OREGON the ow yhdc and C Z C---NTCIt ON P R O JE T S THE GATE CITY JOURNAL XXVI. NO. 41. S WILLIS UNO DEAD SON’S GRAVE RVICES ON were M ONDAY ER OF held FO B APPLE V A L - illls, 72. was found dead i his son Archie Willis in iietery early Saturday volver he had borrowed was found in his hand ed cartridge. Grief over his son two months ago re thought to have Shar­ on the tragedy which shock to friends In Nys- Jey and Parma. 0 Mr. Willis suffered a ysls. and he had been in nee. He spent much of his son Archie until the 1 May. knowledge of his family, made frequent visits to j . He came to the ceme- turday mprning. shortly I the gun. but the keeper Mr. Willis did not re­ returned in the after- 111s noticed his absence Ty of friends in search, s body ai^.ft 8 o ’clock 'ces were held Monday the Community church Jth the Rev. Lathrop in 'ng are his widow, one Abbie Glanton of Port- ons Alfred of Parma and nan. Is was born in Iowa Aug- 1882 he married Sarah jr a number of years they ~ka. In 1898 they came to ated in Apple Valley sd for 34 years. Last Jan- 'rs. Willis moved to Par- was buried in the Ros- “1111s, widow of the late accompanied her sister key and her husband of uneral services Monday. SEEKS ROJECT FUNDS BUSIEST AND FASTEST O B O W 1N Q TC "T N IN CR FO O N INVESTIGATE ~ LOCATE NYSSA, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 2s, 1 DR. ABBOTT SAYS BIG FISH BITE AT STRAWBERRY LAKE Dr. O. A. Abbott has joined the W ho- wlll-catch-the-biggest- fish of-the-season club. When he and Mrs. Abbott returned from Straw­ berry lake Monday night, they brought a catch of fine big trout. One Eastern Brook measured over 16 inches in length while a dozen others exceeded a foot. They had trout for breakfast, luncheon and dinner, all the doctor could eat. Tuesday noon they gave a trout luncheon for Mr. and Mrs. A1 Thompson and son Hershel, Mr. and Mrs. Wesley J. Browne and family and Miss Evelyn Earp. Tues­ day night they had a trout dinner for Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Roberts and son Harold of Parma and Mrs. Mattie Thomason. BUTTER MEN ELECT BOARD G A R R ISO N , HOLM ES AND R E PR ESEN T NYSSA FISIIEK DA IR YM E N IN C O W T E ST IN G ASSN. The Malheur County Dairy Herd Im­ provement association has elected the following directors for the ensuing year, Charles Garrison, F. C. Fisher and F. G. Holmes of Nyssa, P. F. Country­ man and F. L. Featherston of Ontario. County Agent R. G. Larson Is secretary treasurer and Walter Gerlach, tester. At a special meeting in Nyssa Friday night, the secretary was instructed to issue a monthly report of the testing carried on. Roger W. Morse, dairy specialist of Oregon State college, stressed the im­ portance of retaining only the profit­ able cow In the dairy herd. He stated that milking a few cows for a little cash has frequently cost the farmer more than he has gained and at the same time has aided overproduction and the decrease in price. He said that with the return of rea­ sonable prices for beef, many unprofit­ able cows now being milked will be slaughtered and total production will be decreased. Another encouraging factor is the purchase of many Ore­ gon cows by California dairymen to re­ place the thousands which are b ein j condemned in an effort to clean up tuberculosis and contagious abortioin among California herds. Commissioner Mead is Reconstruction Finance 11 set aside parts of its r construction work on VALE PROJECT projects, said a dispatch PROVES WORTH on D. C. Monday. If Dr. t receives the favorable OF RECLAMATION of the body, funds for ad- acts on the Owyhee and Crops on the new lands of the Vale I would be assured for Im- Irrigation project are the best of adver­ tising for the development on both the Owyhee and Vale projects. Almost weed-free crops of alfalfa have produc­ DIES ed splendid first crops of hay on the N HOLLYWOOD new lands stretching from Vale to Har­ per. G. L. Dahle of Harper reported 70 tons from the first cutting on 25 acres eke. friend of Ezra Lex, while Charles Callahan, also on the druggist, has received Harper unit, reported 100 tons from 30 cent death of Mrs. Lex acreq She will be remembered A recent survey of the project made orthy matron of Golden by Engineer C. C. Ketchum of the rec­ of the Eastern Star Lodge lamation service showed the following was Instrumental in or- crop acreages: the chapter. Her husband Alfalfa, 1000 acres; clover, 400 acres; ter Selma, aged 17, sur­ wheat, 500 acres; barley, 350 acres; oats, is now chief surgeon for 150 acres; rye. 60 acres; corn, 160 acres; fire department. alfalfa