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..............
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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.