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About The Gate city journal. (Nyssa, Or.) 1910-1937 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 31, 1933)
GATE CITY JOimUAL, THÜR3., AUGUST 31, 1933 W. F. AND ALMA McLING, Publisher Subscription, Y ea r--------------- „....$l.aO Subscrpltion, 6 M o n th s-------- ------ 75c Entered at the Post Office at Nyssa, O regon. as Second Class Matter LOVING OWYHEE So proud is Dr. Elwood Mead, federal commissioner of reclamation, of the Owyhee dam that he has a miniature of that project parked upon the flat topped desk in his of fice in the interior department building, a Washington correspondent tells us. He says the deskpiece looks as though it weighs about ten pounds and is wrought from lead or some similar metal. The rough canyon walls, so picturesque and beautiful in their natural state, the smooth exterior surface of the great concrete dam and even the walk and handrail at the crest of the dam are all depicted with! minute detail. Commissioner Mead is especially gratified with the Owyhee project, which is eclipsed in size only by the dam at Boulder canyon, for the project came into being and has Processed Milk Made the Perfect Food for Babies and Invalids by our new equipment ASK US ABOUT IT —Sold Exclusively in Nyssa by We Deliver Twice Daily 1 OREGON 1 - — U IW III Nyssa, Office Phone 35F2 Residence Phone 35F3 Jregon X-RAY EXAMINATIONS City Transfer TRUCKING ana TRANSFERRING Phone 15 and Phone 28 brought the sheep together—a thing he ped, had never done before—so that the fact And Johnny hit earth again. of one missing could be detected.—Wel At the bottom of each pant leg lington. StiU the hem band held intact, With all between ripped slick and Salem Journal, edited by brilliant clean George Putnam, criticises Baltimore A melancholy fact. Sun for signing NRA code and then ridiculing it. “The enormity of the re Now, Johnny, as the years have passed, covery task and its almost insuperable ¡Has learned the riding game, difficulties, as well as the necessity of ¡The frontier show and the rodeo making good, suggests a better way for Have added to his fame. newspapers to do their part than by But all the old time buckaroos, caustic criticism of sincere endeavor.’ Whene'er they have the chance ,—Oregon Voter. They like to Jest with gleeful zest Of the ride that tore his pants. C. KUNKENBERG PIONEERING YESTERDAY AND TODAY We connect ox teams and Indian warfare with pioneer ing but at the annual Malheur county pioneer picnic in Vale Friday, Rev. S. P. Hagler, the speaker of the day, reminded those present of a pertinent thought. That is, days of pioneering are not over. With a new frontier fac ing us, we are pioneers again. Many thinkers are convinc On the Old Job ed that a folk movement to the, land, comparable in some H. D. Holmes respects to pioneering in the last century, is now in pro cess. They believe it heralds a new day and a new scheme TRANSFER AND BAGGAGE in our social organization. NOTE: The following poem written by The first of these pioneers of the present age have gone County Engineer J. Edwin Johnson All Kinds of Hauling in out from the cities and have bought tracts of land in the for the Malheur pioneer picnic Friday, City Limits concerns a true incident. ROBT. D. LYTLE country. This is proved beyond a doubt by the latest fig- ues from the department of agriculture which shows that JOHNNY’S RIDE PHONE 5 NYSSA, OR. on January 1, 1933, there was a farm population in this We sat one night by the camp fire's Attorney and Counselor at Law glow. country of 32,242,000—the highest peak in history. The And told hair raising tales First National Bank Building previous peak was 32,076,000 in 1910. mining camps and cowboy champs Millions of our people through necessity will combine Of Phone 66 And long nights on the trails, u im im iiiiiiiii industry and agriculture to gain a livelihood. Some avail Of riding outlaw horses Vale Oregon And stopping wi’ri stampedes. able work will provide a sum of money for clothes, certain When in the Market for stormy nights and grizzly fights roceries and a few luxuries. Small farms will provide the Of And wild and wooly deeds. WOOD AND TIMBER ulk of the food. A family with a cow or two, a pig to kill And then the talk got shifted round of the winter, a flock of hens, a small garden, can raise To the funny sights we'd seen, Fence Posts, Corral most of its food. This with a day or two of work a week Of cowboy spills out in the hills, Poles, Derrick Poles Wm. McBRATNEY will keep the family in comfort. Life on the soil offers a Fit stuff for the movie screen. Write— Then old Jim lit his corncob Licensed Funeral Director satisfaction not to be measured in dollars. And asked by any chance, and Embalmer Sustenance farms on the Owyhee project may be a part If we’d heard the tale of Johnny Gale AUDY BAZE of this new pioneering. Again, man is learning that his And the ride that tore his pants. Call S. D. Goshert or Nordale B WE HAUL CHEAP most faithful ally is the soil. This Johnny Gale was an awkward boy Furniture Co., Phone 94, n Box 85, Vale, Oregon The friend of every one. Nyssa, Oregon With his rugged face he was shy of S iM im iiiim iiii grace GET READY FOR SCHOOL But bubbling full, of fun. Many children, ranging from near-graduates to kinder His one and great ambition Was to ride ’em as they came, garteners, will convene on our streets and highways this The range colt or the thunderbolt September, all approaching central points. Through the The raw Let Us Mill Your outlaw known to fame. Dr. J. A. McFall summer they have been scattered throughout the length But, though he was long on the nerve Flour, Cereal and and breadth of the land; now they are to be mobilized, to try, Evesight Specialist crossing our city thoroughfares or country lanes in long He was short on the knowing how, Poultry Feed A green ranch hand, you will under lines going to school or coming home. stand Specializing It is the solemn duty of every motroist to see to it that Though a famous buster now. NYSSA FLOUR MILL these youngsters have a safe passage. By following a few He