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THE GATE CITY JOURNAL Published At Nyssa, Oregon G A T E W A Y T O T H E O W Y H E E A N D B L A C K C A N Y O N IR R IG A T IO N PROJECTS VOLUME XXIX, No. 8 NYSSA, OREGON, TH U R S D A Y , F E B R U A R Y 28, 1935 E d w a rd B o y d e ll A n s w e rs F in al S u m m on s S a tu rd a y Laid To Rest Tuesday In Local Cemetary After Active and Useful Life CLEAN-U P OF GOLF COURSE CONTINUES Another clean-up day will be held Sunday at the golf course, rain or shine, according to O. G. Boden, the new president of the club. A crew of around 10 golf fans grubbed away faithfully last Sunday and an even larger crew is expected out this coming Sunday. The club says they will accept no alibis nor excuses and everyone is to be on hand early armed with a grub hoe. Funeral services were held' Tues day afternoon for Edward Boydell, 84, who passed away in the Parma hospital Saturday evening about 11:30. He had been seriously ill for the past several weeks. At the time of his death he waa 84 years, 11 months and 4 days of age. Rev. Stanley Moore, Episcopal minister, had charge of the services at the Nyssa Funeral Home, with the Mas onic lodge in charge of the commit N YSSA LOSES L A S T ment service. Interment was in the Nyssa cemetery. GAM E OF SEASON Music was furished by the ladies quartette .composed of Mrs. Dick Tensen, Mrs. Ray Emmott, Mrs. Leo Hollenberg and Mrs. Howard Larsen Nyssa lost the last ball game of with Mrs. C. C. Hunt at the piano. the season on the local floor Satur Pall bearers were: Bernard Frost, day night to Baker, the score being D. Goshert, H. Blair Johnson, 20 to 27. The game was not quite up ’ r-T "chireman, Leo Hollenberg and to the standard of the usual play of "w b id g e. Honorary bearers the Nyssa team and Coach Young ' " i k Hall, Don Graham, John has been drilling his men hard this and A. V. Cook. week in preparation of the coming 1 Boydell was born in Buf- district tournament to start in . w York on March 21, 1850, Union March 6th. boyhood was spent in Eng The Nyssa squad of eight men and el and Wales. When about sixteen manager expect to leave next W ed he returned to America and then to nesday noon and will play Union at Canada where! he resided until 1904. 9:30 that night. Teams taking part In 1904 of that year he came, with in the tournament are Imbler, La his brother Josiah and family to Grande, Union, North Powder. Bak Nyssa where he spent the remain er, Ontario, Enterprise and Nyssa. der of his life. The winning team will go to Salem We was an Episcopalian and a to compete in the state meet. —ibpr of the Blue Lodge and ■ M ' sonic of Cookshire, "anada. 4-H CLUBS ORGANIZED '’ o last surviving m ~nber IN K IN G M A N K O LO N Y vo ly of eleven. He leaves to 1 his loss his nephew and ■ Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Boydell, "d Mrs. J. J. Sarazin, Miss Eva E. H. Hauser, assistant county ’ " end Blayney Boydell of Nys- agent and club leader was in ~a. Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Nedry of Kingman Kolony Monday and or ■d, Ore., also the family of his ganized eight new clubs. her the late James Boydell of ■’ bury. Canada, and a number of ■'d nieces and nephews. F IN IS H REST ROOM — ¡evday afternoon the ladles of- ■ various civic organizations fin- hed p’ acing the furniture in the -t room at the high school. A very ‘ ractive room has been furnished 'v‘ clubs. The girls athletic " f the high school plan to . on and give everyone an ity to inspect the room. VALE FiflENIEN 10 L Ü 'Vest To Be Revived < Big Show Staged By vie This W eek End ’ ale will turn back the pages of ‘ nlhsur county history 50 years this ck as the county seat again be- •<>s a roaring mining town rem- ant of early days. El Campo 'ute- -the annual winter fun * the Vale fire department ' 4 Friday and Saturday in Vale's new community d preparations have been pl-ted to make It the most 'r borate affair in the history of the celebration. The games for which the celebra- ''r n is famous will run full blast In basement of the new building. There will be a wide assortment —;fh something of Interest for all— ' men and women. Many valu- o-izps will be awarded. On the n i n floor, there will be dancing. The Eagles of Ontario are co- onerating to make the affair a suc cess by bringing their newly organ ized 25 piece drum corp over to Vale Friday night. They expect to put on a uniform drill for the benefit of the crowds in attendance at the affair. Hold R « i U l A . Church On Monday Evening Pupils of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wilson held a recital Monday even ing in the community church with several of our young musicians tak ing part in the program. A good crowd was present to enjoy the splendid music. Among those who took part were Audrey Gray, Helep Enebeck. Curtis Foster,'Warren Larsen. Edward Boy dell. Francis Foster, Dale