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JOURNAL The NYSSA Gài muM^mff Mo. 49 MVfeA. OltfedON. ÏHUIÜjb^yilliicLMbHk ¿1, 1943 CHILDREN GIVE MEN ARE CALLED FOR ARMY Tompkins Tells TO BOISE TOTS Hoop Game Will Be Played For NYSSA Of Recent Trip To British Isle Benetit 01 Poliomyelitis Fund Joint Installation Of I Officers Held By Bulldogs Win Granges Two Hoop Games , ,. ummjp m«. , 1 ■ - ' "■"‘■I'-- ..............................................— - Little children of the Methodist Several Nyssa men were entrain ed to the Portland Induction stat ion byy the Malheur county selec T h e Nyssa chamber of commerce and Lions club voted at a luncheon Wednesday noon to sponsor a Vale- Ny sa basketball game to be play ed Tuesday night. December 28 for the benefit of the infantile para lysis fund. Bernard Frost, chairman of the committee, said that school stud ents and members of the Lions club and chamber of commerce will sell tickets to the game, which will be played In the Nyssa gymnasium. T h e school agreed to turn the net proceeds over to the fund. Fo rty per cent of the net proceeds will be used locally and 60 per cent will be sent to the national organ ization, which has made consider able progress during the last few years In the fight against Infantile paralysis. The game, a non-league contest, will be held in place of the president's ball. The B league con test will be started at 7:30. T h e Vale Vikings will come here with a good record for the season so far. They defeated Frultland by a big margin and hosed out Baker In the last quarter Nyssa won its first two games of the season. tive service board December 20. The inductees were John R. Se bum, Nyssa; Burl B. Wyckoff, Ny- -•sa, assistant leader, Leonard W. Ruckman, Jamieson, leader; Angll S. Acordageltla, Jordan Valley; Me lvin L. Hayes, Vale! Donald Lytle, Nyssa; Marvin E. Ogilvle, Weiser; Winfield L. Page. Vale, John K. Cameron. Parma; Arnold C. Garr- en, Homer N. Whitman, Jr., and Marvin E. Thompson, Nyssa. and Jack W. Linville, Westfall. The joint officer-installation me eting of the Oranges of Malheur county, attended by more than 300 persons In the Boulevard Grange From The Bulldog The Nyssa Bulldogs successfully opened the basketball season here hall last Saturday night was feat last week-end by defeating Parma ured by an address by Morton T o Friday night and nosing out New mpkins, master of the Oregon S t Plymouth Saturday night. Nyssa overwhelmed the Parma ate Grange. Mr. Tompkins talked on his re Panthers in the first half, which ended in a score of 24 to 6 cent trip to England, following the installation which was in charge of As the boys went Into the dress Mrs Bertha Beck, state Grange se ing rooms at the half two Nyssa cretary. Mrs Beck was assisted by Majorettes, Lucille James, and My- Only a few sober notes interr Mr. Tompkins as Installing chapl- rna Jordan, came out to put on a twirling act accompanied by the upted the gaiety that prevailed as lan, and Mr and Mrs Charles Wic- the members of the Nyssa Lions klander of LaOrande and Mrs Ed uniformed band. club entertained the members of ith Bonart of Central Point. Parma began scoring in the sec Mr. Tompkins was one of three ond half. Coach Young put in his the 1943 high school fo o tW l squad second five. Warren Marsh made at their annual banquet in the ho Americans representing the Nat more points in the next few minu me economics .room of the high ional Farm Bureau, the National tes than he had made in all his school building last Thursday night. Farmers Union and the National Because they had left their Lions Grange, on a trip to England in previous life. The score stood 56-25 for the buttons In their work-a-day clothes September. After describing his trip across Bulldogs at the gun. Tom Moore at home, most of the Lions were was high point man with 17 points required by Tail Twister-President the Atlantic, Mr. Tompkins said Nyssa B. Squad started the pre M. H. Greenlee to perform a stunt the Queen Mary landed in Scotland liminary game. Parma made a bas centering about the football theme. and the passengers made the trip ket right on the tip-off which kn For one, Coach John Young learn to London by train After reporting ocked the wind out of the Bulldog ed about the trials and tribulations to the minister of agriculture, the Americans were