1985-10-31 Char-Koosta News

              What if they had an election and nobody came?
Only fourteen members file for Tribal primary election next month
This year's primary ballot looks more like a general election ballot with barely more than a dozen Tribal members filing for office by Oct 25.
Hoping to help guide the future of the Tribes for the next four years are:
ARLEE: Jim Steele (incumbent) and Darrell R. Armstrong.
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ELMO-DAYTON: Al Hewankorn (incumbent), George Hewankorn (current sergeant-at-arms), and Laurence Kenmille (who was on the Council from 1978 to 1981).
POLSON: Rose J. Evans (current appointee in the seat long held for over 30 years by E. W. Morigeau), Robert LClairmont, and Patrick H. Lefthand (one-time Council member from the Elmo-Dayton district).
RONAN: Robert L McCrea (incumbent), Roy J. Couture, Stephen Small-salmon, and John B. Vallee.
ST. IGNATIUS: Joseph "Joe Dog" Felsman (incumbent and current Council chairman) and Fred Matt
The top two vote-getters in each district will face off in the December 14 general election Unless there's a strong
write- in effort by someone, Arlee's and St Ignatius' primary election candidates are assured of a spot on the general election ballot
Of the past six elections, only the 1981 contest failed to attract less than two dozen candidates. (There were 21 hopefuls in 1981.) The traditional abundance of choices led to a successful effort about four years ago to amend the Tribal Constitution to allow primary elections for culling the field so the eventual winners could say their victories were the result of a clear public mandate
By late afternoon on the day before the filing officially closed, the Arlee, St Ignatius and Elmo-Dayton districts each had only one candidate - the incum-(Continues on page two)
Kicking Horse Job Corps center gets a $ reprieve
President Reagan hasn't put his okay on it yet but funding until 1987 for the Kicking Horse Job Corps center southeast of Ronan seems assured
Center officials learned Oct 11 that the House Appropriations Committee had recommended that the national Job Corps program not be eliminated, as was the fear earlier this year. The committee even suggested kicking in an extra $23 million to cover the effects of inflation, bringing the funding figure
to $640 million.
Kicking Horse is the nation's only all-Indian Job Corps. Serving about 210 enrollees right now, it claims a 75% placement leveL
No doubt helping the cause of keeping the center open was the amount of staff and local resident support letters received in Washington, D.C., according to Rep. Pat Williams in a recent letter to KHJC center director Virgil Clairmont