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.'y A h A . > i JOURNAL 77ieNYSSA Published at Nyssa, Oregon, VOLUME XXXIV NO. 24 GATEWAY TO THE OWYHEE AND BLACK CANYON IRRIGATION PROJECTS IN THE HEART OF OREGON’S SUGAR EMPIRE Fastest Growing City In Oregon $1.50 PER YEAR KINGMAN LA TERA L BREAKS THIS MORNING TO HEAD NYSSA LIONS CLUB Taxpayers Vote To Repair BUCHNER Gymnasium At Polls Monday “TWISTER” State Grange Raps SMALL HITS COW HOLLOW Carlos W. Buchner, city council Changes Made In By THE HAPPY FARMER man and business man, was elected P .U .D . Law On June 17 an ambitious whirl Monday as president of the Nyssa wind swept over a part of Cow Hol Lions club for the coming year. He low reminding some of the residents there of those real twisters they NEW MANAGER TAKES Repair Crews Now have in the middle west. OVER PHONE OFFICE At Work On The “twister" was first noticed Described by many state officers about 5:15 p. m. and was traveling Break as one of the most constructive and SALEM—Recent filing for water slowly and in a northeasterly direc Mrs. Cora M. Tomlinson of Twin harmonious sessions in years, the The taxpayers of school district permits been the heaviest in Falls has replaced Miss Georgia A break, about one mile east of sixty-sixth annual convention of tion and was about 100 feet wide. Dennis 26 voted to repair the gymnasium history. have State Engineer Charles at the telephone office as the slide on the north canal, occur A hay crew on the Clarence Nic- the Oregon State grange concluded by the slim margin of 10 votes. Fin Stricklin announced here. manager as Miss Dennis retired red in the Kingman lateral this cum place was caught in the center a five day session on the campus of al tabulation was 65 for repairing, A dry spring followed by only in from service with the company last morning about 8 a. m. of it and had a hard time protect Oregon State college by reaffirm 55 to authorize the board to dis termittent rains caused the heavy Friday. ing themselves and the horses. The ing much of the traditional grange mantle and sell the building. influx of applications, Stricklin Tomlinson spent a few days Bureau of Reclamation officials policy on state and national affairs hay was picked up and scattered over at Mrs. On the question of selling the old said. the office in Ontario before tak have summoned three shifts of re and area of almost a mile, a tent and taking action for or against [ two room school building there Many of the application were de ing over her new duties in Nyssa. pair men to the scene and will keep house was demolished, and several various current issues. were only 8 votes against it while nied for lack of water facilities, but Other changes in the Nyssa office the shifts going until the break has small out houses carried away. For the first time in history the 105 were in favor of disposing of an estimated 10.000 additional acres not been made other than to been repaired. The big dragline grange shared the campus with Fortunately it missed other small have the building. The building has not will be under water in the Willam transfer Mrs. Leona Bingman, night has been put on the job, which In dwellings near its path and finally more than 2000 4-H club summer been used lately, as the new high ette valley this year . to Ontario where she will cludes trenching and tiling to drain session students and their leaders, spent itself in the lower end of the operator school building and addition to the take over tn^ night operatorship off the waters from the earth be Hollow. which added to the interest of both grade school has made it unneces neath the ditch. there. Idaho-Oregon League events, according to those in charge. sary to hold classes in it. Mrs. Tomlinson Is occupying the I DAIIO-OREGON LEAGUE The break was caused through Benton county host granges, in While only one nomination was Hi School District Team living quarters at the telephone what is called a “Payette forma W. L. Pet. addition to providing what was des made from the floor at the meeting building and has with her, her tion,” similar to that, that is giving Payette 7 1 .875 as the best convention facil for E. Gaston, Nyssa farmer, a To Vote Monday daughter, Claudene and her mother, so much concern on the slide men ............... 7 1 .875 cribed Caldwell ities ever enjoyed,, were able to win “write In" vote was cast for Mrs. Mrs. Mattie Moreland. 