given every possible team. At the half the score was of a referee. While the football players and convenience, the speaker said. 10-17 in favor of the Panthers. “ W e were assigned an automo At the third quarter the Nyssa Lions were not laughing at the st score was 14— Parma 20. In the unts, or rather at the performers, bile driven by a member of the The Malheur county war fund last quarter Parma got a new spark they were laughing at the wittic women's auxiliary corps of Brit quota for N y s a and vicinity was of life and made seven points. Fin isms o f Toastmaster Ron Whitaker. ain’’, Mr Tompkins said. ‘‘The gov Rev. Greenlee opened the serious ernment felt responsible for our expected to be reached this week al score 14-27. with the additional returns that , In the first league game of the part o f the program by saying “ We safety” . Speaking o f the German bombing are anticipated. Chairman Carlos ¡season for Nyssa, the Bulldogs de- are mighty happy that we can have Buchner reported. I feated New Plymouth by only two this fellowship once a year. I adm of England, the state Grange mas The local goal was 82250 and ' (Mints. In the photo-finish contest, ire you football players and coaches ter said little towns all over Britain $2200 had been raised up to Wed first one team and then the other for your determination to do the took greater loss than London and nesday, leaving a balance of only was in the lead. The score stood best you can under handicaps. We probably as great as Coventry, but 860, which has been pledged. 23 to 22 in favor of the Bulldogs had a lot of trouble with football still the people are prepared to this year, but we appreciate your make greater sacrifices. Many bl The 82200 Includes 8198, which at the rest period. ocks that were bombed have been ■was turned over to Mr. Buchner The Bulldogs 'shot ont’ ahead efforts’’. Mr. Greenlee then presented a removed. Fences have been erected this week by the Nyssa schools. during the third quarter, leaving the Pilgrims lagging. During the past president's pin to Henry Har around the basements, which have been made waterproof so they can Here From Hermlston— beat of the game Harold Wilson tley. Coach Young thanked the Lions hold water for fighting fires during M r and Mrs Stanley Lucero and fouled out, and Dale Willson sub for the entertainment, stating that later raids. The English also built children of Hermlston are here to stituted. v ^ ^ the parents o f Mr and Mrs Playing fgst and furious during "W e appreciate the fact that the pipe lines in the streets for figh t T j B e r o over Christmas. The infant the fourth quarter the Pilgrims, Lions give us this banquet every ing fire. Windows in many stores were re of Mr and Mrs Lucero will be bap coming from behind, kept the score year regardless of what our scores were” . moved and sandbags and bricks tized December 26 in the Catholic in a constant see-saw. Mr. Young pointed out the fact were put in their places. Not one church In Ontario. I New Plymouth sank several balls the last few minutes, raising their that those who have attended the bridge over the River Thames was score to 32, against the Bulldogs’ banquets In the past are now all damaged. Visiting Here— over the world. The season this Everywhere one can see military Joe Santlllanes and son, John, 34. came from Hermtston this week to With 58 seconds to go another year was successful, although the equipment, but that was not true visit Joe Santlllanes' sister, Mrs basket was made by New Plymouth. team played only three games. On at the time of the retreat from M ary 8. Lucero. They will remain As the gong indicated the ending a percentage basis, Nyssa headed Dunquerque, Mr. Tompkins said. here until New Year’s. of Nyssa's first league game for theleague with .833, but was not National guard groups were organ this season the Bulldogs stood vie- I given the championship because, as ized. but all the men had in some a result of the harvest season, it cases with which to fight were cl Here From Ontario— torious with a score of 36 to 34. James Tyler and his mother, Mrs A squad line-up for the evening failed to play enough games. Vale ubs or their fists. “ Despite this condition", Mr. T o R. C. Tyler of Ontario visited in was as follows: Steinke. center; defeated Ontario and Nyssa beat mpkins stated. “Churchill