SECRETARY'S REPORT 85 



As in previous years, the Eiver Basin Surveys received helpful 

 cooperation from the National Park Service, the Bureau of Reclama- 

 tion, the Corps of Engineers, the Geological Survey, and numerous 

 State and local institutions. The National Park Service continued 

 to serve as liaison, among the various agencies, both in Washington and 

 in the field, and prepared budget estimates and justifications for the 

 funds needed to support the salvage program. Party leaders were 

 assisted in many ways by personnel of all the cooperating agencies, 

 and the relationship was outstanding in all areas. 



General direction and supervision of the program were continued 

 from the main office in Washington. Work in the Missouri Basin was 

 directed by the field headquarters and laboratory in Lincoln, Nebr. 

 The project in Virginia was supervised by the Washington office. 



Washington o-fflce. — Dr. Frank H. H. Eoberts, Jr., continued the 

 direction of the entire River Basin Surveys from the main headquar- 

 tei*s in the Bureau of American Etlinology until October 15 when he 

 went on sick leave. At that time. Dr. Robert L. Stephenson, who had 

 been transferred from the field headquarters in Lincoln, Nebr., on 

 September 30, to be assistant director, was designated acting director 

 and served in that capacity during the remainder of the year. Carl 

 F. Miller and Harold A. Huscher, archeologists, were based at the 

 headquarters office throughout the year. 



At the beginning of the year Mr. Huscher was in the Washington 

 office working on his materials from the Walter F. George Reservior 

 area and other areas along the Chattachoochee River. At the end of 

 October he visited the recently flooded Walter F. George Reservior 

 area to recheck some of the sites along the shore that were beginning 

 to erode, and to examine sites in the vicinity of Columbus, Ga., and 

 Montgomery, Ala., that are threatened with destruction from indus- 

 trial development. During the period December 12-25, he returned to 

 Montgomery, Ala., to assist the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts in 

 the emergency salvage of parts of the Shine Mound site, which was 

 threatened with destruction by a municipal waterplant. This work 

 was done in cooperation with David W. Chase, curator of the Mont- 

 gomery Museum of Fine Arts. 



On September 6-8, Mr. Huscher attended the joint Plains-Pecos 

 Conference at Fort Burgwin, Taos, N. Mex,, where he presented a 

 paper on "Plains Influences Directly Recorded in Navajo and Western 

 Apache Culture." In November he attended the Southeastern Arche- 

 ological Conference in Macon, Ga., and presented a paper entitled "A 

 Summary of the Walter F. George River Basin Surveys Salvage Pro- 

 gram." His paper read at the preceding conference was published 

 under the title "The Archaic of the Walter F. George Reservior Area" 

 in Proceedings of the 19th Sautheastem Archeological Conference^ 