and wheat, 550 acres; alfalfa and oats, 125 acres; clover and oats, 15 acres: potatoes, 104 acres; onions, 154 ADRIAN H IG H W A Y acres; pasture, 160 acres; miscellaneous crop, 100 acres. maintenance crew of the department has been Js vicinity during the last Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ryan and Dr. hlngs have been made In and Mrs. Raymond Tacke of Ontario way between Nyssa and were guests Wednesday evening of Mr. Ists appreciate the work. ad Mrs. C. L. McCoy. Lodge Plans to Buy Church Building On Contract RELIEF PAID COUNTIES MUST BE REPAID STATE W IL L C E R T IF Y TO RECONSTRUCTION A T IO N ; REQUESTS CORPOR­ H IG H W A Y M ONEY ALSO ASSURED. There’s money in store for Malheur county relief work, under the $300,000,- 000 relief bill passed by Congress, but all of it wll1 not come as a gift. Advances for relief work In Oregon will be submitted as loans direct to the counties requesting such assistance, and the counties held strictly responsible, It was announced Tuesday night by the state unemployment relief committee. The plan suggested was for counties to submit requests to the committee and the governor who in turn will cer­ tify them on to the Reconstruction Finance corporation. The committee announced that the amount of money that will be required for relief In the Oregon counties cannot be determined until the state highway department has formulated Its program and the activities contemplated under the self-liquidating projects provision of the federal measures have been divulged. About $2,001,740 has been ap- ixjrtioned to Oregon for relief highway construction. The highway program will be discuss­ ed by the highway commission In Port­ land tomorrow. R. H. Baldock, state en­ gineer, said Monday that any road pro- grau proposed In Oregon under the re­ lief bill would have to be outlined with­ in the next month. The Malheur and Harney county courts hope to secure sufficient funds to complete the Central Oregon high­ way between Harper and Bums. NYSSA ELEVATOR OPENS ON MONDAY After a period of several «months, the Nyssa Elevator reopened for storage and other harvest business Monday. Julian Johnson is in charge. The ele­ vator will be open daily from 8 a. m. to 6 p. m. Jay Galligan, district manager of the elevator company, was here from Cald­ well yesterday. Mr. Wamsley of Parma accompanied him. NYSSA WATER TESTS HIGHEST Nyssa has excellent drinking water. It rates almost 100 per cent pure In the periodical tests which are made by the Oregon board of health and has the lowest bacterial count In the state. Judge A. R. Millar received a report of the test last Wednesday. EMMETT FARMER KILLED BY BULL Charles C. Sherman, 72, was gorded to death by a bull on his farm near Emmett Sunday. He was repairing a fence when the animal attacked him. When friends discovered theNfeody of the aged man the bull was near the body and was still pawing the ground. LAND CO M PAN Y SEEKS CHANGE Grain Harvest Begins; B a rl e y Runs 8 7 Bushels .$1.50 PER YEAR FIRE THREATENS OW YHEE CAM P, TOO MUCH WATER While the wheat and grain acreage In the Nyssa country Is no larger than the acreage of last season, the crop is heavier than usual on most farms, ac­ cording to Chas. P. Overstreet, who BLAZE RAZES TWO SMALL HOUSES began combine operations this week. OWNED B Y GENERAL C O N ­ He stated that plenty of water has aid­ STRUCTION COMPANY; PRES­ ed the bountiful sunshine for which Malheur county is famous, and grain SURE BREAKS HOSE. crops are excellent. He combined 12 acres of barley on the Chas, Garrison farm near town which Fire threatened the General Con­ cropped 87 bushels to the acre, or a total of 1044 bushels. Wheat at the Dick struction company section of the camp Stam ranch ran 65 bushels per acre. at Owyhee Dam Saturday night, when The second crop of hay Is ready for a blaze destroyed the cabin recently the mower and has been cut on several rented by Neil T. Marks, of the Mont- farms. The Deseret Sheep ranch began the cutting of 200 acres of alfalfa yes­ gomery Elevator Company of Moline, terday. The hay crop in the Nyssa | 111., and razed the adjacent home of A1 country will be as large as usual, ac­ Lewis, chief carpenter. In the excite­ cording to reports from every hand, and ment, workmen increased the water will be ready for the large herds of pressure to such an extent the hose cattle and the flocks of sheep which will come from the higher hills for the was broken and three fuse plugs were blown out. For a time, It seemed that winter months. the fire would spread to dangerous proportions before