o — o Nyssa Gate City Journal "Louie Vcmdrell D a /" —Saturday, October 24 VOLUME XXXXVIII THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL. NYSSA. OREGON. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 22. 1953 '54 District FHA Convention To Be TT t , , . Held At Lyssa Nyssans Attend * eno M,eetin? On neclamation Eugene E. Lyall Vicüm oí 2-Car Idaho Collision N yssa First Annual HARVEST FESTIVAL Saturday, Nov. 7 NO. 41 Cash Prize uueied For Four Da vs Work In Subscription Campaign; Grand Prizes To Be Awarded Kov. 7 m m Valuable and interest«* inform­ ation about irri:at‘or. and reclam- Mils Joreita M eller of Ny-.-a was a.ion was obtained la^t week at the Failure to heed a st p sign was One of the boys or girls who ary tu '.i.i in the Gate City elected district chairman for the National Reclamation association given by Canyon CVi. : '.c Jo u rn al subscription cam paign w ill be more fortunate than 1954 Futu.e H memakers Eastern convention in Reno, Nev., according Dale Hale as the cause cf an auto v er—by the tim e th e reports for W ednesday, Oct. 23, a r; in, Oregon disaict convention which to Paul House, manager of the North accident last Thursday nighi on the ic of the candidates w ill be $10 richer, in addition to being a will be he W in Ny sa next year. Miss Board of Control, and Harold Hemg- Apple Valley .ilghway that took the Moeller was elected by voting dele­ son, Nyssa attorney, who attended life of Elbtr: E. Lyall, 59, of route w inner, N ovem ber 7th, of one of the cash commis ions or a gates from 13 Eastern Oregon the meeting. They wre accompanied 2, Parma. brand new bicycle. schools at the 1953 convention last by their wives and attended various ----------------— ♦ f \ r Tiic Jcuri nnounce* Lyall was dead on arrival at Mal­ Saturday in Ontario. a n- i n- j sessions from Tuesday of last week heur Memorial hospital from head paign in which it will ive a $10 c a h This year’s convention at the Ont­ through Friday. injur.e^ sustained v.,jn he allegedly pr.ze to the candidate obtaining the ario high school was chairmaned by House reported that matters of ran the stop >ign at the intersection most points f :• securing new .sub­ Miss Mickey Frahm of Ontario wilh of State avenue and the Apple V..1- scriptions Just between Saturday the theme, ‘ Homes for America’s general interest to this area included ley school. Nyssa’s "crime" apparently ha' morning. Octobei 24. ar ! Wednesday Future” Eighteen girls and their i a resolution asking that irrigation and domestic use of water from He ■ 1 an oppor­ Parma Police Officer 3111 Greek? c- me 6o sudden halt since last night. October western streams be given first con­ first official to reach the scene cf nn th, Chief . f Police E. I Hansen tunity for an ambitious candidate to sideration over flood control anu the accident, said that it occured commented thi - week after compar­ earn a welcome c., h var1 in addi. ticn to one of the original prizes for power for reclamation projects. about 7 p m. ing arre-t records for September jti't four da) - < t ;>!• a int . tnpeti- There were many problems pertain­ Oilier investigating officers we.. with those so far this month. tion. ing to irrigation projects discussed, Cam n County Sher.ff Dale Hale There have been only five arrests New Campaign including artific.al rain-making ard Deputy Shar.ff J. e Fattig and Cor­ since Oct. 1 and no arrests during The $10 ca-h prize i . a new peration and mainte a”.ce includ­ oner John Alsip, all of whom arrived the pa~; nine days. Nyssa’s jail has campaign. It is separate fr> m tiie ing problems dealing with and oon- on the scene after the occupants of been used only as temporary quar­ original campaign in whuh biovcles rolling w p * p : sses, Hou e mid the two vehicles had oten removed ter-, for county women pri- mc-> an and cash commL'ion are offered The group a'-o made a request for to thp hospital. for non-int xicated "sleepers” who to candidates. Me# the larc? i.iver- n- re efficiency and less costly con­ have a ked for lodging in the city tlsement in this i - - up f. r full ci • ,iL. Driver of the 1939 model car th duction methods. The prizes offered in this cam­ bastile, the chief said. hit the Lyall pickup was Marparito > paign (particularly n v w to the Ttie NRA is.no v -tudmg a gcne:a! Martiniz, 16, of the Nyssa la r The September report showed an new $10 cash prize for Just four I reclamation policy of acreage litn- camp. His lone passt. ger va ; Cam-: avenue of nearly two and one-half working days) are well vjrih the STANDING BESIDE the car in the was first to arrive at the scene of I itations and of giving local or state ilo Espinoza. 