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PACE 2 Junel,1990 Warm Springs, Oregon Spilyay Tvmoo 7 V , t: .... . , I I, j ',. 1 2. .j " :i ' .... ? "il I ' 1 ;i ,, :;. v.".'- .'' vj t . MAr - . lb - - mi it IT1 DAJ utomotive staff is ready to serve the public at the former Tribal Garage. Shown are (back row, left to right Jefferson, Kersey, Johnson, Johnson and Strong. In front row are Let lair, Morris andLePage. DMJ Automotive has parts aplenty "Tribal Garage!"Oops, well what used to be the tribal Garge is now called "DMJ Automotive," a pri vate enterprise now operatd by Delford and Marita Johnson. Under new management, the shop specializes in auto repairs, full auto service, tune-ups as well as selling gas and oil. But what's so unique about it is they are stocked with all kinds of auto parts and accessories right from a small bolt to fan belts, radiator hoses and many, many other auto parts right on hand. It never hurts to ask if they might have a heater hose for a van or a spark plug for a Nissan. Chances are they just might have what you need for your minor car repairs. At the present time, shop hours are the same as when it was under tri bal operation, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. The Chevron gas station along Highway 26 is also under DMJ management and is open seven days a week selling gas and oil to travelers. DMJ also offers towing service and there are four mechan ics on hand to assist with car trouble. Warranties previously done at the Tribal Garage will not be accepted or honored after June 30, 1990. Employed by DMJ Automotive are parts man Clarence Jefferson, III; mechanics Ron Kersey, Tom eClair, Tom Morris and John ePage, gas attendants Doreen Johnson and Rodney Strong, Mar ita and Deltord Johnson as opera tors and Kathleen Foltz, bookkeeper. Vd v; Parts I j nil; t ti l r P I 1 7598 li t tiuAr N 1 .II 1 IiUI 1 M. 1 I a.. 1 j J M 112! 334 j Classes plant seeds from outer space Students at Madras Jr. High are planting gardens to experiment with tomato seeds from space. During the spring semester, sev enth and eighth grade students are growing and monitoring space-exposed seeds, searching for differ ences caused by long-term expo sure to cosmic radiation. Results gathered by the students will be forwarded to NASA by June 1 5 for a final report. For nearly six years the seeds were exposed to the harsh envir onment of space, subjected to cos mic radiation, temperature ex tremes, weightlessness, and the vacuum of space. Students will be looking for possible mutations to the tomato plant, such as changes in fruit size and color, growth rate, and leaf, stem, and stalk shapes and sizes. The pink grapefruit is a mutation resulting from irradiat ing the white grapefruit seed. The Space Exposed Experiment Developed for Students (SEEDS) was one of 57 experiments housed on the recently recovered 1 1 -ton Long Duration Exposure Facility satellite. After a nearly six-year voyage in space, the I2.S million tomato seeds were rescued by the crew of the Space Shuttle Colum bia on January I2, I990. Health appraisal printouts ready If you filled out a "Health Risk Appraisal" questionnaire during the Employee Fitness Day Health Fair held at the Community Center on Wednesday, May 1 6 and you have not received your printout, please contact Eva's office (ext. 3205). She has numbers but no names and has no way of knowing to whom the printout belongs un less you call and give her your "secret number." SEEDS is a cooperative project between NASA and Park Seed Company, Greenwood, S.C. offer ing to students a one-of-a-kind, hands-on experiment to study the effects of long-term space exposure on living tissue. SEEDS has the potential to involve four million students and 40.000 educators. In March, NASA distributed 1 80.000 SEEDS kits containing space-exposed seeds and an equal number of Earth-based seeds to teachers from the upper elemen tary school to the university level for experiments and study. gff ... '. 9 - mil, m ' P iwii'ipiii ii ii iipi iiiii ) . v vi j X ' I ' yC. V' " fit - .-. r "-r-- ' i J . V I I ,': JA ! Former Warm Springs chief of police Raymond Calica recently received a plaque from the International Police Management A ssociation. S elec tion for the award was based on merit, excellence and nomination. Calica does not know who nominated him for the award. Simnasho school dedicated in 1954 Spring cleaning uncovers Blackhole The ominous doorway loomed on the edge of the hall like a Blackhole with windows and a doorknob. I could feel the theme music of "Jaws" throbbing in my head. Fear, anger and anxiety raged within me. This is not the beginning of a mystery but the beginning of spring cleaning in particular the spring cleaning of my 12-year-old daugh ter's bedroom. Standing in the doorway, I won dered how her room could have gotten to its present state. As I made my way through the mess, reality struck she was her moth er's daughter, plagued with the family collection curse. She col lected everything and never threw anything away. That fact was proven true as her waste basket stood half full and hadn't been emptied in, shall I say, a very long time. Clothes cluttered the bed and floor. I couldn't tell the clean clothes from the ones that needed washing, nor the ones too small from the ones that fit. Dresser drawers spewed clothes that hadn't been worn in months. In the closet hung items long ago handed down by her older sister (also cursed). My youngest confessed to me years ago that she was not one to wear "other people's clothes." The area under her bed proved to be very interesting. Single socks, their mates' whereabouts unknown, lay limply. Pens, dull pencils, brok en crayons, money and torn and crumpled school papers saved from the fourth grade, awaited the broom. Of course, among all these useless things were even more use less balls of lint and dust. Continued on page 8 Madras, Sept. 14, 1954 Dedica tion of the new Simnasho grade school, built at an apporximate cost of $125,000, was held with colorful ceremony Monday. The school was named for Oregon Sena tor Guy Cordon, who was present for the program. A crowd of approximately 100, including Indian Affairs