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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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