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GATE CITY JOURNAL Published At Nytsa, Oregon GATEW AY TO THE OW YHEE AND BLACK CANYON IRRIGATION PROJECTS VOLUME XXIX NO. 44 Fastest Growing Town in Oregon $1.50 PER YEAR NYSSA, OREGON, THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 5. 1936 Graham Re-Elected Mayor, Constitutional Roosevelt Carries All States But Two, Tie In Race For Councilman Measures Are Big Vote Cast In Interest ing City Election Tues day. ❖ Don Graham was re-elected may or of Nyssa in Tuesday’s election over A. C. Noroctt by a margin of 251 to 146; in a contest marked by an unusually heavy city vote. Ten candidates were up for the Job of councilmen, with the successful candidates being Sid Burbidge, Ber wyn Burke and A1 Thompson; with Leslie McClure and Frank Halver son tied for the fourth position on the council. This tie will be decided tonight by lot at the regular meet ing of the council. A. R. Millar ran away for re- ele t.’on as city Recorder, getting a vote of 219 to 113 for Mrs. Beam. Lewis Wiltshire was elected treas ure i- without opposition. The new councilmen will not be sworn into office until the first me ting in January. Members of the council at the present time are A1 Thompson, Dean Smith, A. C. Nor- cott and Dick Tensen. GUILD HARVEST CARD PARTY TO BE GALA AFFAIR Re-Elected Sheriff All Voted DOWIl Voters Reject Amend ments By Big Majority Bank Bill W orst De feated. Miss Hinemoa Cloninger had the unique experience this week of re ceiving a letter from a friend In Honolulu wliich was mailed Sunday morning at an Island postoffice and arrived in Nyssa Tuesday evening. The letter came via China Clipper and domestic air mail. GUILD TO MEET NOV. 11th St. Paul’s Episcopal Guild will hold a business meeting at the home of Mrs. Ray Emmott next Wednesday afternoon, November 11th at 2:30. On account of urgent business the meeting could not be postponed and It will be held on Armistice Day. RELIEF SOCIETY County Officers Successful In Their Race For Re-Election Wins Close Race SHERIFF C. W. GLENN Tailor Shop Has The St. Paul’s Guild Harvest card party to be held next Friday after New Equipment noon. November 13th, will be one of the nicest parties of the fall season with extensive plans being made to entertain the public. The party will start with dessert at 1:30 followed by both Contract and Auction bridge and bunco. The Parish hall has been recently redecorated and a new fur nace installed and the women plan to initiate it with a very good time for all. FAST MAIL SERVICE FROM HONOLULU McNary And Pierce Are Leading Shop Is Now One of The Best Equipped in East ern Oregon. The Nyssa Tailor shop, which is operated by Mr. and Mrs. Don Morgan, have been busy this week installing new equipment which places them in the front rank in cleaning establishments. They will not only be able to give continued high grade cleaning, but they can now give quicker service. The type of equipment installed com pares very favorably with equip ment in some of the larger cities. Including in the Installation is a new type washer, and a centrifugal drier; along with a clarifying system which keeps cleaning fluids in first class condition. The garments to be cleaned are subjected to a steady flow of cleaning fuilds and within a Short time can be taken out ready for the drier. The drier is a large steel cabinet, with live steam piped through and a ventilating fan. Garments can be dried in around 45 minutes with the new equipment. Miss Katherine Leuck arrived home Wednesday evening from Eug ene, having been called by the death of her sister Miss Thelma Leuck. Dr. Sarazin Is Taken For Ride The Relief Society of the LDS church held their regular meeting this Tuesday afternoon at the church with Lillian Snader in charge of the meeting. A Theology lesson was studied. A royal welcome awaited Dr. J. J. PARTY AT KINGMAN when he stepped off the KOLONY SCHOOL FRIDAY Sarazin train Wednesday evening after a trip to Michigan. Several of the leading were there, with the fire A Jolly Halloween party was held citizens truck standing as Frank at Kingman Kolony by the P.T.A Edwards presented ready, the doctor with Friday evening with a large crowd a huge bouquet of ripe sunflowers, present to enjoy the program and the group escorted Nyssa's leading other features. The program was Republican to a choice seat on the given by the school children under the direction of their teachers. Fol fire The buggy. trip through town created a lowing this, games were played and huge wave of excitement, as every a carnival was held. one rushed to the street, attracted by the siren, and watched the pro CHORAL CLUB cession go by. Seated in the place of honor was Doctor Sarazin, holding The choral club Is to meet next the faded sunflowers in a tight grip Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock at and smiling a typical Roosevelt the John Young home. A good at smile. tendance is requested as the club We cannot say the doctor was will practice on the program sched- exactly surprised at the unusual u'ed for the latter part of this welcoming committee. A telegram month. sent (collect) earlier In the day had forewarned him