challen Nyssa Monday Mr. Tyler was in H. Wilson, Moore forwards; Mor Vale. Portland last week to sign up with gan, Bybee guards. Steinke was - Principal Frank Parr said ‘‘I am ged the Germans to come and fi sure the boys appreciate the fact ght. The Britishers greatest asset the naval medical reserve. He ex highpoint man with 15 points. that the Lions think enough of th was the fact that they did not know pects to enter the service in March. em to give them a banquet. the danger they were in. They ma Here From Portland— "Speaking of football, the thing de tank traps In the highways and Mrs Harriett Holman arrived Tu Buy C a ttle - Buyers for the Bybee Livestock esday from Portland to spend the. that Impressed me most was the built steel arches over the highw company were In Weiser Tuesday holidays with her daughter, Mrs fact that In the first game o f the ays so planes could not land. They season the boys were outplayed by erectqd poles all over farms and to buy enough cattle to finish out Lloyd Lewis, and family. Parma in the first half, but came over the poles they placed steel st a carload o f cattle to be shipped from behind' to win. That shows raps. They built floats along the Guests Here— to Los Angeles. M r and Mrs Sid Burbidge have courage. Nyssa defeated Vale after coast and pulled down direction as their guests over the holidays being outplayed for three quarters. signs. They built thousands o f m i I .Ion Hold Party— T h e Nyssa Lions club held its Mr and Mrs M. P. Robertson of No team is successful without a sp les of barbed wire entanglements annual Christmas party at a dinner Portland and Mr and Mrs Dewy arkplug. I want to pay tribute to In the cities. Britain was determin Jay Bybee. who sparked your team. ed Invasion should not happen. In Brownie's cafe Monday night. Ray of Baker. You had other boys who did a gr "American boys don’t want to T h e members exchanged gifts and eat deal for the team". come home untU the Job Is done. sang songs, with Irshal Davis at Visiting Here— Three players, Tom Church. Jay They have no complaints. The B r Stanley Ray. marine cadet in the the piano. University o f California at Los Bybee and Clay Morgan were call itish farm women yearn to help the American boys. They feel sorry for Angeles, and his sister. Leona Ray, ed on for remarks. Coach Melvin Spitze discussed them because they seem lost” . are visiting their grandmother, Mrs the football games played this year. Mr. Tompkins said Britain real Stella Butler. T h e re Is not a player In the lea ized that because she raised only Edward Astrom o f Nyssa has be gue who can kick like Darrell St one-third of her food requirements, en transferred to the ordnance dep Visiting Father— Frank Rambaud returned home einke'’, Spitze said. “ In the Vale ".-omethlng had to be done to pro artment of the signal corps In Aus game he made a punt that would duce more food. British leaders tralia. He has been operating a last Thursday from Camp Vando- worked out a definite policy for do credit to a college kicker” . m. Mississippi because of the Ill teletype, but Is now In charge of Superintendent Henry Hartely production on a basis providing ness of his father. Pete Rambaud, mall. who Is somewhat improved. Frank said the curtailment of football be that every acre be put to use to the greatest possible extent. Hunting Lloyd Wilson of Nyssa. who Is Rambaud will return to camp Sat cause of the harvest season was di sappointing, adding that “ It is too grounds and recreation grounds we serving with the 8th bomber com urday. bad we had one of our best teams re plower up and every possible mand in England, has been prom during this period rather than dur acre put to agriculture use. The oted to the rank of captain, accord To Visit In California— ing some other period. It looked British asked for American tractors, Mr and Mrs W. W Foster and ing to Information received by his but they still need machinery. The parents. Mr and Mrs E. C. Wilson. family left Tuesday afternoon for like we might have won the cham people of Brltlan appreciate Am e Capital Wilson, who is statistics North Hollywood. California to visit pionship. something we don’t do rican help. The fanners tell how officer, has been in England since their son. Curtis Poster, and their very often. ‘I think there Is a better attit they appreciate