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Page 12 October 25,1982 SPILYAY TYMOO USDA child food program E ligibility requirements The Head Start and Head Start/ Day Care program announces the sponsorship of the USDA Child Care Food Program. Meals will be made available to enrolled children at no separate charge without regard to race, color, handicap, age, sex, or national origin. Parents’ income determines the amount of money USDA will reimburse us to provide meals to enrolled children. The income eleigibility guidelines listed below are used to determine our reimbursement. Income Eligibility Guidelines Effective July I, 1982 to June 30, 1983 All states Except Hawaii Family Size 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ' . 8 For each additional family meiriber add Reduced Yearly $ 8,660 11,510 14,360 17,210 20,050 22,900 25,750 28,600 Price Monthly 722 959 1,197 1,434 1,671 1,908 2,146 2,383 2,850 238 Meals will be provided at the sites listed below: (required only when meals are served at more than one place and/ or the name of the sponsoring organization and center is different.) Warm Springs Head Start/D ay Care Trailer Warm Springs Head Start Program—Community Center Geo Quiz You’ll never guess this geo-quiz! If you can meet this challenge with the correct answer you will win one year’s subscription to Spilyay Tymoo fo r yourself o f a friend. Call553-1644 with your answer. Spilyay Tymoo photo by Shewczyk Low stumpage rates Continued from page 4 our soil, our government, our childrens future. I hope I do not get as emotional as some of our professionals have during the low stumpage meetings of this last year. “Artificially low log prices can make a very inefficient conversion operation look good when, in reality, an efficient o p eratio n would return many more profit dollars to the Confederated Tribes,” further recommended by Ed Williston Industry Consultant was to use true market value instead of the appraised figure you see above. We are an industry-oriented b u s in e s s , n o t re s o u rc e - oriented. I love our resource, our trees and all that it r e p r e s e n t s . I q u e s tio n liq u id a tin g 300 y e a r-o ld growth stands at these low prices. Why couldn’t we wait until the market is better, storing the tree on the stump, a savings account. Sure the possibility of m ortality is present by bugs, disease and fire, but to cut at little or no profit is 100% mortality. The potential value of the trees left standing can be taken to the bank in borrowing power. But cut, it drops to 25 per 1000 board feet or $10. per 1000 board feet. Business as usual in the employment arena has been impacted somewhat by a 22% cut in the budget, but this is a small amount when compared to the 300% increase since 1974. Employment opportunity is offered, not employment. 47% non-Indians work in the overall tribal machine. 131 tribal members work at the Warm Springs Forest P ro d u c ts In d u strie s and logging activities or 5.5% of the to ta l 2,448 p lu s tr ib a l membership figure. To include families (x 3) a 16.5% figure could be used 83.5% still a clear majority. 1 pray these people’s hearts are with the tribe and do not take this as a personal attack. I have heard questions by mill workers themselves as to benefits or returns to the tribes in all areas “...people working down there have good w ages, frin g e b e n e fits— something like 40%; with this last increase (7%) our entry level comes in at $9.94 per hour or $20,600 a year.” (Bob Macy, speaking to Tribal Council as a tribal member.) A business principle is that “the more the benefits and wages the less jobs a v a ila b le . T he T rib a l Administration created 7 new positions at a 30,000 to 40,000—plus range. This might be called the Hood Rob'in system, taking from the little people and giving it to the big boys. Public relations during these hard times may be present but how long does it last? I truly wonder how many communi ties in the United States would liquidate their resources to employ 500 of us Indians???? I am not saying to shut down the mill, or the tribe or even Kah-Nee-Ta. Flexibility is bragged about among the bosses, a maximizing of profits. But in hard times we are maximizing loss and impacting future profit abilities.. We need to become more flexible in all areas remembering we . are tribal people, parents who worry about the long term impacts, may less dollars now, a sacrifice will pay greatly dow n the line, like our ELD ERS must have thought years ago. “All these statistics boil down to the simple fact that Indian people still are not receiving the full potential benefits attainable from their forest resource.” (Joe Dela Cruz NCAI president.) Our values as a peo p le are priceless. Maybe $5 a cord may be enough. We pay a lot of money to run the tribal business. I wish they would quit smiling and saying how they ‘separate business and politics’ and get to work. Figure out some way so we do not have to give our trees away during the hard times. Work together. We do not depend on the U.S. Government for support of our Tribe. We support it ourselves. I only wish we did not have to pay such a high price. If I have offended some of you, it is best because it is our children’s future we should be worried about, and we should all be working to better that future. Sincerely, Lewis E. Pitt, Jr. NOTICE 1982 Thanksgiving M ini-Pow wow November 25, 26, 27 and 28 Will be held at the Simnasho Longhouse this year. U n ti: Church Servî&ê$ St. Wiliams REORGANIZED CHURCH OF WARM SPRINGS JESUS CHRIST OF LATTERDAY SAINTS MATTHEW CROTTY, FATHER ELDER, C U N T JACKS Tel. 553-1670 CONFESSION PRIOR TO MASS-8:30 a.m. Worship -10:00 a.m. Sunday Mass-8:30 WARM SPRINGS WARM SPRINGS UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH STEVEN FRANK , PASTOR TEL. 553-1237 W orship-10:00 a.m . .Ä - -W- THE HAND OF FATE— The fate of becoming a tribal member was decided by the voting o f 639 tribal members. For 56% o f the people up fo r adoption i.e. ended a long wait but for the remainder who didn’t make it, it can mean another long wait. Spilyay Tymoo photo by Leno FULL GOSPEL CHURCH ORIN JO H NSO N. PASTOR Sunday School-10:00 a.m. Worship Service-11:00 a.m. Sunday Evening Service-7:30 p.m. Bible Study, Wednesday-7:30 p.m. Young People’s Service-Friday-7:30 p.m. WARM SPRING S BAPTIST CHURCH ALLEN ELSTON, PASTOR Tel. 553-1267 Sunday School- 10:00 a.m. Morning W orship-ll:00 a.m. Bible Study-Sunday & Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.