dignitar ies, representatives irom Madras, Warm Springs Indian Reservation' "officials, and school children from . the new school and the Warm Springs Boarding School, watched Leland Brown, The Dalles, ndian Tribal Council attorney, name the school in honor of the senator who pushed the project in Congress. The 5125,000 cost provided the two-classroom school, plus separ ate teacher's quarters, and cost of landscaping. The building contains recreation room, kitchen and cafeteria. Present enrollment at the school about 50, with a few more expected, according to J.W. Elli ott, superintendent of the Warm Springs Indian agency. The school will take students through the eighth grade. The former school which accommodated reservation children for many years, served children only through the fourth grade. Those in higher grades went to school at the agency. A power line is being constructed to the school which is located 23 miles north of the Indian agency, and is expected to supply power in about two weeks. Julian Smith, reservation school principal; Charles Jackson,' chair man of the Warm Springs Indian reservation tribal council; Johnnie Simtustus, Warm Springs tribal chief; Joe McCorkle, Wasco chief; and Raymond Johnson, Paiute chief, were among Indian officials attending. Howard Turner, secretary of the Madras-Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce; Don C. Foster, area director of Indian affairs; Martin N.B. Hold, assistant area Indian affairs director; Kex Punam, state superintendent of public instruc tion; and A. Harvey Wright, state supervisor of Indian education, were also on the.program. Society sets June purchase The June Middle Oregon Indian Historical Society Arti fact purchase has been scheduled. Forms can be picked up at the MOIHS museum office and must be completed and returned along with artifact to the museum office by June 8, 1990. Only artifacts listed below will be accepted for appraisal: Limited to one objectartifact per applicantTribal Member family household. Artifact must be old, antique with 50 years of family history, in goodexcellent shape. 1 . Historical photographsdocuments with 50 years of fam ily history. 2. Buckskin shirts old with 50 years of family history, Indian tanned. 3. Wampum old with 50 years of family history. 4. Recordings old songs from The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs. 5. Pendleton Vest old with 50 years of family history. 6. Pendleton Shawl or Blanket old with 50 years of family history. 7. One artifact submitted by Tribal Member who has not submitted object for purchase before.Artifact must be antique, old with 50 years of famly history. If you have any questions, contact the MOIHS Museum staff: Liz Cross, Beulah Calica or Mico Chase at 2148 Kota Street or 553-333133383386. Jim chosen as chairman of Goodwill Trek event Spilyay Tymoo Staff Members MANAGING EDITOR SID MILLER ASSISTANT EDITOR DONNA BEHREND PHOTO SPECIALISTWRITER MARSHA SHEWCZYK REPORTERPHOTOGRAPHER TINA AGUILAR FOUNDED IN MARCH, 1976 Spilyay Tymoo is published bi-weekly by the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs. Our offices are located in the base ment of the Old Girls Dorm at 1 1 15 Wasco Street. Any written materials to Spilyay Tymoo should be addressed to: Spilyay Tymoo, PO Box 870, Warm Springs, OR 97761 PHONE: (503) 553-1644 or (503) 553-3274 Annual Subscription Rates: Within the U.S. $9.00 Outside the U.S. $15.00 If you have watched TBS televi sion at all during the last 1 8 months, you couldn't help but catch the advertising for the 1990 Goodwill Games. The advertising promises world class athletic competition among 1,500 athletes representing over 50 countries as well as musi cians, singers, dancers and artisans. Joining in the international fes tival will be tribal organization from throughout the United States and Alaska. Goodwill Games pro ducers, the Seattle Organizing Committee (SOC), appointed the American Indian Goodwill Com mission and the Native American Advisory Council. The Commis sion will serve as an advisory group to the SOC and consists of individ uals representing numerous tribes and Alaskan villages. In October, Tribal Council appointed Nathan 8-Ball' Jim as their liaison to the Goodwill Games. He is a member of the Advisory Council as well. Since October, Jim has been named chairman of the Goodwill Trek, a 1,000-mile relay journey that will circle the Northwest, beginning in Spokane, Washington. Runners and bicyclists will carry with them a "talking stick" representative of the unity created by the two-week event. The wooden stick, which is about five feet in length and topped with a carving of an eagle and a bear representative of the U.S. and the Soviet Union, will contain mes sages from the White House and the Kremlin. It has been designed $o that a number of carved sleeves or bracelets can be placed on the staff. The bracelets, carrying mes sages and the history of numerous tribes, will be gathered during cere monies in various cities and towns along the trek's route. According to Jim, the talking Stick is expected to cross the Bering Straight July 4. The actual trek will begin July 13 in Spokane. The relay will then take runners to the Tri-Cities area, The Dalles, Mad ras, Bend, Eugene, Corvallis, Salem, Portland, Vancouver, Longview, Centralia, Olympia, Tacoma and Seattle. The arrival of the talking stick at Huskie Stadium in Seattle will mark the beginning the games on July 21. As many as 150 runners and bicyclists are expected to partici pate in the. High school student athletes represented by the Wash ington Interscholastic Activities Association and Oregon School Activities Association will be key participants in the trek. To partici pate, hopeful runners bicyclists must submit applications. Those applications are available at any U.S. Bank in Oregon or Washing ton. Deadline for application sub mission is nearing. and hopefuls are encouraged to apply as soon as possible. ' V V yv- 111 : vvl I 1 f 1 ' - i I Nathan Jim, left, and Daniel Doyle of U.S Bank, shown with the talking stick that will be carried throughout the Northwest on the Goodwill Trek. The trek is co-sponsored by U.S Bank and A laska A irlines.