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Spilyay Tymoo
Truancy up to parents
district. A warning is issued if
By Marsha Shewczyk
there are eight days of absence
There are times when reported. After 15 absences the
daydream ing ab o u t being child is suspended. Cordill says
indoors rather than sitting in a he tries to avoid this action by
classroom can be overpower working with the child and
ing. The majority of students, parents.
however, resist the compulsion
If, after this procedure is
to escape the confínes of followed, the child is still
c o rrid o rs and classro o m absent or continues to be truant
cubicles. A few don’t.
the case is referred to the court.
Truancy in the Jefferson In Madras, Cordill says, there
county school district is not is a compulsary education law
prevalent for two reasons; there making it mandatory for
is no policy on law enforcement children to be in school until
statutes regarding it and the they are 16 years of age. In
schools act to prevent it.
Warm Springs the compulsary
David McGory, Jefferson education law requires students
county juvenile counselor, says to stay in school until 18.
“truancy is not considered Cordill says, “this is not
delinquent behavior in this enforced.”
state.” There is no policy
According to former juvenile
regarding it as such in this officer Rick Souers, in Warm
county. If, as a counselor, he Springs a truant child is picked
sees a student in his office it is up by the police and taken to
usually because of other the station where the school or
deviant behavior. Truancy the parents are called. Truancy
might be only a part of that.
complaints go to juvenile court.
The Madras police depart
The community wants to
ment does not concentrate on maintain certain types of
truant youngsters because of behavior including children’s
the low manpower force during attendance at school, Souers
the day. Only one officer is on explained.
duty during the day and he is
The juvenile is not arrested in
normally not on patrol. If a a truancy violation. He is
student is seen on the street returned to the custody of his
while school is in session and a parents or guardian. A notice
police officer does see him, the of hearing is issued requiring
standard procedure is to ask the juvenile and parents to
him for a pass. If the pass appear in court generally
cannot be produced the child is within a 24-hour period. This
then returned to school.
behavior problem is usually
Madras High School has an handled by putting the child on
open campus policy, meaning a diversion program or in a
students are allowed to leave community service program if
the school at lunch time. it is a serious consistent
Attendance is taken during problem.
each class period. If a student
Truancy offenses at the
misses eight classes his parents Warm Springs Elementary
are notified along with his warrant parental contact.
having to meet with the vice Community Liaison Delson
principal and counselor at the Suppah or counselor Ed Roley
school.
are im portant in making
At Madras Junior High contacts.
School there are à few truancy
Warm Springs Elementary
problems. Vice-principal Bill p r in c ip a l J o h n T r u jillo
Cordill deals with truancy by c o m m e n ts th a t “ a t the
making the truant student elementary age, truancy is the
make up time at noon and after responsibility of the parent.”
school. P aren ts are then The child is “not being sent to
notified of the child’s behavior. school” or encouraged to
Only occasionally do the city attend.
police bring a student back to
All school personnel spoken
school, Cordill mentioned. .
with feel that truancy is a
The policy at the Jr. High problem that should be dealt
ac c o rd in g to C o rd ill is with. It is a family problem as
consistent with the entire well as a school problem.
Help
support
a
dream
. It takes a lot of hard work to
make a dream come true and
Eliza “Hotdog” Greene is still
working on gaining her dream,
gj She has been accepted as a
B student in a trick riding school
■ during spring vacation, but it is
■ going to cost her the price of
I airfare and tuition.
She and' her family have put
8 together several ways to earn
8 the money—a raffle, a sack
lunch sale and a pancake
I supper. The cost of the raffle
tickets is 3 for $1.00.
Eliza is out in the community
selling tickets for a raffle to be
held during the pancake
J supper. Offered in the raffle
U are a multi-colored shawl and a
1 set of wampum earrings with
matching necklace and a
w am pum n e c k la c e w ith
tourquoise nuggets. Other
items will be added by other
family members.
The pancake super will be
held at the Agency Jonghouse
on March 18. The sack lunches
will be sold at Macy’s Store and
the Administration Building on
|f March 16'.
The trick riding school is
lo c a te d in B a k e rsfie ld ,
California. It is run by the
Hardin Familv. a well-known
trick riding family who have
perlormed in many rodeos in
Oregon.
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Hatchery helping save fish
by Marsha Shewczyk
Four years ago the Warm
S p r in g s N a tio n a l F ish
Hatchery began operation.
That year, 1978, 178,000
chinook fries were released.
1982 is the year the first return
on hatchery-reared fish will
occur in great numbers.
Of the thousands of chinook
that were originally released,
Gary White, manager of the
hatchery, estimates 400-500
f is h to be r e t u r n i n g .
“Optimistically, we will look
for more,” he added.
This number is two-tenths of
one-percent of the original
release. This is a standard
return in looking at the return
of other upstream hatchery
reared fish. It’s just “hard to
guess,” White savs.
There have been no major
problems in fish rearing at the
hatchery since its opening four
years ago, comments animal
caretaker at the hatchery
Kenny Calica. Calica has
worked at the hatchery since its
opening.
CHOW TIME—Feeding fish at the Warm Springs National Fish
But even with the return of
Hatchery is a daily chore but necessary to keep local streams
stocked fo r the future. Animal caretaker Kenny Calico is shown the first year’s release it will be
here feeding juveniles.
Spilyay Tymoo photo by Shewczyk
10-15 years before “ really
g ettin g an y th in g g o in g ,”
according to Çalica. There are
efforts yearly to improve the
quality of the hatchery fish
along with decreasing the
mortality.
This year im provem ent
comes with the low sediment
levels found at the hatchery.
Muddy water both irritates the
gills of the fish as well as
making it difficult for fish to see
food.
The low levels of sediment
have been the result of several
factors determined by hatchery
a s s is ta n t m a n a g e r P a u l
Hemerick. 1) The quality of
lo g g in g o p e r a tio n s has
minimized sediment move
ment; 2) horse numbers have
been reduced by the EIA
program to a point where
im p ro v e d v e g e ta tio n is
protecting the soil from
excessive erosion; and, 3)
sediment levels in the Coyote
Creek drainage have been
reduced by our sediment
retention structures construc
ted in 1979 and 1980.
The hatchery has certain
standards it must meet to
m a in ta in e n v ir o n m e n ta l
quality. Employees at the
hatchery check sediment levels
once or twice a month for
sediment levels. “We have to
make sure we aren?t putting
more than we should back into
the river,” Calica explained.
The water released from the
hatchery is filtered through a
lagoon to remove much of the
sediment before its' being
pumped back into the river:
Sixty-five thousand chinook
were released in the fall of 1981.
One hundred fifty thousand are
being released this spring. The
return expected will again be
small because mortality is high
during , the salmon’s three to
five y ear cycle. N a tu ra l
p r e d a t o r s a l o n g w ith
c o m m e r c ia l a n d s p o r ts
fishermen greatly reduce the
numbers of returning salmon.
Technology has also taken its
toll in fish numbers.
The Warm Springs fish
hatchery was constructed to
keep the fish stocks from
diminishing. The salmon is still
very important to the local
culture. This long range plan by
the Confederated Tribes and
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service is just seeing its first
returns. It will eventually
benefit everyone.