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CHILOQUIN, OREGON
VOL. 3 NO. 12
KLAMATH INFORMATION AND EDUCATION PROGRAM
December 1958
JOSEPH COBURN TAKES EDUCATION
COURSE AT UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
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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
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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
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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
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