Image provided by: Nyssa Public Library; Nyssa, OR
About Nyssa gate city journal. (Nyssa, Or.) 1937-199? | View Entire Issue (March 2, 1944)
77ieNYSSA VOLUME XXXIX, Adrian Quintet Loses Final In ”B” Tournament Antelopes Drop Close Decision To Grant Union High By D. W. Patch The Adrian Antelopes dropped a close 24-19 decision to the Grant Union entry In the championship round of play at the Eastern Ore gon B tournament held at John Day. By virtue of the victory Orant Union will meet Helix-Ar- Ungton tourney winner In a play o ff series for the right to a berth at the state basketball tourna ment. Adrian's defeat marked the end of the most successful bas ketball season In Antelope history and marked the final competition for seven wearers of the green and white. Senior lettermen In clude Kurtz, Tallman, Wilson, Judd, Lane, Hite and Noris. Adrian tourney hopes were given a severe set-back the day prior to tourna ment opening when Lane, regular Antelope forward, failed to pass his pre-tournament physical exam and Hite, the other popular forward, was called for pre-induction phy sical exam at Portland on the tournament date. The tournament squad missed the service of these two regulars. The initial round of play pitted Adrian against a small but de termined Prairie City crew. The Antelopes looked unimpressive in this contest and edged out a 25- 18 win. Antelope scoring was even ly divided. In the semi-final round Adrian mixed it with the pre-tournament favorltles, North Powder. North Powder, boasting two of the finest cagers in eastern Oregon In Myers and Taylor, had an impressive sea son's record. The game was a thriller from opening whistle to the last second, with North Powder and Adrian lnter-changlng leads. At no point in the game did either team enjoy more than a five (Continued On Page 2) Our Boys In The Service Victor V. Sundgulst, 21, son of Mr and Mrs Alfred W. Sundgulst of route 2, Nyssa, recently received his commission as second lieuten ant at the Hondo army air field, Honto, Texas. Lieutenant Sundguist was one of hundreds o f young Americans, who, after 18 weeks of rigid training as navigation cadets pinned on silver navigator wings when they received commissions as either second lieut enants or flight officers. Most o f the officers have already departed to join the other mem bers of the all-out bombing te a m - gunner, bombardier and pilot. Some of the graduates will remain at Hondo to instruct new cadets just entering navigation training. Great Lakes, 111. Mar. 2—Among those graduating from an intensive course of Motor machinists’ mate training at recent service school exercises here was Earl M. Farmer, 25, husband of Winifred F. Farmer, Route 2, Nyssa. This bluejacket was selected for his specialized training on the basis of his recruit training aptitude test scores. Graduates from the 20 spec ialized courses taught here at the service school are sent to sh ore stations, or to advanced schools, for active duty or further training. Sergeant Donald McBain. son of D. L. McBain of Nyssa. has been assigned to army officers candidate school at Amarillo, Texas. Sergeant McBain has been stationed at Am arillo. Texas. Pfc. Earl L. Purvis, husband of Mrs Earl L. Purvis, of Nyssa, Ore gon. has recently been awarded the Good conduct medal for except ionally efficient and capable per formance of his duties. Pfc. Purvis Is now stationed somewhere In the Aluetian area. Berl Wyckoff, Arnold Darren and Homer Whitman have returned to the naval training station at Far- ragut, Idaho after visiting here. NO. 7. HEIDER’S TEAM HITS LIG H T POLE Art Heider’s team ran away with his scavanger wagon Monday Just before noon and crashed against an electric light pole at Second and Bower streets. While Mr. Heider was in the Eder Hardware company store, the team ran out of the alley and tr aveled only half a block before st rik in g the light pole. The tongue was torn from the wagon. One of the horses, knocked down by the Impact, was cut on the mouth. JOURNAL NYS&A, OREGON, THURSDAY MARCH 2, 1944 $2.00 PER YÉAR $200 GIVEN TO Tompkins Taiks RED To Granger^ On CROSS FUND Voting Question Bulldogs Close I Road District To Be Organized Hoop Schedule