The
NYSSA
Published at Nyssa, Oregon,
VOLUME XXXV, NO. 35
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GATEWAY TO THE OWYHEE AND BLACK CANYON IRRIGATION PROJECTS
IN THE HEART OF OREGON’S SUGAR EMPIRE
JOURNAL
Fastest Growing City In Oregon
$1.50 PEU YEAb
NYSSA, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1940
Plan
Election Called For October
National Guard To Mobilize Stamp Meetings
Set! SCHOOL TO «
15; To Set New City Limits
For Third Time In 25 Years
AS POLIO SCARE
PORTLAND—Mass meetings of
all food retailers in Crook, Deschu
tes, Gilliam, Grant, Harney, Hood
River, Lake, Jefferson, Malheur,
Morrow, Sherman, Wasco and
Wheeler counties are being held the
latter part of this month to discuss
details of operation of the Food
Stamp Plan which will be inaugura
ted in the thirteen eastern Oregon
area on October 1.
Mass meetings of food retailers
are scheduled for the following
dates: The Dalles, Wednesday and
Thursday, September 18 and 19;
Arlington, Friday, September 20;
John Day. Monday, September 23;
Ontario. Tuesday. September 24;
Bums, Wednesday, September 25;
Lakevlew. Thursday, September 26;
Bend. Friday, September 27. These
meetings will probably be held in
the evenings.
It is essential that all food retail
ers attend the mass meeting most
convenient to them in order that
they may be Informed as to their
part in the Plan.
According to Donald A. Fareed,
Oregon representative of the Sur
plus Marketing Administration, fed
eral agency which administers the
Food Stamp Plan, the volume of
new food purchasing power repre
sented by surplus food stamps is
equal to a new industry with a siz
able payroll coming to each of the
counties.
"To illustrate the importance of
the Food Stamp Plan to the farmers
retailers and public assistance fami
lies in the thirteen county area,”
said Mr Fareed. "we can take the
amount of surplus food stamps
which will be used In the area an
nually as estimated at $125,000. It
would take a new industry with a
yearly payroll of $400,000 In the area
to result in $125,000 being spent for
food."
SALEM—With the Oregon Na
tional Guard scheduled for mobili Guardsmen To
zation into federal service next
Monday state affairs have assumed Be Allowed
a decidedly military atmosphere this
past week.
Governor Sprague on Thursday To Vote
signed the formal order transmit SALEM—Members of the Oregon
ting the president's proclamation
guard will not lose their
calling up the Oregon troops for a national
year of intensive training but even right to vote through mobilization
Washington, D. C. News Bureau of before that, machinery had been set into federal service, according to
the Nyssa Gate City Journal in motion for a prompt and order Attorney General I. H. VanWinkle.
ly compliance with the mobilization The guardsmen will still retain their
WASHINGTON, D C.. Sept.— order.
The adjutant general’s office legal residence in Oregon after their
Through the offices of Senator which
is also the headquarters of mobilization and departure for con
Charles L. McNary last July contact Major George
White, command centration camps and will have the
was made between representatives er of the 4tst A. division,
has been right to vote in their own precincts
of a Swiss aluminum company, next a veritable bee hive of industry
through the use of absentee ballots.
in size to the Aluminum Company a substantially augumented force as
of
of America, and members of the clerks and stenographers have la
national defense commission in the bored over time to grind out the nu District to
national capital. The Swiss gentle merous orders and whip into shape Hold Meeting
men frankly stated their mission
documents and records Incident
was to find a rite in the United the
to
the
mobilization of Oregon's more The Board of Directors of the Big
States for an aluminum plant, and
4500 officers and men.
Bend Irrigation District, sitting as
they Intimated that they had their than
When
Oovernor
Sprague
this
week
Board of Equalization, will meet
eyes on the TVA area. Senator Mc signed the official order calling up a Monday.
14, at 8 p. m. at
Nary informed them of the advan the national guard for federal ser the N. S. October
Phelan
residence,
tages offered by the Pacific north vice It was the third such order Is ing to an announcement by accord
the se
west and called attention to the fact sued
an Oregon governor in the cretary of the district, Carl H. Coad.
that rates of the Bonneville hydro past 25 by years.
of these was The board will review and make
electric plant were lower than could in 1916 when The the first Oregon
troops
necessary corrections of its as
be obtained anywhere else In Am were inducted into service for duty any
sessment
and apportionment of tax
erica.
on the Mexican border and the sec es for the ensuing year.
