 21 and at Barrow on January 23, attend the inauguration of Governor William Egan in Juneau on January 26, and visit the Bureau's Mount Edgecumbe boarding school near Sitka on January 28.

Plans also call for visits with native people in their homes at Kotzebue and Barrow and, weather permitting, for visits in the smaller villages of Buckland, Deering and Minto, or other nearby Athabascan communities.

The Department of the Interior announced today the award of a $1,149,000 contract for construction of high school facilities at the Phoenix Indian School in Phoenix, Arizona.

The contract calls for the construction of a seven-building complex, approximately 61,500 square feet in enclosed area, arranged around an open court. Included in the project are 28 standard classrooms, home economics and science laboratories, a library and instructional materials center, and administrative and guidance areas.

The construction will provide modern, adequate high school facilities at a central location, eliminating the need to use various makeshift classrooms at scattered locations throughout the campus. More than 1,000 Indian children are now enrolled in grades seven through 12 at the Phoenix Indian School.

The successful bidder was James Rae, and James Rae Construction Co., a joint venture, 400 West Camelback Road, P. O. Box 7367, of Phoenix, Arizona. Ten higher bids were received, ranging from $1,158,400 to $1,269,290.

Appointment of John H. Artichoker, former director of Indian education for the state of South Dakota, as superintendent of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Agency, Lame Deer, Mont., effective September 8, 1963, was announced today by the Department of the Interior.

An Oglala Sioux Indian, Mr. Artichoker was born at Pierre, S. Dak., in 1930 and holds both a bachelor's and a master's degree in education from the University of South Dakota at Vermillion. For the past seven months he has been tribal affairs officer for the United States Public Health Service at Aberdeen, S. Dak. In 1962 he held a similar position with the Bureau of Indian Affairs at Billings, Mont. Prior to that he was for over 10 years director of Indian education for the State government of South Dakota. He is the author of several articles on Indian education.

At Lame Deer, Mr. Artichoker succeeds Don Y. Jensen, who recently became superintendent of Cherokee Agency, Cherokee, N. C.

A study of ways to enhance the tourist attractiveness of the tribally owned and operated Hot Springs Enterprise at Hot Springs, Mont., on the Flathead Indian Reservation, is being undertaken by the Bureau of Business and Economic Research of Montana State University, the Department of the Interior has announced.

Purpose of the study is to accumulate market data which will enable the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation to participate are fully in the growing tourist business of the Northwest.

The $4,000 study is being financed on a 50-50 basis by the Confederated Tribes and the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

The $500,000 Hot Springs Enterprise, with its famous Indian Spa, is on the west side of the Flathead Reservation at the foot of the Cabinet Mountains, just west of Montana Highway 28. It was established in 1948 and includes an outdoor swimming pool, an open-air foot bath, and a modern bath house. The bath house features dry-heat rooms, steam rooms, hot mineral baths, massage rooms, and walk-in mud baths.

Awards of contracts totaling $6,950,700 for the construction of school facilities at Teec Nos Pos, Arizona, and Chuska, New Mexico, on the Navajo Indian Reservation, were announced today by the Department of the Interior. In both cases, the successful low bidder was Bateson-Cheves Construction Company of Mesa, Arizona.

Award of a $3,676,400 contract for construction of four 160-pupil dormitories, a 22-classroom school with multipurpose room and an instructional materials center, 1 660-pupil kitchen-dining room, employees' quarters and related facilities was made in connection with the Chuska, New Mexico, school. Outside work will include streets, walls, utilities and erection of a 200,000-gallon elevated water storage tank. When completed, the work will relieve the overcrowded conditions at the Tohatchi School of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and provide school facilities for 660 Navajo children in the general area of Tohatchi, Twin Lakes, Coyote Canyon, Mexican Springs, and Naschitti, who are not now in school.

Nine higher bids on the contract ranged from $3,887,247 to $4,594,825.

The Teec Nos Pos School contract award was in the amount of $3,274,300. This construction will include two 256-pupil dormitories, a 17-classroom school addition with a 1,000-pupilmultipurpose room and a 660-pupil instructional materials center, an 800-pupil kitchen-dining hall, housing for employees, and related facilities. This project is the second phase of work to be done at the existing Teec Nos Pos School of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The school, which had an enrollment of 353 students in 1962, is being rehabilitated and expanded to accommodate a student body of 1,000. / Four higher bids from $3,296,500 to $3,800,000 were received

Transfer of Will J. Pitner, area director for the Bureau of Indian Affairs at Anadarko, Okla., for the past nine years, to the national office of the Bureau at Washington, D. C., and appointment of Leslie P. Towle, superintendent of the Pine Ridge Agency in South Dakota, to succeed him, were announced today by the Department of the Interior.

