PACE 2 December 18, 1987
Warm Springs, Oregon
Spilyay Tymoo
Miss Warm Springs pageant set for Dec. 29
Skidtrails workshop attracts foresters, loggers
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Who will wear this regalia as Miss Warm Springs 1988!
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The first day of winter is just
around the corner and that means
the Miss Warm Springs Pageant
will be held shortly. The Miss Warm
Springs committee is seeking young
ladies who are enrolled members of
the Confederated Tribes of Warm
Springs. 18-25 years of age, single
without any dependents and never
married and a resident of Warm
Springs. The pageant will be held
at the Agency Longhouse on Tues
day. December 29.
As Miss Warm Springs, candi
dates must be willing to represent
the Tribe by traveling, being involved
in other pageants, events intertri
bal lu.Miiess and social events to
participate in public relation events
as necessary. It is important that
candidates be dedicated and wil
ling to learn.
Candidates will be judged on
appearance, poise, personality, a
talent presentation, dancing abili
ties and interviews. Each girl will
give a two to three minute talent
presentation which can be either
modern or traditional. She will
also be asked to give a short talk on
topics chosen by the judges.
Applications can be picked up
from Anna Clements at the Cul
ture and Heritage department located
at the Community Center, Trudce
Clements at Fire and Safety or
Myrtle Adams at the Tribal Coun
cil office. Applications need to be
turned in to the committee by
Monday. December 28 before 5
p.m. If you have any questions
contact any of the three ladies men
tioned above at 553-1 161.
Special events planned for the
pageant will be a dinner held by
outgoing Miss Warm Springs 1987,
Sara Scott. Following the dinner, a
giveaway will be held. The evening
events will start at 6 p.m.
The public is invited to attend to
honor the 1987 Miss Warm Springs
and to support the newly crowned
Miss Warm Springs of 1988.
Council attendance for November
TOTAL NUMBER OF MEETINGS HELD 10
DATE November, 1987
A Designated Skidtrails work
shop attracted approximately 40
Bureau of Indian Affairs Forestry
Department personnel. Warm
Springs Forest Products Industries
employees, tribal employees and
contract loggers. The two-day semi
nar focused on resource protection
and logging efficiency.
Specialists in forest practices from
Oregon State University presented
the November 23 and 24 workshop
with lectures, slides and Held work.
Discussion ranged from soil com
paction and the economics of it to
laying out skid trails and post
harvest treatments.
The workshop was discussed after
Oregon State University president
John Byrne visited with Tribal Coun
cil in April. Tribal Council repre
sentatives expressed a need for
education regarding the Tribe's
forest resource. BI A Assistant Forest
Manager Bill Donaghu says Tribal
Council wanted those who worked
in the forest to have more informa
tion on "protecting our land and
our sites."
BI A Forestry department annu
ally sponsors a logger's meeting,
but this one, says Donaghu, was
attended by more people than usual.
Participation during the workshop
was high with many questions being
asked and discussion taking place.
This meeting was "basically dol
lars and cents to the loggers," says
Donaghu. If they build skid trails
in the right places it makes them
money, he adds.
Environmentally, the use of desig
nated skid trails will prevent soil
compaction. It "forces organiza
tion" in the logging operation, says
Donaghu. Skiddcrs stay on the
same trails going out and coming
back rather than working on a
"helter-skelter" log-gathering
approach.
Along with other participants,
Donaghu explains that BIA fore
sters learned from the workshop.
For several years the Forestry depar
tment has been trying to imple
ment designated skid trails. "There '
has been some resistance," says
Donaghu. Loggers have been ask
ing a lot of questions. "Some of the
answers weren't completely valid."
he says. Designated skid trails "are
not the answer everywhere in the
forest," and they are not always
less costly. Oregon State Univer
sity specialists updated forestry infor
mation and provided many answers.
Next summer a one-day work
shop at the site of logging opera
tions will be held as part of the Skid
trails seminar.
Following is a list of those attend
ing the workshop:
BIA-Carla Buckland. Ron
Petock, Frank Marsh. Andy James,
Tom Branson, Dan O'Brien. Gary
I.indberg. Ron Rccker, Richard
Inrnun, Dennis Martinez, Jim I lis
bury. Brock l.ongand Myron Ami.
