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NO. 36
GRANGE’S DRIVE
Farm Machinery FOR
METAL
SUCCESSFUL
Repair Classes HELD OLD
Scheduled Here
Malheur County Instruc
tors Attend La-
Grande Meeting
The Oregon Trail Orange scrap
drive held last Sunday was a suc
cess in every way. Orange officials
stated.
Sixty farmers with five trucks can
vassed the community extending
from Owyhee to Arcadia. Elghten
tons of metal was turned Into the
salvage depot.
The Orange contemplates another
drive for scrap some day soon as
most of the solicitors failed to cov
er the territory allotted to them.
The Orange Is now negotiating
with the Terteling Construction
company for the scrap metal on
the old campground on the C.C.C.
road. If satisfactory arrangements
can be made with the Terteling
company the Orange should be
able to triple the amount of scrap
already hauled.
NYSSA OREGON, THÜRSÔAV. SEPTEMBER 24, 1942
CROP INSURANCE
Future Farmers
Sugar Factory
DEADIJNE NEARS
Will Be Opened Malheur county farmers have Of Nyssa Will
a few more days to take out
Gather Metals
Here Next Tues. only
all-risk e».p insurance to protect
their 1943^wheat chop. Pieter Ten-
sen. chairman of the county AAA Drive Will Be Conduct
Slicing To Start About committee
stated In announcing
ed By Youngsters
10 days earlier
that Se’nimber 30th will be the
Sept. 28
Than usual
last day on which applications for
The Nyssa chapter of the Future
Following a conference for voca
tional agriculture Instructors and
principals from 10 high schools in
eastern Oregon In LaOrande Fri
day night and Saturday. Leno
Christensen, Smith-Hughes agric
ulture teacher In the Nyssa high
school, announced that he will
hold classes In farm machinery
care and repair and also probably
classes In operation and care of
automobiles and tractors. In addit
ion he will hold some production
classes in this vicinity.
Other Malheur county agriculture
Instructors attending the meeting
were John Johnson of Adrian and
O. D. Dearborn of Ontario.
Bari R. Cooley, state superinten
dent of rural war production train
ing. and Ralph L. Morgan, assis
ta n t supervisor of state revision
vocational education, were In cha
rge of the meting.
The program discussed at the
meeting provides ways and means
by which rural aschool communi
ties may establish short unit class
es for out-of-school persons who
are Interested In receiving mechan
ical training in repalh and opera
tion of trucks and tractors, metal
work, carpentry and electricity.
Besides these courses this training
provides for 30 to 40 hour courses
In repair of farm machinery and
oourses to train farmers, girls and
women In methods of achieving
production goals of these farm
commodities designated by the sec
retary of agriculture.
The primary purpose of such
Instruction is to provide training
to persons who may be bfttsr
qualified to serve agriculture dur
ing this emergensy and to train
persons to become local mechanics
who may take the place of those
entering war Industries and the
armed service.
The Instructors will be selected
from the ranks of local meshanlcs,
commodity specialists, experienced
farmers and vocation agriculture
teachers The state division of
vocational education will dispense
the federal funds made available
for
operating this
program
through the local high school dis
tricts.
Mors than 0000 out-of-school
persons are expected to attend
these classes this winter.
Mr. Cooley stated that "With
tha shortage of manpower In our
local shops and on the farm, girls
and women will likely make up a
large part of this enrollments "
The Amalgamated Sugar com
pany will start slicing beets in its
Nyssa factory September
29th,
about ten days earlier than us
ual.
The beet harvest In the Nyssa-
Nampa district will be started
Monday and operations will be
started in the Nyssa factory the
next. day.
The new factary is expected to
be opened for orperation during
the first ten days of October.
During the first few days of the
"campaign" all of the beets will
be processed in the Nyssa factory.
D. E. Smith, agricultural super
intendent of the company, stated
in Nampa that labor will be
scarce, but he added that the
I company has asked for 600 Jap-
Malhetw county will be able to , anese to assist In the fields.
