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JOURNAL
r/ieNYSSA
Published at Nyssa, Oregon,
G ATEW AY TO THE OWYHEE AND BLACK CANYON IRRIGATION PROJECTS
IN THE HEART OF OREGON’S SUGAR EMPIRE_______________
Army In County
To Buy Horses
Henry A. Wallace, secretary of
agriculture, picked by Mr. Roosevelt
to off-set Mc.Nary’s popularity in
the farm belt will have his notifica
tion in his native Iowa following the
republican ceremonies at Salem.
Ore. Despite Wallace’s connection
with the tall corn state, surveys in
dicate that Iowa will be in the re
publican column in November. Only
explanation is that "people are vot
ing different this year.” Iowa went
democratic in 1932 and 1936. Mr.
Wallace, as everyone knows, was a
republican until shortly before his
appointment to the cabinet of Mr.
Roosevelt.
The U. 8. Army Remount Pur
chasing Board will be in Malheur
County on September 6 and 7 for
the inspection of horses for pur
chase according to word received
from Major F. W. Koester, Officer
in Charge, by R. M. McKennon,
County Agent.
The Purchasing Board will be at
the ranches of Prince Hardesty and
Sam Rose of Jordan Valley on Fri
day, September 6 and at the Ontar
io Sales Yard, Ontario at 9:00 a.
m. on Saturday, September 7. Be
cause of the crowded schedule this
year, it will not be possible for the
Purchasing Board to visit individ
ual ranches so horses must be
brought to the nearest inspection
point if they are to be inspected
and purchased.
Specifications of animals to be
bought are as follows:
Four to eight years, inclusive.
Geldings. (It is desired that mares
suitable for breeding be left in the
country).
Fifteen hands <60 inches) to 16
hands (64 inches).
975 to 1150 pounds.
Bay, brown, black and chesnut.
No “off-colored” horses can be ac
cepted, such as grays, pintos and
palominos.
Horses must be gentle enough to
be handled for a thorough examin
ation and well enough “broke” to be
shown at a walk, trot and gallop
under the saddle. It is not neces
sary that the horse be “trained.”
Prices paid will range from $150
to $175, depending on the value of
each individual horse. This will be
paid the owner for the horse deliv
ered to the shipping point in good
condition. Horses registered in the
Half-Bred stud will command a
larger price than horses not regist
ered.
Horses must be sound, of good
conformation and show definite
signs of breeding, quality and subst
ance. In general, horses must be at
least H to 3-4 Thoroughbred in
order to have sufficient quality to
meet the requirements. They must
have a good straight walk, trot, gal
lop, and must be free from signs of
“paddling" or “high action.” Horses
that “toe out”, “toe in" have crook
ed hocks, or which have any un-
soundness such as curbs, spavins,
splints, etc., cannot be accepted.
HOMEMAKERS BACK
FROM 5 DAY CAMP
$1.50 PER YEAR
Fifty-nine happy and enthusiasm
tic women returned to their homes
Sunday after spending five days at
the Seventh
Annual
Malheur
Homemakers camp, held at Pilgrim
Cove camp ground, on Payette
Lakes.
The camp committee elected for
the coming year to arrange a 1941
camp consists of Mrs. Cora Thomp
son, Nyssa; Mrs. Clara Points, Ad
rian (Chairman); Mrs. Lucy John
son. Vale and Mrs. Susie Udick, On
tario.
Those attending the camp from
Nyssa were Janet Dutton, Stella
Frost, Marjorie Smith and Cora
Thompson.
Ann Johnson Wins Funeral Services
Grouse Season
For Carl Eldred
A u g1 25 To 31 Nyssa District
Grouse hunters will have their
innings when the season for Sooty
or Blue grouse opens in the three
eastern Oregon counties—Wallowa,
Union and gaker—next week.
The season opens Sunday, August
25, and (loses on
August 31
The bag limit is four birds in
any one daY but not more than eight
in any seveh consecutive days.
