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APRIL 19. 1961 —THE NAVAJO TIMES--
Navajo-San Juan-Chama
Bill Goes Before Senate
The Senate has scheduled to take
up the $221 million Navajo-San
Juan-Chama Project. This project
is sponsored by Sens. Clinton P.
Anderson, D-N.M., and Dennis
Chaves, D-N.M.
Completion of the project re
port was rushed by Anderson with
the hopes of bringing up the bill on
the calendar at an early date. Sen
ate Democratic Leader Mike Mans
field, D-Mont., intends to bring up
S 107 to authorize the Secretary of
Interior to construct, operate and
maintain the Navajo Indian irriga
tion project and the initial stage of
the San Juan-Chama project.
Anderson anticipates no diffi
culty in getting the measure through
the Senate. Each time in the past
that Lausche indicated his opposi
tion to the project Anderson has
single-hand led ly put the bill
through the Senate on the calendar
by voice vote and he expects to do
the same this time.
A fast trip to Washington from
Denver was made by Felix L.
Sparks, director of the Colorado
Water Conservation Board to make
sure that the report on Navajo-San
Juan-Chama was not held up be
cause of section 8 in the bilL Clar
ification of this section which had
been inserted in the bill pursuant
to an agreement between Colorado
and New Mexico water men was
asked by the Interior Department.
Section 8 prohibits the Secre
tary of Interior from servicing any
preferential water rights of the
United States or Indian tribe
through the facilities created by
this act. Also limited by Section 8
is the use of Upper Colorado River
Basin compact water in New Mex
ico and Arizona to the percentage
and amount allocated to the two
states.
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The report states facts already
well established about the $135
million Navajo irrigation project
and the $36 million San Juan-
Cha m a transmountain diversion
project. Livelihood provided by the
Navajo project would go directly or
indirectly to 17,000 Navajo Indians
through 110,000 acres of irrigated
land, a substantial segment of the
80,000 members of the tribe, as
well as supplemental municipal
supplies for Farmington, Gallup
and other communities.
The report also contained a sec
tion estimating the additional man
years of civilian employment and
expenditures for the first five
years of the Navajo project and the
San Juan Chama diversion. This
section revealed that the Navajo
project will be less than one-third
completed in the five years that it
will take to complete the trans
mountain diversion.
The report indicated that 65
additional man-years of employ
ment will be provided the first year
on the Navajo project at a cost of
$760,000; the second year, 78 at a
cost of $7,400,000; the third year,
71 at a cost of $8,400,000; 70 the
fourth year at a cost of $1,400,000
and the fifth year, 70 at a cost of
$11,400,000. This would indicate
that a lot of planning and design
work remains to be done on the
Navajo irrigation project by soil
scientists and engineers before the
major construction work can be
done.
As comparison, the committee
report indicated that 22 additional
man-years of employment will be
provided on the San Juan Chama
project at a cost of $550,000 the
first year; the second year, 82 at
a cost of $1,600,000; 200 the third
year at a cost of $17,800,000; the
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M • i. onHeirls like to watch television in Winslow Indian Center. Since the
WINSLOW INDIAN CENTER— Navajo 1 ion people have used the lounge and services, more than
center opened Nov. 19,1960, more than 7,500 res -enervation meet their children, who live in Emmons
half of whom are women and children. Families from t 0 have evening programs, classes
Dormitory, after school hours. The board of directors hopes ny ne >
in sewing and cooking and varied entertainment. (Photo by Bermece pact ,
fourth year, 200 at a cost of $17,-
800,000; 225 the fourth year at a
cost of $37 million and the fifth
year, 200 at a cost of $27,854,000.
Rodeo Time
The annual “Navajo Roundup"
Rodeo at Window Rock, Arizona,
will be held June 17 and 18. Dates
for the annual Navajo Tribal Fair
Rodeo will be September 8, 9 and
10. These two rodeos are amateur
All-Indian Shows.
Also underway are plans for
staging another wrestling event on
the evening of June 16 and a dance
the night of June 17. Rodeo Secre
tary, Rodger H. Sandoval, ex
pressed the hopes that a carnival
would move in and be open to the
public for both the June Rodeo and
the Tribal Fair Rodeo.
Ed Malay is
Nizhoai Soloist
Many noted Indian soloists
whose fame extends far beyond the
Southwest offered their ser
vices for the annual Nizhoni Indian
Dances performed Saturday.
The appearance of EdLeeNatay
of Gallup at the benefit dances,
sponsored yearly at the University
of New Mexico, is a tradition begun
at the first event in 1954. It was
Natay’s “Sunrise Song," sung as
the opening number, that opened the
first dance given by the KivaClub,
a campus organization for Indian
students and their friends.
Son of a Navajo leader and med
icine man, Natay was born in Can
yon de Chailly, Arizona. His name,
“Walking Leader," has proven a
wise choice as he frequently ap
pears at court as a translator and
interceder forhispeople. Current
ly a disc jockey in Gallup, he is
known as a painter, an interpreter
and composer of songs and as a re
cording artist.
Among other soloists offering
their talents were Tony Whiteclcud,
internationally known hoop dancer;
Valentino Montoya, Pueblo singer
and Chief Clarence Taptuka, for
mer music teacher at Fort Win
gate and now a resident of Albu
querque.
These soloists were joined
by selected dance teams and drum
mer s from pueblosandreserva
tions throughout this area.
The dances represent only a
portion of the activities planned on
campus for the Indians during mid-
April. Indian art work along with
arts and crafts displays are cur
rently being shown in the Student
Union Building. Among these are
selected works chosen by A1 Mom
aday, art instructor at the Jemez
Day School, from the best produced
by his students.
BUTLERS
EVERYTHING FOR
THE OFFICE
203 W. COAL GALLUP