19. also of the camp , above photograph tliat crashed into the accident north of the Apple arrests per day for a total of 74 efforts of the entire fomiL Parer.! organizations mere auth rity in con- should get behind tltelr entry, help 3oth were treated at Malheur1 Valley school. Driver of the car. during the month. construction, operation and main­ them with actual work and advice Memorial hospital f r pa nful cuts a pickup driven by Elbert E. Lyall which was completely demolished by tenance of their projects. of Apple Valley and causing his the impact, was Margarito Marline/ \ i " \ MEN v I TT\D to the end that their own favorite and bruises, then re'ea~cd. candidate will win one of the maj r The two Ny»sa families were a- Tiic two boys told investigating death last Thursday night is Kill of the Nv*sa labor ramp.—Photo by A SSO C IA TED <11 \M B E R awards. mong those attending a special officers, when they were interviewed ( rooke, 1‘arma police officer who Yost. Attending an Associated Chamber Families Should Help breakfast given by the Oregon in their lobor cabins at a later hour,1 >f Commerce meeting Monday night Tin- Journal is e pe tally anxi representatives for Secretary of In­ that they were traveling north on in Parma were Tom Jones, Jed 1 ilia, fiarent' iiould m. r. the of- terior Douglas McKay, who was the Apple Valley highway when the. Le vis. Henry Hartley. Clyde Snider | fjce Wit.p their children to receive a speaker on the pr 'gram. and Ken Renstrom. • Lyall vehicle darted into the inter- lull details of the campaign and The National Reclamation assoc­ I section without stepping for the 1954 FHA Chairman Max Yost, executive secretary of learn how they can best help to get iation is composed of private and l arterial sign. j the Idaho Taxpayers League, was one of the prize bicycles for their advisor, Mrs. Charles Steffens, at­ quasi-municipal irrigation compan­ the principal speaker and led a dis­ own family. tended from Nyssa high school. Martinez told Sheriff Hale there ies, government projects and organ­ The Journal campaign is e x is te d cussion on property taxes. Mis^ Sylvia Jayo of Nyssa, state izations, such as chambers of com _ ( was approximately 16 feet between to get underway in earnest this wrek Verl Patter»oii, 22, of route 1, vice president, participated in a merce, in 17 westrn states. the vehicles when the Lyall pickup and since 11 will run only 14 more // national convention group along ________________ darted in front of him and that "Communications” was the subject Ny a. is in serious condition at the / / working days, it is essential that with Norma Olund of Vale, Mickey! . — _ there was not time to apply brakes of an address made by Westerman Malheur Memorial hospital where he candidates utilize their spare time hard enough to stop his car. Frahm of Ontario and Mrs. Becker, T ilV n and get subscriptions. Help them all Whillock, president, radio station was taken Monday night after he Union FHA advisor. She also gave a J ***** U f m j U Ad you can. Passersby said the two cars, which KDSH, Boise, before the Nyssa became euUingled in the power Names of candidates iu Vhe cam­ talk on a “Book of Ideas” and plans } | were total wrecks, had to be pulled Business Men’s association last Fri­ take-off of a tractor at the Richard | paign are listed in todayV paper and for future meetings to be held by apart, before the victims could be day noon. will be published each week during Maw ranch where he was working.} the group, and led a panel discussion removed. The Lyall pickup was over- j the campaign Watch for them. Whitlock approached his subject The accident occured shortly before on degrees that can be earned. Ruth j . turned and resting on its top, with j „ . . . . . , by citing China’s present-day back- 6 o’clock. Herman and Miss Mildred Diescher, The tntire lower Snake river val­ Lyall pinned inside Handing on his wardjless as due to lackof ade. state FHA advisor, were members of According to reports, Patterson ley swung into action this week to head in the cab. quate communications. He aptly Sylvia Jayo, Nyssa high school the panel. was working near a tractor supply­ find ways and means of building up Lyall was born March 11, 1894, and i illustrated his point with first ing power for a beet harvester and a large fund tor Louie Vendrell, Miss Moeller gave a report on last senior and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. year’s