Image provided by: Nyssa Public Library; Nyssa, OR
About Nyssa gate city journal. (Nyssa, Or.) 1937-199? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 11, 1940)
4 raeNYSSA Published at Nyssa, Oregon, JOURNAL GATEWAY TO THE OWYHEE AND BLACK CANYON IRRIGATION PROJECTS IN THE HEART OF OREGON’S SUGAR EMPIRE Fastest Growing City In Oregon VOLUME XXXV, NO. 1_________________________________________ NYSSA, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY, 11, 1940 ROAD Rebekahs Sponsor FEDERAL FUNDS FOR OREGON 3 Act Mystery SALEM—Oregon will have $2,- Comedy Play 595,000 In federal funds for use on ADRIAN HI SCHOOL Bond Election GROUNDS TO BE IMPROVED Next Monday The county courts of Malheur, Grant and Harney counties post COUNTY COURTS POSTPONE MEET $1.50 PER YEAR Plans Complete On Livestock of the city of Nyssa will ADRIAN (Special)—The Works Tour poned their meeting at which they go Voters to the polls next Monday to vote Progress Administration has approv were to select a senator for the un "Mystery at Midnight," the thrill its state highway system during the expired term of Robert Duncan, re on the issuance of bonds in an ed an allotment of $6,426 to improve ONTARIO—Arrangements for the ing three-act mystery comedy with year beginning July 1, according to cently appointed as circuit court amount of slightly in excess of the high school grounds, seeding, Washington, D. C. News Burean of the Nyssa Gate City Journal WASHINGTON, D. C.—Legislative influence of Washington and Ore gon will be exerted to have restor ed many of the cuts made by Presi dent Roosevelt in the budget. As soon as the budget became public and the slashes weer apparent, a movement was started to get more money for Bonneville and Grand Coulee. The latter was given an es timate of $12,000,000 for fiscal year 1941 (it was $23,000,000 for the cur rent fiscal 1940), and Bonneville was cut to $6,000,000. Representatives of the two states will appear before the ways and means committee of the house and present arguments for larger sums. Backers of Grand Coulee are an xious to expedite completion of that project; Bonneville boosters want four more generators installed. With present installation and gen erators being manufactured, Bon neville will have six. The complete plan calls for ten units. Slow Bell For Reclamation Reclamation will proceed under a slow bell. At the last minute there was stricken from the budget an estimate for a tunnel to drain the waters from Tule lake into lower Klamath lake. Until this project is undertaken, Klamath Palls will con tinue to be subjected to dust storms. Deschutes project Is cut a few thou sand dollars, but remains at prac tically $400,000. Work will continue on Wickiup and the 500 CCC en- rollees will be available. Bonneville Funds If congress does not increase the budget for Bonneville there will still be an abundance of funds to build transmission lines from Pasco to Midway and Midway to Ellensburg; from Pasco to Pendleton and Pen dleton to La Grande, and Pasco to Colfax. Funds will be available to construct a transmission line from St. Johns to Astoria, down the Co lumbia river; another from St. Johns to Tillamook. Money will be ready for a survey for a line into Waldport, Lincoln county, and while work is progress ing along the coast counties of Ore gon, a survey will be made from Bonneville up the Deschutes to Bend, in central Oregon. Budget May Curtail Surveys There will be curtailment of ac tivities of the biological survey and the fisheries bureau, unless congress disregards the budget recommenda tions—both services very important to the Pacific Northwest. Also hard hit are various functions of the de partment of agriculture in Oregon and Washington. I . I In Emmett— Mr. and Mrs. Al Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Thompson, with Mr. and Mrs. Bob Thompson and Mr. and Mrs. Hershel Thompson and their children, were Sunday dinner guests at the Charles Thompsons in Emmett. WEATHER NOT SO BAD Temperatures for the past year have ranged from 11 above to 108 above with mean temperature for the year standing at 51.9 degrees above, according to U. S. Reclama tion office records. The hottest day of the year was on July 8th and the coldest days were of December 24th and 25th. Total precipitation for the year