Blngman. Maxine Margaret Warren, Claudlne Paradis, Dickie Schlreman, Colleen Towne, Viola McGinnis. Nellie Jean Bchwetzer. Waneta Ormvea and Bar bara Jeanne Browne. Fastest Growing Town in Oregon NVSSd DEPOT TO BE MODERNIZED Union Pacific Officials Visit Nyssa Tuesday and Promise Depot W ork Nyssa is to have the depot re modeled in the very near future, ac cording to a promise given Commer cial club officers Tuesday. Joel L. Priest, Geo. M. Bisbee, traveling freight and passenger agent; and Mr. Baker, all of Boise and John L. Amos of Salt Lake City, assistant traffic manager of the Union P ic - ific system, all in Nyssa Tuesday and after looking the situation over, promised that the station would be re-modeled. The people of Nyssa have been asking for a new station for some time and at one time were promised a coat of paint for the present, but both have failed to materialize. However the Union Pacific mean business this time and before many days are over, it is expected that a re-modeling crew will be at work. Nyssa is fast becoming one of the main points on the Union Pacific line, with 244 cars of potatoes, 154 cars of lettuce, 46 cars of onions and 33 cars of mixed vegetables—a *otal of 477 cars being billed out last year. In addition to this, the total freight bill for material used and be ing used In the construction of the Owyhee project will total close to a million dollars. Taking these facts into consideration, together with the fact that 15,000 acres of new land adjacent to Nyssa to go under water this coming year and many times this amount in coming years, the railroad officials felt that re modeling the present station into a strictly modem plant was not un reasonable and promised to take the necessary steps at once. GAMES HALTED IN THIS COUNTY A ll slot machines and card games were stopped In Nyssa Saturday evening by order o f the officers; with similar closing orders going in to effect in Ontario and Vale at the same time. Payette closed their card games last week and slot machines were hauled to the city hall and locked up. The games were closed under the provisions o f a law which reads, •Each and every person who shall deal, play, or carry on, open or cause to be opened, or who shall conduct either as owner,proprietor, or employee, whether for hire or not, any game of faro, monte, roulette, rouge et noir, lanquenet, rondo, ving- tun (or twenty-one) poker, draw poker, brag, bluff, thaw or any bank ing or any other game played with cards, dice, or any other device, whether the same be played for money, check, credits, or any other representative of value, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than $500 and imprisonment not to exceed 1 year." A stiff penalty is provided for o f ficers who do not enforce the law, the statute reading, “ It shall be the especial duty of each district attor ney, sheriff, constable, city or town marshall and police officer to in form against and diligently prose cute any and all persons whom they shall have reasonable cause to be lieve guilty of a provision of this act.” The penalty is carried in the next section: "Any officer who shall re fuse or willfully ..neglect to Inform against and prosecute offenders against this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than $50 nor more than $500, and the court before which officer shall be tried shall de clare the office or appointment held by such officer vacant for the bal ance of his term.“ A meeting was held Wednesday night in the city hall to discus the problem but no action was taken at that time. Local Veteran« To Help Start New Po»t At Vale A big crowd of local World War veterans attended the meeting held In Ontario last Thursday night and at that time, plans were made for starting a post at Vale. It is the plan at present to hold the Initial meet ing o f the Vale post Thursday. March 7. I t will be some time be fore they can get their charter but a temparary organization will be perfected at that time. Tw o contracts Will be opened thi« week end, one was opened Thursday morning at 10 o'clock In Ontario and the other will be opened F ri day morning, March 1st. The con tracts are for work on the Owyhee project on land Just west of Ontario to provide an additional supply of water for farmers In this section. The contract opened Thursday Is for enlargement of Owyhee and Stew art Carter laterals and construction of the north advancement lateral and wasteway channel. Specifications call far the excuva- tion o f 20,100 cubic yards of dirt and a 36,000 cubic yard overhaul. Work is to be completed in 60 days to en able farmer-3 to use these laterals for crops this year, “ T h e contract to be opened Friday is the construction of structures, back fill, placing reinforcement bars, pipe, timbering Installing gates and other incidental work on these same laterals. RE MODEL WORK STARTED Al P.0. Combination Lock Boxes