Japanese laborers are already
fill the September quota of men
required under the selective ser quartered at the Caldwell labor
vice act from present lists of 1-A camp and on individual farms.
registrants and may be able to) Others as they arrive will be
fill the October quota, a member placed in the Marsing and Twel
fth avenue labor camps.
of the draft board said.
Mr. Smith said the beets, which
Whether any married men with are excellent quality should at
wives who are self supporting will least equal the sixteen and one
be included in either the Septem half ton average of the last few
ber or October quota can not be years.
learned until the list of names
of those summoned for induction
is realeased. Notices to report have
been mailed to the men but the
list will not be completed until
shortly before September 29. Gail
Lowell Stockman, republican can
Hufbnan, secretary to the Mal
heur county board, is out of the didate for congress from the sec
office for a few days and defin ond congressional district, who met
with the chamber of commerce at
ite details of the class of men be
its weekly luncheon Wednesday
ing called could not be learned. nocn, said he is spending most of
Postponement of the day when his campaign making
personal
it will be necessary to d raft m ar contacts,
ried men with dependent children
“I like to meet people and get
appears likely so far as Malheur their Ideas,” the candidate said.
county is concerned provided con Explaining that he was born and
gress passes legislation allowing reared in the Pendleton sectlcn. an
drafting of youths in the 16-19 area of dry land wheat farming,
year bracket. If such legislation Mr. Stockman said, “I think the
is passed enough younger men labor problem on the farms is
will be available in the county going to be critical, particularly be
cause defense industries are pay
to fill the quotas for several ing what is to the farm a very
months. Such a move would set high wage.
The
high
wages
back the drafting of m arried men are alluring to the farm boys.
with dependents until at least There is only one way to coun
midyear of 1948. Passage of a teract the food shortage that
talked of plan for the drafting of is likely to develop and that is
m an power into defense Labor for the people to make protests
might also alter th e schedule against the drafting of farm la
of drafting men for the armed bor.
“You business
men
should
forces.
raise your voices in an effort to
get that stiuation corrected."
Oregon Traffic
Death Rate Cut
FARM TRAINING
COURSES PLANNED
TO* traffic death ra te in O re
gon continued to drop during the
month of July, Earl Snell, sec
retary of state, said.
F or the first seven months of
this year, traffic accidents claim
ed Uvea at the rate of 8 4 per one
hundred m illion miles of travel
while for the same period last
year, the rate was ten.
In actual fatalities there were
147 deaths compered to 1681 last
year.
T he decrease in the death rate
is even greeter than the decrease
in travel, as ;how n by gasoline
consumption, Snell declared. Gas
oline used for hi^rw ay purposes
d ropped 7.7 per cent during the
first seven morrthe of th e year.
Agatnet this 7.7 per cent drop, the
death ra te was down 1 « per cent.
Lone, Yamhill, Malheur and
WaUoww counties led the 36 O re
gon counties in accident im
provement in August.
Each m onth counties are ra n
ked according to the percentage
of improvements in reduction of
accidents compared to the same
period the previous year. Coun
ties are grouped according to
population. *
Walter Turk, »-year-old son of
His Helen McCarthy of Nyssa,
las been accepted for duty In the
United Statai army air carps sa an
Urcraft mechanic. Turck. who had
Man in Denver for more than a
rear, was sworn in sa mi air far
ad was sent to the
. Colorado reception
________ i there he will go to a
the nation’s airfields and work
tbs maintenance of airplane
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«JTY JOURNAL
nie NYSSA
V olume xxxvfrr
^ ^ p / < ‘.
Calling Married
Men Is Put Off
Stockman Here
For Candidacy
Return from California Mr. and
and Mrs. J. W. Moss and son
have returned to Nyssa from Vis
Salem, September 24 (Special) ta, California, where they lived
—-Rural w ar production training for one and one-half years.
to aid the individual farm ers to
m ake and- carry out the plans for
reaching the farm commodity
goals designated by the secretary
of agriculture will be conducted
in over 200 ru ral high school
communities this coming w inter
O. I. Paulson, state director of
rural war production training,
announced. Provision is also made
tor training local mechanics to
replace those who have entered
w ar industries and the armed
services.
