NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL
Published at Nyssa, Oregon
VOLUME XXXII. NO. 9.
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 PR O JECTS
NYSSA, OREGON, THURSDAY. MARCH 4, 1937~
Fastest Growing Town In Oregon
$1.50 PER YEAR
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M O T H E R OF MRS.
D A N L E Y PASSES
A W A Y F R ID A Y
G R A N D O FFIC ER
V ISITS N Y S S A
E A ST E R N STARS
Mrs. May Weddle, mother of -Mrs.
Eail Danley died last Friday at Co-
qullle, Oregon. Mrs. Danley and
three small children had left Nyssa
cn the evening train Friday en route
I to Coquille upon receipt of word
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I that her mother was seriously ill
Nyssa Taxpayers Appear following an operation. Word reach-
I t d Nyssa about 10 o’clock that night
Before County Court : that
,
Mi". Weddle had passed away.
Asking For Road W ork Mrs. Weddle was know here, having
lived here s vira l years ago when
. . . .
. .
. . , I Mr. W cddli worked dn the Owyhee
A delegation of farmers and busl- dam
Ue, ;t, , s Mra DBllley> she is
ness men from near Nyssa appeared rlirvlved b h tr husbanU. three son?
before the county court Wednesday , and t#0 oUler llaughters.
in behalf of the country roads of the
vicinity; and were assured by the
court that the roads would be im ­
proved a.; much as finances would
permit.
The principal roads under consid-
ciation was the stretch going past
the Nyssa funeral home straight
west to the cemet-ry. Thi.; is one of
(he main country roads of the vici­
nity, and while graveled several years |
ago; is now in a very bad state of re­ Qualified Electors To Pass
pair. Practically every farmer living
On 15 Amendments To
long this road appeared to ask the
ccurt for help in repairing the road.
City Charter.
Judge David Graham, speaking in
behalf of tiie
court said that a
An election has been called for
W.P.A. project had been arranged, Tuesday. May 11th by the city coun­
including 18 miles of road work. At cil, at which time all qualified vot­
the present time the crew is work­ ers of the city will vote on 15 pro­
ing on the road directly south of posed charter amendments. The or­
Ontario and expected to complete dinance containing the election call
this job sometime during the present and the proposed amendments was
week. The crew and machinery will passed at adjourned session of the
be transferred to do necessary road city council Wednesday afternoon.
repairing and
construction
near
T h e city at present is
working
Nyssa.
under the old out-dated original
Another delegation of new settlers charter o f 1903. which Is unworkable
appeared to see what the
court's In many respects under modern con­
attitude would be regarding gravel­ ditions. The 15 proposed amend­
ing of a road to connect with the ments must be acted on by the vot­
present road running by the slaugh­ ers of the city in order to make them
ter house. A bridge across the Shoe­ legal; and if passed, are expected to
string ditch has been constructed, greatly simplify and clarify the
and the settlers were asking for routine of city business.
gravel on a road running west from
Under the law. arguments for or
the new bridge. They
found th i against the proposed changes must
court in a receptive mind and were be filed with the City Recorder at
assured that the court intended to least 10 days prior to the election
do the greatest good for the greatest and must be prepared in phamphlet
number, and inasmuch as 18 mi'es form and distributed to the qualified
were to be built as part of the W.P.A. voters of the city; along with the
project, it would likely be possible proposed charter changes.
to Include the work asked.
The court reminded the delegation R E C LAM ATIO N B ALL
that the county could not Increase
TE AM DROPS TW O
the tax levy by more than the six
per cent allowed by law and that
The Reclamation basketball team
while the original budget called for
an increased amount of road work, dropped a couple of games this week;
a revision of figures to comply with losing to Vnle Monday night 26 to 59
Wednesday
the six per cent limitation had made and dropping a game
it necessary to take $10.000 from the night to the Ontario town team, 26
highway funds. Consequently the to 39. The games were really closer
county was greatly handicapped by than the scores would Indicate and
shortage o f funds and it was Impos­ are providing good sport for players
sible to do all the road Improving and spectators. Wishert was high for
Wednesday and
Johnny
asked, meritorious though It may be. Ontario
The court did promise to give Nyssa Burky high for Nyssa. A return
as much road improvement and game is being played tonight on
building as fair-play and the high­ the Ontario court.