Tribal- Rick Krausc, Phil With.
Bob Macy. Jr., Ray Moody, Theron
Johnson, Bob Gill, Marissa Slrad
Icy. WSFPl-Dan Buckland. Tom
Kathcrine, Carl Kalama, Bill Hill.
Ray Wells, Sam Starr. Doug Dun
lap. Loggers - Frank Switlcr-Brunoc;
Tom Smith and Levi Greene, S &
G; Brent Moschetti and Rick Strad
ley, JR; Albert Comedown, Roy
Ellis. Jim Kennedy. Steve Johnson
all of Comedown; Willie Stacona,
Marcus Sooksoit, and John Kat
chia all of Gucrin.
A message for teenagers
(and adults)
Drinking is your decision. It can
be part of a good time or it can
present a real danger.
Alcohol is a drug in that it can
alter your moods, cause changes in
your body and it can be habit
forming.
The same amount of alcohol is
contained in a 12-ounce can of
beer, a five-ounce glass of wine or a
mixed drink containing I '$ ounces
of liquor.
The effects of alcohol on the
body occur quickly because it isn't
digested like other foods and liq
uids, but it is absorbed directly into
your blood stream from the stom
ach and small intestine. The alco
hol is carried quickly to the brain
and other parts of the body until it
is burned up by the liver. If you
weight 150 pounds, it takes about
two hours for each drink to leave
your system. If you weigh 100
pounds, it takes over three hours.
Coffee of cold showers ca nnot speed
up that process.
Alcohol is a "downer drug." It
depresses your central nervous sys
tem. Gradually, all your body's
f..nrtions are slowed down. You
uflur MEETINGS MEETINGS MEETINGS ABSENT TOTAL
" 1 ATTENDED ABSENT DUE TO DELEGATE DELEGATIONS
Jackson,-Zane Chairman , . .'. 9 , j Q 3
Frank, Delbert Sr. - 1st Vice-Chairman 10 " 0 0 6
Brunoe, Bruce, Sr. - 2nd Vice-Chairman 6'j 2'j 1 5
Walluiatum, Nelson, Wasco Chief 9 1 0 6
Heath, Delvli. Sr., Harm Springs Chief S v-3 0 6
Henry, Vernon, Palute Chief 7 3 0 4
Walluiatum, Karen 6:2 1'5 2 7
Clements, Janice 7 1 2 7
Squlemphen, Rita 7 1 2 4
Johnson, Ellen 10 o 0 6
Patt. Olney 0 10 o 0
Local boy scouts revived
Yes, the Boy Scouts of America,
, ,the Cub Scouts and the Girls Scouts
are coming back to the Warm
Springs community, according to
Tommy Kalama, the newly
appointed scout master. He went
on to state The Confederated Tribes
of Warm Springs Tribal Council
Estimo enlists
Portland Oregon Lois K. Estimo,
daughter of Tom Estimo and Delia
Smith, both of Warm Springs, has
enlisted in the U.S. Army. She will
leave for eight weeks of basic train
ing at Ft. Jackson, South Carolina
on April 6, 1988. Upon completion
of basic, she will attend advanced
individual training at Ft. Lee, Vir
ginia to prepare for her assignment
as a material control and account
ing specialist.
Estimo, who enlisted for four
years, is a 1 980 graduate of Madras
High School. She attended NEC
Skadron Business College in San
Bernardino, California,
signed the application as the spon
sor this month.
Also offered will be a new type of
scout, the Tiger Cub, which will be
for boys who are too young to
enter cub scouts. An explorer group
designed for older boys and girls
will also be offered.
According to Kalama one of the
reasons the scouting dropped off
before was that he was trying to
handle everything and that did not
give him enough time to actually
spend with scouts. This time Tribal
Council has appointed Jody Calica
to coordinate the entire program.
It will give Kalama the time needed
to work with the children.
Any interested boys or girls should
contact Jody Calica 's office at 553
1 161, ext. 228. It is expected there
will be a membership drive but
nothing definite has been announced.
get drunk.
Besides the fact that drinking is
not legal until you are age 21,
drinking can cause other problems
if you get in a situation where alco
hol is available to you.
Keep in mind:
Do not drink any faster than
your body can burn up the alcohol;
no more than one drink every two
hours for the average size person.
