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BREAKING GROUND for the Window Rock office of the First Navajo National Bank are (left to right) J.
Maurice McCabe, bank director; Gordon E. Parker, bank president; Raymond Nakai, chairman of the Navajo
Tribal Council; Wm. C. Money, bank director; Ross L. Barnes, senior vice-president of the bank (Staff
Photo, R. C. Billie)
Council Approves l-3rd Ownership
Investment In Bancorporation
The Navajo Tribe Thursday approved the Tribe's
purchase of one-third interest in the Navajo Bancor
poration, 2727 North Central, Phoenix. It is the largest
outside commercial investment ever to be made by the
Navajo Tribe.
The Navajo Bancorporation is an Arizona holding
company which owns controlling interest in the First
Navajo National Bank, Holbrook,
and has a substantial interest in the
Ward-Parkway Bank, Kansas City.
It is also active in the ownership
of other Southwestern firms.
The Tribal investment of nearly
$1,000,000 received the unanimous
appioval from the Council after a
day of detailed hearings on the ac
tion. Accoiding to veteran.observ
ers, this was one of the few
unanimous votes ever obtained
from the governing body of the Nav
ajo Tribe.
In authorizing the purchase, the
Council exercised an option given
the Tribe in 1962, when the Navajo
bank received approval to supply
banking services on the Reserva
tion. At that time it was announced
that the Tribe would be given an
opportunity to participate in the
ownership of the bank and share
in its progress and expansion.
'*l feel that this is an important
milestone in the economic history
of the Navajo Tribe”, Raymond
Nakai, Tribal Chairman said in
commenting on the action. “The
Navajo Bancorporation and the
First Navajo National Bank can
Harold Johnson,BlA Employee, Dies
Harold E. Johnson, 56, of
Gallup, a Bureau of Indian Affairs
area i oads engineer and a
pioneer road-builder on the Na
vajo and Hopi reservations in New
Mexico and Arizona, Sunday died
in a hospital after an illness.
During the last few years, John
son was active in programs
connected with the Anderson-Udall
Bill, which provided about S2O
million for road construction on
the Navajo reservation.
A BIA employee since 1933,
Johnson lived until 1955 in various
places on the two reservations.
Johnson, who was in Europe
make truly significant contribu
tions to the economic development
of the Reservation,” he continued.
Gordon E. Parker, President,
Ross L. Barnes. Vice President,
and Wm. C. Money, Chairman of
the Board, represented the holding
company at the Council meetings.
*'We are honored,” Parker
said, “to be identified with the
Navajo people and ro be combining
efforts for a program that cannot
help but have a marked effect on
the economy of the Tribe and on
all of Arizona.”
during World War II and who saw
duty in the U.S. during the Korean
conflict, was a retired lieutenant
colonel in the Army Engineers.
His decorations included three bat
tle stars and the Croix de Guerre
of the French government.
He was a member of the Gallup
Presbyterian Church, the Callup
Elks Lodge and the New Mexico
Society of Professional Engineers.
A civil engineering graduate of
Texas ACM, Johnson was a re
gistered professional engineer.
He is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Carolyn Johnson of the family
home, 103 Valley View, Gallup.
Library
Arizona State College
Flagstaff, Arizona
Employment Services To
The Reservation Indians
The Eleventh Annual Report on
Services to Arizona Reservation
Indians, as released by Janies A.
Rork, Administrator-Director of
the Arizona State Employment Ser
vice, develops some interesting
and thought-provoking facts for
the reader.
Over 198,700 different place
ments of Indian workers were
made with Arizona and out-of-state
employers since the inception of
the expanded services to Reser
vation Indians by the Arizona State
Employment Service in 1949. Os
this fourteen-year total, 34,947, or
18 percent, of these placements
were made during 1962.
Os the 34,947 placements, 13,
652—0 r nearly 40 percent—were
nonagricultural. Indians were
placed on jobs as production work
ers, sawmill workers, miners,
welders, carpenters, painters, do
mestic workers, movie extras,
fire fighters, and other occu
pations.
Agricultural placements were
up 18 percent from 1961, to a
1962 total of 21,295. Agricultural
workers were placed in Arizona,
Colorado, Idaho, Nebraska, Ore
gon, and Utah, Most jobs were in
the cultivation and iiarvesting of
cotton, sugar beets, miscellaneous
vegetables and fruits, and, to a
lesser degree, potatoes.
The Arizona State Employment
Service maintains four branch of
fices on the Navajo Reservation at
Ganado, Chinle, Kayenta, and Tuba
City; one branch office on thellopi
Postmasters Will
Visit Glen Canyon
By BETTY TAYLOR
Postmaster Catherine Pulsifer
of Page will be hostess to post
masters from all over Arizona on
Friday May 17, when they arrive
in Page via charter bus from
Flagstaff at the conclusion of their
annual Arizona chapter convention
of the National Association of
Postmasters, to visit Glen Canyon
dam.
Men on the tour will be taken
to the bottom of the mighty darn,
while special top-side activities
are planned by Hostess Kay Pul
sifer for the ladies of the group.
Mrs. Pulsifer will report to
the convention Wednesday on her
activities as state membership
chairman in conjunction with
Arizona Postmasters county
chairmen throughout Arizona.
Principal speakers at the Flag
staff convention will include C.G.
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PETER MARTIN FAMILY of Navajo, New Mexico, shearing sheep as
are many sheep owners all over the Reservation. From left to right; -*
Nellie Martin, Mr. Martin, and Mrs. Mary Martin. Mr. Martin is
Vice-Chairman of the Redlake Chapter Land Board. Navajo Times
(Gene Price) Photo
Reservation at Kearns Canyon; one
branch office on the Fort Apache
Reservation at Whiteriver; and one
branch office on the San Carlos
Reservation at San Carlos.
Itinerant service is rendered
to the Fapago Reservation from
the Tucson local office and to all
the Navajo. Hopi, and Fort Apache
Reservations from the offices lo
cated on the reservations.
Placement services are pro
vided high school graduates of
the Phoenix Indian School, St.
John’s Mission at Laveen, and
the high schools on the Navajo
Indian Reservation.
The Indian population in Ari
zona totals approximately 54.00 Q
This represents about one-fourth
of all Reservation Indians in the
United States.
The greater part of Arizona’s
Indians live on 19 reservations in
the State, covering 30,500 square
miles, an area exceeding the com
bined areas of Massachusetts,
Connecticut, New Hampshire, anjJ
New Jersey.
The Navajo Reservation por
tion within Arizona comprises over
17,(XX) square miles, which is
more than twice the size of the
State of Massachusetts.
Polio Vaccine
Make Up Set
The Public Health Service, Fort
Defiance announced that there will
be a “make up day” to receive
oral polio vaccine, Types I and II
and a very limited quantity of
Type 111.
This clinic will be held on
Thursday, May 16 at the Field
Health station now located in the
Old Sanatorium, Ft. Defiance, from
8 a. m. to 5 p. m.
PHS says, "People in the Ft.
Defiance Service Unit, who did not
receive either Type I, II or 111 can
do so by coming in and making
arrangements at the Field Health
Station.
“Please bring your wallet size
cards with you to be stamped.
“Also, at this time the Field
Staff of the Ft. Defiance Service
Unit would like to thank every one
who helped to make this year’s'
polio drive a success.”
Nakai To Attend
Officer’s Lunch
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Nakai
will attend the luncheon at the Offi
cers Club at Navajo Army Depot,
Flagstaff, Arizona on the Armed
Forces Day. May 18.