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I ■V*ÌÉS&- The NYSSA Mabel Neilsen Dies As Result Of Small Blaze NYSSA TRACKMEN ENTERED IN MEET The Nyssa high school track team Is participating today In the Snake river valley relays In Ontario. Local JOURNAL Ontario, Nyssa Will Play For Ore. Side Lead Davenport Destroyed By trackmen are entered In all events, Bulldogs Win last Three according to Coach Frank Parr. Flames In Wilson Games, One League Boys entered In the meet are Building Contest Putnam, Miner, Larson, Browne. MRS MAXWELL IS TAKEN BY DEATH Mrs M M. Maxwell, pioneer res ident of this section, died Sunday at Roswell, according to Information receiv'd here. Mn Maxwell, mother of Mrs Cor- inne Ward, lived In the Kingman $2.00 PEÌTYEAR Water Supplies Consolidation Of Two School In County To Be Unusually Good Districts Favored By Voters — i Annual Snow Survey And Water Forecast Meet A. L. MCCLELLEN DIES IN CALIF. ing Held Votes Are Canvassed At Meeting Of Boundary Board Wed. Kolony area for many years. She A. L. McClellen, former Nyssa Mrs Mabel Neilsen, said to be a Ward, Morgan, Moore, Church, K e The high-riding Nyssa Bulldogs had baen an Invalid for several ye Malheur county irrigation projects Taxpayers, voting at special elect transient died here Saturday even ck, Merrick, Low, Sopher, Lewis, and the Ontario Tigers will meet on ars. are assured of the most abundant resident, died at his home in San ing at 5:46 as a result of a fire oc Whitman, Coleman, Kamlhara, S t the Nyssa baseball diamond Friday water supplies in recent years for Diego Monday, according to infor ions held Monday in the Oregon Trail schoolhouse and the Nyssa curring in an apartment in the orey and Hill. at 2:30 to determine the lead in the the coming season with all reser mation received here. The body will grade school building, approved co Wilson building on Main street Oregon division of the Snake River voirs certain to be filled to capacity be sent to Union for funeral ser nsolidation of school districts 26 of last Thursday afternoon. Valley league. vices and interment. and stream flow below the dams Nyssa and 39 o f Oregon Trail. Mrs Neilsen died, her attending Both teams are undefeated. They Mr. McClellen, former operator of The vote was 35 for and 8 against better than last year in mast inst physician said, from a pulmonary have defeated Vale and Adrian and the Western hotel in Nyssa, left in district 26 and 35 for and 34 ag condition caused by Inhalation of W. J. Wilde of Boise, state price ances. hi addition Nyssa has beaten Harper hot smoke. Inhaling the smoke cau here about 18 months ago. A dough ainst in district 39. officer of the OPA, stated while in In league contests. Such was the conclusion reached A fter convassing the votes cast sed a type of pneumonia. Mrs Nell- R. J. Newell o f Boise, Owyhee Irr Marsh will start in the box for Nyssa last week-end that panel at the annual snow survey and irr ter, Mrs Everett Hamilton, lives in in thè respective elections, the co sen suffered first and second de Nyssa. Mr. McClellen Is survived by the Bulldogs. MoCoy will catch if meetings will be conducted by the gree burns on the back, but they igation project manager, and R. S. igation water forecast meeting held his widow, another daughter, and unty boundary board, composed of Smith of Boise, chief clerk of the he is back in uniform. I f not, Pierce local price board every two weeks did not cause her death. the county court, found the elect T h e first part o f the meetings at Vale Monday by R. A. Work, four sons. will handle the catching chores The woman, who had been in the bureau of reclamation, met with ion procedure to be correct at a MoCoy is suffering from an eye In will be open to the public. Those Medford, who heads this work for city Jail for sometime after the fire, the board of directors of the Owy meeting held Wednesday. jury caused by a hot spark from attending the meetings will be pri the soil conservation service and the died In the the Nyssa Funeral home When the district boundary board hee irrigation district and the Owy an emery wheel. vileged to ask guestions and make ambulance as B. B. Lienkaemper, Oregon State college experiment st Consolidates districts 26 and 39, the Nyssa nosed out Vale Friday by complaints as to prices. T h e O PA hee Water Users association at sep ambulance driver, prepared to take resulting district would be known a score of 5 to 2 In a league game plans to have a price representative ation. her Into the Nyssa Nursing home. arate meetings here Tuesday night. as Consolidated School District No. and defeated Parma in two pract at a meeting every month. Information was submitted and Firemen, called to the Wilson Mr. Newell gave an explanation 26 of Malheur County, Oregon. Un The board, consisting of Frank considered by representatives of the ice games in Parma Monday of this building because df the fire, said