COMING EVENTS N Y SSA FALL FESTIVAL SEPT. 6 - 7 M A L H E U R 'C O U N T Y FAIR A U G . 31]- SEPT. I - 2 &>. JOURNAL 77>eNYSSA Published at Nyssa, Oregon, GATEWAY TO THE OWYHEE AND BLACK CANYON IRRIGATION PROJECTS IN THE HEART OF OREGON’S SUGAR EMPIRE _________ NYSSA, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1940 VOLUME XXXV, NO. 31 ---------- — -------- AT A t H Ö M _ -i^Y r rV v ^lil mm /F ^ - W ash in g to n , U. C. N ew s B u re a u of th e N yssa G a te C ity J o u r n a l WASHINGTON, D C —One of the three places in the United States where army tanks will be assembled is Fort Lewis, near Olympia, Wash. Monterey, Calif., and some point on the Atlantic coast are the other two places. There will be 26 battalons of tanks (assorted sizes) and there are 36 tanks to a battalion. The 936 tanks have been ordered and officers are just discovering that they have a problem. The tanks are 10 ton, 20 ton, and 50 ton. with 75 ton tanks in con­ templation. The moving forts, for they are exactly that, will be ship- pe in parts to Olympia or Tacoma where, on government land, they will be assembled by mechanics. So far so good; but here is the hitch: Smallest of the tanks, the 10-ton- ners, may be able to negotiate bridges, but there is not a bridge in the Pacific northwest, with except­ ion of the railroad steel bridge in Portland, that can stand up under the 20-tonners to say nothing of the 50 ton tanks. The tanks can be shipped in parts to the assembl­ ing ground, but the army will find that the 20 ton tanks will never leave the immediate vicinity of Fort Lewis. The large tanks can negot­ iate fields, of course, but they can neither ford a river nor cross on any existing hiway bridge. These 20 and 50 ton babies cannot be moved on trains for they cannot clear a tunnel. ROY n i f i d u i u lto Fastest Growing City In Oregon FR (1M 1 rnum Hale Held For Circuit Court George Hale was bound over to the circuit court on an arson charge by Justice of the Peace Williams last Thursday when he appeared on an arson charge growing out of the fires that destroyed the Methodist Church and parsonage. He is be­ ing held in the county jail in lieu of a $500 bond. District Attorney Max Taggart said that in view of Hale's confession, there was little peed of bringing the matter before the grand jury and that Hale would probably ap­ pear before Circuit Court Judge Robert Duncan in the latter part of this month, probably around Aug­ ust 26. Various rumors have been making the rounds that the youth had con­ fessed to the fires at the gymnas­ ium, the Nyssa Dance hall and the Nyssa Trader, all of which is with­ out foundation, according to Chief of Police, A. V. Cook. David Duaine Maxwell, 8 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Dave Maxwell, formerly of Melba, Idaho died Mon­ day in the Holy Rosary hospital from the results of a shot from a .22 calibre rifle. The young boy was given the rifle by his father with instructions to take it to the nearby house. On the way to comply with his fathers instructions the lad tripped into an irrigation ditch, firing the rifle, the bullet lodging in his abdomen. He was rushed to the Sarazin Clinic in Nyssa, was given medical care and then rushed to the hospit­ al. where he died in the afternoon. Funeral services for the youngst­ er were held this afternoon in On­ tario. with interment in the Ontar­ —Nyssa Fall Festival Sept. 6-7— io Cemetary. Funreal services were in charge of the Nyssa Funeral Home. —Nyssa Fall Festival Sept. 6-7— HERD ASSOCIATION TO HOLD PICNIC Members of the Malheur County Dairy Herd Improvement Associat­ ion will hold their first annual pic­ nic on Thursday, August 15 in the Vale Park, beginning at 11:30 a. m. Anyone interested in dairying is invited to attend the picnic, accord­ ing to R.M. MsKennon, county agent. A basket lunch will be served at 12:30 with ice cream and lemon­ ade being furnished by the associa­ tion. At 1:30 p. in. the picnickers will hear R. W. Morse, Dairy Spec­ ialist from Oregon and Ivan Lough- ary, Dairy Specialist from Idaho. Following these two speakers will be a pasture tour, in which two or three pastures will be visited and a discussion of pasture management Public sentiment in the Pacific for dairy, animals will take place. northwest, as reflected in the mail It is planned to end the picnic about of senators and representatives, is j 3:30. far from unanimous on the proposal | for compulsory’ military training. —Nyssa Fall Festival Sept. 6-7— Two important groups are opposed j to conscription, the farmers and 1 labor, and they usually carry weight PRIZE OFFERED TO with congressmen either individua- LADY BOWLERS ly or collectively. Debate will be George Wells, manager of the very bitter as a number of senators feel keenly on the subject, especial­ Nyssa Bowling Alleys, in the West­ ly those who believe in volunteers ern Hotel, announced this week that he had added a prize for the rather than draft. No one knows what the bill will highest score for ladies to that of provide when it is finally enacted the one for men. As in the case (if it is enacted) for many changes of the prize for men. the high have been made in committee and scores for the ladies will be announ­ other amendments are pending. ced each week in the Nyssa