that things were not at all settled and that his pres ence was needed in Nyssa. The first ROUND TOWN words of the telegram must have warned him that things were very Discussion wages on defeat of bad when he read: "Hurry back, Idaho sales tax (by small majority) country gone to h - - Frank . . . Local sleuths using every avail- Morgan. "Meet you at train with abe facilitiy in their hunt for the ambulance" Jess Thompson. These other fellow who voted for Landon and similar condolences, signed by . . . Landon carries home town of several dozen Nyssa people, caused Independence but loses his county Doc to pungle up a perfectly good . . . . The rain the past few days five dollar bill to see what the hasn’t scared Pete Deer any. he has mysterious collect telegram might is ark ready . . . Duck hunters get contain. away at break of dawn Sunday . . . The doctor could not be reach County Agent Larsen around intro ed for a statement today, but it Is ducing Mr. Dlllhlnger as successor to said on good authority he has been Harris . . . in conference with himself all day trying to figure out If the GOP. machine is worth repairing. All of the constitutional measures on the ballot went down to defeat at the polls Tuesday, the worst de feated being the state banking bill, which was sunk by a vote of prac tically 3 to 1. The old age amendment is run ning far behind on the basis of the count to date, at a ratio of about 3 to 4. The school district amendment is defeated by practically 2 to 1. The non-oompulsory military training amendment run behind by approx imately 2 to 1. The tax reduction amendment was also running behinc' about the same count. The stat' power bill went down to defeat un- er a heavy negative majority. The hydro-electric power board bill went down by a worst defeat than the power bill, being about 3 to 1. The advertising amendment was sunk by a little more than 2 to 1. CALLED TO CHICAGO TO BE WITH HUSBAND Mrs. Allan Johanasen was called to Chicago Friday to be with her MRS. KATHRYN CLAYPOOL husband, who underwent a major operation Saturday in a Chicago OWYHEE IRRIGATION hospital. She left by plane imme DISTRICT TO HOLD diately and at last reports Mr. Jo ELECTION NOV. 10th hanasen Is getting along nicely. He left a week ago Friday for Chicago for an examination by his brother, One new director is to be elected who is a doctor there. next Tuesday November 10th by the stockholders of the Owyhee Irriga TAKE EXAMS TO ENTER tion District. The election is to be PHARMACY SCHOOL held at the Frank Cahill residence, mile west of the Nyssa cemetery; Arthur Vernon Cook, who is with one hours of the election being from the U. S. Navy, is to take an exam the 8 In the morning until 6 o’clock in ination the 28th of this month to the enter the navy pharmacy school. If The evening. retiring director is Maurice he passes the examinations success Judd, who has been nominated to fully he will enter the San Diego succeed himself. hospital for training. HOBO HAS PLENTY MRS. LAXON TO SPEAK TO WORRY ABOUT AT P. T. A. MEETING FRIDAY The program for the Kingman A hobo who failed to give his Kolony P.T.A. meeting at the Ad name. Jumped in a big steel rail rian school house on Friday at 2:30 road car at Notus but things didn't will be based on Juvenile Protec work out like he planned. Hie door tion. Mrs. Wm. Laxson, county slammed shut and the pin dropped chairman, will speak on this theme. in the lock. Mr. Hobo was a very The third patrol of the Kolony much worried man, to say the least. Girl Scouts will be present to give Mr. Johnson at the Nyssa Eleva tor heard some vague pounding two safety playlets. coming from somewhere and after STORES CLOSE NOVEMBER 11th it had continued off and on for an hour, he investigated. Finally he lo Store will close in Nyssa on Arm cated the noise as coming from the istice day. Wednesday, November car, and released the man. It was a 11. the main feature of the day will very much relieved Mr. Hobo who be the annual football game between Jumped out of the car. He had been Ontario and Nyssa. The game will there all day and didn’t know where he was. be played on the local field. Close Race For County Superintendent Results In Claypool Victory. After trailing In the early vot ing, Mrs. Kathryn Claypool picked up several nice blocks of votes In outlying precincts to win over Al bert Hopkins In the race for coun ty school superintendent. It was the race watched with closest in terest, the count being at present 2127 for Claypool and 2027 for Hop kins, with the vote of Banks and Malheur not figured in the calcu lations. The vote in these precincts is small and will not change the final results. All the county officers were re elected in the voting Tuesday, al though the margin was small In many cases. Orrin Currey, who lead the veteran legislator Virgil Staples almost to the last, finally was nosed out by his Republican opponent by a count of 1924 to 1975 In 34 precincts out of 37. Judge David F. Graham won re- election as county judge, the count being 2222 for Graham and 2028 for Beers. Sackett has a safe lead over his Democratic opponent in the race for county clerk, the count being in 34 precincts out of 