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è' 77ieNYSSA Published at Nyssa, Oregon, GATEWAY TO THE OWYHEE AND BLACK CANYON IRRIGATION PROJECTS IN THE HEART OF OREGON’S SUGAR EMPIRE Fastest Growing City In Oregon NYSSA, OREGON, TH U R SD AY, NOVEMBER 3, 1938 VO LU M E X X X III. NO. 43 -------- ----------- County Corn Show To Be In Nyssa This Month Local Show W ill Be Preliminary to One In Portland ITY JOURNAL BUREAU DIRECTOR URGES MORE TREES IR R IG A T IO N O F FIC IA LS TOUR OW YHEE PROJECT The Nyssa Chamber of Commerce will again sponsor a county-wide W E. Warne, director of informa corn show to be held in Nyssa N o tion for the bureau of reclamation, vember 26. Rolls Sanford, associate engineer in This will be the second time that the bureau’s office in Boise, Robert the local business men have spon J Newell construction engineer, al sored this show, the first being last so of that office, Fred Schlopkohl year. The county agent has assured engineer in charge of the Owyhee the Chamber of Commerce mem project, Frank T. Morgan secretary bers that he will assist in the ex of the Oryhee irrigation district and Willard Robinson and Ike Lienber- hibition. This show will be held just before ger of the Gem irrigation district the state-wide corn show, sponsored made up a party that made a tour by the First National Bank of Port of inspection of the Owyhee Irri gation project Monday. land, December X, 2, and 3. A fter the tour o f lnsepction Prizes for the local show will be for two divisions, one for senior Warne suggested that the farmers exhibits and another for 4-II club of the district plant more trees on members, and In each of these di their farms Warne was particularly visions the prizes will be for first, well pleased with the farmers of the $10; secon.d $5; third and fourth, $2. project are getting their farms in Arrangements for the exhibits shape. The planting of such a wide may be made either with the local variety of crops was especially en branch of the bank, the county couraging. Warne said that he did not be agent, R. M. McKennon, at Ontario lieve that any project had made of the Nyssa Gate City Journal. In the state show last year Robert as much progress as the Owyhee Marsh Jr., o f Albany placed first project had in the first three years with the best club exhibit of ten of it’s operation. ears, and received a summer school BE SURE TO VOTE TUESDAY. scholarship. In the county exhibits Linn coun ty took a $25 prize for the best, FARMER STARTS opunty exhibit. j FEEDING YARD No entry fees are required for ex hibits, the only request being that MODELS FOR COUNTY those contemplating entering corn Y A R D IS ONE OF THE in the show get their exhibits in early. George Nlen, a farmer southwest of Nyssa, announced this week that he is feeding 65 head of beef cattle at his ranch. Chopped beet tops, corn, hay and ground barley and wheat will be the fodder that will RODENT KILLING be fed. COVERS 6000 ACRES Nein has divided his yard into two compartments, which may well C O U N TY AG E N T R EPORTS be termed as a model that any ON TEN D AYS W O R K . farmer could pattern after. Nein Fall poisoning gophers under the has extended an invitation to any Malheur county rodent district law interested farmer to coiAe to the progressed rapidly during the past Nein farm and inspect the yard. ten days, according to information BE SURE TO VOTE TUESDAY. received from R. N McKennon. county agent, who is charged with the administration of the district by the county court. A total of 33 men divided into eight separate crews scattered throughout the irrigated sections of the county have covered over 6000 acres of infested land during the VOTERS APPROVED BUDGET past ten days. Each crew is in B U T REFUSE T A X LE VY charge of a foreman who contacts each farmer in his district and de The voters of school district 26 termines whether or not the farmer (Nyssa) went to the polls last Sat will do his own gopher control work urday and turned down the recom or wishes the county crew to do the mendation of the budget committee job control of gophers Is compulsory to the school board that it ask the under the district law. voters of the district for authoriza The bureau of biological survey is tion to increase the school levy by co-operating in the work by provid $ 20 , 000 . ing a trained man to supervise the Paradoxically these same voters work of all the crews. A bait cut approved the budget which included ting and mixing station is located this same $20,000, which will allow in one of the cabins of the Sheel the school board to expend this auto camp at Vale where farmers money, but by voting down the spe may purchase prepared sweet po cial levy provided no means for tato bait at seven cents per pound. raising the money for the approved Bait can also be obtained at the expenditures. » county agent’s office in Ontario by Tlie board will in all probability farmers who wish to do their own be obliged to carry on under the poisoning. issuance of 6 per cent warrants Crew