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THE NAVAJO TIMES
Page 2
Navajo Times
Published each Thursday
jaFThe Official Newspaper of the
NAVAJO TRIBE
WINDOW ROCK - ARIZONA
Phone [phone]
MARSHALL TOME, Editor
CHESTER A. MAC RORIE, General Manager
A project of the Public Relations and Information
Department of the Navajo Tribe.
Subscription rates—s3.so per year, nine months $2.50, six
months $2.00, three months SI.OO, one month 35c. Single copies
10c each.
Second-class postage paid at Window Rock, Arizona, and
at additional mailing offices.
PLEASE NOTE. Readers are invited to express their views in letters to the
editor.' All communication i«>nHwi for publication must be signed with the street or
other address for use in publication. Letters cotraining not mare than 350 words will
be given preference, others are subject to condensation. Anonymous letters will not
be considered. Publisher reserves the right to reject unsuitable matter.
Chairman Nakai Named To Military
Academies Selection Committee
Congressman George F. Sen
ner, Jr. (D-Ariz), today named
the three Apache County residents
who will serve on a 24-member
special screening committee
created to assist Senner in select
ing qualified Third District candi
dates for the nation’s military
academies at West Point, Anna
polis, and Colorado Springs.
Accepting committee appoint
ments were Judge J. Smith Gib
bons of St. Johns; Raymond Nakai,
chairman of the Navajo Indian
Tribal Council at Window Rock;
and E. G. Prud’homme of Mc-
Nary.
Explaining the function of the
committee, Congressman Senner
stated that he had asked three
prominent citizens from each of
the Third District’s eight counties
to ‘‘help me fulfill the responsi
bility of appointing three of our
outstanding young men to each of
the service academies.
“I am indeed gratified to have
secured the services of such
competent and civic-minded in
dividuals as Judge Gibbons, Chair
Gallup Indiaa Center Describes
Functions, Plans and Activities
Work on a boxing ring was
completed Sunday at the Gallup
'adian Community center by vol
unteer members of the local Al
coholic Anonymous, with the co
operation of the Baptist Good
will center.
Golden Glove matches will be
held in the new ring with teams
from nearby towns and cities com
peting with Gallup teams. Plans
have been made, but the date has
not yet been set, to exchange mat
ches soon with a team from the
Barelas Community Center, Al
buquerque.
Later matches are planned with
teams from Farmington and St.
Michaels.
Recovering Alcoholics Anony
mous members will be in charge
of the matches.
Starting today, the lunch room
at the center will be open every
day except Sunday. It has been
closed on both Sunday and Mon
day. The lunch room is staffed
by volunteer waitresses, some
of whom are using the experi
ence as training for future jobs.
Among the fund raising ac
tivities at the center are a dance
every Saturday night for teen
agers, Friday night bingo games
sponsored by the Arrowhead As
sociation, a pre-school coopera
tive nursery, which rents space,
and rentals of space by other
groups for meetings.
. Services provided by the cen
ter aary frmta.*be roartaa.rental
November 21, 1963
man Nakai and Mr. Prud’h’omme.”
The committee will interview
all academy applicants and submit
their recommendations to Con
gressman Senner. Interviews have
been scheduled on December 14
at the Federal Building in Globe,
and on December 21 at the Federal
Building in Flagstaff.
Serving as chairman of the
committee is Letch Quinn, Miami
businessman. Other members in
clude; Coconino County - Judge
Laurance Wren, Woodrow Crain
and Joseph C Rolle. Gila County -
Judge Robert E. McGhee, Jose C.
Sanchez and Quinn. Graham Coun
ty - Judge Ruskin Lines. Presi
dent Paul E. Guitteau and Senator
John Michelson. Greenlee County -
Judge Porter Murray. Fred J.
Fritz and John A. Lentz. Mohave
County - C. R. *'Dick" Waters,
Judge Frank X. Gordon and Chris
Tsouras. Navajo County - Judge
Melvyn Shelley, Senator Glenn
Blansett and Trini Estrada. Yav
apai County - Representative
Mabel Ellis, Burton Cameron and
Chick Or me.
of rooms to helping with many
emergencies. Recently a Navajo
family who had lost a small child,
and buried it in a home made
coffin, were asked by the U.S.
Public Health Service to inter
the child, who had died at home.
This meant a new coffin was
needed, and although the Navajo
tribe has a fund to buy coffins for
members of the tribe, this family
had no way to tell Window Rock
of their need. They went to the
center, and the details were taken
care of for them there.
A family got word one day last
week that one of their sons was
badly injured in an industrial ac
cident in California. No one in the
family could talk English to make
a phone call to the hospital in
California to find out how their
son was getting along. They went
to the center, and a member of
the staff made the call for them.
One morning a mother left her
baby, with a very old woman,
sitting in the lobby of the center,
while she went out to a local bar.
