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.”
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