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VOL. 16 NO 22 Coyote News In Brief Tribe receives grants Two welfare grants were awarded to the Tribe for develoDment of programs Page 2 HOT students help community Students from the Healthy Ootions for Teens (HOT) Club visited Warm Springs and otner memoers or ine District community to lend a hand. Page Women's roles discussed A two-day conference held at the Warm spnngs Community Center emphasized women's roles in the family and community in the future. Page 3 Watershed management requires understanding Development in watersheds must benefit land owners and also protect resources. Page 5 Pee-Wee champions named Liana Tom and Preston Smith were named champions in the Central Oregon Pee Wee Rodeo Association. Page 6 Fat consumption too high Despite much education, consumers are still eating too much fats in their diets, Page Deadline for the next Issue of Spilyay Tymoo Is Novembers, 1991 Annual Halloween Carnival I 6:30 p.m. Warm Springs Community Center I Booths, J concessions, Bingo, I card games and I I much, much morel j A costume parade will I be featured at 7p.m. I Lip-sync contest for all I ages will be held at 8 I : p-m- : Weather OCT. HI LO 17 64 46 18 69 40 19 73 36 2Q 78 38 22 23 24 60 26 25 53 41 26 42 38 28 COLD! 29 COLDER! 30 Four bodies discovered on Reservation t t - Searchers discovered the body of a shooting victim in this remote site on the discovered within close proximity to each other in less than a month 's time. i t"1 , ' - ' 4-vt4..." mi J ' 1 ., . 1 - Search doe teams from Clackamas County helped scour the countryside for additional bodies over the weekend of WSFPI employee rating system revamped Afterconsidcringcommentsmade by employees from Warm Springs Forest Products Industries and other concerned community members at a General Council meeungOctober22, Clyde Hamstreet and Brent Stumbaugh informed Tribal Council that the system used to evaluate mill employees will be revamped. The consultants no longerrecommend the original rating system but prefer an alternative that is more equitable, they said. All employees were evaluated on their ability, dependability and atti tude by two individuals, their su Spilyay Tym News from the Warm Spring w .0. BOX 870 WARM .v. October 26 and 27. pervisor and another person who worked near them. The results of these two ratings were averaged. If the individual was a tribal member (owner), one point was added. If the employee was married into the Tribe, an Indian from another tribe or a non-Indian (non-owners), or if the employee was hired in 199 1 , one point was subtracted from their score. With the new system, employees were evaluated on the same criteria. However, if the employee was a tribal member or married into the Tribe, two points were added to their raung score. If an individual was hired in P.O. Box 170 Wrm Spring!, OK 97761 Address Correction IleaurKtrrf SPRINGS, OR 97761 1 V V' reservation about 22 miles northwest of The discovery of four bodies on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation has left the community numb with shock. Many are reconsidering driving in the woods alone and un armed. Taken into custody as a suspect is 51-year-old Douglas F. Wright of Tigard. Wright is an ex-convict who served time at the Oregon State Peni tentiary for two 1969 murdcrs.He was released from prison in 1982.1n late 1984, Wright was imprisoned again, this time for first degree rob bery and second degree kidnapping. He was released in July of this year. He is currently being held at the Justice Center jail in Portland on attempted aggravated murder and federal armed career criminal charges. Bail has been set at $1 mil lion. The first body to be discovered was that of 27-year-old Tony Barker, a California prison fugitive who had escaped from a San Diego detention facility in October. He was on California's 10 most wanted list. His body was found October 7 by local woodcutters about one-and-three-quarters mile off U.S. Highway 26 on the W-300 road. On Tuesday, October 22, hunters discovered the body of 31 -year-old Tony Nelson, an enrolled member of the Makah Tribe in Western Wash 199 1 or if they were non-owners, one point was subtracted from their rat ing score. "We determined that the original system had more bias against tribal members and those married into the tribe than we adjusted for," said Hamstreet. Also, the first layoff list, posted October 18, will remain intact, but "another 20 names will be added" to provide flexibility in determining who will be laid off, said Hamstreet The list will number 135, but, in actuality, 115 will be laid off. The Continued on page 2 Warm Springs. Four bodies have been ington. His body was found two-and-one-half miles off Highway 26 on a spur of the W-300 road. A potential witness to the Nelson murder is Marty McDaniel. McDaniel, shoeless and with bleed ing feet, stopped a vehicle on U.S. Highway 26 and proceeded to tell the driver that he had been shot at and had run from the scene. The driver informed McDaniel that he was an off-duty police officer and McDaniel fled when the car reached the Gov ernment Camp area. Police conducted a thorough search of the area. Law enforcement officials, later, were able to locate McDaniel in Portland.McDanicl put officials in touch with a third individual who substantiated certain information. The third individual led officials to Wright. Wright is charged in Wasco County with attempted aggravated murder in the alleged near-shooting of McDaniel. A search of the area near the W 300 road was conducted October 26 and 27. Searchers, assisted by dog teams and search and rescue workers on horse back, discovered two more bodies just over one mile off High way 26 off another spur road of the W-300 road. There has been no positive identification of these vic- Continued on page 2 Community Meeting Tuesday, November 5 Dinner at 6 p.m. Agency Longhouse Family support meeting to talk about 70' of Ev I'.S. Potfift Bulk Hilt rrrmll No. 2 n Spring, OK 97761 November 1, 1991 Council meeting draws comments It was standing room only at the General Council meeting held Oc tober 22 at the Agency Longhouse. The meeting was held to discuss the eventual shutdown of operations at Warm Springs Forest Products In dustries veneer and plywood plants. About 115 WSFPI employees will be impacted by the layoff set for mid December. Consultants Clyde Hamstrect and Brent Stumbaugh, hired in August to analyze market conditions and mill operations, were present to explain why the closure is necessary. Citing extreme competition from southern plywood, oriented strand board and waferboard mills, the consultants stated that the "situation won't get any bcttcr....We,re getting squeezed by southern" mills. Employees and concerned com munity members raised many issues. Too many employees in areas where fewer would do, unfair ratings of Indian employees by non-Indian su pervisors and lack of training were just a few concerns mentioned. One asked, "How do you expect Indians to get a fair evaluation when the supervisors are non-Indian?" Among the 10 foremen working at the mill, one is a tribal member and three are married into the Tribe. An alternative rating system was sug gested because when a tribal member speaks up and disagrees with his supervisor, he is considered to be insubordinate, said one employee, "if you disagree, you're on the supervisor's 'list. How can the rat ing be fair if you're on his list?" asked another. One employee said that supervisors should have been evaluated first. "I demand that we have re-evaluations," he said. One employee even suggested that the way the layoff is set up, "it hands the mill back to the union." Continued on page 2 Budget meetings scheduled Four community meetings will be held todiscuss the proposed 1992 tnbal operating budget Seekseequa District Meeting Monday, November 4 Agency Longhouse Dinner at 6; meeting will follow Agency District Meeting Wednesday, November 6 Agency Longhouse Dinner at 6; meeting will follow General Council Meeting Tuesday, November 12 Agency Longhoi'se Dinner at 6; meeting will follow General Council Meeting Thursday, November 14 Slmnasho Longhouse Dinner at 6; meeting will follow