Senator McNary’s efforts were ond in 1917 when Uncle Sam again The assessment list and record
aided by Edward R. Stettintus of the turned to Oregon for help against may
be inspected at the office of
defense commission, who Informed Germany.
the secretary and by any Interested
the visitors that no surplus electri General White announced this person,
business hours, ac
cal energy is immediately available week that Oregon guard units will cording during
to
Coad.
in TVA while Bonneville could sup be billeted in local armories where
ply their needs on short notice. The that plan is practical from the time
Swiss company proposed a $5,000.000
are mobilized next Monday un
plant which would require 30.000 kll- they
til their departure for the concen
owats for its operation. The fact tration
camps on September 23.
that the Aluminum Company of Where local
are not avail
America has already located a plant able or are armories
not
adequate
quarters With no new cases of infantile
on the north bank of the Columbia will be rented and mess facilities
river was not regarded as a handi and arrangement are being made to paralysis reported in the past week, To Plead Guilty to
cap, and Investigators were sent to feed the men at restaurants.
the scare of an epidemic has fiz
Oregon to look into the situation.
zled out and Nyssa is now back on Forest Fire
Local
armories
will
be
turned
ov
The report of these investigators er to the care of civil authorities n normal routine.
has now been made and, needless
The Health Officer, Police De According to reports of Forest
the absence of the Oregon partment.
to say. It is favorable. There remains during
the Nyssa Funeral Home Ranger L. D. Bailey who was in Ny
troops
and
leased
armories
will
be
the matter of obtaining a site and closed during the mobilization per and the Journal office have had the ssa this afternoon on business for
this Is now under consideration. iod, tentatively fixed at one year, wildest rumors brought to them. One his department, Jed Gooding of the
Whether the company will locate but which, may be much longer. of the wildest being that there had Apple Valley district will appear be-
in the Portland area depends upon Governor Sprague in addressing been nine deaths from infantile pa for the Justice Court at Huntington
availability of site and the price the state convention of the American ralysis and not less than 16 cases on Saturday and there plead guilty
which must be paid for the desired Legion at Seaside this week made in Nyssa. One father came into the to the charges of starting a ftre in
acreage. It is understood that nego public plans for the organization Journal office and said that he had the Whitman National Forest near
that the entire city was to Unity without a permit and then
tiations are now in progress.
of an “Oregon State Guard” if the heard
be quarantined and had been ad- leaving the fire before it was com
need
should
arise
for
armed
troops
Hereafter and during the “emer during the absence of the national vised by B iriend of his ,eave pletely exterminated.
Gooding, according to Ranger
gency" state highway commissions guard.
This “State Guard " would be than
At no
two Ume
cases, has and there
these h**"
two more
have Bailey, had been higher up In the
will have little to say about what made up
of
veterans
of
the
World
new roads are to be built and what War, alteady well trained as soldiers been out of quarantine for over a mountains and had obtained a per
Improved with the aid of federal
Just as the quarantine was lif mit to build a fire there but had
hundreds of whom would have week.
ted on these two cases, the young none for the fire started farther
funds. In the regular federal-aid and
volunteered
their
services
in
any
authorization bill there Is a clause
son of Police Officer Langton was down the mountain. At the latter
which alters the picture, allegedly emergency.
found to have been afflicted. The camp, the fire had been started in
The
governor,
however,
expressed
in the interest of national defense. the belief that stale and local po Health Officer reports that the an old stump and could not be ex
It stipulates that priority be given lice would be adequate to handle three victims are now progressing terminated, so Gooding banked it
router designated by any defense any ordinary situation that might satisfactorily. The business men of and left it still smoldering.
ranger also said that farm
agency, which means that in some arise
the help of a body of Nyssa
, . . co-operated
... „ with
.. health , offl-
_ „ ers The
and other residents are welcome
states a large portion of their funds police with
reserves
which
it
is
planned
by
call‘ng
,off
the
annual
must go to highways of military to supplement the state police force. Festival, and J. B. Geizentanner, to obtain poles on the reservation
value. The bill also provides for fe
voluntarily closed his theatre when as they are now plentiful, but per
deral studies, when requested) by
the third case appeared, opening it sons are warned that a fire and pole
permit are both necessary. To obtain
states, for "flight strips" along high Safety Classes
on Wednesday of this week.
ways where planes may be landed The summer sarety school given Schools are definitely scheduled to a fire permit there must be a water
without interfering with ordinary by the Red Cross and sponsored by open Monday, September 16, accord bucket, a shovel and an ax in the
traffic.
to Piincipals Hartley and Hol- party.