There are many sportsmen from
all parts of the state who enjoy
grouse shooting and it is expected
that the brief season will attract
many hunters.
—Nyssa Fall Festival Sept. 6-7-
—Nyssa Fall Festival Sept. 6-7—
Resolution To
Revise City
Limits
A special meeting of the council
was held last Monday night to con
sider a resolution calling for a
revision of the city charter to rede
fine the city limits.
The resolution, which must be on
file for 30 days before an election
can be called, was passed by the
council and would exclude three
farms and the Emison addition. The
three farms that would be excluded
are the Benton, Felton and Quinby
farms, which at the last election
held to redefine city limits was to
have been excluded but through an
error was left in.
Following the 30 day period, an
election can be called in about 10
to 15 days.
Following the adoption of the
above resolution the council heard
read for the third time and passed
an ordinance licensing amusement
games. The ordinance provides for
a license fee of $200 a year on each
operator (owner) and $2 per month
for each machine in operation in
the city limits.
The application for a license, to
operate amusement machines under
the new ordinance, made by the
Gem State Novelty company of
Boise, was approved.
—Nyssa Fall Festival Sept. 6-7—
AG. SHOP PROJECT
4-H Fair Exhibits
Double Last Year
The 4-H Club exhibits at the
County Fair next week will be more
than doubled over the number shown*
last year according to reports com
ing in to E. M. Hauser, County Club
Agent,
om the various 4-H clubs.
Tlie greatest Increase will be in
the Dairy Division and in the Hog
classes. The Owyhee Dairy Club
alone will exhibit nearly as many
dairy animals as the total in the
club classes at the County Fair in
1939.
The 4-H Swine Classes will show
a corresponding increase, and a
number of the exhibits this year
will consist of pens-of-four animals
that the Club members are carrying
in a pig feeding project with the
best groups to be shown at the Pac
ific International Livestock Ex
position later this fall.
Present indications point to about
the same number of sheep and beef
exhibits as w/tiro shown last yar, al
though there may be a slight in
crease in sheep numbers.
Tlie 4-H Contests will be an ad
ded attraction to Fair-goers. The
Demonstration Team Contest will
be held Sunday, the second day of
the Fair at 1:00 p. m., with the live
stock fitting and showmanship con
test scheduled for Monday, the final
day, at 10; 30 a. m. The Livestock
Judging contest, for teams repres
enting the various livestock clubs,
will be held Monday at 1:00 p. m.
Saturday the first day of the Fair,
will be devoted to Judging the var
ious classes of exhibits.
In the coming election the new
deal and the republicans are fight —Nyssa Fall Festival Sept. 6-7— UNDER W A Y
” —Nyssa Fall Festival Sept. 6-7—
(By Erma Points)
ing for the farm vote. On the face
of the returns in 1936 Mr. Roose
ADRIAN—The N. Y. A. Project on SAFETY GLASS ON
velt swept everything but Vermont
the Adrian High School, Smith-
and Maine, but analysis of the vote |
SCHOOL BUSSES
Hughes agriculture shop, got under
in that contest discloses that a few
way
Thursday
August
15.
Alvin
Mc
thousand votes properly distributed
All school busses, operated by
would have told a different story as
The first carload of peaches, Ginnis is supervising a crew of 11. the Thompson Oil company for the
This project will include the con Nyssa high and grade schools are
to the number of states carried by from the county, was shipped out
Mr. Roosevelt. In 1896 Bryan was Tuesday by the F. H. Houge Pack struction of a 30 by 80 vocational oquipped with safety glass, despite
defeated by McKinley, yet a hand ing plant in Nyssa, according to shop building and the laying of 150 action in postponing the requiring
ful of popular votes scattered suit Tom Eldridge, manager. The peach feet of sidewall.
for one year. Such was the answer
Those who reported to work on given by Dell Taylor this week when
ably would have given Bryan the es were shipped to the Omaha mar
Thursday were Morris Deffenbaugh. inquiry was made on the matter
election. The year Cleveland ran ket.
and was defeated he carried the
This shipment was from the Prati Fred Smith. Russell Huffstetter,
popular vote. It was the big city orchard, and is the first of an es Elbert Fretwell. Paul Thiel, Jesse —Nyssa Fall Festival Sept. 6-7—
vote that gave the result to Mr. timated 15 or 20 cars, and are of Gale, Tommy Visage, Groot String
Roosevelt four years ago. and this exceptionally high quality, Eldridge fellow, Laurence Miller. Lloyd Mill- I
er and Leonord Nichols.
year the powerfully organized pol said.