foremen in charge and the when it has spent the money now districts which they operate in are on hand and that which will come as follows: from taxes. On the special tax levy Oregon Slope, C. A. Ketchum; the vote was 47 against while 25 ap Ontario. Cairo, Lincoln, and south proved it. The budget was approved to Valley View, Steve Cox; Malheur by a vote of 47 to 25. valley west of Vale, Earl Thalman; Malheur valley east of Vale to Lin BE SURE TO VOTE TUESDAY. coln, Steve Cox; Nyssa, north, A r cadia to Valley View, Clarence Bar rett; south and west of Nyssa. Eg- gert O tf; Big Bend, Kingman K ol- ony.and Owyhee, Frank Johns; Arock, C. C. Robinson. Dale Erwin is the biological sur vey representative supervising the work of the crews. Maurice Burrell B AK ER F IR M BIDS A G A IN S T is in charge of the bait cutting sta ELEVEN O T lir R CONTRACTORS tion at Vale. A D R IA N — A. Ritchie anti com pany of Baker were the successful INJURED IN bidders against 11 other firms for the crnstructton of the new union TRACTOR MISHAP high school at Adrian. The bids were opened Tuesday, at 2 p. m„ P O P tX A R YO U NG STUDENT by the school board of which H. R. REPORTED AS RECOVERING Otis is chairman, and the award Martha Browne. 12 year old of the contract made to the Baker daughter of M r .and Mrs. Wesley J. I firm, on a bid of $44,340 Browne, was seriously hurt last Sat- | The proposed building will be a frame structure with urday when she fell under the one-story wheels of a tractor, which was being brick veneer walls. A PW A grant of operated on the Browne farm five $25,380 has been alloted the pro ject. the construction of which will miles west o f Nyssa. Taken to the hospital in Ontraio. begin on November 9. The delay is It was found that Maratha received made necessary through a ruling of PW A requiring contracts from suc a kidney injury. Reports at noon today were that cessful bidders receiving final ap the little patient is recovering proval from the PW A In Portland, before work can begin. nicely. BE SURE TO VOTE TUESDAY. Increase Levy Fails A t Election Contract Awarded For Adrian School P. W. A. OFFICE TO BE LACATED HERE , - . ' --■Since 1922 A Friend Of Farmer LARGE GROUP A T O N TA R IO M EETING HEAR OF PLANS Number 557 , 6 2 0 G U B E RN ATO R IAL. SENATORS RACE PROVIDE INTEREST SALEM —Voters of Oregon will go to the polls next Tuesday to elect a governor, United States sen ator, three congressmen, three su preme court Justices, a labor com missioner, superintendent of pub lic instruction, secretary of state. 17 state senators. Including to fill out unexpired terms, and 60 members of the house of representatives. In addition they will be called upon at the same time to pass judgment on an even dozen measures, initiat ed and referred, that appear on the state ballot. Because of the hotly contested gubernatorial and senatorial battles as well as the wide-spread interest in several of them assures a heavy vote in anticipated. Dave O ’Hara, elections clerk in the state depart ment perdicts a 65 per cent vote, which based upon the registration of 557,620 would indicate that some 360,000 men and women can be ex pected to exercise their franchise on this occasion. Democrats and Republicans both find much encouragement in the registration figures which show a gain of nearly 11,600 voters in the state since the general election of 1936. Democrats point with pride to the fact that they now hold a clear majority in 13 counties, their forces being more numerous than those of the G. O. P. in both the second and third congressional districts. The Republicans, for their part find consolation in the fact that they are still more numerous in the state as a whole although the Democrats have pulled their lead down to slightly more than 13,000 as con trasted with the two-to-one m ajor ity enjoyed by the Republicans in this state as recently as six years ago. i Surface indications still give Charles A Sprague the edge in the gubernatorial race, but as was true in the recent primary battle, there is so much uncertainty as to the political learnings o f the great ma jority of the voters that the elec tion of Henry Hess, the Democratic candidate would not be at all sur prising. The same situation prevails in the senatorial race where Rufus C. Holman, Republican, and Willis Mahoney. Democrat, are competing Jor favor. In the congressional race James W. Mott. Republican is ex pected to be returned for another term over Andrew C. Burk. Demo crat. While Walter M. Pierce, veter an Democrat, is picked to defeat U. S. Balentine Republican. In the third district however, it appears to be a toss-up between incumbent Nanny Wood Honeyman, Democrat, and Homer D. Angel, Republican. All three supreme court justices are expected to be returned to o f fice. Neither J. O. Bailey nor Hall S. Lusk have any opposition in the general election while Henry J. Bean, veteran member of the high court, is expected to win handily over his opponent. Howard K. Zimmerman. The secretay of state's race looks