Any out-of-school person who
has reached the age of 17 years
may enroll in any of the 14 short
unit courses approved by the
of agriculture and the >
y . S. office of Education. Since
many farm women and girls are
being required to do mechanical
w ork on the farm and assist in
managing the farm business, this
training should better qualify
them to serve agriculture, points,
out Mr, Paulson.
Besides conducting courses to
help increase th e production of
milk, poultry, eggs, pork, beef,
vegetables, lamb and wool, th e re !
will be four special mechanics
courses and one course m the r e
pair, operation and construct ion
of farm machinery and equipment.
The courses will be taught by
commodity specialists, experienced
farmers, local mechanic* and vo~ I
rational agricultural teachers. The
training program will be coop Commenm rating the hundredth
eratively adm inistered - through
anniversary of the Old Oregon
the local high schoola and the
state division of vocational ed Trail and the historic meeting at
ucation. AU salaries and expenses Champoeg In 1S43. a windshield
will be financed through the state sticker showing an oaan-drawn
division of vocational education prairie schooner against a
ground of typical Oregon
such insurance may be made.
Wheat growers are urged to use
a few bushels of this year's bum
per crop to guarantee 75 per cent
of a normal yield next year. Ten-
sen points out that In the past
crop failure has often
followed
the big crops. Each grower has
been notified of the premium rate
set for his farm.
Even though a wheat producer
does not plan to seed any wheat
this fall. Tensen believes that he
should make out a crop Insurance
application, for the policy offered
this season Is for three years. If
no wheat is seeded this fall, no
premium Is due. but for the fol
lowing two years a grower will
have all tile wheat th a t he seeds
the county protected at the low
rate now In effect.
[Hunting Season
Closed In State
Farmers of America will sponsor a
scrap metal drive in Nyssa Sept
ember 28.
Nyssa residents are asked to dig
deeply into their basements, gar
ages and other structures for met
al and pile It In a convenient place
ready for hauling as a part cf their
program of helping in the war ef
fort.
<
The Future Farmers, who want
all kinds cf metal except tin, will
pick up the material in trucks.
However, anyone having a consid
erable quantity of metal will be
paid fer It If It It taken to the Ses-
sler wrecking yard on west Main
street.
Th F.F.A. will collect metal prin
cipally in town. Rural residents are
asked to ’ deliver their scrap at
the salvage yard after it has been
weighed on a private scale. If there
is no one at the yard at the time
delivery is made, the person should
telephone the high school and a
boy will call at the yard and issue
a weight ticket.
The proceeds from the sale of
the metal gathered by the F.F.A.
will be used for the purchase of
war bonds and the financing of
chapter projects, according to Leno
Christensen, Smith-Hughes agri
culture teacher in the high school.
As évidents of Malhpur county
residents' desire to assist In the
war effort, the Oregon Trail G ra
nge gathered 18 tons of scrap metal
last Sunday.___________________
^2^PERTUg
Parallel Parking Ordinance Is
Approved By Council Of Nyssa
SCHOLARSHIP IS
GIVEN BY FIRM
A gift of »400 to be used In
Home ecomonlcs scrlorshlps at
Oregon State College has been
received by Dean Av» B. Milam
from the Amalgamated Sugar com
pany through Us Pacific coast sales
offices in Portland.
After this year the fund Is to
be used to provide »100 scholar
ships for four entering freshmen
who will be selected on the basis
of need and their high school re
cords. Besause of the late date
this year, however, the »400 wUl
be used to provide smaller grants
to deserving home economics stu
dents throughout the year, ac
cording to an agreement reach
ed between Dean Milam and the
donors.
Nyssa Bulldogs
Enter Jamboree
The Nyssa Bulldogs will be hand
icapped by Injuries and lack of
practice caused by the labor situa
tion when they enter the Malheur
county football jamboree to be held
at the fairgrounds a t Ontario Sept
ember 25. The jamboree will be
started at 8 o'clock.
Coach John Young has been
scrimmaging a limited number of
boys this week ln preparation for
the Friday night event. Bob Brown,
Nyssa's star ball carrier, was Injur
ed In scrimmage and will not play
ln the Jamboree.