of the reasons for the Increase In ion high school district No. 5 would week by scores of 7 to 6 and 12 to Parr, chairman; A. H. Boydell, and U.S. bureau reclamation, the state the davenport on which Mrs N eil water rental rates, which primarily Dale Garrison, will have three fun- engineer’s office and the extension be terminated as would districts 2 . sen had been lying was destroyed were the Increase In labor costs and Fearing that the nation’s 1943 39 and 26 as now constituted. Nyssa runs in the Vale game were ctions--to inform merchants as to service. by the flames. The building was materials. beet sugar crop will be one mil scored by Wilson, Pierce, Kamihara, regulations and other material re The directors of the new district The Owyhee reservoir is being not damaged. The board of directors expressed Marsh and McCoy. Marsh, pitcher, garding price, to give the informa lion tons below the 1942 produc would be composed of the present held at about 100,000 feet under Us Mrs Nelsen, 36 years old, wns the themselves as favoring a higher tion, leaders o f the federal and knocked out three blows, two of tion to persons in the community capacity to leave space to take the state governments have united to directors of school district 26 until daughter o f J. B. Colson of Idaho minimum charge, but delivery of them doubles, to lead the batters and reveal the impact of the re Falls. The body was sent to Idaho four acre feet instead of three acre peak o ff possible flood waters on call upon sugar beet growers of the next election, when one direct and help in winning his own game. gulations on the trade, and to act Falls Sunday for Interment. the river. Maurice D. Scroggs, pro the country to Increase their beet or would be elected from the new feet. The Buldogs won the first Parma as a local neighbor committee to ject superintendent, said the plan plantings up to the full 1942 war district. Mr. Newell was asked by the bo game on Parma errors, but easily sift violation complaints. A ll property, money and records is to start filling after April 15, with crop goals. ard to arrange sometime this sum trounced the home team In the “ This committee” , Mr. Wilde said, mer for a conference of represent second contest of the afternoon. Concern about the 1943 sugar would be turned over to the direct "is not going to act as a snooper far more than enough run o ff in atives of all the arrlgatlon districts beet acreage has been felt for ors of the new district on the date Nyssa players appearing in the comittee, but will work as a group sight to bring it to overflow level. under the Owyhee project with the three games were Malloy, cf; W il similar to town councils In the arly Remaining April-September flow sometime by leaders o f the sugar of consolidation. The limits and chief of the operations and m ain son, 3b; Bybee, lb; Pierce, 2b; K am colonial days and try to straighten of the Owyhee river was variously beet industry but it became a m at boundaries o f the consolidated dist ricts would conform to and be the The second war loan drive, the tenance division of the bureau of ihara, cf; Marsh, p; McCoy, c; Fu- out misunderstandings of both the estimated at from 600,000 to 725,000 ter of national importance when, same as the limits and boundaries largest war financing campaign In reclamation. He promised to arr kiage, ss; Yost, rf; Jim Fugii, If; merchants and the consumers re acre feet, depending on the early last week, Chester C. Davis, new summer temperatures. Tills comp federal food administrator, wired o f the territory Included in each of Jack Fugii, c; Orr, 3b; Cleaver, ss; garding price regulations” . the history of the world, will be ange the conference. The water users association had Eldredge, c; Heldt, c; Hansen, rf; ares with 871,000 acre feet for the state USDA war boards in all the districts thus consolidated. conducted by the treasury depart field protests with the bureau over Mefford, rf; Kabota, If; Bellon, cf; Sonsolidation will become effect same period last year when abnor states where sugar beets are grown ment during April. to "give all possible assistance to ive immediately upon action of the the Increase In water rental rates and Billings, lb. The goal of the department Is 13 mal spring rains held the flow up. growers In meeting beet goals.” effective this year. district boundary board. billion dollars. During the drive a Estimates are for a total flow for Water will be turned into the Mr. Davis In a letter to Milford complete assortment of seven gov the stream-flow year ending Oct Vaught, Boise, chairman o f the ditches Saturday, April 10 and del ernment securities will be sold. ober 1 at about 145 per cent of Idaho war board, said the “ mark ivery of water will be started Tues "T o be successful our effort must I f you were a poor girl and sud- normal. ed reduction in farmers’ intentions day. reach Into every home In the land, Farmers