1973-09-15 Char-Koosta News

              Logging Truck Flattens
Home of Lucy Parker
Perma: Seventy-one year-old Lucy Parker, her granddaughter Sue and seventy four year old Mitch Small Salmon are looking for a home. They have to find one by winter because their three bedroom home on the west end of Perma got run over by a logging truck.
That's right. . . their store front home along with Sue Parker's car and Small Salmon's pickup was flattened by a log laden semi truck August 28. And what's more the three were inside the house when the freak accident occurred.
Mrs. Parker siad "it was like the end of the world." One moment she was sitting on a bed in her living room, the next moment she was under a pile of boards and trying to crawl beneath the icab of the semi.
Smallsalmon thought it was an earthquake. "Iwas laying down at the far end of the living room when I heard a screech, a crash and everything seemed to coming down on me!' Small Salmon blacked out for a few moments and came around in time to find himself being helped out of the pile of boards that moments ago had bee.i a house. "They layed me down in the drive, then I blacked out again!', he said showing a gash in his head that required a stay in the Clark Ford hospital in Plains.
Miss Parker was sitting down watching television in the back room. I head a screech of brakes, started to walk toward the front door (where most of the truck's logs fell) then something told me to go to the kitchen". She had just reached the kitchen door when it disappeared and the house turned t-psy-turvey. "After everything quit falling down, I crawled through the kitchen and under what had been the back door,' she recalled. "Then I went around the front, saw the logging truck in our living room and helped Lucy and Mitch out of the house."
Miss Parser added that she could'nt "understand how everybody involved in the accident got out of it alive."
Everybody included the driver of the logging truck, Gary Pam-in, 25, Missoula, and the driver of a pickup truck, John Hunter, Camas Prairie.
According to the Sanders County Sheriff's Department, the accident occurred when Hunter's pickup pu'!ed into the path of Pamin's logging truck. The truck struck the front of the pickup, then swerved through the parking area west of the bar, shearing a power pole guy wire, crashed into Miss
Parker's car driving it into the living room of the Parker home. The living room of the house was shoved about 15 feet west and another wing of the structure was crushed under the falling logs i'rom the truck. The only thing holding up the back wall of the house was Small-salmon's camper pickup which was parked in the iear.
Miss Parker regretted the loss of her car but, she noted, "If the truck had not been slowed down by my car, it would have
run right through the whole house taking all of us with it."
Small Salmon, regarding damage to his pickup, said that it too was a lucky thing. "If the truck hadn't been there, the whole house would have collapsed and we all would have been buried."
It was bad enough as it was. Small Salmon has a lump on his head "and he doesn't hear so well since." Mrs. Parker claims. Mrs. Parker has broken (cont. on page 7 )
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THE BI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OF THE SALLSH, PEND'd ORIELLES AND KOOTENAI TRIBES OF THE FLATHEAD RESERVATION
Volume 3 - Number 10   FULL MOON OF THE HARVEST OF RIPE THINGS (Sept. 15 , 19 7 3)
Pollmann Innocent But Permit Law Is Upheld
Missoula: The tribe's authority to sell and enforce reservation recreational permits has with stood a federal district court challenge.
Judge William J. Jameson ruled August 29 that the tribe has the treaty authority to exclude or regulate fishing by non tribal members on the southern half of Flathead Lake. Judge Jameson made the ruling while finding non-member Harlan "Chub" Pollmann, Poison, innocent of violating Tribal Ordinance 4 4-A. Pollmann was found innocent on the technicality that the government had failed to "prove that the défendent acted willfully and \now-ingly in fishing the >outh half of Flathead Lake \\ ithout lawful authority or permission'"
The finding wa* a technical matter
based on the advice of Poll-mann's attorney ... not, Judge Jameson pointed out, on the tribes authority to sell permits.
The Pollmann case is the first court testing of the Tribe's four year old recreational use permit ordinance. It started last June 1 when information that Pollmann had fished the southern half of Flathead Lake was filed with the U.S. Attorney in Billings.
In March of this year, Judge Jameson denied Pollmann's motion to dismiss the case and upheld the ordinance and its application to federal law 116 4. Judge Jameson then bound Pollmann over tor federal district court trial because"the information charges, and the statute makes criminal, tres-
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Tribe Sues For Lake Bottom
Poison: The construction of a breakwater on thea east end of Poison has launched the tribe into another legal battle over its soveriegnty in the south half of Flathead Lake.
The breakwater was constructed this spring by the owners of Jim's Marina. The tribe contends the breakwater constitutes a tresspass on. lands owned by the tribe below the high water mark of the lake. The suit also takes note of other structures and buildings in the marina complex which extend beyond the high water mark. The action was taken after the tribes requested the owners of the marina to remove
the structures. ,     .
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