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Profit-Sharing: Distribution Tuesday, June 25 at 3.00 P. M
THE GATE CITY JOURNAL
Published At Nyssa, Oregon
VO LUM E XXIX.
G A T E W A Y T O THE O W YH EE A N D BLACK CANYON IRRIGATION PROJECTS
NO. 24.
TWO FIRES CAUSE
DAMAGE TO ROMES
IR NY5SA VICINITY
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Fastest Growing Town in Oregon
NYSSA, OREGON, TH U R SD AY, JUNE 20, 1935.
[Bill Before Congress W ould
Refund Taxes T o Defunct Banks
$1.50 PER YEAR
’r a ils 3101 h t t i s ä S a J M
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FRIDAY CAUSE OF
IE FLOOD
Leslie J. Aker, attorney of Boise enough support Is mustered to pass
Urban home owners who are in poration was created to protect hon
who recently opened an office In this bill through Congress, tax
voluntary
default on their m ort est home owners who are In tem
Ontario was In Nyssa Saturday. Mr. money collected from insolvent
gages are warned to file their ap porary difficulty, and not to offer
Aker recently returned from Wash banks can be rebate dto pay deposit
plications for relief from the Home a lower Interest rate to mortgagors,
ington D. C where duties connected ors, Including die banks which failed
Owners Loan Corporation by June or to save lenders from past mis
with being the secretary of the Nat- In Nyssa several years ago. He says :
27, less than three weeks away, takes of judgment in making exces
ional Association of Bank Depositors that should the depositors of the
J .,1 i
t „ when the thirty day extension for sive loans.
Herbert Hoxie F a r m called him. At the present time Nyssa banks decide to hold a meet- Caldwell Scheduled
Owyhee Ditch Bank Gives
t o new appllcations will expire
The home must have a value not
H o m e Burns; Lamb there Is a bill before Congress which Ing to pass a resolution regarding
W ay and Floods Farm
P l a y Locals Sunday I Under the law loans can be made exceeding $20,000.00 and must be oc
would amend a present law to read, this pending legislation, he will be
Here to Start Second only 10 home owners ln gmuine cupied by the owner or held by him
House Damaged by Fire Whenever and after any bank has glad to appear before the meeting
ers
Below; Water Back
| danger of losing t h e i r
homes
as his homestead.
The maximum
ceased to do business by reason of and explain the measure and what
Tuesday.
Half of Season.
in
Carnal.
through tax sale or foreclosure. The
loan is $14,000 or 80 per cent of the
insolvency or
bankruptcy, no tax It would mean locally.
Corporation cannot consider the ap
value of the property, whichever is
sitali be assessed or collected or paid
plications from
persons who are
smaller. Any applicant who has de
In what was judged one of the able to carry their present mort liberately defaulted In his present
Farm residents
west of
Nyssa
Flre partially destroyed the roof into the Treasury of the United LEGION HEAD
States." The bill further reads, In
gages
or
to
obtain
refinancing
else
best ball games o f the current sea
o f the house belonging to Ben Lamb
must have though they were living
indebtedness will be rejected.
part, “ The Commissioner of Inter
TO
VISIT
VALE
son. Nyssa defeated Payette Sunday where. Such ineligible applications
Wednesday morning, and It was only
For the redemption of the home in eastern flood districts when the
nal Revenue, when the facts shall
by a score of 3 to 1. The game was a ( merely obstruct the work of the from forced sale or involutary sur Owyhee ditch broke Friday night,
by piompt action of the fire depart
appear to him, from the certificate
genuine pitcher's duel, with Dean work of the Corporation field office render, such surrender must have flooding over the land in the vic
ment that the building was saved.
o f the duly qualified receiver of such
W. J. Chamberlin, Commander of Johnston of Nyssa pitted against in handling cases of real distress. taken place since January 1, 1930. j inity.