like a walk-away for Earl Snell, incumbent. Republican over Emily Ed.son. democrat, and Rex Putnam. Democrat, is picked as an easy winner over C. A. Rice, R e publican for superintendent of pub lic instruction. Considerable un certainty, however, prevails as to the outcome of the race for state labor commissioner, where Charles A Gram. Republican incumbent Is admittedly going to have difficulty in retaining his post over Clarence F. Hyde. Eugene Democrat, who as pires to succeed him. Slight Improvement Noted— There is some improvement in the condition of Oca Blalock, who has been at the Ontario hospital since September Mrs. Ada Butts his mo ther of Ysrcharts has spent the past week with him. -T i-B -.f r 'T - $1.50 PER Y E A K =3 BAND ASKS FOR NEW MEMBERS PR E PR ATIO N BEING MADE FOR SUMMER CONCERTS C. E. Beeman, has taken up his duties as resident engineer of the PW A projects now underway in this community, with temporary offices in Ontario Mr. Beeman expects how ever to move to Nyssa within the next two weeks. The duties of the resident engin eer include inspection of all PW A projects In his area of activity. Among these is the expected sewer extension in Nyssa and the new Ardian high school. Mr. Beeman has been with the government for the past six years in various engineering capacities. Stale Voters .T.'„ ' " . Ruling Declares Candidates Ineligible For City Ticket The Nyssa city band members have extended an invitation to all musicians in or near Nyssa to Join the band. LEGION FIGHTS Meetings are held each Wednes NEXT THURSDAY day night in the auditorium of the city hall, rehearsals starting at 8 p. LA C K OF SU ITAB LE FIGHTERS m. Jay Stoner, of Payette, well POSTPONES CARD FOR WEEK. known band leader is the conductor. At the present time the city band The Nyssa post of the American is preparing for next summer’s con Legion postponed the fights, ori cert. ginally stated for tonight, until next Thursday. Difficulty in getting suitable fighters was given as the reason for the postponement. Harold Hoshin, who fought in the top spot three weeks ago, will step into the main event against Sammy Blackwell, on the next card. These D ELIV E R Y ON NEW ROUTE two have met once before, when 8TARTED TH IS WEEK Hoshino got a hard earned decision Postmaster Goshert announced over Blackwell. this week that the temporary ap Also on tire card will be Ernie pointment of a rural mall carrier Natale, 168 pounds of North Bergen, had been made to Harold Hoxie, of N. J., and Joe Paachnick 165 pound., Nyssa. o f New York. Rural deliveries on this new route The fights will be staged in the started Tuesday ol this week. In pavilion of the Nysaa Sales Com this route is Included a route form mission company at the foot of 2nd erly served from the Ontario poet street. office. Substantially this route takes in territory from Arcadia south to BE SURE TO VO TE TUESDAY. which lies to the west of Nyssa and the Mitchell Butte section, all of comprises at total of about 43 miles. MINISTERIAL ASS’N. Those patrons that were served TO MEET IN NYSSA on the Ontario route will continue to receive their mail on the same SNAKE R IV E R CLERICS W IL L days as in the past, while those that SEE AM ALG AM ATE D FACTO RY are added in this new route will re ceive their mail on Monday, W ed The Payette Valley Ministerial as nesday and Friday of each week. sociation will meet at noon, next The Job carries a salary of $1800 Monday in the local Methodist per year plus certain milage allow church. Lunch will be served in the ance. church building with the Rev. Floyd An examination for permanent E. White as host. An inspection trip through the appointment under civil servelce, for this route will be held at a date factory of the Amalgamated Sugar to be announced by the U. S. Civil company has been planned, follow Service Commission at Washington. ing the luncheon. The complete program had not BE SURE T O VOTE TUESDAY. yet been made Thursday. Rural Carrier Job Awarded M. PIERCE I f political prognostication can be relied u^on, Malheur county and the entife second congressional dis trict grill vote overwhelming for Walter $1. Pierce, incumbent con gressman for that district, next Tuesday} Piercejflrst entered politics in 1922 when he entered the race as Demo cratic candidate for governor of Oregon, and winning. In 1932 he was elected to congress and has been re-elected twice. "M y position on the agricultural committee and my experienced knowledge of farm conditions as sure my constituents that their needs will be met as far as legisla tion can do it,” is one of the com ments that Pierece has made dur ing the present campaign. Since the allotment of sugar beet acreage in this district, Pierce has been diligently seeking to impress on those responsible, the hardship that is being worked on farmers in the Snake river valley. Voters throughout Malheur county, both Republican and Democratic have conceded that Congressman Pierec would win handily over his opponent. U. S. Balentine. H its is particularly