The project will be completed in
itical machine in the large cities
will be in the new deal camp once —Nyssa Fall Festival Sept. 6-7— approximately two months. New j
crews will be assigned to the project
more. There are no republican po
every seven days.
litical machines, as they expired for
Fourteen Malheur County aliens
Bowling Scores
This is an national project. Boys will appear before the naturalizat
lack of patronage.
working
on
the
project
receive
in
ion officer in Vale on August 28
With the city machines for Mr
High scores at the Nyssa Bowling struction in construction from the
Roosevelt, the republicans are striv
when their petitions for naturaliza
alley for the week ending last Sat Supervisor, Mr. McGinnis.
ing to increase their strength in
tion will be heard.
urday night were, for men Buzz
the rural areas in the hope of over
Of the 14, four are from Nyssa,
Thompson, and for women Betty —Nyssa Fall Festival Sept. 6-7-
coming the metropolitan majorit
being Diderika Oroot, Josephine
Tillman.
Haun, Francisco Jayco and Mary
ies.
George Wells, manager of the I TOWNSEND CLUBS
Boenig.
Among the applicants are those
Senator Ashurst of Arizona, the alleys said that beginning next week t g u o i n p i p K i i p
bom in Spain, the Netherlands.
cowboy who became the most schol the high scores would be announ-1 U
arly and Chest,erfieldian member of ced on Wednesday nights, instead
Townsend clubs of the Snake Russia. Holland and Germany.
the senate, wrote a prediction as to of Saturday.
River Valley will hold a joint picnic —Nyssa Fall Festival Sept. 6-7—
the identity of the next president —Nyssa Fall Festival Sept. 6-7— at Oala Gardens, just east of On
last spring, sealed it in an envelope
tario, on Sunday August 25. begin
In Portland
and waited until after the nominat
ning at 10 a. m.
ing conventions. In the presence Return From Vacation
Mrs. Charles Overstreet of Arcad
Lewis Williams, of Boise, and a
o f newspaper reporters the forecast
Mr and Mrs Le Roy Owens and prominent figure In the Townsend ia has spent the past month in Port
was read:
their children returned on Saturday movement will be the principal land receiving medical care and will
probably not return to Nyssa until
"■Hie next president will have a from a two weeks vacation spent in speaker for the day.
the cooler weather has set in.
double letter in his name "
and around Scotts Bluff. Neb. where
A. L. McClellan, president of the
When the senator wrote his proph they visited parents and relatives.
local Townsend Club said that the —Nyssa Fall Festival Sept. 6-7—
ecy many names were being men
picnic was open to the public, wheth
tioned Under his prediction the
MARKETS
er or not they were members of any
winner can be either Mr. Roosevelt,
Townsend club.
By
Wiley Clowers
with a double “o” or Mr. Willkie,
Williams will also give a talk to
with a double “1." Senator Ashurst
CASH PRICE
Ralph Boyles the first of the
the local Townsend club, in the city
Is certain to be a true prophet.
BUTTER FAT
When Vice President Garner Premium
... 27c hall next Tuesday night, August 27 farmers to Join in the Whiskerino
walked out of the senate chamber First ___
. 26c at 8 p. m . McClellan said.
parade . . the boys on Main street
and returned to Uvalde, Tex., he Second
... 24c
—Nyssa Fall Festival Sept. 6-7— chipping in for a youngsters out fit
planned never to return to Wash- i
POULTRY
. . . . fire lads out again this a. m
Ington Upper case democrats wrote , Hens heavy .....................
