Appointment of Dinsmore Taylor, an Olympia, Wash., attorney and former member of the Washington Tax Commission, as a management specialist to administer the program for termination of Federal trusteeship over the Klamath Indian Tribe of Oregon was announced today by Secretary of the Interior Fred A. Seaton.
Mr. Taylor joins Thomas B. Watters of Klamath Falls, Oreg., who has been serving as Klamath management specialist since January 1955. The two other Oregonians named as management specialists at that time, William L. Phillips of Salem and Eugene Favell of Lakeview, have since resigned.
Born at Colorado Springs, Colo., in 1903, Mr. Taylor grew up in the State of Washington and attended both Washington State College and the University of Washington. After receiving a law degree from the latter institution in 1926, he served for 17 years as a member of the legal staff of the Puget Sound Title Insurance Company of Seattle.
In 1943 he was appointed manager of the Seattle District Office of the Washington Tax Commission and seven years later was named by Governor Arthur B. Langlie as a member of the three-man Commission. He served in this capacity until the expiration of his term in January 1957, and then was retained for another six months as an administrative consultant to the Commission.
As required by the Klamath Termination Act of 1954, Mr. Taylor's appointment was discussed with the Klamath tribal members in general meeting on the reservation March 22.
