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About Klamath tribune. (Chiloquin, Or.) 1956-1961 | View Entire Issue (July 1, 1957)
KLAMATH TRIBUNE JULY 1957 INDIAN RIGHTS COMMISSION VISITS AREA; LOCAL SURVEY SCHEDULED Three members of the Com mission on the Rights, Liberties and Responsibilities of American Indians were on the Klamath Reservation June 26 gathering information about the Klamath Termination Act and how it is being carried out. Chairman of the Commission (). Meredith Wilson, President of the University of Oregon, and members Arthur Schlesinger, Sr. of Harvard University and V. W. Keeler, Vice 1 'resident of Phillips Petroleum Co., were present, as was William Brophy, Executive Secretary of the Commission. The Commission met with the Reservation Discussion Croup (see story page 1), and with individual members of the tribe. In the afternoon the commission was conducted over the reserva tion by tribal delegates and by Bureau of Indian Affairs person nel. The tour included a plane flight over the Reservation and surrounding areas. After talking to tribal members on the Reservation, and after meeting with the tribal Kxecn tive Committee in Eugene earlier in the week, the Commission de cided to soqsor a detailed study of the federal termination policy as it is being carried out on the Klamath Reservation under Pub lic Law 5N7. Dr. Wilson jnunted out that the Commission is independent of the federal government, having been set tip by the Fund for the Re public. The Commission will re view policies of the federal gov ernment as applied to all Indian tribes, and will publish the results f its findings along with its rec ommendations for improvements. As a jart of the broader study, the I niversity of Oregon will conduct the detailed survey on the Klamath Reservation for the Commission. Four men from the C of O are working on the survey. Thev are Dr. Theodore Stem. Dr. Vin cent Ostrom, and graduate assist ants Jack Pierce and Bert Swan son. They began work shortlv after the 4th of July, and wiil continue until September, when they will return to Eugene. Dur ing the school ear occasional trips to the Reservation will be made to gather further data, and another three months will he spent on the Reservation bv the group during the summer ofl(5S. Plans call for them to make their report to the Commission near the end of 1958. Dr. Wilson stressed the point that his Commission was inter ested in gathering facts only and could not at this time take any stand on issues that may divide the tribe. or that concern the peo ple of Klamath County. He did express the hope that his Com mission might, through making information available to Congress and to the public, be of help to the Indian people. 0 NANCY GENTRY (Continued from Page 1) taken up by classes and home work, which in her case consists mostly of housework. In her out -of-school hours she has found time to help take care of the family home and five brothers and sisters: Pat, I la. David, Ab and Don. Nancy says it was a busy year. Although thus occupied at home and in class, she did find time fall term to serve as a rep resentative of her class in the house of delegates, an O.T.I, stu dent governing body, and spring term to get elected queen of the intercollegiate rodeo held at Klamath Kails May 25 and 2d, for which O.T.I, acted as host. Inci dentally, this wasn't her first ex perience at presiding over rodeos as she served as a rodeo princess for the Fourth of July Rodeo in Klamath Falls when in high school. Nancy's plans for the coming year aren't definite as yet. She has applied for a secretarial pos ition at the Johns-Manville plant, where she hopes to get a chance to use her business training. As an alternative she is thinking of going back to O.T.I, for a second year of training, at the end of which she would get a diploma in secretarial technology. As for her views on termina tion. Xancy indicated that she disagreed with the views express ed by Delphine Jackson in the June issue of the Tribune. Del phine stated in that issue, in ef fect, that she felt that termina tion was undertaken too soon and that the people weren't quite ready for it. Xancy. on the other hand, feels this way: "It (termination) should go through as soon as possible if it's going to do us any good." She adds that she thinks the best way of undertak ing termination would be through federal purchase of the tribal property. ANNOUNCEMENTS OF PER CAPITA TIMES, AMOUNTS TO CEASE The time and amounts of per capita payments to members of Indian tribes in Washington, Ore gon and Idaho will no longer be announced by the Portland Area Office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. This new policy was a doptcd as a result, of a resolution passed by the Warm Springs tribe. The Warm Springs resolution pointed out that public announce ments of (he payments cause some salesmen to make an extra effort to high pressure tribal members into making purchases, and that the public gets the false impression that tribal members are wealthy. In announcing the new policy, Don Foster, Portland area direc tor, pointed out that per capita payments are made only from the Indian's own money, which the federal government holds as trus tee. No federal appropriations are used to make the payments, con trary to a common misunder standing of the public at large. 0 S.M.C. OFFICE HAS ENGINEERING SERVICES ON PART TIME BASIS As most of you know, Nelson Sharp and James Keatou are no longer with the Soil and Moisture Conservation office at Klamath Agency. This leaves S. M. C. without an engineer or a conser vationist. However, since the June issue of the Klamath Tri bune, it has been learned that Mr. Win. Smith, irrigation en gineer from the Warm Springs S.M.C. office, will be at Klamath Agency on a part-time basis to give advice and to perform en gineering services for those who wish to install irrigation works. To obtain this assistance you may make your request at the S.M.C. office at Klamath Agency. If you wish to call on the Soil Conservation Service for engi neering amPor farm planning as sistance you should call either Kangell Valley Soil Conservation District. Phone JtVd Bonanza, or Poe Valley S.C.D.. at the Post Office Building. Klamath Kails. Phone TU.xedo 4-6477. 0 The teacher was a big bluster ing hulk of a man whose vitup eration had his class in a constant state of uneasiness. "Tell inc." he barked one day at his smallest, shyest boy, "tell me how you can prove that the world is round." "Please, teacher," quivered the bov, "I didn't sav it was round." LOCAL RUTH-LEAGERS WIN CHAMPIONSHIP The Chiloquin Lumberjacks, lo .cal entry in the Babe Ruth base ball league, recently clinched the league championship with a 4-0 record with one game yet to play on the schedule. The team, made up of boys from Klamath Agency, Sprague River, and Modoc Point as well as Chiloquin, and managed by Friedman Kirk, finished ahead of two Lakcvicw teams and one ball club from Merrill. The boys on the club, all between the ages of 13 and 15 inclusive, are: Mickey Ochoa, Catcher; Orin Kirk, first base; Melvin Ohles, second base; John Ochoa, short stop and pitcher; Bert LeBeau third base; Ed Case, left field; Wayne liricco, center field ; John Wright, right field; Butch Crume, utility; Jackie Hogarth, outfield; Aden Souers, second base and right field ; Norman Jackson, pit cher; Erankie Heglund, pitcher. An all star team made up of players from the Chiloquin, Mer rill and Lakcvicw clubs will now meet the champions of the two Babe Ruth leagues in Klamath Kails for the right to represent the area in the State Babe Ruth league play-offs to be held in Portland in August. Those from the Chiloquin Club playing on the all star team are: Mickey Ochoa, Johnny Ochoa, Orin Kirk, Bert LeBea'u, Norman Jackson and Wayne Bricco. WATER USERS ASS'N SLATES MEETING The Modoc Point Water Users Association will hold a regular meeting on July 26, 8:00 P. M. at the Williamson River Church Annex. On the agenda for discussion will be: A. The proposed constitution and by-laws of the association. B. The petition being circula ted requesting the Secretary of the Interior to adjust or cancel the construction charges against the Modoc Point Irrigation Pro ject. All Modoc Point Project land owners are invited to attend. 0 At a party, a tactless guest rorncrcd her host and babbled, 'Who is that old lady chattering Dvcr there in the corner?" "That," said the host with frigid dignity, "is my eldest laughter." "Oh, dear," exclaimed the cm oarrassed guest, "she's lots older than vou are, isn't she?"