activities in the Nyssa chap­ Frank Jayo of route 1, was elected came to the Apple Valley eight years handed information gleaned while other workmen noticed that the Nyssa football player who was by the high school student body last ago. He was employed by the Parma serving as military governor of a First returns of the current Boy tractor had stopped before they dis­ critically injured Cfc V 9 in a game ter and a report on the "Buzz Ses­ Friday to reign over Nyssa’s Harvest Water Lifters during all that time Korean province during the war. Scout fund-raising campaign show­ sion” which she headed. Mrs. Stef­ Festival as harvest queen. covered he was entangled in the at Vale, and focused their efforts on He is survived by his wife, Lura, fens led the discussion group for Elected as Queen Sylvia I’s at­ of the home; his 102-year-old j Pinpointing fys remarks to re- drive belt. His heavy makinaw was Saturday of this week which has ed that $595 have been contrib’-.^ed advisors and club mothers. tendants were Phyllis Cheldelin, mother of Colora, Md.; three sons, duceable factor^ applicable to pre - 1 wrapped tightly around h*'n and i been declared “Louie Vendrell Day ’*y- ^ far in the business district of Schools in the Eastern Oregon Maryann Alford, Betty Jean Strick­ James and Roy of Meadow Grove, sent-day business, Whillock said had to be cut torelease him. The Young Vendrell’* conditidh Wed - Nyssa, Teafci Captain Ton> Jones re­ district are Hermiston, WaUowa. land and Vela Dew Poulsen, «11 Neb., and Harold in the armed that major problems of the average youth was unconscious when he was } ne.sday reported by his father, ported. More funds are expected to business man were ones of internal discovered, but regained concious- Louie Vendrell. Sr., as not much im­ be reported later. Milton-Freewater. Pendleton, Enter­ seniors. Queen Sylvia I and her court were forces stationed in Germany; three and external communications. Those heading the drive in the prise, Elgin, La Grande senior and ness before an ambulance arrived. proved. although he is resting com­ business district were Bernard East­ junior high. Union, Vale, Ontario, choices of the high school when the daughters, Mrs Vlolette Kla vonn of Internal communications prob. I He was brought to the Nyssa ho'p- fortably, his spirits are good, and student body placed the names of Norfolk. Neb., Mrs. Helen Booth of man, Dale Bingman, Walker Low, Adrian and Nyssa. lems, he said, have to do with the his speech is normal. | ital where it was learned that his all senior girls on the ballot for Parma and Mrs. Wilma Lei'wold of Erroneous reports have it that Elmer Cruson. Leonard Hewitt. Chet | Friday’s election. Meadow Grove; five brothers, Leon­ employer being able to “reach” his right arm was in serious codition employes in a manner that would I movement is returning to the boy’s Bowns, Paul Penrod and Bill Blod- with an artery auU ligaments nearly Fred Bracken is chairman of the ard, Redford, James, Otto and cement their loyalty. This can be lower limbs, but Vendrell Senior re­ get. severed. Patterson was in surgery I committee that arranged for the Wayne and one sifter, Frances, all of Jones said that $10.000 was raised selection of the harvest queen and West Virginia; two step-daughters done, as pointed out by Whillock, | Monday evening and again from 1 ported that there has been feeling her court. His committee, other and 10 grandchildren. by taking the employe into the em- | a. m. to 5 a. m. Tuesday, and his in his lower body ever since the acci­ the first day of the campaign for the entire Ora-Ida di-trict to indicate More than s at i percent oi Nyssa s members _ „ _ of , which are R. V. Wilson, ,,, , u c ,,uu Funeral services were held last ployer’s confidence, build up a condition Wednesday was still re- dent mut M movement. that the goal of $25,000 will be partnership relationship and instill The spontancou and voluntary j ported serious. 