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About Klamath tribune. (Chiloquin, Or.) 1956-1961 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1959)
December 1959 KLAMATH TRIBUNE Page 3 Personal Property Sale Held December 17 One-hundred and twenty-five items of personal property were successfully sold at the personal property sales held at the Agency on December 17. 1959. resulting in an income of $8,573.75 to the withdrawing members. Only one item, a gas range ap praised at fifteen dollars was un sold. One non-member succeeded in purchasing one item for ten dollars cash, while tribal mem bers made other cash purchases of $143.75. The balance of the pur chases amounting to $$8,420.(X) was made by withdrawing mem bers who applied their credit against their pro-rata shares. Farle Wilcox, tribal sales of ficer, and Xoble Sanderville, .Agency Property Officer, report that the mid-way point in the personal property sales program lias now been reached, with 8 sales having been held and an es timated 8 yet to be held. Sold in the 8 sales held thus far were 781 items involving 2,062 pieces or lots. Total consideration for this property was $74,332.29. Ap praised value of the property was $33,100.21, selling price thus ex ceeding the appraised price by $41,232.08. There are 4,231 pieces or lots of equipment remaining to be sold, of which 423 are classified as major items. Chamber Hears Copco Vice-Prexy Speak A dinner meeting of the Chilo uin Chamber of Commerce was held at the Chilouin Masonic Hall Monday, December 7. Furnishing early - evening en tertainment were Connie Wamp ler and Xadine Wright, who dem onstrated some skilled panto mime singing and (lancing, and Kuphane Mannering, who sang to the piano accompaniment of Dar lene Wolff. Featured speaker of the eve ning was Harlan Bosworth, vice president of Copco, whose very interesting talk dealt largely with the Chilouin area. He spoke of Chiloquin's past, present, and fu ture, of its economics, resources, and possibilities for growth. He further explained how the Chilo tiin Chamber and also Copco could relate themselves to the economy of the area, enhancing its growth. Some 30 Chiloquin chamberites and their wives were in attend ance, with President D. C. Kircher presiding. Guests present includ ed Sam Ritchey, Klamath Falls Copco manager, and Chester Clark and George Callison, reprc- Non-Withdrawing Sub-Comm. (Continued from Page 1.) ently stressing the importance of education to their children, the idea of training themselves to make a substantial living and us ing their trust income as a sup plement. He advocated develop ing some means of teaching the children to become self-reliant and not dependent on per capitas, which he cited as the downfall of the tribe. Other members con curred in the importance of edu cation, both to the future of the trust and to the beneficiaries themselves. FInathan Davis sug gested that a committee be ap pointed to investigate the matter Dibbon Cook predicted that not only education but how the with drawees fared would be highly determinative of the duration of the trust. A result of this discus sion was the appointment of an educational committee with Joe Hall, FInathan Davis, and J. L. Kirk as members. Lung analyzed losses resulting from a Xov. 27 windstorm. Total blowdown was some 1,100.(XX) board feet, mostly in economic unit 30. That in economic unit 30 will be taken out by Simplot Lbr. Co., already operating under a 5 year contract in the unit. Hlow lown in the uncut area covered by their contract,- Fung stated, will be taken at contract price, while blowdown in the area they've already cut and in areas in unit .30 not covered by their contract will be taken at $40 per thousand. Separate salvage con tracts are to be negotiated for blowdown in other areas. It was also reported that the salvage timber remaining to be sold in Calimus siding sub-unit Xo. 1. had been sold at the min imum price by negotiation with Simplot Lumber Co. on Dec. 21. The unit contained 3,513,000 board feet. Grazing permits were discussed at length. It was pointed out that relatively long-term (5 year) grazing permits were being pro moted as of mutual benefit to ranchers and to the trust. Handl ers would have assurance of use of property for a sufficient time to make various improvements on it. For grazing units are now being advertised Applegate. Calimus, Houndary I'utte (sheep units) and Huckhom Springs (cow unit). Hids on these units will be opened Jan. 13. senting the Klamath County Chamber of Commerce. Hcsponsible for planning and executing the highly successful meeting were publicity commit tee co-chairmen