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NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL Published at Nyssa, Oregon GATEWAY TO THE OWYHEE AND BLACK CANYON IRRIGATION PROJECTS VOL. XXXIII. NÖ. 3. Fastest Growing Town In Oregon NYSSA, OREGON, TH U R S D A Y , J A N U A R Y 27, 1938 $1.50 PER Y E A R Pomona Grange Holds C. ofC. Endorses LrSetAssTsntant!KinSmanK()l0ny Frank Morgan Returns Meeting In Vale Saturday Road Proposal From Washington D. C. .Matron Passes Asks Relief Committee for Open Meeting. The Pomona Grange held its meeting In Vale, last Saturday, with but one o f the granges, the W ild- rose grange not represented. Dinner was served at noon by the Home Ec onomic club of the Vale grange. In the afternoon the lecturer’s program was furnished by 4-H club members and music by the Vale high school band. Traveling Gavel The granges of the county are working out a plan for visiting among granges. The Traveling Gavel idea is to be used, with each grange in the county taking this gavel to some other grange in the county during the next twelve months. During the day the resignation of Roscoe Conklin as steward was read and accepted. Earl Weaver of the Boulevard grange was elected to fill the office for the remainder of the year. Would Name Owyhee Dam Park Ironside Pioneer Dies January 17 The Nyssa Chamber of Commerce passed a resolution, Wednesday en dorsing the plan of the county court to have the road from the Homed ale spur to Maloy's ranch, revert to the state. This action was felt necessary as the county funds, in the past, and for some future date, would make it impossible to keep the road in a condition that would allow the Malheur farmers to get onto the I.O.N. By reverting the road to the state, this upkeep could be done at a much less cost to the taxpayer, because of the close proximity of state road ’patrols’ which will be used to keep the I.O.N. road in condition. Would Complete Nyssa Link I f this plan meets with the ap proval of the state highway com mission, and the road again be comes a state secondary road, it will complete the link between Nyssa In a statement Tuesday, Post and the ION, a goal long sought by master Goshert gave figures for Nyssa business men and farmers in 1937, showing the business, in dol this district. lars and cents that the local post Hears Morgan Report office had done Mr. Frank T. Morgan spoke to the Compares 1936 Chamber on his trip to Washington In comparison to the business D. C „ where he had gone in the in triple C labor on done by the post offloe in 1936, the terest of using year 1937 was ahead by about sev- project roads and better schooling enteen per cent. The actual gain facilities for Nyssa, Vale and H ar shown was 16.87 per cent. In dol- per. IRONSIDE. Ore.—Services viere held at the Ironside cemetery on Friday afternoon for Mrs. Laura Lathrop, who passed away at Pend leton January 17. She was an old anc' highly respected pioneer of this community, and was 73 years of age. She leaves four chlldern to mourn her loss and anumber of grand children. The children are Mrs. Fred Greg gof Juntura, Mrs. Guy Wise of Jordan Valley, Oliver Crews of Ironside and Montie Crews of Prairie City, all of whom attended the services but Mr. Montie Crews. Postal Receipts Show Good Gain In view of the great amount of assistance given to the preparation of the park at the Owyhee Dam by Mr. Johannsen who died recently, it| was voted to request the Bureau of Reclamation to designate this park as Johannsen Park. Names Submitted For Fair Board that two It being determined members of the Malheur County Fair Board had resigned, the Grange offered the names of Jack ; lars and cents the comparison was. Fairman, C. P. Yundt and C. E. for 1936, $7,764.50 as compared with Charles to the Fair Board for an increase in 1937 to $9,076.25, their consideration when a new which does not include money or Fair Board is appointed. The grange der business. went on record as favoring Thurs Misses Second Class Rating day. Friday and Saturday for fair This last figure tells a sad story, days with no fair on Sunday. inasmuch as just $124 more and the Passes Resolutions Nyssa post office would have been It was called to the attention of in line for a second class rating. When the new three cent stamp the grange that a concerted effo rt was being made to introduce but was put Into effect, a percentage ter substitutes into many of the clause was added, that helped de stores of the county. The grange feat the higher rating. This clause went on record as being opposed t o , was to the effect that fifteen per substitutes cent would be added to the re- the offering of butter j quirement of $8000 for second class for sale in this county. Resolutions adopted, during the ! ratin8- Had this clause not been j in effect, Nyssa would have had an day were as follows: 1. Opposition to any limiting of °P P °rtulllty t0 be rated as a second class post office. train lengths. 