MARCH 31,1981 PAGE 7
1979—A year of firsts for Warm Springs
Diamond Ring— The morning o f February 26,1979 had most people in Warm Springs viewing one o f nature's phenomenons— the eclipse. Shown here is the
diamond ring which ended totality with a flash.
Warm Springs suffered an
la b o u r power outage in
January as a result of a
faulty insulator. Folks
huddled around fireplaces
or drove to Madras to get
warm.
In February, General
M a n a g e r K en S m ith
“reluctantly” had his name
taken off the candidates list
for the Commission of
Indian Affairs:
Voters approved the
cdnstructin of the $26'
million hydro project at
Pelton rereg dam and the
Deschutes Domestic Water
System project was okayed
on a second vote in July.
Close to 200 acres of
pine was destroyed in a fire
north of Shitike Creek and
west of Sidwalter Flat. Over
200 fire fig h te rs were
recruited to fight the blazds.
Archaeologists from OSU
sifted through soil at Dry
Creek at the intake site of
the new Deschutes water
.
system. Andrew David
Canopy Of Steel—A major $5.5 million renovation at WSFPI a s s is te d by r e c a llin g
included modernization of the plywood layup line.
historical facts and locations
of past dwellings.
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The Look Of A Winner— The first annual Simnasho Mini-
Marathon had over a hundred runners headedfor thefinish line at
the Kah-Nee-Ta day use area. The money earned enabled the
Simnasho students to fly to southern California.
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Statue Erected — The rootdigger statue in the traffic circle at the administration building was set up
in October 1979. The model for the statue was Bernice Mitchell and was sculpted by Seattle sculptor Miss Warm Springs 1979—Sally Rhoan
Richard Beyer.