JOURNAL
77>eNYSSA
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
VOLUM E X X X V , NO. 18___________________________________________________ N YSSA, OREGON, TH UR SD AY, M A Y 9, 1940
Police N ab Two
O n Forgery
C harge
O u tsid e Toilets
Banned By New
C ity O rdinance
W .tailing ton. I). 1. News Bureau of
. the Nyssa Gate City Juurnal
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[ W ASHf>ON,
D. C.—W ith con
gress drawing to a close, the Pacific
northwest states shared very well In
the appropriation bills although not
everything wanted was obtained. At
the last minute $900,000 was appro
priated to enable the reclamation
service to make studies of water re
sources of importance to a dozen
counties in Oregon and Washington
and funds were provided for small
reservoirs. Army engineers have
been authorized to provide a turn
ing basin in Columbia river for
Washougal and Camas and in.th e
Umpqua river at Gardiner. The en
gineers were authorized to improve
the channel at Baker’s bay and at
Arlington and initiate work for new
locks at Oregon City.
Grand Coulee was given more
funds to carry on construction and
Bonneville funds for installing addi
tional generators and six million
dollars for transmission lines to be
built in eastern Washington, east
ern Oregon and down the Columbia
toward Astoria. Money was made
available for perpetration of the fish
runs, which are vital to every com
munity from the mouth of the Co
lumbia to the Snake river.
Defeated was an amendment to
the wage-hour law which would a f
fect all small sawmills and can
neries of the northwest and exempt
the thousands of seasonal workers
in such establishments from the
provisions of the law. Farmers want
ed this amendment; unions opposed
it, and were successful.
GUERNSEYS BOUGHT
BY CARL SEBURN
BOISE, Idaho—The
American
Guernsey Cattle club, Peterborough,
N. H., reports that five registered
Guernsey cows have been sold by
Carl Hipp to Carl Sebum of Nys
sa, Oregon. These animals are Hipp
Farm Marie 621870, Hipp Farm Dot
621869, Hipp Farm Mary Maid
621868, Hipp Farm Julia 621867 and
Hipp Farm Pearl 621866.
Day in Boise—
Mrs. Ray Larson and Mrs. George
J. Mitchell were Wednesday after-
House Guest—
Miss Laurine Dragoo of Boise is
a house guest this week of Mrs. Earl
Marshall.
Return From Montana—
On Wednesday Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Tuttle and their fam ily returned
from a two months stay at Harlow-
town, Montana.
Returns From Ogden—
Mrs. Kenneth Cottle returned on
Sunday from a few days visit to
Ogden.
In Burns—
Charles Paradis left this morning
ing for Burns on business for the
state re-employment office. Mr.
Paradis announced that this district
with headquarters at Ontario placed
fifth in placing workers on payrolls
this last week.
In Nyssa—
Mr. and Mrs. George B. Herring
ton of Portland were in Nyssa on
Wednesday. Mr. Herrington was on
an inspection tour of migratory la
bor camps in the Idaho-Eastern
Oregon sector.
At Nyssa Hospital—
At the Nyssa hospital on May 4th
a son was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Dean Helton of Nyssa. T h e lad has
been named Kenneth Gerald and
Mrs Helton is under the care of
Dr K E. Kerby.
Call From Roswell—
Mr. and Mrs. Councilman o f Ros
well were callers at the Sherwood
home Saturday.
THE W EATHER
Following are the thermometer
readings for the week ending May
8th as given by the Nyssa office of
U. S. Reclamation:
Low High
Date
82
...................... 37
May 2
67
...................... 37
May 3
62
.................. 33
Mav 4
65
. 37
66
.....................30
75
35
M av 7 ......
78
______________ 39
M av 8
Acre feet of water at the Owyhee
reservoir—712.840
Ordinance 264, regulating outside
pit privies, was read and passed at
the Monday night meeting of the
council. In the future no pit
privies may be maintained in any
district served by the sewer system.
Residents who do not care to install
toilets in their residences, must un
der the terms of the ordinance, in
stall toilets in the outhouses and
connect them to the sewer sysem.
Clarification of Ordinance 263
(sewer charges) was made by a mo
tion for amendment by Councilman
Whitaker. The amendment now
specifies clearly that each vacant
lot shall be assessed 7 Vs cents per
lineal foot, which was what the ori
ginal intent was but was worded
that the charge should be 15 cents
per foot, confusing some into
thinking that each lot would be
assessed on the latter figure.
