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About Spilyay tymoo. (Warm Springs, Or.) 1976-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 30, 1985)
fe P age 2 < August 3 0 ,1985 KWSI/KWSO from Warm Springs., , , ¿ S pilyay T ymoo J Radio station nearing air time by Donna Behrend KW SI, by m id-to late-Octo- ber, will be on the air; bro ad castingat 100,000 wgtts through out C entral Oregon. Five tribal members have been hired as on- the-job trainees a n d six have been assured a job at the station when they finish scfibol. O n-the-job-trpinees Billie7 Jo M cConville, R on Sm ith, Ken Miller, Phillip David and Del- . son Suppah will “probably” start w ork around O ctober I , said N at Shaw , sta tio n m anager. M cConville will be working in sales and R on Sm ith will work the m idnight to 6 a.m. shift on the com mercial station. Miller, David and Suppah will all work weekend air shifts and the re m ainder of their 40-hour weeks will be com prised of training. Follo wing their training, all three go over to the Educational sta tion, KW SO, which is planned to go on the air in February, 1986. Those selected to go to school are L enora S tarr, Lucas Ike, Bill Moses, D elm ar Geary, Mary Sando and Randy Nathan. M ost will start school this fall to com plete studies and gain asso- ciate degrees in broadcasting. S tarr will be attending the Unis’ rversity of W ashington in Seat tle. Ike will be attending Blue M ountain Com m unity College in Pendleton and Geary and Sando will be attending Lade C o m m u n ity Jn Eugene. Shaw was unsure of where Moses was intending to go to school but th at he is going winter term. N athan will be attending Cen tral O regon C o m m u n ity ‘Col lege where he will study m arket- 'T ’L r i . •• bpi/yay tym oo pnoio oyznew czyt The former Kah-Nee-Ta hamlet recreation building will soon house the K W SI/K W SO studios. Renovation, 'which is being done by R on Hargreve of Bend, should be completed in about three weeks. ing and sales. These 11 people were chosen from am ong 19 applicants who complete mandatory GATB apti tude and attitude tests. In addi tion to »the GATB tests taken, some took a four-day c a reer/- life tra in in g course th ro u g h ED D. Shaw stated that the appli- cants were “excellent and really showed an interest. N um erous ones who w eren’t picked were qualified.” And because they took the career/ life trainingand discovered their preferences, some may be going to school, even though they weren’t se lected. | Non-tribal members havebeen hired to w ork at th et' station until the students return. Jim M alloy was hired A ugust Lass chief engineer. He was formefly em ployed at K L O O /K F A T in . Corvallis. Shaw stated that hav ing M a llo y . now has been an asset. He has saved the Tribe “a lot of m oney” and has recog nized th a t som e item s were om itted from the list of neces sities. O ther positions filled by non* membe.rs will be th at of sales manager, position director, news director, four annouheers and a news person. S According to Shaw, the trans mission building is near com pletion now and'the anchors for the tow er were set this.'week. FCC testing m ust be completed by Septem ber 28. Shaw said th a t the station doesn’t have to be on the air at th at time. The radio station, which will house both the com merical and i educational FM stations will be Spilyay Tymoo photo by Shewayk Three, 11-foot deep holes, blasted on top o f Eagle Butte this week, haye been filled two-thirds fu ll with concrete and will serve as anchors fo r the station's 200-foot tall tower. Cables will run from the holes o f the tower for stabilization. located at K ah -N ee/fa in the form er ham let recreation build- ing. W ork has already begun bn Schmidt selected as lodge manager sales tax electio n -,— Six-and-a-half years of hard work at Kah-Nee-Ta has resulted in Chuck S chm idt’s selection as lodge manager. Chuck replaced Jerry Schaeffer who left for m ent as a carpetner. He worked personal reasons, his way to forem an and then Schm idt started at Kah-Nee- maintenance? supervisor, prop T a in the m aintenance.depart- e rty m anager and, „now, lodge manager,. , P rio r tQsgmpl.Qyfhcht.at Kaft- Nee-Ta Schm idt attended high school in, M adras and thenw ent to Viet Nam. F o r four years upon his return he contracted house building and remodeling in the M adras area. In .a p art nership, he built cabinets for two years and worked as a com m er cial contractor for One^yeanç . T h e position o f lodge m an ager “ism o re dem anding” then any of Schm idt’s previously held positions. N inty percent of the w ork isoperational, ten percent is adm inistrative, he explains. “I ’m a hands-on problem solver.” Every.i.m orning he t-ours the lodge and talks with departm ent supervisors. He makes sure spe cial events are covered and every thing is. running; smoothly. g , K ah -N ee-T a is special-ytd Schmidt. He says, “I really enjoy w orking here or I w ouldn’t be here. I ’ve been very fortunate to get into management- so I give them all I ’ve go t.” to the previous years level. ' The m easure would also allow voting on the capital levies o u t ride thertax base.1 ™ i,. Measure¡Ro.Tdfcpa'Ssed Would m ake effectives com panion bill, H ouse Bill 2010 which would m ake the 5 percent sales./use tax on goods.effective April 1, 2986. Bill 2010 defines sales and receipts subject ,tp tax; defines additional exem ptions to- the the rem odeling of the building and is due for com pletion in about three weeks. .». tax; provides adm inistration, co llection,, audit and enforce ment of tax flim its elections on nomic Stabilization fund if state tax revenues exceed forecasts used (t o m ake the state budget property taxes fr om 1 ocal go vern- and it earm ark s fu rth e r excess m ents others th a îrs c h o o ld u H tricts to two; reduces tim ber severance tax from W estern O regon from 5 percent to 3.8 percent; creates a sales tax level ing fund to avoid fluctuations in revenues to school districts; Creates the Oregon State Eco* fevehuesfrom additional mcom’e relief. v' Voting in W arm Springs will be at the W arm Springs C om m unity Center. Be sure to vote on Tuesday,' Septem ber 17. The polls will open at 8 a.m . and close at 8 p.m. Student needs at Warm Springs Elementary School Supply list at W arm .Springs E lem en tary fo r the 1985-1986 school year includes the following items: i K in d ergarten — 6 p rim a ry pencils, 1 box of #8 crayons, 1 bottle òf white glue (4 oz.), 1 box of facial tissue (large), 4 glue sticks and 1 scissors. First grade— I box of crayons, 6 #2 pencils; ! bottle of. w hite glue (4 oz.), and 1 box of facial tissue. Peechee) and 1 box of crayons (24. colors). .. Second grade— 1 ruler, 1 scis Fourth grade— 6 K pencils, sors; 1 bottle of white glue (4 notebook paper (wide ruled), 1 oz.'),' 1 large pink eraser, 1 box scissors, 1 ruler (m etric and of crayons and 1 package of inches, 1 bottle of white glue (4 oz.) and 1 box of crayons. pencil erasers, Third grade— / 6 #2 pencils, notebook paper (wide ruled), 1 scissors, 1 red felt pen (fine iine), 1 folder ( for example, a Fifth graders— 6 #2 pencils, 1 notebook paper (wide ruled), 1 ruler (metric and inches), 1 scis sors, and 1 bottle of white glue (4 oz.j.y optional Love of people, food makes bread good Spilyay Tymoo photo by Shewczyk New lodge manager, Chuck Schmidt, has worked at Kah-Nee-Ta over six years. S p ily a y T ym oo ★ * « • * « * * Spilyay Tymoo Staff* * * * * * * * MANAGING EDITOR .. .............. . Sid Miller ASSISTANT EDITOR .............................. Donna Behrend Darkroom Writer Reporter Typesetter 2 Marsha Shewczyk Bayer Priscilla Squiemphen FOUNDED IN MARCH OF 1976 Published bi-weekly by the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon. Warm Springs, Oregon 97761. Located in the.Old Administration Building. Any written material to Spilyay Tymoo should be addressed to: Spilyay Tymoo P.O. Box 735 Warm Springs, Oregon 97761 Phone 553-1644 or 553-1161, Ext. 274, 285 and The Darkroom ext. 286 Subscription Rate: $6.00 per year Owenuma Blue Sky is “mak ing a living” Sy selling some people’s life blood—fry bread. F or one dollar, people can be¡at the lunch-time doldurm s and have something other than the usual ham burger and fries. S Daily, Blue Sky stands across from M acy’s flip flopping and shaping his dough into ta§|y eight-inch rounds. He also offers butter, sugar and cinnamon, pepper and sometimes jam pr jelly as toppings. Blue Sky mixes ten gallons of dough fresh dailyusing between 40 and 50 pounds of flour. Xt¿s ■the “basic” recipe, he says. Sonje flour, baking powder, salt and w ater are all it takes to make the epicurian delights. Blue Sky,is Nez Perce, origi nally from Missoula, M ontana. He learned the art of making fLy bread when he lived in New M exico with his parents who' had moved there under the BI A relocation program in the 60s.' Blue Sky cam e to W arm Springs in'1984 as a gardener at Kah-Nee-Ta. When he was laid off last fall, he went back to the Southwest but returned to Kah- Nee-Ta this" spring. He was laid near D ry Creek. Blue Sky has When the weather cools a bit, T here’s a secret to his fry no intention of leaving. “I ’m Blue Sky intends to offer Indian bread success, says Blue Sky. going to stay this winter. . .this tacos and chili as well as his fry “If you love people and love to is my home now .” bread.* cook, your food will taste good.” off in July due to slow business and has been making fry bread full-time ever since. H e’s cur rently living in the Sam place Owenuma Blue Sky serves fry bread daily from the back o f his station wagon across from Macy's. When the weather cools, Blue Sky intends, to also offer Indian tacos and chili*. „ »
