GATE CITY JOimUAL, THÜR3., AUGUST 31, 1933
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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
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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,
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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
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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.
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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,
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lyt emphasize the dangers of modern traffic conditions, to J Looked
fit to do or dare,
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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.
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Shelton Dairy
NYSSA
Dr. E. D. Norcott
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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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See Ed. W. Pruyn
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repairing, acetylene
welding.
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THE GATE CITY JOURNAL
Yoice of the Press
[ And then they heard a rip.
progressed during his tenure of office. 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.
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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.