Religion: Dr. Big

Nobody seemed to want the job of running the tiny Presbyterian mission on the Navajo reservation at Ganado, Ariz. Back on a year's furlough from a 13-year hitch on Hainan Island, off the South China coast, big, broad-shouldered Dr. Clarence Grant Salsbury finally told the Mission Board that he and his wife would keep things going at Ganado for a couple of months until the board could get a permanent man. A year later he notified the board that he would be happy to stay on indefinitely among the Navajos.

This week, 22 years later, Indians from all over the reservation...

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