Players who have seen action un­
way funds would permit.
der the Reclamation colors include
Ramsey, Lloyd Milliken. Schweizer,
Burky. Doolittle, Johnston, Ralph
Milliken. Reberger, Ernest, Craw­
ford and Sperry.
The Norcott Service team won an­
other victory over the Krazy Kats
Wednesday night, the score being 32
to 22. High point scorers for the N or­
cott Service team were Art Norcott
and Colby Poage with 8 points each
Robert Holmes, Bill De- Lankford was high for the Kats.
Grofft and John Ber­ Players included A. Norcott. Poage,
Setts, W. Boor. McCurdy and Hod
man Average
Better Boor for the Service team while the
Krazy Kats were made up of the
than 20 Tons in 1936.
two Lankfords. Bennett.
Neilson,
Claunch and Baetie.
Three local beet growers are listed
by the Amalgamated Sugar Com­
Denny Hogue has rented the C. H.
pany on the honor roll for 1936. Reberger place and expects to put it
Growers whose crop average 20 into row crops.
tons o r more are on
the roll.
Those on the honor roll are Robert
Holmes with 23.09; William D eG rofft
with 23; and John C. Berman farm ­
ing the Prank Morgan place, with a
tonnage of 20.23. There were 11 grow­
ers in the district from Weiser to
Nyssa who beat 20 tons; the highest
yields being 26 85 made by Prank
Hopper and 26 39 by J. S. Carr.
The report shows that the highest
The initial Saturday 8ale held last
yield made In 1936 by growers for the Saturday proved a distinct success,
Amalgamated Sugar Company was drawing a big crowd and everything
Howard Dabb in the Ogden district .sold went at satisfactory prices. The
with a yield of 30 94 tons Top man managers of the Nyssa Sale Yard
for the Twin Palls district was J. D W alt Pox and D. C. McGinnis were
Glenn with 30.31 tons
The best well pleased with the co-operation
grower in the Cache Valley district received and have gone ahead and
in Utah was Melvin Johnson with a lined up an even larger sale for next
yield of 24.13 and the best grower Saturday.
in the Burley-Rupert district was
Reberger Sale March I I
Roy D. Baily with 27 52 tons Moat of
the yields reported run 20. 21 or 22
C. W Reberger has rented his farm
tons to the acre and would seem to and is holding an aucUon sale on
indicate that growers in this vicinity Thursday. March 11th at his farm
can compete on an even basis with one mile southwest of Nyssa. He has
the best growers in other sugar beet a representative line of farm mach­
producing districts.
inery. horses, cattle and other ar­
ticles to be sold. Col. Amos Miller
Jack Mathewson of
Wendell will be the auctioneer.
Idaho, was an overnight guest at the
Garrison Sale Tomorrow
Ronald Burke home Friday.
Chas. Oarrtson has a sale well
Mr and Mrs. W F Findling and publicised for Friday. March 5th at
M r Kph Frost were Payette visitors which time he will sell a line o f farm
and cattle.
Mrs. Dora Stipe of Beaverton, as­
sociate grand conduciré s of the
Eastern Star lodge, made her officia'
visit to the Nyssa chapter Satúrela
afternoon and evening. The after
noon session was devoted to a schoo
of instruction. Following a 6 o'clock
covered dish supper a r.pecl'l Inrt ji
meeting was held at which time a!
phases of the lodge work was given
Mrs. Stipe was presented with a gift
Mr. Fay Davis, worthy patron anc!
