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About Spilyay tymoo. (Warm Springs, Or.) 1976-current | View Entire Issue (July 8, 1977)
PACE-2" JlÆY-ft-tOTT.......... ....... West Hills Duplex Burns by Sandy Rangila keeps on Truckin' It appears that Olney Patt, jor article published. On Mon Jr. (J.P.) is hooked on jour day, June 27, he had a front nalism . At about 7:00 each page photo and spread on page morning he can be seen bar 5 covering the Pi-Um e-Sha reling down Highway 26 in his celebration here at Warm vintage pickup headed toward Springs. “It seems strange to take Bend where he’s working for a photo one day and see it in The Bulletin this summer. the paper the next,” he mused. Patt said he likes working on a Patt, who gained his initial daily paper because he feels new spaper exp erience with the pressure of daily deadlines Spilyay Tymoo, started work forces him to produce more. at The Bulletin on June 20 “That’s good because I’m through an internship program really trying to cram and get a with Evergreen State College lot of experience,” he explain where he is a journalism ma ed. A side from covering for jor. vacationing sta ffers, P att is He has been working close also working on four feature ly with City Editor John Har articles. rison, and w ill be relieving H e’ll rem ain with The vacationers at the Bend office, Bulletin until mid-September, as well as at Burns, Redmond, then head to Washington, D.C. P rin eville, Baker, and La-. where he will work with the Grande. All .are affiliates of BIA Office of Information for Western Communication, Inc. ten w eeks, also under the But the bulk of his summer Evergreen internship program. will be spent at the Bend office In itially, J .P . toyed with where he will handle a variety the idea of getting an apart of assignments. His first week ment in Bend, but since the he did some re-writes on press releases and familiarized him job will be just for the sum mer, he’s decided to commute self with the operation there. from his folks’ home and just It didn’t take long though, keep on truckin’ the 68 miles before the ambitious reporter- each day. photographer had his first ma Miss Warm Springs M iss Warm Springs 1977, Aurolyn Stwyer, and other lo cal residents of Warm Springs are scheduled to ride in the annual Crooked R iver Round Up Parade, Saturday, July 9, at 9:00 a.m. Aurolyn and the local peo ple riding in the parade will be sponsored by the P rin eville Lions Club, and will be riding on the P rin ev ille Lions Club truck in the parade. (CW O TE NEWS) Phone 553-1644 STAFF _ . . ..... Sid Miller Publisher - Editor Sandy Rangila Reporter - Photographer Cynthia Stowell Photographer - Reporter The paper w ill be published sem i-m onthly. Published by The Confederated Trib es of the W a rm Springs R eservation of Oregon. P.O. Box 735 Warm Springs, Oregon 97761 A dawn fire on July 6 destroyed the duplex at 37 Poosh Street in West Hills, leaving no one injured but several people homeless. t h e duplex, occupied by Adeline LeClaire and her child ren and the Earl Charley fami ly, was a HUD unit and was fully insured. H owever, the fa m ilies lo st m ost of their belongings and have had to find other lodging. Within fiv e'm in u tes after the fire was reported at 5:10 am, the volunteer fire depart ment was on the scene. The LeClaire sid e of the duplex w as already totally involved with flames. The State F ire Marshal su ggested that the fire had been burning inside for at least an hour before it was reported, but that once ven tilated the structure w as engulfed in a matter of moments. - A total of 14 volunteers b attled the blaze but were unable to contain it in one side of the duplex. The fire spread through the eaves and ignited the roof of the Charley resi dence. Five hose lines poured gallons of water onto the run away fire. Carpenters fram ing new dwellings on either side of the* duplex watched as the struc ture was consumed by flames. Water w as turned off at about 7:45 and the fire de partm ent w as not back in serv ice u ntil 9:45. The state Fire Marshal was later called in to investigate the blaze. Although his report will not be available until next week, the M arshal apparently be lieves that the fire started in the back bedroom. Of the four p ossible ca u ses su ggested by the Marshal, it is thought most likely that an iron was left on. Other possibilities are candles, a kerosene lamp and a pipe. Local investigator Mark Werner is looking further into the circumstances of the fire. The loss was estimated at $40,000. Housing manager, El ton G reeley reported that a new HUD duplex will be built on the sam e spot. Meanwhile, the Charleys and LeClaires