true of the vote in the city of Nyssa, where it has been es timated that out of the total regls- tratior of 965 about 75 per cent will cast their ballot for the venerable statesman. “P” LINERS IN COW HOLLOW AGAIN COW HOLLOW FARMERS AN X IO U S ABO UT ROADS COW H O LLO W —The P liners are showing some activity in Cow H ol low again. Last week a couple of surveyers were seen down in our field looking over the line here. There should be a road. We went over to them hoping to learn some thing about our road. For an answer to our first ques tion we got. “ Nah we got to have lots more P lines yet!” W ell guess we have roasted the surveyors pretty hard but it Is pretty hard for we farmers to understand the ways of modem engineering. Well after we smiled a little and sort of apologized the surverors sort of thawed out and explained that they were merely surveying for the size and number of needed culverts and bridges. They didn’t know when the construction work would start in fact they were not sure if It would start as the sale of the bonds is still held up pending some legal question. We have heard many of the Cow Hollow farmers express that If It were to do over again they would M t be In favor of a bond Issue. We now have a possible road and the money that has been spent for sur veying In Cow Hollow would have done a fair job of repairing the worst spots In our road. But we have voted the bonds and now have our P lines It seems we sort of have the “ cart before the horse” but If our bonds should be legal now lets have some roads. Bowling Team In Practice— A bowling team made up of Nyssa bowling enthusiasts has reorganized for the coming season and will en ter the tournament held yearly in Ontario. Nyssa's team consists of Klaas Tensen. Aden Wilson, Ernest McClure. Harry Minor and Ike Brown, an dthey have already start ed their practice. ■aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ’ROUND TOWN Pheasant roosters vlsable again. . the waste lettuce affording bovine feasts. . . Parading models at F ri days party falling for Carl Coads manly pulchhtude in a big way. . . wonder if the Lions could sing Am erica through without a book. . . first wootles of the season marching up Oood avenue.. Kermlt L spoil ing a pretty shine on Monday. . XMAS SEAL SALES PLANS COMPLETED RESID ENT ENGINEER NOW LOCATED IN O N TARIO At a luncheon last Saturday at the Moore hotel in Ontario 14 com munities were represented and lis tened to talk and plans mapped out for the coming campaign for the Christmas seal sale. Those outlying communities which were not represented at Saturdays meeting will be contacted later by the committee, according to Mrs. J. William Turner so that the county as a whole may have its share in this far reaching work. Besides the sale of the seals tills year there wll lbe a health bonds money issued, which organizations and business firms are urged to buy and there will be pins for purchase by the children, and during the campaign there will be a moving picture program In conjunction with the sale, these will be shown from November 7 to 24.. A marked change from the actual selling of seals this year as all will be made through the mails. ADRIAN VETS FORM LEGION POST POST IS O RG AN IZED W ITH FOURTEEN C H AR TE R MEMBERS A D R IA N —On last Thursday R. Perry of Adrian received ward from Department Adjutant Carl Moser of the American Legion at Portland that the request for charter for a new post to be located In Adrian had been granted by the state de partment and was being immed iately forwarded east where the permanent charter la expected to be confirmed. The new post will be known as the Adrian post. No. 109 of the de partment of Oregon The charter members are Roy Perry, Glen wood Pounds, Elmer Dutton. Leslie Schafer. Wm. Ash craft, Jesse Sugg. Maurice Judd. Michael Zamora. John Osborn. John 8nyder, iTverett Points. Harry Russell. Cecil E. Pond and Charles Eachus. The next step is to call a meeting, draw up their local charter and elect the officers for the coming year. Following this and the confirma tion of the charter the ladles eligible are hoping to organize an American Legion Auxiliary in Adrian also. A .F .of L.Here To Organize Factory O RG AN IZERS C ALL M EETING T O N IG H T A T DANCE H ALL The American Federation o f L a bor has sent four organisers into Nyssa in an attempt to organize the workers employed at the Amalga mated Sugar company factory. The organizers have called a meeting for this evening, to be held in the Fred ericks dance hall. This is the second invasion of this territory of organizers from the A. F. of L. The last was earlier in the spring when an attempt was made to organize the construction work ers employed on building the fac tory. The movement for the organ ization was discussed by a group of business men this afternoon, none of whom cared to be quoted as to what took place at the meeting. A. E. Bennlng general manager o f the Nyssa district, was out of the city and could not be reached for comment on the situation. BE