Mrs. Johnson, worthy matron of the
Parma lodge with other Parma lodge-
members also attended the meeting.
Prospect Seen
For More Road
Work Near Here
Crop And Feed
Loans Are Made
Special Election
Called May 11
Beet Growers
On Honor Roll
More Sales To
Be Held Soon
County Agent Assisting
W ith
Preparation of
Necessary Applications.
Left to right, tack row ; Bob Jackson, Bob Wilson, Frank Pierson, Coach John Young Raymond Graham,
Dean Byram, Manager Don Boren. Front row, left to right: Paul John .ton, Huston Wilson, Lloyd Wilson.
Stanley R ay and Clarence Enos.
Early Exploring Parties
Fine Wrestling Important
Passed Through Nyssa Townsite
Show Pleases
Phillip Klug Is
Accident Victim
Nyssa H a s
Interesting
Early History Revealed
By Portland Historian.
“Red Shadow“ Billed For
Next Card March 11;
Turk a n d , Japanese
Wrestler Signed.
It was a pleased crowd of wrestl­
ing fans that left the Eagles hall
last Thursday evening after witness­
ing a three hour show that topped
anything in the way of a wrestling
card ever staged in Nyssa. Fans were
present from Ontario. Vale. Payette
Weiser, Nampa and other cities of
the valley, showing that the cards
here are really pleasing the fans.
The Ira Dern—"Gentlemen Jack"
Connelly match
probably equalled
the best bouts you will see in city
arenas. Connelly won the first fall,
but D eni won the match two out of
three. The struggle was well staged,
with Connelly In the role o f the vll-
lian, continually trying to get a
strangle hold and other unpleasant
grips on "Our Ira." In the closing
moments of the match, Connelly
tossed Referee Art Garde over the
ropes and into the audience;
not
once but twice. Connelly weighed
255 and looked it. while Dern wrest­
les at 212.
Vogle Wins Over Mathews
Du? to injuries received in an auto
accident. Bull Keener was unable to
keep his date with Don Mathews, but
his place was amply filled by Carl
Vogle. wrestler from San Francisco.
Mathews, who weighs 172 pounds
and delights the fans with his clean
hard wrestling, found himself great­
ly outweighed and lost the first fall
In 13 minutes via a body press. The
second
and
winning
fall
also
went to Vogle when it looked like
Mathews was getting the best of it.
He had his big opponent on the run
by a series of drop kicks,
finally
knocking Vogle through the ropes,
but fell back and injured his neck.
Vogle flopped on him for an easy
fall.
Dr. Saxon, strongman record hold­
er years ago, demonstrated several
feats o f strength, including bending
and breaking a horseshoe in two.
breaking a strong steel clothes-line
wire and topped it all by picking
two 175-lb men from the audience,
tying their arms together and lifting
them both with one arm. He also
challenged Vogle to a one-fall match
but the younger man applied a head-
lock in 419 minutes to win the
match.
Man Throws Woman
Betty Bushay proved to be about
as fast a wrestler as one could hope
to see. and wrestled in the popular
modern fashion. However her lighter
man opponent managed to get a
punishing toe hold and won
the
match from his feminine opponent.
The boxing end of the show proved
to be the only sour note. "T h e Mis­
souri K id ” o f
Pocatello had little
trouble with the so-called "B attling"
Kujcar of Portland and after two
rounds the Portland boy was willing
to call It quits.
Good Card for Marrh 11
Another card has been arranged
for next Thursday night. March Uth.
bringing together the famous "Red
Shadow" and fra Dem. The "Shad­
ow" challenged the winner of the
Connelly-Dem match, and
Dem
promptly accepted after his victory
Gentleman Jack.”
Bull Keener is expected to be In
i Continued an Back P a c e )
Former Nyssa Resident
Killed In Unusual Acci­
dent Saturday After-
noon.
