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raeNYSSA \TOtïïME XXXVÏÏÇ Hendrix States Valuations In County Boosted No. 27 JOURNAL NYSSÄ, 'ÔKËGON?, t rii)RÏÏf)AT~: j T j LV 29T~OT Nyssa Residents Think II Duce Beet Producers Is Deserving O f Punishment Protest Against Ontario, July 29 (Special)—Plans are being drawn by local stock I A cross-section o f comment in ion. He is, in a way being punished Reductions In 44 owners to stage an amateur rodeo now by being a man without a A M A T E U R RODEO W IL L BE ST A G E D Nyssa indicates that the people and saddle horse race program ! here feel that Mussolini, who rec- -Practically All Classes August 21 and 22 at the Ontario ! fair grounds as a side attracticn to 1 ently resigned as prenrter of Italy O f Property Own the agricultural exhibits. J should be punished for his inter- ers Affected Roy Brewer of Ontario is acting | national brigandage. Grant Rinehart, city recorder, Vale, July 29 (Special)--Taxpayers as manager of the affair and has who will receive their tax state asked that anyone interested in | said "Mussolini is a criminal and ments in about six weeks can expect taking part in the show contact should have every punishment that a sharp increase in their assessed him as soon as possible. It will be a big-time criminal should have. I caluations. County Assessor Ed He strictly amateur with the thrill of think the punishment should, be competition as the main reward. given by the Italians since they ndrix said tcday. This will affect Workouts are being held at the suffered more from his rough-shod nearly all classes of property own fairgrounds track each Sunday a f methods than anyone else. ers, whether of town property, bus ternoon with local horsemen staging “ I think if Italy is smart she iness or residential, range land or Impromptu races and bucking ev will pull out of the war as the Ital irrigated land. It is part o f a pro ents. ians are not axis minded. They gram Mr. Hendrix has instituted to I have never been in sympathy with place all propetry in the ocunty on the war” . an equality. He endeavors, first, to Leno Christensen, secretary of ascertain a true value and then the the Oregon Trail Grange, also be property is assessed at 40 per cent lieves that Mussolini should be c f this true value. punished, but leaves to officials to This -eneral increase in assessed values should mean a decrease In Residents o f this territory are determine what the punishment taxes paid for many taxpayers, M r becoming fearful that the purchase should be. “ I don't think Italy will drop out Hendrix said. Sime. however, who o f hay here by outside buyers will have been "getting by" on assess cause a serious shortage among of the war until Germany is ready for her to drop out,” Christensen ments that were far too low will dairy herd owners. find their taxes boosted. High prices of hay, combined with said. City Councilman Bernard Frost He mentioned on house in Ont- a generel shortage throughout this ario that had been assessd for years entire section may prove a threat said “ Yes, Mussolini should be pun for $900 will now be assessed a t , to the dairy industry which may ished, but to what extent is a quest- $3600. A Nyssa property assessed at ( ultimately curtail production by a $2000 formerly has been be os ted to considerable precentage, according A T H LE T IC C O AC H $4300. to a warning issued at a meeting M odem five room houses in Vale of the Payette chamber o f comm N A M E D A T A D R IA N heretofore assessed at $1000-$1200, erce. Harold Lovejoy of Lava Springs, will toe boosted to about $1800. At the present time much of the Part c f this increase in assess hay produced in this section is be Idaho has accepted the position of ment f : r improvement will be o ff ing sold to outside interests, who coach o f Adrian high school. M r set by a decrease in lot values, es are moving it out o f this county, Lovejoy attended shool at Oregon pecially in Vale, where they have thus depriving local livestock own State college and Colorado State college at GTeeley, where he partic long been out of line with the rest ers of a winter’s supply. ipated in sports. o f the county. The greater precentage of the M r Lovejoy is married and has • Assessments o f all city property dairy farmers are dependent on hay have been arrived at in consultation growers for a portion of the hay, three sons and a baby daughter. He with experts from the office o f the which is used to feed their herds is engaged in defense work at Poc state tax commission. The state through the winter season and if atello this summer. He is highly recommended by a Idaho sports commission sent several field men the supply is greatly depleted, dairy authorities. into the county and they spent sev herds will of necessity have to be eral months here computing city reduced. property values. Local growers are urged to sell Other classes of