1953 high school graduates arc at- win°oUtl*™ details incidental to the Monday at the Parma Community reached. loyality for the organization. drive will be climaxed Saturday eve­ Other injurif« included a broken tending college, it *as revealed this j crowning of Queep Sylvia I during , church, with interment at the Those communications problems right Jaw and severe contusions and ning with the annual Fireman’s Ball week by Richard Wilson, principal the Harvest Ball as the climaxing} Parma cemetery. of external nature embrace, Whil­ abrasions on ills head, neck and from which all net proceeds will be of the high school. That percentage feature of the Harvest Festival. ------------------------- turned over to the fund. While lock said, the best relations between houlders. exceeds the state and national aver­ First pubUr announcement of the Adrian Juniors adults are dancing at the old gym, a business firm and its patrons and age for high schools in towns with date of the Nyssa Harvest Festival. He is the son of M. and Mrs. a student dance will be in progress customers. no schools of higher education. Dur- which has been set for Saturday. To Present Play Grant Patterson. at the high school gym, sponsored Best means of achieving the ulti­ The first fall meeting of the Mal­ m 45 pier- No«. 7, was made this week by Dick f ing the 1952-53 school term The injured youth returned May by the Catholic Frujciscan club of heur county Knife and Fork club is “Incognito,” a three-act mystery mate in communications, the speak­ cent of the previous year’s graduates j Yost, general chairman. attended college, Wilson said. Purpose of the Harvest Festival, comedy, will be presented Tuesday er pointed out, is through the var­ 22 from Korea where he had spent Nyssa Dick Herriman, president, scheduled for next Tuesday night the East Side cafe in Ontario. Of the 68 students graduating he pointed out. is to give the merch­ evening by the Junior etas* of Ad­ ious media of advertising, resorting, 17 months with a transport truck and Irene Jayo, secretary, announ­ at Maj Malcolm Rjr.Aholt, who served company in the U. S. Army. rian at the Adrian high school, ac­ as he said, to "repetition until you ced that invitations have been sent ants and bu.sin«rs men of Nyssa an last spring. 37 of them are now en­ to high school students at Ontario, in the Far East during World War rolled in college. Brigham Young portunity to show their ggratitude cording to Wes Tolliver, director of get a reputation out of it”. I I , will be the guest speaker whose Vale, Adrian, Payette, Parma, Wciser talk will concern problems vital to Other guests of the association Clerk Employed University has the largest single and appreciation for the patronage the play. of persons living In Nyssa’s trade Cast in the play are Bernidine was Bob Applegate, new Nyssa city grmip with 12 of last year’s seniors, Harold Brendle. manager, Nyssa and New Plymouth and the Jordan ^ united Statrw and its actions Itt area. Price, Dede Connaughey, Ronald manager, and Father Rembert All­ j East. followed by Oregon State College, 7; branch of the Peterson Furniture Valley Catholic church. Invitation has been extended Among special fund raising pro- a newspaper man for more than a Oregon Techinal Institute, 5; East­ through the Nyssa Chamber of Peterson, Jimmy Stoker, Effie Smith, ies, pastor of St. Hubert’s Catholic Co., announced this week the em­ ern Oregon College of Education, 4; Commerce and the Nyssa Business Bob Skinner, Anita Pratt, Charo- church, who made an appeal to the ployment of Ray Russell of Apple Jects will be proceeds from the sale decade in the Far East prior to en- College of Idaho, 4; University of Men’s association, co-sponsors of the lette Parker, Mardell Bowers, Junior business men present on behalf of Valley, recently discharged from the of an 800-pound steer donated by tering the service in the armed Oregon, 2; Northwest Nazarene Col­ festival, for residents of Malheur McOinnis, Barbara Metcalf and Louie Vendrell, Jr., high school U. S. navy, as a clerk in the Nyssa Clifford Pox Of Walter Fox and Son forces, Kosholt speaks two or three (Continued on page 12) store. as part of the Firemen’s Ball Satur­ oriental language* and says he “can county and the Idaho side to be Doris Cook. lege, 2, and Utah University, 1. get by” with a few more. their guests on that date. day night. "The truce in Korea did rot settle Co-chairmen of the drive are ATTEND MEDICAL SCHOOL Everything is free. Yost said, in­ America’s problems. We still ha*v Dr. and Mrs K. A. Danford left cluding sports events between town Wayne Chesnut and Tony Richter, them,” ways this experienced military Friday evening to spend a week in and country kids Saturday morning. who reported that everal hundred man newspaper writer and ob'erver, Los Angeles where Dr. Danford will a barbecue lunch at noon, a free dollars aro now in a special account who MaJ CH>n c L cher.ault of the attend a Polio school of Instruction, movie matinee for the kids In the at the First National Bank and a u. 8. Air Force, retired, ha> credited The school, sponsored