. l ie
. . smoke in the factory stack on
At
McCall
dozens of letters for him to come j Hens Ught ancj leghorns
— «C
Wednesday . . . Eders old comer
back for the sake of the party Mr C qx
... 3c
Charles Overstreet spent the week
Roosevelt did not write.
Springs
He and 14c end at McCall on a conbined busin looking pretty bare . . . .
First Peaches To
Eastern Market
Fourteen To Take
Citizenship Test
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ROUND TOWN
(Cont. on back page)
Fastest Growing City In Oregon
NYSSA, OREGON, TH URSDAY, AUG UST 22, 1940
VOLUM E X X X V , NO 33
Washington, D. C. News Bureau of
the Nyssa Gate City Journal
WASHINGTON, D. C.—This week
end Senator Charles L. McNary will
fly to Oregon for his notification
ceremonies as republican nominee
for vice-president. It will be the
first time that the senator has been
in a plane for more than 20 years
when he flew in an open crate over
the national capital with other toga-
men. The following day the plane
cracked up with several fatalities.
The evolution of the plane in 20
years is comparable to the advance
from the Model T to the V-8.
Being a dirt farmer and champion
of agricultural relief. Senator Mc
Nary has selected the Oregon state
fair grounds as the location for the
notification. The fair grounds in
any county or state is the rallying
point of farmers; it is not a mag
net for city folks; the county or
state fair is essentially for the far
mers, where they meet, talk and
view tile exhibits. It is a perfect
background for a candidate select
ed because of his knowledge of agri
culture and his identification with
farm legislation.
M A LH E U R CO U N TY FAIR
A U G . 31 - SEPT. I - 2
COMING EVENTS
N Y S SA FALL FESTIVAL
SEPT. 6 - 7
Trade-In Eggs
______ 15c ess and pleasure trip
Queen Contest
Ann Johnson came out in the last
minutes to win the right to repres
ent the Nyssa district in the con
test for Queen of the Malheur Coun
ty Fair, taking a lead of better than
2 to 1 over Margie
Howell who held |
the lead through
out the
contest
with the exception
of one week, when|
it was lead by
Margaret Toombs.
Ann’s final count
was 983,150 votes;
Margie
Howell’s I
423,150 ; Margaret Ann Johnson
Toombs
263,450;
Twllia Latham, 12,200 and Joseph
ine Burke 5,800.
By virtue of her winning the Nys
sa district contest, Ann will now
compete with winners from other
districts, when they will all appear
at Ontario on Friday, August 30,
where a board of Judge«, all from
Idaho, will select the Queen. Win
ners in other districts are, for On
tario, Velma Kolbaba, 1,832,150;
Vale, Margarita Arrien, 1,653,750;
Adrian, Louise Hinton, 444,200.
The contest originally slated to
end on August 24, was moved ahead
to August 17, in order to get the
votes counted and final plans made
for the three days of entertainment
that await the successful! candidat
es from each district, all of whom
will form the Queen’s court.
A Queen’s ball will be held in On
tario the night the selection is
made.
—Nyssa Fall Festival Sept. 6-7—
VIGILANTE TO
WORK ON THE
TENDERFOOT
Carl W. Eldred, 47, of Nyssa died
Sunday morning at 6 a. m„ follow
ing an illness due to heart compli
cations.
Funeral services were held on
Wednesday at the Church of Latt
er Day Saints, with the Reverend
Merle Burres of the Methodist
Church officiating, with members
of the local lodge of the Odd Fel
lows in attendance.
Carl Weaver Eldred was born in
Gibbons, Nebraska, August 1, 1892
and is survived, besides his widow
Bessie, by four minor children. He
and his family havee been residents
of Nyssa for about nine months.
Interment was in the Nyssa Cem-
eiary and funeral services were in
charge of the Nyssa Funeral Home.
