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APRIL 26, 1961—THE NAVAJO TIMES
Recreation Program for Navajo Dam
State, federal and Indian offic
ials met in Santa Fe to work out
recreation agreements for the pro
posed water storage behind Navajo
Dam, now under construction near
Bloomfield.
An official of the Reclamation
Bureau estimated the reservoir
will start storing water in Decem
ber.
There's an “85per cent chance”
next spring's snow runoff will fill
the 245 square mile man made lake
to one third capacity, Cecil B. Jac
obson said. That would be enough
for initial fishing and boating facil
ities.
Jacobson told the conference
which included Colorado and New
Mexico officials, that the filling
timetable is subject to federal ap
proval.
The National Park Service
hopes to build the facilities and then
turn them over to Colorado and New
Mexico to run. A prime reason for
the meeting was to reach agree
ments on these matters.
How far game and fish manage
ment could be developed if the Nav
ajo water level fluctuates while
Glen Canyon is being filled down
stream on the Arizona-Utah bor
der was a major question before
the conference being held at the
National Park Service Regional
Headquarters.
The possibility the Navajo might
have to reduce its water to one
fourth capacity for three to 10
years so the bigger Glen Canyon
can be filled was raised by Jacob
son.
This release would come be
tween Labor Day and May 1, rather
than during the height of the sports
season, Jacobson added. Jacobson
is the Bureau’s regionalcontrol
engineer.
Navajo Dam will be fed by the
San Juan River, a tributary of the
Colorado. Glen Canyon, whose
completion is set for early 1963, is
on the main stream.
Jacobson stated water being re
leased to Glen Canyon, which even
tually will store 15 times as much
as Navajo, because it is the “pay
master’’ of the Upper Colorado
System.
Facilities for irrigation of In
dian lands, which Navajo will pro
vide, will not be ready by the time
the darn is completed next spring.
$686,206 in federal funds have
been authorized but not appropriated
in the next fiscal year, according
Wolf Man Reported
In the last few days, Navajos
from all parts of the reservation
have come to McKinley' county
Sheriff's office to see what they
i>ay is a “wolf man’’, who is being
held by authorities.
The only thing wrong is Sher
iff D. F. Mollica says there’s no
such creature in his jail.
"We may have some wolves
among the inmates,’’ Molica said,
“but we do not have a wolf man.’’
“It’s getting to the place where
I*m beginning to think I am run
ning a museum instead of a jail.’*
The story about the “wolf man’*
apparently started with a back
ground of Indian superstition and
tradition, according to Mollica.
The small groups of Navajos be
gan appearing a few days ago to
see the “wolf man” at the jail.
Several Navajos claimed to have
seen the “wolf man” on the north
side of Gallup and apparently they
were badly frightened by the pos
sibility of having it on the loose.
The groups arriving at the jail
today were larger. Mollica said he
would like to discourage the visits
and the unnecessary trips. “We
just don’t have a “wolf man’’ in
the jail,’* Mollica said.
BUTLERS
EVERYTHING FOR
THE OFFICE
203 W. COAL GALLUP
to John Moseley of Santa Fe, Nat
ional Park Service landscape arch
itect.
If granted, a boating site and
other facilities would be built
where the Pine River enters the
reservoir, one mile from the dam.
The first year’s flow would
probably back water beyond the
Colorado border to the Arboles
site, similar to Pine River. This
project is planned for the following
fiscal year.
Several state agencies repre
sentatives outlined briefly their
plans for operation of facilities
which would be turned over to them
by the Bureau of Reclamation.
Fred A. Thompson, Game and
Fish Department director and
James L. Dillard, acting state
parks director presented New
Mexico’s plans.
Appearing for Colorado were
Harry R. Woodward of the Game
and Fish Department and Harold L.
Lathrop of the State Parks and Rec
reation Board.
Southern Ute Tribal Council
spokesman was John E. Baker. He
said the tribe felt it had certain
basic privileges in connection with
the area but that the land acquired
from the tribe was considered to
have been severed from the reser
vation. This land is now subject to
general recreation land use.
