Navajo times. [volume], September 19, 1963, Image 1

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RODEO QUEEN, ERNESTEEN BATES, Shiprock, was first Rodeo Queen ever
selected for Navajo Tribal Fair. Queen Ernesteen and her attendants lent glamour
to parades and rodeo proceedings and reflected credit to the Navajo Tribe. It is
planned to make the selection of a Tribal Fair Rodeo Queen a permanent part of
future Tribal Fairs. (Frank Montoya Photo)
541,000 Acre Hava jo
Oil-Gas Lease Sale
Chairman of Navajo Tribe Ray -
mood Nakai and the Advisory Com
mittee approved one of the largest
oil and gas lease sales proposed in
recent years.
It will be a one advertisement -
3 stage bid arrangement. Stage I.
with bids due in November 1963,
will contain 123,000 acres in
Northeast Arizona and 25,000
acres in New Mexico. Stage Q, will
contain 186,000 acres in Northeast
\rlzona and bids will be due in
January 1964. State 111, containing
207,000 acres with bids due Feb
ruary 1964, is the largest block
being offered.
This is the first big Navajo land
offering in the Rlack Mesa Basin,
and considerable interest has been
PUBLISHED FOR ... OWNED BY ... THE NAVAJO PEOPLE
Thur., Sept. 19, 1963
generated. The Navajo Tribe has
received many requests to place
this land up for oil and gas lease
sale.
Some of the proposed lease
terms are 16 2/3% royalty, 5 year
lease, and the bid variable will be
the bonus that is offered. The tract
sizes will range from 640 to 2,560
acres, and the 2,560 acres tracts
will be in the majority.
Inquiries should be directed to
Henry F. Pohlmann, Oil and Gas
Supervisor for the Navajo Tribe.
The Tribe’s oil and gas office is
located in the Petroleum Plaza
Building, Suite 412, Farmington,
New Mexico. The phone number is
325-4284.
Kayenta TV
Is Installed
KAYENTA TELEVISION ASSO
CIATION announced today the com
pletion of the final installation
of the T.V. transmitting and re
ceiving units for Kayenta commun
ity. The announcement was made
that Kayenta has started receiving
T.V. signals as of 2:15 P.M. Aug
ust 22, 1963. Mr. Ray Noffsinger,
Vice President of the Association,
said that the picture is coming in
clear on his television set.
There are two T. V. transmit
tiig-receiving units specifically
located in order for Kayenta to
receive T. V. One of the units is
located on top of Roof Butte approx
imately seventy miles east and
another is located right in Kayenta.
The T. V. Association formed a
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Window Rock, Arizona
Yei-bi-Chai Performance
Heralds Shiprock Fair
Shiprock Y e i-bi-C h a i
Dancing, the traditional
Navajo dance which her
alds the approach of the
Shiprock Fair and reaches
a climax during the cele
bration, starts the 20th in
this reservation town.
The dancing begins
Thursday, September 2 6
and ends the night of the
28th.
The Fair Proper will be
held September 26, 27, 28
and 29. This will be the
40th annual event to be held
here.
In connection with the event
there will be a Beauty Contest,
Western Dancing, Rodeo, carnival
given by the Siebrand Brother's
Circus and Carnival of Phoenix,
Arizona, highlighted by the parade
on Saturday, September 28 at 10:00
a. m.
Herbert Tsosie, Parade Mar
shall, said the theme will be
*'64 x 64". Already several bands
have been lined up and at least
Profitable Investment
Os Tribal Funds Urged
Strong recommendations for a
comprehensive plan for efficient
use of tribal money were made
last Saturday at the Ganado Chapter
House Dedication by Robert Young,
a prominent official of the Gallup
Area Office Bureau of Indian
Affairs.
Young, who was guest speaker
at the new Chapter House dedi
cation said, Today there is a need
to develop a policy or over-all
plan to govern the use of tribal
funds. For the past six years or
so, the Tribe has had more money
than it ever had before. Thirteen
years ago, in 1950, there were only
133,173 barrels of oil produced on
the Navajo Reservation, from
which the Tribe received only
$41,771 in royalty income. Ten
years later, in 1960, about
30,000,000 barrels of oil were
produced and the Tribe received
about $12,000,300 in royalty in
come. In addition to royalty pay
ments, che Tribe has received
more than $78,000,000 in bonuses,
nearly all of which came in the
50 to 60 floats are expected. Any -
one interested in entering the
parade may call Mr. Tsosie at
325-1353, Farmington, or write
Herbert Tsosie, Box 844, Shiprock,
New Mexico. The parade deadline
is September 20 at 5:00 p.m.
The rodeo will be open to all
Indians and will start on Saturday
at 1:30 p. m., and on Sunday at
1:30 p.m. There will be Brahma
bull riding, bronc riding, calf
roping, etc.; stock for the rodeo
will be furnished by Edlier Wilson
of Sanford, Colorado.
Prizes will be offered for the
first, second and third place win
ners in the agricultural and live
stock divisions as well as the
arts and crafts exhibits. Ribbons
also will be given for individual
community and school exhibits.
Those interested in entering an
exhibit should contact Chairman
Lillian Lujan (Home Science).
School—Mrs. Charles Renk, Arts
and Crafts—Mr. Justin Yazzie,
Livestock—Howard Nez, Agricul
ture- -Simpson Bekis, all of Ship
rock, New Mexico.
Mrs. Harold Curtis is Chair
man of the Beauty Contest and
may be contacted by phone 2921
or 6-359, Shiprock, New Mexico.
past ten years. All in all, more
than $110,000,000 has gone into
the Tribal treasury in the past
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PETER MAC DONALD, Director.
Management, Methods, and Pro
cedures for the Navajo Tribe,has
been appointed to a Nine-Men
Member of Economics Develop
ment Advisory Board to the State
of New Mexico by Governor Jack
M. Campbell.
Ten Cents