An unusual accident claimed the
life of Phillip Richard Klug, 25 year
old contractor Saturday afternoon
when the young man was hit In the
neck with a heavy Iron bar. Mr.
Klug is a son o f Mr. and Mrs. John
Klug and was very well known here,
although residing at Weiser at the
present time.
As the accident was reconstructed
by eye witnesses, young Klug was
using the bar as a pry on some
heavy concrete
pipe and In some
manner It slipped, striking him in
the neck, breaking It and causing
instant death. He was working on a
constmetion job six miles south of
Weiser at the time.
Immediately following the acci­
dent he was rushed to Weiser for
medical attention, but doctors stated
that evidently he had died instantly.
Funeral services were attended by
a great many sorrowing
Nyssa
friends Monday at 10 o’clock. Ser­
vices were In the Catholic church
with Rev. Losier In charge. The re­
mains were taken to Kallspell, M ont­
ana for Interment.
Philip Richard K lug was bom In
Dickinson, N. D. on December 30th.
1911. For the past five years he had
been associated with his father in
the contracting
business and had
made many warm friends here. Be­
sides his parents, he is survived by
his wife and a five-year old son.
The Irony of the tragedy was that
he and his family had planned to
leave Monday for a big contract Mr
Klug had secured In Arizona, which
would have been another step for­
ward In his promising career.
G O LFERS TO ELECT NEW
O FFICERS TH U R SD AY
A meeting of all golfers has been
called for
Thursday March 11 at
the City Hall, starting at 8 o ’clock.
Besides discussion of many topics
concerning the local course, a new
set of officers will be elected and
other business transacted. All g o lf­
ers are welcome to attend and help
make plana for the coming season.
’ROUND TOW N
John Oancelmo gets title role In
new "Judge Puffle Club’ . . . First
plowing of the season was last week
end . . . Del Taylor again piloting
the Thompson Oil Streamliner . . .
Local Veterans of Foreign
Wars
help start new pos* at Weiser Tues­
day night . . Amalgamated Sugar
Co., warehouse taking definite form
. . . Bill Coleman bigheartedly divid­
ing up his son Albert's 17th birth­
day cake . . . Goldie Caldwell objects
to having wrestler thrown In her
lap . . Spring fever causes golfers
to break out with driver
Historical research by J. Neilson
Barry, Portland historian shows that
In the early history of the Oregon
country, before any towns were built;
four important parties passed dir­
ectly through where Nyssa Is now
situated. Mr. Barry points out that
the Nyssa region was focal and that
nine route, radiated, but people tra­
veled by the easiest routes, and the
great trunkline of travel passed via
East Cow Hollow to Vale, and from
there to Farewell Bend just east of
Huntington; or to Old’s Ferry or ac­
ross the Snake at Old’s Ferry, from
there via Burnt river westward.
The first party of white people to
pass through the present townsite
of Nyssa was In 1811 when Ramsay
Crooks, a partner of John Jacob
Astor led a detachment on the over
expedltlon to ^ r l s . along the
left bank of Snake river, from where
Milner. Idaho now stands, on to O x­
bow Bend, In the great canyon of the
Snake river. There was terrible suf­
fering experienced by these first ex­
plorers on their overland trip.
The next year. In 1812, Robert
Stuart, also a partner of Astor, was
taking dispatches from
Astoria to
Astor and passed through the site of
Nyssa. Hts journal has recently been
published.
General Bonneville, while a cap­
tain of the U. S. Army, spent several
years In this region and traveled
along the left benk of Snake river
through where Nyssa Is now loacted,
to Oxbow Bend, then across the W al­
lowa mountains and returned th en
the snow was 100 feet deep. He then
went back through the townsite of
Nyssa en route to eastern Idaho.
In 1852 a number of emigrants
started down Snake river In wagon
beds and passed by the townsite of
Nyssa; but later came to grief.
