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77>eNYSSA "VOLUME XXXIX, "ÑoT23 RAISES Five Mill Levy TENSEN 4-POUND LETTUCE For Schools Of Nyssa Approved Little Interest Shown In Election; Stunz Is Elected Little interest was evinced in the annuoil school election held Monday, June 19. Thirty votes were cast for Emil Stunz, the only nominee. Mrs Laura McBain, a member o f the election board, received one write- in vote. The special election, called for the purpose of setting up a post war building fund by leving five mills yearly for five years, carried by a vote of 22 to 3. This fund, ex pected to raise $75,000 in the five year period, will be used to enlarge the present school plant. No interested taxpayeyrs other than the school board attended the budget meeting held at 8 P.M. on June 19. The school board, thereup on adopted the budget as advertised with the exception that $3,000 was withdrawn from the special reserve fund for the purchase of school bus. a new ONTARIO FLYERS W ILL P L A Y GAME Th e Ontario flyer ball team will play the Olson Manufacturing team of Boise on the Ontario flying field grounds at 2 o’clock Sunday after noon. No admlston will be charged. The Ontario team, bolstered by two players from Ontario and three fr om Vale, defeated the first team of Oowen field at Boise under the lights 8 to 6 last Friday. The local flyers do not have enough good players so Ontario youths are filling the gaps. T. MANEDA, VALE, SUCCUMBS HERE Torokichi Maneda of Vale died June 20 in Nyssa. Mr. Maneda was born October 27, 1881 in Japan and moved to the United States $3 years ago. He ca me to Malheur county one month ago. He leaves no relatives in this vicinity. - ' fSN i 1 1, Nyssa, left Thursday morning for F irt Douglas, Utah, where he was inducted into the air corps. Zam ora. a former Adrian high school student, went to Portland, where he worked in the shipyayrds. He retu rned home before receiving his call from the army. Clifford C. Cox, former Malheur cow tester, has written to the Gate City Journal, stating that he has arrived in England with the mar ines. He said “ I would appreciate your forwarding the paper to the above address. Considering a pub lisher’s problems of today, you are Ray Salser, gunner 3rd class, br doing an excellent job". other of Howard Salser of route 2, is home on leave. He is a gunner Lieutenant Clifford Ashby, son on a merchant ship. of M r and Mrs J. R. Ashby, has arrived in England, according to P fc Loyd Cleaver of the Buena information received here. Vista area has been transferred by the army to Italy. Mr and Mrs Ray C. Lewis have received word from their son, Rich Recognition as eligible to qualify ard H. Lewis, seaman 2nd class, st for the petty officer rate of elect ating that he has arrived in New rician’s mate third class came to Guinea and that he is well. Bluejacket John A. Sopher, 18. son of Mr and Mrs C. Sopher. Rt. 1. In a letter to relatives. Pvt Char Nyssa, Oregon during recent gradu les L. Toombs states that his add ation ceremonies at the naval tr ress is “ Balmy lane and Welcome aining school (electrlo on the Un Inn. That patch of blue on the map iversity of Minnesota campus. M in between England and the UB.A. is neapolis, Minn. more than an Ink blot. It rains ne Selected for the specialty school arly all the time and as I sit here on the basis o f his recruit training by my crystal lamp (kerosene lant aptitude tests the bluejacket com ern), on my glowing mahogany desk pleted a thorough course in the use, (a packing crate) relaxing in my function and maintenance of all easy chair (moss bed). I would like electric tools used by the navy. A to see Holland. Switzerland and theoretical phase included electric Paris". ity and the radio elements of elect ricity. C. A. Forbes, son of Mrs Bettie The new graduate, now a fire Wheeler, went to Portland by plane man. is awaiting active duty to visit his sisters before going to orders to sea or to some shore st Pleasanton, California, where he will report for duty with the armed ation. forces. A-c Billy Hamilton, who is now stationed at the Santa Aana air Conley Ward, aerial gunner Inst base. California, received his rec ructor, left Nyssa for Mountain Ho ords this week from Cedar City, me. Idaho after visiting friends and Utah, where he attended college j relatives during his furlough. for six months. He is now classi fied as a pilot and is taking ten j Clarence Zink has two sons in the weeks pre-flight training. Dorothy, j service Sergeant Dee J. Zink has his sister, who has been employ- been on the fighting front in Africa ed in California and Donna Ash-1 and Sicily and is now close to R o craft of Adrian, visited him at the j me. Mr. Zink received word from base before returning home. his youngest son. Pvt William Zink, stating that he will leave soon for Michael C. Zamora. Jr., son of overseas duty. Ï& 1 ,M> I - . MVgSA, ORÉGON T H U kS bA Y JUNÉ 2271944" A L THOMPSON TO Sid Smith, Local ERECT BUILDING Druggist, Passes Parma Officer Talks On War Visit Here— Pvt. Leonard Selby of San Diego and Mrs Selby and son, Bobby, of Baker spent from Saturday until Monday at the home of Mr Selby’s sister, Mrs E. A. Paulus. Other gu ests at the Paulus home Sunday were William Selby, father of Mrs Paulus; Mi- and Mrs Lora Chitwood and family and Mr and Mrs Bert Blanksma and family all of Nampa. 