preperty, as well their hay, if possible, to local dairy as city property, will be sharply men. The dairymen are urged to increased in assessed value, M r buy their hay immediately before Hendrix said. Range lands have the shortage becomes acute. been doubled from 50 cent to $1 an The Nyssa schools will be opened acre. Farm land in the new projects August 30, according to Superin have been increased from $20 to $30 tendent of Schools Henry Hartley. an acre with their true value fixed The date was decided upon by the at $80. Irrigated lands in the older •r, ,. ,, . .. „. Hay Situation Is Held Acute I country, which is enough punish ment for any man. “ I think the resignation of Muss olini will lead to the capitulation o f Italy. I believe Italy will quit within the next 30 days” . Mayor Herschel Thompson re marked that *T think Italy will withdraw from the war, but I think it will take her a month to do it. She can’t get out until she gets all c f the German soldiers and gest apo out of the ccuptry. I don’t be lieve Germany would stand for Italy making a spearate peace so long as she has equipment in Italy. “ I believe Mussolini and Hitler agreed on a program of action at their last meeting. Mussolini and his fascist leaders should be punished, but I don't know how. City Councilman R. G. Whitaker believes Italy will not withdraw from the war until she “Is knocked out” . “ I don't think Germay will let Italy out as Oermany is using Italy as a time-creator. Germans would sooner fight on Italian soil than on German soil." M AJOR E. B. COLE R E PO R TED SAFE M ajor Edgar B. Cole, who was reported missing in action overseas May 29, cabled b's wife, the former Royce Church, from England Sat urday, stating that he was "well and safe” . M ajor Cola, a squadron comm ander in the U. S. air forces, en listed in the army in July, 1941. His father is E. M. Cole, general superintendent o f the Amalgamated Sugar company. M ajor Cole was formerly a studert engineer at the sugar factory here. Schools To Be Potato Shipping Opened Aug. 30 W ell Underway Bodies O f Army Youths Located Produce buyers are shipping an average of 12, cars of potatoes from Nyssa a n * « j«verr or sight cars of potatoes daily from Adrian, Union school board at its last meeting. Pacific company employes stated A week’s vacation is planned for this week. Army searching parties Tuesday Only red potatoes were shipped Christmas, so that school will pro found the bodies of two Gowen bably be dismissed in the spring last week, but shipment o f whits field soldiers of Boise, sought since rose potatoes was started this week. they disappeared after a Saturday about the middle of May. The shipping season Is expected to swim in the Snake river near Mur The school board members think last this year until the middle of phy. it is quite probable that the high September because of the increased The Gcwen field public relatnons school will take a "victory vacation" acreage planted in the spring. office identified the men as Tech. A representative of one o f the 5th grade Morris C. Halbruner, Jr„ in October to help harvest the cr four companies buying potatoes ops. of Gold Springs, New Jersey, and said the “ spuds" are of good qual Pvt. Andrew J. Miceli, 24, o f Lodi, ity. New Jersey. The bodies were found two Nursing Home Notes— T otal ............................... $809,775 miles below the Marsing bridge. Mrs Charley Cannon and Infant Army units and peace officers cf In 1943 the comparable figures son were dismissed Monday. Calvin southwestern Idaho and north are as wollows: Vertress of Parma, who was a farm eastern Oregon sought the bodies Personal (machinery, bags The county court met last week accident victim, was dismissed last o f sugar, etc................... $1,028,070 of the two men, who were attached! Thursday. Mrs Ed Roseberry of Real .............................. 146,660 as cooks to an engineer battalion to consider the question of salaries Emmett and Ruth Russell were engaged in construction o f a land ,”jr deputies and clerks and general admitted this week for medical T otal ................................. $1,174,730 ing strip near Murphy, Idaho. raises, in accordance with the rec treatment. Unsecured personal property taxes ently adopted budget. amounting tc $10,328.65 have been Goes To Portland— Highest paid deputy is Mrs. Va Enjoy Picnic— Emil Stunz, Jr„ has gone to Por leria Thayer, tax expert in the sh collected by M r Hendrix since July Several couples enjoyed a picnic 1. Payement of this tax has been tland, where he is attending weld eriff’s office. She will receive $175. on Birdings Island in Payette Pri- largely evaded in the past by tran- ing school and working in the sh- John Kcopman. newly appointed day. Those present were M r and sient stockmen and renters with ! ipyards. He will remain in Portland sheriff’s deputy, was given a raise Mrs Bob Thompson. M r and Mrs farm