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'Extension service issues warning
A dangerously erroneous
canning recommendation was
published in a recent issue of a
nationally circulated home
canning magazine, according
to Art Badenhop, Oregon State
University Extension fruit and
vegetable specialist.
The erroneous recommenda
tion dealt with the steam
pressure canning of green
beans/’ said Badenhop.
“According to the ‘The Cook’s
Magazine,’ a quart of green
beans can be safely processed in
a water-bath canner at 212
degrees F.
“The canning temperature
recommended in these
instructions is not correct and
çan result in the formation of
botulinum toxin in the beans,”
Badenhop warned. “Human
consumption of foods
containing botulinum toxin
causes botulism.
“Green beans can be safely
preserved only by steam
pressure canning at 240 degrees
F. not 212 degrees F,”
Badenhop said.
Badenhop added that the
magazine has been informed of
the error and is taking steps to
notify subscribers of the
incorrect information.
Botulism is a deadly poison
Contract awarded
at W.S
A contract in the amount of
$148,518 has been awarded by
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service to Pneumatic
Construction, Inc. for the
modification of the water
treatment system at the Warm
Springs National Fish
Hatchery.
“The hatchery has been
experiencing filter system
problems, explained hatcherv
manager Gary White. “We had
to modify the design of the
system and make some
plumbing changes to better
utilize the waters we have.” He
added that the system for
heating and chilling the water is
a complicated thing to explain.
Pneumatic Construction,
Inc. is a Portland, Oregon
outfit. White said he’s ready for
them to start work immedi
ately.
Summary of Horses
tested
9/1/80 to 9/23/81
A. Horses Bled at
Warm Springs
Southend
Dry Hollow
Tenino
Boulder, Miller Flat,
Dry Creek, Webster
Sidwalter
Northend
B. Horses Bled at Killing
Plants
Horses Tested
Positives
219
257
221
5
8
40
212
64
170
963
2,042
224
347
590
2.632
101
448
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Spilyay Tymoo
Coyote News
REPORTER/PHOTOGRAPHERS
Marsha Shewczyk
Priscilla Squiemphen
FOUNDED IN MARCH OF 1976
Published bi-weekly by the Confederated Tribes of the
Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon. Warm Springs,
Oregon 97761. Located in the Old Administration Building.
Any written material to Spilyay Tymoo should be addressed
to:
Spilyay Tymoo
P.O. Box 735
Warm Springs, Oregon 97761
Phone 553-1644 or 553-1161, Ext. 274, 285
and The Darkroom ext. 286
Subscription Rate: $6.00 per year
Timber landowners workshop
“Trade-offs, issues of
economics, resource use and
reality” is the theme of the
Timber Landowners Work
shop scheduled for November
Sth and 6th in the Wasco Room
at Kah-Nee-Ta lodge from9:00
a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Representatives from the
tribal members, Tribal
Council, tribal management
and the Bureau of Indian
Affairs will discuss trade-offs,
trust responsibility, self-
determination and how it
relates to the tribal forest.
A panel discussion of past
and present issues will take
place on the second day. The
panel will have four kev
speakers from forestry
personnel and the natural
resources department.
Selected subjects and
speakers will be: “Use of fire as
a management tool” by Fire
Control manager Walt
Sixkiller; “Soils update of
Warm Springs Indian
Reservation” given by soil
conservationist Dean Elliot;
“Warm Springs Forest
Products Industries” by
WSFPI general manager Bob
Macy and tribal timber
consultant Paul Sanders; “The
Forest Management Plan and
Fisheries in the National
Forests” given by Maurita
Smyth of the Columbia River
Inter-Tribal Fish Commission.
begins second
The Warm Springs Reserva
tion has not yet arrived at the
stage where it can lift its self-
imposed quarantine in its
program to eliminate Equine.
Infectious Anemia. But in
certain areas the second phase
of testing has already begun.
Approximately 400 uncon
trollable horses still have to be
given their first test. Riders are
working with helicopters
through the month of October
to drivf these animals from
rough and timbered areas.
Warm Springs extension agent
Clint Jacks says it may be
necessary to wait until winter to
test some of these horses when
the snow and cold weather
drive them from the
1 mountains.
The south end of the
2.3%, reservation is relatively free of
3.1% the disease, according to
18.1% statistics. A second testing will
be given to this group and if
these horses prove to be
30.2% negative a third testing may not
be needed, Jacks said. Sidwal-
3.5% ter and Dry Hollow also have
low percentage rates of EIA.
23.3%
17.0%
As testing enters its second
phase, questions are arising in
the minds of many horse
17.0% owners concerning the
program. The horses that are
being sold and slaughtered
because they prove positive are
still working horses. Jacob
Frank, for one, feels “a little
bit doubtful.”
MANAGING EDITOR
....... Sid Miller
ASSISTANT EDITOR
Sandy Rangila
PHOTOGRAPHIC SPECIALIST/WRITER Donna Behrend
TYPESETTER
EIA
%
******* *Spllyay Tymoo Staff* *******
Pat Leno
caused by the growth of spores
of the bacteria, Clostridium
botulinum. These spores will
produce a deadly toxin in low-
acid foods in the absence of air
inside a sealed jar.
“Canning green beans at the
proper temperature -is
especially important because
they are a low-acid vegetable,”
Badenhop explained. “High
acid fruit such as cherries and
pears can be processed safely at
212 degrees F because few
bacteria thrive in acids. Green
beans do no fall into this
category and must be proessed
at the higher temperature of
240 degrees F.”
what they really want to do.
They have? to carry out
Council’s decision.” If Council
hadn’t quarantined the
reservation, the state would
have, he said.
“Many people are scared
because if a horse proves
positive, no matter what it is
worth the value goes down to
the killing price,” Jacks added.
After a warm summer when
flies were abundant, some
horses may have been infected
by flies, another consideration
in determing the cause of the
disease may lie in the use of
non-sterile instruments used
in castrating horses. Jacks said,
“Many gelded horses are
proving positive. The highest
number of positive,horses are
saddle horses. We may be
doing it ourselves.”
Fighting studs on the range
could transmit the disease. It is
unknown whether or not EIA
can be transmitted through a
horse’s saliva. Many questions
about EIA remain unanswered
phase
at this point.
A third testing is planned
after completion of the second
phase of the program. “We
hope to be done with first and
second testing and completed
with the third by June 1,1982.”
Jacks said. At that time “we can
ask Council and the state to lift
the quarantine.”
“which will carry us through
been budgeted by the tribes for
the EIA program in 1982
“which will carry us through
June,” Jacks mentioned. By
December 31 of this year direct
expenditures will total
$232,000 ($36,000 from the
Tribe, '$96,000 through BIA
land operations funds and
$100,000 of IMPL funds).
With money budgeted and
only 1,500 horses remaining to
be tested on the reservation, the
tentative June deadline appears
feasible. EIA may then be a
thing of the past, a part of the
Warm Springs history. Now it
can at least be said that the end
is in sight.
Frank had to forfeit a relay
team plus some saddle horses
to the program. He felt they
were good horses. He said, “To
me a sick horse will lay down
and show me he is sick.” He
continued, “When it becomes
that costly to the individual..,
my balance may go over to the
other side. If this sickness is
serious, how come our horses
are not dying?”
Frank mentioned having
spoken to a veterinarian
concerning the disease. He
commented that the only
concrete statement he received
about the seriousness of the
disease was, “the surrounding
area would discriminate
against you. I know they
would. With no prevention and
no cure, what do they know
about it.”
Extension agent Jacks added SECOND TESTING—- Blood sampling continues in the second
that he feels “it is a struggle for phase of the EIA program.
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