The tentative Nyssa lineup will
be as follows: Center, Cook; guards,
Eldrerge and Council; tackles.
Keck, Suiter or Adams; ends, Miner,
Tensen or Church; baclefleld men,
Larson, Bybee. Morgan, Ward, Pier
The importance of scouting for ce, Malloy and McCoy.
beys during war-time and the need
for organization of troops on a
sound basts in the Ore-Ida council
were emphasized at a meting of
local B:,y Scout leaders in the
Methodist church Tuesday night.
Plans for the organization were
Salem, September 24 (Special)
, _.
.
n
discussed by W. R. Whldden of
' JLon °
...
Portland, deputy regional execut- —Umatilla county with payrolls
The Nyssa pos of the American ive and Pau, Moore of N
nearly quadrupled in 1941 be
Legion will Install officers for the
' vf.(„ tive cf the
cause o f defense activities, led
coming year at its regular meeting council
Thursday night, O ctober 1 A dele-, The executlve ln thls
„ Oregon’s 36 counties in percentage
gain over 1940, according to com
gallon, headed by Albert » “ M responsible f r 60
and
commander o Nyssa pos . attended wherefts the natlcnal ratl0 „ one parative figures announced by the
Installation cf officers of t h e j a l e j exec„ ,iv(, t<} 33 unlts ^
0 re _Ida S tate Unemployment Compensa
post Wednesday night. Hugh Bow council pxtends from New Meadows tion Commission. Advancing from
man of Pendleton, department to Melba and from Emmett to sixteenth In 1940 to sixth in 1941,
ccmmander of Oregon, presiding at Burns.
Umatilla reported pay rolls of
the meeting, outlined the activities
A new plan for raising money for $10,181,986 against $2,672,296.
of the Legion at the national con the remainder of 1942 and 1943 has
The payroll ln Malheur county
vention In Kansts City.
been developed. The officials ex
showed
an increase of $246,469.
pect under the new plan to be able
Sales Planned—
to employ another oscut executive Comparative figures for two y e a n
.S t. Paul's guild will begin Us in this council territory. They hope were as follows: 1940, »1,175,466,
annual rummage sales Saturday ln to conduct a financial campaign and 19411, $1,420,940.
ln October.
the parish hall.
For Malheur county the pay
roll during 1941 by m onths was
as follows: January $115,326; Feb
ruary, $61.59«; March, $96,306;
April, $98,017; May, $106,466;
June, $108,07«; July, $122,002;
August, $129,51«; September, $132,
625; October, $144,066; November,
$144,390, and December, $146,-
077.
The state game commission.
Governor Chafes A. Sprague
this afternoon at 1 o'clock in Eug
ene, closed the hunting season in
Oregon because of the fire hazard,
according to information gained by
the Gate City Journal in a long
distance
telephone conversation
with George Aiken, executive sec
retary to the governor.
The season on big game will be
closed until a general rain occurs
to reduce the fire hazard in the
forests. The deer season, the first
of the year, was scheduled to have
been opener September 26. The
Chines pheasant season, opening
October 1, will not be affected by
the new order.
The forest service closed the n at
ional forests a few days ago, but
that did not actually close the
hunting season as huntinv would
have been permissible outside the
forest reot->n- if a c tl n had not
been taken by th t state officials
today.
Scout Officials
Speak In Nyssa
Malheur County
Payroll Climbs
STFKERS TO BE ISSUED IN LIEU OF PLATES
secretary
FOOD /PAMPHLET
IS DISTRIBUTED
The Malheur county nutrition
council ln continuing Us efforts to
reach the people responsible for
'flood selection Is using a bright
and attractively colored leaflet
titled "A Oulde to good eating."
"In distributing this pamphlet,"
says Mrs. Amy Larkin, chairmen.
We have ln mint th at large group
of adults who eat one or more
meals at restaurants and who are
then responsible for their own se
lection of food. This group also
includes many school children, es
pecially at lunch time."
