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
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Low stumpage rates
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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 .
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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.