Nyssa offices of the United ing
While the recent rains have less
It is not expected that other steps the
lenberg.
reclamation ended on Sept
will be taken Immediately for the States
ened
the fire hazard it still is not
24 when instructors, Malcolm
eliminated and the utmost care
carrying out of a program for mili ember
Crawford
and
George
Jensen
gave
should be taken in starting and ex
tary highways. What is to be done
Brown Tops Bowlers
class its final examination.
about the Inadequacy of present the Those
terminating all fire. Caution should
receiving
their
certificates
highways to bear the burden of were Lawrence J. Aulbach, John T. Ike Brown again topped the loc also be taken to build fire on ground
heavy motorized movement may
bowlers, for the third consecutive cleared of chips, leaves and pine
Warren D. Blodgett. Ralph al week
come later as a part of the national Andrews.
with a score of 185, according needle and not in the vicinity of
Boyles. Lawrence E. Blodgett, to Malcolm
defense program, but no provision G.
Woodfleld, manager of dead logs nor stumps.
Edward R. Brandt, Hugh J. Devlin, the Nyssa Bowling
will be made at this session.
Jesse W, Dye, Gunnar L. Holmes. Alma Walsh took alleys.
honors for
S. Jensen, F. LeGrand the ladies for the past top week
Powerful farm groups are putting Clayton
a
D.
C. Jack Keizer. Joseph score of 126 It is interesting to with
pressure on Congress to pass the Klrkham.
i
Elmer C. McFarland. that Miss Walsh was given her note
Jones- Gillette bill amending the Markham,
in
Wayne D. Morris, Earl W Nye, struction at the local alleys and this
1937 agricultural marketing agree Wenell
Pogue,
Warren
C.
Richard
ments act so that all farm products son and Herman L. Wheeler.
score represents her second game.
The famous old K. 8. and D. farm
may be included in marketing a- Services to be Resumed
lands, comprising some 2000 acres
greements to be administered by A- Regular services at the Nyssa L.
are to be split up in smaller acre
AA. The plea is offered that this D. S. chapel will be resumed begin On I. O. N.
ages and sold, according to Frank
is necessary because of loss of ex ning
E. A. Wimp left Thursday for a T. Morgan, who will act as agent
on Sunday, September 15.
port markets. Canners are opposing
location about thirty-five miles for the company. The lands will be
enactment of the measure as they
north of McDermltt on the I. O. N.
don't want marketing agreements on House Guests
on a small payment plah to
where he is wiring the maintenance sold
farmers who are properly equipped
products they buy.
Mr
and
Mrs.
W
W
Howell
of
house
and
other
buildings
for
the
At present, only milk and a limit Boise visited with Mr and Mrs Hiway commission. The construction I The Keisel. Shilling and Danielson
ed group of fruit and vegetables can Qeorge
Mitchell over the week end. job in that stretch of the I. O. N. properties are situated along the
be controlled through marketing ag
about three miles north of
Is being done by Luther E. Fife con highway,
reements In the Jones-Gillette bill
Nyssa and is one of the most pro
THE
WEATHER
struction
company
of
Nyssa.
Wimp
apples not produced in the Pacific
ductive beet lands in the county.
northwest are the only products not Following are the thermometer returned home for Sunday.
This division of the property is in
readings as given by the Nyssa of
blanketed by its provisions.
line with the trend of owner-opera
fices of the United States Reclama- Son Visits
ted farms, advocated by farm econ
iContinued on back pagrl
tion
omists.
and should meet with pop
On
Friday
morning
Jim
Atkeson
Prec
Low
High
approval, as it removes the -'‘te
son of Mr. and Mrs. A. L Atkeson ular
MaU Carrier IU
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arrived for a short visit from Cha- nant farmer" problem.
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E. S. Frost was taken in on Wed 6
nute flying field. Illinois, where he
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nesday last week and has been con 7
has taken aviation mechanics train In Baker
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90
fined to his bed since with a heart 8
57
.03 ing course. He is enroute to McCloud
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attack and complications. He is re 9
field at Tacoma to begin duties Mr. and Mrs. Robertson motored
56
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ported to be showing improvement 10
to Baker on Thursday and while
there.
50
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again
On Sunday morning. Jim with there rented an apartment for the
A. W Willson is delivering the Acre Feet of Water
mail to the depot and attending to There Is a total of 413,710 acre Mrs Atkeson left for Dlllion. Mon winter They returned to Nyssa on
his other duties during Frost's ab- feet of water Impounded at the O- tana where they will visit with Mr Tuesday to close their business and
move their things to Baker
Atkeson for a few days.
wyhee reservoir.
Polio Epidemic
Scare Subsides
Famed K. S.
