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Navajo times., 1962-01-24

the Window Rock LOdgers Basket
ball Team which had then just won
the Arizona Al-Indian Amateur
Basketball Tournament in Phoenix,
Arizona, at the close of the 1883
season. The Window R0ckL0dge
and the LOdger team wishing to help
promote athletics On the Navajo
Reservation brought the tourna-
ment arrangements before the Nav
ajO Fair COmmi SSion and the Com
mission placed the tournament on
its Civic Center winter schedule.
That fir st year, with the Window
Rock Lodgers and Window Rock
Foutz Traders, no teams,
sponsored the inaugural of the Holi-
day Tournament that drew q teams
for participation.
Navajo times., 1962-01-24
Fickenger May
Get Post Soon

Paul L. Fickenger mayget a new
post as special assistant to Deputy
Indian Commi ssioner, John O.
Crow, in Albuquerque accordingto
reliable source S in Washington.
Fickenger is at present area direc-
tor of the Bureau of Indian Affairs
office in Muskogee, Oklahoma. He
was there since 1854.
Fickenger's job will be to sur
vey buildings and plants of the BIA
throughout the nation starting with
New Mexico.
Navajo times., 1962-01-24

These speeches were made by
over 80 students who participated
in the public speaking contest. This
conference was sponsored by the
Youth Committee of the Navajo
Tribal Council, Window Rock, Ari-
zona.
Appearing in this issue is the
speech that was given by Keeyah
Sanford Begay, lntermountain In
dian School, Brigham City. Utah,
who tied for second place in the high
school division of the speech con-
test.
Navajo times., 1962-01-24

ceiving Scent from each copy sold.
One of the added attraction is the
Free Throw Contest with each team
being represented by player. In
this event IS throws will be taken
by each contestant, and the contest
ant having the best percentage of
compilations will be declared the
winner. The free throw contests
will be held between halves. In the
event of ties, additional throws will
be given to break the ties.
The famous Navajo Tribal Band
will be another attraction, when
they give concerts at games On Fri
day and Saturday nights, February
9, 10, is and II. This much travel
ed band will be led bytheir new di-
rector, Birley R. Gardner, former
cornet soloist with the United States
Navy Band, and bandma ster at the
United States Naval Academy, An
napolis. Maryland.
All trophies and other awards
won by this colorful band are on dis
play in the Navajo Civic Center.
A special program is also being
lined up for the final night of the
tournament, when the championship
games will be played. Heading the
distinguished guests and scheduled
to be on this program are the 1861
Navajo Tribal Fair Queens, Miss
Alice Goodluck. and Miss Lois Hos
kie.
An array of beautiful and high
ly priced trophies and other awards
will be presented to outstanding
players and winning teams. There
will even be presentations made to
selected spectators. The following
is the list of awards for players and
teams placing:
First Place Trophy, Second
Place Trophy. Third Place Trophy
Fourth Place - Gameball. Conso-
lation Trophy. Team Sportsman
ship Trophy. Team Travel Trophy,
Free Throw Contest Trophy, Most
Valuable Player Trophy. Most
points Zone game) Trophy. First
Al-Tourney Team IS small Tro-
phies). Second All-Tourney Team
IS small Trophies). First Place
Team Individual Awards (12
Warmup Jacketsl, Second Place In
dividual Awards, (12 Cigarette
Lightersl
The idea OF staging such an an
nual event in the beautiful new Nav
ajo Civic Center Gym was made by
Navajo times., 1962-01-24


colorful and the biggest Independent
Bas asketball Tournament on any In
dian Reservation, the tourney will
get underway with 16 teams from
at least four states participating.
Independent Indian Basketball
Teams from the states of New Mex
leo, Arizona, Utah and Colorado
have been invited to participate as
well the Adult League Teams
from towns surrounding the Nava-
10 Indian Reservation.
The Tournament will be run on
consolation Championship type
bracket. Drawings and pairings to
complete the bracket will be held
at 1:OOp. m. on Sunday, January %,
at the Navajo Tribal Council
Chambers, Window Rock, Arizona.
AS in prior years, team managers
or representatives will attend this
session where entry fees, team
rosters, and other material will be
compiled.
Tournament play will begin at
6:3O p.m., Wednesday, February,
1862. The tournament dates a nd
sessions are as follows:
Session 50 February, Wednes-
day 3 games
Session 2 February8, Thurs
day 3 games
Session 8 = February 9, Friday
3 games
Session 4 - February 10, Satur-
day 4 games
Session S - February IL, Mon
day 8 games
Session 6 = February 16. Fri
day 4 games (Semi-Finals)
Session 2 February II, Sarur-
day 8 games (Finals)
An attractive souvenir Journal
covering the tournament, with full
color original cover design, pic
lures of several participating
teams. the Navajo Tribal Band,
Navajo Civic Center and others to
be included is being prepared. The
money raised through sale of
advertisements in the souvenir
Journal is used to help defray the
expenses of operation and awards
given to the winning teams and out
standing players. Again as in past
years. plans are being made to have
the Boy Scouts sell the souvenir
Journal throughout the tournament
at Is cents per copy. The proceeds
from the sale of the Journals will
be divided up, with the Scouts re-
Navajo times., 1962-01-24
Navajo InvitutionuI Basketball
Tournament February 7-17


