Pace 12 July 1,1983
Spilyay Tymoo
Emp. picnic July 21 '■
The annual Tribal, BIA, IHS
and Kah-Nee-Ta employees
p icn ic w ill be held on
Thursday, July 21 starting at 6
p.m. in the picnic area in back
of the Community Center.
Salmon will be the main dish
and will be provided by the
tribe. Employees are ask to
bring a potluck dish (salad,
baked beans or dessert).
Children Will be entertained
with games, nrizes going to the
winners. The dunk tank will be
a main feature with employees
from various departm ents
volunteering for duty in the
tank. Those include Ken
English, Rick Souers and
Robert Miller.
Raffle tickets will be on sale
for $.50 each dr three for a
$1.00, the prizes will be bigger
and better this year.
F or m ore In fo rm a tio n
con tact C arol Jenkin or
W in o n a S tr o n g at the
Administration building.
Playpens dangerous^
With the reported three
recent tragic deaths of children,
tw o involving m esh-sided
playpens for which an alert had
been recently issued and the
other a crib which has been
under recall since 1977, the
U.S. Consumer Product Safety
Commission today issued an
urgent appeal for consumers to
heed product safety recalls and
warnings.
On May 4, the Commission
learned of the death of a six
month old baby boy in the
Southwest United States in a
mesh sided playpen. On May
10, CPSC learned of a similar
a c c id e n t. T he in fa n ts
apparently rolled into the meshi
pocket formed when one side of
the playpen was not in a fully
raised position. In March,
1983, the Commission had
issued a nationwide alert to
consumers that drop side mesh
playpens and portable mesh
cribs, used with a side left
down, can pose a severe safety
h azard to in fa n ts . The
Commission is now aware of
four deaths involving inesh-
sided playpens and six deaths
and two non-fatal accidents
involving mesh-sided cribs
since 1973. Seven of the
incidents involved children six
weeks old or less who were left
in the playpen or crib with one
of the two drop sides in the
down position.; After falling off
the end of the mattress pad, the
infant’s head or chest w a s.
compressed between the floor
board and the mesh side so the
child was unable to continue
breathing.
The Commission has urged
the mantffacturers of mesh
sided playpens and portable
mesh cribs to conduct a
nationwide campaign to warn
parents of the hazard in order
to avoid additional tragedies
from occurring.
In several related incidents,
despite extensive efforts by
Bassett Furniture Industries,
Inc., to recall its Candelite and
Mandalay style cribs, a Kansas
City, M issouri, area infant was
strangled in January, 1983,
when he allegedly became
entrapped in the decorative
headboard of the Candlelite
model crib.
The ongoing crib recall was
initiated by Bassett Furniture
Industries, Inc., of Bassett,
Virginia in 1977. To date, the
cost of the recall is estimate to
be $1 million. Although only
about 7,400 cribs were sold, the
occurrence of seven infant
deaths moved the company to
u nd ertak e a n o tific a tio n
program that included direct
m ailings to new parents,
warning posters in doctors’
waiting rooms, paid magazine
ads, and a finder’s fee for
located uncorrected cribs.
More than 4,500 of the affected
cribs have been modified.
Owners of the Candlelite style
(Pine Finish, Model #5127,
Maple Finish, Model #5208)
and Mandalay style (Yellow
Finish, Model #5126 or 5621,
White Finish, Model #5225)
who have not yet modified,
their crib are urged to contact
B assett at 7 0 3 -6 2 9 -7 5 1 1 ,
extension 340, for a free
modification kit. Affected
model numbers can be found
on the white manufacturer’s
sticker placed on the inside of
the headboard, below mattress
level.
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answer.
Rainer to offer two-week seminar
In d ia n s in trib a l and
c o m m u n it y le a d e r s h i p
p o sitio n s throughout the
nation say they are concerned
a b o u t w h e r e th e n e x t
generation of young Native
American leaders will come
from, so a BYU administrator
is doing something about
giving those young people their
start.
Howard R. Rainer, assistant
director of American Indian
Services at B Y U and a
nationally recognized Indian
a d v o c a te h im s e lf , h a s
developed a special two-week
seminar for 30 hand-picked
Indian youth ages 15 to 18. It
will be held on the BYU
campus July 17-28.