Land to Be Sold
DIMINISHES
Three Farms and Emison
A d d i t i o n t o Be
Excluded
case reported as well on the road to
recovery, the Nyssa high and grade
schools will open Monday, Septem
ber 16, according to Principals Har
tley and Hollenberg, following ac
tion of their respective boards, n h e
opening last week was changed too
late on Thursday to make that an
nouncement in the Nyssa Journal.)
No new cases of poliomyelitis have
been reported during the past week,
and all indications point to the end
of the scare of an lnpending epi
demic.
Students will be required to re
main for the full day, Monday and
country students are advised to
bring their lunches, both the princi
pals announced.
Teachers In both schools have
been busy this week making pre
parations for the opening Monday.
To date, there have been 208 regi
strations in the high school, with
the girls taking the lead with 108,
while an even 100 boys are register
ed. This registration Is expected to
be increased as the harvest season
ends. Last years registration was
275 pupils. Seven new teachers will
join the high school faculty this
year. Principal Hartley said.
Coach John Young, of the Nyssa
High school was among the 16
coachs to attend the five-day coach
ing school on football, baseball, and
basketball held in Sun Valley the
latter part of last month.
The Instructors for the school
were A. T. ISlats) Gill and Lon 8tl-
ner both of O. S. C. The school of
coaches was sponsored by the Nam
pa high school and Young reports
it as one of the best he has attend
ed.
Commenting on the local situa
tion in regards to football. Young
said that he had only three veterans
from last years squad and that he
would reserve any comment on pos
sibilities until after Monday when
practice starts.
Young said that any student who
wanted to try out for 1940 squad
should bring what equipment they
have to school with them Monday.
Those who wish to qualify for
football officials will be given an
examination on Saturday at 2 p.
m. in the Ontario high school,
Young said.
Will Investigate
Street Openings
The ground floor of the Polar
Cold Storage plant is being remodel
ed for an onion storage, according
to Max Goldman, manager for Doc
Marshall, owner of the plant.
When the Job of remodelling is
completed, which includes insulating
and the installation of necessary
cooling equipment, the storage plant
will have a capacity of between 10
and 11 carloads of onions.
The new storage room has been
leased by Ira Ure of the Owyhee
Farms.
The city council by ordinance has
called for a special election to be
held Tuesday, October 15 for the
purpose of amending the city char
ter by setting new city limits, a
legal notice of this proposed charter
amendment may be found in this
issue of the Nyssa Journal on the
editorial page.)
The new city limits would exclude
three farms that were inadvertant
ly left in at the last charter amend
ment election held May 11 1937,
and which, it Is understood, has
since been omitted from the tax
rolls of the city. Also to be excluded
from the city limits would be the
Emison addition, the streets to which
have recently been vacated by order
of the city council when the Amala-
gated Sugar company purchased the
property to erect a new warehouse
in which would be stored some 400,
000 bags of sugat. This storehouse
would result, it is estimated unof
ficially. In a reduction In school tax
es In the Nyssa high school and
grade school districts of about 20
to 25 percent, depending in a large
part upon the amount of sugar stor
ed.
This charter amendment has the
approval of the Chamber of Com
merce members and the personal
support of the members of the City
Council.
The polls for the election will be
In the city hall and will open at
8 a. m. and close at 8 p. m.
Young Attends
With two of the three cases of Coach School
infantile paralysis out of quarantine
for better than a week, and the only A t Sun Valley
Councilmen Olsen and Buchner
were appointed as a committee
Monday night by Mayor Thompson
to investigate the most feasible sol
ution to the opening of an official
street to serve the property owners
in the west end of the Ward addi
tion. Several lots have been hemmed
in without an official street when
the construction of the underpass
started.
Mrs. J. E. Long was present and
asked the council to try to work out
a solution.
The committee will make an in
vestigation on three possible solu
tions. one being to grade and gravel
an alley abutting to the property
on the east, another to make “of
ficial" a passageway, commonly be
lieved to have been a street, anoth
er is to open Bower avenue from
Its present terminus west to the rail
road right of way. The two latter
plans would Involve the purchase
of property.
Onion Storage
Being Built
Theatre Opens
Wednesday
A traveling examiner of operators
and chauffeurs, is scheduled to ar
rive in Nyssa, Wednesday, Septem
ber 18. and will be on duty at the
city hall between the hours of 10
a. m. to 5 p. m., according to a re
cent announcement released from
the office of the Secretary of State.
All those wishing permits or li
censes to drive cars are asked to get
in touch with the examiner during
these hours.
The Nyssa Theatre re-opened
Wednesday night after a week of
voluntary shut-down.