4 3 .572 acing the north canal. of the high convention honors Dick Tensen, well known Nyssa On Directors Nampa ........... . 4 4 .500 one All C.CG. trucks available In this when the Willamette grange drill matron. Gaston received 109 votes 4 4 .500 team took first prize in the state SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS Vale district will be on the job tomorrow and Mrs. Tensen 50. hauling gravel. ' .... 4 4 .500 SIX CANDIDATES IN FIELD Weiser ........... competition. Silverton Hills LABOR LEADERS CONVICTION Repayment Bill To morning B. B. Leinkaemper, incumbent FOR ............... 2 6 .250 drill CHOICE OF THE VOTERS NYSSA Enrollees of the trlpel C are avail grange was second, and Harding clerk and unopposed for his office ............... 0 7 .000 grange in Clackamus county third. Boise able for work at the break If it is received a fine complimentary vote The voters of the newly formed SALEM—Albert E. Rosser, con Allow Variable deemed necessary. Following is a highly condensed when 150 of the voters cast their high school district 5, composed of Scores, Sunday games; Caldwell summary of official action on sev victed arsonist who for many years The Kingman lateral furnishes ballot for him. water to about 6500 acres of land. and Boise, 5-3; Payette and Nyssa, eral of the major issues considered: was a labor leader In Portland un Payment the Oregon Trail and Nyssa school A request was made upon the Ontario and Vale, 6-4; Weiser FARM PROGRAM — Favored til the law caught up with him, will Officials would not hazard an will go to the polls next 4-0; committeed to the penitentiary CONGRESSMAN WHITE, IDAHO opinion as to how soon the water board to have an audit made of districts and Nampa to elect five directors from Wednesday 7-3. games: Ontario and principles of so-called cost-of-pro to be start the student body funds. Members a Monday 12-year sentence, prob INTRODUCES REPAYMENT BILL would be turned back into the bill (S. B 570) but urged ably some his time field of six candidates. of the board advised that if it was From in July. ditch. Payette, 5-2 Caldwell and Vale, 5-3; duction continuation of present plan pend the Nyssa district Ray G. the wishes of any voter, that a Larson, Dale Garrison and C. C. Nampa and Nyssa, 8-3; Weiser and ing adoption of such legislation. He was convicted of abettting the formal request should be made at a Wyckoff are the candidates, while Boise, 13-4. of the West Salem box fac Compton I. White, Democratic passage of pending agri burning regular meeting. tory by a Dallas jury almost a year congressman from Idaho has intro Garden Club Head Ontario hammered two Payette Approved cultural appropriation bill, includ the candidates from the Oregon The request centered around the Trail district are Wm. DfXJrofft, pitchers to collect 12 hits and top ing funds for surplus purchases and ago. Since then he has been in and duced into congress a bill that will rental money for 'the gymnasium, Mrs. out of the Polk and Multnomah provide a feasible and comprehen To Speak Next ple the league leaders from their payments. plan for the variable payment which Is rented out to civic bodies son. Alice Holmes and George Wil winning streak of 7 straight games. parity jails frequently, shuttling be sive PUBLIC POWER — Condemned county of construction charges on United for meetings. Nyssa dropped both the Sunday tween the two, but never at liberty most changes in PUD law made by The polls, located at the school Thursday reclamation projects. the efforts of his attorneys States and that last night. last legislature and authorized exe despite in Nyssa, will be opened at 2 p. m. game The draft of the proposed per to have him committed to bail. In the game Sunday Graham cutive committee to consider amend and will close at 7 p. m. repayment bill, transmitted KINGMAN, TRAIL struck out 6 Payette batters and ments before next grange session or The supreme court recently up manent OF COMMERCE by the secretary of the interior, CHAMBER ELECT OFFICERS walked 5, while his teammates were possible special session of the legis held the conviction as valid. Rosser Harold SPONSORS PARK TALK L. Ickes, with his recom helping In keeping the Payette lature. Favored election rather than has until June 26 to file a petition mendation. is based in part on the NAMES SUGGESTED Kingman Colony school district team to the smallest score that they appointment of state utilties com for a rehearing. If the petition