With Loss, Win Although City Rejects Program Resolutions Passed At Quarterly Meeting Of Pomona Nyssa Defeats Payette And Loses To Emmett SGT. J. ATKESON COOL UNDER FIRE * Quintet The Nyssa chamber of commerce voted at its weekly luncheon Wed nesday noon in the Gate City cate to give $200 from the scrap metal fund to the Red Cross war fund, which will be raised this month. The money will be taken from funds received through the sale of scrap metal, which was collected by businessmen and school children last year. The scrap was gathered with the understanding that the proceeds would be used to further the war effort. Deploring a widespread lack of interest in voting, Morton Tom p kins, Oregon state Grange master, told a group of approximately 200 persons in the Vale community hall Saturday afternoon that he considers it lamentable that a peo ple should hold so lightly the pri- ileges of democracy. Mr. Tompkins spoke at an open session of the Malheur County P o mona Grange No. 33 during its all Malheur county emerged in sixth day quarterly meeting, at which place in the state in the sale of Pomona Master Erie H. Parker pre In the food for victory achieve E bonds as compared to quota dur sided. The state master also touch ing the 4th war loan drive, Joe ed on the public power question, ment contest, Albany, Corvallis, Ad Dyer o f Ontario, county war fin always of interest to the Grange.- rian and Pendleton F.F.A. chap ance committee chairman, announ Urging the necessity for public po ters were declared the 1943 winners wer expansion during the post-war and received $50 each for having ced. Malheur county went over the period, he demanded to know what been judged the four chapters mak top with 142.8 per cent of its EI northwest industry would have done ing the highest contribution to the bond quota. As a result, a group of at present without Bonneville and war effort in food production, acc ording to Earl R. Cooley, state Payette officials and a delegation Grand Coulee. Staff Sergeant Carl Scholtes of supervisor of vocational agricultural will be in Ontario Saturday at 4 p.m. to sweep streets as Payette Brogan, veteran of 50 bombing mis education. The 149 boys enrolled in vocat county reached only 115 per cent of sions in the Mediterranean area, its E bond quota In Its contest with told fellow Grangers of hiS surprise ional agriculture in the four high at finding mechanized agriculture schools produced 90 tons of meat this county. Jefferson county led the state practically unknown in parts of and diary products, 11,216 dozen with 221 per cent of its quota. Ot- I North Africa he visited, where fa r eggs and 1645 tons of feed crops. Besides the production of food, the her high counties were Sherman, ming still depends on hand labor boys repaired 224 farm machines Harney, Union and Gilliam, all of and the ox team. A 4-H scholarship for last year’s and 336 articles were constructed as them In eastern Oregon. food production equipment. Over Mr. Dyer said “ I wish to thank best victory garden was awarded to every worker as well as purchaser Nelora Reed. Additional prizes were $46,000 was received by the students of bonds In the 4th war loan drive warded to Eleanor Reed, Merlin from their home supervised farm for the wonderful showing made. Parker and Nola Caverhill, also of ing program. The food produced was sufficient to feed 270 men in The efforts shown display to M alh Vale. A resolution urging emphasis on uniform or 484 civilians for one eur county boys in the service that the people at home are behind th the re-negotiation of war contracts year. The vocational agricultural inst em with their dollars and are doing in an effort to prevent waste of everything possible to bring them material and manpower was passed. ructors of the four winning chap Other resolutions favored state ters are John Welbes, Albany; S t home at the earliest date”. cooperative purchasing of govern anley Green, Corvallis; John. E. ment-owned material and equip Johnson, Adrian; and William M c ment when it should become sur Kinney, Pendleton. The food for plus providing feed stations for victory achievement award is spon deer reported starving in Malheur sored and