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Spilyay Tymoo
July 27,1979
Cecil Seyler gets pat
on the back
He says he was “just doing
his job.” but apparently, BIA
Portland Area Office acting
director Wyman Babby felt
that Seyler had performed
above and beyond the call of
duty. Through the recommen
dation of Warm Springs
Superintendent James Cornett,
Seyler received a special
achievement certificate and
monetary award.
Seyler, who is a Colville
enrollee, has been in Warm
Springs since 1950. He started
work for the Army Corps of
Engineers in 1951, moving on
to work for the roads
department from 1952 to 1954.
Most know Seyler for his
ownership of the Chevron
Station from 1954 to 1966 and
the Burger Inn from 1966 to
1969. During 1968 and 1969,
Selyer ran the only wrecker in
Warm Springs.
Seyler began working for
the Bureau Facilities
Management department in
1969 as a laborer. During the
early days of his employment
there he would go to the Burger
Inn during his lunch hour to
cook so that his wife Donna
could go home for lunch.
In 1971, Seyler was
promoted to the positon of
Maintenance man and in 1972
he moved up to his present
position as maintenance
foreman. Following the sudden
death of Facility Manager Jack
Fiala in May 1978, Seyler
assumed the duties of Acting
Facility Manager and served
until February 1979, when the
position was finally filled. He
was highly commened for
assuming the duties of the
manager in addition to his own
duties.
Seyler has often been faced
with emergency problems such
as flooding and troublesome
community water and sewer
systems in Warm Springs and
Celilo Village.
He has been able to keep up
with projects which were his
responsibility as well as provide
technical assistance to the
Tribes in their proposed water
system project and in planning
for fire protection for rural
housing areas on the
reservation., His assistance was
termed “invaluable” by Babby.
“This award is in recognition of
your exemplary performance
while holding down two
positions...It reveals your
initiative and dedication to the
job.” '
Seyler is modest about his
recent award. He was hesitant
to talk about it, stating “it was
no big deal—just part of my
job.”
People’s Opinions
Question:
‘What did you think of this
years annual Employees
Picnic?”
Madeline Craig: “The food was
real good, but I think they had
too many things going on. It
was too hot to really enjoy the
program.”
Lepha Smith: “I though it was
“A” Okay. I wished that I could
have won a prize especially a
dinner for two at Kah-Nee-Ta.
That would have been nice.
Margie Tuckta: “The food was
real good but the weather was
too warm.”
Carol Jenkins: “1 thought it
went off very well considering
the amount of work that went
into it. I also think it went well
considering the heat on that
day. I think we could have had
a better turn out if it didn't get
as hot as it did. A lot of the
employees look forward to the
picnic each year and it should
be kept an annual event.
Antoinette Wolfe: “I thought it
was alright. The weather was
extra hot and there was no
breeze of any kind and that
didn't help matters much.”
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THE HOUSE THAT BIA BUILT— A n architect from a Seattle firm recorded the structural details
of a Bureau of Indian Affairs house as part of a nationwide survey of Bureau property. A team of
architects and engineers examined buildings inside and out, noting the condition, revising floor plans
and taking photographs.
Spilyay Tymoo Photo by Stowell
BIA buildings given once-over
Men and women with clip
boards and cameras swept the
community, leaving hardly a
stone unturned in their tho
rough inspection of Bureau of
Indian Affairs facilities last
week.
The local survey was part of
a nationwide inventory and
evaluation of Bureau property
directed by the central office
and contracted out to architec
tural and engineering firms.
Information gathered by
field inspectors will be pro
cessed and recommendations
made for improvements or
repairs that will bring property
“up to codes.” Then the Bureau
will seek an appropriation from
Congress to carry out the
needed work.
It took.just under a week for
the team of architects and engi
neers from Kramer, Chin and
Mayo, Inc. of Seattle to go
through the 78 Bureau-owned
dwellings, offices and shops on
this reservation, taking pic
tures, revising floor plans and
completing a checklist of inte
rior and exterior features. They
even inspected the look-out sta
tions on three buttes and the
fire control facility at Kah-Nee-
Ta.