J. B. Geizentanner. owner of the
theatre, last Thursday voluntarily
closed the theatre when it was
learned that the Fall Festival had
been called off on account of a new
case of Infantile paralysis.
With only one case In Nyssa, and
that well on the road to recovery,
Geizentanner discussed the re-open-
Ing of his theatre with the Health
officer, Dr. J. J. Sarazln, and de
cided to resume his shows Wednes
day.
Ralph Bellamy will hold the spot
light In "Flight Angels," for Friday
and Saturday’s show this week,
while on the same bill Is a riot of
comedy with Lew Ayres, In "Oolden
Fleecing.”
On Wednesday and Thursday of
next week will be shown “Captain
Caution” with Leo Carrillo and
Bruce Cabot. *
A full program Is advertised on
the back page of the Nyssa Journal.
August Building Permits
Nyssa Railway
Driver» Examination
According to City Recorder M. F.
Solomon, building permits issued by
his office during August totaled
$10.225.00 Most of the applications
to build were for dwellings and for
home improvement
The only1 request not granted by
the Oounoil was that of M Pet-
tersbn who petitioned to build a
business building on Fifth' between
Main and Goode. There is to be a
public hearth/ of the matter on Oc
tober 7th.
Shipment
According to E. C. Crandall Un
ion Pacific station agent of Nyssa,
the month of August was a busy
time for the employees at the local
yards, with spuds topping the list
of exports from this area.
leaving Nyssa during the month
of August were 156 car loads of po
tatoes, 106 of sugar, 20 of peaches,
6 of onions. 3 of wheat and 2 of bar
ley.
Coming Into Nyssa over the Union
Pacific were 6 carloads of sheep. 12
of lime rock, 4 of burlap bags, 22
of coal, 26 of cattle, 1 of wood, 1
of floor, of cement, 3 of lumber, 6
of coke. 3 of wheat and 6 of miscel
’ROUND TOWN laneous produce
. . . hear Joe Trent shows ’em how The largest shipment for any one
to hold 1000 aces at pinochle , . . . day to leave this station were 23
bigger and better sugar beets on dis cars.
play here and there . . . . should
have some bleachers for the under Improving Building
pass sidewalk inspectors . . . nice
to see Adolph Jaenke back at the In order that the new Odd Fel
home port again . . . . sportsmen be
hall may be made ready for
ginning to keep a watch on the fa lows
visit of the state president of
mily hunting hound . . . some per the
Rebekahs next month several
ky whiskers cast into the waste bas the
Improvements
alterations are
ket the past week and not the least being made on and
the
under
among them those of George Hay the direction of Lon building
Root.
An
old
cock's and Hank Fields . . . . to say shed and other unsightly outbuild
nothing of George Elchners . . . . ings are also being hauled away oi
torn down.
"
City Budget
Meeting Called
Mayor R. A. Thompson set Mon
day, September 18, at 8 p. m. at the
city hall os the time and place for
the forming and adoption of a bud
get for the city's finance for the year
of 1941.
Problems of financing the city
band, city grounds, and street grad
ing and maintenance will be a few
of the many problems that will face
the committee which will be com
posed of the city council and five
citizens selected by each councilman
and the mayor, as yet unnamed.
It was hoped, at the council meet
ing last Monday night, that a satis
factory budget could be drawn up
at this Monday meeting so that It
might be voted on at the special
election to be held on October 15,
thus saving the taxpayers the cost
of an additional election.
Only One Alien
Registers
Only one alien has registered so
far at the Nyssa post office, in the
campaign to comply with a recently
enacted federal law, according to
Postmaster S. F. Goshert.
Goshert said that those who had
first citizenship papers are required
to register and advised all aliens to
register now, before the end of the
period for registeration draws to a
close, thus causing delays and long
waits at the local office. All aliens
must be registered by December 26.
when those who have not registered
will be violators of the law
Railroad to Build
Word has been received at the
local Union Pacific railway office
according to E. C. Crandall, that the
plans for a new station to be erect
ed in the near future have been ap
proved, but the probable date of
the start of operations Is not known
According to Crandall one of the
things to be changed In making
ready for the new building will be
the moving of the water crane from
its present position.
MARKETS
By Wiley Glowers
CASH PRICE
.BUTTER FAT
Premium ________
27c
First
26c
Second ___
24c
POULTRY
Hens, heavy ........................... lie
Hens, Light and leghorns ..... 7c
Cox
3e
Springs ........................ He and 14c
Egg prices are changing dally due
to scarcity and the prices quoted
today may have been changed by
Friday. At least they are up.
Turn In on eggs 22 cents.