financed by the Sears, and Baker counties and additional Roebuck foundation. The Adrian chapter with 49 me sugar allotments for farm families Vale, Oregon (Special)—W ith A p who do their own baking. Support mbers produced ,^96,962 pounds of ril 4 the last day for filing for no was also given a resolution from meat and dairy products, 1.569,980 minations in the May primary, In South Malheur Pomona urging co pounds of seed, feed and truck terest in politics is beginning to unty road funds be allotted for crops and cooperatively purchased develop around the Malheur county work on the road from the I-O -N 8401 pounds of protein supplement court house. The terms of nearly highway to Arock and the road th and minerals. The boys repaired and constructed 27 farm machines all county officers expire this year. rough Antelope valley to Danner. County Clerk Harry S. Sackett Additional numbers on the pro and 60 articles of commodity equip was the only incumbent offical who gram presented by Mrs Blaine G ir- ment. The 49 members have a total of frankly stated that he would be a vin, lecturer, were skits by Arthur candidate to succeed himself in the Antrim and Clarence Hill of Bro $11.280 invested in livestock and eq Republican primary. gan, a group of women from Bou uipment and received a labor in "Yes, I expect to be a candidate," levard Grange. - and Edwin Walker come from their supervised farming he said, “ and I ’m going to file and J. B. Woodcock of Vale; a program of $8938.89 during 1943. within the next .two or three days.” musical number by Mrs McCutch- County Assessor Ed Hendrix said eon of Oregon Slope; a reading by he had not yet made up his mind Mrs Aldrich, Boulevard, and a ser ies of tableaux given by Donna whether to run again or not. " I have several possibilities I am Jacobson, Helen Culp. Valeda Pur considering,” he added. “ I would vis and Betty Feldtman, Vale. like to finish this reassessment job Thirty-one members were initiat In order to make available the I ’ve started, but am not sure yet ed during the evening sesion, when most current information on vege the fifth degree was conferred by table gardening, a series of meet- what I intend to do.” Most surprising rumor was the Pomona officers. Nine of the 12 ¡ngs has been planned for Malheur report that Sheriff C. W. Glenn subordinate Granges of northern county. would not be a candidate again. Malheur county were represented One meeting will be held in the Glenn has been sheriff for 20 or 30 by 160 members during the morning Adrian high school building at 1:30 years and his candidacy Is usually session with a much larger attend p.m. Monday, March 6. Other meet taken for granted. But an inform ance later in the day. ings will be held as follows: Will- ant, who declined to be quoted, owcreek schoolhouse, 1:30 pun., M a said he had a “ hunch” Glenn had rch 7 and the agricultural room had enough. In that event, his de of the Ontario high school building, puty, John Koopman, would un 8 p.m., March 6. doubtedly be a candidate. The meetings will be serviced by County Judge Irwin Troxell said Robert Reider, a specialist of Ore he had not yet made up his mind gon State college, who will discuss whether to run again, although Emil Stunz has been appointed | planning of the garden, insect con- most Republican leaders believe by Mayor Herschel Thompson asitrol and other phases of successful that he can be persuaded to file. city councilman to fill the unexp gardening production. Anyone in County superintendent of schools ired term of George Sallee, who re terested is invited to attend the Mrs Kathryn Claypool admitted signed recently because of moving meetings. that she was seriously considering to Paytte. Victory gardens for 1944 seems running again and would probably Mr. Stunz, operator of the Stunz more vitally important for civilians file. Mrs Ora Hope, county treas Lumber company, will serve only than in 1943, County Agent R. E. urer, has told friends that she will until January, 1945. unless he seeks Brooke said. Lend-lease supplies also be a candidate. elecyon this year. As successor to provided by the United tales have Judge Robert D. Lytle has al Mr. Sallee, he will serve as