Attorney Fletcher gave the coun
cil a written opinion on the matter
of the sewer charge ordinance. His
opinion, in substance was that the
council was empowered, by the
charter adopted by the voters of
Nyssa on May 11, 1937, to make any
necessary assessment and further
that the council also had the legal
right to compel owners of lots abut
ting on, adjacent to or within a rea
sonable distance from the sewer to
connect to that sewer.
The meeting was adjourned to
meet again Wednesday night for the
purpose of adopting an ordinance
creating a board of commissioners
for adjudging damages on Lots 7,
block 2 and lot 11 block 4 in the
Emiscn addition, in connection with
the clearing up of title to lands in
conjunction with the building of
the subway. A t this adjourned meet
ing the council appointed Bernard
Eastman, Jess Thompson and Louis
P. Thomas on this board.
Rex Ellis
Senator Ellis
Raps Sugar Act
State Senator Rex Ellis, Repub
lican candidate for the United
States Congress from this district,
was in Malheur county the latter
part o f last week and took a healthy
slap at the Sugar Act of 1937 which
forces the American grower to
maintain a high wage level and at
the same time face competition
from sugar raised by labor receiv
ing only 50 to 75 cents a day.
Ellis’ statement on the situation
follows;
’’I f there was ever a group of
farmers who needed legislation to
protect their interests, the sugar
beet farmers are that group. They
are forced by the W age and Hour
law to pay 5 and 6 dollars a day
while the same field workers in the
Philippines receive 50c a day and
in Cuba 75c a day. I t is impossible
for an American farmer with our
present standard of living to com
pete.”
Senator Ellis said that because
we only produce 29% of the sugar
consumed in the United States, that
a substantial tariff or regulation by
SALEM —A total of 538,100 men Congress would allow the govern
and women are eligible to vote in ment to set any price they wish on
Oregon's primary ballots according the price of sugar.
to a tabulation o f registration fig
“ It is disgusting to me,” the Sen
ures by Secretary of State Snell. ator said, "when you hear Secretary
Thus is a gain of 16,875 over the of Agriculture Wallace on the radio
pre-primary registration two years deliberately making statements to
ago.
break the sugar market and crying
A< recapitulation of the registra ‘we must protect the consumer’.”
tion shows that the Republican vot
In Senator Ellis’s opinion, it is
ers continue
in the majority by better to pay 10c for a pound of
21.497. with a registration of 276,- sugar and have the 10c than to be
246 compared to 254,794 in the able to buy it for 5c and not have
Deomcratic ranks. In fact the R e the nickle. He called attention to
publicans registered a net gain of the fact that all new wealh comes
4531 over the Democrats during the out of the ground or the dropping
two years for while the Republicans of livestock and that the American
added 11,114 volunteers to their list farmer from this new wealth cre
since 1938 the Democrats could ac ated, purchases billions of dollars
count for a gain of only 6580 in the worth of automobiles, washing ma
two year period.
chines, radios, etc. This farm pur
W hile the Republicans continue chasing power is the one thing that
in the m ajority for the state as a makes it possible for the consumer
whole the Democrats make the larg or laborer to subsist. So it is better
est showing in thirteen of the state’s for them to pay a little more for
36 counties. These include Baker, their sugar and have a job which
Cclumbia, Coos, Crook, Deschutes, they would not have if it were not
Hiimey, Jefferson. Klamath, Lake, for the purchasing power of the
Malheur, Multnomah, Union and farmer.
Wallowa. A total of 7105 voters who
"Another thing I do not like and
are registered as Independents, So should be corrected is that the fed
cialists, Prohibitionists, etc., will not eral government in all their pam
be able to participate in the pri phlets advocate cane sugar instead
mary elections.
of sugar made from the beet. They
have even gone so far that they re
quire all ice cream to contain 16%
Census Next Week
of cane sugar and yet this same
Final tabulations are under way
government claims they are trying
on the census of Malheur county, to aid the American farmer in
according to Dr. Tyler, supervisor of
building up their purchasing power.
the census for this district, and for
I think the goverment should be
that reason no figuers can be given
more consistent and use some native
n time for this week's issue of the
common sense instead of a lot of
newspapers.
theory.
Dr. Tyler said that he was posi
“For 50 years, before control of
tive that the compilation would be
sugar, the price was approximately
completed in plenty of time for
614 cents per pound, after six years
next weeks issue of weekly news
of federal control, it only averages
papers.
5*4 cents per pound. There is some
thing rotten somewhere and it is
not in Denmark nor Norway.”