amounted to 5.56 inches with the wettest day of the year being Sep tember 12th when .55 of an inch fell in the 24-hour period. The last freeze of the spring was on April 18th and the first autumn freeze came on September 30th. On February 6th the only wind of any velocity struck this area and blew the roof off the grandstand at the high school athletic field. Altogether there were 213 clear days. 73 cloudy days and 79 partly cloudy. Following are the thermometer readings for the past week as given by the U. S. Reclamation offices of Nyssa. Date Low High Prec. .....28 45 04 Jan. 4 .......23 47 Jan. 5 .... ......30 40 Jan. 6 ......37 38 .12 Jan. 7 ____ .......20 37 .27 Jan. t .... ......30 52 08 Jan. 9 .. ....... 19 48 . Jan. 10 ._ musical specialties sponsored by the local Rebekah lodge, will be pre sented in the Nyssa Theatre on Fri day evening, January 19. The entire cast is made up of Nyssa people, who will display their Individual acting ability in this per formance. There is the tough, hard- boiled bus driver, Jack Murphy, played by Hershel Thompson, who, together with the stranger, Art Cook, are implicated in a robbery. The wice-cracking, noisy detec tive, who manages to elude even the theives themselves is acted by Art Norcott. Detective Briggs, as he is known, wades through the most in tricate bunch of clues that has ever been thrown together in one plot. Of course he finally finds the guilty persons. Charles Ryan makes his appear ance on the stage as Professor Rockbottom, an advanced student in the study of archeology. So if “Charlie” is seen gazing at rock formations, you can rest assured he is deeply involved in the impersona tion of his character in “Mystery at Midnight.” Ralph Norris, the hero played by Glea Billings, adds much to the professional touch of the stage. Mrs. Earl Marshall, the young, at tractive heroine, gives the imper sonation of Bonnie Baker convinc ing realism. Tom Foster, portrayed by Louis Thomas, is the cock-sure individual who persists on boasting of his abil ity at most anything. Kermit Lienkaemper takes the roel of the deliberate, painstaking judge who weighs the evidence of his closest associates. You will en joy the antics of the giddy flapper, Sally Grant, as portrayed by Mrs. Bob Thompson. She is particularly fond of men and shows little or no partiality from the oldest to the youngest male members of the cast. Just what would a home talent play be without an old maid? This por tion of the production has been placed In the hands of Mrs. William Schireman, who is forty, but, my how she wishes she were twenty. Her fainting spells will amuse the most critical. Mrs. Halloway, acted by Mrs. Laura McCoy, is an extremely .ich individual, who Is more or less self- confident and self-satisfied. The cast is well rounded out by Bernice Martin, who takes the part of Sarah, an East-Indian maid. The play is under the direction of Miss Gene Bennett with piano accompaniment by Mrs. Harold Fletcher. The stage presentations are sched uled to start promptly at 8:07 Fri day evening. Admission prices have been set at 10, 25and 35 cents. Everyone in the community is urged to attend this performance. Plan For Seed Growers Co-op Approximately 60 farmers and seed growers met in the Boulevard Grange hall Tuesday, with H. H. Huron, president and manager of the Blue Mountain Seed Growers Association and Harry G. Avery, county agricultural agent for Un ion county, to discuss the advisa bility of forming a seed growers as sociation in Malheur county. Harry Endicott, assistant agricul tural agent for Malheur county, acted as chairman for the meeting. After considerable discussion, it was brought out that there was a need for such an organization in the county, that there was evidence that there could be brought into such an organization such seed to make the project a paying proposition to the farmers. A committee was elected to ar range for other meetings of a sim ilar nature throughout the county to get the expression of opinion of farmers and seed growers in those sections as to whether ther would join in the proposed organization. To this committee were elected M. W. Osborne. Nyssa; K. I. Peter son, Adrian; Chirs Rookstool, Lin coln Heights; Evan P. Oheen, On tario; and J. E. Butler. Vale, who is also a temporary director of the Blue Mountain organization. This committee will meet, prob ably next Monday night, and work out plans to visit the various Orange organizations througtout the county and arrange community meetings to discuss the organization. Daughter Visits— Mr. and Mrs J. B. Peckham of Antioch. Calif., arrived on Wednes day for a visit with Mrs. Peckham'» parents. Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Boydell. word received from Washington by R. H. Baldock, state highway en gineer. Of this amount $1,884,000 has been allocated to regular fed eral aid highways, $245,900 for sec ondary highways, $335,000 for grade separations and $129,200 for public lands roads. judge. Bad road conditions was given as the reason for the postponement. The new date for the meeting, ac cording to Judge Graham, is Wed nesday, January 17, the meeting place, Burns, being unchanged. AGENCY OFFICIAL IN NYSSA State Corn Champ Receives Cup At David W. Evan, vice-president of Stevens and Wallis, advertising Nyssa Dinner agency of Salt Lake City, and Lloyd S. Brooks, sales representative of the Amalgamated Sugar company, with offices in Portland, were in Nyssa the fore part of this week in the interest of an advertising cam paign that will shortly be put on in the interest of White Satin sugar, the trade name for sugar produced by the Amalgamated Sugar com pany. The campaign will be in the na ture of colored moving pictures, ac cording to Evans, who is touring Oregon, in company with Brooks, lining up material to be used. FSA Approves 5 Purchases W. N. Young, county supervisor of the Farm Security Administration, announced Tuesday that his office had approved the purchase of five farms under the farm tenant pur chase plan. The total cost of the purchase, which includes the lands purchased, the improvements and necessary new construction, was $44,599. The new owners will be given 40 years in which to repay the loan, with an interest rate of three per cent. Those to whom the loans have been made are Eric Boenig, Paul Stevens, Earl Winegar, Joe Dlrksen and David Mitchell. Title to the properties sold must be cleared by the former owners, Young said in his announcement. Dilley Appointed Local Agent A t Huntington Edgar Dilley, service man for the Idaho Power company at Nyssa, has been appointed local agent for the company at Huntington, according to an announcement made this week by L. W. Brainard, division manager for the company. Dilley will succeed J. A. Mc- Creight, who has been transferred to Parma. Perry F. Ward, who has been service man in Ontario, will take over Dilley’s duties in Nyssa. Business Group To M eet Again Tonight Fifteen business men were pres ent at a meeting held last Friday in the city hall, for the purpose of or ganizing a club. No definite action was taken on the actual formation of the club, those present confining themselves to their opinions on what should be done to attract trade to Nyssa and welcoming new business enterprises into Nyssa. Frank Warren, owner of Peggy’s Pantry, was elected as temporary chairman of the group. Another meeting has been called for tonight at 7:30 p. m. in the city hall. Department Thanked C. C. Bates, owner of the house that was fired by an explosion last week, asked that the Nyssa Jouranl carry his thanks for the efficient manner in which the Nyssa volun teer fire department worked in put ting the fire out. “I Just want the boys of the department to know that I sure appreciate their work and anything that I can do to help the department out, Just count me in on it.” Bates said. Attend Dance— Among those from Nyssa who at tended the Leap Year ball In Cald well on Tuesday evening were Mr. and Mrs. A. V. Cook. Mr and Mrs. Oeorge McKee and Mr and Mrs Charles Paradis. Highlighting a dinner given by the Nyssa Chamber of Commerce, in honor of those who won prizes at the State Corn Show last fall, was the awarding of the state championship cup to young Wilbur Stewart of Valley View, as sweep- stake champion and first prize win ner in the open class. K. W. Black, whose corn took first place in the growing contest, was not present to $25,000. Money from the bonds will be used to retire outstanding city war rants and interest amounting to $7,364.79, and would allow the city to operate on a cash basis. This warrant