Journal, Among suggestions is that volun­ being taken for each week ending teers for the regular army be paid Saturday. Wells reports that there is a grow­ $30 a month instead of the present $21. Sailors start at $21 and in a ing interest in bowling among the few months reach $30 and some $36, ladies of Nyssa since he announced but soldiers remain at the $21 level. free instructions for beginners and It is contended, also, that soldiers especially invited the ladies to make are dissatisfied when they know use of the alleys in the afternoons. that CCC enrolles are drawing $30 a month. —Nyssa Fall Festival Sept. 6-7— Homemakers Ready For Camp According to an announcement received from the office of County agent Russell McKennon, 64 farm home makers have signed up for the four days annual outing at Pil­ grim's Cove Camp at Payette Lakes where they will rest and play and forget all about the affairs at the busy farm they call home. In charge of the camp will be Miss Izola Jensen of the College of Idaho, Mrs. A. E. Hawkins will be the reg­ istered nurse on duty for the period of the camp only one lonely man will be allowed to be present. T hat is Loy Frakes who will do the heavy work about camp. Dell Taylor of Nyssa has been secured to drive one of the busses up and another will leave simul­ taneously from Vale, at 6:15 on the morning of Wednesday August 14. The bus driven by Taylor will start from Adrian, pick up those wishing to go from Nyssa and along the way and will meet the Vale buss at Ontario, from where they will proceed together. Sunday, August 18 will be the last day for the vacationers and will be open house to their husbands and families who have already been in­ vited to the farewell dinner, Mr. McKennon stated that there was still time to enroll for the camp should any other wife and mother desire to attend. $1.50 PER YEAR Western Regalia To Mark Margaret Toombs IUf|pi( CT*DTCn _ d 1 fin 1 CU Coming O f Fall Festival Takes Nyssa Lead ♦----------------------- Ten gallon hats, buckeroo shirts, Cliff Main, L. P. Thomas, and May­ Margaret Toomb, during the past jeans, and in some cases fancy or Thompson, who assumed the job week, garnered enough votes in the stiched boots, resplendant with of overseering the work (new gloves race in the Nyssa district for the flowers, will be the official garb for and all). Malheur County Fair Queen to Nyssa's coming Fall Festival, Sep­ M. W. Osborne, chairman of the overcome the lead held by Margie tember 6 and 7. All this being no Rodeo committee for the Fall Fes­ Howell since the opening of the one person’s i d e a b u t Just like tival, said that under his plans, none contest. Tabulation for the past Topsy "just growed". And in the but local riders would compete in week shows th at Margaret Toombs " Monday of this week saw the be­ last day or so the idea of a sort of the rodeo, with the prizes being has 70,500 votes; Margie Howell 64,- ginning of the construction of the whiskerino is also coming into vogue paid from gate receipts. 000; Ann Johnson 56,900; Twtlia Nyssa underpass, a construction fi­ Reservations for booth space is Latham. 12,200 and Josephine Bur­ nanced by the federal government with the suggestion coming from one group that in order to enforce now getting under way, with Gran­ ke, 5,800. and engineered by the State High­ the growing of hirsute adornment ges, clubs, individuals, fraternal and Leaders in the other districts are way department, and which will service organizations signifying their and the wearing of the regalia, that in Ontario . Velma Kolbaba, 252,- take about 14 months to complete, a kangaroo court be established to intention to have a booth at the 200 votes; Vale. Margarita Arrien, although the contractor. Henry "bring to trial, all and sundry who Festival. No charge will be made 324,900; Adrian. Donna Ashcraft. Horn has until October 31, 1941 to for these display booths. Prize 75,950 and in Junturo, Ida Jones complete the Job. violate this edict". Ten business men of Nyssa went money for these booths will be giv­ 1250. Tom Edwards, engineer for the to the Whitman National Forest en. with the Granges competing Highway Department started his —Nyssa Fall Festival Sept. 6-7— among their own organizations for west of Unity, last Sunday, cut and final work of surveying Monday brought back to Nyssa a truckload the Grange prize, and individual with Dan Curran, Henry Bacon and and clubs competing in their class. of poles for the corrals to be used Orville McEwen composing his pres­ The solicitation committee, under during the rodeo chat will take ent force. A small well built build­ place during the two days of the the chairmanship of Mrs. A. V. ing will be erected shortly to house Festival. Those who were bush whac­ Cook, and composed of Hershel the engineering staff, Edwards said. kers for the day were Hershel Thom­ Thompson, Cliff Main, and Grant Contractor Horn was today mov­ pson, Ralph Beutler, George Eich- Rinehart began the solicitation of FYank Johnson, representing Nys­ ing in some of his heavier equip­ funds to finance the Second Annual ner, Ed Pruyn, Ski E. Smith, Ber­ sa at the American Legions “Boys ment. The oiling of the detour, over nard Eastman, George Henneman, Festival today. Beaver State", being currently held