Car Sub Dealers
Senator Ellis said that he was
Bert Lienkaemper
and Charles
pleased by the reception given him
Leuck. operators of the Pawell Serv
over the district and expressed re
ice Station, have been appointed lo
grets that he had to leave Nyssa.
cal dealers for Chevrolet in Nyssa,
to cover the rest of the territory,
according to an announcement from
without meeting all of his friends.
Cables Chevrolet company of On
tario, Chevrolet dealers for Malheur
Tuesday In Boise—
county.
Mrs. Margaret Lynch with her
sister. Mrs. George Cornelius of
Drivers Exam
Payette visited with a sister In Boise
A traveling examiner of operators on Tuesday.
and chauffeurs is scheduled to ar
Nyssa N. Y. A. Gets R a t in g -
rive in Nyssa on Wednesday. May
On May 1st, E. B. Nedry and Mr.
15. and will be on duty at the city
hall between the hours of 10 a. m. Vorelikey. state supervisors of N.
Y. A. from Portland, visited the
to 5 p m
Nyssa High school and inspected
All those wishing permits or li
the N Y. A., giving it an excellent
censes to drive cars are asked to
rating.
get in touch with
the examiner
during these hours.
TO Take Motor Trip—
Mr. and Mrs. R. Cornell and
In Boise Hospital—
James are planning to leave on Sun
Bob Freeman Is in St. Lukes hos day on a motor trip to California
pital recovering from an operation and later through the southern and
performed there on Wednesday.
eastern states.
G. 0 . P. Voters
Lead In State
The Nyssa police last Saturday
night arrested Edward J. Noel and
Clark L. Edwards on a forgery
^charge for Sheriff Muir of Payette
County.
Sheriff Muir called the local po
lice office and reported to Patrol
man Langton that his office was
holding warrants for the two. gave
Langton the automobile license
number, and a few minutes later
Langton and Chief Cook had the
two under arrest.
Noel and Bkiwards had payroll
checks of the F H. Hogue company
in their possession at the time of
their arrest, one of which had been
forged and passed on a local drug
gist for $15. This money was later
recovered by the police.
Some time after the two men’s
arrest, a Bernice Crump, said to be
a friend of the two, was also placed
under arest, but was later turned
loose, there being no charge on
which to hold her.
The two Cien were turned over
to Sheriff Muir's officers Monday
noon.
Both men were parolees from
Idaho. Noel having been paroled on
a grand larceny charge and Ed
wards on a forgery charge.
4-H Spring Fair
Date Given
The 4-H Spring Fair will be held
on Friday and Saturday, May 24
and 25 at the public school in On
tario according to E. M. Hauser,
county club agent.
All exhibits must be in by noon
Thursday, May 23, as the various
classes will be judged during the
afternoon and the exhibits placed
on display for the opening of the
show on Friday. Exhibits will be
judged according to quality o f work,
and grouped into blue-ribbon, red-
ribbon and ribbon-of-merit classes.
Miss Helen‘Stftvgill, assistant state
club leader, will judge the exhib
its as well as the contests that con
stitute a part of this event.
As all 4-H club home economirs
projects except canning are carried
on during the winter months, this
Spring Fair gives the club members
an opportunity to exhibit the ar
ticles they have made as soon as
their project work has been com
pleted.
Clothing, cooking, homemaking,
room improement, as well as the
boys woodworking projects and
bachelor sewing will constitute most
of the work on display at this time.
The exhibits will be on display in
the new grade school auditorium.
COUNTY HERDS
HELPED BY STATE
SALEM —The state board of con
trol is co-operating with Malheur
county ranchers in their effort to
increase dairy herds and provide
a profitable source of consumption
for their surplus hay crops. Heifer
calves from the state herds at the
penitentiary and
state hospital
farms are being sold to Malheur
county buyers at a very low price,
the board announced this week.
Depletion of the sheep bands which
formerly consumed much o f the hay
grown in that section has resulted
in a serious situation with farmers
unable to dispose of their crops. The
introduction of dairy herds into
southeastern Oregon, it 4s said, will
also enable that section to meet the
needs for milk and butter through
local production.
New Comers Arrive—
A daughter was bom to Mr. and
Mrs. Guy Johnston of the Owyhee
at the family home on M ay 6th.
A daughter was bom to Mr. and
Mrs. Jim Savage at the Holy R o
sary hospital in Ontario on May 3rd.
A daughter was bom to Mr. and
Mrs. J W. G riffith at the fam ily'
home in Homedale on M ay 7th.
Dr. K. E. Kerby is caring for all
three mothers and their little ones.