under the Owyhee Ditch to plant sugar beets, if carried out, Frank Morgan of Nyssa, former ienly found yourself in possession of because money must come primar company project will again be able would result in less sugar than we president of the Western Beet G r a lovely country estate, but by the ily from Individual Americans” , owers association, and the man who terms o f a krill you were obliged to to get their entire seasons’ supply need to produce in view o f the Henry Morgenthau, Jr., secretary of The 2000 acre ranch at Jamieson made famous the slogan, the “ house live on it constantly for one year, from the river with less than nor difficulty o f diverting boats needed the treasury, said. that beets built” , said "Sugar beets you wouldn’t hesitate, would you? mal draft on the reservoir, it was for critical war uses to sugar.” He beloning to Charles Garrison of N y "W e need this all-out support of instructed the state board to see ssa was sold twice last week in one Even if it was said to be haunted estimated. have been good to me.” newspapers and individuals gener Drainage areas feeding the middle that adequate publicity Is given to o f the largest individual land tran " I started g r o w l!« beets In 1936, and a phantom tiger appeared at ally to make this drive a success Owen Price, principal o f the N y two years before the Nyssa factory midnight to regain possession o f a and north forks o f the Malheur this need and said that the depart sactions ever recorded in Malheur and to demonstrate to our armed ssa grade school, was elected pres was opened, and shipped them to mysterious collar o f Jewels, which river have more snow on them than ment of agriculture is giving labor county. forces, our allies and our enemies ident of the Eastern Oregon Elem Twin Falls. M y first crop was from Mr. Garrison sold the ranch to had been stolen from its neck many anytime since 1938. survey reports and marketing problems o f the In what a voluntary and united e ff entary School Principals association seven acres c f land, from which I S. E. Henderson, Portand capitalist, years before by your deceased aunt, show. Added to this is the fact that dustry vigorous attention. ort can accomplish on the American at a conference held in LaGrande grew 75 tons, or 15 tons to the acre. The chairman o f the Oregon who in turn sold it to J. R. Simplot what would you do then? mountain soils are already filled home front". Saturday. Last year I grew 56 acres for an . The answer will be found at the with water where they were dry state USDA war board, Robert T a y o f Caldwell in less than 24 hours The securities offered for sale are The conference as attented by acre average of 25 tons. This year presentation o f the senior class pl lor, has sent word to those coun after he had purchased it. The deal 7-8 per cent treasury certificates of Mr. Price and Henry Hartley, sup I expect to grow 93 acres, the lar ay, “Tiger House” , a three-act m y five years ago. ties in Oregon where sugar beets Including stock and equipment, waa These conditions together led to Indebtedness of series B-1944, treas erintendent of the Nyssa schools. gest I have ever grown. M y aver stery play, to be given in the sch are produced calling attention to a cash transaction reported to be ury tax savings notes, series C; Mr and Mrs Hartley and sons vis age acreage for six years has been ool gymnasium at 8 p.m. April 9. estimates of total stream flow of Mr. Davis’ statement and urging *82,000. (Continued on page six.) United States war savings bonds, ited friends in LaGrande over Sun around 65 acres. I plan to keep ab The scene is a lonely country estate Henderson, who owns a large cat that each county war board do series E; United States war savings day, everything in its power to assist tle ranch In Jordan Valley and also out 50 per cent o f my land in beets two miles from the nearest village. bonds, series F; United States war Speakers appearing on the pro by the feeding of cattle, the full Musical Interludes will be given by In the securing of a maximum acre has extensive land holdings in Cal savings bonds, series O; twa per gram were Dr. Rdben J. Maaske. application of heavy barnyard man age o f sugar beets for 1943. The ifornia, Oregon and Michigan, Is the high school band. Alvin E. Tem - cent treasury bonds of 1960-5Q, and president of the Eastern Oregon ure and treble super-phosphate and pler, director of the band, has w rit chairman o f the Malheur county said to be connected with the K e ll 2H per cent treasury bonds of 19- College of Education; Mrs W. A. the growing of green manure crops, war board, Pieter Tensen of Nys ogg family o f Battle Creek, Mich., ten original music for the play. Barnum, acting state supervisor of sweet clover and alfalfa. By follow 64-69. sa, has already, through newspaper breakfast cereal magnates. The cast of characters, directed elementary education; Kingsley T r- Simplot, who owns a large de and radio publicity, expressed his ing this practice I believe I can by Mrs Stella Young, is as follows; Henry Hartley, superintendent of enholme, principal o f Mt. Taber sc Parents of G irl— v hydrating plant In Caldwell, has ( Continued on page five ) maintain or Increase the fertility of Erma Lowrie, Verna Ruth Flndllng: the Nyssa schools, was elected M r and Mrs Carl Roth are the hool In Portland; John M. Miller, my land for high sugar beet yields. appointed Vernon Wilson, manager Hami, a Hindu, Bob Eldredge; Aunt chairman of the Malheur county parents o f a 6 pound. 