I 'earl Adamo and Opal Doak (Klamath tribal member). STAFF IN MOST DEPARTMENTS AT KLAMATH AGENCY NOW GREATLY REDUCED A drastic change has taken place at Klamath Agency where the number of full time em ployees has been cut almost in half within the past four and one half years. Karle Wilcox, present manager of the Tribal Property Sales Of fice, was interviewed concerning the present status of the Agency. Wilcox is in a position to know all about such changes at the Agency since he has been recent ly designated Officer in Charge of th Agency while still heading the sales program. Martin Zol lar, the last man to hold the sup erintendent')' of Klamath Agency, was transferred to the Cintah Ouray Agency on October 5, 1959 and was replaced by Wilcox on the same date as Officer in Charge. According to Wilcox, there are now twenty-three regular em ployees on the Agency staff. This does not include the sales office which has a staff of three persons including Wilcox. The twenty three now employed at the Agency contrasts with the fifty full time employees at the start of termination, and the approx imately sixty-five full time em ployees at the end of 1956. Wilcox explained that the volume of work required as a result of term ination proceedings made it nec essary for the staff to be tem porarily increased. The branch of realty, which at one time had a staff of six, has been totally eliminated. The land operations branch, which had as many as eight regtdar employees, no longer has any employees. He cause the Hureau still has respon sibility over large sections of tribal property, the forest man agement branch retains a staff of eight regtdar employees though this too has been reduced from a high of twenty-two. In the roads department, there are now six employees, about the same number as there was before term ination. The responsibility for the maintenance of the roads has not been turned over to the County as yet, though it is planned that this will take place sometime dur ing July of I960. Wilcox reports that all road construction has been completed. The welfare de partment maintains one employee compared to the staff of four which were in the department during the peak of 1956. Thr present welfare worker assists the trust departments, welfare agencies and the courts whenever problems arise over which the Hureau feels it has responsibility. As for straight administration, Wilcox stated that at the start of July of this year, there were eight employees including ad ministrative and custodial person nel, and within less than six' months time, this has been cut to only three, in addition to Wil cox himself. Wilcox anticipates that "by the middle of next year, the work of the roads branch will be com pleted, and the County will have taken over. The forestry branch will have been reduced to noth ing more than fire control and pre-suppression and in cooperat ing in turning over their respon sibilities to the new property owners. Hart of this may involve cooperation with the forest serv ice. State and other organizations. The Forest Service won't take over the portion of the property which thev acquire according to law until April of 196F There has been a steady dis posal of personal property at the Agency resulting from the eight personal property sales held thus far. The sale of the Agency it self is expected t take place sometime in 1960. Wilcox states, however, that provision will prob ably be made for the continued use of the property by the Hureau until the Hureau's responsibility for fire protection is turned over to some other organization, which is expected to be accom plished in WXA). Sid Openings Set On Tribal Units It was reported by the l. S. Forest Service on October JO, 1059, that three companies have submitted sustained yield man agement plans. Four sustained yield units are scheduled to be sold on January 20. 1960, on which date sealed bids will be opened at the Tribal Sales Office at 2 p. ni. The plans submitted by the three companies are being exam ined in Washington, I). C. by the C S. Forest Service in accord ance with Public Law 5K7 as amended, and will be officially approved ur disapproved fifteen days before the date of the open ing of the bids or on January 5. It was not disclosed how many plans were submitted by the three companies nor whether plans were submitted mi all four units. The submitting of a plan by any operator does not obligate the operator to submit a bid, accord ing to the Tribal Sales Office. The first four sustained yield units to be put up for sale are the Antelope -Desert unit, the North Marsh unit, the Modoc Point unit, and the Sykan unit.