Tne fire
started when tlie stove
The break occurred on the
1
insolvent National or State bank, is
Gebo, Payette’s new star cliucker. The same general tests of eligibility Applicants who have no present or Iold » » Brown place, occupied by
pipe slipped together and the flames
authorizled to abate, remit, or re the Oregon Department of the Leg
Gebo, with several years
exper apply to newly filed requests for prospective income of any kind a r e ! Mrs-
caught on to some loose paper near
w Balter and before the
fund so much o f the taxes paid by ion will speak in Vale on Thursday,
ience on the House of David team, loans as are applied to earlier ap ineligible unless their notes are also i wa*^r could be shut off. the current
the celling, spreading rapidly Into
or assessed against such National or June 20th at a public meeting of the
plications
now
in
process
of
closing
was touched for six hits, Including
the attic and through the roof.
signed by responsible parties, such lkad tore a 11010
leet wide 'n the
State Bank from and after January Vale post. Mr. Chamberlin is well
The applicant must
two doubles by Carter and a double or rejection.
bank of the ditch
The Lamb fam ily had just vacated 1, 1918, which has since then become
as relatives.
hava
been
in
involuntary
default
on
questions
and by D. Johnston. Dean Johnston, j
The water flooded down over the
the house and Tuesday two families Insolvent, as shall be found necess versed on Legion
Blank forms for filing appllcations John Kakebeeke and Earl Ward
his present mortgage on June 13,
moved in, those of W. L. McConnell ary to pay the depositors there o f In many Leglonaires from Nyssa and fresh from the Oregon State dia
may
be
secured
by
addressing
the
1935. unless default oocurlng later Is
places and also parts of the George
and C. L. Carter. The fire started full."
¡Ontario plan to attend. The public mond. held the Payette sluggers to
five safe hits and struck out 12. shown to have resulted from un District O ffice of the Home Owners and Earl Ward places, doing consid
when a meal was being prepared
It is Mr. Aker's contention tliat If i is invited to hear him.
Gebo struck out seven Nyssa batters. employment or misfortune. The cor- Loan Corporation at La Grande.
erable damage to crops and standing
Wednesday morning. The water had
Payette scored their only run In
to a depth of two feet in some
not been turned on yet and It was
their half of the first inning when
places. Chickens and cats took to the
necessary for Mr. McConnell to car
MRS. GREELING
Chalfant, Payette third sacker hit PACK RAT GETS
tops of buildings and at the Monte
ry water from the standpipe nearby,
safely; went to second on an over
Kruse home the family were prac
but l.e was unable to check the pro
AT P-T-A SCHOOL
A W A Y W IT H TEETH
throw at first; stole third and came
tically marooned for a few days,
gress o f the flames. Neighbors as
home on a passed ball by the Nyssa
water standing almost level with the
sisted In carrying the household e f
IN PORTLAND catcher.
porch.
fects to safety and the fire boys
Having a $50 set of false teeth
Payette had two other golden op- |
Repair work was started as soon as
made short work of the blaze.
right from under his very
It became dry enough to work and
j Mrs. M. M. Greellng Is in Portland portunitles to score but double plays stolen
nose Is no fun, according to C.
water was turned down the ditch
Fire Destroys Hoxie Home
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{ attending a school of instruction for cut their rally short. In the second
W. Long.
The other night he
again Wednesday evening. The rea
Fire o f unknown origin completely rv
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county President's of Parents and inning a double play, McCullough to
laid his teeth carefully aside but
District No. 26 Election son for the break is not certain but
destroyed the Herbert Hoxie home Heal L io ie a 1 nit W eek U1 Teachers associations, held ln that Price to Servoss, retired the side and
in the morning they were gone.
in the seventh, with a man on first
It Is believed that possibly the big
Monday evening about six o'clock.
