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MAY 19, 1978 PAGE 5 Election Focuses On Primary Candidates, Local Tax Bases Voters statew ide will be asked to face a host of candi dates, issues and measures when they go to the polls for the p rim ary election May 23. In Jefferson County th ere will be the added item s of a C entral Oregon Community College budget levy and the 509-J school budget to consider. In the p rim ary ra c e s for Governor, U.S. Senator and Rep resentative in Congress, voters will be balloting only within their own re g iste re d p arties. However, all registered electors will vote for the non-partisan Superintendent of Public In struction, the 509-J tax base and the statewide ballot measures. The W arm Springs Teen# Center will be open Tuesday May 23 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. for voting. 509-J TAX BASE By sta te law a school dis trict without a tax base must try to establish one by elections on even-numbered years until the law expires in 1983. If the tax base is approved, the d istric t would not need an annual levy election and could in crease the budget by 6 per cent annually without voter ap proval. Any m ore than a 6 per cent increase would have to go before the voters. The 509-J board decided M arch 27 to req u est a $3.5 million tax base. This is the am ount needed to balance the proposed 1978-79 budget of $5 millon, If voters turn down the tax base, the original $3.5 million levy proposal which was defeat ed April 4, will be resubmitted for vote on June 27. The tax base would probably come up again in 1980 and 1982. It is felt that the intent of the tax base law was to ensure that schools stay open, thus fulfilling the state constitution’s guaran tee of a minimum education for each child. C.O.C.C. BUDGET LEVY COCC is presenting a similar package, requesting a $2,088,942 tax base to match state money and student tuition receipts for a total budget of $4.3 million. The last levy proposal was voted down M arch 14 and has since been reduced by $70,000, with the levy rate cut from $1.43 per $1,000 of property value to the new proposed rate of $1.38. SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION Three non-partisan candi dates are vying for the Superin tendency of Public Instruction. They are incumbent Verne Dun- ca, Oregon In stitu te of Tech nology assistant professor and State Senator Fr.ed Heard, and Mt. Hood Community College instructor Ruth McFarland. The su perintendent is an administrator responsible to the seven-member Oregon Board of E ducation appointed by the Governor. He-she oversees the state education department, is a chief spokesman for elementary and secondary education in the sta te and an advocate for edu cation in the Legislature. All th ree candidates were invited to the recen t Oregon Indian E ducation Association Conference at Kah-Nee-Ta but only Duncan and Heard attend ed, with Duncan arriving after the formal question and answer period. H eard told the confer ence that he favored special school programs addressing cul tural differences while Duncan said that in addition to his con cern for basic skills, he was prep arin g a proposal for in creased funding of programs for the educationally or econom i cally disadvantaged, including Indians. (Continued on Page 9) TOE NESS There were these two car salesmen talking one day. One of the guys said, “I ’ve been doing realw ell this year, I ’m selling above average.” The other guy said, “ That rem inds m e, I should sell my personal car, but I don’t know if anyone would buy it because it has more than 130,000 miles on it.” The first guy said. “I ’m sure you can sell it - just turn the mileage back.” After a time had past the two were talking again and the first guy asks the other. “Well did you sell your car yet?” The second guy said, “What, give up a car with only 20,000 miles.” YIKES SS SS SS There was this lady that was working for these rich people that had a big m ansion and they w ere having guests for dinner th at evening, so the lady of the house tells the m aid, “ When you a re serving the guests tonight I’m advising you not to wear any jewelry.” The m aid thought for awhile and answ ered, “ I don’t have anything of any value anyway, but thanks for the warning.” YIKES SS SS SS There were these two guys talking one day and the subject was retirement. One of the guys said, “I can see retirement coming but there’s just one thing I don’t like about it and that’s when you want to take a coffee break you have to take it on your own tim e.” YIKES SS SS SS T here w ere these two guys playing golf one day down at Kah-Nee-Ta, after a few holes one of the guys said, “I ’m really not playing my usual game today.” “Oh!” said the other, “what do you usually play.” YIKES SS SS SS There was this guy that went into the restaurant and orders a meal; feeling quite sly he thought he should try to get away with w hatever he could. He finishes his m eal then looks for a fly but couldn’t find one but he see’s a spider, catches it puts it in his plate and tells the waiter he wasn’t going to pay for the meal because of the spider. The waiter excuses himself and shortly returns with the manager and says, “This man refuses to pay for the meal because of the spider in his plate.” The manager turns to the guy and says, “If it’s a fly you want, the spider beat you to it.” YIKES SS SS SS Can anyone imagine a guy’s wife yelling at her husband early in the morning. “You’d better head out, your warm-up suit is out there warming up without you.” ,YIKES SS SS SS National Indian News Briefs FIRST VOLUME OF SMITHSONIAN’S MONUMENTAL INDIAN WORK IS PUBLISHED: The first of 20 encyclopedia volumes covering all aspects of American Indian life from prehistoric times to the present is' now available. Handbook of the Indians of California contains 44 chapters written by 33 authors. It has 717 pages of text, 47 pages of bibliography, 31 index pages and 430 illustrations. The other volumes will be published over the next 10 years by the Museum of Natural History’s Center for the Study of Man. The set is expected to become the standard reference work relating to Indian life and culture. A volume on