Adahooniłigii. [volume], September 01, 1943, Page 3, Image 4

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Similar improvements -arc? being proposed at Wingate. The government
has hem asked to approve pirns for a housing project for nearly two hundred
families. The Hava jo .Service hopes to operate a school -and a. clinic there
too.. It is hoped that the project may .be completed b fore winter. These
improvements have reduced absenteeism,. ’
MANY 'NAVAJOS WANTED ON W AB JOBS
The "Employment Office in Gallup. reports that many Havajos are badly
in dee "on ,vjr jobs. The’railroads’need ope'thousand men for work in Califor
■n i . 'ln .Ny bra ska two’hundred fifty men are, needed. .Hear Denver, five hundred
.men rr ' .needed. ' .
The Wingate Ordnance Depot needs more than fifty men. All this work
pays more than fifty cents ari hour.
Many Hava jo women are needed in the fields at Bluewe.ter.
.... -IMPROVEMENTS UIIpZ.R _ WAY AT. BLUDWATEB
The General Superintendent, Mr. J. M. 'Stewart, and’'other government
employees got together with the growers operating agricultural fields at
Grants, Hew Mexico, As the result, of these, gatherings-, .there is now good
drinking water for the Hava jo workers at Bluewa.terA
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The toil ts are also constructed at each of the workers camps. These
■ are constructed well so as- to keep the flies from ‘spreading disease.
• One of the government, doctors goes to Bluewater to give inoculations
te the Hava, jo workers against typhoid fever. The growers are also ■ .planning
to build, better houses for the workers too. These tasks will provide better
■■-living conditions for the Hava jo workers. ■ •
The school bus- from Baca Day School .will go to the..workers camps at
Blue we ter ev. rv day for the school children.. The children.-will have noon
day-lunch at the day. school -end will be taken back t'o the. camps late in the
afternoon. It is well for all the children between the of six to fifteen
y- ars to go to school at Baca Day School.
IT .IS T IMP HOD MARKFTIHG OF IAMBS ■
Meat is one of the foods that is needed to help win the war, Much
meat, is raised on the Have jo Reservation.:
Most Navajo lambs- weigh 55 to 60 pounds' each-when they arc sold to the
trader. These small lambs are then fed hay and grain for four or five months
in Kansas. At the end of this time the lambs are fat end weigh from 80 to
100 pounds each.
Lambs brought the Havajos from 10 to. lip cents per pound; last year.
Because hay and grain is scarce and high in price many people think that
lambs will not bring much more money this year than they did 1- st ye-r.
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