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About Spilyay tymoo. (Warm Springs, Or.) 1976-current | View Entire Issue (April 30, 1982)
0 0 é 1 71 OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY 1230 SU PARK AVE PORTLAND, OR 97205 Ü.S. Postage Bulk Rate Permit No. 2 Warm Springs, OR S p ily a y T ym oo TZ7 WARM SPRINGS, OREGON 97761 VOL 7 NO 8 _J APRIL 30, 1982 Zig Zag accident kills one, injures two others Root Feast preparations A two-car accident near Zig Zag claimed the life of a tribal member, injured one other tribal member and a man from Portland. parking lot and was struck broadside by the Miller vehicle. No citations were issued and the accident is still under investigation. Larry Miller, 27, of Warm Springs was dead on arrival at Gresham General Hospital following the early morning accident A pril 10. Isaac M itchell, a passenger in Miller’s 1980 Citation, suffered a broken neck'and facial cuts. David Fisher, driver of the other vehicle, suffered a broken leg. Both were listed in stable condition. Mitchell was hospitalized at Gresham General Accord ing to his wife Julie, Mitchell’s doctors said he was “born again,” since people with similar injuries are usually paralized from the neck down. Mitchell is not paralized, but doctors are keeping a close eye on the one shattered vetabra and two broken vetabrae in his neck. If the vertabrae move, surgery will be necessary. According to Oregon State Police reports, the accident occurred near the Barlow Trail Restaurant. Fisher apparently pulled out of the Barlow Trail Mitchell was asleep at the time of the accident and did not know what happened or where th e a c c id e n t o c c u r r e d , according to Mitchell’s Wife. Two killed as car plunges into lake Kayak capsizes, floater lost W arm S p rin g s P o lic e Department and Jefferson County police officers are presently conducting an air and ground search for, a man missing on the Deschutes River. Weather April 16 17 18 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 HI Low 60 55 50 55 63 74 81 76 66 67 73 66 22 31 25 25 24 25 30 39 40 49 39 47 A pickup, which had been parked at the Trout Creek campground for some time, was reported to Jefferson County police by the BLM. The pickup is registered to David Winniford of Parkdale, O regon. Police contacted Winniford’s family and were told he was not home, but f lo a tin g th e D e sc h u te s. Winniford was last seen April 1.6 by campers at Trout Creek. Wininiford put his kayak in at the bridge at Warm Springs on April 16. A k a y a k , a p p a r e n tly belonging to Winniford, was spotted April 28 near Trout Creek. Acting Warm Springs Chief of Poice Ray Calica said the canvas bottom of the kayak was ripped open “pretty good.” Details of the accident are sketchy at this time and the search is continuing. See pages 6 and 7 for last week’s activities in Spokane, Washington A single car accident claimed the lives of two Warm Springs residents April 25 at Lake Simtustus on the Pelton Dam Road. Dead are Waylon L. Suppah, age 2 and Christop herson Matilton, age 31. The car left the road and w ent dow n a 100 fo o t embankment and plunged into the lake. M a tilto n was apparently the driver of the car according to a Jefferson County Sheriffs department spokes person. Matilton was thrown from the car. His body was recovered by Jefferson County Search and Rescue workers a short distance from the car. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The S uppah body was recovered from the car by a N o rth U nit R u ra l F ire Protection diver. A third person, identified as Billy Ponder, escaped from the car after it entered the lake. He made his way to shore, climed the embankment and walked three miles to the Pelton Dam Store where he called the Jefferson County Sheriff’s department of the accident at 11:30 p.m. The accident is believed to have occurred between 9:30 and 10 p.m., according to a spokesperson for the Sheriffs department. The location of the accident was 13 miles northwest of Madras on the Pelton Dam road, just south of the Willow Creek bridge. Three injured in single-car accident Three people were trans ported to Mountain View H o s p ita l w ith in ju r ie s following an auto accident April 21 at the intersection of highway 3 and E 141 access road, near the Harold Culpus residence, according to Warm Springs police departm ent sergeant Rick Souers. The accident occurred at 6:46 p.m. There were five occupants in the car at the time of the accident. Excessive speed was listed as the primary cause of the accident. According to police, the car was traveling at a high rate of speed when it hit the shoulder, went back on the pavement, began swerving and then left the road. The car rolled 500 feet and landed on its top in the ditch where it came to rest. The five occupants were throw n out of the car, according to police. All escaped serious injury. Identified as driver of the car was Ramona Knight. The o c c u p a n ts w ere M a risa Cooper, Kendall Arthur, Etta Goodenow and Debbie Brown, all of Warm Springs. Knight, Goodenow and Brown were transported to the hospital by the Warm Springs' Fire and Safety Department. T he in v e stig a tio n was conducted by the W arm Springs Police Department.
