PAGE 2 December 11,1992
Warm Springs, Oregon
Spilyay Tymoo
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Tickets needed to cut Christmas trees
The Confederated Tribes of the
Warm Springs Reservation in keep
ing with the spirit of Christmas, have
consented to the cutting of a Christ-
Community
Christmas Program
'The Year Santa Claus
Couldn't Come"
will be held during the
"Last Minute Bazaar" on
December 23 from
10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
People are needed for parts In
the play, piano player, choir
members, narrator or costume
makers.
Candidates continue selling tickets
The 34th Annual All-Indian Warm
Springs National' Holiday Indian
Basketball Tournament will be held
December 30, 31, 1992,January 1,2,
1993 at the Warm Springs Commu
nity Center. Currently there are four
girls running for the junior court who
are currently selling raffle tickets for
$2 each. They are thirteen year old
Esmeralda Lawson, fourteen year old
Spilyay Tymoo
Staff Members
MANAGING EDITOR SID MILLER
ASSISTANT EDITOR DONNA BEHREND
PHOTO SPECIALIST MARSHA SHEWCZYK
REPORTERPHOTOGRAPHER SAPHRONIA KATCHIA
REPORTERPHOTOGRAPHER SELENA BOISE
FOUNDED IN MARCH, 1976
Spilyay Tymoo is published bi-weekly by the Confederated Tribes of
Warm Springs. Ouroff ices are located in the basement of the Old Girls
Dorm at 1 1 1 5 Wasco Street. Any written materials to Spilyay Tymoo
should be addressed to:
Spilyay Tymoo, P.O. Box 870, Warm Springs, OR 97761
PHONE:
(503) 553-1 644 or (503) 553-3274
FAX No. 553-3539
ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
Within U.S. - $9.00
Outside U.S. -$15.00
SPILYAY TYMO0 1992
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mas tree by by employees of the
Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Tribe,
Indian Health Service and Warm
Springs churches and Post Office.
Cutting is limited to one tree per
familyorchurch. Trees willbecuton
tribal lands only. Trees should be cut
along numbered roads and close to
the ground. All live branches should
be removed from the stump. Toping
of trees and cutting trees larger than
12 feet in height is not permitted.
Trees should not be cut that do not
have another tree growing within 12
feet of the tree to be cut.
Any non-tribal member employee
wishing to cut a tree must obtain their
Christmas tree tag from the Branch
of Forestry. An individual will not be
Charmaine Watts, thirteen year old
Marissa Kalama and thirteen year
old Nicole Garcia. There are cur
rently three candidates for the senior
court, they are Romelle
Speakthundcr, Angeline Blackwolf
and Alyssa Macy who are currently
selling admission tickets, the single
session tickets are $3 each and the
season tickets are $15.
permitted to pick up tags for another
employee. This tag must be stapled
or nailed to the base of the tree when
the tree is cut. All employees must
also comply with all laws and regu
lations governing the Warm spring
Reservation.
Information on tribal land location
and road conditions may be obtained
from the Branch of Forestry when
you pick up a Christmas tree tag.
Office hours ar 8:00 a.m. to 4:30
p.m., Monday through Friday. The
phone number is553-2416forfurthcr
information.
Hot Shot crew
by Selena Boise
Most of the Warm Springs
Interagency Hot Shot Crew, which
started the 1992 season March 16,
were laid off for the winter on No
vember 30. Only three are currently
working in the Forestry offices. They
expect to start the 1 993 season on the
first of March and will be advertising
for fire fighters December 14 to
January 14.
The Interagency Hot Shots are
considered one of the best in the
United States and team members feel
they were brought to this standing by
Luther Clements, who has worked at
Fire Management for nine years.
Their job is difficult and dangerous
and involves a family effort, as they
are away from their families for many
days at a time.
In the 1992 season, their job took
them to a total of 24 fires, nineteen
fires away from home and five local
fires. They were on stand by for one
fire. The largest fire, the Lone Pine
Fire, was at Chiloquin, Oregon in
August and burned a total of 30,000
acres. In September, the crew re
sponded to the Cleveland Fire in
Placcrvillc, California, which was
24,900 acres. Acreage bumed in fires
in Warm Springs totalled 316 acres.
Fires in Oregon were at Sprague
River, Chemult, Sisters, Ukiah, Fort
Rock, Burns, Klamath Falls,
Wallowa, Chiloquin, Lakeview, and
Bly. Fires out of state were ikn Cali
fornia and Idaho. The fires ranged
from 3 acres to 30,000 acres in size
throughout the season.
There was a 30 percent turnover
in crew personnel for 1992, which is
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Portland Area Office
Floyd appointed IHS director
The appointment of James R.
Floyd to director of Portland's Indian
Health Service was announced last
week. Floyd has been with the Port
land IHS since 1986 during which
time he has served as associate di
rector for operations the past three
years. Duties in that position included
finance, personnel, planning envi
ronmental health, contracting, alco
hol treatment and tribal operations.
Prior to joining the Portland IHS,
Floyd developed a health-care system
celebrates end of
an improvement compared to previ
ous years. Crew members for the
1992 season were: Superintendent,
Luther Clements; Crew Foreman,
Vernon Tias; Squad bosses-Uren
Leonard, III, and William Wilson;
Morris Johnson, six years; Mark
Stacona, Jacob Whiteplume, Joel
Martinez and Richard Harrington,
two years; Emerson Culpus, one and
one-half years; Glenn Smith, Jabbar
Davis, Elias Yallup, Larry Scott and
Joseph Smith, one year; Anthony
Wells, Matthew Clements, and Lester
White, half-year.
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Yallup, Vernon Tias, Tray Leonard, Richard Harrington, William Wilson, Joseph Smith, Anthony Wells, Start
Stacona, Glenn Smith.
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for the Creek Nation of Oklahoma.
Last year, the new director served on
the U.S. Senate Select Committee on
Indian Affairs staff for Indian health
care issues.
Floyd holds a bachelor's degree
in health care administration from
Northeastern State University in
Tah lequah, Oklahoma and a master's
degree in public administration from
Portland State University.
Floyd is a member of the
Muskogee Creek Nation of Okla
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season with awards, banquet
The Engine Crew and Fuels Crew
provided crew member replacements
when called upon. They were: Talya
Scott, Lincoln Suppah, Bodie Shaw,
Wendell Switzler, Joel Coronado,
David LeClaire, Jodel Johnson,
Ferman Tufti, Tommy James and
Tony Holliday.
At the end of the 1992 season a
banquet was held on November 13,
1992 at Sonny's Restaurant in Ma
dras to present awards and recognize
the Fire Management employees for
their efforts and hard work during the
1992 season.
Senior Citizens'
Christmas-New Year
luncheon
December 22
at the Agency Longhouse
16 years and older-$2.00
ChiIdren-50 cents
60 and older-free of charge
The awards were presented to: the
secretary, Sherri Olney; the Ware
housemen, Tony Holliday, Tony
Thompson, Norman Lucei; Heavy
Equipment operators Ron Govenor
and Harvey Scott; and the Dispatcher
Bob Medina. Each Hot Shot and Re
placement Crew Member received
an award for their efforts in making
this season successful. The "Hot S hot
of the Year" award went to Elias
Yallup who has one year of experi
ence on the crew. And the "Rookieof
the Year" award went to Jabbar Davis
who also has one year of experience.
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