'ROUND TOWN
Hear that John Leinhardt does
not care for numbers on the back
of his working jeans . . . . and
Herschel Thompson returned Just
in time to escape the law on that
meal check . . . . Lucian W ray with
his watering pot doing a daily
“ Mary. Mary, quite contrary” act
. . . . the sprout on the Bob Thomp
son fam ily tree
objecting loudly
and emphatically to being shorn
. . . . Don’t forget the muslcale at
the gym tonight.
$1.50 PER YEAH
M others Day M a y 12
ElectricCo-op
G e ts Generator
Funds From R E A
Fall Festival
Com m ittee To
M e e t Here
In a press release from teh Rural
Electrification Administration, Har
ry Slattery, administrator, has an
nounced that the Malheur County
Co-operative Electric Association
(Willowcreek) had approval of their
application for R. E. A. funds
amounting to $30,000 to provide gen
erating facilities.
This co-operative in the past has
received $108,000 for the construc
tion of 115 miles of power line and
an additional $10,000 for the wiring
of member’s homes.
The co-operative is composed of
some 347 members at the present
time.
The generating plant to be in
stalled will be of the mobile type,
which is now undergoing final tests
preparatory to going into service in
the state of Illinois.
The Nyssa Fall Festival commit
tee will hold its first meeting this
year next Monday, May 13.
Notices will be sent to all clubs
that participated last year, with
additional clubs to be included in
the list.
Tlie membership of the commit
tee this year will be much the saipe
as it was last year, as each club,
almost without exception, re-elected
their committeemen to serve for an
other year.
This first meeting will be given
over to election of officers and lay
ing preliminary plans for the Sec
ond Annual Nyssa Fall Festival.
N yssa Loses To
W e ise r In Title
Conference G am e
A heart-breaking seventh inning
in a playoff game with Weiser re
moved the Nyssa Bulldog baseball
nine from the Snake River Valley
championship race here yesterday.
The final score was 4 to 3.
It was a single by Shanafelt of
the Wolverines that provided the
winning margin in the seventh in
ning of the game. The only earned
run of the Weiser squad was driven
in from third on the hit.
Nyssa nabbed an early lead in the
game, scoring a run in the first half
of the first inning.
In the second a long hard clout
through the far corner of the field
o ff the powerful bat
of Harry
Choat increased the margin to two
runs. The homer was Harry's sec
ond in reecnt games. He defeated
Vale the week before by a similar
hit in the seventh inning.
Undaunted, Adams, Weiser pitch
er, struck out the next man up to
retire the side, one hit, one run,
no errors, and three strikeouts.
In the last o f the second a W ei
ser man scored from third on a
passed ball to make the score 2 to 1.
In the first of the fifth “ Shud”
Short connected with a single with
Holmes on third and drove in the
rangy Nyssa moundsman for the
third counter of the Blue and
White.
A wild pitch by “Missouri” in the
last half netted another score for
the Wolverines.
A squeeze play in the sixth tied
the score for Weiser. The batter
bunted towards the pitcher's mound.
"Missouri” Holmes retreived the ball
and threw to Malone at the plate.
The runner from third slid to
wards home, and the umpire called
him safe, a decision not at all popu
lar with the local fans.
The Bulldogs couldn't get on in
their part of the seventh and 8han-
afelt’s single in the last half put the
ball game on ice for Weiser.
Holmes allowed only four hits
while Adams of Weiser allowed sev
en. Nyssa gained three earned runs
to one for Weiser.
"Missouri" went the route the day
before with Vale and was handi
capped by a sore and tired arm
throughout the game.
The squad earned the right to
play Weiser Monday when they de
feated the Vale Vikings with a hit
ting barrage, 16 to 8.
TWO WEEKS LEFT
IN COOKERY QUIZ
Six hundred entries from 68
towns in southern Idaho and East
ern Oregon gave proof of the con
tinued interest in the “ I. Q. Cook
ery Test” the Electrical Equipment
Sales Association, sponsors of the
contest, said in announcing the
winners for the seventh week.
First prize, the new Ward’s range,
was awarded to Mrs. M. B. McCoy
of Wendell. Mrs. McCoy will be
placed in the other weekly first prize
winners In competition for the elec
tric dishwasher and sink which is
being given as a grand prize at the
close of the contest. May 18 is the
last day o f competition.
Electrical Equipment Sales Asso
ciation officials announce that there
are two more weekly contests still
open to all housewives. Entries for
this week—Monarch range week—
closes Saturday night. Local electri
cal dealers have contest entry blanks
available.
LEINHARDT BACK;
RE-APPOINTED TO
FAIR BOARD
John Leinhardt, former chairman
of the Malheur County Fair Board,
returned from the Bremerton Navy
Yard, where he started to work as
a machinist two weeks ago last
Sunday.
