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there is that the dormitory facilities were previously provided for by the Reformed Church Mission, which has withdrawn from the activity and the information is that the facilities there are no longer available, leaving them with approximately 150 pupils to be ac commodated in dormitories constructed to accommodate not mos than 80, which leave them facing the fact that they will have to hol classes in the living rooms of the dormitories now under construetion until funds are provided for additional dormitory facilities. Mr. LEAVY. And no construction is authorized?

Dr. BEATTY. It is not in this bill.

Mr. LEAVY. Now, as to the items which you have mentioned de you have any in which you make a distinction as to which is the most urgent?

Mr. GREENWOOD. They are just about equally urgent.

Dr. BEATTY. Yes.

Mr. JOHNSON of Oklahoma. With reference to the Jones Academy how much did you ask the Budget for?

Mr. GREENWOOD. We asked the Budget for a total of $119,000 for the Five Civilized Tribes, which included $90,000 for Jones Academy. Mr. JOHNSON of Oklahoma. $119,000?

Mr. GREENWOOD. Yes.

Mr. JOHNSON of Oklahoma. And you felt that was urgently needed! Mr. GREENWOOD. $90.000 of that total was to provide new dormitories and quarters at the Jones Academy: $29,000, we requested for the construction of special Indian day schools at several points in Oklahoma, where we are occupying buildings which do not belong to the Indian Service.

Mr. JOHNSON of Oklahoma. And you asked the Budget for $20,000 for that purpose.

Mr. GREENWOOD. Yes.

Mr. JOHNSON of Oklahoma. What kind of facilities do they have there now: what kind of dormitory facilities?

Mr. GREENWOOD. At the Jones Academy?

Mr. JOHNSON of Oklahoma. Yes.

Dr. BEATTY. At the present time at Jones Academy there is a large dormitory building, which was originally built by the Choctaw Trile prior to statehood.

It is built on a stone foundation with brick that were made and burned on the site. There are four floors in use. The first floor with quarters for some of the employees, attendants, and students, and the second floor, where the older students are living. The attic, which was not used until about 10 years ago, was opened up and bed space provided for about 70 children.

It is of the type of facility which would not be approved by any standard of building construction within the State, for iminates whether of hospitals, schools, or any other institutions to take care of children.

Mr. JOHNSON of Oklahoma. About how old is that building?
Dr. BEATTY. It must have been built some 50 or possibly 60 years

ago.

Mr. GREENWOOD. It was built about 1891.

Mr. JOHNSON of Oklahoma. And the Government never built it then; the Indians used their own money to construct it.

Dr. BEATTY. Yes.

We have here a resolution from the council requesting this work be me; that was passed about the 10th of January, requesting that the eds for new construction be met, that the proposal be presented to ongress that some provision be made to improve and increase the cilities at that location.

Mr. JOHNSON of Oklahoma. Did they ask what new construction ey wanted?

Dr. BEATTY. They wanted to replace the dormitory with new conruction, and to ultimately increase the enrollment of the school to proximately 300. It is more economical to operate a school of that imber than with 175. Personally, I would like to see it made a colucational school of about 300 students.

Mr. JOHNSON of Oklahoma. As I understand, there are about 20.000 hoctaws. And there is no question but what there would be suffient students to attend that school year in and year out.

Dr. BEATTY. Oh, yes.

Mr. JOHNSON of Oklahoma. Did you request any other construeon in Oklahoma ?

Mr. GREENWOOD. No; that completes our estimates.

Mr. JOHNSON of Oklahoma. In other words, Oklahoma is in fine shape. utside of those requests, so far as the rest of the schools are concerned. Mr. GREENWOOD. No; we did not mean to imply that, but those eemed to be the more urgent items.

Mr. JOHNSON of Oklahoma. Permit me to say here for the record in he hopes that the representatives of the Indian Service may read it, I eel very deeply that Oklahoma has been discriminated against in this ill. Not only has the Budget Bureau discriminated against Oklaoma this year, but I feel that both the Indian Bureau as well as the Federal Budget has done so with reference to past Budget estimates. For example:

Oklahoma has more than one-third of the Indians of the United States residing within its borders, and yet despite the crying need for dormitories at the various Indian schools, we find not a single lollar here in the Budget estimates, and only $25,000 is recommended for construction in the entire State of Oklahoma. They had to recommend that in order to finish a building at Shawnee, Okla., for which insufficient funds have heretofore been appropriated. Now, in order to keep the record straight, Mr. Greenwood, how much is involved in the entire construction estimates?