On August 18, Pitner will become chief of the branch of land operations, Succeeding Evan L. Flory, who recently retired. Towle's transfer will be effective August 26. His successor at Pine Ridge has not yet been named.

Towle, 61 years old, has been superintendent at Pine Ridge since 1957. He joined the Bureau in 1933 as an auditor accountant at Billings, Mont. In 1938 he transferred to the national office of the Bureau as senior administrative assistant in the branch of roads and five years later was named assistant director of the branch. In 1946 he moved to Portland, Oreg., as district administrative officer and three years later was promoted to assistant area director. After six years in this post he transferred to a similar position at Aberdeen, S. Dak., and stayed there two years before becoming superintendent at Pine Ridge. He was born at Littleport, Iowa, and was graduated from the University of Iowa in 1922.

Pitner entered the Indian Service in 1940 after being graduated from the University of Nebraska. He served with the Marine Corps in World War II and saw action in China. After the war he returned to the Bureau as soil conservationist at the Winnebago Agency, Nebraska. After a year there and one at Rosebud Agency, Rosebud, S. Dak., he transferred to Albuquerque, N. Mex., in 1948, as area soil conservationist and in 1952 returned to Rosebud as superintendent. Two years later he was promoted to area director at Anadarko. He was born in Atwood, Kans., in 1914, and attended public schools in Stratton, Nebraska.

Approval of $1,852,000 in additional Accelerated Public Works projects was announced today by Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall. The funds will be invested in a wide range of forest conservation activities in 19 States. Most of the work is scheduled to begin within 30 days.

Secretary Udall said the projects will provide approximately 4,200 man months of on-site employment and generate additional jobs by creating a demand for goods and services.

Projects included in today's announcement cover improvements to public lands, national parks, national monuments, wildlife refuges, and Indian reservations. Besides providing much-needed employment, they will improve facilities used by millions of hikers, picnickers, and campers; help promote tourism, and conserve the Nation's timber and water resources, Secretary Udall said.

Thus far, the Department of Interior has received a total allocation of $63 million in APW funds from the Area Redevelopment Administration, which has overall charge of the program. Approximately $51 million of this has now been committed to specific projects.

The 67 projects included in today's announcement are located in approximately that many counties. Four bureaus of the Department of Interior are involved. The largest share of the work--34 projects, valued at $1,337,000--will be in areas administered by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife is in charge of 22 projects, representing an investment of $945,000; the National Park Service has six, totaling $350,000; and the Bureau of Land Management has five, involving $220,000 in betterments.

Following are the latest projects, arranged on a State by-State basis.

ALASKA

Central

The Bureau of Land management plans to build a new warehouse and garage at Central, northeast of Fairbanks, which will be used to store firefighting equipment. This project, valued at $23,000, will provide an estimated 12 man months of employment, and is scheduled to start in November. The facilities should be completed in February 1964.

ARIZONA

Fort Apache Reservation

Forests on the Fort Apache Reservation, in Apache, Navajo, and Gila Counties, will be thinned and reseeded by the Bureau of Indian Affairs to remove fire hazards and enhance their commercial, recreational, and ecological values. The work in each county involves about 84 man-months of labor and represents an investment of $50,000. All three projects are scheduled to start in 30 days.

Hualapai Reservation

Similar activity is planned by the Bureau of Indian .Affairs on the Hualapai Reservation in Coconino and Mojave Counties, The former project, valued at $7,000, will provide 12 man-months of employment, and the latter, representing an investment of $20,000, 36 man-months’ work. Both are scheduled to start in about 30 days.

Navajo Reservation

The Wheatfield’s Timber Access Road will be built by the Bureau of Indian Affairs on the Apache County portion of the Navajo Reservation, and construction of various forest protection truck trails is planned on the Navajo and Coconino County portions of the reservation. The first project is valued at $400,000. It will provide 684 man months of employment and start in JO days. The other two, beginning about the same time, involve a total investment of $100,000 and 178 man-months of labor.

ARKANSAS

White River National Wildlife Refuge

A previously approved $50,000 forest preservation project at the White River National Wildlife Refuge, involving replanting, removal of fire hazards, and related work, has been expanded, the job has been increased to a total of $110,000, and will provide an extra 60 man-months of employment.