37. Sackett 2186 and Looney 1923. Peterson won the Job of commis sioner over Molenaar by a narrow majority, the vote was Peterson 9048 and 1940 for Molenaar. Murray Mor ton piled up an early lead over his deputy, Jean Buirelie, to go ahead and win re-election as assessor. Chas. Glenn was re-elected sher iff over his Republican opponent by a big majority. White Carry* County Rev. Floyd White of Nyssa, run ning as a Townsend backed inde pendent carried Malheur county in the race for state senator by 11 votes in the tabulation up to date, but lost both Harney and Orant to veteran Bob Duncan of Bums, pres ent state senator. All of the precincts of the county are Included In the totals except Banks, Malheur and Crowley pre cincts; which were not reported as we go to press. The total registered voters in these precincts is 99 and the returns are not expected to ef fect he final results. A complete tabulation of vote by precincts may be found on page five of this issue. New Type Crops Find Favor With Malheur County Farmers Many new types of farm crops are coming into prominence in Malheur county, to replace the old type hay and grain fanning, which is rapidly becoming less profitable. Under ir rigated conditions. It is hard to show a substantial profit on these crops, and under the new grazing act. the problem of disposing of surplus hay is expected to be a serious one in years to come. As a consequence farmers are rapidly taking up new crops, more profitable crops, too, but requiring more labor. Among the crops which have come into promience during the past few years are baby lima beans. These are a comparative sure crop for this section and re sults have been good. The acreage of this crop is expected to Increase as mare farmers learn how to grow beans successfully. Another crop which has been grown the past few seasons is spring peas. Ususally this is followed by a fall crop of lettuce, making two orops from the same land during the season. Sugar beets came into prominence this year as a acreage of over 800 acres were planted In the district Next year this Is expected to be greatly Increased: and If the signed acreage is large enough, a factory will be built to process the 1937 crop of beets. Yields on this crop have been very satisfactory with a sugar content running around 17.1 per cent. Beets in the Twin Falls sec tion have been running 17.3 per cent this year. In the experience of growers, it was found much more profitable Don Aprons The men will don the aprons tonight when the local post of the American Legion enter tains the ladles at their an nual pheasant feed. The affair will be held in the new Leg ion club house. Sharp-eyed hunters, and those not so sharp have been out the past few days getting the birds necessary for the feast. To be certain the gravey is stirred Just right and the soup has enough seasoning Leo Hollenberg will hold down the role of chef. The Jovial superintendent of schools Is an old hand at the cooking art and knows Just when to turn a pheasant leg to bring out the Juctest flavors. / Re-Elected to plow well for beets rather than disc land. Beets planted on disced 'and have averaged 17 tons while those receiving lndentlcal care and watering, but the land was plowed before planting, have run up as high as 25 to 28 tons to the acre. Crested seed wheat and flax have been planted in limited amounts and the crested wheat grass espec ially. has been profitable this year The present high market price for this seed Is not expected to continue as the good price being received is generally laid to scarcity of the seed. Growing of honey dew melons bids fair to become another thriving Industry for the Nyssa section, with a good sized acreage signed for the next season. A representative of the Sioux City Seed company was In the district last week looking over the chances of making contracts for the growing of sweet oom for seed purposes. Cucumber seed growing is another new industry which has aroused the Interests of some grow ers. Still another crop is being talked, that of soy beans. Good returns from this crap are possible. It Is said, and a movement Is underway now to make marketing connections with the idea of planting a few hundred acres to this crap next year. V f JUDOE DAVID F. GRAHAM Thelma Leuck Passes Tuesday Funeral Service» To Be H e l d Sunday From Community Church. Nyssa was saddened Tuesday by word of the death of Thelma Anna Leuck. 