EL MIX RATI U. J. fOSTACI PAID PtrJt . 2 For 3347 Klamith County Library 126 S. ;3ni Klaimth Fall a, Oro. CHILOQUIN, OREGON VOL. 3 NO. 12 KLAMATH INFORMATION AND EDUCATION PROGRAM December 1958 JOSEPH COBURN TAKES EDUCATION COURSE AT UNIVERSITY OF OREGON . .. .. . s . - . ji i- .: v v , ' Working for li is teaching cre dentials at the University of Oregon is Joseph "Joe" Cobum, brother of James (page 2). Joe, born at Klamath Falls, attended grade school at Spraguc River ami1 Bonanza and got his high school training at Giemawa Indian School. He put in a full four years there, receiving his diploma and graduating at the head of his class. He also got in a lot of athletics, playing football and baseball for four years and basketball two years. As a senior he got to play in the H shrine game held in Pendleton. Joe started his training under the Klamath Education Program, in Sept., 1955, enrolling in educa tion at Oregon College of Educa tion in Monouth. He continued at OCE two school years, during which time lie took a variety of courses, including literature, mu sic, art, history, social sciences, etc. For an education course he took School in American Life. He Oalso found time to sing in the OCE choir. Joe transferred to the Uni versity last September. Compar ing the.U. with OCE: "I like the U. better, although I liked OCE pretty well. Here you get profes sors that seem to be better. You have a wider range of subjects and better facilities." However, he also points out that in a bigger school "it's a lot harder getting acquainted". Joe's major subject field is biology. His minor is social sci ence, in which category he is now taking sociology and anthropo logy. He considers biology "pretty rough", and social science as being somewhat easier, with a wider range of courses to choose from. Joe plans on teach ing in these fields, in cither junior high school or high school, after graduation in June, 1960. As far as extracurricular in terest are concerned he says: "I (Continued Page 4, Col. 3) Loan Approval Revealed At Meeting Of Withdrawing Members; Limitations, Restrictions To Be Clarified A well-attended meeting of withdrawing Klamath Tribal members was held at the Klam ath Agency Council House on Friday, Dec. 19. Speakers of the evening included the chairman of the withdrawing group, Delford Lang, Karl Wilcox of the Tribal Land Sales Office, Hill Hradshaw, trust officer for the V. S. Nat'l. Hank, and 1). Windsor, attorney. Chairman Lang called the meeting to order and, after re lating the background of the loan petition recently submitted to the Dept. of Interior by the with drawing group, read a newly received telegram from the Dept. Steering Committee Meets; Execution Of Trust Plan Opposed The steering committee of the remaining members' (non-withdrawing members') group was active during December, meeting on four occasions during the month at the education office in Chiloquin. The steering committee, set up shortly after the election to remain or withdraw held last spring, had been somewhat in active following passage of the termination amendment in August. In November, Chairman Joe Hall named Elnathan Davis and Dibbon Cook to study the management plan and report their findings to the steering committee. Hutting in consider able study on the plan, Davis and Cook met on several occasions with bank officials. Also present at these meetings were education staff members. At a meeting of Dec. 19 they reported back to the steering committee their findings, the gist of which is given follow ing: 1. It has been reported that the Secretary of the Interior is now negotiating with bank officials for the establishment of a man agement trust plan and that such (Continued Page 3, Col. 1) concerning action on the petition. The telegram was as follows : Delford Lang, Chiloquin, Ore. Keurlet Dec. 5th. Pertaining to loans for Klamath Withdrawing members, whereby they will in cumber their pro rata shares as collateral for loans. Regulations to authorize loans have just been approved for publication in the federal register. Letter follows giving details, including various restrictions and limitations. Elmer X. Hemic tt Under Secty. of the Interior Chairman Lang explained that the letter mentioned in the tele gram had not yet been received and that he was therefore unable to give any details on the loan approval or on the "(imitations and restrictions". Lang then an nounced his intention of resign ing as chairman of the withdraw ing group, later explaining, how ever, that he would defer such resignation until the loan ap proval had been clarified. Earl Wilcox gave a rundown on the land sales program to date. He pointed out that two fringe units sales have been held thus far. The second sale, on Dec. 9, consisted of 17 units with a total appraised value of over $1,(XX),000. Five of the units in this sale, he stated, received bids over their appraised value, while four of the units had bids under the appraisal and the balance received no bids. Asked whether the large number of tribal members meeting the the high bids was not discourag ing non-tribal members from en tering the, bidding, Wilcox ob served that this was a factor in the comparative lack of bidding in the second sale. He added, however, that this right of the tribal members should not affect the bidding on the sustained yield units as these were of much greater size and value and the number of tribal members being able to meet the high bid here would likely be small. Wilcox also (Continued Page 3, Col. 4) 4