equipment which they were for two months and then return to $160 iGrant Lewis, M r and Mrs A1 Keuhn, able to move out of the county be home for a week's visit with his In the. assessor's office, Mrs Jes Mr and Mrs Harry Johanson, Mr fore the taxes could be collected parents before entering Oregon sie Millsap who took Mrs Mildred and Mrs Glea Billings and M r and T hey are new payable on demand. State college. Wood’s place was raised to $150. i Mrs Larry Brown. Dave Lawrence, another deputy, was to Miss Doris Margaret Clinton of raised to $150. The salary o f Mrs Returns To Home— Pcrtland. Alice Simmons was fixed at $125 Mrs H. E. Melton of Pueblo, Col The salary c f Helen Jordan in orado. who has been visiting and Conley Ward. 1943 Nyssa high the county superintendent's office helping to care for her father, J. B school graduate, left this morning was raised to $100. Other salaries Coulter, for the last 10 days, has for Spokane, where he will take in the sheriff’s office and in the returned to her home. M r Coulter his physical examination for en county clerk’s office were left un is quite ill. trance into the army. W ard was changed. All these increases were made Return To Nyssa— among the high school boys who retroactive to go Into effect July 1, M r and Mrs E. R. Brandt re nnssed the aunv examination given the beginning of the county’s new turned home Monday from Covina. in the later part of the school year. fiscal year. California, where they spent three This entitles him to enter officers The court discussed the employ months. training school after leaving "Boot” ment c f a licensed engineer to be camp. hired on a per diem basis to sup Has Operation— ervise the construction of the coun Stan Thompson, son of M r and Pvt. Pat Smith, son o f M r and ty’s bridges and other structures. Mrs Robert Thompson, underwent Mrs Ernest Smith is visiting relat Several names are under consider a tonsileetomy this morning. ation but no selection was made Pvt. Lyle F Reece, son of Mr. ives and friends here. Most of the day was spent In Going To LaGrande— and Mrs. Clarence Reece, has been Carl Ledjerwood, a soldier, and specting roads and bridges In this Miss Erma Hamlin will leave to transferred from Camp Hood, T e x Dale Ledgerwood. a sailor, are here end c f the county. night for LaGrande to visit her as. to Camp Philips, Kansas. on furloughs and are visiting at parents ■ and her brother, Warren, Richard Ingram, son-in-law of the home -f their parents and bro Go To Portland— who Is home on furlough from the Miss Carol Robertson and Miss navy. M r and Mrs W L. Flower, was thers. Mr and Mrs Ray Ledgerwood Gayle McCoy have gone to Port recently promoted to the rank of and family. land. Miss Robertson is working and Visits In Boise— first lieutenant from second lieu M r and Mrs John Holly have is staying with her mother. Mrs tenant Mr and Mrs Ingram vis Miss Verna Greenlee spent last received word that their son. W ill Artie Robertson, who has been re week-end In Boise with Miss Vivian ited in Nyssa last week. iam. is stationed at Monterey. Cal ceiving medical treatment in Port Widmer. former Nyssa high school Sergeant Ruthford Mitchell of ifornia. where he Is receiving tests land. Mrs Robertson is showing teacher. the army air base at Spokane visit and his “shots" prior to leaving improvement and will return heme ed Sunday and Monday with his for Kelley Field. Texas Mrs W ill in about a month Miss McCoy has Visit In Idaho— M r and Mrs George Bear spent parents. M r and Mrs R A. Mitchell iam Holly and baby son are with scoured employment In defense Saturday In Nampa and Caldwell o f Owyhee. He was recently married Mrs Holly's parents in La Grande work. sections o f the county valued at $100 an acre will net be changed and will continue to be assesd at $40. Nyssa and the Nyssa school dis trict will show the largest increases in valuation, Mr. Hendrix estimated, on aeount o f a (general increase in the property owned toy the Am alg amated Beet Sugar Co, In 1940 its property was assessed as follows: Personal (including $50.000 for cat t le ).................' ..................... $784,200 Real ................ 25,575 Our Boys In Th e Service County Employe Salaries Climb Growers Expected To Get Hearing About Sept ember 1 Beet growers of Idaho, Oregon and other states will have an op portunity to discuss the 1944 goal with agriculture department o ffi cials about September 1, according to information received here, Utah growers have already asked for the same acreage assigned for 1943 and Idaho growers telegraph ed Senator White protesting against any reduction. Crribbean cane growers promise to supply the deficiency in sugar production in the United States if a further reduction is forced on growers by the government. Dry beans and peas, potatoes and alfalfa are direct competitors for sugar beet acreage and the food administration has Indicated a need for all of