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Permit No. 2
VOL. 2 NO. 1
KLAMATH INFORMATION AND EDUCATION PROGRAM
HOLIDAY ISSUE
Management specialists give part
NO OF PROGRESS REPORT SERIES
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"jd. note) The Klamath Tribune pre
sents part two of the Management
Specialists' Progress Report. As ex
plained in the previous issue, the Tri
bune expresses no opinions regarding
these reports. They are being presented
only as an information service to the
members of the Klamath Tribe.
Forced Sale Will Glut Market
The Klamath Termination Law,
as you have been told, gives each,
adult member of the tribe an
opportunity to choose for him
self, and for his minor children,
as fo whether he will withdraw
from the tribe and be paid cash
for his interest in the tribal es
tate, or remain in the Tribe and
participate in a management pro
gram to be run by or for the
members who elect to remain.
Although the right to make such
pend, of course, upon the number
who elect to withdraw from the
tribe.
Timber Prices for Withdrawing
Members Will Drop
Based on the best available in
formation it is estimated that 70
may elect to withdraw. If this
were to happen, it will be neces
sary to sell almost three billion
board feet of timber in order to
pay the withdrawing members.
This volume, equal to eight times
the total volume cut each year
by all the sawmills in the Upper
Klamath Basin, would have to be
sold in less than one year's time.
It seems obvious that the forced
sale of such a huge volume of
timber will bring seriously re
duced stumpagc prices. 'These re
ductions in prices will apply to the
a choice appears to be very fair timber sold to pay those members
to the Klamath Indians, the
actual accomplishment of these
provisions will probably work
against the best interests of a
majority of the tribal members.
To understand this, it is nec
essary to visualize the amount of
timber, as well as other property,
that will have to be sold in order
who elect to withdraw, to the
timber to be sold by those persons
remaining and will extend, as
well, to timber sold from indivi
dual Indian-owned allotments and
from lands of other ownerships,
(Continued Page 3, Col. 4)
Education Office Holds
to carry out the provisions of the Cnmmunitv MpprinnQ
law. This should then be compared -ommuniry weermgs
compare
with the capacity of the local
lumber industry to saw the timber
into lumber. At present the
volume of timber on tribally
vwned land totals almost four
, 'lion board feet of, saw timber.
Inasmuch as this resource repre
sents approximately 90 percent of
the known values of tribally
owncd property, timber will un
doubtedly comprise a large part
of the property which will be sold
in order to obtain the money with
Community meetings, spon
sored by the Klamath information
and Kducation office, were held
at the Klamath Falls Y.M.C.A. on
December 12, and at the Beatty
Community Hall on Dec. 14th.
Bill Norval, educational coun
selor, showed colored slides of
Klamath Indian students who arc
attending O.T.I, and outlined the
educational benefits offered by
the program. Mac Anderson, Ag
ricultural Specialist, and Dorothy
which to pay the withdrawing Smith, home .economist, pre
members. 1 lie amount ot such sented talks relating to their
timber that will be Sold will dc- (Continued Page 2, Col. 2.)
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ERNESTINE ORTIS NOW TAKING SECOND
YEAR OF X.-RAY TECHNOLOGY
"I always felt that I would
like to be in the medical field, so
when Public Law 587 made it
possible for me to further my
education, I put away my knitting
and grandma went to school."
The "grandma" talking above
is Krnestine Ortis, also known as
"Nippy" to many friends in this
area, and when she laid down her
knitting and picked up the school
books, she upheld the old adage
that you're never too old to learn.
(Nippy, of course, isn't "old" in
any sense of the word, but she is
in fact a grandma, since her son
Leland, who is also taking train
ing under the Klamath Kducation
Program, is the. proud father of a
baby girl.)
Krnestine enrolled in X-Ray
Technology .at O.T.I, in Sept',
1955 under the Klamath Kduca
tion Program. Her work since
that time has been outstanding.
Her grades have averaged well
above B, and winter term of the
past school year she was on the
honor roll. This required a B plus
average.
In relating some of her back
ground before enrolling in the
course, Nippy states that she has
lived in this area nearly all her
life. She attended Mills Tirade
Sch ool and then K.IJ.II.S., but
did not obtain her high school
diploma.
To enroll in X-Ray Technology
at O.T.I. , students must have a
high school diploma or its equiva
lent. As a result, Krnestine had to
take the general equivalency
examination given by the State of
Oregon. She passed this exam,
thus obtaining the equivalent of
a high school diploma and enabl
ing her to enroll.
Nippy states: "These tests
aren't hard but do require think
ing. Common sense will answer
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