The Delta Democrat-Times from Greenville, Mississippi • Page 14

fage 14 The DelU Greenville, Thursday, October 27, 1949 By NEA GANADO, Ariz. (NEA) Dr. "Hig," for 23 years confidante, doctor, defender and policeman to 60,000 Navajo Indians, is drawing near the end of his notable service at Ginado Mission. This It his last year. Only the Bureau of Indian Affairs will be pleased when Dr.

"Big." who is 63-year-old Dr. Clarence G. Salisbury, hangs up his stethoscope next May. The: doctor hai long been an outspoken critic of the bureau's policies. I He came to Ganado on temporary assignment in 1927 and has never left.

He built up the mission from an old assortment of shacks and dispensary cots to ISO-bed hospital communtiy on a 250-acre desert oasis. As head of the mission he has supervised the treatment of more than 28,000 Navajos and the training of some 100 Indian nurses. Ganado has accredited grade and high schools, a community center and a field health service. It has its own power plant, farm, dairy, commissary and food service, telephone exchange and other facilities. Salisbury earned the friendship of the Navajos as he watched the i i grow through the years.

He became a fighter for I i a rights. A more and more he convinced himself that the Indian Bureau was responsible for the usually sad plight of his Adopted friends. He bitterly accuses the Bureau of subjecting the Navajos to "starvation without representation," He levels i charges of waste against agency. "Not less than $200,000,000 has spent on the N'avajo reservation in the last 17 years," he says, ''and a Is there to show for it? There is an elaborate administrative set-up. A hare-brained schemes a fallen by the wayside, and there is a larger number than ever of keen, bright Indian children with no opportunity for even elemen- lary Congress recently blocked a bill that would have authorized $88,570,000 to permit a 1 (1-year rehabilitation program for the Nnv- ajo and Hopi tribes.

It lost out on a technicality that had nothing to do with the general aims of the plan. I AM PCfc RfiDWOOD, dWre FAWOUS VOtWO A 'raJHP-THE -WORLD FUW) WOM AN, SO I OOULP JCXNTW5 6AW0.7cEOWOOP...YWy HOW MOOSfcJAW VOV MM WAVT5 ME TO EI4K P6ATH BECAUSE T. BHJEVe IN WHAT D01MO CWMA I OfffK. tt)tl A FA4T AIEPLAHE. AMP MV56LF TD H-Y AMD MUST IKgS ALL OF TO A MANWORP-- LAST RESIDSNCE, HAVANA.CUM 5US- PKTID BV IMMIGRATION AJTHOfiinES OF AllfN SMUSIINQ--- DON'T POT THE KMOW WHO KttlED FINGER ONI ME, I HIM, CHIEF MACKEY.

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With a Hop! Indian nurse assisting, Dr. Clarence G. Salisbury treats a patient at the Ganado Indian Mission. Had tbe measure gone through, Salisbury was prepared to deliver another heavy blast against the Indian Bureau. He fears it jwould simply mean "the addition of another deck in the already over-crowded bureaucratic beehive," and that the Navajos would be worse off 10 years hence than they are today.

The rehabilitation plan specifically provided for development or resources on the Indians' 25,000 square miles of territory stretching through Arizona, Mexico and Utah. It contemplated new schools and highways, and some resettlement of a i lies to better farming and grazing lands. When Salisbury came to that I i a country 23 years ago, he foil ml the first going difficult. Once he took a dying Navajo away from chanting medicine men and tried to save her life. UnfortltnUcly, he failed.

An angry mob at I i a surrounded him, brandishing knives a ropes. One of the medicine men saved him by (elling the ob a Salisbury was, after all, a white man of whom not too much could be expected. He hu been a plugging worker for the Indians on every front. Tn one afternoon on the opening day of Gnnado's school, he made 75 tooth extractions. When he wasn't performing his medical chores he was i i and preaching about their desperate economic distress.

Reports were that had Gov. Thomas Dewey of New York won the presidency last fall, he planned to offer Salisbury a high post in the Indian Bureau the doctor has always criticized so severely. Now, however, there is not i ahead for Dr. "Big" but quiet retirement. And when he leaves Ganado't next spring the N.ivajos will lose one of the stoutest champions they a ever had in their long and troubled, history.

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