Which Roy Pounds and ^}y
th* 20111 *nd 21st ot June- and a man at third ready to score, Searching carefully about the
Monday Résulta in Elec head of water which filled the ditch
n
, , o
n . D
i Mrs- »re e lin g is president of Mal-
The 1 louse Is located near the Owy
premises
he
found
a
pack
rat
Hon I Odd Buy Uut Bert heur Council of Oregon’s Congress Price scooped up a hot grounder,
tion of Koopman and might have reached a gopher hole
hee junction south of Nyssa, across
cache Including many articles
close to the top and caused the tear
Barker.
b r e n ts and Teachers -and is a tossed It to McCullough at second
from Landgon’s service station. The
missing
for
a
long
time,
but
the
Smith.
ing out of the bank.
j guest of the state organization while wito fired it on to Servoss to com cache did not include the miss
family were across the road when
plete the second double play of the
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ln Portland.
the fire broke out and when noticed,
ing grinders. However he Is still
game.
a
Mr. and Mrs. Andy McGinnis and
had gained too much headway to
looking and when he finds the
Roy Pounds and Don Todd have I .
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bein*
Nyssa's first counter came in
In the annual school election, Dis daughter Viola and Helen Wiseman
save the house. The damage Was purchased the bariier and beauty
f he national oonven- the second Inning when Price h it , guilty rat It is apt to be too bad
trict No. 26, Fred Koopman was re left Wednesday for Likely, Calif.,
covered by insurance.
for the furry thief.
shop owned by Bert Barker and will t,un, ta
“ d ,work tor
safely, stole second and came home
elected
director for a three year where they plan to spend the sum
take active possession next Mon- ^ ln* year wlU
when Carter hit a lusty double to I
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term. The only other candidate for mer.
day. Mr. Pounds has been an assist- |
the right field fence. Carter scored 1________________ _____________
director was Wesley Browne, with
ant in the slvop for several years and
In the fifth when he lilt another BOISE NEWSPAPER
the vote being 59 to 40 in the direct
Mr. Todd, who came here recently
double and came home when Servoss
or race. Dwight Smith was elected
CIVIC
CLUB
M
AN
MARRIED
BY
from Spokane, worked lor Mr. Bar
hit safely. Hash it ill! scored Nyssa's
clerk of the district, replacing Chas.
ker about four years ago. They ex
third run in the final Inning when
Paradis, who was not a candidate.
HOLDS COOKING
REV.
FLOYD
W
HITE
pect to continue to operate both the
he hit safely, and came home when
Don Graham was also a candidate
barber and beauty shop.
SCHOOL WED. George Johnston bunted safely. Bat
fo i clerk, the vote being 75 to 23 in
Mr. Barker has made no an
teries: Payette, Gebo and Lynn;
Walter Bottcher, manager of the [ the voting for clerk.
Nyssa. Johnston and Long.
The Dally Vacation Bible School nouncement as to his future plans
Associated Press in Boise and Miss
Hot weather dishes were the topic
but
expects
to
remain
in
Nyssa
for
was brought to a close with a pro
Grace Hicks, daughter of Mr. and
Ontario, Nyssa, Caldwell and Pay
Ontario Wins Championship
for the afternoon at the meeting of
gram at the Community church some time and possibly to enter Into
Mrs. O. L. Hicks of Twin Falls, were
ette nines have all accepted tlie In
the
Civic
Club
Wednesday
afternoon
Ontario won the championship
Sunday morning. The program was some other line of business.
quietly married Saturday evening
vitation of the Vale Fourth of July
when Miss Lois Bailey, Idaho Pow game played Sunday at Emmett 3
given by the students with the
by Rev. Floyd White ln the Com
committee to open Vale's annual
er
representatives, demonstrated to 4. but the game was played under
classes giving their Bible memory
munity church. Mr. Bottcher Is a
celebration on the afternoon of July
many tasty dishes for the summer protest; Emmett declaring that they
work;
several songs and Mrs.
