SECRETARY’S REPORT Teal 
served as carbon-14 chairman, during the second half of the year, in 
the Missouri Basin Chronology Program. He completed the final 
draft of a major technical manuscript covering part of his previous 
summer’s work, entitled “Archeological Investigations in the C. B. 
Smith Site (839SL29), Oahe Reservoir, South Dakota.” He also com- 
pleted the final draft of an unfinished manuscript begun by Harold A. 
Huscher, entitled “Appraisal of the Archeological Resources in the 
Big Bend Reservoir Area, South Dakota.” On November 28, he pre- 
sented a paper, “Excavations at Two Sites in the Oahe Reservoir, Sully 
County, South Dakota,” at the 15th Plains Conference for Archeology 
in Lincoln. On April 18 he presented a paper entitled “La Roche 
Ware and Relative Chronology” at the annual meeting of the Nebras- 
ka Academy of Sciences in Lincoln. From April 80 to May 3 he at- 
tended the annual meeting of the Society for American Archeology in 
Norman, Okla. He was senior author, with Richard P. Wheeler, of 
a brief article entitled “Bibliography of Primary Sources for Radio- 
carbon Dates,” which was submitted in June for publication in the 
Notes and News section of American Antiquity. 
Robert W. Neuman, temporary archeologist, was appointed to the 
permanent staff on July 29. During the time he was not directing 
field activities he was busy completing the analyses of the data and 
materials he had collected and preparing reports on his previous 
seasons’ work. He completed the final draft of a major technical 
manuscript entitled “Archeological Investigations in the Lovewell 
Reservoir Area, Kansas.” On November 28, he presented a paper, 
“Excavations in Four Sites in the Big Bend Reservoir Area, South 
Dakota.” On April 19 he attended the annual meeting of the 
Nebraska Academy of Sciences in Lincoln, and from April 30 to 
May 3 attended the annual meeting of the Society for American 
Archeology in Norman, Okla. 
G. Hubert Smith, archeologist, during the periods he was not 
in the field, devoted his time to completion of final drafts of two 
major technical reports and one minor report. One major technical 
report was “Archeological Investigations at the Site of Fort Ber- 
thold II (82ML2), Garrison Reservoir, North Dakota”; the second 
was “Archeological Investigations at the Site of Fort Pierre II 
(39ST217), Oahe Reservoir, South Dakota.” A brief report on 
excavations at site 391.M241 was also completed. On November 29, 
he served as chairman for a section of the Plains Conference for 
Archeology, devoted to historic sites archeology, and summarized the 
reports of the seven speakers. He submitted a book review of “New 
Discoveries at Jamestown” by John L. Cotter and J. Paul Hudson, 
which was published in the Autumn 1957 issue of Archeology. On 
January 2, Mr. Smith was detailed, on a reimbursable basis, to the 
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