The Fort Apache scout. [volume], December 01, 1962, Page Page Six, Image 6

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Page Six
FIRST HALF CENTURY
Cibecue Mission
Marks Fiftieth Year
By
Rev. Arthur C. Krueger
CIBECUE— In the spring of the
year, fifty years ago, a tall Apa
che Indian, who had formerly
served with honors in the Unit
ed States Army as a Scout, was
directing seven other Apaches
at Lower Cibecue in the manu
facture of adobe bricks, an oc
cupation strange to these peo
ple in the “Valley of the Red
Soil”.
This man was “Deyulsall
stha”, or John Enfield, or Z-9.
The other seven were “Cegoon”
Bland Tessay, “Nakegay” Jack
Johnson, “Chikleghay” Keys
Duryea, “Eskikahay” Pedro
Patterson, “Clylatenay” John
Williams, “Datthholthohuggay”
John Lupe and “Toozhay” Ben
Teasley.
Christmas Trees . .
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rounding the motel is thick
with the cut trees.
One of the trees grown on
the Reservation can be seen in
all its glory in the main lobby
of the main office of the Ist Na
tional Bank of Arizona in Phoe
nix.
A 24-foot blue spruce, the
tree was specially ordered last
September by bank officials
from the Tribe through offi
cials of Southwest Forest In
dustries.
While all of the trees har
vested are wild-grown, the suc
cess of the annual Christmas
project has Tribal officials pon
dering plans to establish tree
farms on the Reservation solely
for the Christmas trade.
e. Jdr the
Holiday Season !
/CN Southwest
Forest
Industries
. . ■ - - -
When fifteen-thousand “ado
bes” were made they were
layed, one on top of the other,
in adobe mud, until there arose
two buildings, one was a House
of God, the other, a house for
the man of God.
And so began the work of the
Lutheran Apache Mission at
Cibecue.
In the fall of that year, there
were sitting around a table, sev
en feet long and two feet wide,
on wooden benches, in the
House of Cod, eight children of
various ages.
The table was covered with
blackboard cloth marked off in
eight squares, one for each
child. Each child had a piece of
chalk and a piece of cloth. Mr.
Schoenberg, the first teacher
in this school, who lived in the
house for the man of God, was
patiently drilling his eight in
the exercises of learning to
read, write and cipher.
On Sunday the table was used
as an altar from which the pas
tor dispensed the Bread and
Water of Eternal Life.
ON DECEMBER 9,1962,
fifty years had passed since
this small beginning.
On that beautiful and mild
day five hundred Apaches and
non - Apaches, from Cibecue,
Whiteriver, East Fork, Carrizo,
Show Low, McNary, San Car
los, Peridot, Phoenix, Glendale
and other places, sat on the hill
side across the road from the
House of God, to join in songs
and thanksgiving to the Ruler
of the Universe.
All these years He had pro
tected Ilis House from the on
slaughts of storms and floods
The Fort Apache Scout
HAWLEY HONORED - Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hawley proudly
hold some of the gifts presented them at banquet held in Pinetop
last month prior to the former Superintendent’s transfer to new
position in Phoenix. The Hawley’s posed with Mary V. Riley and
Al’s favorite secretary, Eileen, for this farewell photo. More than
200 Tribal members, Bureau of Indian Affairs officials, friends and
others gathered to honor Hawley’s achievements during his 7
years as Superintendent of the Fort Apache Indian Agency.
from destruction and ruin.
All this time He lived with
the people in this area with His
comforting Word, the true Gos
pel of Salvation, leading the
people on the way to eternal
life by calling them to faith in
Jesus Christ, the Savior.
This message was so wonder
fully expressed on the jubilee
day by the speaker of the day,
the Rev. Robert W. Schaller,
Zion Lutheran Church, Phoe
nix.
What has happened in this
mission in the last fifty years
for which the many friends
were glorifying God is now his
tory. The enrollment in the
school has increased from eight
to seventy-two. A modern
school was built in 1929 and ex
panded to twice its size in 1954.
A second preaching station was
built in 1931, two and a half
miles to the north.
The number of people serv
ing the mission has increased
from two in 1912 to six at pres
ent. A church council of five
Apaches comprise the adminis
tration body.
They are: President, James
DeHose; Treasurer, Levi De
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December, 1962
TO NEVADA
Wesley’s
New Assignment
SAN CARLOS— Clarence Wes
ley, former chairman of the San
Carlos Apache Tribal Council,
has been appointed as tribal de
velopment officer for Indian
reservations in Nevada, it was
announced this week by Harry
L. Stevens, assistant Phoenix
Area Director for the Bureau of
Indian Affairs.
Wesley, who is former presi
dent of the National Congress
of American Indians, will as
sist Indian Agency Superin
tendent Dale Baldwin with op
erations of economic develop
ment with headquarters at
Stewart, Nevada.
Well known on the Fort Apa
che Reservation, Wesley had
been chairman of the San Car
los Tribal Council for every
term except one since 1941.
He was defeated in his bid
for re-election last spring by the
present Chairman, Marvin
Mull.
Wesley was also the first In
dian to serve on the Arizona
State Fair Commission and was
at one time business manager
for the San Carlos Tribal Enter
prises.