To Be Installed and The Interior Rc- Arranged Work has started on re-modeling the Nyssa postoffice to modernize it and to make it more convenient for both clerk and patrons. The in terior will be re-arranged consider ably, and 210 combination lock post office boxes will replace many of the present key boxes. It is the plan to eliminate the present window and last section of boxes, bringing the) line of boxes across the present rear of the wait ing room and make two windows for the service of patrons. The boxes near the door will be left as they are for the present at least. A larger slot for the depositing of letters, paper and parcels will be provided. By this re-modeling It is felt that service to the patrons will be’ speed ed up and at the same time provided more room for postal employees. Lon Root is doing the work. HOME TALENT PLAY BIG HIT Commercial Club Nets A Total of $45.70 On Show — Big Crowd Présent Leave Sunday On Trip T o North Dakota Tw o packed houses greeted the presentation of "Casey's T ria l" F ri day night at the Liberty Theatre with the Commercial Club making a net profit of $45.70 on the show. A l though only a week was spent In preiparatlon, the show for the most part went o ff smoothly and unsus pected talent as discovered among the usually sedate citizens of our community. M r and Mrs. Dean Smith and two daughters left early Sunday morn ing for Bismark, North Dakota, called there by the serious Illness of Mrs. Smith’s father. They expect to be gone about two weeks on the trip. During their absence, Mrs. J. B. Smith, Dean's mother, and his One o f the nicest features was nephew, Dwight Johnson are taking the dance recital given by the Bob care of the house. ble Curl school of dancing of On tario. Although the group was Ute Iri arriving and were able to put on GROUTS ARE COM ING but one show prior to the second showing of Casey's Trial, they were TO N YS SA TO H O L D very well received and appreciated R E V IV A L M EETINGS by the big audience. Rev. and Mr*. J. G. Grout of Eat- onvllle, Washington, are coining to Nyssa to hold revival meetings at the Methodist Community church. They plan to start their services March 16, and will probably stay about two weeks. Rev. and Mr». Orout held meetings here last year and will be welcomed back by their many friends BOY H U R T E A G LE S W IN B A N N E R IN DISTRICT C O N TE ST C O N T R A C T S W IL L BE O PE N E D TH IS W E E K Little Ross Lane, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Lane of the Kolony had the misfortune to hurt his head and chin quite badly last week when he fell from a building, struck hte chin on a fence, which threw him back ward hurting his head. He was taken to a doctor for treatment and aside from a very painful Injury, he doe* not seem to be seriously hurt. The local Eagle Aerie have Just received a fine banner, which Is given to the Aerie In the district havig the best record for new mem bers for each three months per iod. The local lodge have won this honor each time every since the lodge has been in existence''but it M. I. A. P A R T Y has been only recently that a ban- er has been given to the winning Aerie. They are entitled to keep It until some other chapter has a bet The Mutual Improvement Associa ter percentage of new member* in tion will give a party at the M or the period between district conven mon church for its members on tion. March 5th. Hay Starts Moving Toward Drouth Areas Dynamite Proves Effective In War With Feathered Pest Forty sticks of dynamite and for- yards around. Although crows were ty pounds of shot exploded underyscattered thick in the willows and and over thousands of crows in a big underbrush, those who escaped the rookery on an island in the Snake charge later came back to roost and river Saturday night with the crows the men went to town, secured four getting decidedly the worst of it. It shot guns and 300 rounds of ammu was a bad night for crows, for if old nition; and were there until almost blasting away at the grand daddy crow was one of those one o'clock who escaped and counted up next crows and usually brought down morning he would have found three or four crows at each shot. thousands of his relatives among the Although It Is hard to estimate missing. the number of crows exterminated, The work was done by the Rod and it is certain that the casualties run Gun clubs of Malheur county and Into the thousands. Even more neighboring towns, with the help of would have been killed but due to Idaho game officials, including Jim the windy day Saturday many of Davenport of Ontario, Ben, Wherry the crows did not rocst In the rook of Payette, Harry Chadwick of New ery that night and so escaped the Plymouth; Deputies Johns of Par slaughter. This was the second time char ma, Bray of Nampa. Dllllon of Weis- er; and Mr. Crockett, president of ged had been set o ff In crow rook eries; a week before