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About Spilyay tymoo. (Warm Springs, Or.) 1976-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 24, 1979)
Visiting Congressman lends support to projects Congressman Joseph McDade of Pennsylvania paid a welcome visit to Warm Springs August 14-16 with his wife and four children. McDade is the 3rd ranking Republican on the powerful House Appropriation Com mittee and the senior member of his party on the Interior Subcommittee which funds activities of the BIA and IHS. Representative McDade was visiting the Pacific Northwest for the first time in his eighteen vear career at the request of fellow committee member. Bob Duncan of Oregon. On Wednesday, August 15, the Congressman lunched with members of the Tribal Council and toured numerous of the Reservation’s facilities. He was most impressed with Kah-Nee- Ta resort but took equal interest in the Fish Hatchery now in operation on the reservation in which he took pride for which his Committee had funded. A tour through the HUD housing was another pleasing sight to the Congressman’s eye since it was funded by another one of his sub Committees. Of major interest to tour guides Doug McClelland and Jerry Dibble, was the Reregulating Dam project. passed Interior Appropriations Congressman’s new found Funding for the project was not bill which was introduced by understanding of the Pelton included in McDade’s House- Congressman Al Ullman, but after viewing the site and learning of its importance to the Tribes, the Congressman stated that he would support the measure should it become an item in the House Senate Conference committee. Senator Hatfield has pledged his support to include the funds in the Senate’s version, so McDade’s help in Conference will be most beneficial. Delbert Frank 1st Vice Chairman Tribal Council, Congressman Joseph McDade of Pennsylvania and Ken Smith The General Manager add some humor to their conversation at a luncheon in the Juniper Room August 15th. The Congressman was the guest of honor. Spilyay Tymoo Photo McDade and family enjoyed the pool at Kah-Nee-Ta, horseback riding, and dinner in the Juniper Room withTribal lobbiest Jay Edwards and other members of the Administra tion. Congressman McDade confessed that this was the first Indian reservation that he had visited in many years but promised to return to the hospitality of Warm Springs in the near future. In general he was most astounded by the forward looking leadership of the Warm Springs reservation went away a friend and a supporter of the Tribes. Fire danger still high on reservation, road closures enforced Superintendent James D. Cornett has announced the very high fire danger and a reminder that most roads on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation excluding the McQuinn Strip have been closed to public travel. Fire Danger this year requires the closure to protect Indian resources. A combination of warm, northeast winds and extremely dry conditions are teaming up to possibly make this fire season the worst in years. All lands in the Warm Springs Indian Reservation are replete with flash fire fuels such as small shrubs and grasses that have now dried, causing a high fire hazard. Community Calendar August 26-29 Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians meeting at Kah-Nee-Ta. 509-J School Board Meeting. Meetings are held August 27 regularly on second and fourth Mondays of each month in the School Support Services Building behind Buff Elementary. September 3 September 4 Labor Day Holiday First day of School Deadline for the PATH-Foster Care Program Poster Contest. Contact Mildred Kirk at 553- 1161 ext. 291 or 292 for more info. September 17 Meeting at the Agency Longhouse to revise Ordinance 16. Supper service at 5:30, meeting to follow. This ordinance deals with existing laws regarding the slaughter of livestock on the reservation. September 7 Spilyay Tymoo Coyote News Js 1 * SPILYAY TYMOO STAFF Managing Editor Sid Miller Assistant Editor Sandy Rangila Photographic Specialist/Writer Cynthia Stowell ReporterPhotographers Roger Stwyer Donna Behrend Priscilla Squiemphen, Secretary FOUNDED IN MARCH OF 1976 Published bi-weekly by the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon. Warm Springs, Oregon 97761. Located in the Old Administration Building. Any written material to Spilyay Tymoo should be addressed to: Spilyay Tymoo P. O. Box 735 Warm Springs, Oregon 97761 Phone 553-1644 or 553-1161, Ext. 274 Subscription Rate. 16.00 per year The Bureau of Indian Affairs urges all persons visiting public campgrounds to build fires only when necessary, then only in fireplaces provided. If campfires are used, never leave them unattended, and always drown and