Mr. GREENWOOD. For 1941?

Mr. JOHNSON of Oklahoma. Yes.

Mr. GREENWOOD. $967,000; $500,000 of which applies to the Tacoma Sanatorium.

Mr. JOHNSON of Oklahoma. How much?

Mr. GREENWOOD. $967,000.

Mr. JOHNSON of Oklahoma. Of which how much goes to Oklahoma? Mr. GREENWOOD. $25,000

Mr. JOHNSON of Oklahoma. $25,000 for the entire State. And how does Oklahoma compare with the rest of the country, so far as the population of Indians is concerned.

Mr. GREENWOOD. I would say that it has more Indians than any other section.

Mr. JOHNSON of Oklahoma. The fact is Oklahoma has more the a third of the Indians of the entire United States. The Bureau of the Budget, as usual, doesn't know that Oklahoma exists. I sour times wonder if the Indian Service made any serious presentations & to construction needs in the State of Oklahoma.

TRANSFERS UNDER 10-PERCENT AUTHORIZATION

Mr. LEAVY. Could you put in the record the items and the total sums of these 10-percent transfers on last year's construction so the committee could have some idea how much of this 10 percent is taket. from the specific projects and transferred to some other projects. Mr. GREENWOOD. I am afraid that would not give you a very good picture so far as the 1940 projects are concerned, Judge Leavy. Mr. LEAVY. Could you do it for 1939? That would be far enough away, would it not?

Mr. GREENWOOD. I think perhaps we could.

Mr. LEAVY. I am going to ask you to do that if you will. Mr. GREENWOOD. The transfers between projects on new devel

ments.

Mr. LEAVY. Yes.

(The data requested follows:)

Diversions made in connection with building construction appropriation, fiscal year 1939

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TALIHINA HOSPITAL, OKLAHOMA

Mr. JOHNSON of Oklahoma. Dr. White, I want to ask you a question concerning the Talihina Hospital in Oklahoma.

Dr. WHITE. Yes.

Mr. JOHNSON of Oklahoma. You are the assistant director handling the Indian Service?

Dr. WHITE. Yes.

Mr. JOHNSON of Oklahoma. Have you visited the Talihina Hospital in Oklahoma within recent years?

Dr. WHITE. I did last November.

Mr. JOHNSON of Oklahoma. The Talihina Hospital is one of the best hospitals in the Indian Service?

Dr. WHITE. The best.

Mr. JOHNSON of Oklahoma. The best?

Dr. WHITE. Yes.

Mr. JOHNSON of Oklahoma. What about the water facilities at that hospital? Are they the best?

Dr. WHITE. No.

Mr. JOHNSON of Oklahoma. What is the situation?

Dr. WHITE. A few years ago we combined with the State instation, which is a very short distance, a quarter mile or such a matter. L the development of a water supply.

However, before the water line was put in and before new inst tution was built, there was a distribution plant and tank for all the buildings on the Indian side. The water supply is all right at this time if we can get it distributed on the Indian Service side, but at the time the system was built the pipes for distribution were of type of pipe that will not permit expansion and contraction, and every joint, practically, in the entire system that carries the water from the tank to the buildings is broken with the result that any day we may expect the entire institution to be without water.

And in that institution we now have something like 225 patients Mr. JOHNSON of Oklahoma. What is needed there to remedy th situation?

Dr. WHITE. We have recently received an estimate of $20,000 for replacing the old distribution system; that is, from the tank to th buildings.

Mr. JOHNSON of Oklahoma. You think it will take $20,000 to d that?

Dr. WHITE. That is the estimate in the office at this time.

Mr. JOHNSON of Oklahoma. Mr. Greenwood, will you tell the com mittee whether you have taken this matter up with the Budget! Mr. GREENWOOD. We received the estimate only recently, too late to take it up with the Budget.

Dr. WHITE. That only came to my attention in November; I talkel it over with them when I was there.

Mr. LEAVY. And if that is not remedied the cost will go beyond the estimate included in that appraisal?

Dr. WHITE. It will cost considerably more; yes.

Mr. JOHNSON of Oklahoma. And besides that 225 patients in that hospital would not have water.

Dr. WHITE. That is correct. And we also have a serious question so far as the fire hazard to these patients is concerned.

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