Navajo Times, The (Newspaper) - November 30, 1967, Window Rock, Arizona Published For w n e By T he N a v a 8 Number 48 Window Arizona November 1967 Dates Firmed at Many Farms For Navajo Will Rogers and Taylor McKenzie will be featured speakers at the 8th annual meeting of the Navajo Youth which be held at the Many Farms Boarding December The Navajo Youth sponsored by the Education Committee of the Navajo is dedicated to helping Navajo 1 students in their college son of the famed is special assistant to Indian Commissioner Robert 1 He is a former movie actor and congressman from and is now living in a is a with the Public stationed at Rogers will be the main speaker at a dinner on December and McKenzie will be the banquet speaker on Friday Registration will begin at 2 and some 150 high school public and BIA schools are expected to according to Allen chairman of the Education These delegates will come from high schools in many parts of the There will also be a number of Navajo college students who will Yazzie President of NYC is Donald a teacher at Shonto Boarding and the vice president is George a student at Arizona State Paul a teacher at Rough Rock is treasurer and Carol a student at New Mexico Western University at Silver is Members of the Education besides are timothy Benally of Red Alex Riggs of Lorenzo Yazzie of Old Sawmill and John Nez Beyale of Councilman Gorman Helps School Compile Navajo History Textbook IBS ROUGH ROCK a Tribal Councilman for Jfr years and an authority on the f Qf lne spent days at Rough Rock School last week ping appraise Navajo Navajo children turned out he schools curriculum curriculum center has six other books for ajo children and plans to put Jier 12 more by the end of the went over every bit of History and changed some a said Hoke an illustrator for the said Gorman was in correcting many of names in the book and interesting accounts of how n got their of the additions made by i was a section on the Treaty Wc books of biographies of prominent Navajo History was compiled by the curriculum center staff with much help from several authorities on tribal such as Robert Young and Lee The Tribal Councils education committee is reviewing the book and the school plans to bring in other tribal leaders to evaluate it before The education committee will pick 10 public and government schools to use the After a year of use the teachers will appraise the texts and recommend ways of ion still working on a water development on said who I as tribal 1 a t the lit rat ion schools deputy said Gorman had made us on how other events in should be covered in i which would be one j by obtained material for Platero ill appear in one of two is Told Of Navajo Chief Starting inside in todays Another interesting and informative article on Navajo written by Lee head of Land Claims of the Navajo This one is on Ganado one of the most able Navajo who was a leader among the Navajos during a critical period in Indians Exempt From Use Board Says ELSIE winner in Make It Yourself With Wool Miss Jones Wins First In Contest Elsie a Wingate High School has won first place in the District One Make It Yourself With Wool contest held November at the Glencliff Lodge in Miss Jones won first place in the senior division for a vistal colored dress and honorable mention for a coat in vistal and lime Both garments were constructed completely by the contestant of Her accessories were courtesy of Penny and the R R Dress won an expense paid trip to the stale a Dritz sewing a gift certificate for the Sew Save and a dress length of wool fabric from the Knit Purl District I senior included 1721 year old girls from and San Juan counties and was under the direction of Montoya of La Miss Jones is a student of Freeman Zunigha at Wingate High The competition is sponsored by the Womens Auxiliary to the National Wool American Wool and New Mexico Wool Miss Jones is the daughter of and Oscar Navajo Indians who live in the Arizona portion of the reservation do not have to pay Arizona use taxes on items they purchase outside the slate of according to a ruling of the State Tax Commission of The ruling was obtained recently through the efforts of the Navajo Legal Aid Maxwell Palmer chief legal aid advisor for the protested the imposition of the Arizona use tax on a Navajo He carried his fight to the stales attorney general and the Stale Tax Commission and won this concession from In a letter received by Palmer from Waldo chairman of the State Tax DeWitt said In Checking our we mail claims to all people who buy automobiles in another state and then register them in When this list comes to us we have no way of determining whether or not it is an Indian who uses the auto and lives on the If your Indian people would return Use Tax Claim Form stating Indian purchased for use ota the the case would be If we know or had a way of knowing it were an Indian living on a the claim would not have been sent in the first Edmund associate attorney in the Tribes Legal sent a memorandum calling lo DeWitts letter to Palmer and Palmers fight against the Arizona Use Kahn also said we are hereby advising you that any member of the Navajo Tribe who purchases an automobile or pickup truck in New Colorado or who is a resident of that portion of the Reservation located in the State of should not pay a local sales tax when he purchases the That he should not pay a sales tax to the State of New Colorado or because he is a resident of the Navajo Reservation in upon registering his vehicle in or upon receiving notice from the State Tax Commission that he must pay a use he should do the following He should state on the Arizona Use Tax Claim Form that he is a Navajo Indian and that he has purchased the vehicle for use on the Navajo Indian and he is exempt from such Palmer said he had ordered several reams of the Arizona Use Tax Claim NTUA Sponsors Plant Dedication Yule Programs On National TV James Christensen has announced that the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority NTUA will undertake a series of Christmas projects this One of the worthy which has been undertaken in the is to collect old repair them and give them to needy NTUA will also serve as handling agent in collection of clothing to give to the and will again sponsor a Christmas NTUA employees will again donate blood to the Indian hospital at Fort Defiance just before Christensen Again this Santa Claus and Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer will be displayed atop the NTUA building at Window WOOL DEADLINE Applications for incentive payments on wool and lambs sold prior to must be in the county offices prior to The dedication ceremonies for General Dynamics new Navajo Facility on November 14 were featured on the National Broadcasting Company television including the popular Today according to public and employee relations administrator for General Dynamics at Fort Two NBC television photographers from in Phoenix arrived by chartered airplane and filmed dedication which included by Chairman Raymond Nakai and General Dynamics Pomona Division President Charles also the Navajo Blessing Ceremony conducted by Medicine Man Tom Wilson from Rough Bookmobile Schedule December 5 El Morro I II Raman I 2 Black Rock December 6 Mexican Springs Job Corps StandingRock
