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Indian Hunting Right Clarified By Report Indians who terminated their rights in the Klamath Indian Rcsrvation under the Klamath Termination Ait forfeited their rights to hunt and trap on these lands, and the remaining mem bers of the tribe retain these rights only on lands held as trust lands. This was the decUun reached recently in the United States District Court in Portland, Judge Solomon presiding, following complaints and arrests of tribal Indians who asserted the old treaty rights to hunt and trap out of season cn the original Klamath Indian Reservation lands. The federal government acted as intervenor in the con troversy. Roy Atchiscn, assistant attor ney general for the game can- XMAS SHOPPING SAVING CENTER BUY YOUR TOYS WHOLESALE OPEN TILL 9 P.M. FRIDAYS For Your Shopping Convenience RANCH WHOLESALE SUPPLY BUY AT THE "Y" MERRILL-LAKE VIEW JUNCT. Bathe away your tensions! Relax... with mm PERFUMED BUBBLING BATH OIL In your dally bath. nttmlwitst witii! looWiu ni smooth! iif ikin! mii millions of babbits Will mil) lns no bMlub tlif! fm diliihllul Ininncis! I o!, 1.50; 16 ., 2.25; 32 4.00. plus For MEN ONLY 9rh & Main 64-01. I Free Delivery HOUSE DISCOUNT Town & Country Shopping Center Shop till 9 FYTBA FROM 14" REG. Complete with And Dress-Up mission, said that the judgment is to the effect that the re maining members of the tribe retain all hunting and trapping rights under the treaty of 1864 on lands retained as tribal lands. Only those members on the tribal roll continue to hold this privilege. The judgment also found according to Atchison. tJiat the enrolled members of the tribe do not have rights to hunt or trap cn that part cf the reser vation sold to the government and which has now become part of the Deschutes and Winema national forests and wildlife ref uge lands. In addition, he said, the court ruled that Indians who with drew and accepted the cash val ue of tlieir tribal interests are. in effect, in the same category as ordinary citizens in regard to former tribal lands which were sold and trust lands w hich were not sold. In other words. Atchison said, Indians who decided to remain as a tribal unit retain hunting and trapping rights on that portion of the old reservation re tained as tribal lands. They do not have such rights on the re mainder of the reservation sold to the government. iMcmbers of the tribe who ter minated are now. in effect, or dinary citizens and have no such rights on either the ter minated iands or those lands re tained as tribal lands. SEARCH FOR SURVIVORS TAMP1CO. Mexico UPD 'Police searched the shores south of here today for the missing four-man crew of the 60-ton ship Oro Becerro. found wrecked at nearby Azul Beach. Searchers feared the men fell victim to the sharks which abound in the are. fiiti tai TU 2-3475 13 tills 1 7?iy tin CHRISTMAS VALUE! OUR TOY DEPARTMENT! NURSE 4.93 Nurse Outfit Wardrobe! 3 HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Fall. Ore. "'ill J " 1 H XjSz r w : ft WK RINGS THE BELL Marily Mitchell, 36, San Diego, Calif., "Mrs. America of 1963" rings the bell for the Salvation Army's Christmas donations in Chicago as Cadet Rob ert P. Gooch looks on. Mrs. America was in Chicago to address the Women's Auxi liary of the National Association of Home Builders. UPI Telephoto ;l Conununitij. ;j jl (Calendar !; TUESDAY ,IOi, LY NEIGHBORS. 8 p.m., meeting, gift exchange, Mrs. Verda Lords, 1400 Nimitz. EVERGREEN GARDEN CU'Ii, 8:30 p.m., meeting cookie exchange, Mrs. Lela Thurman, 3307 Hilyard. WEDNESDAY THE KLAMATH STAMP AND COIN CLUB, 632 Main, will meet at 8 p.m., visitors welcome. LADIES SOCIETY, BLF&E, fi:30 p.m., Christmas party, no host dinner, Harold's. MIDLAND GRANGE, 8 p.m., meeting. Grange Hall. Officers wear uniforms. PLAYERS CLUB. 1 Christmas party. $1 change, Legion Hall. :.KI p.m., gift cx- A AND W CLUB. 1 p.m., meeting, Ruth Palmer, 1129 Crescent. GOLDEN AGE CLUB. 1 p.m. Christmas party, card ex change, Klamath Auditorium. FAIRHAVEN HOME EXT., 11:30 a.m., Christmas party, home of Jo Depuy. Bring table service. THURSDAY YNE-MA TWIRLERS, 8 p.m., square dance. 50-cent Rift exchange, YMCA. Bring cookies. YMCA, Children's Square Dance Group, 6:30 to 8 p.m., 50-cent gift exchange, YMCA. BETHEL 6. Jobs ters, 7 p.m., meeting. Hall. Daugh-Masonic DOLL Tuesday, December 17, 1961 tNiV- '.f ... Summer's Final Chores Can Be Painful Problem By DICK WEST WASHINGTON (LTD - On Thanksgiving Day 1 went out side between football games to perform a ritual, familiar to all suburbanites, that is known as "putting the lawnmower away for the winter." While I had t'lie tiling upend ed, trying to remove the blade, the wrench slipped and mashed the end of the little finger on my right hand. It was excru ciating. Besides that, it hurt. I ran into the the house where I encountered my wife coming up from the basement with a load of laundry. She could sense from the way I was screaming that something was wrong. My wife is very perceptive that way. "What's the matter?" she