indebtedness is just about the amount inherited from the for mer city government. Also, the city water bonds and improvement bonds, both carrying 6 per cent in terest would be retired, if the vot ers pass favorably on the Issue. The polls for the election will be in the city hall opening at 8 a. m. and closing at 8 p. m. Judges and clerks for the election named by Mayor Thompson are Lillian Newby, W. B. Hoxie, Ethel Crawford and Mae E. Davis. Interest of the members of the Chamber of Commerce in the com ing election has prompted some of them to offer to canvass the city with cars, to take voters to the polls so that a representative vote may be cast. Individually, most, if not all, of the members are in favor of the bonds, but no action was taken by thè Chamber of Commerce as a body. GAME COMMISSION TO HOLD HEARING PORTLAND—The annual hearing of the state game commission per taining to angling regulations will be held In Portland on February 16. at which time sportsmen's or ganizations and others interested will be given an opportunity to sub mit their recommendations concern ing seasons and bag limits for game Wilbur Stewart, State Corn fish. Of particular interest is the pro Champion; George Stewart, for posed of coastal waters to three years winner in the 4-H fishing closure for trout over ten inches in club class, and the boys' father, length for a period of about three George Stewart. months for the purpose of protect ing cut-throat trout coming in from receive his trophy. Seventy-two p tn x u attended the the ocean to spawn in the streams. dinner, the first of its kind to be held In the county. Chairman for the evening was Frank T. Morgan, Night School To secretary of the Nyssa Chamber of Commerce, who introduced the spe Hear Talk On cial speakers of the evening, Chet Davenport, general manager of the Weed Control Michael Leonard Seed company, William DeGroft; Russell M. Mc- Harry Endicott, assistant county Kennon, Malheur county agent; J. agricultural agent, is scheduled to W. Bushong, principal of the Nyssa to the farmers attending the Union High school; Robert Sawyer, speak farmers night school, at its next agricultural instructor of the Nyssa session, Monday, January 15 at 8 Union High school and advisor to m. the Nyssa chapter of the Future P. The farmers night school was in Farmers of America; and Charles last Monday night, with Smith, a member of the board of di- augurated 14 farmers attending, according to restors of the State Corn Show and Robert Sawyer, instructor. in charge of the Oregon State Ex Endicott will speak on weed con tension service. its cost and best methods. The Speakers paid special tribute to trol, present program of the county court the winners of the Malheur county on weed control will be discussed and state shows. In presenting the award to the also, according to Sawyer. state champion, Smith called at tention to the fact that farmers in the state of Oregon do not grow Herd Improvement enough corn to fulfill the state consumption, pointing out that last Association To year farmers in the state raised only 60,000 acres of com, whereas Be Formed this acreage should be doubled. Of the 61,000 acres grown in the state. Smith said, Malheur county grew, A meeting to organize and elect officers of a Malheur County Dairy last year, about 8,600 acres. Announcement was also made at Herd Improvement association will the dinner of the contemplated be held at the Nyssa city hall Sat plans for the 1940 Malheur county urday, January 13 at 2:00 p. m., ac com show, which will again be cording to an announcement from sponsored by the Nyssa Chamber of the county agent's office. Commerce. The plans call for a sev Malheur county is the only ma en-day exhibit instead of the two- jor dairying county in Oregon which day show as has been the custom does not already have one of these in the past. No definite dates for cow testing associations in opera the show were announced but it tion. will be scheduled so as to preceed This meeting is open to anyone Interested in dairying whether they the state show. wish to become members of the as sociation or not. The purposes and In Caldwell— Mr. and Mrs. Bert B. Lienkaemper operatlaons of such an organization were business visitors in Caldwell on will be discussed. There have been