water could be secured. Finally, the power was cut off at the dam and the fire fighters made con­ nections with the main water line. Water, with a change in the direction of the wind, aided the workmen in checking the blaze before more damage was done. Some of the furnishings in the Lewis LOCALS TAKE FIRST GAME IN home were badly damaged. Both houses GOLF CLUB TOURNAMENT OF were owned by the construction com­ pany. FOUR GAMES. It is believed the fire was started by children who had been playing in the Sunday, the tournament teams of the Marks house after his departure Sat­ urday for Portland. Marks had spent Payette, Ontario, Vale and Nyssa- the last two months at the dam while Parma Golf clubs will meet on the installing the elevator. He is said to home course a few miles out of town have left some oiled rags in the cabin. The fire marked the first blaze at for the second game of the Ontario Grocery company trophy match. The camp since the General sustained a heavy loss thru burning of the tall third round will be played at Vale and tower and cableway at the dam several the finals on the Ontario course. years ago. Nyssa-Parma took a substantial lead in the opener at Payette when the home club piled up 41 points against NYSSA DELEGATE 30 for Payette, 12 for Ontario and 4 AT WALLOWA LAKE for Vale. Net points arb counted after SUFFERS ILLNESS checking a point for low ball and low team at each hole. Nyssa-Parma team Sunday was com­ The delegation of young people from posed of Nat Young, Klaas Tensen and the Methodist community church who C. L. McCoy of Nyssa, R. B. Mitchell, ! attended the Wallowa lake institute Fred Johnston, Bill Young, Chas. Al­ with Rev. and Mrs Walter Bach report bertson, E. E. Waite, Charles Boehrlng- an enjoyable outing and program All ger and Art Moore of Parma. Farber of that marred the session for visitors Payette with a 75 was low rqan for the | from Nyssa was the illness of Miss Bea­ day. J. H. Young of Ontario posted a trice Spencer who became seriously ill 77, Art Hunt of Vale, Young, Tensen ; from an attack of appendicitis Monday. and McCoy of Nyssa 78, and R. B. On Tuesday she under went an opera­ Mitchell of Parma 79. tion at a La Grande hospital, the Rev. The four teams play ten men each. Mrs. Bach remaining at her bedside. She is reported recovering. Nyssa delegates who returned from the institute Tuesday with the Vale POSTAL SERVICE were Pauline and Ruth Wolfe, IN USE 157 YEARS truck Daisy and Laura Whipple, Bessie Hat­ field, Mrs. Green Campbell and daugh­ ters Gladys and Alta, Gerald Hardin, Tuesday was the 157th birthday of Wesley Newton and Howard Foster; the postal service in the United States. also Helen Miller and Martha Rae Nyssa’s postoffice force Dean Smith Stephens of Applp Valley. and Artie Robertson observed the event Miss Spencer Is a daughter of Bert by flying flags. July 26, 1775, congress Spencer of Nyssa and makes her home passed a resolution establishing a con­ with Mrs. Pat McIntyre. tinental post and naming Benjamin Franklin as the first postmaster gen­ GIRL SCOUTS eral. George Washingon, one of the founders of the service, was a great PICNIC, SWIM champion of communication. NYSSA-PARMA GOLFERS WIN HAROLD HOXIE HITS Chalking up a home run, three-bag­ ger and two-base hit, Harold Hoxie of Nyssa took the honors for the Ontario team Sunday which defeated Nampa for the championship of the Idaho- Oregon league series. Dick Young pitched a good game for Nampa but had poor support In the field which cost the game. the dam. POSTOFFICE AT OWYHEE DAM TO CLOSE SATURDAY The city at Owyhee Dam is van­ ishing through the recent comple­ tion of the irrigation dam transition of work to and tunnels and canals nearer Nyssa. . OREGON VETS CAN GET U. S. LOANS - WQ Malheur County )Vill Produce A Bumper Corn Crop NYSSA ASSURED STAGE S E D IE ON BOISE LOOP Saturday marks the final day of city postal service at the dam, the I. O. N. M O T O R STAGES ADDS S IX office having been ordered closed T O W N S TO LOOP, on July 30. In the future the Nyssa office will serve residents at the dam. Every week sees the departure of members of the General Construc­ tion company and government of­ fice staff. It is stated that by fall only a few families will live In the shadow of the $6,000.000 dam which has been the center of construction on the Owyhee project the last four years. At the peak of construction, the camp had a population of close to 400 people. BOISE TO W EISER D A ILY. BANKS PUNS OFFICE CHANGE PROJECT ENGINEER ANNOUNCES ACCEPTANCE OF O N TA R IO C IT Y H ALL; BOARD FAVORS LOCA­ TION HERE. At a special meeting of the board of directors of the Owyhee irrigation dis­ trict yesterday, Engineer F. A. Banks announced that he had accepted the offer of the Ontario Commercial club to use of the upper half of the city hall in Ontario, without rental charge, for the establishment of his office head­ quarters which have been located at the Owyhee dam the last four years. Plans for moving have not yet been completed. The board went on record as favoring the establishment of the office In the district building in Nyssa, purchased by the district several years ago. Dr. J. J. Sarazln, president of the board, stated that he favored the location of the o f­ fice here for the reason that he believ­ ed more economical administration of the office could be conducted from this point in view of the fact that three- fourths of the entire acreage of 123.000 acres of land under the Owyhee pro­ ject Is south of Nyssa where construc­ tion and settlement will take place dur­ ing the coming few years. The field office of the bureau of rec­ lamation, which has been located In Nyssa since work began on the project, will remain here, Mr. Banks advised. JAPANESE GIRL WINS PRIZE IN ESSAY CONTEST Again this year Malheur county had a winner In the Oregon W . C. T. U. essay contest, Teruka W ada, Japanese student of Vale, winning first prize in the fourth grade div­ ision. Mrs. Josie Douglas, of Nyssa, county chairman of the essay con­ test, received the report of awards yesterday and announced that Miss W ada will receive $5 cash prize and entry In the national essay contest. “Congratulations to M a 1 h e ur county," wrote Mrs. O. L. Buland, state chairman. "T h e work by the young people In the essay and post­ er contests was splendid. Last year Nora Belle Skeins of Juntura won a first prize for M al­ heur county. Sunday twenty-five Oirl Scouts, with Lieutenant Betty Tensen. in charge, motored to Caldwell to swim In the pool and picnic In the park. They had a gala time. Mrs. J. J. Sarazln, Miss Martha ischlapkohl, Miss Margaret Hunt and Supt. Leo D. Hollenberg took cars. Mr. Hollenberg was the only man in the [party but the Girl Scouts say he en­ Miss Afton Zink spent last week visit­ joyed the day. ing Misses Virginia and Joy Lytle at Eastern Oregon Land Company has filed a motion in the circuit court of Malheur county, requesting that the damage suit brought by Clarence Love­ land be transferred to the federal dis­ trict court for the reason that the land HUNTING SEASON company claims residence in California. BAKER VISITORS AT DAM Loveland claims serious injuries while TO BE 2 MONTHS In the employ of the company at Iron­ Klass Powell, of the Baker Democrat- side. R. D. Lytle is attorney for Love­ Herald, Mrs. Powell and Mr. and Mre. land. The open season for hunting ducks Jess Ward of Baker were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Frank D. Hall Saturday and and geese has been extended from one BU T T E R F AT RAISES 2 CENTS Sunday. On Sunday they made a trip j to two months for the coming fall by to the dam, Mr. Powell finding a wealth President Hoover for the reason that Butterfat advanced 2 cents per pound of material for a splendid article In no danger from drought conditions during the past ten days, assuring Tuesday’s issue of the Baker paper. threatens the fowls this year. The new dairy farmers of this section increased Walter Sanford took the party through [open season for Oregon and Idaho ex- tends from October 16 to December 15. returns of many thousands of dollars. In addition to the price per pound, noble grand, Frank Leuck. vice grand; members of the Fanners Cooperative ave a new hall for lodge and Ike Boren, secretary. Appointive o f­ creamery receive a dividend based up­ gatherings. Negotia- ficers will be announced soon. on the deliveries made each year. £M de for the purchase jeh u rch on contract, REPEAL FAVORED “^5y on the purchase is consummated. A The end of the third week of the Ore­ has been appointed gon Journal prohibition poll In Oregon y of the cost of feund the count: W a r veterans of Oregon may now re­ For repeal of 18th amendment 6172 meeting of the lodge ceive immediate loans of up to 50 per Against repeal ................................ 948 new members were ln - cent on their compensation certificates, The vote to last Sunday mailed In with no more trouble than simply pro­ the total membership from Malheur county listed 59 for re­ Interest Graham was presiding viding proper identifications. peal, 4 against. the lodge session, music has been reduoed from 4 1-2 to 3 1-2 per m