by the Nat- afternoon, a program staged by the large sum is in collection« boxes in with knowing th# Chinese and other lonal Foundation for Infantile Para- Ontario unit of the Oregon National The will of a small group of farm­ haler. mainland. Hundreds of feet of steel all business houses in Nyssa. Asiatic people as few Americans lysis, will be held in the Orthopedic Guard in the afternoon, and a free ers with ingenuity to make long- Spearheaded by the Larkins, four cable had to be borrowed and rent- have ever known them. (Continued on page 12) hospital in Los Angeles. (Continued on page 12) range plans, together with their will­ owners, Mrs. Whittington, Morse, ted, pine poles had to be cut and ingness to exert their energies and Seits and the Larkins combined their hauled in from the forest and the become civil engineers as a sideline resources and energies to span the services of neighbors and their trac­ to farming, have resulted in a steel Idaho channel of the Snake. tors secured to set the stage for the bridge to connect the island on Back in 1949 they purchased one big operation. Larkins had to go as which they live with the Idaho «nan of a steel bridge from Malheur far as Eugene to get a two-inch steel Malheur county's 1953 agricultural j beets In the lead again this year county after the bridge across the cable—several hundred feet of it— By Dick Yost | Instead of the present standard 11 mainland Just south of Nyssa. Bridge Island has become the ac­ Owyhee river above Adrian had been on which to swing the 16-ton bridge Income 1 down 23 percent from that j with an estimated income of $4,- Mention in the Bygone Days col- ems. cepted name of the 1,000 acres of abandoned when the Oregon high­ from the island to its final resting of 1952 with sugar beets moving to | 500.000 from 14,000 acres as com­ umn of the Journal, under date of Supported By Businessmen Sept. 24, of the election of Ann Under the three-line headline, land separated from Oregon by the way was changed. The two spans of place. Rent for that piece of equip­ first place over potatoes that topped pared with $3,705,000 from 11,300 the list last year. County Agent acres In t952. Johnson as editor-in chief of the Printed Papier Becomes Reality With main channel of the Snake river the bridge were completely disman­ ment Is $50 a week This year's onion crop is some­ Last Saturday was the big day Harry Sandquist announced Wed­ Nyssa high school paper, Nyssa Jun- j This Issue, the story of almost a and from Idaho by a smaller chan­ tled by the four farm operators in what of an unknown factor, since nesday. The preliminary estimate Is nel of the river. About one half the when the bridge was to be moved payment for the one span that was lor Gate City Journal, Sept. 15, 1938, column in length gives credit to calls to mind JournaMzm actltives; local business men making the land is under cultivation and pro­ moved piece by piece to the island. onto its piers. Hundreds of last- made each year by the county ex­ ifce biggest part of the crop Is in storage awaiting possiNr changes Hauling the 16 tons of steel gird­ minute arrangements had to be tension staff. in the high school 15 years ago. printed piaper possible by their adv- perty owners there are clearing more The preliminary estimate for all in the market which has not been of the land to put in crops. ers, nuts and bolts from the Oregon made and the services of neighbor­ The Ann Johnson mentioned a- ertising supp»rt. Since the island was settled many Owyhee district to Bridge Island by ing farmers, Olenn Evans of the farm crops for this year is $25.314,- favorable *U fall. Onion acreage was bove is now Mrs. Raymond Graham.} Of the 34 advertising firms in the daughter of Mrs. Tom C. Johnson, first Issue, 12 have advertisements years ago, residents there have used way of the ferry was only a small Idaho Power Co. and the ormpany 000 as compared with last year’s Increased to 3,300 this year from Nyssa. and sister-in-law of Ralpih In the current issue, published under a ferry to take them to and from part of th? labor and expense in­ hoist track, and several farm trac­ record high of $32,775,600, Sandquist 2.800 acres last year and a figure of $1,000.000 has been estimated for said. Lawrence. She resides at Quincy, • date of Oct. 12, 1953, Volume 15, the Idaho mainland. Two small row. volved. It was not until this summer tors were put to use. this year as compared with $2,500,- In spite of statistics showing low­ boats have boen available to use for There