the month the navajo will be principal
the
inal this Holiday
Tournan nen.
Navajo times., 1962-01-24
The Navajo Youth Speaks:

Speeches madeby Navajo students at the Second An
nual Navajo Youth Conference held at Shiprock New
Mexico, In 1nDecember 1961w1l be reproduce for pub
LEGATION in the NAVAJO TIMES in each issue following
for several weeks
Navajo times., 1962-01-24

Above Alice Goodluck, Modern
Navajo Queen,and Lois Haskie,
Traditional Queenprepareto to board
airplane for Ell PaS0, Sun Bowl Car
nival.
Navajo times., 1962-11-22
NAVAJO MYTHS AND CHANTS

NAVAJO MYTHS AND CHANTS
A packet of seven bulletins
published by the Museum of Ma
vajo Ceremonial al Art. No illustra-
tons. The booklets are concise
and accurate and nclude the Crea-
tion Myth, Yehbechai Myth, and the
Mount ain Chant. These books are
sold by the set only and not sing
Iy. $500. These bulletins are a.
vailable for sale at the Navajo
Tribal Museum. All books are
postpaid.
Navajo times., 1962-11-22
: Letters to The Editor :
Gentlennen:

Gentlemen:
Enclosed is my check for So. SO
to cover cost of fifty-two issues
of your interesting and informative
paper. Please begin the subscrip-
ton with the last one that was
paid-up that you sent me. do not
want to miss a single copy. |
lived for a number of years in
New Mexico and roamed through
the Navajo country many times
with my husband. am sure many
Navajo people must remember
seeing our 1889 Ford pickup with
the homemade top on reservation
roads. The people helped us
number of times when we were
stuck. usually in sand. am
glad to say that we were able to
return their kindness on several
occasions, not from being stuck
in sand, however, but rundown
batteries, etc. The people and the
country "ive again. through your
paper. In the November 8 copy,
my husband and | truly enjoyed
Ken Clayton's "Hstory of the
Cowboy" as well as many other
special items.
Looking forward arxiously to
your next copy,
Very truly yours,
Edythe Rosenberger
1920 Bancroft Drive
La Mesa, California
Navajo times., 1962-11-22

Gentlemen:
This note is to thank you for the
brochures and other Tribal infor-
nation, mailed to me recently, by
your office.
We also wish to thank the young
lady in-charge of the Information
Booth in the Civic Center Building.
She was very courteous and
Informative in response to our
many questions.
We were not "Just Tourists
passing through your Territory"
We made the trip especially to
Visit the Tribal Fair.
We are looking forward to
another visit in order to see more
OF the Scenic Beauty in your, and
adjoining Areas.
Respectfully Yours
Marion and Milton Bolton
San Martin, California
Navajo times., 1962-11-22
"MVf.. .HEY?!. ..HT?H"