2. Opposing the Pettingill Bill. SCHOOL ELECTION S A TU R D A Y 3. Favoring the State Highway BE SURE TO VOTE Comission retaining the road to Jordan Valley as a secondary state highway. N YS SA G IR L CHOSEN AS PROM QUEEN C AND ID ATE 4. Offered a resolution to the state chairman of relief, opposing the keeping of relief activities OREGON STATE COLLEGE, secret. Corvallis, Jan. 26— Vera Garrison of 5| Opposing any increase in Nyssa, junior in secretarial science freight rates. at OSC, has been chosen to repre 6. Offered resolution against the sent Delta Zeta as candidate in the policy of allowing imports of meats race for queen of the junior prom from other countries. January 29. 7. Adopted resolution in opposi At the time of ticket purchase tion to the offering for sale in M al each person will vote on his choice heur County of butter substitutes. of the candidates for queen. Evening Session It was impossible to complete the business o f the day so the meeting Patients at Dixon Nursing Home— Those who have been at the Dix adjourned for an evening session. During the evening a class of on Nursing home the past week are thirty-two candidates was initiated all convelescing. Friends o f Jack McConnell will be happy to learn by the Pomona Drill Team. that his condition is much improved Next Meeting at Harper and he is able to have visitors again. An invitation was received and Mrs. Earl Anderson and her infant accepted from the Harper-Westfall son were admitted from Nyssa grange to hold the next meeting at Heights on Saturday and both are Harper. This meeting will be held doing nicely. Johnny Leuck. son of the fourth Saturday in April, which Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Leuck had his will be the 23rd. tonsils removed on Wednesday and Resolutions on R elief and Butter was discharged the same day. Mr. Substitutes Paul Ransom of Sunset Valley was W HEREAS, there seems to be a a patient for medical treatment at well organized program among food the Home for a few days but was processors in the United States to able to return home on Monday. encourage a broader use of butter Mrs. Hashitanl continues to improve substitutes and and R. O. Boyles is better. A ll are WHEREAS, it is our belief that under the care of Dr. J. J. Sarazln from an economic and health and Dr Jerry van der Vlugt. standpoint, there is no satisfactory Buster Continues to Improve— substitute for wholesome butter, anc Buster Keizer is now well on the WHEREAS, In Malheur County, way to being well and each day is Oregon, the annual butterfat sales able to be up a bit longer. amount to approximately $350,000 divided among practically every Lots Sold— farm fam ily in the county. Pete Dear has purchased from THEREFORE. BE I T R E SO LV ED. That the granges of Malheur County voice their disapproval of butter substitutes being offered for sale in Malheur County and urge that all merchants in Malheur County resist every effort to place this product on their shelves. BE I T F U R TH E R RESOLVED, T h at we believe that the condition that prevails in Malheur County prevails in every other section of the United States where agriculture is generally practiced, and that im port and tariff regulations should be such that butter substitutes could not be sold at a price advan tage and that American agricultural products should be given preference at every opportunity. (Continued on Last Paget Would Return Road to State Jurisdiction. The ladies auxiliary of the Am eri can Legion met on Monday night to discuss preparations f o r th e Fathers-Sons banquet which will be held at the high school gym on Tuesday evening February 23. and from all reports there is to be some thing fine in the way of foods serv ed snd