PAGE 4 AUGUST 11, 1978
Paper Strike Makes Small Waves In Warm Springs
by Cynthia Stowell
the Greek would rather set on
News of the striking paper who the next Pope will be.
mill workers has been splashing
But in the meantime, Warm
across newspapers and T.V. Springs is faring well, optimisti
screens lately but in Warm cally assuming that the strike is
Springs only small waves are a very temporary phenomenon.
being made.
The Warm Springs mill is
Wood chips that Warm Sp being affected most noticeably.
rings Forest Products Industries Douglas fir chips, which com
sells to paper companies for prise about 40 per cent of the
pulp will not be stockpiled unless chip production, still have a
the strike goes on for another market because they are export
month, said mill manager Ralph ed rather than sold for domestic
DeMoisy. The Tribes’ purchas processing.
ing department has a warehouse
Pine and white fir chips
full of paper that will last us have no market, however, and
through the year. And the Spil- the pine is going to the mill’s
yay Tymoo will keep appearing fuel pile to be burned for enervv
every two weeks despite the Pine chips can’t be stored be
strike.
cause blue stain .fungus sets in
More than 15,000 workers and reduces their value, so the
are currently striking twenty mill is better off feeding its
seven paper mills in Washing power plant with the unsold
ton, Oregon and California. Pre chips.
dicting when agreements will be
Since white fire chips have a
reached is a guessing game that high market value, white fir logs
few are playing. Even Jimmy are being stored until the strike
ends and other species are being Pope and Talbot of Portland buy impossible to stay more than a
substituted in the green veneer all its chips, a change that is month or two ahead on supplies.
plant. Loggers are not affected paying off now.
If striking workers get their
by these changes, said DeMoisy.
Spilyay Tymoo is in no ap raises, Smith noted, newsprint
The mill could lose as much parent danger of disappearing will be more costly, but at least
as $10,000 a month if the strike because newsprint in central there will be no shortage re
continues, the manager estimat Oregon is plentiful. Jim Smith, sulting from the shut downs.
ed. Chips are worth more than publisher of Prineville’s Central
Paper pushing in the Tribal
the electricity they are being Oregonian where Spilyay is offices will not suffer because of
converted to, especially in this printed, informed us that he has the strike. Purchasing agent Les
non-drought year.
a five months supply of news Yaw said that suppliers had
If the strike goes on much print in stock. “While the strike warned of the strike a couple of
longer — “more than another is on, we have newsprint to months ago and his department
month” — the mill would be burn,” said Smith.
laid in an inventory of paper
better off stockpiling its pine
The people who will be hurt products to last until the end of
chips and saving them for the ing, he predicted, are the large the year.
pulp market, said DeMoisy.
newspapers where newsprint is
“We have lots of paper,”
The last time chips were used in such volume that it is said Yaw.
without a market was in May
1976 when Crown-Zellerbach
workers walked out for about
twelve weeks, closing down
W.S.F.PJ.’s stud mill'and caus;
ing mountain of chips to grow.
When the Crown-Zellerbach con
tract ended In 1977, the Warm
August 1978
Springs mill arranged to have
Aug. 1 - Tribal Council Meeting, 9:00 a.m.
1. 10:00 a.m. Present BIA ’80 Budget - Ken Smith
2. 2:00 p.m. Simnasho Community Plan - Planning Dept.
3. 3:00 p.m. Ordinance No. 26 - Education Committee
Aug. 2 - Tribal Council Meeting, 9:00 a.m.
1. 10:00 a.m. Minors’ Trust - Jim Hillenkamp
2. 1:30 p.m. Committee Reports:
Range-Sidwalter proposed resolution -
the Senate Governmental Affairs
Clint Jacks
Committee voted unanimously
Health & Welfare - Woodcutting proposal
to report the bill to the full
Water Board -'Watermaster
Senate.
Land Use Planning -
In the meantime, hearings
.
Membership appointments
were held July 17 on a similar
bill in the House of Represent Aug. 8 - Tribal Council Meeting, 9:00 a.m.
1. 10:00 a.m. Review of “Brief Look at W’arm Springs”
atives, H.R. 13343, introduced by
and “Short History of the C-T of W.S.
Rep. Jack Brooks (D-Tex.),
Reservation”
Chairman of the Committee on
2.
2:00
p.m.
Tribal Court
Government Operations. The
3. 3:30 p.m. Admin Fees Budget - BIA Forestry
Indian education, provisions
were discussed July 20 by Mr. Aug. 9 - Tribal Council Meeting, 9:00 a.m.
1. 1978 Budgets: Tribal Council
Brooks’ subcommittee on Legis
Fish & Wildlife Committee
lation and National Security.
Mid-Oregon Indian Historial Society
Five Indian organizations
2. Deschutes River Legislation - Dennis Karnopp
were invited to testify, including
the National Advisory Commit Aug. 14 - Tribal Council Meeting, 9:00 a.m.
1. 9:00 a.m. Proposed resolution re funeral grants -
tee on Indian Education, the All
Vital Stat
Indian Pueblo Council, the Na
2. 10:00 a.m. Enrollments
tional Congress of American
3.