north First street to Erhgood Ave. at the Hill Military Academy in and east to First street east and Portland, reports that he is “learn­ south again to Main street will be BUTTE TRANSFERRED FIELD DAY AT ing a lot about this government of completed in about 10 days, when TO UTAH MILL PARMA FARM ours”. the excavation for the underpass Frank was selected by the local The Parma Branch Experiment Post of the American Legion to a t­ will begin on the west side of the Joe Butte, assistant electrician at the Nyssa factory of the Amalgam­ Station announces a field day in tend the camp, but lacking suffic­ railway right of way. The detour ated Sugar company, and secretary conjunction with the Parma Jubilee ient funds to care for all the costs will be oiled surfaced. of the Republican central committ­ Picnic August 15th. was helped out by the Nyssa Cham­ Throughout the construction an Farmers interested in horticul­ ber of Commerce and the Nyssa averaged of between 12 and 14 ee, has been transferred to the mill men will be used, Horn said. At at Lewiston, Utah, leaving today to ture and entomology or who have Lions Club. assume his duties. He will be join­ problems in these subjects are cor­ There are 252 boys attending times there will be more than this ed by Mrs. Butte the later part of dially invited to attend the field the camp, which is divided into number and at other times less, but the week. The Republican Central day. Mr. George Woodbury and three barracks, the food is good and that is the average number. Contrary to the opinions of some committee has not as yet selected Mr. Carl Dietz, horticulturists, and FYank says that he is having a fine Main street, except for a small sec­ a secretary to take Butte's place, Mr. H. C. Manis and Robert Fisher time. having only four members attend entomologists, at the Idaho station, In the elections, Frank ran on the tion will not be oiled from curb to will be on hand to answer questions “third ticket" for Secretary of state curb, Engineer Edwards said. the meeting held last Monday. The transfer was made following and explain experimental methods. but was defeated for th at office, ac­ —Nyssa Fall Festival Sept. 6-7— the death recenthtwo» the chief ele­ Vegetable seed growers will be cording to newspress dispatches. interested in seeing experiments ctrician at the Lewiston mill. Commenting on his leaving his with carrots, lettuce, and onion seed —Nyssa Fall Festival Sept. 6-7— secretaryship, Butte said th at he production, and In radish aphid experiments. Vegetable was appreciative of the honor given control STOLEN CAR FOUND him and of the co-operation that growers will see variety trials with IN IDAHO TOWN potatoes, carrots, lettuce and onions he received from county Republic­ and squash bug control experi­ ans while he held the office. Chief of Police Cook said that he ments. —Nyssa Fall Festival Sept. 6-7— A Pioneer picnic, basket lunch and Fruit growers will be able to see had a report from Mountain Home several varieties of stone fruits, the Idaho police that the car of Doug parade is the program slated by the Returns To Work seedling apple orchard, and old tree- MacDonald, which was stolen three citizens of Caldwell in honoring the Mr. and Mrs. Louis Garrison, who hole plantations. weeks ago had been located in that pioneers of southwestern Idaho and have spent the summer in Ontario eastern Oregon who have been res­ Potato growers will be interested city. returned on Thursday to San Fran­ in bacterial wilt experiments, and The car was left there by a man, idents in those localities for 50 cisco where he will resume his studies in attempt to produce earlier whose name has not yet been learn­ years or more, according to J. T. work. Garrison was injured in a maturity of potatoes. ed, that Is now being held by offic­ LaFond, general chairman of the motor traffic accident near San The program for the day will be: ers in Butte, Montana, according Pioneer Picnic, to be held in Cald­ Francisco last September and was 10:45 a. m.—Kid's Novelty Parade to Cook. Cook said th at this man well on Thursday August 22. unable to return to work earlier. Visiting on lawn of Community had left It with a friend in Moun­ More than 800 pioneer men and Up From Jordan Valley tain Home, but failed to make women are now registered, many of church. Mrs. Robert Long spent Thurs­ 11:15—Kid races. known to him that the car had been them from around Nyssa. I.nFond stolen. day in Nyssa from Jordan Valley said. 12:00—Picnic lunch. and on Friday visited with her par­ 1:00—Speaking by George W. As far as Cook knows the Mac­ The pioneers will be received ents in Boise returning to the valley Woodbury, horticulturist, U. of I. Donald car is in good condition. throughout the day at the Pioneers Saturday. College of Agriculture; introduced —Nyssa Fall Festival Sept. 6-7- headquarters in the basement of the by Walter E. Kerrick. Methodist church. The parade will 1:30—Tour to farm, free transpor­ be at 4 p. m. and the basket picnic NEW BOOKS AT tation. Free show to kids. and pioneer program will follow at LIBRARY Memorial Park. New Michels Hybrid Grass Grown By Nyssa Farmer Frank Johnson At Boys State Pioneers To Be Honored In Caldwell R e tu rn s From P o rtlan d New books are arriving every week