Navajo times. [volume], September 12, 1962, Page Page 4, Image 4

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THE NAVAJO TIMES September 12, 1962
Page 4
To Barstow Community
Navajo Citizens Credit
REF RENT ED FROM THE SUN-TELEGRAM
By ANN C. MORRIS
DAGGETT—LittIe known is the
fact that more than 300 Navajo
Indians reside in the Barstow area,
with 100 of the Navajos employed
at the USMC Supply Center, Bar
stow.
The Navajo Tribe numbers 92,-
300 strong, making it the largest
:ribe of Indians in North and South
America. Most of the Navajos still
reside within the boundaries of the
reservation with headquarters at
'vVindow Rock, Ariz.
During World War 11, many Nav
ajos came to the desert area to take
jobs at the local center or with the
Santa Fe Railway or Union Pacific
Railroad They have proved to be
efficient and capable workers, and
on one occasion during the conflict,
the Navajos at the Local Marine
installation were commended by
the Navy Department for their
accomplishments.
In 1960, the Navajos started the
Buffalo, Anyone?
If you would like a live longhorn
or buffalo for the home “ranch,”
or a few buffalo or elk steaks for
the freezer, the Department of the
Interior suggests that you place
order before September 30. 1962,
for annual surplus big-game dis
posal sales at three National Wild
life Refuges.
Removal of a specified number
of animals from these r e f u g e s is
necessary each year to keep the
herds from exceeding the carrying
capacity of their ranges.
A total of 233 buffalo. 75 elk, and
137 longhorn cattle will be sold this
year. The buffalo will besoldfrom
all three refuges—Wichita Moun
tains Wildlife Refuge. Cache,
Ukla.: Fort Ni o bra raNati on a 1
Wildlife Refuge, Valentine, Nebr.;
and the National Bison Range,
Moiese, Mont. Longhorns will be
sold from Wichita Mountains and
Fort Niobrara. Longhorn sales wi 11
be live animals only. Elk sales
will be only from the Wichita Moun
tains Refuge. There will be no
sales of live elk.
Buffalo will be sold at SIBO each
for live animals, and from $220 to
$270 per carcass for butchered an
imals, depending on the type of pro
cessing. Quarters and halves also
will be sold. Buffalo and elk meat
may be purchased packaged and
frozen ready for the freezer.
Butchered elk prices will range
from sllO to $145 per animal, a
gain varying with the type of pro
cessing. A half carcass is the min
imum quantity that can be pur
chased. The longhorn cattle will be
sold only through local public auc
tions, to be held September 20 at the
Wichita Mountains Refuge, and Oc
tober 9 at Fort Niobrara.
If the number of orders received
by refuge managers on or before
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Barstow Navajo Community' Club
in Daggett, upon the advice of Paul
Jones, chairman of the entire Nav
ajo Tribe, who visits the desert
area frequently and is called to the
White House on various occasions
to discuss Navajo problems.
The first chairman of the local
Navajo club was Steven Gorman, a
heavy duty truck driver in Services
Division at the local Marine Base
who is a graduate of the Albuquer
que Indian School. He has lived in
-he area since 1946, after having
served four years in the Army,
attached to the Air Corps.
The purpose of the local organ
ization is to get the Navajos ac
quainted with community life, and
to aid them in better personal re
lations, according to Gorman.
Lemuel B. Yazzie, a machinist
at the Santa Fe Diesel Shop, Bar
stow, presently serves as chairman
of the local Navajoclub. He attend
ed the Albuquerque Indian School,
where he took up boxing and be
came a five-state AAU champion.
Turning pro in 1940, he boxed for
several years on the West Coast
before retiring. During World War
Geologists Plan
Field Conference
The 13th Annual Field Confe
rence of the New Mexico Geological
Society is scheduled for Ootober
18, 19 and will be held in the Mo
go lion Rim country of east central
Arizona. Special emphasis will be
placed on the Mesozoic and Pale
ozoic stratigraphy of the Black
Mesa Basin.
Registration will be in Gallup,
New Mexico, on the evening of Wed
nesday, October 17.
Further information may be ob
tained by contacting William R.
Speer, General Chairman, Box
1560, Farmington, New Mexico.
September 30. exceeds the number
of animals authorizedfordisposal,
a drawing will be held October 1 to
select applicants. Any orders re
ceived after September 30 will be
honored on a first-come-first
served basis, provided animals or
meat are still available after that
date.
The official price list and con
ditions of sale can be obtained from
the Refuge Managers of the re
spective refuges or from the Fish
and Wildlife Service, Department'
of the > Interior, Washington 25,
D. C.,’but orders should be sent
only to the manager of the refuge
involved.
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L. B. Yazzie
11, Yazzie was a member of the
famous Navajo Code Talkers with
the 6th Marines.
Other members of the Navajo
Tribe living in the desert area who
were members of the Navajo Code
Talkers group are James Dixon
and Jimmie L. Bennally, who are
both employed at the Santa Fe Dies
el Shop, Barstow, and John Chee,
Newman Clark, Joe Morris and
Nelson Draper, employees of the
Marine installation.
The Navajo Code puzzled the
Japanese, who were never able to
decipher it. Navajos selected for
service simply used the language
of their tribe. Among those who
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went ashore at Okinawa with the
Code Talkers and the 6th Marines
was the late war correspondent,
Ernie Pyle. Intrigued with the Code
and its experts, Fyle had planned to
write a story about them, but his
untimely death prevented it
Other local Navajos who saw ac
tion during World War II are Rich
ard R. Yazzie, a machinist at Santa
Fe, and Larry L. Dokie, a repair
man at the center. Y azzie was in the
Navy, aboard the USS Saratoga at
Iwo Jima, when the carrier was hit
by Japanese suicide planes and
more than 300 Navy men lost their
lives. Dokie, on duty in the Phi llip
pine Islands with the Marine Corps,
served as a guard for Gen. Douglas
MacArthur.
The local Navajos are an asset
to the community and a credit to
their race. Now meeting in a rented
hall, the group is looking forward
to the day when they will have a
clubhouse of their own.
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