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About Spilyay tymoo. (Warm Springs, Or.) 1976-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 24, 1978)
US. POSTAGE BULK RATE PERMIT NO. 2 Miss Warm Springs 7 8 Fishermen Urged To Report Tagged Sturgeon Caught Fishermen are urged to be on the alert for sturgeon bearing orange anchor tags and yellow sp ag h etti tag s during the 1978 fishing season. Over 1,400 stur geon have been tagged above Bonneville Dam in the past two years according to Gary Malm, biologist for the U.S. F ish and Wildlife Service. T hese fish, which have been tagged as part of the Service’s sturgeon study on the Columbia River, will be come the targets of an intensive recovery effort by the Service biologists this spring and early sum m er to obtain rec ap tu re data. Recovery data from fish ermen is also vital to the study. When a tagged sturgeon is caught, fishermen are requested to rec o rd : (1) the num bers of both tags, (2) the location where caught, (3) the d ate when caught, and (4) the total number of untagged sturgeon caught on th a t trip . DO NOT rem ove the tags from non-legal fish (small er than three feet or larger than P ert and ambitious Jackie E stim o is looking forw ard to representing the Confederated Tribes. She was recently selec ted Miss W arm Springs. E dith Johnson was chosen a s a lte r nate. Steno pool scheduled three separate pageants, but unfortu nately had no applications. The g irls w ere selected by the T rib al Council on their personality, beauty, scholarship and gen eral knowledge of the reservation« V erbena G reene will be coaching Jackie on cul ture and language. Presently, Jackie is an art- teachers aide at Warm Springs grad e school through the high school’s w ork-study program . Drawing and painting are Jack ie ’s favorite and she plans to attend California College of Arts and Crafts sometime after grad uation. six fee t). This inform ation should be sent to: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Fisheries As sistance Office - Vancouver, 3207 N.E. 78th S treet, V ancouver, Washington 97665; (206) 696-4041, extension 266. Pertinent data concerning the tagged sturgeon such as size, location, and date of tagging will be returned to the fishermen. The reco v ery d a ta will be used to identify seasonal s tu r geon migration patterns through a comparison of the tagging and recovery d ates and locations. The ratio of marked to unmark ed sturgeon caught will provide information necessary to deter m ine the size of the sturgeon population in Bonneville, The Dalles, and John Day pools. With the cooperation of fish ermen, a better understanding of the Columbia River sturgeon fishery reso u rce can be devel oped, thus providing protection and maintenance of the sturgeon population. Cigarette Causes Fire The new Miss Warm Springs will be attending many functions in the com ing y ea r. The Rose Parade, Calgary Stampede and various p ara d es and fa irs are just a few she will be attending. Her m other, D ella, plans to accom pany Ja c k ie to m ost of these events. Congratulations, Jackie, in being selected as the Confed erated Tribes’ representative throughout the country. Have fun! Building Lines Of Power And Communication Two W arm Springs men, Donny Winishut and Dale Tewee, narrowly escaped serious injury in the early m orning hours February 22, when the house in which they were staying partial ly burned. The fire, which apparently was caused by a c ig a re tte left smoldering in a couch, burned the living room, dining room and hallway. The fire was so hot that the telephone m elted off the wall. H ow ard Tew ee, his wife Vivian, and th e ir sm all child escaped through a bedroom win dow. Tewee and his wife own the house which is located on Foster street in West Hills. W inishut and Tewee w ere pulled from the living room area of the house by members of the W arm Springs V olunteer F ire D ep artm en t. They w ere la te r taken to Mt. View H ospital, treated for smoke inhalation and released. BPA And Tribes Agree On Right-Of-Way A unique agreem ent be tween the Confederated Tribes and the Bonneville Pow er Ad ministration m arks not only the impending construction of addi tional power lines through the reservation but also the opening of new lines of communication between the two groups. At a general council meeting February 14, about twenty tribal members were informed of the nearly finalized plan by which the BPA would pay the Tribes $4.5 million for expanded right- of-way through the northern corner of the reservation. Tribal and BPA officials and consult ants described the plan, which involves im m ediate cash p ay m ent as well as ongoing com pensation for lost timber, as un precedented and favorable to all parties. A proposal made last fall by then-BPA administrator Donald Hodel was supported by Tribal Council resolution in January. Hodel’s proposal, a “distinct de parture” from the BPA’s usual method of land acquisition, fol lowed more than a year of nego tiatio n s betw een the BPA and the Tribes after the BPA’s ori ginal offer was rejected by the Council in May 1976. As fo rm er ad m in istra tiv e staff assistant Wyman Babbey noted, “We didn’t approach the T ribes as ju st an o th er p riv ate landowner. We approached them on a government to government Simtustus In Critical Condition Roger S im tustus, 18, is in is unable to breathe on his own critica l condition in P o rtla n d ' due to a collapsed windpipe. Although the doctors have Adventist Medical Center after being hit by a car while crossing determ ined th a t th ere is no a stre e t in P o rtlan d Sunday apparent brain damage, they do evening, February 12. He is the not expect him to ever recover son of Mr. and M rs. Amos from the paralysis, according to his sister Evaline Patt. Simtustus, Sr. P re sen tly being tre a te d in He has been in a semi-coma the Intensive Care Unit, Simtus state since the accident, but he tus has a broken neck and is is now able to look around the paralyzed from the neck down. room w ith his eyes and can He is on a respirator because he move his mouth. Y esterd ay (T hursday) he underw ent su rg ery w here a team of doctors took part of his hip bone and used it to fuse and stabilize the neck. Following the su rg ery , his condition w as r e ported to be stable although, as of press time, he had not come out of the anesthesia completely. Since the accident, his par ents have been stay in g in an a p a rtm e n t in the old hospital area to be near their son. basis.” The re su lt of these negoti ations which will be officially ended with the formal signing of the ag reem en t w ithin the next six w eeks, is a plan to expand the BPA’s n o rth ern co rridor, giving the T ribes the option to ask that their southern corridor be vacated by the year 2010. The tentative agreement is summarized as follows: 1) BPA will pay the Tribes $4.5 million in the form of cash and-or services for the right to expand the north corridor by 224 additional acres. 2) At five-year intervals the Tribes will be compensated for the changing value of lost tim ber. The existing north corridor, or John Day-Marcola Line, (see map) is 15.8 miles long and uses 315.4 acres of timbered land. As soon as the agreement is finaliz ed, the right-of-w ay would be widened from 150 feet to 267.5 (Continued on Page 2) Second Simnasho Meeting Planned The second in a se rie s of Simnasho community planning meetings has been scheduled for March 7 at the Simnasho Long- house.: - . - Ideas and concerns present 3) At the T rib es’ req u est, ed at the last meeting have been BPA will rem o v e its facilities studied by the L and Use P la n from the south corridor by De ning C om m ittee and planning cember 31, 2010 and further ex staff, and further discussion and pand the north corridor i f neces input from a re a citizens is 7 / sa ry . This additional ac reag e desired. v Dinner will be served at 5:30 and timber would also be com p.m. and the meeting will follow. pensated by BPA.