6 ounce girl director of teacher training of the o f the ranch which will be devoted ‘‘Over a period of years sugar Sophie, Winona Henderson; Mrs coordinating committee, which met bom In the Holy Rosary hospital Eastern Oregon college, and Rex beets will give you as large a net to row crops and stock They In Murdock, Verna Greenlee; M ac last week in the U. S. employment In Ontario March 31. The girl has Putnam, state superintendent of profit as any crop you can grow tend to Increase the number o f cat intosh, Bob Browne; Arthur Hale, service office in Ontario to con public instruction. been named Rosemary Jeanette. tle on the ranch to a large extent, ana* with less risk. Especially In Emil Stunz; Oswald Kerins, Dick sider plans for student help in Wilson said today. He has resigned years when other crop prices are Tensen; Peggy VanEss, Marie H ol the fields. ampy section of the south. Raymond Larson will be valedic as field man for the Amalgamated not so good, beets pay out. . .which man; Thompson, Marlon Suiter; The committee has been com torian and Kathleen Loe, salutation Sugar company in order to take “ the mystery woman” , Helen Sallee, posed of school representatives, U. is another reason why I intend to Dale Dorman who was Inducted at commencement exercises to be over the managership o f the Jam maintain the highest possible acre and the tiger man ??? S. employments ervice members held May 7, it was revealed last in the army March 23 developed a age record to protect my future ac Those assisting Mrs Young are Mrs ieson property and expects to move and members of the Malheur coun to the ranch where he and Mrs. serious throat infection on his re reage allottment, after the war is Ada Haworth, make-up; Jim Cook. ty farm labor committee to solve week. Ray, who has gone to high school Wilson and their son, Jimmy, plan turn home from Spokane, and is over and the Industry returns to the Ray Larson and Bob Yost, stage problems that come up in connec here all four years and has been to make their home. quota system. m anagers;' Dorothy Snader and tion with the active participation confined to his home. The ranch, totaling 2355 acres. Is "Sugar beets are also an extrem Genevieve McCullough, properties; o f school youths in the agricul especially Interested In mathematics He expects to go to Salt Lake one o f the most fertile in the W lll- ely valuable crop in every kind of Alvin Nye and Junior Holmes, adv tural work during the present farm and science, finished with a grade City as mentioned previously as owereek valley and was owned by point average of 1.286. livestock program. . beef, cattle, ertising, and Kathleen Loe, prog labor shortage. Kathleen, also a four-year st the late C. H. Oxman for many ye soon as he is able. rams. sheep, dairying and everything. The following recommendations udent here, was close behind with ars. Garrison bought it several ye “ I t is my opinion that the farm were made at the meeting: ars ago from the Oxman estate. W illiam Harvey Callahan o f N y er who increases his acreage of sug A survey should be made by the an average of 1.27. She has special Aproxlmately one third o f it is in schools to ascertain how many ized in commercial subjects. ssa. who is attending the Oklahoma ar beets this year will not only m a The other top students in alph cultivation under the Valr-Oregon students would be available for ag university navy aviation school, will ke a good profit now but will pro irrigation district. The balance I» ricultural work: also to select kev abetical order are Juanita Boyles, range land. be graduated next week and will tect his opportunities for growing boys and girls who might be Bob Browne, Bcto Eldredge, Oeneva receive his rate o f aviation mechan beets in the future when other cr ops will be less desirable than they called upon to organize groups of Graham, Verna Greenlee, Winona Houston Wilson of Nyssa Is one ic, 3rd class In the navy. He will Seventeen local young men took workers from the other students; [ Henderson, Helen Sallee, Emil St spend a furlough at home while en are today.” of the 110 senior ROTO students of examinations In the Nyssa high to determine the number of par unz and Dick Tensen. route to his station on the coast. school building last Friday under ents who might be willing