asked. "I hurt my pinkie." I said. "You poor kid," she crooned. "Come here and I'll kiss it and make it all well." Sarcasm Unappreciated I didn't appreciate her sar casm one bit. Besides that, she lied to me. This happened more than two weeks ago and my finger is still sore. Mashing one's finger is not, I'll admit, a mortal wound. But for someone who earns his live lihood playing the typewriter, it is just about the worst thing that can happen. Outside of discovering that one's wile can't really heal a mashed finger by kissing it, I don't know of anything more traumatic than having to. change one s typing technique. Under the typing system I employ, the right little finger has jurisdiction not only over the colon-semicolon, its home key, but is alio responsible for the letter P, both capital and low er case; the zero: the starboard parenthesis; the asterisk: the FIRING SUCCESSFUL VANDENBERG AKB. Calif. il'Pli A Titan-2, one of the nation's mightiest military j rockets, was (ired successfully Monday more than 5.000 miles down the Pacific missile range. I i rife PAGE SB dash: the margin release; the '2 and u signs; the plus and equal signs: the question mark and slash mark; a shift key; the per cent mark and that lit tle a with the circle around it. Versatility Unmatched No other typing finger can match its versatility and none is more important, except pos sibly the left ring linger, which is assigned to the key used in X-ing out mistakes. The loss of the right pinkie is particularly hard on someone like me because I have an in feriority complex and conse quently U6e a lot of question marks. 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The slate has strong civil rights laws, yet discrimina tion exists despite a small Ne gro population. How do rvents elsewhere touch the Oregon Negro, and what progress Is he making toward equal opportun ity? The following dispatch, first of two, explores Negro altitudes and measures the size of the problem. By GORDON RICE United Press International In tlie 1920s Uie Ku Klux Klan was burning crosses in Southern Oregon and electing public offi cials to represent it at Salem. Today. Oregon has one of the strongest sets of civil rights laws in the nation stronger than the federal laws proposed by the late President Kennedy. Some of its people have made the transition in attitude, and some have not. That, highly simplified, is the condition Ore gon finds itself in the civil rights field in 1963. "Today I'm proud to say I'm from Oregon at any national meeting or convention," says E. Shelton Hill, executive secretary for the Portland Urban League. "Our situation in Oregon is ages better than most areas of the nation.. .and improvements have been rapid and I believe are accelerating," adds Gov. Mark Hatfield. But discrimination does exist, in spite of strong laws, a small Negro population and Oregon's generally enlightened attitude toward civil liberties. It exists "on a very quiet basis." says Dr. Wesley G. Nicholson, pastor of Eugene's First Congregational Church. What is the racial situation in Oregon? How are its laws work ing? What do the Negroes want, and what progress are they making? It it is true that the lack of Negroes means there is no problem, then most of Oregon docs not have a serious prob lem. But this docs not make the anguish of one Negro refused service in a smalltown Eastern Oregon restaurant any less than that of a victim of discrimina tion in Portland. Portland Has Most Negroes comprise " less than one per cent of the state's popu lation. About 10.500 of the state's approximately 18,500 Negroes live in Portland. There are smaller concentrations in Eugene, Klamath Falls, Pendle ton and a few other cities. The rest are scattered widely. In 1040 there were 2,565 Ne groes in the entire state. Then came World War II, the ship yards at Vanport and other war time industry. By J950, there were 11,529 Negroes in Oregon and by I960 the total had climbed lo 18.133. There are four major civil rights laws on the books: A Fair Employment Prac tices Law, enacted in 1949, bars discrimination by employers, employment agencies and labor unions. The Vocational, Professional and Trade Schools Act of 1951 v Small State Negro Population Strong Civil Rights Measures is designed to prevent bias on the part of training facilities which could give Negroes tlie skills to quality for better jobs. Tlie Public Accommodations Law of 1953. which prohibits dis crimination in public accommo dations, resorts, places of amusement and in all places of public services. The Housing Act of 1957, which bans discrimination in the sale or rental of housing. Mark A. Smith, a Negro, is administrator of the civil rights division in the State Bureau of Labor. He and three staff mem bers carry the load of enforcing these laws among nearly two million people. Smith gets about 12 com plaints a month, but says "most of them are traced to personal ity conflicts having nothing to do with civil rights." F'lve Public Hearings Most of the laws win accept ance once the