The crew has completed
inspections at Spokane, Col
ville, Yakima, Western
Washington and Lapwai.
Celilo and the in-lieu fishing
sites on the Columbia will also
undergo the firm’s scrutiny.
Data and recommendations
should be in the hands of local
and area Bureau officials in
about three weeks, predicted
lead architect Luke Gjurasic.
Gjurasic explained that his
crew was carrying out two basic
functions for the Portland
Area: to update the Bureau’s
inventory and to evaluate
structures and sites in light of
existing building, safety and
health codes. The Bureau has
done its own inventories
through the years but the infor
mation is not centralized. Like
“historical scribes,” Gjurasic
and his co-workers were
retrieving information and sup
plementing it with new on-site
observations.
Architects evaluated the con
dition and utilization of prop
erty, noting down construction
details and estimating the
amount of money required to
make necessary improvements.
They inspected lawns, road
ways and public areas as well as
structures.
Engineers concentrated on
electrical, heating and plumb
ing systems. Others sketched
floor plans or revised existing
plans that had been altered,
and photographed interiors
and exteriors. The data collec
tors also tried to talk with occu
pants about their concerns to
help them make an accurate
assessment.
Recommendations might
range from repairing roof gut
ters to moving a public works
site from a predominantly resi
dential area and returning land
to tribes. Gjurasic said that
even proposed construction or
land use is evaluated with a
view to location, environmen
tal impact and other factors.
Although he hadn’t yet for
mulated any strong impres
sions about the condition of
Bureau property on the Warm
Springs Reservation, Gjurasic
said the firm’s previous work
has pointed out two problem
areas: the lack of funds and per
sonnel for adequate, ongoing
maintenance of basically sound
structures, and the haphazard
lay-out and use of communities
resulting from a lack of
planning.
“Subsequent studies should
be done,” noted Gjurasic, indi
cating that an even more com
prehensive survey would
produce more specific recom
mendations and courses of
action.
Police Report
Mishap claims two lives
A single car accident near
Bear Springs junction took two
lives Saturday, July 21, at about
6 a.m. Mark Saul Raphael, 23,
of Forest Grove, and his
passenger, Laurence Craig
Stein, 21, Lajolla, Calif., were
traveling on U.S. Highway 26
at milepost 74.5 when their
1971 Chevrolet Caprice left the
highway, rolled a number of
times, and threw both men out
of the car. The car was totaled.
Cause of the accident has
been determined as a
combination of sleepiness and
traveling too fast.
Gunshots fired in West Hills
Six residents in the new
HUD sub-division and other
parts of West Hills have
reported shots being fired from
a small caliber gun. Parents are
asked to counsel their children
in discharging firearms in
residential areas because it is
against the law.
Mattress set on fire
A mattress beside Norma
Jackson’s home in West Hills
was found burning at 2:47 a.m.
on July 24. The Warm Springs
Volunteer Fire Department
responded to the alarm. One
wooden match was found and
it was reported that people in
the area were intoxicated.
Mattresses bum at tribal jail
The Warm Springs Fire
Department was called tp the
tribal jail at approximately 8
p.m. July 18 when a 14 year-old
juvenile girl burned three
mattresses in her cell.
The girl, being held as a
runaway from the Portland
area, started the fire with
matches which destroyed all
mattresses and blackened the
walls of the cell.
The runaway was returned to
her place of residence.
More guns stolen
Guns are continuing to be
stolen at an alarming rate and
they cannot be recovered
without the serial number. Gun
owners should keep serial
numbers of their valuables to
aid in having their firearms
returned.
“Whoever is taking these
weapons must have a whole
bunch,” said Sergeant Ray
Calica.
Special officer settling in
Homer White Buffalo is
settling in after coming to
Warm Springs from Ft.
Berthold Agency in North
Dakota.
White Buffalo will be
responsible for the investiga
tion of major crimes, the
provision of training and
technical assistance for the
tribal police, and working for
law enforcement agencies on
the reservation.
White Buffalo will be living
at the agency with his wife and
three boys.