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About Spilyay tymoo. (Warm Springs, Or.) 1976-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 6, 1981)
Spifyay Tymoo February 6,1981 Page 3 Separate accidents claim lives of tribal members Three separate accidents in the last two weeks have claimed the lives of two Warm Springs trib al members and one Yakima tribal member. The Saluskin Accident The first accident occurred at a p p ro x im a te ly 4:00 p.m . January 21, ten miles west of Maupin just off highway 216 near Wapanitia. The driver, S a n d ra S alu sk in , 17, of Toppenish, Washington and Ron Suppah were thrown from the vehicle as it failed to negotiate a curve. Saluskin was killed instantly. Suppah was taken to The Dalles General Hospital and later transferred to Good S a m a r ita n H o s p ita l in Portland with neck, head and facial injuries. He is listed in good condition. The o th e r p assengers, Vernon and Lincoln Jay S u p p a h , b o th o f W arm Springs-, were taken to Mt. View Hospital in Madras where they were treated and released. Excessive speed has been attributed as the cause of the accident. Charley Accident A n o th e r a c c id e n t on January 21 at 6:10 p.m. claimed the life of Gerald Charley, 40, of Madras. Charley apparently lost control of his vehicle when he struck the rear wheels of a truck/trailer rig driven by Larry Rackeweg of Federal Way, Washington. After striking the truck, Charley then sideswiped a car driven by Duane Peterson of Wilsonville, California. He then swerved and collided head- on with a compact pickup driven by William Applebe of Portland. Applebe was taken to Mt. View hospital and treated for a broken leg and later released. Charley was pinned in his pickup for nearly an hour as Warm Springs Ambulance crew members worked to remove him. Elvis Frank, a passenger in Charley’s vehicle, was also taken to Mt. View Hospital and treated and released. Charley was taken im mediately into surgery at Mt. View, where doctors worked for nearly four hours to repair his badly ruptured liver. Once partially stabalized, the Warm S p rin g s am bu lan ce then transported him to St. Charles Medical Center in Bend. Charley died en route to Bend at 2 a.m. Cause of the accident is still u n d er in v e stig a tio n , but according to Warm Springs Chief of Police Jeff Sanders the p rim ary cause has beep attributed to alcohol. Tl>e Goodlance Accident The third accident, which occurred January 23, took the life of Felicia Tewee, 14. Brenda G oodlance, 18, driver of the southbound vehicle attempted to pass another vehicle on a curve near Metolius and lost control. A northbound car, driven by Marvin Richards of Metolius, struck the rear end of the Goodlance car. Also passengers in the G o o d la n c e v e h ic le w ere Rhonda Chocktoot, 20, and F lo y d T e w e e J r . , 13. Goodlance and Chocktoot were taken to Mt. View Hospital and were treated and released, as were Richards and his passenger Norma Richards. Floyd Tewee was also taken to Mt. View and later transferred to St. Charles Medical Center where he is listed in fair condition and ambulatory. The accident is still under investigation. Simnasho homes moving rig h t along The older Simnasho homes which at one time were' located close to Highway 9 are being moved up the hill away from the highway in an area' adjoining the newly construc ted senior citizen homes area. The houses are being moved “to clean up the area and make room for more parking for the longhouse and fire station,” according to co n struction manager, Ray Elkins. The area where the houses were located, “will be filled in and leveled off,” Elkins says and “we’re going to add garages and remodel the houses.” A lls ta te H o u se m o v in g Company of Bend is in charge of getting the homes relocated. It is no easy task. Johnny Gogenola and Jim Karns have been working on the project sin c e N o v e m b e r. T h e y anticipate the project to be complete in two to three more weeks. The Simnasho students at school located across the highway from the house moving project out of curiosity visited the site. They had the housem oving method ex plained to them by the house- movers. Before anything else “all power and water has to be tu r n e d o f f , ” e x p la in e d . Gogenola. The power lines and water pipes then have to be disconnected. The next step is to take a sledge hammer to the foundation making an opening where steel beams can be slid under the house. The house is jacked up by means of hydrolic jacks and wheels are rolled under the structure. A tow truck then tows the house to its new location. When moving, the house travels at about five miles per hour. If travel is by highway speed can get up to 25 miles per hour Gogenola said. The housemoving company has moved houses empty or with all the furnishings still inside. They seldom break even a window. Between Christmas and New Years A llstate h o u s e m o v in g c o m p a n y Grounds Eye View— Simnasho school-students get an underview o f housemoving. Spilyay Tymoo ph oto by Shewczyk relocated the Sisters library with all the books still on the shelf. After the house is taken to