New offices have been elected for the Tech Rodeo
Club, composed of ateur and professional rodeo
performers enrolled in various at Oklahoma
State Tech, Okmulgee, Oklahoma.
Electedas vice president is MARTY ROBERTSON,
Chinle Arizona. Membership in the club is composed
OF students who have done rodeo work a hobby or
sldene for several years. number of members have
joined however, because they have always been inter-
ested and want to learn on an amateur basis.
xxx
University of Oklahoma foreign student explained
to an American collegian his problems with English
ACTUALLY, have no trouble with English" he said
TITS just the idotisms." JAMES NOSWOOD
Sherman, Texas "Tel1s me about--Two tourists we're
looking at Niagara Falls and exclaimed, What a
sight The other, naturally Texan, replied, Heck
where leone from we gotplumbers can fix that" .
CLARENCE BEGAY, Ganado, Arizona, 1.-TWO cross
eyed fellows into each other the street. The
first said, why don't you look where you re 60
ing? The other replied why don't you gowhere you're
looking?"
This is a favore up in Minnesota among the Scan
dinavians bank president strolling through the
cashiers cage when he noticed teller skfully count
ing out thousand dollar bills
You look like bright young fellow, said the bank
er. Where did you get your financi al training?"
YALE" replied the teller "And what's your name
asked the banker. 'rYohnson," was the reply.
When bell signaled the start of school in most
places, in Bledsoe County High Pkeville Tenn il
began with shriek In the weekend before classes
began, four chicken snake eggs the biology abora
tory hatched Three of the snakes found in the
Oullolng' one LII girl oesK, When school opened
BIG JIM ATCITTY, Shiprock, N NJ on golfing:
sometimes my luck on the green is so bad it's like
bought pumpkin farm, they'd call off Halloween
DICK THUL, TELLS about the hula dancer whose
fame was spreading. So she went diet." MAN.
CY WILCOXSON, Good Shepherd Mission did Won
hear about the French horn player whose tonee fell
into his instrument? He spent the of the evening
blowing his top"
Long Life Recipe. Want to live longlife? ? Beborn
a Swedish girl and get yourself married special
mortality study completely the United Nations reveals
married and that married Swedish women have tho
longest Life expectancy in the world--75
who have backed the efforts of tribal leaders to sustain
Navajo times., 1962-11-22
Dear MIR. MacRorie:

Dear MIR. MacRorie:
Until some smart publisher
snaps up his serious" historical
writing, please let us have more of
Ken Clayton's interpretative ''his-
tory" l haven't had as much fun
reading Western Americana in
years.
Sincerely yours,
Isl DR.. Myra Ellen Jenkins
Senior Archivist
State Records Center
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Editors Note: In view ef this
and several other comments which
indicated that Inspector Clayton's
contribution to history did not 90
entirely unnoticed, we have hber-
ally allowed to Mr.. Clayton that
future articles would not be sum-
marily dispatched without due con-
sideration. Clayton has indie ated in
return that he will contribute to the
Times periodically as long ''as
there is no certain schedule" since,
unfortunately, he is not one of those
inspired by deadline. However,
his sideways approach to the ap-
piled sciences of mathematics will
be found in this issue, and we are
hopeful that more of the same will
be forthcoming in future editions. J
Navajo times., 1962-11-22

-. Of Thanks and Thursday
Thanksgiving is this year the fourth Thursday of
November and the old song that goes And the frost is
the punkn" can be sung with great feeling. There
is decided nip in the air. and the leaves prac
ticaly for this would be difficult to really
complain very loud for we had superb Indian
with sunwarm days seasoned with the tang of wine rich
The hint of frost that lies lust at the edge of
the October makes it seem just bit warmer and
finer than at any other time Of the year the same
sort of reasoning that makes the last five minutes of
sleep in the morning important than the five
hours Immediately preceding it.
And with the coming flate November, comes day
of feasting and thanksgiving many respects in re-
cent years. 1t has deter1orated mainly into day of
feasting. Thanksgiving is quashumourously referred
to as Turkey Day" by good segment of the popula
ton, without thought for the origin or meaning of the
celebration itself. While it may have been termed
Thanksgiving the ndianpeople of this continent OBJ
served the end OF the with prayers and thanks
giving and dancingong before the Pilgrims thanks
for the good corn harvests and the supplies of meat
and other staples which would sustain them through
the coming winter months. They observed Thanksgiv-
ing in the true sense and spirit of the word
There is the old story about the hunter who came in
from the field, grumbling and mumbling ohimself be-
cause he hadn't bagged the limit which ten ducks.
What you yeping abou? queried his friend, 'You
got eight ducks if it isn't all the law allows, it's
pretty good"
In looking back the year, haven't things gen
orally been pretty good? Maybe didn't bag all ten
ducks, but we knocked over mess of them In other
words, we have much to be grateful for, if we
didn't quite 'shoOt the limit
The Tribe collectively missed great big duck--
there hasn't been any yet in Turing out
side industry into the On the oherhand, several
ducks go to their credit The Navajo Irrigation Pro-
ect is good sized bird land that required thirty
years of careful salking) Roads Improvement will be
bringing new business and prosperity into the
ervation areas especially along the northern edge of
the reservation--the Navajo Trails route The Glen
Canyon dam will soon be backing up the waters which
will form the much heralded Lake Powell, and ulti
matey, of the Tribes biggest recreation attrac
tons The Sawmill at Navajo, New Mexico COM
pleted and dedicated, and put to work Window Rock
acquired itself bank, which may we'll be the nucleus
of good sized shopping center Modern housing got
running start in the Window Rock the first such
project ever to be undertaken Indian reservation
Yup, the old duckbag is bulgng and the other ducks
might into range than lot of people might
figure.
The staff of your newspaper would also like to add
rather personal note of thanks to the people who have
given support and and to the merchants
Navajo times., 1962-11-22