an excellent program is being arranged field work has been delegated to the assistant agent. Mr. Larsen closed his remarks with this statement "Personally, I am very sorry that it is necessary to dispense with the assistant agent’s services, but the decrease in the amount of our budget for 1938 gives us no other way out." SCHOOL ELECTIO N SA TU R D A Y BE SURE TO VOTE DeGross Heads FARM SEWER Townsend Club PLANNED SCHOOL ELECTION SA TU R D A Y BE SURE TO VOTE Rural residents o f three coun ties, Malheur, Grant and Harney, will be given the opportunity to replace ou.moded sewage disposal plants with the creation of these counties into a project area P W A will provide the labor for the enterprise and the farm er will be asked to provide the necessary materials, thus making the cost of the new disposal plants nominal and insuring the best of this type of sewage disposal. T h e work will be done by local unemployed men and will be under the technical direction of the fed eral government and state health service officials. The local Townsend Club held their annual meeting last Thursday at the Community church. One of the largest crowds that has at tended a Townsehd meeting, was present to elect officers for the coming year. Election Results Results o f the election showed that the club had re-elected Mr. D. R. DeGross as president and Mrs. A. V. Pruyn as secretary. Mr. A. H. Willson was elected as vice president and Mr. Melvin Penrod will guard the treasury for the club during 1938. Regular Meeting Place The club changed their method of meeting places when they de cided to hold the meetings on the first and third Thursday night of AMERICAN LEGION each month at the Community TO HOLD DANCE church. The plan in the past has been to meet in the homes of the Big Bend to be Scene of Gala Event various members. Nyssa Post of the American Leg Will Entertain Ontario ion announced this week that they A t the next meeting of the club, will hold a dance at the Big Bend Thursday, February 3, the Nyssa Park on next Wednesday. February club will entertain the Ontario 2. Townsendites. The committee on This will be the first of a series arrangements is composed o f Mrs. of dance parties that will be spon S. B. Davis and Mrs. D. R. DeGross. sored by the local post. On the program committee is Mr. Harry Russell, commander of the A. H. Willson and Mr. H. D Holmes. post, said that a good orchestra had been arranged for and that the pub SCHOOL ELECTIO N S A TU R D A Y lie would be assured o f a good time. BE SURE TO VOTE Proceeds from this series of dances will go into the building fund, ac Examiner In Nyi cording to the commander. The Examiner of operators and chauffeurs will hold examinations Attends Meeting In Boise— in Nyssa on Friday January 28, 1938 On Monday, Mr. Ed Dilly, em between the hours of eleven and ployee o f the Nyssa branch of the five respectively, according to ad Idaho Power attended a meeting in vice received from the offices of Boise for employees of the company secretary of state, Earl Snell. when the 1938 program was an nounced. Nyssa Girl Transferred— Visits in Baki Mrs. H. E. Curry drove to Baker on Wednesday where she attended the slxty-nineth anniversary of the Baker chapter of the P.E.O. The day was to be celebrated with a Founders day meeting. Mrs. Curry is the Baker chapter's president for this year. Norrotts Return— Doctor E. D. Norcott return ed on Wednesday from Portland W. H. Douglas lots 9. 10. U , and 13 where he had been f o r th e of Teutschs addition, which lie on past week visiting his mother. Mrs. Sixth street east of the Kelley C. K. Norcott o f Coqullle. who was housm. at a local hospital there for treat Mr. Dear also recently sold a half ments, and who is now recovering Interest in all his business and hold rapidly. Mrs. Norcott expects to re lngs to Mr A. H. Clark of Lamar. turn the first of the week. Colorado, who is now living In one o f their cabins at Sixth and Main. New Nyssa Heights Resdent— Legion In an announcement to the press Tuesday, County Agent Raymonc, G. Larson annonuced that due to insufficient appropriation from the C e r e b r a l Hemorrhage county, the office of assistant coun- TTntimplv Dp- ty agent would be dispensed with. UaUSeS Untimely Lie Mr. Carl Dellinger, who has been mise. the assistant for the past few years, will terminate his