The tribe has reserved control
of several small areas of the Nav
ajo Darn lake and shoreline for any
possible business operations.
Assistant regional director for
the Bureau of Reclamation at Salt
Lake City, Charles S. Rippon,
warned state agencies not to over
sell or overbuild their develop
ments.
Development has to be subser
vient to the possible future need for
water, he said.
The Teacher
What is a Report Card?
Parents, teachers, school ad
ministrators and students all seem
to have different ideas.
But actually, a Report Card can
be only one thing—a teacher’s
evaluation of a student. A teacher
observes a student as he works,
compares him with his classmates,
studies his assignments, and then
ranks him in a scale with others.
It is this scale which causes the
conflict. What expert authority can
a teacher use? How does she decide
who is best? Theanswer is simple.
She does it on the basis of her train
ing and experience.
Standardized tests are con
stantly being developed for objec
tive scoring. But they are not with
out flaws. They cannot be used
alone to evaluate the worth of a stu
dent. Learning is too relative a
product to be measured by a ruler.
Once the child leaves the class
room he is rated by human beings
for the rest of his life. Should
school be different?
If a teacher grades on the so
called “educational curve,’* many
students are punished. I recall in
my undergraduate days how English
majors tried to get into the engin
eer’s Literature classes because
they shone brilliantly. The engin
eers' Literature curve was low.
In the same manner, an average
student will shine in a “slow"
class. The curve can be used suc
cessfully only when you are deal
ing with thousands of students and
the sample is large enough to yield
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Education Stressed
300 high school Indian students
heard what the older Indians had
to say about what the younger gen
eration is doing as Southwestern
regional Indian Youth Council came
to an end on April 15.
Saturday morning was devoted
to a discussion of the workshops
which were held Friday. During
the Saturday discussions the older
Indians accused the youngsters of
“becoming lazy and too good*’ to
do the work they formerly did be
fore they became “educated**.
Ideas were exchanged by dele
gates for possible solutions of the
conflicts between “traditions on
the reservations and in the pueblos
and the modem educational aims.’*
Dr. Robert A. Roessel of Ari
zona State University urged the
young Indian students to “respect
the traditions of the older Indians
but to get the best education pos
sible.’’
Dr. Roessel, head of the De
partment of Indian Education at the
Tempe school, spoke to the In
dian Youth Council Friday.
“Education can bridge the gap
between the traditional and the mo
dern for Indian youth,’* Dr. Roes
sel said.
Dr. Roessel said that about
4000 Indians are now studying in
some form of higher education be
yond the high school. He also said
the principal problems encounter
ed by the Indians are inability to
communicate their thoughts, poor
social adjustment, lack of finances,
and relatively poor study habits.
Earl Friday the Indian repre
sentatives divided into workshops
to discuss such subjects as ills
of early marriages, causes of
failures in high school, role of
faculty advisors, how to improve
home situations.
Garr Packard said, “We believe
that if there is a solution to the
complex Indian problem it lies
largely in more education, both
academic and vocational.’* Garr
Packard is president of the South
western Association on Indian Af
fairs that annually sponsor the
workshop.
“The association has fought for
Indian rights and the advancement
of Indian education for nearly 30
years,” he added.
The youth council concluded
with the Nizhoni dances on Satur
day night. The dances are an an
nual benefit staged by the Ki’'a
Club for its scholarship fund.
a true picture.
The report card is wh a t the
name implies, a card on which the
teacher reports to the parents on
the progress of their child.
The only definite statement a
teacher can truthfully make is that
according to her judgment, the child
is doing average, belowaverage, or
above average work. And all this
depends on what the teacher thinks
is "average.’*
Sincerely,
Your Teacher
(Distributed by The Copley News
Service)
News of GSA
News of the Girl Scouts of
America from Vorsila Bohrer in
cludes the following items.
