Navajo times. [volume], March 01, 1961, Page PAGE 4, Image 4

About Navajo times. [volume] (Window Rock, Ariz.) 1960-1984

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THE NAVAJO TIMES MARCH, 1961
Navajo Leaders Making Plans to Turn
Reservation Into Tourist Attraction
Navajo tribal leaders made
plans at the University of New
Mexico Friday to turn their 16,-
•00,000 acre-reservation into a vast
tourist attraction in an effort to
bolster their economy.
The Navajo Tribal Parks Com
mission, together with various fed
eral officials and UNM represen
tatives, plan to build facilities in
the area to attract and hold tour
ists “for more than an over-night
stop.”
Sam Day, 111, tribal chairman
of the Parks Commission, said
since two paved roads through the
reservation are nearing comple
tion, the task ahead now is to
build hotels, motels, musems, and
camp sites for travelers.
Day said: “We have the scenery
and the possibilities for develop
ment. By 1963, we hope to have
improved fishing sites along the
rivers and the lakes alongside the
best in facilities to house tour
ists.”
Legislation has already been
passed, Day said, to permit pri
vate enterprise to come in and
build any type of touist attrac
tions with a maximum of lease
for 99 years.
Day said the Four Corners area
would be among the first to be
made into a special attraction to
Operating Cash
Details Studied
Ceremonial directors Thursday
night approved an operating bud
get for the 1961 Ceremonial of
$63,162, as submitted by its bud
get and finance committee after
studying requests of the various
spending committees.
The committee- composed of
Robert Alan, Tony Petranovich,
and I H Danoff - also projected
anticipated net income of $99,350
which would leave a margin of
more than $16,000 for capital im
provements Or carry-over funds
for the next year.
The meeting was told by Ken
neth Smith that a special train
of Southern California Shriners
would spend Friday, Aug. 11, in
Gallup attending both afternoon
and evening performances and
that the office had been requested
to hold two blocks of tickets of
560 for each performance.
The board approved a policy
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draw travelers. Another spot would
be along the south border of Lake
Powell, heading into Glen Canyon.
One definite plan to come out
of Friday’s meeting was a three
day “rough-in” trip through Nav
ajoland scheduled for June 8-10.
Invited to make the trip will be
geologists, biologists, archaeolo
gists, research specialists, and re
presentatives of hotel management
National Parks Service and the
Secretary of Interior.
Following the trip, the 20 rep
resentatives will sit down and
make definite plans to “face up
to the problems the Navajos have
to make their reservation into a
tourist attraction.”
Meeting on the UNM campus
Friday were: Edward B. Danson.
director of the Museum of Nor
thern Arizona; John C. McPhee,
Navajo Tribal Parks supervisor;
Charles E. Minton, Indian Affairs,
Santa Fe.
Raymond H. Thompson, Univer
sity of Arizona; Arthur H. Har
ris, and Dr. James Findley, bio
ligists at UNM; Dr. W. W. Hill,
anthropology at the University of
New Mexico.
John J. Doherty, tribal attorney.
Window Rock. Ariz; John Dee, ad
visory committee for Navajos;
Martin A. Link, tribal archaeolo-
that would limit rental of grounds
i facilities to carnivals with ride
I concessions only and would bar
shows with games of chance or
gambling concessions in answer to
a request from a large carnival
for three days at the end of June.
President Charles Vidal inform
ed members that the Internal Rev
enue Service has told the Cere
monial it must pay federal ad
missions tax on that portion of its
performances that include rodeo
or horse racing events starting
this year. The tax would not be
imposed on the evening perform
ances.
Reports indicated that the Cere
monial’s major cornmittese have
already held their first meetings
and planning is underway. Chair
man Eddie Junker of the Program
Committee said his group was
eliminating the feeding of camp
Indians at this year’s show.
gist; Frank Bradley, John Nelson, Day, all of the Parks Commis-
Sam Shorty Begay, and Samsion.
TOURISTS ON THE RESERVATION: Plans are now being made by Navajo leaders
to draw and hold tourists for long vacation periods on the Navajo Reservation. Plan
ning for ‘Tourists for Navajoland’ projects, are, left to right, Sam Day 111, Frank
Bradley, John Nelson Dee, and Sam Shortv Be<?av.
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Manuel Tso was on suspension,
but is presently enjoying a few
days of anual leave.
A 40-year old female, Daisy Ar
tene, of Kayenta, Arizona, wai
arrested, along with a male sub
ject, 67 years old— Buster White
horse of Goulding, Utah, for hav
ing 11 cases of wine.