is recommendations of the repayment Mrs. H. O. Mansfield regional vice elected a clerk and one director FOR COUNTY NURSE have won a game on during the sea missioner. denied, an order will immediately commission of 1937-38, and other president of the Oregon State Gar Monday night. Mrs. Healy was son. be sent to the Polk county circuit SEED LAWS — Favored adding advanced by irriga den clubs will speak to the members elected for the three year term as Olive M. Whitlock, directress of Short Score: R. H. E. grains to the state pure seed court advising them of the fact and considerations seed Interests In the west. of the Nyssa Chamber of Com director and Ted Healy was elected nursing from the State Board of Nyssa ................................... 0 6 3 law Rosser will be dressed in at the tion and urged adoption of proposed Major objectives of the bill are merce, the Civic club and the gen Public Health was in this commun Payette ................................. 4 10 0 federal seed law (HR 5625) with penitentiary shortly after. for clerk. (1) authority for modifying existing eral public, next Thursday night at In the Oregon Trail district Mrs. ity the first of the week conferring Batteries: Graham and Holmes Ralph E. Moody, state police co contracts under an equitable and 8 p. m. in the Parish hall. Alice Holmes, chairman of the with County Judge David F. Gra for Nyssa; Murdock and Stevens for amendments. TAXATION — Authorized county ordinator who prosecuted Rosser, flexible plan for sliding scale pay Mrs. Mansfield will tell the aud board was relected over Mrs. Frank ham and county health association Payette. state studies of complete tax said the time he has served in jail ments of construction charges in ience of some of the obstacles and Parr. Wyatt Smith clerk for the president, Arthur Bone of Vale con In last nights game Nyssa outhit and Including possibility of taxing while awaiting his numerous ap accordance with variations crop tribulations of getting a park start district was re-elected. cerning the placement of a county the Nampa Clippers, but 4 costly plan. both public and private power on peals and other legal gymnastics, returns; (2) arrangements for in pay ed and how these things can be nurse to replace Mrs. Edna Farris errors let the Clippers pass home kilowatt will not apply to his penitentiary hour basis. ments at times when crop receipts overcome. This talk comes at a whose resignation has been accepted plate for 8 runs while Nyssa brought TRANSPORTATION AND HIGH sentence. are available; (3) classification or time when everyone, both those In and who will leave the first of next In 3. WAYS — Favored Including trans reclassification of lands on existing Nyssa and our surrounding farm week for the coast. Short Score: R. H. E. in ISS, mixed carlot projects; (4) special consideration communities are contemplating or Miss Whitlock has presented about Nyssa 3 portation 11 (4 freight privileges, and compulsory HOMEMAKERS, 4-H for projects with unusual problems have already started a park, and 10 names but no appointment has Nampa ................................. 8 9 2 testing of automobiles to be financ SUMMER CAMPS affecting ability to repay; (5) should be of interest to everyone. yet been made. Batteries: Bennett and Iverson ed by highway funds. Opposed so- SCHEDULED methods for determining feasibility Mrs. Mansfield, on Wednesday CITIES OF STATE SHOWING for Nyssa; White and Badare for called long and short haul bills. for proposed new projects, for the will speak to the Morgan park DECLINE IN AUTO ACCIDENTS Nyssa is the Bargain Center. Nampa. G R A N G E ORGANIZATION — allocation of costs, and their de group. MALHEUR COUNTY TO HOLD Changed name of Young Grangers' velopment. SALEM—Secretary of State Earl auxiliary to Young Grangers of FIRST 4-H CLUB CAMP The plan as applied to individual Snell's “safety contest" among cit America, and gave this more official water-users, the construction CAPITOL BUILDING ies is apparently bringing results. standing. Refused to change state Eight Oregon homemakers' camps charge under where a normal re OPEN ON SUNDAYS During May most of the cities of grange election procedure. Required and five 4-H club camps have been turn of $30 would be $1.50 crop per acre the state showed a sharp reduction that local and county grange resolu this summer by the Ore a $20 annual return would result in SALEM—The new state capttol in motor