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MSSfc»Vi. W eNYSSA Published at Nyssa, Oregon. GATEWAY TO THE OWYHEE AND BLACK CANYON IRRIGATION PROJECTS ___________________IN THE HEART OF OREGON’S SUGAR EMPIRE VOLUME XXV, No. 50 N Y A Project On Park Started Fastest Growing City In Oregon NYSSA, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1940 FSA Camp Closed Dates Set For Until Spring County A A A Saurday brought to a close the Electiion 1940 season of the Nyssa Migratory labor camp. All personell have been transfer red to other places for the winter and the equipment was moved to Walla Walla, Wash., for repair and replacement. Roy Searles, this year’s camp ma nager will report to the head offices at Portland where on December 11 to 18 a conference of camp mana- ers will be held. At this meeting recommendations for a more unifed program of camp management will be taken up and the selection of additional sites for new camps for the coming year will be discussed. Mrs. Beatrice Maddox, camp nurse has left for Portland also but ex pects to return to her duties here at the beginning of the next seas, on. Len Christenson, assistant mana ger has moved to Ontario for the winter. So far no tentative date has been set for the re-opening of the camp other than that it will be in ample time to provide proper housing fa cilities for the 1941 spring planting. In the eight months of continuous operation and service a total of 2000 persons found shelter at the camp this season with the peak coming in October when for six weeks 154 families were living there. Ten o f those families have found winter work in this area and will re main here through the winter. It is Searles’ hope that next year more facilities may be provided for the camp, chief perhaps, of which will be a properly supervised play ground for children living there and more adequate care arranged for children remaining there while the mother is at work. One outstanding good that was accomplished by the camp this past season was the prompt detection of a case of small pox in the camp. With the assistance of Dr. J. J. Sar- azin who was camp physician, pro per isolation given the remainder of the camp occupants forstalled any possible spread or epidemic of the disease, such as might have started if camp facilities for migratory la bor had been lacking. JOURNAL Nyssa CCC Men Marjorie Groot: W ins U. P. Scholarship High School To Are Discharged Present Fall Seventy-seven enrollees of the Concert -------- j Nyssa camp of the CCC were enter- The State A.A.A. committee has | tabled on Wednesday for discharge, set the week of December 16 to 20 as | Seventy-three will go to Yellow the dates for holding community Springs, Ohio, two to Fort Harris, elections. These elections are held Ind., and one with a male nurse will fcr the purpose of selecting com- be dismissed at Columbus. Ohio, munity committeemen who are res- The train, in chaige of Capt. B. ponslble for administering the A.A. | h . Smith, who left Burns with 67 A. program in their communities | men and, besides the Nyssa csnting- and for selecting delegates from ent, picked up another 100 at Nam- each community who will meet to j pa. Lt. Herbert F Lindal will also elect the county committee. j accompany the troop. The 1941 Conservation program will On being discharged, nine of the be discussed at these meetings. men from th ; Nyssa camp will be All the meetings are to be held at reassigned to a CCC detail. 8:00 p. m. and will be held at the Replacements at the Nysa camp following places: are expected to ariive sometime in Harper, Monday. December 16. January and will be from the Fifth Harper school house. Corps area whicli includes the states Kingman Kolony, Tuesday. Dec of Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia ember 17. and Indiana. Kingman Kolony school. A new regulation of pay allot Big Bend, Tuesday, December 17. ment has been made by the depart Wade school house. Ontario. Wednesday. December 18. ment. Instead of twenty two dollars going to the entollees family as pre Boulevard Grange Hall. viously, fifteen is now giv.n to them, Nyssa. Wednesday. December 18. seven is held in the company fund Nyssa school house. until ttie time of the enrollee s dis Vale, Thursday, December 19. charge when it is given to him in a Circuit Court Rooms lump sum to carry him over for a Payette-Oregon Slope, Thursday, short period, and eight dollars is December 19, given outright each pay day for Jefferson school house. spending money. The Nyssa company is working in conjunction with the Department of Reclamation on the Owyhee project and is turned over each morning to the Reclamation for assignment of tasks. At four-thirty they are re Mrs. Joseph E. Wheeler died on turned by the Department to he Wednesday morning of a heart at camp again. All matters of disci tack, following a two weeks illness, pline art taken up with