a smaller the Caldwell Rod and Game club. Several days were spent In pre charge of 17 bomba waa aet o ff In paring for the event, with 40 dyna a neighboring rookery with approx mite bombs being prepared, each imately 1000 crows killed. The gentlemen are now looking having a pound of shot, a stick of dynamite and caps, all encased in a for new rookeries to dynamite. They tin tube. They were scattered about have ordered 500 pounds of shot In a rookery on an Island approxi and expect to set o ff a Charge In mately three miles below Ontario, a rookery An the Deer Flat country and wired together to a dynamite soon. However they are anxious to exploding machine. About 8:30 Sat exterminate as many crows as pos urday night the charge was ex sible and have offered to do more ploded and literally thousands of o f this work IX they can locate I t has been suggested crows were killed. The black pests rookeries. were scattered up and down the that if any ohe knows o f a big rook river for two mllea for when the ery that th ey communicate with Jim charge exploded many were badly Davenport o f Ontario and arrange crippled, flew Into the air and flut ments will be made to set o ff bomba tered to the ground for hundred of where they will do the moat good. K IN G M A N K O L O N Y P. T. A . T O SE N D CLUB- GIR LS T O C O R V A L L IS Eastern Firms Send Buy W ho A re Busy Buying Available Hay— Larson Back From Selling Trip Hay Is moving.to the middle west In large quanUtle* .out of Malheur county this week, with one buyer la the market for one hundred ear loads and other buyer* looking for somewhat smaller amount*. Practic ally all of the buyers represent M in nesota feed tiroes and It is expert! £ that If the present movement kt up, surplus hay in the county wiu be largely cleaned up by the eud of an other sixty days. Hay has been bringing aatisf - tory prices whh buyers quoai> a ton baled and loaded on the e The Campbell Nrtay Co. of Minr. polls have a buyer here and K and Davidson of, Baker are Lo . up considerable ‘hay. I t la re that buyers will probably t-V. the surplus hay of this sec;: want 2,000 tons out o f the KM district alone. Some of those have sold hay are Albert Rust. Robert Overstreet who sold for $ on board car and C. C. Cotton, who received $S In the field. County Agent R. O. Lemon re turned Friday evening from a t. weeks trip through the middle *t.v where he talked the hay stiuni'r. end the alfalfa Weevil qua rant) • situation with numerous hay d ■ and state departments of ture. Larson reports that lleves there wlll.be u - provement made. In the quarantine regulations of t:v v toui states as these states in ■ cases are needing feed badly and wi continue to need feed until rather late In the season. h*..r*nln*> Btatis Quartm-.:- f Board Is meeting In Urban t " lnols this week. Idaho ha.i sent rt; resentattve* to this meeting in ord. that quarantine adjust!n - n a mn. be worked out. In spite o f effort» bv both Baker and Malheur - >unty ! growers the Oregon depvr agriculture failed to send r sentative to this meeting Larson reports that oondiu.i;. the east do not look very fsvorabl. for another year as there Is no snow anywhere In thy state* o f Nebraska. — a, Missouri pr Iowa and on’y t very small amount on th hi; near the western Wyoming ltn* The recent dust.storm reported the papers was. missed by a narrow margin. M S m 01! CITY IMPROVEMENT Many 4-H club members, leaders and parents from the Wade, King- man Kolony and Owyhee commun Crews A re Fixing W alks ities met at the Kingman Kolony and Streets; Expect To school house last Wednesday to at tend the annual achievement day Have Machinery Soon program sponsored by the Kingman Kolony P.-T. A. Two girls, Dorothy Winters and Lucile Thrasher were Considerable headway la being chosen by the P.- T . A. to attend the summer school at Corvallis this made by crews o f worker* under the summer ae a reward for their out FERA this Week In improving con ditions In the city. Many of the old standing club work. board walks have been tom up and The program Included songs sung the sidewalks will bo cemented In by the dub members from the d if front of residences and other place« ferent communities and Mrs. K ath will be graveled. T h e construction of ryn Claypool, county school super the sidewalk* is left to Individual intendent, gave a very Interesting property owners but the city will be talk on the educational value to 4-H able to furnish gravel at a reduced club work, and Its connection with rate, It is believed If present plans the school. Miss Helen Cowgill dis do not mls-carry. cussed club work In the state and its In many places the crews have accomplishments. She urged M al heur county dub members to send been filling up holes in the streets considerably. their work to compete for state and Improved them prizes. Vivian Smith and Jane Nich Sometime this week or early next ols