connection with Mrs. C. E. Winters, o f Kingman the county on February 1. He has accepted a position as District In (Colony, was taken by death Tues spector for the state department of day morning, January 25. Death was agriculture, and will be stationed at due to cerebral hemorrhage. Funeral Services Redmond, Oregon. Funeral services, under the dir W ill Curtail Work County Agent Larson said “ It ection of the Nyssa Funeral Home, will be necessary for me to discon will be held in the Presbyterian Roswell, on Friday of tinue some of the lines of work that church, at we have carried on during the past this week at two p. m. Obituary several years. T h e principal of these is the asssitance which we have Mrs. C. E. Winters was born in been giving to new settlers on the Nampa, Idaho, on November 25, Vale and Owyhee projects in the 1896. She attended school in Star plannig of their irrigation systems.” and Boise and graduated from high school in Richfield, Idaho. Weed Control Project to be Cut She was married to Mr. C. E. W in Under the new setup that will be necessary considerable portion of ters on March 6, 1915 and has lived the weed control project will have in or near Kingman Kolony dis to be dropped, as a great deal of the trict since then. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Anderson of Nyssa Heights are announcing the birth of a son. James Lamer, who was bom at their home In Nyssa Heights on Saturday, January 22 Later Mrs. Anderson and her son were moved in the Lienkaemper ambulance to the Dixon nursing home In Nyssa and are under the care of Drs Sarazln and van der Vlugt. Mother and child are report ed to be doing nicely. Miss Margaret Hunt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Hunt has been transfered by the Home Demonstra tion department of the Idaho Power company to Pocatello and left on Monday to assume her duties there. ’ROUND TOWN Chas. Starks learning about mud from Nyssa alleys . . . Nice to see lights shining from the sugar com pany's new batchelor quarters . . . Friends welcoming Albert HSnsch home . . . Jimmy Daelhousen look ing 'em over at the lot on Main and First and driving o ff with agreen on* . . . Getting hard to tell those two Thompsons, A1 and Herschel. apart from the rear . . . Idaho Pow er crews shinning up the new poles in Westfield Addition . Jerry van der Vlugt playing modern Sir Walter Raleigh to mud mired ladles . . . some one that looks mighty like that Vale attorney Bob Lytle driv ing down Main street and not stopping to sty "Hello" . . . Art Cook and his one man CCC camp . . . SCHOOL ELECTION S A TU R D A Y BE SURE TO VOTE Interest Shown In S c h o o l Election Considerable Interest is being shown in the forthcoming election in school district number 26 (Nys sa) which will be held at the Nyssa school Saturday at 2:15 p. m. This election is being held for the purpose of electing a new director, to serve until June, 1939. Board Urges Large Vote Members of the school board urge that all eligible voters in the district turn out Saturday and cast their vote. Only by a large vote can a true sentiment of the people be ex pressed. County Outlines Road Program Mrs. Winters is survived by her husband Mr. C. E. Winters, four daughters, Mrs. Helen Zesiger, Dor othy, Margaret and Marjorie. Two Judge Graham. Commissioners sons also survive, Robert and W il Peterson and Clark, and County En liam. gineer J. Edwin Johnson were in Nyssa Tuesday conferring with Post master Goshert and Superintendent HOOD RIVER, VALE of Schools Leo D. Hollenberg on the PAPERS WIN CUPS matter of constructing roads in the Richland, Buena Vista and Covena districts. University of Oregon, Eugene, To Be W PA Project January 26— The Hood River News, This project, which, as it is now published by Hugh G. Ball and E. A. Sonnichson, was announced at the mapped out, will be done through Oregon Press Conference held at WPA, and will cover approximately tweqty-two miles of road that Is the University of Oregon. January 20, 21 and 22, as winner of the an now either Impassable or not sur nual Sigma Delta Chi contest for faced with gravel. This project, in other words, will the best weekly newspaper in the state. By winning 'the journalism cover all of the roads west of Nys fraternity’s award for the third sa to the irrigation canal and south time, the cup now