the tractors". daughter. Frances Foster. May The three national farm leaders, ude among the business men to ward high school athletics than In returning from England, decided to B n il Stun*, Jr., has enlisted in | Visit In the navy and Is awaiting a call | Mrs Lawrence Brown. Mrs Ward some places. They take the fat with try to arrange for an international (Continued On Page S> He recently passed the physical Wleneke and Mrs John Bishop sp- the lean and let It go at that. We who coached in oher towns apprec ent Saturday In Boise. examlnation. Shag In Caldwell— iate it” . Mr and Mrs Pete Blake and Mrs Mr and Mrs Ben Jones entertain Here From Idaho— Letha Jeffrey shopped In Caldwell LeRoy Flitton of Burley. Idaho Cantata Postponed— ed at a 6 o'clock dinner Friday ev A Christmas cantata to be pres Saturday. ening for Albert E. Oodr. F S-c. and Charles Flet of Nampa were ented by the Mutual Improvement visitors at the D. O. By bee home who is atationed at the U. 8. naval association of the LD8 church has Has training station at Farragut. Idaho. Monday. M r Flet is awaiting a call Mrs Jesse Lawrence has been Ill been postponed because of the ill Codr was home on a 15-day leave to enter the armed forces. ness of Mrs Wanda Callahan, who o f influenza. to visit his parents, Mr and Mrs Is directing the cantata. Go To Logan— Joe Oodr. and his brother, t o l l . Visiting Mr and Mrs Ed Randall have Oayle McCoy of Portland and 'V isit la W e|er— gone to Logan. Utah on business Corporal Monte Jenaen Is home Mr and Mrs Ward Wleneke vis Robert MoOoy of San Francisco They stopped at Twin Falls to visit on furlough from Camp Claybom. ited Mrs WUnske’s parents. Mr are visiting at the home o f their Louisiana. He will leave for camp 'friends They expect to return to I and Mrs Kimdall. ln Weiter Sunday mother. Mrs D. L. McBain. Nyssa In about three Christmas night. War Fund Drive Completed Here Our Boys Hilarity Reigns At Grid Banquet ■ ■ Sunday school did not make the Uii .il exchange of gifts with each other this Yuletide. Instead, they drew the names of tots in the Boise children’s home and the two- year-olds. the three-year-olds and older youngsters sent gifts to the children of like age to bring them prehaps more than their usual sh are of Christmas. A big box, brimming over with gifts, went to Boise from Nyssa. It contained 47 packages, acording to Mrs L. E. Robbins, primary super intendent. The children presented a delightful program last Sunday morning. Food Production Record Is Good $2.00 l’ Ek v M k F.F.A. Banquet Nyssa Churches Plans Outlined Plan Programs For Christmas I. W. Slater of Boise, agricultural agent o f the Union Pacific railroad, will deliver the principal address at the annual parent and son ban quet to be held by the Nyssa chap- ted of the Future Farmers o f A m erica in the home economics room o f the high school building tonight at 8 o'clock Mr. Slater will also show a col ored motion picture on dairying. D. Hibbert, Nyssa student, will give a talk on the F FA and its purposes. J. B. Lewis will give the invocation. Kennth Waud will be toastmaster. Mu-ic will be furnished by the FFA band, directed by Irshal Davis, and by other FFA members. The home economics girls will serve a turkey dinner to an antic ipated crowd of 120 persons. BULLDOGS WILL PLAY IN ADRIAN Outstanding records of increased war food production, improved fa rm operations and loan payments were made during 1943 by Malheur The Nyssa Bulldogs and the A d county’s 600 farm security adminis tration borrowers, reports Ned L. rian Antelopes will tangle on the Williams, district FSA supervisor, Adrian Court Thursday night of next week. The first contest will be Nyssa. "Every FSA family did something started at 7 o'clock. to boo.5 1 war food productln with j Adrian and Nyssa both have good the "largest" Increases *notecT ¡ii dairy",! teams' «> that fans should see an ovnol lor>t n A n lo o f n a v f T h lir e / io v poultry, hog and potato product- excellent contest next Thursday. Adrian will play LaGrande in La- ion,” said Williams. “ Borrowers at the same time paid up over 92 Grande tonight. per cent of all payments due. while 148 paid up their loans in full." Although loans ^or necessary liv estock, equipment and operating goods predominated, 17 loans were made for group services, 21 for water