SURE TO VOTE TUESDAY. STEAM LAUNDRY TO OPEN HERE MONDAY U P-TO -D ATE F IR M ADDS T O NYSSA BUSINESS FIRM S Charter Amendment Quoted In Legal Opinion In a legal opinion handed down by City Attorney A. L. Fletcher Wednesday, three candidates for election to city offices are ineligible and for that reason their names will not appear on the city ballot next Tuesday. Those ruled as in eligible are L. T. (Doc) Marshall, who was nominated for the city council, Earl J. Sheneberger and E. E. Ensminger both candidates for city recorder. The basis of this opinion, accreading to Fletcher, Is the amendment to the city charter voted on in May 1937 and is as fol lows: Chapter I I ; Section 9-b; Nominations of candidates for all City officers to be voted for at any City election, may be made by any policial or mass convention, or by petition signed by not less than twenty-five registered voters of said City for the last preceding election. Such nominations shall be filed not less than ten days before the day of holding such election, together with the candidates written acceptance of said nomination and thereupon the Recorder shall enter the names of all such candidates upon the ticket to be voted for a t the next following election, and net other wise. (As amended May 11, 19FT). It Is upon the filing of the accept ances that the candidates are de clared ineligible, the last day for filing of.which was last Friday. T V o of the candidates, Marshall and Sheneberger have stated that they went to the city hall Friday after- nen to file their acceptances but found no one In the city recorder's office. Along with his ruling, the ques tion has been discussed as to whe ther candidates names could be writ ten In. Reference to the amend ment above, particularity the last sentence would seem to preclude such a course. U such Jo the caee, the only contested office will be thet o f mayor. The Incumbent Don M. Graham, and R. A. (A l) Thomp son are the two candidates for this office. Candidates for councilman are Ronald K. Whitaker, cashier for the Amalgamated Sugar company’s local factory. Whitaker has been with the sugar company for the past four years; Carlos Buchner, part owner and manager o f the local Golden Rule store; J. C. Olsen, owner of the Olsen Manufacturing company of Nyssa; and the Incum bent finance commissioner Leslie McClure, owner, with hit brother, of the Nyssa Bakery. McClure Is fin ishing his first term as councilman. By reason also of this ruling M. F. Solomon incumbent recorder will be unopposed. Miss Margaret McNulty was nominated on both tickets and will also be unopposed to that o f fice. Registered letters have been for warded to those candidates who's names have been termed as Ineli gible for the ballot. City Attorney Fletcher, In an In terview this morning stated “ there seems to be some misunderstanding as to the responsibilities in this rul ing. M r Solomon has no recourse from the charter, which was voted upon by the citizens of this city, it Is my opinion and It will hold up in court. Solomon had nothing to do with making o f the charter, and as a mater of fact In the advertisement appearing In the Nyssa Oate City Journal, last Thursday, was Included the information that all candidates must flic their acceptance ‘not less than ten days prior to the election’ which should have been heeded.** The Nyssa Steam Laundry will be gin operations in the building un til recently occupied by Ed Case with his furniture stock, next M on day, November 7, according to a BE SURE TO VOTE TUESDAY. display advertisement In this Issue of the Oate City Journay announc ing the opening date The building was purchased by W. Edmond and LACK OF QUORUM son, Allen, formerly of Burns, from DELAYS FAIR MONEY Case three weeks ago. A modern laundry equipment Is being Installed EMERGENCY BOARD T O C ALL and all machinery will be In place M E E TIN G A T LATER DATE M r Edmond said today, for the opening next Monday. 8ALEM —Lack of a legal quorum prevented the emergency board BE SURE TO VOTE TUESDAY. from taking action on a request for an appropriation of $18,000 with which to finance an agricultural Sanday Geests— Mr. and Mrs Herbert Smith of exhibit at the San Francisco Worlds Caldwell were guests of Mr. and fair, at a meeting In Stlem last week. Only four members of the Mrs Eldon Jensen Sunday. board attended the meeting. The law requires the affirmative vote of Oat af Town VfeRar»— Callers at the Chas Thoombs five members for approval of an home last week Included her par appropriation Another meeting of ents. M r snd Mrs L. W. James and the board will be called soon. The their ion Ralph and his family on $18,000 requested represents the Wednesday and on Sunday her sis expended balance remaining tn the Visiting Mother— Mre Let tie Alford drove to Baker ter, Mre. Stella Boggs and her son state appropriation for the New Monday and Is spending the week Oeorge and Mrs Elptia Anderson York Worlds fair from which Ore gon has withdrawn with her mother, Mrs Sarah Sheets. all of on-