street included vast quantities of canned ready announced his candidacy for commissioner. goods which have in the past few the circuit judgeship. The appointment of Mr. Stunz months included a larger percent Senator Jim Jones and Repre was made with the approval of the age of canned fruits and vegetables sentative Virgil Staples are also other city councilmen. The most recent information ind sure to be candidates. icates that the demand will increase Few challengers have yet appear during the coming months, thus NYSSA M.I.A. TO ed Judge David F. Graham is re decreasing the supply for civilian ported to be toying with the idea P L A Y IN BURLEY use at home. of running again for county judge. The Nyssa M.I.A. basketball team County Commissioner John Med- ADRIAN CLUB AID lin is reported to be not anxious to will go to Burley, Idaho Saturday run again but his friends are try to enter a three-day tournment TO BLOOD BANK The winner will enter a tourney The Jolly Jane club of Adrian ing to induce him to reconsider. held annually in Salt Lake City to has secured the 13th of April as determine the championship team the date on which to take 15 blood COMMUNICABLE of the church. donors to Boise to aid in the Boise Nyssa won the right to go to Bur blood bank. Several Adrian resid DISEASES FOUND ley by taking the Snake river ents have already signed up and Several cases o f measles, whoop valley title. Nyssa has wins over anyone interested is asked to see ing cough and scarlet fever have New Plymouth, Payette. Ontario Mrs Howard Hatch for details and and Emmett. been reported in the county. instructions. The Nyssa players are Cass Among other families, the Omar The Boise blood bank is spon Wilson. Dean sored by the American Legion, Jo Hite family is under quarantine for Callahan. Calvin scarlet fever in the Owyhee dlrst- Fife, Leon Child. Darwin Jensen. hn Regan Post No. 2, and in writ Rose) Anderson and Lloyd Lewis. ing to Mrs Hatch, C. J. 8chooler, rlct. chairman of this project states that Retain From Trip— the response by the public had been In Boise— Mr and Mrs Merlyn Fagan have so good that they are booked up Mrs Lloyd Marshall and Mrs Sid Burbrldge spent Tuesday in Boise returned from a visit in Utah. many weeks ahead. Adrian Chapter Is Among FFA Award Winners Malheur Sixth. In Bond Sales County Politics Begin To Sizzle Victory Garden Talks Planned Stunz Selected As Councilman The Nyssa high school basketball team concluded a fairly successful season last week-end with a record of 9 wins and 7 losses for a per centage of .563. Emmett won the Snake River Valley championship with 15 wins and one loss for a percentage of .938. Weiser was the only team to defeat the Huskies. Other standings were as follows: Weiser, 12 wins and four losses, percentage. 750; Vale, 10 wins and 6 losses, .625; Nyssa, 9 and 7 for .563; Adrian, 8 and 8 for .500; Pay ette 8 and 8 for .500; Ontario, 6 and 10 for .375; New Plymouth, 4 and 12 for 333 and Fruitland none and 16 for .000. In the Nyssa game in Emmett Saturday the Nyssa boys suffered from an “off-n igh t” , losing by a score of 33 to 12. Larson of Emmett, who played in place o f Reed, lanky Emmett cent er, was high point man with 14 po ints. Coach John Young used all of his players in the game. They were D. Wilson, Moore, Billings, Bybee, H. Wilson, T. Church, Steinke and Morgan. The Bulldogs defeated the Pay ette Pirates on the Nyssa floor F ri day night by a 18 to 27 score. • Nyssa took a six-point lead in the first three minutes and then Pay ette’s Grant scored. The quarter ended 12 to 3. After the score went up to 18 to 6, D. Wilson registered another field goal and Coach Young sent in S t einke. Bellon. Morgan and Marsh for Billings, Moore, H. Wilson and Bybee. The half ended in a score of 23 to 11. The Bulldogs continued to pile up a lead in the last two quarters as they ran circles around the in effective Pirates. Dale Willson, scoring ace of the game, made 16 points. The Payette B squad thumped the Nyssa B’s by a count of 46 to 36 in the preliminary game. Nyssa took a lead of 8 to 4 in the first quarter, but Payette overcame the margin and held a 20 to 17 lead at the end of the half. The Nyssa players