facilities, and 49 for real es Officers of the Nyssa chamber ot tate purchase and improvement. In commerce were re-elected at the addition to farm and home mana organization’s weekly luncheon in gement counsel, assistance to a Brownie’s cafe Wednesday noon. number of families was given in George Mitchell was named pre working out rent or lease agree sident; C. W. Buchner, vice presi ments, debt adjustment, and simil dent, and Frank Morgan, secretary. ar problems. The directors are R. G. Larson, "Most FSA families have already George Henneman, Bernard Frost completed plans for further boost and E. W. Pruyn. ing livestock and crop production The proposed construction of un to meet 1944 goals,” Williams said. derpasses at the “ Y " east of the “ We know that most food Increases school buildings by the state has during the coming year must come commission to its chief engineers from family-type farms not dep been referred by the state highway endent upon outside labor." lor consideration, (recording to a Farmers who need FISA assist letter received by Henry H. Hart ance or borrowers who will require ley. schol superintendent, at the supplemental loans for next year's chamber meeting. operations are asked to file app H. B. Glaisyer, secretary of the lications as early as possible to in highway commission, Informed F r sure funds being available. ank Morgan that the commission Nyssa Chamber Names Officers Visiting Relatives— Mrs M. E. Bybee of Ogden is In Nyssa for the holidays, visiting her four sons and two daughters and their families. She will return to her home before New Year's. Minister Here— Rev. E. J. Wilson, who has been paster of the Boise Emanuel ch urch, has accepted the pastorate of the local Nazarene church. Rev. Wilson, accompanied by Mrs W il son, has moved to Nyssa and will conduct his first service Sunday. Mr and Mrs Wilson's small son will remain In Boise until the end of the present school semester. Students Return— Among the college students home for the Christmas holidays are Ver na Oreenlee and Winona Hender son of Willamette university, and Ramona Henderson and Martha Smith of Eastern Oregon college. Phyllis Haworth of of Adrian. W il lamette student. Is expected home today. Oregon 8tate college stud ents will be home next week. has taken under advisement the Improvement o f the highway bet ween Nyssa and the Junction with the I-O -N cut-off. Programs For Children, Regular Services To Be Held Church services and other pro grams featuring Christmas will be held by Nyssa churches this week end and next Sunday. The annual community Christmas program will not be held. LDS members are invited to att end a specially prepared Christmas program to be presented ip the chapel Sunday morning. The theme will be “ How Beautiful Upon the Mountains are the Feet of Him that Bringeth Good Tidings". Mrs Nina Cottle will be the reader. Sp ecial organ music will be played by T. Carol Bybee. , The sermon topic o f Rev. E. J. Wilson in the Church of the Naz- arent Sunday morning will be “ No Room in the Inn” . The Christmas program will be given at 8 p.m. instead o f the regular preaching service. A pageant will be given Sunday evening, December 26 in the Meth odist church. The pageant was wr itten by students of Gin Ling col lege of West China. Those taking part in the pageant are Mr and Mrs C liff Main. Idaleen Maw, A l oha Maw, Kathleen Low and Effie Ellen Counsil, with a chorus ot young people A musical program will also be presented Sunday morning in the Methodist church. Rev. M. H. O r eenlee will preach at both services. The Sunday school of St. Paul's Episcopal church will present a Christmas program tonight at 8 o'clock. Santa Claus will distrib ute treats from a tree in the parish hall. St. Paul's church will hold ser vices Saturday, December 25 at 9:15 a.m. No church services will be held Sunday. Schools Closed For Christmas The high school and grade sch ool were dismissed this afternoon for Christmas, but the high school students' vacation will be a short one. Because the high school students lost so much time during the fall working In the harvest fields and packing sheds, they will be out of school only Friday of this week. The grade school youngsters will have a 10-day vacation, returning to school January 3. The annual grade school program was held Wednesday afternoon