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About Spilyay tymoo. (Warm Springs, Or.) 1976-current | View Entire Issue (April 7, 1978)
US. POSTAGE BULK RATE PERMIT NO. 2 WEATHER Partly Cloudy With Occasional Showers Temperature Averaging 55-60° Degrees VOL. 3 NO. 7__________ - •________ WARM SPRINGS, OREGON 97761__________________________ APRIL 7, 1978 Search Continues For lo st Fishermen State Police in The D alles For nearly two weeks now, search and dragging operations say that all indications are that have continued for three Indian the boat ra n afoul of a tug and fishermen feared drowned fol barge outfit. P a r t of the bow, lowing a boat a c c id e n t on the which had been ripped off the Columbia R iver S aturday, boat, was found on the front of a barge which had been towed March 25. The m issing men a re Leo through the locks a t 4:33 a.m . nard Polk, 34, a member of the Also discovered on the front of Warm Springs C onfederated the b a rg e w ere pieces of the Tribes, Eli Culps, 35, and Donald sm all boat, a fishnet, a ring Isadore, 29, both of the Yakima belonging to Leonard Polk, and a hunting knife which was Eli Nation. Since the accident, relatives Culps’. The a ir and w ater search and friends have g ath ered in The Dalles to help search for the has been concentrated between m en’s bodies and to p rep are The Dalles and Bonneville Dam. food and hot coffee for those Although most of the searchers a re m em bers of the W arm involved with the search. According to information re Springs and Y akim a re s e rv a ceived by Oregon State Police, tions, State Police and the Was the men w ere la st seen in a co County Sheriff’s Department 17-foot fiberglass boat at about 4 are continuing their search ef a.m . on m arch 25th a t The forts. On Tuesday, April 4, the Dalles Boat Basin. Their badly dam aged c ra ft was found a Warm Springs Tribal Police and short distance down river about personnel from the Natural Re- source D epartm ent w ent up to an hour later. The Dalles with the tribal boat to aid in the recovery effort. Upon request of the Tribal Coun cil, there will be someone from Warm Springs there every day until the bodies are recovered or until the search is called off. Polk, who has been a fish erman all his life, lost his father in a drowning accident in 1952 upriver from The Dalles. Also, Eli Culps m other F lorence Eli (A Warm Springs Tribal Mem ber) was lost in the Columbia River. All three missing men were married. Polk had five children, Culps had seven, and Isadore two. The W arm Springs T ribal Council has authorized a dona tion of $1,500 dollars, the Yaki m a Nation is offering a $200 rew ard for the recovery of the, bodies, and sev eral of The Dalles businesses and organiza tions have donated food, gas, and money to the searchers. Bartlett Elected To School Board, Tax Levy Fails Evadna Bartlett was elected to fill the vacant position on the Jefferson County 509-J School Board, winning a t the polls in both Warm Springs and Madras Nature provided a healthy supply of luksh (left) and xaush earlier this week. (right) and peelers like Prunie Williams can attest to it. See Page 9 for more photos. CDS Photo Roots and more roots Cattle Rustling Under Investigation Cattle rustling on the reser vation has been a seasonal prob lem here for the past four or five years according to the Natural Resource Department, and this year is proving to be po ex ception. Following a number of inci dences, the FBI, BIA, and tribal UV THIS I ISSUE 9 9 h a a t ...FEAST E D I T O R llO SPORTS PICTURE ■ ! PAGE authorities have interviewed a non-enrollee from Warm Springs and an individual from Madras in connection with ru stling of cattle belonging to tribal mem bers. Some of thé cattle owned by tribal members has reportedly been spirited off the reservation and allegedly put up for sale at the Madras Stock Yards. Twelve head of cattle were discovered March 29 at the stock yards by the State Brand Inspector, Buck Hodges. No arrests have been made, but an investigation is being conducted by authorities. HOW WARM SPRINGS VOTED In W arm Springs, voters chose B a rtle tt over U ren Leo nard, Bartlett collecting 39 votes while Leonard drew 38 votes. Vic Gregg collected 23 votes to make a total of 90 voters turning out from Warm Springs. THE OVERALL RESULTS Bartlett received a total of 573 votes to Vic Gregg’s 470 and Uren Leonard’s 105. 1148 voters turned out overall. Although the people from Warm Springs passed 509-J’s tax levy, 73 “yes” votes to 27 “no” votes, the tax levy failed to pass overall, 533 “ y e s” votes to 608 “no” . The total budget was for $5 m illion, but only $3,500,000 has to be ra ise d from local taxes. The school board will decide at th eir m eeting on April 10 when the next election will be and how much the levy will be for. Retiring Soon No Fishing Near Hatchery The N atural R esource De partment reminds everyone that all fishing is closed on the portion of the W arm Springs R iver n e a r the W arm Springs National Fish Hatchery. No fish ing is allowed in the a re a th at extends one-half mile upstream and one-half mile downstream from the Fish Hatchery site. Gene G reene, N atural R e source Dept. Director and Tribal Council C hairm an, explained that the purpose of the closure in that area is for the protection of anadrom ous fish due to the concentration of fish near bar rie rs, p a rtic u la rly dam s. Fish are particularly vulnerable near dam s w here they a re being d i verted into sanctuary. This reg ulation will be en forced by both the Natural Re source Department and the Tri bal Police. Signs will be posted in the near future. The following is rep rin ted from Resolution No. 5016: WSFPI Annual Report Members of the Confederat ed T ribes will have an oppor tunity to h e a r about the 1977 operations of W arm Springs F o rest P roducts In d u stries at the upcoming annual meeting on April 24. Dinner will be served at 6:00 p.m. and the meeting will begin a t 7:00 a t the Agency Long- house. Annual re p o rts will be distributed to those attending. BE IT RESOLVED, By the T ribal Council of the Confed e ra te d T ribes of the W arm Springs Reservation of Oregon, pu rsu an t to A rticle V of the Constitution and By-laws, that a portion of the W arm Springs R iver located n e a r the W arm Springs National Fish Hatchery be closed to all fishing. BE IT FURTHER RESOL VED, T hat the extent of the closure shall be one-half mile u p stream and one-half m ile downstream from the Fish Hat chery site which is described as: s%swy4NEy4, Ny>Nwy4SEy4, SE y4SE y4N w y4 , N E y4N E y4 SWy4 section 24, tow nship 8 south, ran g e 12 e a st of the W illam ette M eridan, Wasco Cqunty, Oregon. GUNTHER HEEREN Note from Cornett G unther H eeren, F o re st Manager, Warm Springs Agen cy, is “pulling the plug” after 32 y ears of serv ice on A pril 21, 1978. A nostalgia book is being prepared and we are soliciting letters and photographs for in clusion in this book. P le a se w rite all le tte rs on standard size paper, 8” X 10%” , and send them along With any thing else you m ay w ant in cluded, including contributions for a retirem ent gift to William L. A pgar, F o re ste r, W a r m Springs Agency, Warm Springs, OR 97761, by April 14, 1978.