begged for a chance to learn the on the care of game simple rules, he can help cut down the toll of 3,400 child Phin Warren, Prop. Children’s to let him have a try, ren killed in 1932.. Every motorist should remember to ap Just The boys looked sad for they liked the Eyes “Our Prices Are Right” proach a school zone With care; slow down at all inter lad, And heaved a doleful sigh. sections; to watch his speed on curves in the country. NYSSA ORE. - Oregon Above all, he should look out for the unexpected. Child They roped the colt and saddled him, ren who meet after two months’ seperation, become so ab He stood with lowered blind, was deep suspense, all nerves sorbed that they forget about the danger of dashing into There were tense, the roadway, darting from behind parked cars, or trying And doubt filled! every mind to retrieve a ball from under the fender of a moving ve I As Johnny sauntered forward ¡And commenced to climb aboard, hicle. The motorists must do their thinking for them. full of pluck he would trust to The reduction in motor accidents to children of school | Plumb luck! age is the brightest picture in the safety movement, but And take what the fates afford. Nyssa, Oregon there still remains much to be done to further reduce the And then the blind was lifted while number of tragedies—90 per cent of which are avoid The herder waited there, Now Open Under New Management able. Educators, school authorities and teachers constant' The bronco looked mean, chock full of spleen, Introductory Special lyt emphasize the dangers of modern traffic conditions, to J Looked fit to do or dare, Cleaning and Pressing—75c the chidren. The one person able to bring about great im- j While Johnny sat as graceful As a goodsized bale of hay, rovement is the motorist. He should drive at all times as Give Me a Trial He roVed the steels, knew how it feels. e would if his child were out in that crowd ahead! To sense the earthquake's sway. D. L. LAWSON, Prop. g Shelton Dairy NYSSA Dr. E. D. Norcott DENTIST '— a—— . ..................... .. ......... ....................................................... mm .... ng FALL Is | Approaching = s | | | | So it is not too early to prepare for winter’s chill. If shingles for the roof are needed, material for the built-in, or common rough for the porch, garage or anything in the building line, be sure and see— Nyssa Tailor Shop I Boise-Pay ette Lumber Co. . It’s Not Too Early To Fuel Up 3 Dwight Smith, Mgr. PHONE 15 : NYSSA, ORE. B \ " fàittWHiffiMlWMi'MWi III m 11 i l 111 III lil iil LI HI I I 111 1.1 III Mill III til ill III III HI I I III I I III HI III 111 Hi l l lll l l lll l l HHMI Wheat Growers ATTENTIONI Don’t risk storing your wheat on the farm when you can obtain Storage from us in our large Grain Elevator at a very low rate— thereby avoiding extra handling, shrinkage and you have INSUR ANCE PROTECTION. See Ua For Further Information it— THE NYSSA ELEVATOR PHONE 42 NYSSA, ORE. E EDITORIAL COMMENTS BY CLARK WOOD Hope the promised prosperity wave will be a perman ent. Whenever a chap gets peeved enough to break some thing, it’s too often a commandment. Somnolent Sam says the sleeping sickness wouldn’t be so bad if a chap could wake up often enough to eat. The bronc went into action like A great big hurricane, ( A mass of fight and dynamite And flying tail and mane. The first Jump started Johnny On a headlong flying trip, Right on he sped, sailed straight ahead, >Vt'VE Oronite Fly Spray KILLS ’em DEAD Government's plan to buy five million swine for the block does not, alas, include the road hog. The importance of a C. C. S. recruit is best exemplified when he’s lost in the woods. The way Roosevelt “talks turkey” to the big guys, there may be more for John Public’s Thanksgiving. A good friend remarked to us yesterday that he never allows his wife to boss him. But she was not present. 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We hope he will It seems that Johnny's overalls, see the day when it becomes a paradise of farms such as When he had climbed a fence. _______ now beautify the valleys below Owyhee dam. Somehow had torn, this caught the I horn, It isn’t generally known but Dr. Mead was to have been MAN’S BEST FBIEND Ana here the fun commenced. let out when the demociatie administration went into of' Has anyone ever calculated what the I Like some great giant bullfrog. fice. So active has Dr. Mead been in the development of dog—sheep dog, cow dog. cattle dog— Starting on a mighty leap, the reclamation program that western senators, irrespec | is worth to farming? His services are Suspended there, he pawed the air tive of party, went to bat for him. We are also told that it unpaid; he may even be unfed, or at And .rlcd his poise to keep. any rate but half fed. He does what Straddled 'cross the broncho's should was largely through the efforts of our friend Marshall ¡neither man nor machine can do. A ers. Dana, one of the most esteemed democrats of the wrest, collie “Glen,” that regularly rounded Trousers seat hung on the horn, up the cows on a dairy farm, one day He swung aloft, not on nor off, that Dr. Mead retained the office which he loves. up the dozen or so sheep | He surely looked forlorn. Somehow when one looks at Owyhee dam, which will also rounded on the place. Wondering why. and As the bronco plunged and twisted stand through the ages in the service of mankind, mere kept being atracted by the excited manner Jump brought another rip, party affiliation fades into the background. It is service to of the dog, his owner (after counting l ' Each His Levis strong kept holding on the flock and finding one missing) fol one’s fellow men that really counts. In all truth we can Yet each bulk saw him slip. "Glen's” lead to an open drain add that this sentiment also guides the work of the long lowed where he rescued the missing sheep. ! As the best and strongest trousers serving board of, directors of the Owyhee and others who The conclusion he arrived at was that Were not made to stand such strain, “Glen,” with a dog's sense of reasoning At last they slipped, the inseam rip help on the ground floor.