vehicle accidents, with tions be harmonized with state and scheduled gon extension service in co-opera a reduction of the construction building will be open on Sundays Medford showing the best record in national policy before being made tion with county groups in the charge to 50 cents an acre. The during the summer months for the cities of more than 10,000, and La public. largest recreational program of this charge could be reduced to a mini convenience Grande boasting the best record for of out-of-town visitors sort in the eight years since such mum of 15 per cent in years of ex wishing to Inspect cities between 5,000 and 10,000. it. Leg Cut As Car Goes HOKE RE-ELECTED tremely low crop returns. camps were started with Lane The contest also applies to cities The announcement was made by C. H. COAD RESIGNS HEAD OF AG. BOARD PLANNING BOARD Through Wire county’s pioneer effort. under 5,000 but there are so many Secretary of State Earl Snell after of them that the secretary of state s As some camps serve more than many organizations had pleaded for Fence SALEM—The state board of agri office has not yet completed com one county, at least 11 counties will STATE ALLOTMENT the "open house." Visiting hours culture met here Saturday and re pilation of records. Carl H. Coad vice-chairman and be served this year. Individuals in OF WHEAT ACREAGE will be from 10 a. m. until 4 p. m. ADRIAN—Veren Linderman, son elected Mac Hoke, Pendleton, chair The contest started the first of one of the original members of the other counties who care to attend May, will run until the end of the of Mrs. and Mrs. P ,E. Linderman, man and G. A. Brown. Portland, as city planning commission has filed may do so by obtaining an enroll UP 10 PER CENT year, when the figures will be tabu is suffering from a seriously cut leg vice chairman. his resignation with Mayor R. A. ment card from home demonstra 1940 wheat allotment PEOPLE TO VOTE ON lated. City with the best record In as the result of a car, driven by Ray The board voted to hold a re-or- Thompson. No reason for the resig tion agents or the central OSC of will Oregon’s be 851,458 acres. Will Steen of HOTEL LIQUOR BILL each classification—under 5.000, un mond Holly, crashing through a ganization meeting immediately nation nor effective date was given. fice. chairman of the state AAA der 10 , 000 , and over 10,000—will be wire fence, Monday night. after each new governor goes Into As Mayor Thompson is now in homemakers' camps are to Milton, farm program committee has an SALEM—A referendum petition awarded highway plaques to be Holly, an assistant Scout master office. It was the first meeting California on a vacation. Coad will last The from three to five days each, nounced. This allotment is 10 per to give the people a chance to vote mounted in the city limits and had taken a group of Boy Scouts to since Gov. Charles A. Sprague took remain as a member of the com with the cost to each woman ap cent than that received by on the so-called "hotel liquor” bill showing that city has an interest In Big Bend park to participate in a office. mission until Thompson returns and proximately $1 a day, part of which Oregon larger by the last legislature, is on for 1939. baseball game, and was returning to Director J. D. Mickle, recently acts on the resignation. traffic safety. may be met by bringing produce. The increase In the state allot passed file here. Adrian, with Vern riding on the appointed for another term by Gov Aside from a chance to be abso ment is in line with the Increase in The bill provides that the liquor front fender of the car. Just east ernor Sprague, reviewed the work lutely free from household or camp the national wheat allotment an commission may issue or deny li Business Visitors— south of the Adrian bridge done during the last year by the duties these camps afford the wom nounced recently by the Agricultur censes for the sale of liquor by Mr. and Mrs. Sid E. Smith of and car collided with that of department, and asked that the en opportunities for training in Adjustment Administration. The "clubs" and restaurants, and also Blackfoot. Idaho, were business vis Holly's Homer King, who was driving in board work more directly with the ’ROUND TOWN handicrafts, nature study and var al national allotment for 1940 Is 62 maintain a closer supervision of li itors in Nyssa on Thursday. the opposite direction. The impact department in formulating policies. ious