are staying with relatives. A fire shower was held today (F riday) at the VFW Hall to help the families get back on their feet. T enant m an agerN ed a Greene explained that any don- atted clothing or household i- tems would be greatly appre ciated. E lm er Charley w ears size 5-6, Allen size 5 and Theda is an infant. Tommy LeClaire is 6 years old and Carla is five. In other fire new s, the fourth of July weekend was as busy as usual for the fire department. On Sunday after noon, at 4:00 a grass fire in a West Hills playground was un der control by local residents by the tim e the departm ent arrived. At 5:10 the next morning, 2 fires near Grant Smith’s house by Shitike Creek were exting uished - one in the grass and one inside an abandoned house. Later that day at 2:45 the departm ent responded to a sm all fire across from the Community Center, near the foundation of a house burned in a drill last fall. None of the fires are being investigated under the assump tion that Fourth of July explos ives were responsible. State Funds Warm Springs- Kah-Nee-Ta Intersection Culture Camp Date Changed by Roger Stwyer The Culture Camp, sched uled for July 15-22, has been changed to July 16-23, Nathan Jim , director, Cultural-Heri tage Program announced. The reason, he stated, is because the fifteenth falls on a Friday, and this is the day the recrea tion program uses the bus, the only transportation to the camp. The camp is a place where children from the Yakima, Col ville, Umatilla, Nez-Perce, and Warm Springs tribes learn about their culture. It is open to kids from eight to fourteen years old. Only 5o participants are allowed for each session. The d ates for Camp Ny- Mu-Mah w ill be J u l y 25 through August 5. Kids who w ill be attending this cam p will come from Iowa, Nebras ka, Arizona, South Dakota, Cal ifornia, Oregon, Montana, Washington, and New Mexico, to name a few. Applications can be picked up from Nathan Jim, Cultural- H eritage D irector, at the Warm Springs Community Cen ter. The State of Oregon’s De partment of Transportation, in coordination with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, will be re constructing the “ m ixed-up” Warm Springs - Kah-Nee-Ta intersection on Highway 26 this year. The intersection, site of a traffic fatality last year, will be redeveloped into a four-way design with left-turn lanes. Reservation Waters Stocked with Fish by Roger Stwyer In the cool, clear waters of the Warm Springs River, lucky rainbow trout happily swim about, w hile laborious w age earners stru ggle through the day in hot, stuffy offices. A pproxim ately 1,000 fish, averaging twelve inches in len gth, are being planted in the Warm Springs River and Lake Simtustus each week by con servation officer E arl M iller and two a ssista n ts, Timmy Greene and Alex LaMere of the Natural Resources Depart ment. Their job is mainly, to watch the fish and free them when they get caught sideways across the releasing hole. The main objective of this is so the w aters w ill be stocked with fish, and m ore people will catch fish. The majority of the fish are caught by Kah-Nee-ta guests and sportsman. “Fifteen-thousand fish are from the sta te for the Kah- Nee-Ta area,” stated Eugene Greene, Natural Resources Di rector, “ and 60,000 for Lake Simtustus.” He went on to say, “w e’ve been getting the fish from the State for quite a while now, but in the future, we will be stocking our waters from our own fish hatchery.” The fish com e from the Wizard F a lls F ish Hatchery near Camp Sherman on the M etolius R iver, and were transported by a fish tank that was loaned to the tribe from the Fish and Wildlife Service. The Tribes have assumed the m anpower and veh icle costs of transporting the rain bows, the fish being a “kind contribution” according to Harold Culpus. The State and Portland General E lectric transport the fish to Lake Simtustus. Accident Injures Warm Springs Man by Roger Stwyer An eastbound veh icle on Highway 26, near milepost 108, ran off the road when driver of the vehicle, Jay D. Switzler of Warm Springs, lost control while attempting to pass an-; other car Saturday, June 25, at 8:15 a.m. Primary cause of the accident has been determined as speeding. Switzler lost consciousness momentarily when the impact of som ething he hit caused him to be flung through the window. A wheel was popped right off the hubs as a result of a rock he had evidently hit also. The vehicle stopped after it went through Perry Greene’s fence. The only passenger in the vehicle, Dari Guy Pamperien, Route 1 Box 75, Maupin, Ore gon, was in a state of shock and was also treated for minor pains throughout his body. No citations were issued.