public under stands them, he says. There has been no organized opposition and only five cases have gone as far as a public hearing, which is held if attempts to mediate the dispute fail. "But laws arc meaningless unless they are written in the hearts of men," Hatfield said recently in a Salem speech, and this is where civil rights workers think the work must be done. A Portland apartment house operator recently was overheard advising another to take down a "vacancy" sign if Ncgorcs came to inquire about the hous ing. "Tell them you've just rented it and forgot to take down the sign," he said, "and then leave the sign down for six months if you have to, lo make sure you don't get into any trouble." A housewife in Baker hesti tales when a Negro family wants to buy her home. Al though she disclaims any per sonal prejudice, she is worried about the reaction of her neigh bors. At Corvallis and Eugene, fra ternities and sororities conform to a ban on racial clauses in their charters, hut not a single Negro is pledged at cither Ore gon or Oregon State. One of the few Negroes who signed up for rush at Oregon said later he be lieved he had been a victim of discrimination. At Portland State College, President Branford Millar halt ed sorority rushing and suspend cd all the houses on the campus aflcr they failed to pledge two Negro girls. There are some Negro leaders who think stronger laws are the answer. "A disgrace" is the way presi dent Mayficld K. Webb of tlie Portlnnd chapter of the National Association for the Advance ment of C o I o r c d People de scribes the fact that the Civil Rights Division receives only This Year Send PHOTOGRAPH Chriitmas Cordl UNDERWOOD'S CAMERA SHOP Ph. TU 4-7063 about 12 complaints a month. Wants Law Amended Webb, generally regarded as the state's most militant rights worker, wants the law amended to allow the Civil Rights Divi sion to investigate possible dis crimination without tlie filing of a formal complaint. He also wants swift, severe punishment of offenders without the slower steps of mediation and concilia tion. "People will learn to live with stronger laws," he says. "Obvi ously we need changes of atti tudes, but I think they will be assisted by stronger laws. At this rate it w ill take another 100 years." Webb takes a less favorable view of the situation in Oregon than do most of his colleagues. "I believe there are sundown towns, but I can't pinpoint them right now," he comments. Several of his pronouncements have badly shaken a few satis fied city officials around t h e state. Earlier this year he re quested assurances from Med ford. Grants Pass and Ashland that Negroes would be welcome to use public accommodations in that region. He hinted Ne groes would bo sent to "test" it if the assurances were not forthcoming. "We had a tremendous re sponse," he says now. "We ac complished a lot in gelling the communities concerned." Another one of his plans for the future calls for sending a number of Negro young people I on a tour of the state to test their reception. "I think it would be telling, he explains. Webb's hard-line efforts have brought h i m some opposition within the Negro community. Mrs. Vivianne Barnctt, president of the Albina Civic and Taxpay ers Association, said recently there is now a danger of vio lence in Portland because of such incidents as Webb's threat to picket the Northwest Towers Housing Project during a pro posed dedication by President Kennedy. Webb said the Hous ing Authority of Portland dis criminated in its selection of tenants. Did Not Visit Kennedy decided not to visit Portland, and many people blamed the NAACP. "The result is that those who have been liberal have become antagonistic to us," Mrs. Bar nctt said. There have been several inci dents of violence and one death in Portland in which race played a part. Portland police say there is a "hard core" group of about 30 Negro youths GALLENKAMP'S QhhhimaA who have been involved in such incidents as a post-football game riot, the chain beating of a white boy on Halloween, and several other beatings. Law en forcement agencies are attempt ing to get them out of circula tion while youth commissions make sure the problem gets no worse. A white skidroad resident Ed ward St. George, 44, died after a I960 beating by a group of Negro youths, including Paul Machen, the brother of fighter Eddie Machen. They told authorities they were upset by racial tension in the South. Law enforcement authorities are hesitant to be quoted, but police have experienced some difficulty in the heavily-Negro Albina district. (Next: Jobs and housing) WANT SECURITY FOR YOUR FAMILY? Let us provide a planned ' insurance program to cover all your insurable interests . . . your home . . . car ... personal pos sessions . . . your income. Safeguard your family's welfare with total protec tion. Fay on easy terms. Ask for details. Midland Empire IN'Sl'RANCE AGENCY tflfln Main Hi. TV S-A417 Hill McKibbin - Clem Leiueur I. McKibbin K K K J5 ft R ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft L
