PACE 2 Junel,1990
Warm Springs, Oregon
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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REPORTERPHOTOGRAPHER TINA AGUILAR
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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.
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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.