“Thousands of extremely
in telligen t, articulate and
creative young Indians who can
be ready with confidence to
meet the challenges of their
p e o p le are liv in g on
reservations and in Indian
communities across the U.S.,
but they have not bad the
opportunity to develop their
f u ll p o t e n t i a l ,” R a in e r
sa id -
In order to help give them
that opportunity, he plans to
conduct a youth leadership
conference each year.
The 15 young men and
young women invited to this
year’s seminar will represent
tribes and communities from
South Dakota, Louisiana, New
M exico, Arizona, Oregon,
Oklahoma, Washington and
several Canadian provinces.
S c h o la r s h ip s to h e lp
participants attend the seminar
are being provided by tribes,
Indian communities, Indian
ed u ca tio n program s and
families.
After presenting hundreds of
short seminars for Indians
during the past 15 years, Rainer
has carefully designed this on-
campus event for youth to
c r e a te an a tm o sp h e re
conducive to high productivity,
creativity, enhancement of
communications skills and
development of a positive self-
image.
“There is no magic formula
for preparing Indian leaders for
tomorrow,” he said. “If takes
commitment, hard work, high
expectation in the youth and
opportunities for them. They
will do the rest when they are
well-trained and educated with
the skills to make an impact on
social, political and economic
scene in behalf of their people.”
Rainer noted, however, that
about 50 percent of the Indian
youth who enter high school
never graduate. Of those who
do graduate, only about 42
percent go on to complete one
year of college.
Rainer has worked with
tribal and community leaders
during the past decade to
generate positive contributions
among Indians of all ages. The
sem inar is an effort to
concentrate on young Indians
because o f the concerns
expressed to him by current
Indian leaders.
He pointed out that statistics
from the Bureau of Indian
Affairs’ Higher Education
Grants office show a startling
trend. While a total of 14,904
In d ia n s were rep o rted ly
enrolled in college in 1979 and
that figure gradually increased
to 16,100 by 1982, there was a
decline of nearly one-third in
the number of those who
graduated from college during
that same four-year period.
“Last year, there were only
112 Indians who received
master’s or doctoral degrees, as
compared with 329 receiving
those degrees in 1979, Rainer
said. “What’s happening to our
young people in their college
e x p e r ie n c e and on th e
reservation?”
He said poor academic
preparation, lack of proper
social interaction skills, lack of
incentives to accomplish goals,
and poor communications
skills in reading and writing are
major contributing factors in
limiting leadership among
today’s Indian youth.
Church Services
St. W illiam s C atholic Church
W arm Springs
M atth ew C ro tty , Fath er
Confession p rio r to Mass
Sunday Mass begins a t 8:30 a.m .
Reorganized C hurch o f
Jesus Christ o f L atterday Saints
Elder, C lin t Jacks
Tel.: 475-6616
W orship - 10:00 a.m .
W a rm Springs
U nited Presbyterian Church
Steven F ra n k , Pastor
Tel.: 553-1237
Sunday W orship - 10:00 a.m .
C o m m u n io n a n d H e a lin g :
Thursday, 7:00 p.m.
Spifyey Tym oo p h o to by Jackson
Laritta George, an employee at the Vern Jackson home, dilegently worked on the Home’s float for
the annual Pi-Urne-Sha Parade that washeldJune25.Lastyearthehomehadateepeeintheparade,
so Laritta suggested having an old-fashioned tulee longhouse. Fellow-employee Daniel Smith
helped out carrying the tulees to the pickups and unloading them Arlene BoUeau, Sanders Scott and
Laritta, w entoutto White Horse to gather the tulees. Laritta explained that the tulees they used for
the longhouse were strong and sturdy ones. The theme fo r the float was “Cultural shelter fo r our
children.”
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W a rm Springs
F u ll Gospel Church
O rin Johnson, Pastor
Sunday School - 10:00 a.m .
W orship Services - 11:00 a.m.
Sunday Evening Service - 7:30 p.m .
Bible Study - W ednesday - 7:30 p.m .
Y o ung People’s Service, F rid ay - 7:30 p.m .
W a n n Springs Baptist Church
A llen Elston, Pastor
Tel.: 553-1267
Sunday School - 10:00 a.m .
M o rn in g W orship - 10:00 a.m .
Bible Study: W ednesday, 8:00 p.m.