iK:n jxfqx tt mi BULK RATE U. S. POSTAGE PAID Form 3547 Rtquttttd Chlloiiin. Ortgon Ptrmlt No. 2 ' J I J I I X I I i a - ,V -" ' County Library Klamath Falls, Oregon VOL. 2 NO. 6 KLAMATH INFORMATION AND EDUCATION PROGRAM JUNE 1957 Jb; i DELPHINE JACKSON COMPLETES FIRST YEAR OF ART AT MARYLHURST Home for the stunnicr after completing a year of school work at Marylhurst College near Portland is Delplimc Jackson. "Home" for Delnhme is the Klamath Agency residence of Hoyd Jackson, Dclphinc's grand father and )rominent trihal member.) Delphine began her course at Marylhurst she is taking Com mercial Art last fall after having completed twelve years of grade and high school at Sacred Heart Academy in Klamath Falls. She graduated at- Sacred Heart in May, 1956 with a 2 plus grade average which earned her the salutatorianship for her class. Delphine states that she select ed a Commercial Art major in college because she has always been interested in the field, which intcrcsfwas cultivated at Sacred Heart by art lessons which began in the sixth grade. She has no re grets about having selected the course, stating: "It's wonderful. I really like the course and I think I was pretty lucky getting into it." Included in the subjects which she took during the past year, and for which she received above average grades, were English, Drawing (consisting of basic work in color, lines, shapes, etc.), Design, Epistetnology and Logic, Physical Kducution. and Religion.' Xext year, Delphine expects to get more art courses, including painting, lettering and interior de sign. The latter is her main in terest and the field in which she hopes to place herself following graduation three years hence. She points out, however, that while (Continued Pafa 4, CoL 2) EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE HOLDS MEETING WITH MGT. SPECIALISTS; AMENDMENTS TO P. L. 587, APPRAISAL DISCUSSED On June U 1957 the Klamath Executive Committee held a joint meeting with the Management Specialists at the office of the Specialists in Klamath Falls. At the meeting, Executive Com mittee delegates to Washington D. C. Jesse L. Kirk and Hoyd J. Jackson discussed progress of the pending ' amendments to Public Law 5.S7. (See story this page). The Executive Committee also EXECUTIVE COM. DELEGATES ATTEND HEARINGS Klamath Tribal Executive Committee Delegates Hoyd J. Jackson and Jesse L. Kirk were in Washington, D. C. the last part of May and the first week in June attending congressional hearings regarding' amendments to P. L. 587, the Klamath Termi nation Act. The Executive Committee dele gates expect that the House .will The House of Representa tives passed S. 469, the bill providing for certain amend ments to P. L. 587 including an extension of the final termination date, on Friday, June 21. Tho bill which was passed by the House differs in some respects from that which was passed previously by the Senate, and both bills will therefore have to ro through a conference com mittee made up of members of both the House and Sen ate. This committee will iron out the differences be tween the two bills and the exact terms of the amended law will then be known. It appears definite at this time, however, that P. L. 587 will be extended another two or three years. pass the bill when it conies up for a vote the latter part of June. (Continued Tag 4, Col 2) heard a report from the Manage ment Specialists regarding the progress of the appraisal of tribal property.' Karl Wilcox, forester for the Management Specialists, reported that the checking done by himself and members of the Hureau of Indian Affairs Forest ry staff revealed that the field work done by the appraisers was quite accurate. However, num erous mathematical errors have entered the appraisal after the basic work was done in the field. This has made it necessary for the Secretary of the Interior and the Management Specialists to return the appraisal to the appraisers to be revised and corrected. The Specialists were unable to tell the Executive Committee when they might expect to re ceive the results of the appraisal. Mr. Wilcox felt thai it would be at least a month before the cor rected appraisal would be in the hands of the Secretary of the In terior for final approval. Per capita payment requested Another item of business taken care of by the Executive Committee at the June LUh meet ing was that of the summer per capita payment. A resolution was (Continued Page 4, Col. 1) Fund For Republic Sets Up Commission On Indian Rights A five man commission to pro mote better understanding of the rights and responsibilities of American Indians has been es tablished by the Fund for the Republic. Chairman of the commission is O. Meredith Wilson, President of the University of Oregon. Serv ing with Dr. Wilson on the Com mission are Charles A. Sprague, publisher of the Oregon States man; Karl Llewellyn, Professor of Jurisprudence of the Univer sity of Chicago; Arthur L. Schlc singer, Sr., Professor of History at Harvard University; and V. (Continued Page. 3, Col. 4)