who have backed the efforts tribal leaders to
newspaper as source OF information and education-
have given advertising support during the vear Tho
letters to the editor have been continual source of
delight and amazement--and encouragement
Have wonderful Thanksgiving g--eat lots Of t,rko4
and cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie--but Sometime
somewhere during the day, take few moments to 1ooI
around you and count your personal ducks" There
may be more than you think! -'1oAo
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FRANK S. PHILLIPS. INC.
nT T-I111

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paneled den, country-style kit.
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The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1962-06-14

{. = 80 HsFf l4aHa4eM HNsNE%- 1.
than three years ago but have
been delayed BY lack Of space
at the Medical Center. Compile
ton of the new research wing
next wintef. win provide space
for pr. Loves laboratories. &C.
cording I'd DR.. Robert Marstodr.
director az the University
MEDICAL, Center
Dr. Love gradnated cum
iaude from Washington Uni
vsrsity School 81 Medicine IN
st Louis and intarned q,
Barnes Hospital in that city
He was 4 life insurance niedi-
cal research fellow at Tulane
from 1850 70 1852 when he was
named to the faculty In add.
ton TO- his other activities. he
served as physician for the
cardiac work evaluation unit
established by the Louisiana
Heart Association at Tulane.
Or Love IS a diplomatic OF
ne American Board Of Internal
Medicine. . fellow Of the
American College of Physl-
clans. and a member OF numer.
Gus honor and professional
soc,eties, A native Virginian,
he is married and has four
children.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1962-06-14
]. D. Cooper Is Among Illinois Central
EMPLOYEES Honored For 50 Years Service

to be honored live in Missis-
sippi.
Conductor Cooper states the
roar of the mighty trains pas
sing through Durant, fifty
years ago impressed a young
store clerk and as soon as he
could he got him a job with
the Illinois Central tn G
exact date being September
Is, 1912, when he hired as a
flagman and 81 xyars later
was promoted to what ne
considered a fine job con-
ductor, and he liked his work
SO much that he remained on
the job for fifty years, and
he liked the town of Durant
SO much that he married, es-
tablished his home and reared
his children, one son and two
daughters. All of his service
was on the Aberdeen District,
between Durant and Aber
deem. He retired from active
service March q, 1862. He is
a Baptist, having served ir
years gone by on the Board
of Deacons in his church and
is a Mason.
The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1962-06-14
Heart Research Chair Is
Filled At Medical School

An outstanding 38-year-old
scientist DR.. William DeLoss
Love, has been chosen to fill
the Mississippi Heart Associa-
ton cardiovascular chair at the
University Medical Center in
Jackson.
Appointed . professor Of
medicine. DR.. Love is currently
an associate professor at Tulane
where he has gained national
recognition for his studies Of
blood flow to the heart and
brain using radioisotopes to
rack down new facts.
When he takes on his new
duties on July l. DR.. Love, will
fill the first endowed chair at
the medical school and the
only chair endowed by a volun-
tary health agency in Missis-
sippi. This state is one Of less
than a dozen in the country
IN which heart associations
have set up these important
positions.
DR.. Lucian Ferris Of vicks-
burg, president Of the Missis-
sippi Heart Association. says,
The chair is being established
to. enlarge the scope OF research
INTO heart and blood vessel
disease and to tram future
physicians IN research methods
and in diagnosis and care Of
heart disease. Experience else.
where DR.. Ferris points out.
has proven that q professor
whose first responsibility is
heart disease research will not
only make significant new
findings but will also improve
the level OF physician training
The chair is supported BY .
Mississippi Heart Associatjor
annual grant Of s20,O 600 toward
salary. equipment and supplies
Money 10 support the chair
comes from the February Hear
Fund and from .year-rounf
heart memorials which many
people give in recognition 81
toveo ones.
Plans for the chair began more