belongs perman to the Owyhee river. I f this project is given final ap ently to the Hood River paper. Sec ond by a narrow margin was the proval, no farmer in the district out McMinnville Telephone Register, lined above will be more that one also a twice winner of the trophy. mile from a gravelled road, and in Third place went to the Redmon- most cases will have less than a Spokesman, a top-ranking paper for half mile to travel in order to get on gravelled road. many years. Vale Paper Wins The Hal E. Hoss memorial award for the best paper in towns of less than 1,000 was won by the Vale En terprise, published by A. H. Bone. The Junction City Times ranked second, and the Moro Journal was third. Announcement of awards was made at the banquet by William Lamme. contest chairman of Sigma Delta Chi. Papers were judged by Bruce McCoy, of the Louisiana state editorial association, a nationally known expert. He rated the Oregon entrants very highly and warmly commended the publishers. SCHOOL ELECTION SA TU R D A Y BE SURE TO VOTE LE G IO N AND A U X IL IA R Y M EET T H U R SD A Y N IG H T On Thursday the Legion and its auxiliary held their regular meet ings at the Legion Hall with a large number present and new members were admitted to each order. After the buisness of the day was taken care o f they adjourned to enjoy an oyster stew provided by the aux iliary. The auxiliary voted to reestab lish the Daughters of the American Legion. An interesting program has been outlined for the girls and leaders who are interested partic ularly in this work will be in chaige. It was tentatively agreed that the meetings will be held bi-monthly on alternate Saturday afternoons with time for work and time for play. All girls who are eligible to be daugh ters o f the Legion are urged to come and take part. New Mall Route Postmaster Goshert said that as soon as the roads were completed that he would request a post office inspector to go over the route and approve it for an additional rural delivery from the Nyssa postoffice. Court Action Surprises The visit of the county court on the road project came as a surprise inasmuch as most people were of the opinion that W P A would not be available this winter. Court FamMiar With Road Problems The county court showed that they were familiar with all of the roads in question, when they sat down to go over the maps showing the roads of the district. It seemed that every little turn or rise, or the location of every farmer was firmly fixed in the courts mind. Not only that, but it was evidenced that they also knew the condition of those roads and expressed concern and wonderment as to how the farmers of the district ever got over some of the roads. Work W ill Start Soon Triple C Camps To Stay On Project. Mr. Frank T. Morgan returned from Washington D. C „ Tuesday night, where he had gone to enlist the aid of Senator McNary and Congressman Pierce in prevailing on the President to keep the C.C.C. camps in Malheur county and to make available their work on pro ject roads. School conditions In Nyssa, Vale and Harper were also considered. Camps and School Favorable Through the untiring efforts of both Senator McNary and Congress man Pierce, Mr. Morgan was able to lay before the President, two of the major problems confronting the Owyhee district. The employment o f C.C.C. labor on the project roads looked at first as if it were doomed to failure, when Sentaor McNary arranged for a conference with President Roose velt. The result of this conference was that the curtailment of C.C.C. camps In Oregon would not affect those in Malheur county. Introduces Bill Following this conference both Senator McNary and Congressman Pierce introduced bills in their re spective houses to allow the C.C.O. director to make project roads elig ible for C.C.C.C labor. These bills at the present time have every chance of passing and It should be but a short time when roads on the pro ject in this county will be under the process of either construction or re pair. The school program like the road situation, needed considerable explaining and at first looked al most Impossible of correction. Con gressman Pierce came to the rescue In this instance. And through Presi dential and other conferences with the assistant W P A director, an or der has been issued, allowing for the construction of school