Mr. Barry points out that Nyssa
was only slightly o ff the main early
trunk lines and this whole vicinity
was a gateway through which most
of the travel passed. The first white
travelers, mostly trappers, followed
used game or Indian paths. While
much of the western country was ob­
structed by high mountains, there
was no such obstruction to travelers
using the Oregon route, except the
Blue mountains, and Nyssa is at that
gateway.
T o use that gateway, wagons went
via Vale, which was repeatedly men­
tioned In early records on account
of the hot springs, which were of
enormous Importance In establish­
ing the route. Wagons had to keep
on ground which wagons could trav­
el. so usually used the trails and
paths used before them by Indians
and white explorers.
C IV IC CHORUS T O MEET
A T CHURCH N E X T WED.
The Civic Chorus,, who are prac­
ticing on a cantata for presentation
Easter, will practice next Wednesday
evening at the Community church
starting at 7:10. A practice was held
last night at the C. L. McCoy home.
A full attendance Is requested for
next Wednesday, as much practice
must be done on the Easter cantata.
Mrs. Frank Halverson and son
Lloyd returned Monday from Burn?
where Uiey bare been visiting far the
Applications for emergency crop
and feed loans for 1937 are now be­
ing received from Malheur County
farmers by A. D. Stanton o f the Em­
ergency Crop and Feed Loan Section
of the Farm Credit Administration.
in order to expedite the making of
loans in Malheur County. R. G. Lar­
son, County Agent, will assist In pre­
paring the necessary application.
Applications will be available at the
County Agent’s office In Ontario at
all times. On Tuesday and Thursday
of each week applications will be
available at the Court House In Vale
and on Wednesday of each week at
the Owyhee Irrigation office In Nys­
sa. This schedule will be followed
until the m ajor part of the applica­
tions are in.
Both husband and wife should be
present to make application as both
signatures are required on the nec­
essary mortgage. Legal description
of the land for which the loan Is be­
ing made must be available. These
loans will be made only to farmers
who cannot obtain credit from any
other source, as provided by regula­
tions Issued by the Governor o f the
Farm Credit Adminstrutlon. The
money loaned will be limited to the
farmer's immediate and actual cash
needs for growing his 1937 crops or
for the purchase of feed for live­
stock and in no Instance may ex­
ceed $400.
Farmers are not eligible for these
loans If they can borrow from an In­
dividual. production credit associa­
tion, bank, or other concern. Em­
ergency crop and feed loans will be
made by the Farm Credit Adminis­
tration to standard rehabilitation
clients of the Resettlement Admin­
istration to standard rehabilitation
clients of the Resettlement Admin­
istration whose current needs are
provided for by Resettlement.
As In the past, the security for
these loans will consist of a first lien
on the crop financed If the loan Is
for the production of cash crops, and
If for the purchase or production of
feed or livestock, then a first Hen on
the livestock to be fed. Landlords, or
others having an Interest in the
crops or the livestock to be fed. will
be required to waive their claims In
favor of the lien to the Governor of
the Farm Credit Administration un­
til the loan is repaid.
Checks In payment of the approv­
ed loans will be Issued by the R eg­
ional Emergency Crop and
Peed
Loan O ffice at Spokane, Wash.
Butler Funeral
To Be Held Fri.
Funeral services will be held F ri­
day at 2 o ’clock from the Nyssa Fun­
eral Home for W illiam W. Butler,
who passed away Monday. Marrh 1
at the home of his son O. E. Butler
of Adrian. Mr. Butler was 82 years.
3 months and I days of age
W illiam W Butler was bom Nov­
ember 27. 1854 at Highland County.
Ohio, and came to the Adrian coun­
try about a year ago from Sidney,
Montana. He and Mrs. Butler made
their home with O. E Butler, a son.
and had been helping run the farm
on the new project northwest of Ad­
rian.
