FEBRUARY, 1951 35 CENTS - Desert Magazine of the Southwest

Pat McCarran asking for full protection
of the interests of cattlemen and
others in the area. The question of
liability is one that will need to be
settled. There is no housing in the
Black Rock desert that would be endangered
by bombing, but cattle do
run the range.—Humboldt Star.
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STEWART — Ralph M. Gelvin,
superintendent of the Colorado River
agency, Parker, Arizona, is acting temporarily
as superintendent of the Carson
Indian agency here. Gelvin replaces
E. Reeseman Fryer, who was
appointed to a state position.
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AUSTIN — Complaints that jackrabbits
have caused extensive damage
in many Elko County areas has resulted
in action by the Nevada Fish
and Game commission to take the
white-tailed jackrabbit off the game
animal list. The jacks may now be
killed at any time without limit or
restriction.—Reese River Reveille.
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NEW MEXICO
Indian Integration Proposed . . .
GALLUP—Best hope for ultimate
solution of many Indian problems lies
in integration of the American Indian
into the white man's life, both socially
and economically. This was the opinion
of delegates to the governors' interstate
council on Indian affairs,
which met recently in Oklahoma City.
The education committee in its report
stressed integration as the only
final solution, along with a request
that education of Indians be turned
over to the states as rapidly as possible.
A general and adequate education
program, it was pointed out, is a
primary need of the tribesmen today.
The Navajo-Hopi reservations in Arizona
and New Mexico are an example
of the need. There are 24,000 Indian
children of school age there, the council
was told, but facilities to educate
only 8000.—Gallup Independent.
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Zuni Mudheads End Their Year . . .
ZUNI PUEBLO—The Zuni Mudheads,
religious personages who work
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all year long as sacred intermediaries
with the Indian gods and who double
as comics, buffoons and clowns, received
their traditional pay-off at year's
end.
The custom is for each of the 10
Mudheads to set up headquarters in
the village and wait for the gifts to
roll in. Their pay comes in the form
of food, silver, cloth and other valuables.
The Mudhead stands near his
stack through the day, guarding his
treasure and blessing those who contribute.
Each of the Mudheads belongs to
a clan. The irony comes in when the
Mudhead hauls his day's collection to
his home. His clan brothers crowd
around and each expects some gift, so
the Mudhead usually ends up by dividing
his presents among his followers.
The Mudheads act as humorists
during tribal ceremonials, but they are
revered as religious personages by
their people.—Gallup Independent.
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Indian Cattlemen Prospering . . .
WASHINGTON—In 1932 Indians
owned 182,000 head of cattle, from
which they derived about $1,000,000
a year. Today they own nearly 400,-
000 head, producing an annual income
of $30,000,000, according to Dillon
S. Myer, Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
Indians are learning the rules of
the highly competitive cattle business.
Myer said, and are making money.
They have always owned livestock,
but not until the early 1930's did highgrade
beef and dairy cattle figure materially
in their livestock programs.
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They've Found One at Last . . .
ALBUQUERQUE — In a remote
section of the Capitan Mountains 130
miles southeast of Albuquerque deer
hunters found an 18-inch metal sphere
which after a month's investigation by
scientists still had the experts stumped.
Dr. Lincoln LaPaz, head of the institute
of meteoritics at the University
of New Mexico, has studied the mystery
object along with many other
investigators.
The sealed sphere apparently is
made of duraluminum, a light metal,
and is 18 inches in diameter. It weighs
seven pounds. Dr. LaPaz believes the
sphere either was ejected from a guided
missile or that it was carried by a
large balloon. Found with the sphere
in a region seldom visited by humans
were; an object which looks like a
large flower pot and made of an unknown
type of plastic, an alarm clock
equipped with an expensive hair-trigger
micro switch, and three packages
of photographic film used in nuclear
research.—Gallup Independent.
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