facilities for Nyssa. This project will go to Mr. G riffith, state director of W P A in Oregon, whose offices are in Port land. from there it will be sent back to Washington for approval. When this approval is received, building of the new school facilities will start. Lauds Work o f McNary and Pierce Mr. Morgan said that citizens in this area could feel proud o f the congreslsonal representation that they have in Washington in the per sons of Senator McNary and Con gressman Pierce. Both ore keenly aware of the sit uation and are doing everything that is humanly and legally possible to help us. Mr. Morgan said. County Judge Helps Mr Morgan said that letters that Judge David Oraham o f Malheur county had written to the President and Mr. Fechner, head of the C.C.C. had been of the best possible help. The letters were clear, concise and right to the point, and were given every consideration by both the President and Mr. Fechner, accord ing to Mr. Morgan. Visits New York and Cleveland On his return trip, Mr. Morgan visited in New York for a few days and then stopped o ff in Cleveland Work on this project will start as to visit his brother. Business conditions in the east, soon as approved and then materials according to Mr. Morgan, are not and men can be put on the Job. very bright. A large part of this is due to the highly Industrialized sections, which we in the west do FEDERAL O F FIC IA LS CONFER not have. Mr. Lee Cruzon, state supervisor to Dr. H. W. Woodworth, director of community sanitation of the ffed eral health service, and Mr. E. R. Cheeseman, supervisor of the three county area, held a conference with Judge Oraham Monday, mapping out projects. Fine Cooperation Mr. Cruzon was very much im pressed with the fine cooperation SCHOOL ELECTION SA TU R D A Y from Judge Graham and the coun BE SURE T O VOTE ty commissioners, he said. Ontario O ffice M r Cheeseman announced that Attends Managers Conference— offices for the service have been On Tuesday Mr. Bernard Frost, opened in Ontario, where farmers local manager for the Idaho Power desiring to modernize their sewage company attended an all day com plants may make application. pany meeting in Payette The after noon conference was for local man M rDermitt Man Visits Here— agers o f the district and the pro M r Archie Meyers of McDermltt gram for 1938 was discussed In the evening the program for the em was is Nyssa on business on Mon day but left immediately for Burns ployees as a whole was taken up. where he expected to prove up on his homestead. W. C. T. U. Meets— Mr. Meyers drove up over the I. The Tuesday prayer meeting of O. N. and while he is an ardent the W. C. T. U was held at the booster for the road said that at home o f Mrs Berkley Baker with present he would not advise a light Mrs. Flora Newton leading the de car to attempt the trip, as there is votional*. an eight mile detour that is prac The next regular meeting will be tically Impassable because of mud on February 1st at the home of Mrs. He himself was mired in and burned H R. Lawrence There will be a out his clutch and found at least special progrsm with the president. one other car in distress on his way The busses are still running Mrs. Ed Wilde, in charge of the pro up gram to which all are invited to at however so that heavier machines can get through. tend. SCHOOL ELECTIO N S A TU R D A Y BE SURE TO VOTE CIRCUIT COURT ASKED FOR Division of the 9th U. S. circuit court district and establishment in the Pacific Northwest of the 11th circuit court of appeals has been ad vocated and already carried to tho U. 8. attorney general in Washing ton D. C., by Carl C. Donaugh. U.8. attorney for Oregon, now a candi date for the democratic nomination for the senate. Donaugh's espousal of a northwest federal legal circuit has received wide endorsement. Ha bases his arguments on the north west's population Increases, it’s re moteness from the center of tho present 9th circuit <8an Francisco), and the fact that the northwest Is producing a growing volume o f liti gation peculiar to itself which should be passed on by its own court. He proposes that Oregon, Washington. Idaho. Montana and Alaska be included in the new cir cuit. Visits In Homedaie— Dr. J. C. Bowman drove to Home- dale on Tuesday and while there treated a nail infected foot o f a horse belonging to Mac McDonald