were minor difficulties like that the one-span was re-assembled Wash. j Number 2. Many other firms have 000 in 1962. er estimated Income, the county and pilings driven to cross tb« Snake emergencies when the ferry was on securing the guy-wires for poles, The editorship to which she was since changed hands and are ad- All type« of grain, as well as dairy tightening cables and re-lnforclng agent refused to express pessimism, one side and needed on the other. river channel. elected 15 years ago was not a s } vertising now under new names, Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Larkin are the Those working on the huge pro­ braces that held the guy-wires in which Is “suprlsingly lacking among products. Just about held their own editor-ln-chief of The Bulldog, pres- Editor Policy Stated ent high school newspaper, but as Purpose of the paper, as set forth pioneers of the island, having made ject admit there isn’t a civil engi­ place. One tractor, being used as a farmers themselves," the county with grain yields about the same os editor of a high school supplement In an editorial by Miss Savage in co­ their home there for 26 years and neer among them, but they were brace, moved a few feet and allowed agent said. Estimated gross Incomes a year ago and little or no change their son, Avery, who was born on able to have the pilings driven and a large plank to smash in the radi­ are used In making the preliminary In the price. Dairy returns are esti­ in the town’s weekly paper. operation with her staff, includes: Bridge Island, and his family live found that they were not exactly ator of Larkin’s truck on which a reports with no figures compiled for mated at $4.000,000, a decline from 1. To promote a democratic, self- Volume I. Number I of The Bulldog net returns or variations that pin­ last year's $4,800.000 attributed most­ there and assist with the operation suitable for the steel structure’s hoist was mounted. was Issued under date of Oct. 23, governing student body. foundation. Taking the error in their By Sunday night seme of the point the changes from one year to ly to cattle sales from the herds 1939. under the editorship of Laura 2. To secure a more unified school. of the Larkin farm. rather than any decline in butter- Mrs. Ruby Whittington Is owner stride, the pole pilings were rein­ "minor“*’ difficulties became more the next. Savage, the now Mrs. Verne Chad­ 3. To advertise the school. Potatoes led the parade last year fat prices. wick who now resides in California. 4. To stimulate pep and enthus- and operator of another farm and forced with cement piers and the serious and Monday a major prob­ Value of feed crops Is one of the I makes her home there. Other pro­ services of an engineer obtained to lem was encountered when the crew when gross returns amounted to $4,- That first edition, fulfulling a fign among the students. w as; attempted to lift one edgeof the 500,000 from 8000 acres. Thl* year’s most difficult to estimate, Sandquist certain everything long-time dream of the student body 5. To promote co-operation be perty is owned by Fred Morse of make bridge. The two-inch cable strung estimated Income Is $1,800,000 and commented, because so much of it _ for a newspaper of its own. had tween the school and towns-people. Denver, Colo and Effie Belts of I "plumo.’ Even that part of tM work “was across the river to lift the structure the acreage had Increased to 9.400 is fed out and bartered among the ' same format of the present paper, 6. To encourage creative express- La comb, Ore. A fifth farm, owned growers. This year’s crop was pro- by Bryan Vinaonhaler of Nyssa Is i only the beginning” wr making a sagged with the terrific weight a n d , from last year. except that the columns were, in ion from the students, (Continued on Page 12) The lower potato market put sugar (Owitinued on page 12) | operated by his son, Deles V inson-! more stable connection with the printing shop Jargon, 12 etns wide (Continued on Page 12) ''Crime" Holiday For City Police ¿k Boise Radio Executive Is Nyssa Speaker Korean Veteran Seriously Injured In Farm Accident Chosen Queen of Harvest Festival Vendrell Day Climaxed During Firemen's Ball First Reports On Boy Scout Drive Many '53 Grads Attend College First Knife, Fork Meeting Tuesday Bridge Island Farmers Tackle Huge Job of Moving 16-Ton Steel Bridge To Span Snake River Channel - w The Bulldog, Nyssa High School Paper, Enters Upon 15th Year of Publication € J O /s o o o o o County Farm Income Estimates Reveal Decline From High of 1952