3rd with a doubloheader on the R iv
* montlis. Mrs. Frank Morgan, Mrs. were already winners o f the first graduate of the Twin Falls high
White's class o f 7th and 8th grade
school and worked for several years
erside pork diamond. The winners
Vest and Mrs. Oarrlt Siam were ; half,
girls gave a dramatization o f the
on the Twin Falls News before go
The Legion and Auxiliary and will appear in a play-off game the
enough to each win one of the com- |
finding o f the baby Moses. Hand-
Nyssa Plays Caldwell
ing to Salt Lake City for the Asso their children enjoyed a picnic at following day.
pleted dishes ln a drawing of names.
word of the students was exhibited
The start o i the second half of ciated Press In 1933. Last February the Ed. Abbl home ln Big Bend
Arrangements for the celebration
The Idaho Power Company has
with one of the outstanding ex-1
lie was transferred to Boise.
Thursday evening, This Is their last are rapidly being completed and in
Discovery- o i a sagebrush ' butcher appointed one woman for each of the league season will be Sunday
hlbits being a collection o f dolls,
Mrs. Bottcher
graduated
from meeting for the summer. The Aux- dications are that one of the largest
four ____________________________
districts to meet with the when the teams swing Into action
shop“ on the desert between C a l d - their
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dressed to represent all the different
well and New Plymouth, prompted women of the communities and help j “ * aln- Nyssa plays Caldwell on the Fller high school and Albion Normal lhary elected their new officers for crowds in years will be In Vale on
nations. A generous collection Sun Sheriff Piersall of Canyon County to them with their household problems Ilocal fleld: Nampa plays at Emmett, and for the past three years lia.s the coming year, to take office ln the Fourth. Last year, the atten
day morning more than defrayed
- . school
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j Whit- October
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and
Those elected
were, Mrs. dance was over 10,000.
picture a well organized, gang of 1
j Miss Bailey will have charge of this Ontario at Middleton and Payette taught
the expenses o f the school.
ney school at Boise. T lie couple took Douglas McDonald, president; Mrs.
cattle rustlers, butchers and sales- ! district, and will plan another day entertains Boise
There will be a parade In the
Two cakes were given the pupils men who used the desert as a means for all Nyssa women about the 24th1
out their license In Vale Saturday i Dan Graham, 1st vice president; morning with a free barbecue serv
bringing the most pupils, with Ralph to hide their Illegal operations.
and tried to locate a minister but Mrs. Frank Bailey. 2nd vice presi- ed ln Vale's shady Riverside park at
of July.
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Lowe and Marion Harris winning
were unsuccessful ln finding a min dent; Mrs. Charles Paradis, secre noon. Following the playoff baseball
Monday afternoon Sheriffs of Ada.
Mrs. Ed. Noreott presided at the Margaret Hunt and
the cakes. On Friday morning the Gem and Payette Bounties ln Idaho business meeting in the absence of
ister at home either ln Vale or On tary; Mrs. Sid Burbidge, treasurer, game, will comq the big rodeo, the
Friends Attend Sorority tario, remarking that Rev. White Mrs. Howard Larsen, historian; and main attraction of the celebration.
last day of school all the students and Malheur county ln Oregon sur- President Mrs. Ray Emmott. It was
were treated to Ice cream and cake veyed the discovery after being dir- announced that Sadie Orr-Dunbar,
was the only minister in Malheur j the executive committee will be
Convention; Stop Here ; county they could find at home S it- j made up ot Mrs. Wesley Brown, re- Already some of the best horses and
donated by the people of the com acted to tlie spot by Piersall. But the vice president of the National Ped-
riders in the northwest have been
munity.
urday evening.
| tiring president; Mrs. C. A. Abbott entered. This year bulldogging will
t rails were so cold that the prob- era ted Women's Clubs, is being sent
A very worthwhile two weeks has ability of unraveling the mystery of to Ontario by the Anti-Tuberculosis
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! and Mrs. Harry Russell. The Aux- be added to thd races and bucking
been reported and an enrollment of at least 100 beef carcasses is remote. Association to hold a meeting on j Miss Margaret Hunt and her
iliary also chose Mrs. C. A. Abbott contests to give new thrills for rodeo
141 was had with an average atten said Piersall. The only tangible evi- i July 10 and tlie Nyssa women are friends Miss Gladys Battleson of NEW PEOPLE AR R IV E
as a delegate to the State conven fans.