—Nyssa Fall Festival Sept. 6-7—
Two Cases O f
Infantile
Paralysis
Two cases of infantile paralysis
are under survellance of City Health
Officer Dr. J. J. Saraztn, both of
which confined their victims to
their beds this week.
The first reported was a 10 year
old girl, the daughter of H. L. Fish
er, whom the health offloer said
was first reported to him Monday
of this week. The father and young
brother Is now at the Gerrlt Stam
farm, the mother taking care of the
daughter at their Nyssa home.
The second case was that of Mar
lon Osborne, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Martin Osborne. Marlon became
111 Tuesday night and when exam
ination was made was pronounced
as a victim of Infantile paralysis.
Neither case has been quarantin
ed, due to a lack of being able to
enforce the quarantine. The fam
ilies are taking care of the young
sters, with each being warned not
to go out In public except to get
necessary food supplies.
Vigilante to work on the tenderfoot
A vigilante committee, with whis
kers, ten gallon hats, and jeans (no
shooting irons) will be on the streets
of Nyssa Saturday night to “take
care" of various and sundry “Ten- —Nyssa Fall Festival Sept. 6-7—
derfeet" who have not yet learned
to wear the official garb of
yssa’s
Fall Festival and Rodeo.
It is rumored that a “ bull pen” , a
horse trough (the real thing) and
a rarln’, tearln’ mule will be handy
for the vigilantes to make use of If
the judge decides such action mai
be necessary.
All aliens living in or Nyssa must
(Editors tip—farmers are Includ
ed in the scope of the vigilantes as be finger printed at the local post
office In accordance with a recent
well as all residents of Nyssa).
law passed by the congress and
—Nyssa Fall Festival Sept. 6-7— signed by the President, according
to S. G. Goshert, postmaster.
Finger printing will begin on Aug
ust 27 and end on December 26,
Ooshert said. The post office hours
are from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. during
which time any alien may present
M. W. Osborne, chairman of the himself for finger printing.
This law applies to aliens (those
rodeo committee of the Nyssa Fall
Festival, Issued a call for all farm bom in foreign countries, and who
ers, who have tractors, grading are in the United States on a per
equipment or fence building appar mit or on Immigrant quotas, but
atus, and who would be willing to does not apply to those who have,
help prepare the rodeo grounds, or have made application for citiz
Just back of the Nyssa grade school enship papers.
Finger Printing
O f Aliens By
Local P.O.
Ask Farmers To
Help On Rodeo
building, to report Saturday morn
ing at 8 a. m. with their equipment.
Business men of Nyssa have made
two trips to the forest west of Unity
to bring back enough poles for the
corrals and fence for the quarter
mile track, that Is to be used dur
ing the two days of the Nyssa Fall
Festival. September 6 and 7.
The committee In charge of the
Festival and Rodeo had completed
the premium lists and have announ
ced prizes, that will go to local
farmers as amounting to somewhere
around $650. donated by local mer
chants.
—Nyssa Fall Festival Sept. 6-7—
N. Y. A. PROJECT
ON CITY PARK
Mayor R. A Thompson announced
today that the city was working in
conjunction with the N. Y. A. and
would In the near future begin work
on a wading pool and tennis courts,
graveled walks and other Improve
ments In the park.
Youths desiring to enroll for work
on the projects must be between the
ages of sixteen and twenty one and
should make application to Dr. K.
E. Kerby.
The pay will be thirty two cents
per hour or eighteen dollars a
month, tha city furnishing all mat
erials and equipment.
— Nyssa Fall Festival Sept. 6-7—
Civic Club
Over forty members of the Civic
club and their guests attended the
annual meeting at the gardens of
Mrs. C, W Barrett in the Arcadia
district.
A short program on which Zelda
Brown who rendered several read
ings and the little son of Mr. and
Mrs.Kenneth Cottle who sang two
numbers were the principle artists
The afternoon was given over to the
garden tour and visiting.
Tea was poured by Mrs. Bernard
Eastman, Mrs. Joe Trent and Mrs.