the camp at her home in Nyssa. commander. Kathena Hazel Wheeler was born October 21, 1890 in Dublan, Maxico and had lived irt Nyssa for the past BEER APPLICATION nine months. She was an active TURNED DOWN worker and member of the Church of Latter Day Saints. The City Council at a special Funeral services will be held at 1 meeting Monday night voted adver p. m. Friday, December 12, at the sely on the application to the Ore L. D. S. church with Bishop D. L. gon Liquor Commission, for a beer Anderson offering the services. In license of Frank C. Martin. Martin terment will be in the Nyssa ceme had planned to put in a pool and tery, with funeral arrangements in beer hall in the Leigh building next charge of the Nyssa Funeral home. to Wilson's grocery. One council Mrs. J.E. Wheeler Dies Wednesday STATE OFFICIALS TO VISIT I.O.O.F. $1.50 PER YEAR man, Carlos Buchner was absent from the meeting, but the three who were present cast an adverse vote. The decision of the council is not j binding on the commission who may, if they so desire grant the appliac- tion. Martin could not be reached to determine whether he will abide by the vote of the council or send his application to the commission for their final decision. By Wesley Sherman Classical and popular music will be featured in a fall concert in the public school gym tomorrow even ing (Friday, Dec. 13) at 8 p. an. when the combined glee clubs and band of the high school present stu dents in recital to the community. Though compositions of such not ed musicians as Wagner and Moz art will be played and sung on the program, admission is free. As a contrast such currently po pular hits as the "Ferryboat Sere nade” will be offered. Mrs. Stella Young, instructor of vocal music In the high school, will lead the glee clubs, while Gordon A. Finlay, instructor of instrumental music will direct the band. Solos on the program will be giv en by Helen Boydell, Phyllis Poage, Darlene Dorman and Henry H. Hartley, principal. Marjorie Groot was awarded the j she has attended four different years Union Pacific Scholarship for Ore and has enoyed a, trip to the Inter gon State College next year at the national Livestock show at Portland Malheur county 4H club leaders as guest of the First National Bank meeting in Ontario on Saturday. of Portland. She was county winner Harold Kurtz was named alternate in the Kerr Canning contest in 1939 if Marjorie is unable to attend and in the Girls Record contest in 1940. school next year. Mrs. H. R. Sherwood was the lead Marjorie has completed seven years of club work and has finsihed er under whom Marjorie received 24 projects, 7 in clothing, 5 in cook cooking and canning instruction. Marjorie has been outstanding in ing and canning, 3 in rose and flo wer garden activity, 1 in poultry, everything that she has tried and room improvement, home making her award of the scholarship should and dairy. Her total prizes won 17 go far towards encouraging other first, 6 seconds,*, thirds, 2 fourths boys and girls to continue in their 4H projects and to strive for im and four grand championships. provement at all times. To the club Marjorie has taken part in six leaders too, much credit should be style reviews, 1 demonstration, two given for their continued and unsel dollar dinut.s if.d has been assist fish efforts in all 4H activities, for ant leader and leader of clubs. they are doing a fine part towards Marjorie’s work has been exhibit developing fine characters in grow ed three times at the state fair and ing youth of today. Nyssa Loses Post Office To To Parma 21-15 Remain Open By Wesley Sherman The Nyssa Bulldogs split even on games against Parma last night at the local gymnasium when the first stringers went down to defeat by a score of 21 to 15 in a wild and wool- ey game. Score at the half time was Parma 10, Nyssa 6. Frank Wilson was high man for the Nyssa team with six points, a Parma player, whose name was not learned was high man for the game with 11 points. The second stringers lead the way for their fellow team mates though, by winning from Parma by a squeek. the final score being 9 to 8. If predictions of experts mean an ything, Nyssa townspeople will have an opportunity to preview the state high school basketball champions for 1941 when they see Baker play the Nyssa Blue and White here on Saturday night at 7:30. Nyssa went to Baker last Satur day and met defeat, 45 to 22. Accor ding to observers, it was a case of itters for the local squad, who were meeting their first baptism of fire together against the toughest com petition. There will be a second team game with Adrian Saturday night, begin ning at 7:30. Probable starting lineups for the first team are: Nyssa Baker Shelley F Williamson Eldredge F Holman Returns Home Lewis C Van Beverin After several weeks on the survey G Clegg ing crew at the! Boise airport, Virgil Wilson Cleaver G Ellis E. Johnson returned home