She didn’t return until late that
night, and members of the center
staff had been taking turns baby
sitting. They bought milk for the
baby, a staff member went home
and got fresh diapers, and the
baby was asslep and comfortable
for the night by the time the
mother returned.
Members of many Indian tribes
use the services provided by the
>traUup Indian.
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" BETTER HURRY/ LISTON-CLAY FIGHT IS ABOUT TO START....*
Something on safety to our readers who drive a car
—Push button windows on cars can be hazardous for
families with children. Omit this luxury if you have
little ones that might accidently get a hand, arm, or
head caught when tiny fingers push buttons . . .Our
former reporter, SP/4 AL HARVEY now stationed at
FortOrd, California got married on November 9, 1963
to PATSY ORTIZ, Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. JOE
ORTIZ, San Pueblo, New Mexico in the Eighth Street
Military Chapel, Fort Ord. AL is the son of MR. and
MRS. FRANKB. HARVEY, Lukachukai, Arizona. Ac
cording to DOLL IE D. HARVEY . . . Your renewal
subscription for the Navajo Times is underway ....
RUFUS GRAVES, Santa Fe, New Mexico said, "When
you want to clean house in government, call a police
man, and the one for the job is J. EDGAR HOOVER. ”
That was the message of a group in California intend
ing on drafting HOOVER for the Presidency . . .
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According to SARAH TWOMEY, Home Agent,
Homemakers Club of Arizona, —On the first Thanks
giving Day, December 13, 1621, Forty-fivewhite men
and women and ninety friendly Massasoit Indian Braves
celebrated the feast. It was through the untiring efforts
of Mrs. SARAH HALE that the Thanksgiving Day Hol
iday has been made ours to enjoy. PRESIDENT
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, in 18 63, proclaimed the last
Thursday of November as an annual Thanksgiving Day
. . . The friendly Indian taught the white men how to
plant corn then —Today its all wheat. It sounds corny.
* * * *
MARIE KAU FMA N, Bushy, Montana sent in her
subscription and her letter said—" The Navajo Times
is like a letter from home. ” —You better get your sub
scription to the paper before Jan. 1964. Price goes up
to $4. 00 per year—get a gift subscription for Christ
mas ... I saw DANA BEGAY in Gallup the other day
after 15 years. I didn't recognize him. —He is pre
sently employed at the East "Y" employment assist
ance, BIA in Gallup.
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Navajo Times-will appreciate your cooperation in
sending your community happening schedule, and
please if possible a week or 10 days before it happens
or is going to happen.
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The trouble withjnany people in trying times is
that they stop trying. --News, WhitesborWo, Texas.
Indians from all nearby tribes
are frequent visitors, and Indians
travelling through Gallup from
other areas often stop at the cen
ter, to request services, or just
to rest.
''■• .Recently many feu*ian. .«grtL. ~
TRIBAL SMOKE PUFFS .
By Marshall Tome >
culturists have been parking fheir
pickups outside the center loaded
with such farm products to sell
as melons, corn, fruit, etc. Both
the buyers and sellers have been
happy with this informal arrange-
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z Lefter to the Editor ;
Editors Note;The following let
ter was run in the "Gallup Daily
Independent’’ on October 28. As
this letter is answered by the
letter from Harvey Dixon which
follows it was appropriate to run
both letters for the benefit of our
readers.
To The Editor lt is noted
that over half of the Navajo tribal
councilmen have expressed dis
satisfaction with Raymond Nakai.
Undoubtedly, of the remaining
group of 33. there are 15 or 20
who are unhappy also but have not
expressed it in writing.
Many of the reservation Nava
jos think Nakai has caused much
confusion. His campaign pro
mises to develop jobs first have
failed to develop. Instead, the first
issue was his demand for his raise
in salary. He also promised legal
izing use of peyote. Instead, he is
advocating use of wine on his radio
commercials.
Raymond Nakai is quoted in the
papers as saying, “All I know is
what I hear in the newspapers.”
He has no gripes because he
is getting some of his own medi
cine. The councilmen do not know
most of the things that he does.
If he is wise, he should re
sign. Many of us are back of his
tormentors so it is our hope that
the "old guard” will be successful.
Robert Draper
Chinle, Arizona
504 N. sth
Gallup, New Mexico
November 16,1963
Editor
Navajo Times
Window Rock, Arizona
Perhaps Mr. Robert Draper
was sincere in his letter to the
Editor of the Gallup Independent a
few weeks ago. However, it is about
time we glanced back to our bleak
past when our Navajo People were
driven to the most depleted and
barren area. Had our government
given us an equal opportunity to its
own, there would have been no need
for demogoguery—using our own
members against our own in
terests by various means. The
quest for political power, com
bined with 1 monetary greed, can
influence some, if influence is
made available to them from out
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