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From Houston and Albuquerque, El Paso and Denver, tough-trading oilmen from every major company have been converging on the Four Corners area of Utah, Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico to get in on one of the biggest oil rushes in U.S. history. The sellers: the Navajo Indians, who are fast learning to play what oilmen call "grunt and groan." As the bids for oil lands are announced, the tribesmen merely grunt, and as the prices soar higher, the oilmen groan...
...Oklahoma's Oilman-Senator Robert S. Kerr. As far back as 1951, the company was the first oil producer to decide that uranium, instead of being competitive with oil, was a supplemental and profitable field. In 1952, with $700,000, Kermac bought New Mexico's small Navajo Uranium Co., built a mill at Shiprock, N. Mex., did so well that it has expanded operations to a total of $3.3 million. By spending $100,000 a month for more exploration, it uncovered sizable reserves near Grants, N. Mex., thus became a major producer...
...contrived as a matchstick castle. The Searchers is rousingly played by what Hollywood calls the "John Ford Stock Company"-a group made up of Wayne, Harry Carey Jr., Ward Bond, a half-dozen bit players, seven stunt men who are repeatedly shot off horses, and many of the same Navajo Indians who have been losing battles in John Ford pictures since 1938. By now, all of them perform with practiced ease: the women know just where to stand on the cabin porch as they peer off anxiously into the haze and mesa-filled distances; the men automatically fall into line...
INDIAN MINERAL LEASE, biggest ever signed in the U.S., is set between Navajo Indians and Delhi-Taylor Co. For a 50-50 split on profits, Delhi-Taylor gets all oil, gas and helium rights to 5,000,000 acres of Navajo land in the uranium-rich "Four Corners" area where Arizona, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico meet. Tribe retains all other mineral rights, including uranium, is also dickering with other companies to lease additional land...
Local Public Service: station KGAK, Gallup, N.Mex., for The Navajo Hour...