He Is survived by his wife, Anna:
two sons, O. E Butler o f Adrian and
Curtis Butler of Hillsborough. Ohio;
and four daughters, Mrs Flora Jar­
vis of Dayton. Ohio; Mrs. Mary Red­
dick of Kallspell. Montana;
Mrs
l.ulu Weaver of Birmingham. A la ­
bama and Mrs Mabel Huffstetter of
Adrian Oregon.
Rev Floyd White will have charge
o f the services at Ui? Nyssa funeral
home Friday and interment will be
in the Nyssa
Nyssa Stays In
Tournament By
Enterprise Win
Locah Lote Initial Game
To B ak ei; Must Beat
Ontario Tonight to Stay
In Tournament.
Nyssa won a close thriller from En­
terprise last night 29 to 3 ) to elimin­
ate Enterprise from the E;i item O re­
gon basketball tournament, and are
scheduled to play Ontario tonight to
see which team retrains in the meet
and the right to play in the semi­
finals Friday night.
The locals dropped their first game
Friday night against
Baker by a
count of 43 to 22. Vale won from
Union. 22 to 27 while Ontario lost a
heart-breaker to La Grande, 32 to
31. Joseph sprang a surprise and
nosed out Enterprise 25 to 26 in the
opening nights play.
Wednesday Night Results
Ontario remained in the tourna­
ment and sent Union home when
the boys from tire neighboring town
emerged 16 to 25 winners Wednesday
night. Baker had little trouble with
Joseph, winning by a 14 to 36 count
while Vale and La Orande staged
a thrilling battle, with La Grande
finally winning out by a single point,
the score being 20 to 21. The Enter-
prlse-Nyssa game was also decided by
a single count, the score being 30 to
29.
Games Tonight
Enterprise and Union have been
eliminated from the tournament by
two successive defeats. Baker plays
La Grade tonight: Nyssa meets O n­
tario and Vale plays Joseph. The
only undefeated teams are Baker and
La Grande and these teams are cer­
tain to go into the semi-finals F ri­
day night. I f Nyssa wins tonight, the
locals wll likely be matched with La
Grande for the semi-finals Friday
night. Vale is expected to defeat
Joseph and is almost a certainty to
get to the semi-finals.
Several fans from here have a t­
tended the tournament. The open­
ing night a party composed of Leo
Hollenberg, G rant Rinehart. C. L.
McCoy and Roy Pounds witnessed
the games. Dewey Ray and family
have taken their- trailer house and
are staying right there
until the
tournament ends.
Mrs. Fauchier, Mrs. Poage, Mrs.
Beers and Rev. White are attending
a Sunday School institute at Wilder
today.
Little Phillip Wilson, son of Mr
and Mrs. Barney Wilson had the
misfortune to break his arm Tues­
day.
Women Invited
To Play Night
Every Wom an In Nyi
Can Take Part In Sport
Promised for Tomorrow
Night.
Th e Leader's Class, under the dir­
ection of Miss Macdonald, is plan­
ning a Women's Play Night to be
held in the High School gymnasium
on Friday evening March 5. begin­
ning at 7:30 P M. There will be no
admission charges: no men; and no
girls under 18 except those in the
Leader's class. The evening will be
taken up with various games, stunts
and contests. They are also planning
to present gymnastic exercises for
the benefit o f those who do not often
have an opportunity to take them.
The exerdses will consist of those
for reducing, for building up, for
limbering and
coordinating
the
muscles.
Shorts, slacks, overalls, or house-
dresses-anything for comfortr will
be the order o f the evening.
Since this is the first program of
this kind to be presented in Nyssa
the exercises will of necessity be
rather mild, and Intended for the
fun they are, rather than for any
particular advantage they have. It
is obviously necesary to take the ex­
ercises at more freqoent intervals to
find them of any permanent value.
Women members of the high and
grade school faculty are expecting
to participate in the events of even­
ing and are welcoming this oppor­
tunity to meet the women of Nyssa
in this Informal manner We hope
that all o f you will find it |
to attend.