were Toombs, Bellon, Root, R Church, Weeks, Cleaver, T. Church and Sakamoto. Disease Topic Of Discussion A laxity in morality seems to ex ist during wartime, said Dr. L. A. Maulding of Nyssa, county health doctor, at a meeting of the Lions club in a talk on venereal diseases Monday noon. “ Because we are going to be kill ed tomorrow does not give us a license to be different than usual”, the doctor said. He added that N y ssa has led the way in eastern Oregon in trying to "clean up" cer tain elements. The doctor stated that the health department is try ing to do something about control o f communicable diseases and ven ereal Infections. Dr. Maulding expressed the be lief that venereal disease can be reduced by an educational program and suggsted such a program in the high school. For such instruct ion among high school students a person especially trained for the work is needed, he said. The physician said the problem of transient labor makes control of infections difficult. DAIRY MEETINGS ARE SCHEDULED Through the county agent's office a series o f meetings will be held two days this week, attended by E. R. Jackman, farm crops special ist, Oregon State College, who will discuss pasture management, past ure mixtures and other up-to-date information on forage production; and Roger Morse, extension special ist in dairy husbandry, who will discuss the dairy outlook and other factors affecting the dairy program. He will also discuss management and feeding and the production of quality milk and cream. The first meeting is to be held in Vale, Starting at 1:30 p.m. today and the second is to be held In Nyssa Friday. March 3, starting at 1:30 pm. Fanners throughout the county are invited to attend these meet ings and take advantage of the in formation provided by specialists in their fields. I Thompson May Not Be Qualified In View Of City Vote Medium Bomber Station, Eng- land--Contributing to the success of Organization of the Nyssa road B-26 Marauders in hammering nazt assessment district was approved airdromes, marshalling yards and by rural taxpayers at an election also other installations in France. Belgium and Holland is Tech. Sgt. held here last Saturday. The vote James Atkeson, 24, of Nyssa, Oreg in the rural area was 92 to 11. on, who has served as an engineer- The city taxpayers voting 22 to turret gunner on 29 of the trips 13, refused to enter the district, so the twin-engined bombers have that the county court, under the made to enemy-occupied continen law, will declare the district org tal Europe. For his work with the Marauders anized, excluding the city of Nyssa. Sergeant Atkeson was recently aw Jess Thompson. Ira Ure, Sid F l arded the distinguished flying cross. anagan and Dale Garrison received The citation accompanying the a- the highest number of votes for ward relates that he "displayed co the positions of directors. Attorney urage and imperturbable coolness A. L. Fletcher, who has been han under intense concentrations of en dling the legal phase of the matter, emy anti-aircraft fire and enemy expressed the belief that Mr. T h fighter action” . ompson is not qualified to serve as In addition to the distinguished a director in view of the fact that flying cross, Sergeant Atkeson also the city declined to enter the dist wears the air medal with three rict, and that Ure, Flanagan and oak leaf clusters. Garrison should serve as directors. Both Sergeant Atkeson’s wife, The directors will meet to appoint Mrs Nell M. Atkeson, and his par a secretary, the only officer of the ents, Mr and Mrs A. L. Atkeson. ¡district aside from the directors. live at Nyssa. Sergeant Atkeson is now serving t with the RAF. _________ . | County Boxing Red Cross Fund Tourney Planned Drive Started The Red Cross war fund drive was started Wednesday and will be continued thioughout the month. Mrs Dick Tensen, Nyssa chair man, said solicitations will be sou ght only by letters, which will be mailed this week-end. Persons who do not receive a letter are asked to send or take their contributions to Mrs Tensen. The county quota is $10.000 and the Nyssa figure is $2500. As the Red Cross hopes to collect $200.000,000 in the United States, the usual $1 