Northeast Indians will be published later this year; Subarctic Indians and the first of two volumes on Southwest Indians are scheduled for 1979. The project was initiated in 1965. The California Indian study Volume 8, (though the first published) can be ordered for $13.50 from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, 710 N. Capitol Street, Washington, D.C. 20402. Stock number is 047-000-00347-4. MAKAHS DECEIVE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT GRANT TO PRESERVE LANGUAGE: The National Endowment of the Humanities has announced a grant of more than $90,000 to the Makah Indian Tribe to preserve their native language. It is estimated that only 25 members of the tribe, living on the most northwesternly tip of the United States, now speak the language — and the youngest of these is 60. Plans for the project call for the development of an alphabet and a dictionary, a calendar and a numerical system. An oral history will also be taped, including old tales of the elders and the legends and customs of long ago. YAKIMAS POLL CITIZENS, LEADERS FOR VIEWS ON INDIANS, ISSUES: A professional polling of opinions about Indians and Indian issues has been completed in the State of Washington. A Yakima Nation project, done under contract by C. Montgomery Johnson Associates, the survey included a section of citizens from Yakima County, a sampling of citizens state-wide and a group of thought leaders-influentials in the state. A total of 1,812 persons’ views are included in the 133-page report, “ Three Surveys of the A ttitudes, P erceptions and P rio ritie s of the Citizens of W ashington State Concerning the Native American Indians of Washington State.” The April 5 issue of the Yakima Nation Review contains a summary and other information about the study. It deals with m atters like treaty rights, tribal governmental powers, water rights, taxes, fishing and hunting and other issues. NASA SATELLITE MESSAGE JOLTS CROW AGENCY AUDIENCE: To show off the wonders of its new Communication Technology Satellite, NASA hooked up the Crow Indian Agency in Montana with the All Indian Pueblo Council Office in New Mexico and an office in Washington, D.C. The idea was to demonstrate how the satellite and small, portable equipment could bring television communication anywhere. What came through to the Montana audience was ah unexpected message that the President would like to take Indian education programs out of the BIA and lump them in with all other education programs in a proposed new Department of Education. BIA Area Director Jim Canan was unbelieving. “Are you sure that’s what they said?” he asked. Bill Yellowtail said, “It looks like we are put in the position of reacting again. The decision has been made without our imput and we are then asked what we think of it.” Joe Medicine Crow com m ented, “ This is a fu rth er erosion of the BIA’s tru st responsibility.” Crow Agency Superintendent Bud Lozar said, “At a council of agency superintendents this proposal was unanimously opposed.” WALL STREET JOURNAL REPORTS ON TRIBES’ TOURISM TROUBLES: The April 21 issue of the Wall Street Journal says that some $61 million of Economic Development Administration funds for tourist facilities on Indian reservations has not succeeded in generating jobs and cash for tribes. Instead, the Indians have been left holding a sackful of operating losses with deficits exceeding $20 million. Reasons for failures include “Alice-in-Wonderland feasibility studies,” under-sinancing, poor m anagem ent and lack of training for em ployees. A form er official of EDA, now with HEW’s Administration for Native Americans, aid? “Tourism was the Government’s new fad in development. Now that tourism isn’t working as a developmental strategy; the Government will move on to the next fad....” He noted that EDA in the past four years has put $3.3 million into construction of small shopping centers on 10 Indian reservations in six states. MAINE WRITER LOOKS TOWARD LITIGATION, SEES VISION OF TRAGEDY: A heart-rending view of the future expulsion of Maine citizens from their homes, brought about by the Passamaquoddy and Penobscot Indians, was published April 25 in the Washington Post. Written by a former executive editor in the Post, now the publisher of the Ellsworth American in Maine, the article says that litigation scheduled to begin June 15 could “evict more people from their lands and homes than were involved in North America’s two most historic expulsions — that of the Acadians from Nova Scotia in 1755 and that of the Indians from Georgia in 1836” . After noting that the Indians are Confident of victory and that such victory will be a threat to land titles throughout New England and other parts of the nation, the author .writes: “ ......Pehaps the country will not awaken to the third great hegira in North America history until a melancholy train of vehicles, piled high with the possessions of the emigres, crosses the bridge at Portsmouth. Perhaps only in the distant future will literature embellish that expulsion with the drama withwhich it has invested the British deportation of the Acadians or the tragedy pictured in the ‘Trail of Tears,’ in which one-fourth of the Georgia Indians died. What a curious iron th a t the descendants of those who drove the Indians outof Georgia now are engaged in driving the non-Indians out of Maine ...” An Indian reader of the article commented: “The tragedy is that a distinguished paper like the Post would print this article and not recognize how totally erroneous it was — that no one of the editorial staff knew the facts.” SUBSCRIPTION TO SPILYAY TYMOO ~ SEND SUBSCRIPTION TO Spilyay Tymoo PO. Box 735 Warm Springs, Oregon 97761 NAME____________________________________________________ _ ADDRESS,___________________________________________ _______________ CITY___________ ____________ STATE __________ ZIP ________ SUBSCRIPTION RATES: 1 YEAR $6.00 Enclosed is a Check □ Money Order □ . Amount of $_____________ fo r ,________ Year (s ) Subscription. All Tribal Enrolled Members Will Receive The Spilyay Tymoo at No Cost. Spilyay Tymoo is Published Bi-Weekly by the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs.
