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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
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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.