Bernard Frost.
—Nyssa Fall Festival Sept. 6-7—
FOOD STAMP PLAN
STARTS IN COUNTY
The Food Stamp Plan of the Unit
ed States Department of Agricul
ture will be put Into effect In thirt
een eastern Oregon Counties about
October 1, 1940, according to an
announcement in Portland by Rob
ert J. Graves, Assistant Regional
Director of the Plan. Crook, Des
chutes, Gilliam, Grant, Harney,
Hood River, Jefferson, Lake, Mal
heur, Morrow, Sherman, Wasco, and
Wheeler counties were selected for
this new extension of the Plan.
According to Jonathan Garet,
Regional Director of the Food
Stamp Division of the Federal Sur
plus Marketing Administration, the
Plan will begin operation here early
In October. Based on the Adminis
tration’s experience In other areas
It is estimated by Garet that the
Food Stamp Plan will provide an
approximate additional 8150,000 of
the Important surplus foods annual
ly for the 6,000 persons now receiv
ing some form of public assistance
In the thirteen eastern counties. As
the Stamp Plan provides distribut
ion of surplus commodities through
regular channels of trade, the es
timated $150,000 will mean an act
ual Increase of this amount in the
annual business of food retailers In
those countries.
Garst recommended extension of
the Plan to the thirteen counties
after more conferences with Jack
Luihn, Chairman, Elmer Goudy,
Director and Paul Ross, Food Stamp
Division Director of the state Pub
lic welfare Commission, Robert
Graves, Assistant Regional Director
and Hunter L. Scott, Local Repres
entative of the Surplus Marketing
Administration.
A food Industries committee, rep
resentatives of all food retailers and
wholesalers In the thirteen eastern
counties will be formed to acquaint
food retailers In each county with
the operation of the plan.
The primary purpose of the Food
Stamp Plan is to assist farmers to
dispose profitably of their over
abundant crops. The Plan Is tde il
In that it not only aids the farmer,
but in addition makes two other
distinct contributions to public wel
fare. It provides more food and
better balanced diets for public as
sistant families which directly Im
proves the public health and bene
fits the future of our people. The
second value Is the Increased volumn
of surplus foods which moves
through regular trade channels un
der the Stamp Plan. This helps
business generally and by Increasing
such activity eventually leads to In
creased reemployment with addit
ional purchasing power for the farm
commodities.
Out of the total population rec
ently estimated nearly 100,000 In the
thirteen counties, there are about
2,955 households representing 6,000
persons eligible to receive some form
of public assistance. These figures
include W. P. A., Old Age Assistan
ce, Aid to Dependent Children, Aid
to the Blind and County Relief.
Participation is entirely voluntary.
However, all persons certified by the
State Welfare Department of Pub
lic Welfare as eligible to purchase
Food Stamps may do so.
There are two types of stamps,
(Continued on Last Page)
—Nyssa Fall Festival Sept. 6-7—
Daughter in Hospital
W. T. Cannon returned this morn
ing from Portland where he had
gone on Tuesday with his daughter,
Betty. Betty remained at the Shrin-
ers hospital there for treatment and
possible surgery.
THE WEATHER
PUBLICITY AIR
TOUR SLATED
Following are the thermometer
readings as given by the Nyssa o f
fices of the U. S Reclamation.
July
Low High
15
49
93
16
49
92
17
49 100
18
98
49
18
55 107
20
52 104
95
58
21
A mass flight of five planes will
fly over Nyssa on Saturday publiciz
ing the Malheur county fair, while
on the ground a ballyhoo car will
tell the earth bound Individuals
about the many attractions that
will appear at the fair. Other flights
will take place In Vale, Wetaer. Pay
ette, Fruitland and New Plymouth.
Pilots who have planes In the
flight are Frank Van Pet ten, Casey
Acre feet of water Impounded at
Jones, Tom Ennor and
George
Cooke of Ontario, and Harold Erp the Owyhee Reservoir measure 460,-
520.
of Payette.