its new location porches have to be rebuilt and utility lines reconnected. The houses are then ready for new or familiar occupants. If every horse is not tested it could leave a c a rrie r.............. Continued from page 1 acute form of E.I.A. is marked by the same symptoms but they recur in cycles. The chronic form of the disease is marked by only a few of the symptoms. C a r r ie r s c a n sh o w no symptoms and yet can carry the virus and infect other animals. This seems to be the case with the horses tested so far. Unlike reports heard around the state the disease is not passed o n to hum an s. It affects only equine animals. The advantage of discover ing the disease during the winter months according to Warm Springs extension agent Clint Jacks is that the vector season does not begin for a few more months. Flies that spread the virus are inactive during.the colder months. Because of this there may be time to work out a program within the reservation boundaries, hopefully with financial assistance through a grant. Funds for rounding up the horses and testing them is important at this point. Dr. Daly says,“With such a high percentage of animals already proving positive all the horses should be tested.” Daly says, “If every horse is not tested it could leave a carrier and then you’ve spent a whole bunch of money for nothing.” Jacks feels that testing all the horses is necessary as “we don’t know about horses that stay on the reservation.” They may never have had a Coggins test. Tribal Council is cooper ating with rangestockmen are attempting to work out a program to prevent the disease from going beyond its present status. They are trying to keep the state from putting a q u aran tin e o n .t h e entire re se rv a tio n . A gent Ja c k s says,“We want to take care of the p ro b lem w ithin the reservation. If we don’t do it the state will step in and do it for us.” The State of Oregon is not anxious to quarantine the horses. Dr. Daly stated, “As far as we’re concerned your m ethod of handling the problem on the reservation is more than we can expect any place else.” The state is willing to cooperate in any way. If the problem can be taken care of without state intervention that is the way it will be done. “We will just wait and see and not get shook up about it. We don’t feel we have to do anything now, since it is being done.” In an effort to speed things along Tribal Council has approved a revision of Ordinance 55, Animal health, brand inspection, breeding animal quality and disease control ordinance. Revisions in sections 3 and 7 are working toward eradication of E.I.A. on the reservation. A statement, in section 3 .1 of the ordinance states that “any or all existing livestock on the reservation may be required to have a c e rtific a te of health...issued by a licensed veterinarian.” T r ib a l a t t o r n e y J im Noteboom assisted in revision of Ordinance 55. He changed the amendment giving the tribal administration authority to han d le o u tb re a k s of infectious disease am ong animals on the reservation. Noteboom says, “prior to the revison there was no clear authority to quarantine or test animals.” ordinance gives the Natural Resources department with cooperation of the police department responsibility for and authority to quarantine and to undertake treatment of diseased animals. The director of the N atural Resources department, Noteboom says, can also order testing where a stock owner will not do so and then can charge the owner for the testing. He also has the power to order a diseased animal destroyed. According to Noteboom a $500 fine is imposed for violations of the ordinance. There is no jail penalty making it a civil violation so non-tribal members as well as tribal members are affected by the ruling. A recent meeting with the horseride bosses outlined their re sp o n sib ilitie s w hen the round-up begins, after some funds have been obtained. They will be responsible for o rg a n iz in g the ride and determ ining which horses should be eliminated. Horses testing positive will be moved to an isolation area at Schoolie pasture, north of the Warm Springs River and west of the highway. Jacks says. Jacks goes on to say,“Our first priority is the wild horses. It may take two to three years to remove the positive horses. We have to test every horse on the reservation.” A consideration which the state is discussing, Dr. Daly said, is one also mentioned by Ja c k s when he sa y s,“ A program on the reservation won’t do any good if the horses surrounding the reservation are affected by thé disease.” Until E.I.A. is brought under control Dr. Daly feels that any horse owners coming into contact with reservation horses will be reluctant to have d e a lin g s in v o lv in g th e reservation stock. Everyone involved is lo o k in g for cooperation- to eradicate this disease before it gets out of hand. Registration papers sought Vernon Suppah has lost papers for his ' registered Quarter Horse and is offering a $50 reward to the person who finds them. Tiie registered horse is a five year old sorrel gelding named “Tonto Bar Cat;” He was sired by Tom cat and the dam is Tonic Time.