The pamphlet pictures In color,
the foods vital to health that
should be stressed in the dally
diet, chiefly milk, whole grain
serials, fresh fruits and vegetables.
In Nyssa, Vale, Ontario, Harper.
Juntura and Jordan Valley the
pamphlet is being distributed to
the restaurants and In the smaller
communities Miss Lillian Nlsbet.
county librarian is sending it out
to the schools and county library
stations.
will be issued motorists who reg-1 Mature provided for license plates
Fsaminer
ister their car in Oregon lor 1943 designed to ai
advertise the centenn-
A traveling examiner of operators
Secretary of State Earl Snell, left ial event, but due to war restrictions and chauffeurs win be In the city
It was ne-essary to sub hell September 10 from 0 am . to
above, shews the design for the on ilU* 1'
stitute windshield stickers for the 5 pm. All those wishing permits
■ticker to Philip H Parish, chair us'tau steel license plates Mot or to contact the examiner during
man of the Old Oregon Trail cent- iels will retain their 194$ plates or licenses to drive c a n are am ad
these hours
ennial commission. The state 1*6-1 for 1943
State Uniform Traffic
Act Effective Immed
iately
The city council, at Its regular
meeting Monday night, passed an
ordinance Including a provision for
parallel parking in Nyssa. ,
The new law Is “An ordinance to
regulate traffic, adopting by refer
ence the state uniform traffic act;
providing for local traffic regulat
ions, the regulation of parking,
drunken and reckless driving, and
the placing and maintenance of
traffic signs and markers and pro
viding penalties for the violation
thereof'.
The section relating to the meth
od of parking to be used ln Nyasa
reads as follows:
"Whenever any motor vehicle Is
parked upon any stret ln this city
It shall be headed as though pro-
ceding upon the right side of the
street.
"Motor vehicles shall be parked
parallel with the curb where such
parallel parking Is Indicated by a
painted white stripe or other mark
ing upon the pavement approxi
mately seven feet out from and
parallel with street curb, and the
entire vehicle Shall be within such
painted stripes or other marking.
"Where no mode of parking is
stripe or other marking, any and all
Indicated by such painted white
vehicles parked ln any such un
marked area shall be parked para
llel with the street crtlb and with
the tires or wheels an the right
hand side of such vehicle,, within
twelve Inches of the curb.
"Whenever the owner or driver
of a verlcle discovers that said
vehicle is parked Immediately ln
front of or close bo a building to
which the fire department has been
summoned he shall Immediately
remove such vehicle from such
area".
Other sections of the new ordin
ance pertain to right-of-way of
vehicles ln motion, roller skating,
glass and debris after aocldenta,
hauling logs and poles, using cleats
and spikes on whels, damaging
curbs, handling parades, obstruct
ing streets, parking time limits,
double parking, prohibited parking
areas, storing vehicles on streets,
drunken driving and reckless dri
ving.
The street committee may, sub
ject to the approvel of the council,
designate stop strets, cross-walks,
safety zones and traffic lanes and
provide for the erection of traffic
signs.
The ordinance became efflective
immediately upon its passage by the
council.
Returns From Coast—
A L. Atkeson has returned home
form the Puget Sound area, where
be was employed ln army con
struction work for a few months.
School Planned—
Renovates Center—
Andy McGinnis has repainted
and rekalsomlned the inside of the
building occupied by the Nyssa
Bowling Center.
Undergoes O peration-
Miss Thelma Oook of Boise,
daughter of Mr and Mrs A. V. Oook
of Nyssa. underwent a major oper
ation ln a Boise hospital Tuesday.
POETS’
CORNER
Edited by
T. CAROL BYBEE
(Detail for poem contest In next
issue of Journal)
FANTHOM MES8AGE
I read ln your eyes
A message one day
I t made me go happily
Along on my «ray.
There ln the depths
A glim pa of your soul
Transfered bo mine
Your withes, your goal.
The world cannot see it
This new love we share.
But deep In our hearts
We know It Is there
Not one word was spoken
Between you and I
Of this tender devotion.
Love, never to die.
As you looked down
In my face, dkl you see
The message my eyes
Wtre sending to thee?