In the gymnasium with a large crowd in attendance. Visit In Valley— ♦ Miss Martha Brown and Mrs Lu cille James are spending the Ch ristmas holidays in the Willamette valley. They were accompanied by Mrs R. S. Cooper, who went to Troutdale to spend Christmas with her husband's parents, Mr and Mrs R. H. Cooper, Mrs Cooper recently returned to Nyssa from Kansas, where her husband. Corporal R 8. Cooper. was stationed with the Dennis Fife is suffering from a army. Corporal Cooper has been crushed right hand, which was in transferred to Nashville, Tennessee jured last week when an automo bile fell on It. Go To Yakima— Fife was pinned to the ground Mr and Mrs Lester Goulet left for 15 minutes by the car before Wednesday for Yakima to attend to help arrived. Blood poisoning Is re business and visit relatives. ported to have started in the hand. DENNIS FIFE’S HAND IS CRUSHED Little Girl, Family Made Happy Through Use Of Seal Sale Funds Little Angela Acevez. aged two. will spend Christmas with her fa t her, Cecllio Acevez, and her brot Painting Received— Bishop Arvel Child was presented hers and sisters, and it will be a with a large oil painting of St. happy Christmas, for Angela is ho- George temple in Utah, done by t me to stay. She has been a patient Mrs Gertrude Murchison. Ogden In the Eastern Oregon tuberculos- arttst. The painting was given in is hospital since September of 1942 appreciation o f the use of the LDS and was recently discharged with the disease safely arrested. Her fa chapel for an exhibit. mily lives west o f Vale Her mother died In the hospital at The Dalles Returns From Portland— Carol Robertson has returned a year ago following a long Illness home from Portland, where she from tuberculosis. Angela achieved statewide notice has been employed. prior to her admission to the hos pital when Mrs Edna Farris. M alh Move T o Portland Mrs E. C. Watson and daughter, eur County's public health nurse, Ernestine, left for Portland Sunday carried on a vigorous campaign to to make their home. Mr. Watson secure hospitalization for not only has been employed In Portland for Angela but other Infant victims of tuberculosis. At that time there was the last pine months. no provision made In any public Moving T o Nyssa— institution In the state for the care John Hartley and D. Hubert of tuberculosis patients under the Christenson, who recently purchas age o f four years. Aided by the ed farm land In the Nyssa section, Oregon Tuberculosis association, of have returned to Clinton, Utah to which the Malheur County Public spend the Christmas holidays T h Health association la an active me ey will return to Nyssa with their mber. Mrs Farris succeeded In ar families after the first of the year ousing public Interest in the m at ter with the result that the state Visits B ro th e r- legislature appropriated funds to Miss Ada Nye arrived here Sun provide beds, nursing care and hos day from Los Angeles to vl it her pitalization for this neglected age brother. W A. Nye. whom she had group In the meantime, largely th not seen for 17 years. rough the cooperation of Dr J. M Odell, superintendent of the East ern Oregon hospital at the Dalle*, and Miss Amelia Doerr, superinten dent of nurses there, with the help o f local welfare agencies Including the health avociatlon, arrange ments were made for Angela to en ter the hospital in September be fore the state funds were available for such purpose. The Malheur County Public He alth association, through Its funds derived from the sale of Christmas seals, provides X-rays when needed, for all persons in contact with any active case o f tuberculosis; also Its funds are made available for X - rays for school children who have a positive rgaetton to the tuberculin test given a f periodic clinics. W ith less than half o f the letters returned so far. the Christmas seal sale t\ m already brought In more 'bait 415QD. wlui h ls a little more thalf*tij(lf o f the 1942 total sale of 82700. according to Dennis W Pat ch of Adrian, president of the M a lheur County Public Health assoc iation. '•Probably every committee mem ber has found that greater dema nds were put upon his or her time and energy this year than for ma ny years previous." Mr. Patch said. “ Y et no one has failed to do a fair share of the work in pushing the county's anti-tuberculosis drive".