The county court appointed him
back on the fair board, according
to Leinhardt, and he is looking fo r
ward to the completion of the plans
that he and his fellow board mem
bers had worked out for the com
ing county fair.
Llenhardt said that the machine
shop in which he was working in
Bremerton Is one o f the largest and
best equipped in the world, employ
ing some 7,000 men.
Strict supervision is kept over
every workman or visitor to the
Navy Yard, according to Leinhardt.
Subw ay Bids To
Be Let By End
O f M ay
The bids fo the construction of
Ny&sa’s subway will be advertised
-ometime the latter part o f May.
according to the delegation from
the Nyssa Chamber of Commerce
whe went to Portland to meet with
th i Oregon State Highway Commis-
ricn last week. The Job will be let
c the successful contractor provid
ing that the matter of the pur
chase of the property in the Emi-
son addition has been consumated.
With the elimination of this very
remote “ i f ” there is every possibil
ity that construction on the subway
should be started around June 15.
When construction does start it is
estimated that it will be approxi
mately a year before the subway is
completed.
While the construction of the sub
way is anxiously awaited by Nyssa
residents, other construction is
either going ahead or contemplated.
Among the better class construc
tion as a result of the possibility of
the subway is the $10,000 building
of the Eder Hardware company,
work on which started Monday
when Contractor Fife started exca
vation. Then there is the proposed
new depot of the Union Pacific. A l
ready completed is the new build
ing of A ! Thompson and Son, feed
and grain dealers.
Templer Resigns
As Music Head
The Nyssa Union High school
board received three teachers resig
nations Wednesday night from A l
vin E. Templer music instructor;
Miss Ellen Palmer and Miss Helen
Stevens. All three resignations were
accepted by the board.
Templer’s resignation will come as
a surprise to a host of his friends,
who had hoped that he would re
main at his present position through
another school year. He plans to re
sume his studies in music and
teaching. Miss Palmer is likewise
going to further her teaching edu
cation, while Miss 8tevens has an
nounced her engagement to Wesley
Sherman, the wedding to take place
in June.
WARRANT BONDS
TO BE SOLD
The city council is offering the
city warrant funding bonds for sale,
according to an adertlsement ap
pearing in this issue of the Nyssa
Journal.
The bonds total $7497.73 and will
be in denominations of $500, will
bear interest from April 1 of this
year and will be retired at the rate
of $1000 per year. All the bonds are
sold on an optional basis and will
be subject to refunding on any in
terest-paying date after one year
from the date of issue, upon 30
days’ notice.
Bids for the bonds will be re
ceived by City Recorder Solomon
up to and including May 27, 1940
when the bids will be opened and
awarded to the highest bidder.
LOCAL CATTLE ON
PORTLAND MARKET
A carload of fat steers, bought
from M. Hart by Dick Tensen and
William Hipp were taken to Port
land last Friday. George Nein ac
companied Tensen to Portland.
This Is another step toward estab
lishing Nyssa as a stock buying cen
ter for the Snake River Valley.
The Nyssa Sales yard now owned by
Floyd Robison, has entered the field
on dairy cows and hogs. Robison is
now conducting his sales on Friday,
to afford outside buyers a chance
to attend the Nyssa sale.
Frank Kullander Is another buy
er of hogs who is shipping regular
ly out of Nyssa each week.
T o Leave For Portland—
On Saturday Miss Vera Garrison
HOGUE PACKING
with Mrs. W. Morey and Miss Abble
SHED TO RUN
Woodard of Jamieson, will motor to
Portland where they will visit rela
The F. H. Hogue packing shed in tives and friends for a week.
Nyssa will be in full operation about
June 15. according to Tom Eldridge,
MARKETS
manager.
Thnrsday Quotations
A t the present time Eldridge is
By WUey Clowers
spending Wednesday and Saturday
.25
of each week in the local office Cream, Premium _____________
.24
taking contracts on fall lettuce Cream, Orade 1 .......
acreage.
Cream, Grade 2 __________
.22
CASH PRICE
Eldridge said that from present
indications there would be a very Hens, heavy colo red _____________ .10
heavy planting of lettuce this fall. Hens, light and Leghorn ______ .06
Springs, heavy ________________ .12
Springs, light and L e g h o rn _____ .10
Called East—
M r and Mrs Keith Bailey left S t a g s ____________________________ 06
.06
on Thursday evening last for Den Cockerels
Trade-In Eggs
ver called there by the sudden
L a r g e _________
.11
death o f a near relative.