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INSIDE Complete schedule of Chief Joseph Days events along with rodeo information and highlights. FEEL THE THUNDER 73rd Chief Joseph Days Rodeo July 24-29 • Harley Tucker Rodeo Arena • Joseph Enterprise, Oregon Wallowa.com Issue No. 15 July 25, 2018 $1 A1111111111111111111111111111=111111111111111111111111111B 2 3 2 3 2 Dancing, drumming and feasting 3 weather greeted the hundreds who attended the 2 Perfect 3 Tamkaliks Celebration July 20-22. The Sunday friendship 2 feast in Wallowa enjoyed a record number of visitors this 3 year. There is no charge for the event, so visitor count was 2 based on the number of people fed (plates), which featured 3 the usual spread of buffalo, elk and salmon and dozens of 2 homemade side dishes and desserts. There were 600 plates 3 2 allotted for the feast, and organizers ran out of plates. 3 2 3 2 3 2 3 2 3 2 3 2 3 2 3 2 3 2 3 2 3 2 3 2 3 2 3 C444444444444444444444444444@4444444444444444444444444444D TAMKALIKS PHOTOS BY ELLEN BISHOP MORE PHOTOS ON PAGE A5 AND AT WALLOWA.COM Lewis Allen, a Nez Perce of Lapwaii, Idaho, competes with another dancer in the Junior Boy’s Traditional dance at the 2018 Tamkaliks. Feds put flesh back on county budget bones During a pause between dances at the 2018 Tamkaliks in Wallowa, Robert J. Tewawima, Ho- pi-Apache of Lapwai, Idaho, adjusts the head-dress for his son, Robert Jr., 7. Robert Jr. is an enrolled Nez Perce. HEMP Wallowa County farmer joins national trend By Kathleen Ellyn By Kathleen Ellyn Wallowa County Chieftain Wallowa County Chieftain After three years of down year financially that saw road crews shrink, the end of the county library and gaps in the Sheriff’s Office budget, Wallowa County is benefiting from an infusion of approximately $1.8 mil- lion in PILT and SRS funds. “Payments in Lieu of Taxes” are federal dollars given to local governments to compensate for losses in property tax revenue due to an abundance of nontax- able federal lands within their boundaries. Wallowa County has 1.17 million acres of such land. PILT funds help pay for services such as firefighting, police protection, construction of schools and roads and search-and-rescue operations. During 2015-17, counties across the country received what the feds called an underpayment of PILT funds. Wallowa received $442,296 in 2017; $425,291 If you smoke hemp, nothing exciting happens. “You might be disap- pointed,” said hemp grower Shayne Kimball of Joseph. That’s because although hemp and marijuana are both cannabis plants, hemp contains less than 0.3 percent of the psychoactive component THC — the chemical that makes you high. The only thing “high” about Kimball’s own five-acre hemp farm on Tucker Down Road outside of Joseph is the altitude at which his plants grow. But if you ingest or apply a hemp oil product it may successfully treat a whole host of ailments from chronic pain to the symptoms of neurologi- cal diseases. Although the oil, known as CBD, is widely believed to have these beneficial effect, the See BUDGET, Page A8 Kathleen Ellyn/Chieftain Shayne Kimball of Joseph works on his five-acre plot, planting high altitude hemp as part of an Or- egon Department of Agriculture Pilot Project. medicinal potential remains largely untapped. The rest of the plant is equally broad spectrum; fibers can be used either pure or in combination with other materials for everything from food prod- ucts to clothing to biodiesel to a form of biodegrad- able nontoxic plastic. “It’s the Swiss Army knife of all plants,” Kim- ball said. “I think this plant has the ability to revi- talize small farms in America. I think it can bring See HEMP, Page A9