on Wed nesday evening for a short visit. Johnson expects to leave on Friday to go on professional work at Bums. Attend Funeral Members of the family from out Heinz Sonnekes demanding that of town attending the funeral serv the “Round Town” feature be kept ices of Bonnie May Newgen on Sun short so that he can read it all . .. day were: Mrs. Hazel Dean and her When wives want to locate their daughter. Pricilla of Twin Falls. husbands now all they do is put They left for their own home on their head in the door of Cornell’s Tuesday. Bowling Alley and yell. Hey! . . . Seven candidates will take the In- itiatory work of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in the Nyssa lodge on Saturday. December 12, at a special meeting in honor of the official visit of the Grand Master of the State of Oregon, J. P. Watts, and his official party. Following the initiation ceremon ies there will be a social program CHURCH PLANS and supper. The local lodge of Re- BUILDING bekahs have been invited to attend the social gathering, according to The building committee for the Wiley Clowers, secretary of the lod erection of a new Methodist church ge. M. F. Solomon is chairman of to replace that burnt in August met the entertainment committee. on Wednesday evening to decide up on final plans and arrangements. Construction will start soon as the DOCTORS CONDUCT bids are received and the weath SMALLPOX CLINIC er permits. The new edifice will be a structure On Tuesday morning 104 pupils of of 35 by 65 feet with a seating cap- the Nyssa schools were administered actiy of 150 persons in the main small pox vaccine by Dr. L. A. Maul- auditorium. There will be a full ba ding and Dr. K. E. Kerby assisted by sement containing Sunday school Mrs. Margaret Logan, county health rooms, a banquet room and a mod nurse. Although only four cases of em kitchen. small pox have been reported so Out of town officials attending far this autumn in the county, hea last nights meeting were Rev. Don lth authorities are of the opinion aldson, district Elder, of Nampa and that vaccination will do a great way Rev. Rosenberry of Caldwell with toward keeping the disease from Mrs. Donaldson and Mrs. Rosen gaining a foothold in a future time. berry. Vaccination clinics were held in Ontario on Tuesday afternoon with Dr. Belknap and Dr. Johnson in In FraitUnd charge. Others will be held in all of Mrs. Barney Wilson visited with the larger schools her aunt. Mrs. Williams in Fruitland on Monday. Six Nyssa boys began work on De cember 2. on the Nyssa playground construction project which is being sponsored by the City of Nyssa in cooperation with the National You th Administration. At the present Lime the boys are laying out and gra ding walks for the park and will soon begin construction of tennis courts and a wading pool for children. In addition to the playground co nstruction project, the Nyssa high school is sponsoring a clerical pro ject which provides work experience and training for girls interested in clerical work. Work experience and training is available for all out of school youth between the ages of 17 and 24 inclusive, according to George Wallace, area NYA repre sentative, who visited the Nyssa pro jects on December 6. All youths who are Interested in getting such work experience and raining should make NYA application to the Oregon state employment service at Ontario, where they will be referred to the NYA representative. The NYA is maintaining a resi dent project at Weiser and Pendle ton which are designed to aid any youth interested in getting further training in any trade or occupation. In Long Beach Mrs. I. B. Allen who left for Long Beach last week writes that she Napton Forms Community Club made the trip without accident and Thursday night, November 5 the alone. Mr. and Mrs. Allen will re Napton Community club held its main in Long Beach for several second monthly meeting. After a weeks before returning to their farm brief business meeting, a program in Nyssa Heights. and social hour of games and re In Boise freshments followed. Mrs. Kenneth Cottle and Mrs. Joe The Napton Community club is a Trent were in Boise on Wednesday. newly organized club consisting of Today Mrs C. L. McCoy and Mrs. members of the community who are Minnie Sykes were in that city as interested in the betterment of the was the Dell Taylor family. school and the community. Meet Hunters Get Birds ings are held on the first Thursday Lloyd Blakely and Glen Williams. Worker Injured of each month and every one is wel Bend, were house guests of Dr. and While working on the machine come to attend. Mrs. E. D. Norcott the first of the chopping hay at the Art Bock ranch Visiting From Denver week and while here combined bu M. A. Schobar slipped and fell into siness with some ducks and goose the power unit breaking three ribs C. A. DeOrofft, Denver, is visiting hunting. They were fortunate and and suffering painful bruises. He at the home of his brother. William, was taken to the Sarazin clinic for got the limit of each. for a few days. treatment and has not been able to On FUrlough From Navy Christmas Party Eugene Evans, seaman. 