these. The vegetable and hay crops also require less atten tion through the growing season and less manpower to harvest. The agriculture department re ported on July 1 that the sugar beet plantings this year were only 636.000 acres and that the indicat ed abandonment would leave only 598.000 acres for harvest, 37 per cent less than the 951.000 acres harvested last year. The yield esti mated was 12.0 tons an acre, in dicating a crop of 7,378,000 tons, empared with 11,681000 tons har vested last year. Cane growers in this country increased their acre age from 322,600 to 331,000 acres this yt?r. Labor Situation On Farms Good Ontario, July 29 (Special) M alh eur county’s farm labor supply for the 1943 season has been the best $2.00 PËRTEÂfr M A L H E U R FARM S S IT U A T IO N G O O D Malheur county farms will mar ket 12.000.000 dollars w:rth of ag ricultural products, R. E. Brooke, county agent, told the Ontario K i- wanis club. Brooke's talk was a summary of the agricultural picture in the co unty to date for the year and he presented a breakdown of various crop values in arriving at his totals o f anticipated revenue. This figure will be by fa r the highest ever re alized by the county from its farm crops. E. R. Jackman, extension specia list in farm crops at Oregon State College, who recently completed his first seed certification inspect ion trip here' remarked that the crops in the county were the finest he has ever seen and would reach a record point of production, Brooke stated. W. H. McConnell O f Nyssa Dies William H. McConnell of Nyssa died in Caldwell Tuesday night. Mr. McConnell, member of a pio neer Malheur county family, was born in New York state July 18. 1874. He came west in 1887 and located in the vicinity o f what is new Homedale, Idaho. Mr. M c Connell, who engaged in the stock business for the last few years, owned a ranch on the Owyhee river. He was a son of James and Sarah McConnell. Mr. McConnell is survived by his widow, Ruth; two sisters, Mrs Scott Harris of Elgin and Mrs A. B. Sim "ns of Pleasanton, California, and two brothers. Charles McCon nell of Nyssa and Clare McConnell of Lakeview, Oregon. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday in the Methodist church. Interment will be in the Nyssa cemetery. Aerial Mapping O f Malheur Co. Well Underway Fred Shearer To Photo graph 4000 Square Miles Government aerial mapping o f 4000 square miles of land In North ern Malehur county has been start ed by Fred Shearer, who Is stationed at Baker during the time of his works here. Mr. Shearer has been doing aerial photography and mapping since 1937 and Is a pioneer In that field. Last summer he photographed areas In Alaska for the army Alcan high way and pipe lines. Mr. Shearer is employed by an aerial mapping company in Phila delphia which is under contract to the government. His present work is for the department o f agriculture. AAA crop control. His aerial maps of Malheur county will be used to determine for farmers further acr eage which could be cultivated and made to produce needed food or acreage yvhich could better be pro ducing another type o f crop. Photographs are taken form 19,000 feet on perfectly clear days. A Cess na airplane, made In Wltchita, K an sas, and especially designed for aerial photography Is used. Mr. Shearer’s plane will operate from the Baker airport and is piloted by C. A. Dixon of Philadelphia. Mr. Shearer shoots his pictures in consecutive strips over every mile This strips photograph an area two and one half miles wide. He is able to cover 900 square miles a day. Mr. Shearer originally from The Dalles, expects to spend two weeks in this area. R E G IO N A L O P A O FFICE CH O SEN Portland has been named reg ional O P A headquarters for the lumber enforcement division, Rich ard O. Montgomery, district dir o f any area in the state, R. E. B r ector, announced today. Jerome S. ooke, county agent, said. During the Bischoff, formerly chief attorney season of heaviest demand to date Ezra T. Benson o f Washington, o f the O PA Klamath Falls office, requests for laborers totaling only former Boise resident, has been ap has been appointed chief of the 76 went unfilled as requested. pointed a member o f the L.D.S. lumber enforcement unit, San Fr Brooke stated that the peak de church council of twelve apostles, ancisco regional office, but will be mand was reached during the first according to information received stationed in the Bedell building, haying season. Hay fields, with a here. Portland. scale o f six dollars per day were Elder Benson, grandson o f an Bischoff will supervise all lumber unable to compete with higher pay early day apostle o f the same enforcement activities throughout ing piece werk jobs. As a result name, moved to Washington In the region which includes Oregon, for a short time haying labor wrs 1939 and was named president o f l Washington, California, Arizona. scarce. the