. Martinez Case - Owen Panner
Indians, the National Tribal
3.
2:00
p.m.
General Manager Report:
Chairmen’s Association, and the
Approval of BIA ’80 Budget
National Indian Education As
Salary graph
sociation.
4.
3:30p.m.
Comprehensive
Learning Center - Mike
The House version of the bill
Clements, Planning
provides for the Director of the
BOR-Community Park Amendment
Office for Indian Education to be
one of 14 principal officers Aug. 15 - Tribal Council Meeting, 9:00 a.m.
1. 10:00 a.m. Sanders-Rickard Report
established by the Act, and to
(Tentative; to be confirmed)
report directly to the Secretary
2. 1:00 p.m. Bear Springs Ranger Station -
of Education. H.R. 13343 further
Dennis Karnopp
provides for the Secretary to
2:00 p.m.
Present 1979 Proposed Tribal Budgets -
delegate to the director “all
Ken
Smith
functions, other than admini
4. 3:00 p.m. Realty
strative and support functions,
vested in the Secretary” (em Aug. 16 - Tribal Council Meeting, 9:00 a.m.
1. 9:30 a.m. Internal Audit Team - Ken Smith
phasis added) by another section
2. 10:00 a.m. Kah-Nee-Ta Manager
of the bill.
Progress Report on Training Program
Apparently the administra
Bd of Directors, Kah-Nee-Ta - Deadline for
tive and support functions and
Submitting names
staff are to be centralized. No
Aug. 21st-25th AFFILIATED TRIBES XNNUAL CONVENTION
provision is made for the con
Spokane
tinuation of Indian preference
Aug.
25
COLUMBIA RIVER BASIN FISHERIES ALLIANCE
authorities outside of the BIA
Quarterly Meeting - Kah-Nee-Ta Lodge
functions transferred to the Of
HATCHERY DEDICATION - Warm Springs Hatchery
fice of Indian Education and no Aug. 26
9:30
a.m. Posting of the colors
specific provision is made for a
Indian Religious Ceremony
position entitled “Assistant Sec
Introduction of Guests
retary for Indian Education”.
Congress Ullman, Guest Speaker
The Indian Self-Determination Aug. 28 - Tribal 11:00
Council Meeting, 9:00 a.m.
Act would be specifically made
1. 1979 Tribal Budgets
applicable to the former BIA Aug. 29 - Tribal Council Meeting, 9:00 a.m.
functions.
1. 1979 Tribal Budgets
The Administration testified Aug. 30 - Tribal Council Meeting, 9:00 a.m.
on the House bill August 1.
1. 1979 Tribal Budgets
Testimony Heard on Education Bills
While Indian spokesmen
from across the Nation are pro
testing the so-called Indian
“backlash” bills, hearings and
markup sessions continue on S.
991 and H.R. 13343, bills to
create a Department of Educa
tion, with a major provision to
remove the Indian education
function from Interior and place,
it in the new department.
An amendment to the Senate
version of the bill to exclude the
transfer of Indian education
failed July 11 bya 7 to 4 margin
in the Senate Governmental
Affairs Committee. The amend
ment was offered by Senator
Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) who had
chaired that Senate Committee
when Indian testimony on S.991
was heard last May. On July 18,
Letters to the Editor
In behalf of the family of our
dearly beloved deceased father
and brother, grandfather and
uncle, Francis James “Foy”
Wilson, we want to express our
appreciation and gratitude to all
of those who stood by us in our
time of sorrow and grief.
There are so many kind and
wonderful people in this world
who show they really care for
their fellow men in both times of
life and in times of death.
The beautiful services given
in honor of our loved one was
indeed a true testimony of our
deep love and respect for our
deceased. The names are too
numerous to mention individual
ly, but we want each and every
one of you who assisted us with
fiancial and moral support, food,
cleaning, cooking, flowers, sing
ing and drumming, Requiem
Mass and music, Military Ser
vices, and your presence at his
service will never be forgotten
and will remain as beautiful
memories that people can be so
dear in times of need.
Our elders were so kind and
understanding and so much help
to us. We thank the Great Spirit
for the multitude of friends and
relatives who shared with us our
grief and showed us love and
unity for one another.
Our heartfelt thanks to all of
you who made our loved one’s
departing from this world re
spectable and honorable. He
truly deserved the best for his
service to his fellow man and his
country. It truly helped to ease
our burden of sorrow to know so
many cared and shared in our
loss. Thank you all from the
bottom of our hearts.
Please do not hesitate to call
on us if we can ever help you in
any way.
Sincerely yours,
“Foy’s Family”
To The Editor
Leola Zamora would like to
thank all those who participated
and paid their last respects at
the Agency Longhouse at the
time of our great loss. We would
especially like to thank Delia
LeClaire, Tony Suppah and all
Leola’s relatives who took over
when we were at loss. Johnny
Zamora’s family will never for
get for the reât of their lives the
Seven Drum ceremony and the
hospitality that was shown them
by Leola’s family. They said to
say they could never thank
everyone enough.
Thank you.
Leola Zamora and Family
Tribal Council
Agenda