Sip, don't gulp your drink. Be
sure to eat while drinking, that will
slow down the alcohol's passage
into the bloodstream and brain.
Don't drink at all when you're
feeling sick, tired or are angry,
tense or depressed. When you drink
to escape problems, you run the
risk of dependency on alcohol.
Do not mix drinking with sports
or other physical activities includ
ing driving. Alcohol is related to 70
percent of fatal falls, 69 percent of
drownings, 40 percent of work acci
dents and 83 percent of fire fatalities.
Never use alcohol with any other
drug. The drugs multiply the effect.
You can die of overdose.
Time is the only way to sober up.
Drinking and driving are the
number one cause of deaths among
teenagers. If can happen to you.
Alcohol often gives a person the
feeling of being more powerful and
more in control than usual. Ask a
friend who has not been drinking
to drive or call someone, a friend or
a parent for a ride.
Riding with a drunken driver
isn't cool, daring or loyal it's just
plain dangerous. There's always
another way home. Try to prevent
a friend who is drunk from driving.
But don't just stay quiet rather
than make trouble about the ride.
Your own safety is at stake
It's OK not to use alcohol. Some
times it can be hard to resist pres
sure from friends but the best way
to refuse a drink is simply to say,
"no thanks." You don't need excuses
or apologies.
Remember, you're in control.
No one else can get you drunk. It's
your decision.
Budget cuts will
affect operations
Judge upholds federal ruling
A $1 18,820 budget reduction in
the Culture and Heritage depart
ment "will affect our operation."
says Culture and Heritage depart
ment director Nina Rowe.
"Obviously, I'm not satisfied with
the cuts," Rowe states, "I feel like
our department should be consi
dered equally with other depart
ments." The budget cuts eliminates two
positions and will limit the number
of cultural classes that the depart
ment can hold. Cultural tapes, which
go to tribal departments and cultu
ral teachers, can no longer be given
without charge, says Rowe.
In addition Rowe indicates that
it may be necessary to hold fund
raising activities to purchase needed
equipment. "That's how much we're
committed," Rowe adds.
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A federal judge has upheld a fed
eral regulation prohibiting perma
nent residency at five Indian fish
ing sites along the Columbia River.
The regulation had been chal
lenged by David Sohappy, Sr. and
eight other Indians who were served
with eyiction notices in 1984 by the
Bureau of Indian Affairs.
The notices sought to evict the
Indian from the riverside fishing
grounds set aside by the federal
government to compensate for tra
ditional fishing sites submerged in
1957 by the pool behind Bonneville
Dam.
Authorities on Friday also post
poned until Monday a court hear
ing on a proposal to move Sohappy
to a California medical facility from
a prison near Spokane, Washing
ton where he is serving a five-year
prison term for federal fishing viola
tions.
In the permanent residency case,
the Indian challenged regulations
controlling fishing sites now located
at Cook's Landing, Wind River
and Underwood in Washington
and at Lone Pine near The Dalles
and at Cascade Locks in Oregon.
Christmas Day
and New Year's Eve
dinners will be served
at the Agency and
Simnasho Longhouses
All are invited to join in the celebrations
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tribal elder, is in poor health, and ' A ' ' 'l ..' - , 'J' Vj. V'1 A ' i.J
his attorney is seeking to block the r My f . . V. ? X ? - , .S jf S r. "i i
move, claiming the travel might ( 'fjfjt ff . C - . J VV? Xh V' - !
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A Warm Springs man was found Vl-V-'
it guilty on three separate crimi- ,-Jr'"
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Dclvis Heath, accused of sexual
abuse, unnatural sex acts and car
nal knowledge of a three-year-old
girl, was acquitted by a jury of six
men. A fourth count of child neg
lect was dismissed under a directive
verdict.
According to tribal law the defen
dant has appeal rights but the
prosecution does not.
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Hanging out
Casey Smith, m member of the Outdoor Survival 4-H club in Warm Springs demonstrated one method of
crossing a ravine on a rope with the use of a piece of webbing tied into a harness, a looped piece of webbing for
the feet and two carabiners. Club members spend a day in the field learning to repel and use climbing ropes. It is
planned for members to spend some time learning to cross-country ski, according to club leader Keith Baker.
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