30, invalid daughter of Mrs. Frank Leuck who passed away at 5:10 Tuesday evening. Thelma had been in poor health all of her life, but had endeared herself to all Who knew her by her cheerful and help ful disposition. She had a bad spell Tuesday morning. but was feeling better at noon. During the afternoon she had another heart attack from which she did not recover. Funeral services will be held Sun day afternoon at two o'clock from the Community church with Rev. White In charge of the services. In terment will be In the Nyssa ceme tery, with the Nyssa Funeral Home assisting with the arrangements. Thelma Anna Leuck was bom on May 28, 1906 at Wakefield. Nebraska and came to Nyssa 25 years ago with her parents. Her parents farmed for a time here, and later run a black smith. Her father passed away Mardh 28th this year. For a time Thelma worked in the local tele phone office. She Is survived by her mother, Mrs. Frank Leuck; five brothers, Harry who is in the navy and is stationed at Pearl Harbor, Honolulu; Hubert, also In the navy at San Pedro; Charles, Norval and Robert, all of Nyssa. There are also two sisters, Katherine attending the University of Oregon at Eugene and Luella, a student In the Nyssa high school. M alheur County J o i n » Parade o f Voter» for Roosevelt. Rocsevelt was re-elected In Tues day's balloting by an all time high for electoral majorities. Only two states, Maine and Vermont, with a total of eight electorlal votes went for Landon and Knox while Roose velt and Gamer collected 523 votes. The new deal popular plurality will reach around 9.000.000 as the final returns drift In. Lemke failed to be a factor In the election, polling less than half million in the papular vote and never even coming cloee to carrying any state. In Oregon Roosevelt received ap proximately a two to one majority, gathering 154,080 votes to 78.623 for landon out of 1225 precincts report ed. In Malheur county Roosevelt re ceived slightly more than twice the popular vote. McNary Ahead In the race for U. 8. Senator, McNary has a lead of approximately 7,000 votes over Mahoney, Townsend backed candidate. One of the strange features of the senatorial contest In Malheur county was In Jordan Valley, which gave landon a majority but failed to cast a vote for McNary. McNary’s attitude on the ION highway has been given as the reason for Jordan's vote. Pierce Re-Elected Malheur oounty gave Congress man Pierce a good majority over Rltner. Vote in 309 precincts out of 409 gave Pierec 35,975 and Rltner 17,293. Holman Out In Front For state treasurer. Rufus Holman has a safe lead over Burt, the re port being 128,621 for Holman and 92.703 for hla Democratic opponent. Van Winkle triumphed over Dobson in the race for attorney general, gathering 113,095 votes to Dobson's 97.120 out of the precincts report ing. Democratic Congress Returns from other states indicat ed today that a record-breaking democratic majority would be In the saddle In both houses of congress. In the senate the democrats were assured of 67 seat and were leading In eight other contests. Hie repub lican were certain of only 14 but were leading In three states. Last session 70 of the 96 members were democrats. For Che house side, 263 democrats have been definitely elected compar ed with 54 republicans. A continua tion of the present trend would give the democrats far more than the 321 seats they occupied last session. Total house membership is 435. VALE 4-H CLUBBERS HOLD ACHIEVEMENT MEETING AT VALE Freeze Damages Lettuce Quality is A4-H Club Achievement meeting being sponsored by the Vale Colder weater swept down on the Nyssa section this week, with a low mark of 8 degrees above registered Monday night at the reclamation office here. Sunday night the mer cury dipped to 18 above but It warm up some Tuesday to a low of 29 and Wednesday night It fell to 26 above. Freezing weather is having a bad effect on the lettuce crop and the F. H. Hogue plant hasn’t turned a wheel this week. Warmer weather, such as experienced today, and If It continues, will enable the lettuce harvest to proceed, although the quality of the crop has been damag ed. Before the freeze lettuce from Nyssa was topping the New York market, even above the famous Sal inas. California quality. With the quality and shipping qualities Im paired, It will be necessary to keep out of the highly competitive mar kets with Nyssa lettuce, shippers ly. No estimate of the damage done by the freezing weather has been made, but It will amount to several thousand dollars, even If the weather does permit the harvest Inf of the balance of the crop. MORGAN APPOINTED BY GOVERNOR TO ATTEND RECLAMATION MEETING Prank T. Morgan has been ap pointed by Oovemor Martin to be one of those to represent Oregon at the meeting of the National Rec lamation Association, which Is to meet In Spokane on November 23 and 24. Grange and will be held at the Orange Hall In Vale on Friday, Nov ember 6th at 8:45 p. m. An interesting program is being worked out by the 4-H Local Leaders of the community, and includes songs, skits, and stunts, as well as short talks by County Judge David F. Graham and Oounty School Sup erintendent Kathryn Claypool. Miss Helen Cowglll, Assistant State Club loader, will be here for this meeting and will discuss 4- H Club work over the state. Achievement pins and certificates will be awarded to all 4-H dub members who have completed their projects for this year in recognition of their accomplishments, as well as to local leaders who have been suc cessful In having all members of their clubs finish their work. Not only club members and their parents but all those Interested In 4-H club work are invited to attend this achievement meeting. EVENT CALENDAR Nov. 5—Hearing on City Budget Nov. 6 — Roswell at Roswell, foot ball. Nov. 7—W.O.T.U. Silver Tea. Nov. 11—-Armistice Day football game with Ontario here. Nov. 12—H earing on Oounty Bud get. November IS*—Guild Harvest card party. /