gave an Interesting report on week th city officials have a promise their trip to the summer school last from the county that the county will bring their road machinery in to year as part of the program. assist with the work, the only cost E. M. Hauser, assistant county to the city being the coat of gas and agent, who had charge of the Ach oil. A t that time all of the streets ievement Day program, presented of Nyssa will be gone over and put club pins and certificates of ach In good shape. ievement to members who had com A crew averaging around 11 to I I pleted their projects. He also gave men for each shift have been work leader pins to Mrs. Clarence Elliott, ing under the foremanshlp of Bert Mrs. Florence Otis, Mrs. Harriet Hoxle. The personnel o f the crews, Truelson, Miss Helen Winters and as a rule, change twice a week with Miss Doris Klingback for bringing one crew working three days and their clubs through with 100 per another three day«. cent completions. A few last minute changes were necessary in the cast. Mrs. May Schireman took the place of Mrs. Angie Cook as the mother of the D IA R Y DISEASE CO NTRO L bride, due to Mrs. Cook's Illness. P R O G R A M UNDER W A Y Rock Shelton and Ed Warren ap peared in thé square dance in place of A. V. Cook and John Lackey ; and Testing for contagious abortion Mrs. Ernest Wilson was added to the list of flower girls. under the dairy disease control program is iradttqkliy completed In the Oregon Slope-Wetser com BUYS BUSINESS munity, and is starting In the On tario community, according to R O. Larson, county agent. Meetings Al Oreen has purchased the busi will be held at Nyssa at the the 1:30 p. m. on ness formerly operated by Lou Rud Nyssa school at dy and is re-decorating the Interior Thursday, March 7 to discuss this preparatory to opening for business program with Interested dairymen. Roger Morse, Extension Dairy some time next week. man from Oregon State College will be present to explain the de- Dean Peterson, of the reclamation of the force, left Thursday for a ten day vacation with his parents at Ashton. Mr. and Mr. Herman# Tow n « had Idaho. He will also attend the dog derby. as their dinner guests Friday algfc*.. Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Seafleld o* M ar Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Holmes at tin North Dakota and Mr. i M Mrs. tended a fam ily farewell dinner at Emil Julian of Eagle. the Frank Byers home in the Trail Sunday. It was given for Mr. and A. L. Fries returned to N; Mrs. Harry Beam and children who day after spending the have been visiting at the parental and a half month* in the Portland H. J. Holmes home and with other sanitarium taking treatment«. Mr. relatives. They left for their horns Frias t a n ha feel much better and la Modesto, Calif., Tuesday morning gained 16 pound« white os the coast. C » . 5 0 PER Y E A R SCHOOL M ASTE R CLUB HOLD M E ETING WEDNESDAY The School Master dub held a meet lag Wednesday night at the high school with representatives from all the neighboring schools present except Payette and Emmett A dinner waa enjoyed and school problems discussed. ATTE ND S C O URT Attorney A. L. Fletcher attended court In Vale Tuesday. Circuit Judge Elite o f Burns was there and MORE MEN PF • n Men Going To Wo.À Oc. Construction of Later U On The Owyhee P r o je t Unless the weather m.'I • . elded change, the first cf ’ see practically all of i ors on the Owyhee p ahead full blast. Several are already on the grou .' end have started ^ro-it. II. i arrived last Thursday and l i stened making preparations to f:ili fill his contract to build later*;* ar.d structures In the Mitchell Butte dis trict. John Oardner of Klamath Falls te ready t$ push things ahead on hi* contract In the K ln g m v i Koiony section.' Dava ICchardxon, sub for Ber nard-Ciirtls a tar ted work Monday on structure work In the Mitchell Butte area and te busy fulfilling the contract. Tertellngs have started trench ex cavation for th* Malheur river siphon and Just as soon is they have completed a short distance. John Klug. who has the concrete work on the Job, will start pouring eetnsnt. About thirty men are work ing for Tsrteilngs at the present time with saors expected to bo add d during th# summer months. Morrison-Knudsen started digging full bUst Wednesday with a crew of around 3$ busy operating a drag Uno and otheg excavating machinery. Tndtestfra* sra that Hyma te to far a busy sununsr this opening mar bere aettvMp on toe Mr. and Mrs. Daan Fries eg Pay- era Tueedey. business rid tars with s i It of tabor to ba i Miss Oleo May sad Miss Msrjert* Ms* farming acUvittea of this fa it Sterling o f Perette spent th* week *< Oregon. end with Mr. and Mrs Thos. B. Mer dai* and attended the commerciai dub show. They returned to Fayette r Abbinami eg Ontdflo was a Sunday with the Roy Sterline Jam« it tbs Hunter and fly who wpn ridtory I h m .