Brownie Troop No. 275, now
over a year old, had good reason
to celebrate. Four of its mem
bers received their wings, sym
bolic of flying up into Intermediate
Scouting. The girls restated their
slogan, “Do a good turn daily’*
and their motto, “Be Prepared”
that they knew as Brownie Scouts.
They then said their Girl Scout
Laws and Promise, so important
during their next four years in
Scouting. The girls names are:
Janet Benally, Sharon Ashcroft,
Mary Louise Tabaha, and Mary
Sanford.
At the same time, new Brown
ie Scouts were invested with their
Brownie pins—Celeste Heap of
Birds, Carol Arviso, and Dawn
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Some three thousand years
ago, and about one thousand
years before Christ, the Psal
mist said:
“If Thou, Lord, shouldest
mark iniquities, who should
stand? But there is forgive
ness with Thee. . .’’ (Psa.
130:3).
The Psalmist did not ex
plain, however, upon what ba
sis a just and holy God could
forgive a guilty sinner. This
was to be proclaimed one
thousand years later by the
Apostle Paul, himself once
“a blasphemer, a persecutor
and injurious’’ and the “chief
of sinners,’* but forgiven and
saved by the infinite grace
of God (I Tim. 1:13-15).
Preaching Christ at Antioch
in the province of Pisidia,
Paul declared: “Be it known
unto you therefore, men and
bretheren, that THROUGH
THIS MAN IS PREACHED UN
TO YOU THE FORGIVENESS
OF SINS, AND BY HIM ALL
Science Briefs g-j
A Big Drop
. Since 1900 the U.S. mortality
rate has dropped 45 percent,
largely because medical sci
ence has brought contagious
diseases under greater control.
Health Information Foundation
reports the death rate from
tuberculosis is only 3 percent
of what it was in 1900; for
influenza and pneumonia, the
death rate is 14 percent of the
1900 figure.
Hoimones At Work
A new scientific report sug-
Service And Dependability
For Over 70 Years
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AND RESERVATION TRADING POSTS
Fowler. Christie Lee Masters re
ceived her second year member
ship pin. The American Flag was
presented to the troop by Judy
Sanford, Betty Boyd, and Christie
Lee Masters. Miss Betty Engelke
and Mrs. Robert Masters are the
leaders for the group.
Miss Pat Wilson, dietician at
the Ft. Defiance Hospital, has been
selected as a summer camp Unit
Leader for the North Atlantic Girl
Scouts (Troops on foreign soil).
She will leave in June for the roll
ing hills and woodlands of Camp
Lachenwald, near Hommershausen
Germany. After a month there she
will go on to Camp Novare near
Verona, Italy, for additional camp
work. American Girl Scouts at
tending these camps participate in
programs emphasizing Inter
national Friendship as well as
camping skills. Miss Wilson is a
former Girl Scout.
THAT BELIEVE ARE JUSTI
FIED FROM ALL THINGS,
FROM WHICH YE COULD
NOT BE JUSTIFIED BY THE
LAW OF MOSES** (Acts 13:
38, 39).
But even this does not fully
answer our question, for we
must still ask; ON WHAT BA
SIS does God forgive sins
through “this Man”? The an
swer is: On the basis of His
payment for our sins on Cal
vary’s cross. Thus the apostle
wrote to the Romans, explain
ing how we may be . . .
”... justified freely by His
(God’s) grace, THROUGH THE
REDEMPTION THAT IS IN
CHRIST JESUS’’ (Rom. 3:24).
Now, thank God, through
Christ’s finished work, there
is not a sinner who needs to
remain unforgiven, for:
“In Christ we have re
demption, through His blood,
THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS
ACCORDING TO THE RICHES
OF HIS GRACE” (Eph. 1:7).
Water Conservation
Continued from Page 1
Attention was also called by
Holum to objections that theproject
would have an "adverse effect"on
coal mining near Kemmerer, Wyo.
**l am unable to see how construc
tion of this project could adversely
affect such operations," Holum
said.
gests that tiny differences in
hormones may help explain
why lung cancer most often
strikes men, and why men suf
fer from some kinds of 'heart
attacks much more often than
women.