contribution for a me mbership in the Red Cross will not be sufficient. Many persons will have to give considerably more if the quota is to be met. Returning soldiers and sailors re port that the Red Cross is held in highest esteem by the servicemen because of its effective work in the war effort. The Red Cross collects blood do nations, operates service clubs ov erseas, helps servicemen receiving dlschargs and also their families, furnishes surgical dressings, acts as go-between in exchange of war prisoners and carries on many ot her tasks. The annual Malheur county high school boxing tournament will be held in the Nyssa gymnasium M ar ch 17 and 18 with four schools re presented. The competing schools are O nt ario, Vale, Adrian and Nyssa. Twenty 3-round elimination bouts will be held FYiday night, beginn ing at 7:30, and 10 three-round f i nals will be staged Saturday night, beginning at 8:30. The four coaches in the county, Charles Lovejoy of Adrian, Jerry Cammon of Vale, Del Scott of On tario and John Young of Nyssa, will meet tonight to draft rules and arrange drawings and other j matters pertaining to weights. PUBLISHERS BUY FOSTER BUILDING Mr and Mrs Klass V. Powell, publishers of the Gate City Journal, have purchased the building form erly occupied by Dick's ice cream parlor on Main street from Mr and Mrs 3. F. Foster of Milton. The new owners will repair the building, lay concrete abutments for the heavy machinery and make other changes and improvements before moving their plant into the building. NYSSA INDUCTEES A W A ITIN G CALL Several registrants were sent to the Portland induction station by the Malheur county selective service board for pre-induction physical ex aminations. The men returned from the in duction station and those found acceptable for service will be order ed for induction when a call is re ceived by the board for the partic ular branch o f service for which the registrant was found acceptable. Nyssa men included in the list are Eugene F. Pratt, Jay W. Sam ples, Grant A. Lewis, Max Long, Alvin I. Marrs, Max R. Sweaney, Melvin L. Spltze. Leno V. Christen sen, William H. Carren, and Ray mond W Church. Other men include David C. Mal- lea and Antony J. Mendieta of Jordan Valley, Donald E. Hite, and Alvin R. McDermott of Adrian. Donald A. Dasey of Homedale. and Vern R. Hughes of Parma. To Visit In East— Mr and Mrs Frank Morgan left Wednesday to visit relatives in the east. Mr. Morgan will go to Fond du lac, Wisconsin to visit his bro ther, Kent Morgan, who is ill in a hospital, and other relatives. He ex pects to return home in about a week. Mrs Morgan will go to Wash ington, D. C. to visit her brother, who is ill In the navy hospital at Bethsda She expects to be gone for three weeks. POET’S CORNER Edited by T. CAROL BYBEE D U R ATIO N H IB R IN A T IO N Like a bear in hibrinatlon, I am out of circulation At least for the duration. I f I withstand temptation, Follow all the regulation, I will reach my destination. T o some It is vexation, When I show such frlgldatlon I act so imitation. My Cadet in aviation. Is super-excellation. He won a decoration. Like the birds In their migration I would go across the nation T o have his association. I f I had a slight flirtation I am sure the congregation Would give wrong interprltatlon Which would hurt my reputation. He said, “On graduation. I ’ll take me a vacation And meet you at the station Where I ’ll make you my relation Then I'll get more education". When he does some osculation My heart gets palpitation He's the best in all creation Here From Gooding— So without any hesitation Mr. and Mrs. Howard Foster and We will start a generation. two children of Gooding. Idaho, Without any degradation spent the week-end at the home W ill be this new gestation. o f Mr and Mrs W. W Foster Mr and Mrs Howard Foster ex Without further explinatton pect to move soon to Bridger Or any exploritatlon Montana. Or even a - c i t a t i o n - w e ll Increase the population. Here From Ontario— But for now . , no circulation Mrs Roacoe Kellogg of Ontario At least for the duration. visited relatives and friends in Ny Cause I'm In hibrinatlon. ssa Wednesday. Waiting for Cadet In aviation. i
