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About Klamath tribune. (Chiloquin, Or.) 1956-1961 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 1, 1957)
EIL- XKQX IT EH BULK RATE U. S. POSTAGE PAID Fern 3547 fltquitttd CMIoQilna OrtQofl ftrmit No. 2 VOL. 2 NO. 8 KLAMATH INFORMATION AND EDUCATION PROGRAM AUGUST 1957 Is II MWmlIHlll"1""n" l'lfr" .1 v .V. 4 .t J .v--s'-' S..x f -. - V,. "n r-A'"7-,'Vv-'- r I 4 Two and one-half days of the five day field trip taken by Klamath boys and girls were spent in the Portland area. The top picture shows some of the youngsters inspecting a jet at the U. S. Air Force Date in Portland, while at bottom some of the girls have just got out of a charm course held at Meier and Frank store for their benefit. KLAMATH BOYS AND GIRLS TOUR STATE; GOVERNOR, COLLEGES, VARIOUS POINTS Fifty-four Klamath Indian boys and tfirls, twelve to seven teen years of age, hoarded a bus on August 16 and were taken on a whirlwind five day educational tour of Oregon, sponsored by the Klamath Education Program. The group traveled to Portland jbv way of Mt. Hood on a bus pro vided by the Klamath County School District. In Portland, members of the group were guests of the First Presbyterian Church and the Rose City Park Methodist Church and for two and a half days toured the Portland Public Docks, Washington Park Zoo, The Oregon Historical Museum, Reed College campus, Vista House, Bonneville dam and the U. S. Air Forctr Hase. One after noon was spent at Jantzen Peach Park where the group had box lunches provided by Ireland's Restaurant. In Salem, after a guided tour of the State capital, the members o the group were greeted personalis- bv Governor Robert D. Holmes, and Susan Shuey, on be half of all the Klamath Indian boys and girls, presented the gov ernor with a sterling silver wes tern belt buckle with the inscrip tion "Gov. R.D. Holmes Roys and Girls of the Klamath Indian Tribe Auk. 19. 1957." Following talks to the group in the Willamette University chapel by Fx-Gov. Charles Sprague and Rex Putnam, State Supt. of Public Instruction, the group toured the college campus. The fifth and final day in cluded a visit to the Oregon State College Campus in Cor vallis, where the youngsters were greeted by Pres. Strand, and in Hugenc, a tour of the Uni versity of Oregon campus and the Register-Guard. The American Friends service committee made arrangements for housing the youngsters as guests of private families in Port land and similar housing arrange ments were made in Salem by (Continued Ije 3, Col. 3) P. L. 587 AMENDED; TERMINATION DATE EXTENSION, PARTIAL REPAYMENT OF TERMINATION COSTS AUTHORIZED who wish to take their share of tribal property in cash, until the end of the 85th Congress. This will probably be some time in August PASS. Other provisions of P. I,. 85-132: 1. authorize $550,000 of fed eral money to be used to repay the Klamath Tribe for the costs incurred by the Management Specialists in carrying out Sec tion 5 of P.L. 587. 2. expressly give the Secretary of the Interior the right to ap rove the appraisal of tribal pro perty before the tribal members decide whether they want in or out of a tribal management plan. X give the Secretary authority to select the person to decide for minors, incompetents and de ceased members whether or not to remain in the tribal manage ment plan. A period of 120 days is given in which to appeal the choice thus made by the Secre tary. I. state that only those mem bers of the tribe who "elect to remain in the tribe" need approve the management plan being pre pared by the Management Spec ialists. As the law originally read, the management plan had to be satisfactory to the entire tribe. This could have been taken to mean that the tribe was to have some part in working out the plan before it was necessary for each member to decide whether he wanted to join the plan or take his share in cash. This obvious misconception has now been clari fied and those Klamaths who wish to stay under a management plan have the right to approve that plan worked out between the Secretary and the Manage inent Specialists. Approval will be .expressed simply by making the irrevocable election to remain in the plan. 5. authorize the Secretarv to create trusts for those Klamaths who in the opinion of the Seen (Continued Pk 4, Col. 2) On August 14, 1957, the Presi dent signed into law an act that extends final termination of fed eral supervision over tribal prop erty of Klamath Indians to August 13, I960 and makes other changes in the termination act of 1954, Public Law 587. P.L. 85-132, as the new law will be known, provides, in addition to a two year extension of the termination date, that no tribal property will be sold by the Management Specialists, for the purpose of paying those members ELECTORS' ROLL NOW BEING ESTABLISHED Section 5 (a) (2) of the Klam ath Act, as amended, provides that every member of the Klam ath "Tribe is to have the right to elect to withdraw from the Tribe and take his share in cash or to leave his interest in some kind of management plan, which is being worked out by the manage ment specialists. In the case of children, those members who have died, and men tal defectives, the amended law says that the Secretary of the Interior shall pick someone to make the election for them. Those for whom someone else is picked by the Secretary to make the electioli have 120 days in which io appeal to the courts if they do not agree that the Sec retary has made the best choice. Under the provisions of this amendment the Klamath Agency is proceeding with the establish ment of an Klcctors' Roll and will notify the members by letter of the person designated to elect for him. The elector will also be notified of the name of the mem ber for whom he has been desig nated to elect. The Agency will begin mailing the letters around August 28, 1957. The .e letters are not the notices of election to withdraw or remain. Instructions for making the election will be (Continued Page 3, Col. 2) - uJUitl I LlUtkrU t