church stake there. Nevada and part of Idaho, Mont Brooke anticipates no critical sh His new appointment filled the I gomery explained. He will direct ortage foi the harvest season now council fer the first time In the activities o f O P A district offices underway. He pointed out that the months. Two vacancies were creat along these lines and will prepare beet crop was approximately 30 ed by the deaths of Elders Rudger and try lumber violation cases, wo per cent under the acreage of a Clawson and Sylvester Q. Cannon. rking in collaboration with the year ago. When farm crop estimates Elder Spenccer W. Kimball Deparment o f Justice to enforce were being drawn early In the year president o f Mt. Graham stake at price regulations on fir, pine and Brooke stated the beet crop would Safford, Ariz., was named to fill cedar lumber, logs, and agricultural only be 70 per cent of the 1942 the other vacancy. Elder Kimball, Industrial box shook. acreage. Latest available figures on too, is a grandson of an early day Numerous complaints o f lumber the acreage comparison places the apostle. Heber C. Kimball, who price violations, such as upgrading, figure at 69.8 making an error of served under Brigham Young, sec short tally and improper freight estimate on Brcoke’s part o f only ond president of the church and charges have been coming In, Bis two-tenths o f one per cent. leader o f the migration from the choff reports, particularly relating Main reasons for the improved middle-west to Utah. to lumber sold by mills and whole picture of farm labor supplies in Active in Cooperatives salers to governmental agencies and the county for this season over 1942 Both of the new apostles will be the army and navy. is the Importing of Mexican nat ordained after they are sustained ionals. farm labor from other areas by general church membership at in the country and a large number the October general conference. o f Japanese American evacuees. The Elder Benson also Is executive handling of the program o f supply secretary o f the National Council labor as needed has had efficient of Farmer Cooperatives. He form handling by Malheur county repre erly was active In cooperative en sentatives o f the federal employ terprises in his native state of ment seri.'ce headed by Eldcn Cone, Idaho. The oouncil o f which he is Edited by manager of the Ontario office. executive secretary has a mem bership of scores o f agricultural T. CAROL BYBEE cooperative associations, represent Convention Held— ID EAL The annual American Sunday ing approximately a quarter o f a School union convention is being million farmers and poultry rais In all o f your ways You are my Ideal. held this week in the Quaker HiU ers. location at Payette lakes Rev. R T h e new apostle was bom a. You made my dull life G. Chandler of Caldwell, who is Whitney, Oneida county, Idaho Aug. So happy, so real. the missionary for this section, and 4, 1899. His parents were George Rev M. H. Greenlee, who Is the T. Benson and Sarah Dunckley. He In life's boat o f love evening speaker, left Monday to attended Oneida academy then W e’ll sail on together attend Mrs Klingback has charge the University o f Idaho, and Brig T o honor and cherish ham Young University. He later In all kinds o f weather. of the commissary. took his master’s degree at Iowa LOVE State college and since has done Goes To Boise— Mrs Hazel Straub resigned her two years o f graduate work at Uni L —stands for km 1 In ess Just filling In space. position with the Amalgamated versity of California. A fter his college training he re O—means Only you Sugar company and left today for Can take that place. turned to farming, running live Boise to make her home. stock and crop farms In southern V —stands for velvet 8ott, clean and fine. Idaho. Then he became county ag- Plrnic Held— So like your face. The Helping Hand club and fam I ricultural agent, and later exten When it’s pressed against mine. and marketing ilies of Nyssa Heights held a picnic sion economist at the Gala Oardens Sunday after specialist at University of Idaho E— for eternity, embrace, entwine. The word you have spelled noon. There are approximately While there he helped organize the W ill make life divine. , I Idaho Cooperative Council, and 65 In attendance. became Its secretary. In this posi —--- (F " tion he represented the Idaho co Forgetting self Visits Here— Miss Delores Koopman c f Vale operatives in a number o f prob Is such a task Is visiting her grandparents. Mr lems In the national capitol. He It requires and Mrs A J Swan She plans to left Idaho In 1939 to become ex- You wear a mask. , ecutive secretary of the national be In Nyssa several weeks Hide your feelings council. His church service began as a Day by day. III At Hoi Mrs Jesse Thompson is reported missionary to England from 1921 to Help another On hia way. 1923 to be 111 at her hcote. Benson Put On Church Council POET ,8 CORNER