to su- Oregon State college who were sw Visit In Idaho— Here From Payette— M r and Mrs Gtfcrge Bear and the army specialised training pro-lpervlae groups of students. orn Into the United States army as Orrln Moyes of Nyssa, who Is In Mr and Mrs C. S. Fulton of Pay- gram and the navy college training daughter. Dorene, spent Saturday That platoons of school children privates March 22 at Portland. He the armed forces In California, said program. be organized, with a group leader e* vUltrd Prl(,» y and 8*',urd,yJ "! and Sunday with friends In Oreen- was assigned back to school until he likes army life. He will be home About half of the youths took the to be paid the prevailing wage by th their daughter, Mrs T . H Eld- , . I, , ,___ on a furlough to visit his parents. leaf, Idaho. Edited by the end of this school term. Mr and Mrs William Moyes. army examination and half the the fanner for supervising the redge, and her family. T h « e students become a part of Meeting Postponed— navy examination. All except four work. the army specialised training unit Leland Hoffman who waa ^ That no action be taken upon Take« Bee« To Valley— The regular meeting of the Wes are present high school students. I C A N T IM A G IN E W W Poster, John Burnett and and Join with the 500 special ent> sent Camp Hoffman In leyan Service guild, scheduled for The four, Don Eldredge, Robert the closing o f schools during the I can’t imagine a bird without song; Lester Kllnkenbreg are In the W ill A road without turning as we go advanced engineering student-sold- North Carollna was home last week April 12, as been postponed. Reffett, Jack Church and Warren harvest season without the recom tors who have been sent to Oregon Qn furlough viglt hto parent*. of the coordinatimi amette valley on business. The men. along. Heldt, were graduated from the mendation who took beets to the valley for State college from college« and un- ^ >nd Mrs Hoffman of Ny- Former Residents Visit— committee local high school last year. iversltlee all over the country for Students should not be sent from pollination, were expected to go to I can’t Imagine a desert thats cool; Mr and Mrs Art Hann of Nampa Others taking the examinations technical training by the army All visited Sunday with friends In N y were Ray Larson. Bob Eldredge, one local area to another unless Wilson river, Tillamook and The A man who is wise, becoming a fool. of these students together form the Chester Oounsll of Nyssa has en ssa. They are former Nyssa resid Dick Tensen, Bob Browne, Jim Co that school area is depleted of stu- Dalles. ASTW dents ............ — — I can’t Imagine a life without tears listed in the navy for six years. He ents. ok, Elton Oounsll. LeRoy Merrick, Farmers wishing to hire children j Take C lerking Position«— O f sadness or Joy as we live thru Is stationed at Farragut, Idaho. Junior Holmes. Marion Suiter, T o should make their applications to Wayne Plercy was given the rank Marjorie Bailey and Mrs Kenneth our years Soldiers Visits— ADD OUR BOYB mmy Ward. Lyle Miner. Bob Yost the local employment service of- Cochrun have accepted positions as of private first class after complet Pfc Herman Bamas of the Un- M r and Mrs Leo Utter o f route and Roy Pierce. ing his course In the airplane mec flee to see that all possible labor clerks In the Eder Hardware comp- I can’t Imagine the bride, without 2. Nyssa have received word from lted States army atr corps, who Is hanics school at Kessled Field. Miss supply is depleted before c a llin g , any store. groom: He Is now located 40 miles from their son. Roy A Utter, aviation stationed at Walla Walla, has been VIsM In N; on schools. 1 ------------------------ A silver- lake without trees or a machinist’s mate. 3rd class of the spending the past week visiting: at M r and Mrs Albert Smith and Detroit. Michigan, where he Is to A resolution was passed by the Visit In Wriser— moon; navy, for the first time since he the home of his brother. Roy Bar- two children of Wetser visited Sun committee to approve the grant- j M r and Mrs Frank Baumgardner work In one of Henry Ford’s plants. The north appeals to him after so sailed In February. He Is now some- nes He will leave for camp this day with Mr and Mrs Ward Wien- ing o f attendance records to stu- and daughter. Maxine, spent Sun- I can’t Imagine a blue-bird not blue; week-end. eke many months spent m rather a iw - where hi the Pacific. 1 dents working In the spring work. , day In WeUer with relatives. I can’t imagine me---without YOU. Price Board To Hear Complaints Newell Reviews New Water Rate Davis Appeals To Farmers To Produce Beets War Loan Drive Will BeStarted MORGAN BOOSTS BEET PRODUCTION Seniors To Give Class Play Fri. Chas. Garrison Sells Big Ranch Owen Price Will Head Principals Hartley Chosen Head Of Group Larson, Miss Loe Leading Pupils Our Boys In The Service Service Exams Taken By Boys POETS’ CORNER win T. CAROL BYBEE