Canby,
Oregon,
and
Miss
Virginia
dance of 91. Rev. White extends his
TO M AKE HOME HERE tion which will be held ln The D al
On both evenings, there will be old
MacCorkle
of
Portland,
arrived
tlianks to all who helped with the truck license plate. This may liave near future a 30-minute program
les August 10, 11, and 12. Mrs. Char
time and modem music with good
Tuesday evening for a short stay at
school ln any way. The Variety Store been swept o ff the truck in the
les Paradis was named as alternate.
orchestras, and El Dorado—a repro
Andrew Anderson and son Char
and Caldwells Store are thanked for brush and was taken ln charge by radio station giving a short sgetch \ the C. C. Hunt home. They left early
At the Legion meeting Dr. Abbott
I Thursday morning en'route to Chlc- lie and friend, E. Mortetisen, arrived and Don Oraham were chosen as duction o f an old time mining camp
so kindly donating materials for the Sheriff Colemon fo r Investigation.
of all the clubs ln Malheur county,
—will be ln full swing. Here gam
| ago. The three girls are delegates to ln Nyssa from California and ex delegates to the convention with
school, as did the Baldrdge Imple
Scene of the wholesale butchering Including their history, aims and the ¡the national convention of
the pect to make their home here. The Chas. Paradis and Archie Howell as blers can take a fling with El Dor
ment company.
ado money.
operations is ln Payette county Just progress they have made.
1 Alplia Omieron PI
aororlty to be men are experienced mechanics and
alternates.
Mrs. J. J. Sarazln was hostess for
beyond the Canyon county line near
The climax of the night events on
held ln Lake Forest, 111. They plan ! builders and expect to help build up
the Sand Hollow highway bridge. the afternoon and Mrs. Frank M or to visit the Yellowstone park on the Nyssa country,
the Fourth will bo dazzling fire
AD R IAN BALL TEAM
gan
had
charge
of
program
arrange
Here, Piersall said Is a faint road
works display—one of the most elab
their way. The girls are all students
ONTARIO WINS
DEFEATS M ABSING leading Into the brush. I t has no ments.
orate ever shown ln this part of the
of the University of Oregon.
country.
destination,
and Is
Infrequently
C O U NTY LIB R A R Y
A T SOFTBALL
used. Half a mile west of the high- |C A r . | r C D I A sj n A a. r c
I
CLOSED
D
URING
SUMMER
Tlie Adrian ball team nosed out way, on a spot where the New Ply- L A u L L o r L A I ' L / A H L C , i The J. J Sarazln family spent
EASTERN OREGON IS
r o n
C A T I I P n A V Sunday fishing at Summit Prairie.
a 3 to 0 victory at Marslng Sunday mouth road Is. which traverses the
r G rv
J n I U l i D / i I On V
f . „ - night
i - K t rh
a„ Invited u
i D,
B R IG H T F IN A N C IA L SPOT
Ontario proved too much for the
Monday
they
Miss
with ''L efty” Young going strong, Black Canyon desert Is visible,
As an economy measure the Mai- locals and broke their strung of vic-
Eva and Blayney Boydell and Misses
striking out 15 Marslng batsmen and heads, legs, hides and offal of about
The dance Saturday night at the j Mae and Sue K M * * for dinner to heur County Library will be closed torlea ln no uncertain manner
keeping the hits well scattered. This 100 head of cattle were found. They
Thursday night. The final score was
was the fourth time this season th a t, are ln piles. Piersall said, the num
According to David Eccles, editor
12 to 1. A return game Is scheduled of Business Survey, Oregon’s brlglrt-
Young has won a game with three | ber ranging from 10 to 28 head
An attractive collection of Juvenile for tonight on the Ontario dlamod. est spot is eastern Oregon. This sec
runs scored or less. Benton caught each pile.
