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
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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.,... ,•