requests for or Wednesday afternoon. ganization of one from various dairymen of the county for some Mother Visits— Mrs. Austin Kerby with a friend time. Testing will begin as soon aft from Boise visited at the home of er formation of the association as her son. Dr. K. E. Kerby and Mrs. possible, possibly by February 1. Cow testing associations are the Kerby on Tuesday. basis of successful and profitable improvement of quality and produc in dairy animals. Attention to 'ROUND TOWN tion Increased production is the best way Hear Abner, the wizened pig at of developing a sound and extensive A1 Thompson's feed store is taking dairying industry in the county. on that sleek appearance of how the well-fed hog should look since Return From Kansas— A1 put him on that hog chow diet Mr. and Mrs. Bemice Olbson and . . . . no need for skis in these parts their son Oerald with Floyd Rogers —aright use a good mud scow, returned on Saturday from a trip to though . . . . the Dilleys will be Palco, Kansas. missed at the bank and the Idaho Power . . Butch with some ori Granddanghter Born— ginal ideas for a spud trim for the Mr. and Mrs. Andrew McGinnis windows . . . and they are still ac received word this week that a cepting Finnish relief funds at the daughter was bom to Mr. and Mrs. bank. R. C. Cantrall at Orass Valley, Ore gon. on Sunday morning. leveling and landscaping the school grounds, constructing irrigation lines, surfacing bus lanes and park ing space, and incidental and ap purtenant work operation. The state work project administration is in charge of this project. This work started today under the supervision of Mr. Linderman. APPEAL MADE FOR COMPLETION OF SEAL SALES ONTARIO (Special)—With the advent of 1940, the local Christmas Seal committee urges this resolu tion for the new year: “I will look up my Christmas Seals and pay for them at once.” There are a number of seals un accounted for. A complete list is kept of every name to which Christ mas Seals are mailed and of the number sent. In this way the com mittee is able to account for every seal. “Before a complete report can be made, every seal mailed out must be accounted for. We know that a number of seals are probably mis laid and have been forgotten in the Christmas rush. We urge those who can to make a contribution for anti tuberculosis work to do so at once. Those who cannot afford to keep their seals are asked to help the committee complete Its work by re turning the seals,” Mrs. McAuley, chairman, said. To Make Plans For Spud Week A committee, composed of mem bers of the Nyssa Chamber of Com merce and local potato growers, will meet Monday, January 15, at 8 p. m. for the purpose of completing plans for Potato Week to be held in Nyssa from Friday, January 19 to Wed nesday, January 24, the day of the arrival of the Union Pacific Potato Train. Tentative plans call for every business house in Nyssa to display potatoes during the week, with $10 in prizes being offered by the Nyssa Chamber of Commerce for the three best displays, first prize will be $5, second $3 and third $2. A special matinee at the Nyssa Theatre is being planned for that afternoon, for the wives of the farm ers who will take in the “spud train.” The Union Pacific special potato demonstration train will ar rive in Nyssa at 1:30 p. m. and re main until 4:30. ODD FELLOWS TO HOLD MEETINGS second annual Malheur county live stock feeders' tour scheduled for Tuesday, January 16. have been completed, according to an an nouncement by R. M. McKennon, county agent, who is conducting this tour of several cattle and lamb feed lots in the county. The tour will start at 10:00 a. m. at the R. H. Woods place across the road from the Jefferson school- house in the northern part of the Oregon Slope community. The Woods place Is just two miles south of Weiser Junction. From there the tour will visit ieed lots of Fred Christenson and C. P. Yunudt on Oregon Slope and will arrive at the Boulevard Grange hall for a noon lunch to be served by the home economics committee of the Boulevard Grange at a nominal charge. Following the lunch a short program on livestock fattening and marketing will be held. The tour will then go to the Fred Trenkel lamb feeding operations. Following this the Frank Morgan feed lot north of Nyssa will be vis ited and