Show UTES SEEK HELP IN PLANNING PING FOR THEIR FUTURE PROGRAM establishment establishment of a good neighbor policy between the ute india indians and arid other citizens of uintah county may well be the ultimate result of a 0 meeting in vernal last week at which at ficiala of the ute tribal council and planning board met with the board of directors of the vernal chamber of commerce durl during the session held at k hotel vernal ernal the chamber learned that their indian neighbors had bad many problems and that they along on W with ith vernal city and uintah county could do a great deal to help put 04 a the utes prepare a future pro pm gram to lay jay before congress i I 1 representing the ules utes were hex ex curry chairman of the co council uncil francis McM mckinlay coordinator coco ord lator and preston alien aien chairman chaft ian of planning fang oard each euh 6 bloke oke aing hs koa the ji wo 1 1 y r t 04 I 1 to I 1 ahia ure 40 integrate the indian va inte the general stream ojE e 1 the government has deril decided ded to give the indians indiana themselves a chance s to work out their problems mr curry told the board members after three years of tri trial alunder tinder a 3 year program they expect us to come up with ith a concrete program to present to cengr congress M i 1 grogram that lat will take care cara of our people i forever it if we are art going iri to dok do this we are going 10 aeed sw 2 help of your organization vitt nal city uintah county and W A duchesne Du chesno county djs 0 neof the larger jarvest problem leaa confronting the th jwia f taxes he lie nii 01 14 said they th eyare grant n indiana indians freedom frew but abut la 1 lw they tare only e ablo to pay real for indiana already aloft 7 hive ww raghu taa gerics at id A ava t oil aab X i ff w ilk COD UTES ii SEEK EK H HELP E LP IN continued from page 1 to hll sell h ll rather than attempt to mafe the payments ments 11 ill he thre men expressed their at it a recent resola ti i ii of tit the duche riv county commission sent ti to both tate and national representatives asking that tit the indian be taxed 1 they fc l the acted in haste without examining the j si cind and pointed out that the government paid writ uintah mint sa arid Dutie county last year for the privilege of si sending ending their child ail to public schools sCho oll in th tit two districts 1 the counties also re belve funds by b virtue f the counting oun ting of lit inn i nth nonnce lit n public schools the same as other childred chil drep are lire counted in ait the it apportionment portion ment to the dis brits vv bv the state the utes nine pay all other taxes excepting tax on trust lands they an pan gasoline tax tobacco tax and the tile two per cent sales tax which supports the needy although the tile tribe has assumed complete responsibility rt 8 for their own relief program statistics show tit that at the biggest single source of income to the state has been federal aid for each paid in ill taxes to the fedora govern merit ment the state received some in return from the federal al government bawd on the same statistics however it is shown that fo fot ench each the ute indiana indians paid last year the state received only 36 back in federal aid other aid was given indirectly through direct appropriation to the indian bu reau the indian population Is counted in determining the basis of federal aid to the state and counties portions of funds used to defray expenses of the state extension services such as us county agents public health services ore lire defrayed through fed oral eral aid mot for F or each in federal axes paid by the people of the state the state received in lit return from fedrial aid some for roads indicating that the people of the eastern and midwestern states are helping to support the state and that tile average does not nay as much taxes to the federal federa gov crement as did the ute indians indian in lit 1052 53 echo park dam regarding eg arding echo park dan and the upper colorado storage project which the utes have hav e balled to openly support mr curry said that they had decided to do nothing for or against the project for a very good d reason at first we 0 objected gibgot jec e tf to the on instruction of the central utah project not lot because we thought the canyons would be damaged tut becal lse we were afraid of losing 1 our witter water rights right under III the t central utah project he lie aid he le explained our fears arose rose when a urven by the bureau of reclamation Hecla mation was made on crops crop rather than on oil soil clase drop dr ping many of the tile ute lands r in the UR Duches D nv iio drainage into too low IM of a 11 elair classification to keep asting existing anter ater rights right under thra tilt piot ct the itt utes filed ti a protest and fl liall got 11 hearing with the tit bureau to ill explain their object lions t tons and as a a result the two agreed on oil a 11 joint survey which MIS nas undertaken and showed that more clater was needed to aply ute lands when it looked like the tile utes mid lose their water rights fishing fi hing streams beaver and tapping areas the nature lovers vent ent to ilem and asked for their support up port but they did not get it mr curz curry said at the same ti tine they decided olve ded not to support the it I 1 project either because 0 of the u un n certainty of the tile future the tile chamber stopped listen ing 1119 and started liel helping ing at this point when hugh W IT colton n I 1 in n fo formed rint d the tilt three ute represents representatives als t the tile utah water and power hoard board of which hr lie I 1 Is a member would definitely lefin itel protect the in dinn dian waitr rights and that the water board had already appointed ted one of 1 I f its members to bring ring that message to the tile ute tribal council the right of all the utes after tilt project I 1 is will be I 1 is good if not better than they art right now flow mr colton said pointing out that indians arc are considered citizens citi pens of he file stale state and need not fear state statutes mrs J E collier running against their rights mr alien allen pointed out to the tile chamber that 87 percent of their children are now attending school but he said having children at home ome in the winter time has created a problem of juvenile delinquency that must be met with an adequate dional program mr mckinlay indicated that the tilt tribal council and the tile utes have much respect for vernal and for the treatment they have received hero here and called for help from everyone in the county to produce a good program for the indians which will anise their standard of living and make them useful citizens in the community |