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About Klamath tribune. (Chiloquin, Or.) 1956-1961 | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1961)
ik:il KIX tt mi Form 3347 Rcqutstttf v BULK RATE U. S. POSTACC PAID Permit N. 2 CHILOQUIN, OREGON VOL. 6 NO. 3 KLAMATH INFORMATION AND EDUCATION PROGRAM MARCH 1961 Richard Barney Studies Body and Fender, Finds Schooling Can Improve Sporting Capabilities .-BCSid . in mi i ir i i i ii ii Completing liis second term in body and fender at OTI March 17 was Richard Barney. Richard was horn and raised in the Chilo (iiin area and attended Chiloquin schools, graduating from CHS in I960. Richard has taken such courses as body tech and lab, welding tech, English, and physics in his first 2 terms at OTI, and readily admits that the work has been plenty tough. Physics has given him an especially hard time of it which he attributes at least par tially to the fact he got no prep aration in the field out of high school. The other courses have been no snap either, although he has generally held his own in them. Richard considers OTI generally a "pretty good place to go" but warns that the in structors arc "for your hide if you don't learn". After two terms of hard work he concedes they may be after his own hide, but hopes for the best. A general increase in emphasis on academic study at OTI is noted, concurrent with the school's being moved under the supervision of the State Hoard of Higher Education. Such studies have given Richard the most difficulty and he is weighing the advisability of transfer to a school offering gen uine vocational - type curricula. Such a school high on his interest list is Eugene Vocational at Eugene. In any event, he feels that he has "learned quite a bit. You never forget once you learn down there. It's right in front of you all the time". His favorite course has been welding "that's what I like best. It's pretty much fun welding up stuff". In OTI's modern body shop the students receive valuable prac tical experience doing repair jobs on cars. Richard's class has been doing a lot of window fixing and othr minor repair work. Second year students can look forward to getting some major wrecks to "tear up and put together". Also holding high priority in Richard's educational plans is go in gto barber college. He acknow ledges that the combination might be somewhat unusual but points out "I always did like to cut hair". While he isn't too sure of how he can combine the auto trade with barbcring in mapping out a career he is confident that the two occupations together will give him plenty to fall back on "when the mills blow up". (Continued on Page 2, Col. 3) Appropriations Bill Passes Senate; House Senate Committee To Work Out Official Version Lloyd Tuppling, administrative assistant to Senator Maurine Xeuberger, reported March 27 that a supplement appropria tion bill had been passed" bv the Senate authorizing $6S,7 1 7,000 for payment to withdrawing Klamath tribal members for reservation lauds. He reported that the bill, plus a number of amendments adopted on the floor by a voice vote, will now have to go to a joint com mittee to iron out differences be tween it and the House-passed version. He reported no basic differences between the House and Senate versions, labelling Senate changes as "minor" and Reorganization Study Of Rcmaince Govt. Planned The reorganization of the gov ering body of the remaining members was the major topic of discussion at the non-withdrawing sub-committee meeting held at the trust dept. of the U. S. National Hank, Klamath I 'alls branch, Monday, March 20. At the present time the trustee recognizes a sub-committee of the tribal executive committee as the group representing the general membership bodv of the remaining group. Tfic sub committee is composed of five remaining members : Joseph Hall, Dibbon Cook, Elnathan Davis, Hoyd Jackson, and Jess Kirk. It was pointed out that since the tribal executive committee goes out of existence with the term ination of federal supervision it is necessary to plan for some type of organization that would continue beyond August, 11. R. II. Lung, trust officer for the U. S. Hank, placed the re sponsibility for setting up the new organization in the hands' of the present sub-committee. It is expected that the sub-committee will have a plan formulated ami brought before a general meet ing of remaining members to be held sometime in July, 1961. stated that the bill should be cleared for the President by Thursday, March M). Regarding the payment time table by the Hureau of Indian Af fairs, Tuppling said that the Hureau had informed Sen. Neu bcrger's office that they were geared to handle the mailing of checks and could probably do so within I to 5 days after the bill is signed into law. News Release The federal district court at Washington, D. C. was asked Wednesday, March 28 to restrain the government from taking over 800,000 acres of Klamath Indian lands until provision is made for acquisition by due process and just compensation is paid. Nicl F. Stull and C. A. Davis, Washington attorneys, filed a petition in behalf of Paul Bellm, Klamath Falls, and other Klam ath tribal members, against Sec retary of Agriculture Freeman and Secretary of Interior Udall. They sought a restraining order and, after a hearing, an injunc tion prohibiting the government from carrying out some pro visions of the termination law, contending the provisions are un constitutional. The complaint said the act un dertakes t6 deprive tribal mem bers of property rights without duo process and just payments. The court was asked to re strain Freeman from publishing in a federal register a declaration that the Forest Service is taking title to the property and to pro hibit Udall from permitting any transfer of control of tribal as sets to the Agriculture Depart ment. Attorneys alleged that the Klamath act authorized appropri ation of $90 million to pay the tribe, but that the timberland and marshland involved had been valued at $157,968,090, without taking into consideration the value of mineral, water, hunting (Continued on Page 3, Col. 1)