finally the tour will end at the Amalgamated Sugar company lots in Nyssa where 4000 head of steers are being fattened. The tour should be completed by 4:00 p. m. Arrangements will probably be made for anyone on the tour who de sires to go through the Amalgam ated Sugar company factory imme diately following the tour. This tour has been arranged for several reasons, says McKennon. It is believed that operators v/ho are fattening livestock now or who may expect to fatten livestock in the future will be interested in observ ing the practical methods being used by successful feeders. The tour also will give attention to the prac ticability of increasing the num bers of livestock fattened in Mal heur county. The winter fattening of livestock represents one of the major possibilities of handling feed surpluses produced here. On the noon program and also attending the tour will be D. E. Richards, superintendent of the Eastern Oregon Livestock Experi ment station; R. L. Clark, livestock commission man from Portland, and H. A. Lindgren, extension animal husbandman. These men will be prepared to discuss feeding and marketing problems at the feed lots and will touch briefly on these fac tors during the noon program. All farm men and women as well as businessmen of the county are in vited to attend this tour. If weather conditions are bad it may be nec essary to visit fewer feed yards and to lengthen the noon time program on feeding and management. Re gardless of weather conditions, how ever, the tour will start as sched uled and will gather at the Boule vard Grange hall at noon. People who are unable to go to Oregon Slope for the beginning of the tour may meet the group at the Boule vard hall at noon. Odd Fellows lodges in the Snake river valley will hold a loop meet ing in Ontario, Friday, January 12, according to M. F. Solomon, secre tary of the Nyssa lodge. Another important meeting will be that of a joint meeting to be held also In Ontario by the lodges from Nyssa, Vale and Ontario. At this meeting J. O. Steele, grand master of the Oregon Jurisdiction, Nyssa basketball fans will be will pay his annual official visit, treated to three games slated for and will hear the annual reports of the week-end by the Nyssa high school team. Two of these games the three lodges. will be played on the local court. Tomorrow night Nyssa will travel SERVICES FOR to Ontario with both the first and second teams playing. The first GEORGE SMITH game will start at 7:30 p. m. Nyssa and Ontario Odd Fellows Saturday night, Adrian comes to gathered Sunday afternoon to pay town with two teams to match their their last respects to Oeorge Oscar basket shooting ability against the Nyssa teams. The first game will Smith, Adrian. Smith, a member of the Odd Fel start at 8 p. m. in the local gym. lows since July 21, 1897, was a Past Orand and member of the Philltar- B. W. Dimm Diet ian lodge, I. O. O. F. and the On tario Encampment, 45 of Ontario. Services were held in the local On Wednesday, Jan 10th funeral Methodist church with the Rev. services were held at the Methodist Millard Scherlch delivering the ser church for Boyd Wilson Dimm who mon, which was followed by the passed away at the Nyssa hospital Odd Fellows funereal ritual. Inter on Friday. Jan. 5th, from wounds ment was in the Nyssa cemetery. and Injuries received when he fell Pall bearers, all members of the from a wagon. Dimm was 68 years Ontario Encampment, were: J. B. old. Hambleton, Daniel Booth, Wesley Blanton, J. C. Greer, J. E. Caldwell MARKETS and M. F. Solomon. Funeral directions were in charge Thanday Quotations of the Nyssa Funeral home. By Wiley Clowers Cream. Grade A ................. .30 From Jordan Valley— .28 Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Noble of Cream. Grade B ,............... CASH PRICE Jordan Valley arrived on Wednes 09 day for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Hens, heavy --- J. R Hunter at the 8tar hotel. Hens, light and Leghorn_____.OS Springs .......... .09 Stags _____________________ .05 Patient Improves— Mias Agnes Gregg*, who has been Cockerels____________________.03 Trade-In Eggs critically ill of pneumonia, is now improving. She is staying with Mrs. L arg e_______________________.15 Jennie Talbot Medium ........ .12 3 Games Slated Nyssa Bulldogs