forms of recreation. million acres, seven million acres quor problems. of the collision blew out a tire on Then there's Ellis Sto ker who Five 4-H camps have been sched larger than the 1939 allotment. The referendum was filed by the Holly car caused Holly to lose Vacation Trip— TEMPERATURES knows why globe locust trees were uled this year, an increase of one The state allotment soon will be "Commonsens, Inc. a Portland control and and sending it through . . And Grant Lewis driving over last year with Malheur county divided up on a county basis, after group. a barrow pit and a wire fence. Mr and Mrs. C. C. Hunt returned made. On three days within the past Vem's something classy in new coupe . . In for the first time This is the which county AAA committees will leg was cut from his knee to on Tuesday from an 8 day vacation And the crowds week rain has fallen, bringing the his thigh, watching the ditch third year for these camps apportion the county allotment trip which took them to Longview and the attending physi NYSSA MARKETS total to 09 inches. Last Thursday cian. Dr. Maulding of Nyssa, has Portland and Long Beach among individual farmers. The digger at work. . . That foxy new The Multnomah homemakers’ Thursday Quotations .03 Inches was recorded, while on given tetinus and gas gangrene They were joined by their daugh Neon at the Fox auto cabins. state allotment was confirmed al camp was held June 14-17 and the By Wiley flower» Saturday .04 Inches fell and Sunday Klaas Tensen and Roy Pounds al Clackamas county camp June 19-22. most two months earlier than last injections to Vern and Is ter Margaret who is In the appliance most saw .02 inches drop down on thirsty anti-toxin Cream, Orade A ............... year, said Steen, which will make it convincing the ed. about a The remaining schedule is Benton- department of the Idaho Power contemplating on having x-ray pic land. Cream. Grade B ...............— deer that can be used for a fishing possible for farmers to have their Linn, July 19-23; Josephine, July Low High tures taken today to determine if company at Pocatello and then caddy. . . And giving rise to an idea 23-27; Lane-Coos. August 1-6; Des- allotments well In advance of the Date CASH PRICE to the home of their daughter for a Monday morning Liars club. hutes, August 3-6; Wasco. August winter wheat planting season 43 78 gas gangrene Is starting to set In. drove June 15 Eggs, large ----------------- and family. Mr and Mrs. Merrit 63 39 Raymond Holly is the son of Mr. Oreeling at Longview. From there . . “Butch" Burbidge. George Hen- 3-6; and Malheur starting August The wheat allotment for a farm Hens, heavy .................... June 16 48 67 and Mrs Dan Holly of Adrian. June 17 and the rest of the tempor 11 is the basis for the farmer's parti Hens, light and Leghorn the entire party motored for a short neman 49 71 June 18 ary "batches" getting tired of their cipation in all phases of the nation Springs ......... 4-H club camps are Klamath, visit at both Portand and Washing 50 75 In Caldwell— June 19 18 own cooking. . . Heinz Sonnakes al program Including conservation Cockerels ..... ...................... July 10-17 and July 21-29; Jose ton Beach Miss Margaret returned looking happier since the wee wlfey phine. July 27-29; Deschutes, July payments, price 40 77 June 20 Egg Market adjustment pay Nyssa with her parents but re returned . . 43 83 Mrs. J. C. Beam visited with to turned June 21 ( Trade In Price) ments. wheat loans, and crop insur 30-August 2; Wasco, August 8-10, to Pocatello to resume her friends and relatives In Caldwell Water In Owyhee Dam .15 Eggs, large ........................ ance. and Malheur ending August 21. duties the following day Tuesday 604.070 Acre Feet Gaston Elected As Director By Two To One Vote RECORD SET FOR WATER PERMITS succeeds A. L. Fletcher, attorney, who was the first president and was instrumental In forming the club last year. Other officers elected were K. K. Lienkaemper, secretary; C. A. Ab bott, treasuerr; B. T. Frost, first vice president; Dr. E. D. Norcott, second vice president; Frank T. Morgan, third vice president; and directors for the two year term, T. B. Nordale and K. E. Kerby. WILLAMETTE DRILL TEAM WINS FIRST PLACE > Ontario Topples League Leaders » * Arsonist Begins Term In July Safety Contest Showing Results Adrian Boy Seriously Hurt In Auto Accident Monday . * I * Break Shuts Off Water From 6500 Acres of Land /