1st class. return to work this week. The annual Christmas tree and U. S. Navy, brother of Mrs. Jack From Payette Mr and Mrs. Earl Dnane and Shi party for the Sunday school of 8t. Lake and Mrs. Glen Suiter is visit Paul’s Episcopal church will be held ing in Nyssa for a few days, while rley of Payette were Sunday visitors o f Mr. and Mrs. Perry Ward. at the Pariah Hall on Christmas eve. on a furlough from the Navy. ’ROUND TOWN Les McClure trying to get the night crew to clean the windows and Er nie making excuses . . . Bill Schire- man's knees knocking together when he bowls . A1 Kuehn having trou ble putting the nozzle on the fire hoze . . . Eichnor is in the dog hou se on this bowling business . . . . speaking of pooch roosts there’s a snazzy one at the A. V. Cook do micile. «■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■I In order to expidite the mailing of Christmas packages. Post mast er S. D. Goshert has announced that the post office will be open all day Saturday, December 14 and 21. Mr. Goshert also gave a few in struction for mailing to insure the packages reaching their proper de stinations on time and in good con dition. Use air mail for speed. The domestic air mail rate is 6 cents fore each ounce or fraction there of .or 96 cents for the pound rate. All parcels must be securely wrap ped with strong paper and securely tied with strong string, fragile ar ticles and glass ware should be wrapped in excellsior or other like material and marked “fragile.” All sharp edged objects must have bla des and profusions protected, cigars in boxes must be protected by cor- ragated paper before the outer wrappings are used. Perisable articles must be so mar ked and wrapped against any pos sibility of leakage. With these, spe cial delivery stamps should be used to expidite delivery. All valuable ar ticles should be insured before mail- ling. Information on parcels being mailed to foreign counrties should be secured at the post office before mailing. And, of greatest importance is the clearly written address of the reciprocant and the sender, prefer ably on two sides of the package. If one cannot read their own writ ing, ten chances to one the post office force will not be able to eith er. ---------------------- / JUNE MARIE WILSON IN RADIO DEBUT On Tuesday evening June Marie Wilson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Barney Wilson made her first radio appearance over station KOAC. Her program consisted of five vocal so los and lasted fifteen finutes. Her accompanists was a first year stu dent at college. Friends listening in at Nyssa were disappointed when the last two of June selection were drowned out over local receivers due to station interference. June is beginning her first year of college work and is maoring in mu sic with singing as her main objec tive. " FSA Allotment For Loans Ready A special allotment for Farm Se curity Administration of *200,000 for the Vale-Owyhee irrigation projects which was authorized by the secre tary of Agriculture Claude R. Wic- kard on October 5, is now ready for individual loans according to W. N. Young, F’SA supervisor. A sum of $150,000 was also authorized at the same time for the Black Canyon project, Young said. Not more than 80 loans can be made in Vale-Owyhee projects if all of them are given the maximum amount authorized, which is *2500. This maximum amount is split up as follows: Not more than *1500 may be loaned an indivdual to refinance land purchase contracts, and under no circumstance will this loan be made to purchase land The impro vement or provision of domestic wa ter system or supply, housing and stock shelter can bq financed up to, but not exceeding *2200 for all three or any one of the foregoing items. A sum of *600 may be borrow ed for land improvement, such as levelling. A fee of *50 is necessary on each loan made, this fee being used for the necessary filing of pa pers. Those wishing to make applica tion for one of these loans may do so between December 16 and 20, in clusive at the office of the FSA su pervisor in Ontario. A committee of five disinterested persons will be appointed to consider all applica tions for loans, Young said. Services Held For Bonnie Newgen HearingSaturday On County P.U.D The Oregon State Hydroelectric Commission will hold a hearing on the application for the establishing o fa Peoples Utility District in Mal heur county at 8 p. m. Saturday, December 14 in the Vale Community Hall. The proposed district in which a public owned power system would be established, embraces 659 square miles and includes the cities of Nys sa, Ontario, Vale, Juntura and other unincorporated territory. The City Council and