­­­­ CALIFORNIA

Trinity

About 250 acres in Trinity County will be reforested with Ponderosa Pine seedlings by the Bureau of Land Management. Additional surfacing and grading work on Brock Gulch Access Road is also scheduled. The total value of the project is $70,000, and it will provide 36 man-months of employment. This is an expansion of a previously-approved, $101,000 APW allotment.

Shasta

An additional $17,000 is to be invested by the Bureau of Land Management in replanting and road maintenance work in Shasta County. Previously, $40,000 had been approved for this project. The addition will provide an extra 12 man-months of employment.

Humbolt

Picnic tables, benches, stone fireplaces and other campground facilities will be provided in Humbolt County by the Bureau of Land Management. This work, valued at $80,000, will provide 84 man-months of employment.

Tuolumne

An additional $30,000 worth of grading on Big Jackass Creek Road is planned the Bureau of Land Management in Tuolumne County. The original allotment was$100,000. Twelve more man-months of employment will be created, some of which will be used to eradicate bark beetle infestation in evergreen timber adjoining the road.

FLORIDA

St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge

A forest preservation project is scheduled at the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge in Jefferson County by the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife. The work is valued at $25,000 and will provide 30 man-months of employment.

Everglades National Park

The National Park Service plans to improve fire-control facilities in Ever­glades National Park for $200,000. Approximately 180 man-months of employment will be created.

GEORGIA

Blackbeard National Wildlife Refuge

Forested areas at Blackbeard National Wildlife Refuge in McIntosh County will be replanted and selectively thinned by the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife. Forty eight man-months of employment will be provided by this $40,000 project.

­­­­­­­­ Harris Neck National Wildlife Refuge

Similar forest preservation work is scheduled at Harris Neck National Wildlife Refuge, also in McIntosh County. This job, representing an investment of $25,000, will provide 30 man months of employment.

Piedmont National Wildlife Refuge

The Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife will undertake a $30,000 forest preservation project at the Piedmont National Wildlife Refuge in Jasper County, valued at $30,000 and creating 36 man-months of employment.

IDAHO

Nez Perce Reservation

The Bureau of Indian Affairs on the Nez Perce Reservation in Clearwater, Idaho, and Lewis Counties plans to thin timber, reseed, remove snags, and improve multiple use development of the forested areas. The total value of the three projects is $60,000 they will provide 108 man months of employment.

ILLINOIS

Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refugee

Timbered areas in the Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge, Williamson County, will be thinned, reseeded, and better-protected against various natural hazards by the Bureau Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, under $50,000 expansion of a previously approved APW project. The total value of the work is now $165,000. The addition will provide approximately 60 man months of employment.

KENTUCKY

Reelfoot National Wildlife Refuge

The Bureau of Sport Fisheries and wildlife plans to invest $5,000 in a forest preservation project at Reelfoot National Wildlife Refuge in Fulton County. It will provide six man months of employment and is scheduled to begin in September.

MAINE

Washington County

Forest preservation work valued at $100,000 and providing 120 man-months of employment will be undertaken in Washington County by the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife. It is scheduled to begin in September.

Acadia National Park

Fire roads and trails will be rehabilitated and fire hazards reduced in Acadia National Park, Hancock County, by the National Park Service. This work, valued at $28,000, will provide 90 man-months of employment. It is scheduled to begin within 30 days.

MARYLAND

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal

Wooded areas along the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, a popular tourist attrac­tion near Washington, D. C., will be cleared of debris by the National Park Service. This project represents an investment of $50,000. It will provide 132 man-months of employment and is scheduled to begin within 30 days.

MICHIGAN

Seney National Wildlife Refuge

Forested areas in Seney National Wildlife Refuge, near Escanaba, will be reseeded, selectively thinned, and upgraded by the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife. The work is valued at $100,000 and will provide 120 man-months of employment.

MINNESOTA

Rice Lake National Wildlife Refuge

At the Rice Lake National Wildlife Refuge in Aitkin County, the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife is expanding a previously approved forest preserva­tion project by $70,000. Total value of the work is now $110,000, and the addition will create 84 additional man-months of employment.

MISSOURI

Mingo National Wildlife Refuge

A $40,000 forest preservation project at Mingo National Wildlife Refuge in Wayne County has been expanded to provide an extra 48 man-months of employment. Total value of this Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife project is now $115,000.