bury a fire before breaking camp. Already this year there have been 50 fires on Warm Springs Indian Lands in Oregon. Eleven were caused by lightning and the others were all caused by man with more than 2547 acres burned so far in 1979. The road closure does not affect the Confederated Tribes Kah-Nee-Ta Vacation Resort or the main access roads to the public permit fishing areas as shown in the Warm Springs Reservation 1979 Fishing Regulations. Roads which will be open to the public include the oiled roads from U.S. Highway 26 to Simnasho, Wapinitia to Simnasho, Simnasho to Kah- Nee-Ta, and from U.S. Highway 26 at Warm Springs to the Kah-Nee-Ta Resort. The public fishing areas may be reached by the Dry Creek Road, Agency Tenino Road, Jackson Trail Road, the Boulder Creek-Trout Lake Road and the Blue Lake Road. Lake Simtustus will also continue to be open to fishing and mav be reached through Pelton Park from Madras or through Indian Park from the Jackson Trail Road. All other reservation roads will be closed to the public because of fire danger. Permits for travel in the closed areas are issued by the Bureau of Indian Affairs Branch of Forestry at Warm Springs Agency but will be for business only and will not be issued for recreational purposes. Tribal members, U.S. Government and State of Oregon employees, working at the Warm Springs Agency, are not subject to the above restrictions. All camp fires or branding fires, with the exception of those located in fireplaces at the designated campgrounds at Kah-Nee-Ta, Dry Creek, Indian Park, Blue Lake and Trout Lake will require a Fire Permit that will be obtained at the Fire control Office. Police Report Search continues for woman Tribal authorities, assisted by the Wasco County Sheriffs office. Bureau of Indian Affairs, and U.S. Forest Service, renewed a search today for Elizabeth Huff, 75, of Eagle Creek. She has been missing from the Bear Springs Campground since August 9 when she walked off from the campgound and hasn’t been seen since. Huff, who is known to have lapses of memory, was tracked to Highway 216, which is just north of the camground, by a dog and searchers believed that a passing motorist picked her up. Further tracking with the dog led searchers north of Highway 216 to the McCubbin Gulch area, which is about three miles east of Bear Springs Campgrounds where all signs of the woman were lost. Police are now focusing the search in a 1 mile x 1 mile x 2 mile triangle where they belive Huff will be found. Huff is described as being 75, 5 feet 8 inches tall, 110 to 115 pounds, with brown eyes and brown hair. She has very poor eyesight and wears glasses. Accident claims two lives Two women were struck by a car and killed instantly shortly after midnight August 11, as they were sitting along the Simnasho-Kah-Nee-Ta road about 17 miles north of Warm Springs. Dead at the scene were Lianne J. Yallup Williams, 28, a Warm Springs tribal member, and Margaret Wilkinsen, believed to be 19, of the Yakima tribe. According to special agency officer, Homer While Buffalo, Williams and Wilkinsen, accompanied by Keith Yallup and Delbert Blodgett, were going from He-He to Kah-Nee- Ta when Wilkinsen started crying for an unknown reason. Wilkinsen was let off the car about 17 miles north of Warm Springs when she said she wanted to walk home. Williams, Yallup, and Blodgett continued on to Kah- Nee-Ta for a couple miles before deciding to turn around and pick up Wilkinsen. When they caught up with Wilkinsen she and Williams sat down in front of the car and talked. As the two women were talking, a southbound car driven by Aaron Paul Jones, 18, a Colville Indian, approached and apparently thinking the car was pulling out, swerved to the right. i narrowly missing the car, and ¡struck the two girls. No citations were issued pending investigation. Car-bike mishap hospitalizes boy Twelve year old Leander Lucero, son of Fred and Alice Lucero, Warm Springs, was struck by a car as he was riding his bike in West Hills near Charles Calica’s residence August 6. Lucero was on his way to Shitike Creek to go swimming with his friends when a 1968 Chevrolet Impala, driven by a 12 vear old juvenile failed to see him and ran over him, dragging the bike and Lucero for several feet. Lucero was transported to Mountain View hospital in Madras by Warm Springs Police and was later transferred to St. Charles Medical Center in Bend where he was treated for a broken right arm and broken left ankle. Lucero is now recovering at home. Following investigation of the accident, the 12 year old juvenile will probably be charged with no operator’s license and his guardian will probably be charged with letting him drive, according to Sergeant Ray Calica.,... ,•