the Nyssa Chamber of Commerce, it is understood will pr - sent written resolutions to the ex aminer at the hearing, opposing the inclusion of the City of Nyssa in the P. U. D. District. The power of em inent domain vested in the directors of the PUD under the law is the basis for the opposition to including Nyssa in the district. To Train Youth In Defense Work Application to the state board of vocational education has been made by the board of education of the Nyssa union high school for per mission to install a school to train out-of-school youth for industries vital to national defense, according to Henry H. Hartley, principal. Through a federal appropriation administered by the state board of vocational education, communities of less than 2,500 are eligible, if ap proved, to establish night or after noon courses in any or all of four vocations; metal working, woodwor king, elementary electricity, and care and operation of motor vehic les. Any out of school youth between the ages of 17 and 25 may enroll, in cluding CCC boys and youth work ing on NYA projects. According to Robert H. Sawyer, appointed local coordinator for the program, there is absolutely no charge for attending the school. Should its application be approv ed, the high school will be the cen ter of training here. Instructors (lo cal men if available) will be provid ed by the state board after consul tation with a local advisory board. Additional tools and equipment needed to supplement those already in use in the high school will be furnished. A local advisory board, composed of two representatives from agricul ture, one from labor, and one from industry, is in the process of being formed here. The board will work with the board of education and the state board of vocational education in administering the program. The school, if established, will of fer basic training only in two fields, metal work and woodworking ac cording to Sawyer. On completion of a course each student will be given a certificate of his proficiency in the work. The student is under no obligation, nor, on the other hand, does the program offer jobs to those who have com pleted the training. The agriculture shop in the high school would be the center of train ing here. A questionnaire for enrollment may be found in this issue of the Nyssa Journal. On Sunday afternoon funeral ser vices were held for Bonnie May Ne wgen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Newgen from the L.D.S. church at Nyssa with Dr. Merle Burres of the Methodist church reading the srevice. Interment was at the Parma cemetery. Bonnie May Newgen was bom on October 29, 1926, near FYultland in Idaho and passed away at the Holy Rosary hospital in Ontario on De cember 5, 1940, at the age of four teen years. Bonnie May had been an Invalid for the past three years and con fined to her bed mo6t of that time. She had lived most of her life in this district and for the past three years had lived with her family in the Sunset district of the Owyhee project. Besides her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Newgen she Is survived by her brother. Bob, and her two grand mothers. ADRIAN (sepcial)—Adrian high school basketball teams took both games from Roswell at the high school gymnasium here Tuesday night, before a fair sized crowd. The Adrian second team drubbed Roswell 7 to 3 not allowing the Ros well team one field goal, the three points being made from free throws. The first stringers were more ev enly matched with the final score Adrina 22. Roswell 13. EPWORTH LEAGUE SPONSORS COMEDY LEGION “DUGOUT” PARTY JAN. 7 On Monday. December 16, the Ep- worth League of the Methodist chu rch will present a 3-act comedy “Uncle John Perkins in the Nyssa school gymnasium, under the direc tion of Sparks. The money received from the play will go toward defraying expenses on the church building. Characters in the play are Un cle John. Leroy Toombs; Miss Sus an Galloway. Lily Eppes: Effle Todd Frances Poster; her daughter, Ver na Ruth Flndling; Warren Perkins, Elton Council; Marvin Duncan. Bill Rex Ellis Visits McElroy; Martha 8niffins, Marga State Senator Rex Ellis of Pen- ret Toombs; Seth Higgins. Leroy delton was a Nyssa visitor on Sat Merrick; Ebenezer Randall. Chester urday He was enroute to B u m s, Council; Ooldie, Dorothy Parr ADRIAN HIGH TAKES TWO GAMES TUESDAY The Nyssa Post of the American Legion will hold it’s annual dugout party a* the Legion hall on Tues day, January 7. In charge of the arrangements Is a committee composed of Harry and Archie Howell. Wallace Paul and Bill Downing. As usual the party Is open to all of the business men of the city. Plans are still in the formative stages, according to those in charge. Tom Rusts Have Boy Mr. and Mrs. Tom Rust announce the birth of a son bom at the Nys sa Nursing home on Saturday Nov. 30 Mrs. Rust is now at home where her mother Mrs Silvia Drippe Is caring for her.
