Ü.S. Portage
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Warn Springs, OR
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OREGON H IS T O R IC A L SO C IETY
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VOL. 6 NO. 11
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WARM SPRINGS, OREGON 97761
Warm Spring babies
swim in exhibition
Adults are always amazed to
see a tiny, supposedly helpless,
baby with the ability to
coordinate its own actions.
And when it comes to seeing an
i n f a n t s w im m in g w ith
independence they are awed.
But it is certainly possible and
Warm Springs residents will
be able to witness such an
exhibition in the near future.
Nine Warm Springs babies
will be taking part in this
infant swimming exhibition on
August 9 at 10:00 a.m. at Kah-
Nee-Ta Lodge. Along with
Super-Sw im Babies from
Portland", W arm S p rin g s
babies will be demonstrating
the survival and swimming
abilities of very young children.
The exhibition is being
SUPER SWIMMER—Convincing an infant that swimming is fun isn’t always easy. Mercedes
Suppah introduced her 12 month old son, LU Bull Owl, to survival training recently. He will appear sponsored by Warm Springs
with eight other Warm Springs babies at a swimming exhibition to be held at Kah-Nee-Ta on A ugust Tribal Health and the Maternal
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Spilyay Tymoo photo by Shewcxyk
JULY 36,1981
and Child Care Department
and Kah-Nee-Ta. Donations
will be given to the Maternal
and Child Care department for
use in supplying the needs of
clients.
The Warm Springs babies
and their parents were invited
to participate in infant survival
training on Saturday, July 25
as in introduction to the
swimming methods available
to young children. The babies,
eight months and older, were
then invited to join in the public
exhibition of survival training
and infant swimming to be
staged at the Lodge Pool.
Babies from Warm Springs
swimming in the performance
include: Maureen Rochelle
Govenor, 8 months of age,
Continued on page 11
S im n ash o sch o o l a g a in survives 5 0 9 -J b u d get axe
by Marsha Shewczyk
The question of whether or
not Simnasho school warrants
the expenditure -of $46,000 of
the 509-J district budget was
again presented to the school
board at the July 7 board
meeting.
Until the following meeting
on Ju ly 16, th e re w as
apprehension among many
Warm Springs and Simnasho
residents that the small rural
school would be axed from the
budget. It appears now that
the school has again survived
the 509-J budget axe.
Several members of the
Madras community expressed
their belief that Simnasho
school was too expensive to
operate. Madras resident Ron
Fox asked if the Tribe could be
approached to fund Simnasho
school in leiu of property taxes,
especially if Public Law 874
funds are to be eliminated.
He asked if the Tribe could
provide financial assistance so
that the Madras area would not
have to finance the entire
school district. As yet P.L. 874
funds have not been cut, but the
school district has been
inform ed th a t there will
probably be a five percent cut
this year.
Concerned Warm Springs
citizens who attended the most
recent school board meeting
were please to learn that
a d d itio n a l d is tric t fu n d s
(com ing in unexpectedly)
prevented Simnasho Elemen
tary’s closure. The school will
operate as usual. If the next
levy presented to voters does
not pass, the school may again
be threatened with closure.
District 509-J Superinten
dent Darrell Wright announ
ced a t the m eeting th a t
$150,000 had come into the
treasury from a credit to the
worker’s compensation fund in
the name of the district and an
increase in the amount of
money coming in on taxes. The
percentage of uncollected taxes
was less than the expected 10%.
Wright stated, “Simnasho
school is an important school
in the community. It has
survived other attempts to
close it so I didn’t propose it on
this list of cuts.”
Simnasho school teacher
Rich Little was extremely
pleased to learn that the school
would remain open. He said, “I
feel like I’m crying wolf.” Each
time the school closure is
•uggested at board meetings he
calls citizens in the Warm
Springs community to inform
them of the action before the
board.
C o m m u n ity su p p o rt is
essential to keep the school
open. Citizens must attend the
meetings to present objections
to th e s c h o o l’s clo su re .
Simnasho did at one time have
to cease operation.
With Simnasho school not
listed on the proposed budget
cuts school board members had
to come up with some other
cuts. They want to bring the tax
levy down from the original
ballot to a rate of $13.27 per
th o u san d dollars assessed
valuation.
Both ballot A and B failed to
pass at the June 30 election.
The A ballot called for a levy of
th e m a x im u m a llo w e d ,
$2,888,899. The B ballot asked
for $203,175 from voters.
Passage of these levies would
have raised property taxes
from $9.85 per thousand to
$16.27 per thousand.
Operating and maintaining
the district schools for the
1981 -82 school year will cost an
estimated $7,471,134. Much of
the money comes from state
and federal funds for students
and programs, largely because
the reservation is in the 509-J
school district.
Cuts in the budget have been
going on since January when
the budgets for the district were
submitted. But the cuts that
were made were not drastic
enough according to voters
who defeated the ballots.
The cuts, up until that time,
included reductions of $21,000
from athletics, 12 hours in
te a c h e r aid e tim e, new
equipment was chopped by 10
percent, elimination of a
proposed English As A Second
Language teacher, a proposed
full-time mechanic helper to a
one-half time, deletion of the
building construction program
and a teacher.
After the ballot with these
cuts failed, even more cuts had
to be made. It was necessary to
delete the mechanic-helper
com pletely and elim inate
driver education. Reductions
in choral music and Spanish,
work experience, alternative
education, home economics,
fie ld t r i p s , e q u ip m e n t
replacement, new equipment
Continued on page 2
Strokes hit G reen e. W a llu la tu m
Tw o p ro m in e n t trib a l
members were hospitalized
with strokes, one on Sunday,
July 19, and the other on July
20. C ouncilw om an K aren
Wallulatum, 46, and Natural
Resources Director Eugene
Greene, 48, are currently under
treatm en t _ at St. C harles
Medical Center in Bend.
Both are now improving and
have been moved out of the
Intensive Care Unit to regular
rooms.
Karen was stricken Sunday
evening when she began
experiencing pain in her chest,
left arm and back. She was
taken to Mt. View Hospital in
M a d ra s w h ere she w as
diagnosed as having had a
stroke. On T uesday she
suffered a second stroke while
in the shower, and at 2 a.m. on
Thursday she had a third
stroke.
A t 10 a.m . T h u rsd a y
morning, Karen was trans
ferred from Mt. View Hospital
to the Intensive Care Unit at St.
C h a rle s M edical C e n te r
in Bend. According to her
nephew, Delford Johnson, her
left side has been affected
Karen Wallulatum
although she is show ing
improvement. She was moved
out of Intensive Care this past
weekend.
The doctors, as of press time,
are still trying to locate the
source of the problem through
a variety of tests.
Natural Resources Director,
Eugene Greene, was hit by a
stroke Monday morning, July
20, while at work. He was
rushed by ambulance to Mt.
View Hospital about 10:30 a.m.
then transferred to S t Charles
in Bend at 7:30 p.m. that
evening.
Doctors have identifed the
cause of his stroke as being due
to a clot or blockage in the neck
area. Since Greene is left-
handed, it is his right side that
has been affected. He is
improving, according to his son
Austin, and he has been in good
spirits throughout the ordeal.
Greene has been undergoing
physical therapy to regain full
use of his right side and it is
expected that he will be
released from the hospital
soon. Meanwhile, he is in
Room 333 at St. Charles and
w e lc o m e s a n y v i s i t o r s ,
according to his son.
Eugene Greene