NORTH CAROLINA

Eastern Cherokee Reservation

Forested areas on the Eastern Cherokee Reservation in Swain County will be thinned, reseeded, and prepared for multiple-use development by the Bureau of Indian Affairs under a $200,000 APW allotment providing 60 man-months of employment.

Blue Ridge Parkway

New scenic vistas will be cleared and the soil and moisture balance of forested areas will be improved along the Blue Ridge Parkway by the National Park Service. This work, valued at $20,000, will provide 24 man-months of employment and is scheduled to begin within 30 days.

Mattamuskeet National Wildlife Refuge

At the Mattamuskeet National Wildlife Refuge in Hyde County, $50,000 will be invested in thinning and replanting forested areas. This Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife project will provide 60 man-months of employment and is scheduled to get underway in September.

OKLAHOMA

Five Civilized Tribes Reservation

The Latimer and Le Flore County areas of the Five Civilized Tribes Reservation will be the site of a $200,000 APW project administered by the Bureau of Indian Affairs and involving work on the Bengal-Talihina Timber Access Road. A total of 360 man-months of employment will be provided by this construction activity, scheduled to begin in 30 days. A major expansion of visitor-use facilities is planned on those areas of the reservation in Atoka, Coal, Choctaw, Bryan, Delaware, McCurtain, Pontotoc, Pittsburg, Pushmataha, and Sequoyah counties. This work, valued at $100,000, will provide 170 man-months of employment timbered areas also will be thinned and replanted and existing safeguards against fire will be improved. Approximately 170 man-months of employment will be generated by this activity as well. It represents an investment of $100,000. The value of the work in each of the 10 counties is $20,000, and the corresponding employment figure is 34 man-months.

PENNSYLVANIA

Erie National Wildlife Refuge

At the Erie National Wildlife Refuge, in Crawford County, the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife has a $50,000 forest preservation project planned. It is scheduled to start in September and will provide 60 man-months of employment.

SOUTH CAROLINA

Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge

A previously authorized forest preservation project at the Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge has been expanded to provide an additional 120 man-months of employment. The new work will involve an investment of $100,000, bringing the total value of the project to $300,000.

Santee National Wildlife Refuge

Forested areas at the Santee National Wildlife Refuge in Berkley County will be cleared of snags, and protected against timber pests by the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife. This $35,000 APW project will provide 42 man-months of employment. Similar work is planned in the Clarendon County area of the Refuge. Here, $40,000 is to be invested in a project involving 45 man months of employment. Both jobs are scheduled to begin in September.

TENNESSE

Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge

Approximately $115,000 in forest preservation work is planned by the

Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife at the Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge in Humphreys, Benton. Henry, and Decatur Counties, The individual figures are Humphreys, $20,000 and 24 man-months; Benton, $25,000 and 30 man-months; Henry, $60,000 end 72 man-months; Decatur, $10,000 and 12 man-months.

Reelfoot National Wildlife Refuge

In the Lake and Obion County areas of Reelfoot National Wildlife Refuge, the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife plans additional forest preservation work valued at $20,000 and providing 24 man-months of employment. Half of the labor and half of the investment is earmarked for each county. This project is separate from that authorized for the Kentucky portion of the refuge,

Cumberland Gap National Historical Park

Fire trails will be built and improved at Cumberland Gap National Historical Park in Claiborne County by the National Park Service, This project, valued at $12,000, will provide 44 man--months of employment.

Shiloh National Park

Additional picnic and sanitary facilities will be built at Shiloh National Park in Hardin County, and several abandoned roads will be obliterated by the National Park Service to remove fire hazards. Approximately $40,000 will be invested in this project. It will provide 84 man-months of employment.

Reappointment of Waldo E. McIntosh, Tulsa, Okla., as principal chief of the Creek Indian Tribe of Oklahoma for a two-year term starting October 6, 1963, was announced today by the Department of the Interior.

A former lumber dealer and descendant of a long line of prominent Creek leaders, Mr. McIntosh has been principal chief the past two years. His reappointment was recommended by a recent unanimous vote of the Creek Indian Council.

As principal chief, he will receive no salary but will be reimbursed from tribal funds for travel expenses incurred while performing the duties of his office.

Authority to appoint a principal chief of the Oklahoma Creeks was vested in the President by a 1906 law and was delegated to the Secretary of the Interior in 1951 by Executive Order.