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...second big company to move into the area was Kerr McGee. In the mid-1950s, Kerr McGee discovered the uranium reserves of the Navajo Nation. Within a few years, the company had developed a series of underground uranium mines and a uranium mill at Shiprock, the major population center of the Navajo reservation. According to provisions of the BIA-negotiated lease, Kerr McGee held rights to the land "for as long as the ore is producing in payable quantities." The BIA viewed the mines as a welcome boost to the Navajo economy, providing jobs for a people plagued with unemployment...
...Angry Nurses. Two nurses, Sandra Kramer and Valerie Koster, found foul conditions at the Public Health Service Indian Hospital in Shiprock, N. Mex., where they began working in September 1974. They complained to superiors and finally wrote an open letter to President Ford, an action that received considerable local publicity. "The focus here," they said, "is on filling out forms, doing the least work with the least effort and just getting by." The Indian Health Service fired the nurses in January 1975 for "lack ... [of] ability or ... desire to become a responsible employee of the IHS." Public pressure forced...
...called Kicking-off-the-Rocks, who did just that to travelers. Nearby dwelt a giant named Ye'iitseh, with a mouth like an inverted bellows, who often inhaled the unwary; not to mention the flesh-rending Rock Swallows and an anthropophagous eagle whose calcified remains the whites named Shiprock. Yet there is no Navajo name for the meteorological monster that in ten days left the tribe -and much of the Southwest-buried beneath a man-and-cattle-killing, 7-ft.-deep snowfall, the worst in the region's history...
...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...
Last week, burbling Cinemactress Billie Burke was called into the studio to pick a name out of a fishbowl. The name happened to belong to Mrs. Edgar Parrett, 56, of Shiprock, N. Mex. That was how Mrs. Parrett became "Queen for a Day" and the winner of a staggering $35,000 assortment of prizes, the biggest, of course, in radio history-at least for a few weeks...