fair and another dance U planned
books has been added to Nyssa lib
the game for Adrian. Next Sunday1 Time of the wholesale executions for Saturday night. Dan Black and
tion Is less affected by the lumber
rary to be accessible to the younger
Iv
Wilder will Journey to Adrian for a Is fixed by officers as having taken his orchestra from CaldweU bare
strike and its trade Is extremely
place during the winter of 1833-34. been hired to play for the affair and
readers during the summer months
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active; he says. Purchases, It is said,
game.
This Is Judged by the condition of the dublle Is Invited.
C IR C U IT CO URT are ln large measure for cash. How
evidence still there. New Plymouth
ever. Eccles believes that the un
i Jimmie Cook accompanied John
A L T O E X AM IN E R TO BE HERE Sentinel.
dercurrent of business Is strongly
Pea pickers starting out at four Young to Keating last week where
Hugh Glasgow Is building a new
D. R. DeOroaa was acquitted In toward reoovery at this time despite
In the morning . . New settlers buy- be wUl spend the summer with his circuit court Friday on a charge of labor troubles and uncertainties.
porch on his home.
JUNIOR LEAOUE BOYS
lng additional water for summer Grandmother Cook,
fishing without a license. He had Retail trade in the Portland area
W L. Turner, examiner of oper
Mrs. Emeat McClure
returned
months . . . First crop strawberries
c Kllnkenberg r.ade a business previously been convicted ln Justice showed unexpected strength during
TO GO TO BURNS SUNDAY
ators and chauffeurs, will be ln Nys
Thursday
night from a few days
nearly gone
. . College students trtp to Salem, leaving Thursday court but the upper court reversed May after a disappointing early
sa. Thursday. June 27th. 1935, at the
visit ln Walla Walla. Washington
home for summer vacation . . . Mar- evening and
returning
Saturday the decision
He was defended by spring, and It la thought, surpassed
City Hall between the hours of 1
Five members of tha Junior league
Attorney Carl Coed of Nyssa and the corresponding 1934 month by
Ted Newell has accepted a job o f- garet Pinkerton smaahing wheel of morning
and 5 p m . respectively, according
Whippet ln auto mishap . . . Fire
the case was prosecute! by Joe Lane about 10 to 15 per cent.
to a recent announcement released ball team from Nywa will join five (emJ ^ th< Maiw>
fighters taking soaking putting out
Mrs Dick Young returned Satur- of Ontario.
^
u » k up his duties this week
Wholesale trade, however, was re
frr i the Secretary o f State's office. other boys from Ontario ^
btaze . . . Eagle* making plana to day night from a two weeks visit
ported as being slower due to the
A ll those wishing permits or licenses from Vale to go to Bums Sunday to j
Mrs. Barney Wilson and children attend state convention . . . Longest with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Clar-
possibility of lower prices as a re
to drive cars are asked to get ln 1 play the team there. I f the Malheur
Mrs Eddie Powell returned the
jrnce Johnson at Dayton, Wash.
sult of the Supreme Court's NTRA
touch with Mr Turner during t h e * j county team wins at Burnt they and Mrs. Gertrude Ward returned | day of year tomorrow,
first
of
the
week
after
a
few
days
will go to La Grande to play for the early Tuesday morning from a trip
While there Mrs Young and the
derision. Retailers bought cautiously
hours.
district title.
to California
Johnsons made a trip to Portland
v is » with relatives ln Welser.
in anticipation of this development.
AT PAYETTE
KOOPMAN, SMITH
WIN IN ELECTION
TO POUNDS - TODD
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Bible Classes
Finish Work
Vale To Hold
Celebration
Auxiliary Elects
For Next Term
“Butcher Shop*
Found In Brush
ROUND TOWN
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