1 ™ V JOURNAL Klaas Tensen, Nyssa lettuce gr ower, has cut a head of lettuce fr Sid Edwin Smith, Nyssa druggist, om his patch that weighed four died Saturday evening, June 17 at pounds. The head, raised from Des 7 p.m. in the Holy Rosary hospital sert Seed company seed, was very in Ontario. Mr Smith was born In Nebraska. solid. Tensen. who has been raising He was graduated from a school of pharmacy in DesMolnes, Iowa and lettuce for several years, said the worked in a drug store in DesMo- Great Lakes lettuce that he Is rais ines before moving to Portland, wh ing this year is free from tip burn ere he lived for several years. He and seed stock. The seed was deve moved to Blackfoot, Idaho from loped at the Michigan experiment Portland and came to Nyssa five station. years ago to purchase the Owyhee drug store, which he operated un til the time of his death. Mr. Smith took an active part in pharmaceutical association affairs in Oregon. This year he was a m e mber of the executive committee First Lieutenant Henry Fields, and the board of directors of the who is visiting his parents, Mr. Oregon State Pharmaceutical ass and Mrs. Archie Fields of Parma, ociation and was also county man said while visiting his uncle, Henry ager for Mailheur county. He was Fields of Nyssa, Tuesday that the on the membership committee of Italian people were happy to see the American Pharmaceutical ass the Americans enter their country. ociation. Mr. Smith was a member "The Italians raised quite a com of the Elks lodge in Blackfoot, Id motion when the Americans came aho. Survivors are his widow, Barbara; in,” Lieutenant Fields said. The young lieutenant, pilot of a a daughter. M is Anita Louise Br- B-25 bomber, served 10 months ° f Roswell, New Mexico; three overseas and recently completed sisters, Mrs Effie Finkle of Fairfax, his 54th mission. He served in Missouri, Mrs Margaret Bracken of Italy, Sicily and Corsica and drop Portland and Mrs Anna Turner of Boise, and two brothers, Wilbert ped bombs also in the Balkans. Lieutenant Fields engaged in the Smith of Marshfield and Frank bombings of Casslno and the Oas- Smith o f Gering, Nebraska. Funeral services were held today sino abbey, which he estimated covers about five acres of ground at 2 p.m. in the Methodist church with Rev. M. H. Greenlee officiat on top of a hill. “ We kept from bombing the ing. R. G. Whitaker, accompanied abbey as long as we could but we on the piano by Mrs Greenlee, sang. finally had to bomb it to get the Interment was in the Nampa cem Germans out and save our own etery. The pallbearers were Bernard Frost, George Mitchell, George He men” . The officer was in Sicily, he said, nneman, Harry Miner, R. G. Larson “just after the Germans were run and Grant Rinehart. out.” Lieutenant Fields said the only KINGMAN KOLONY resident o f the Nyssa section he DISTRICT ELECTS saw overseas was Gloria Glas cock o f the Owyhee district, whom The Kingman Kolony school dist he met in Italy. He will leave rict held a meeting Monday eve Parma Saturday to report for duty. ning, June 19, at which time Char Mr and Mrs M. C. Zamora of route O u r Boys I n T h e Service % ^ ley Wilson was re-elected as a member of the school board. Mrs. Charles Newbill was re-elected clerk of the district. The building fund issue, that of laying aside $2000 each year for five years, passed by a large ma jority. A full staff of teachers has been sec-fired for the coming year. Mrs. Duayne Anderson will serve as princpial and teaoh the 7th and 8th grade; Mrs. Sam Shaw will teach the 5th and 6th; Miss Ida Mary Prouty will teaoh the 3rd and 4th and Mrs. Mildred Hite will teach the first and second grades. RIDERS CLUB TO BE FORMED HERE Persons interested in organizing a trail riders club in the Nyssa vic inity will hold a meeting on the grade school baseball diamond next Sunday. Neil Dimmick said the group will hold Its first practice and organize. Approximately 30 persons are inter ested in joining the club. Mr Dim mick hopes that a drill team will be organized in the near future. Anyone interested is invited to att end the Sunday meeting and help organize the club. A1 Thompson and son will start construction next week on a large cinder block building to be erected east o f the present Thompson feed store building. The new building. 30 by 75 feet, D ATA W IIL BE Vacation School GIVEN INDUCTEES Program Is Set The closing program of the dally vacation Bible school sponsored by local churches and the American Legion will be held in the Method ist church at 8 p.m. Friday. will be used in conjunction with The program will be presented as the older building. follows: Opening ceremony, salute In addition to its stock of feeds to the American flag, salute to the and seeds, the company expect-, to stock small farm implements. The firm will also soon start con struction on a cinder block coal storage building on the railroad right-of-way at the underpass. Home Economics Gatherings Set Starting Tuesday, June 20, a ser ies of home economics meetings will be held in Malheur county. The program will include (1) can ning, (2) freezing, (3) drying, st oring and vegetable and fruit con servation, 14) clinic for prevention of spoilage, information on cann ing and preserving, 15) vegetable cookery. Under a special arrangement Miss Warren will be in the county to conduct these meetings as emerg ency home demonstration agent The meetings are made possible th rough the war food administration and for the purpose of increasing home food supplies. The schedule of meetings is as follows: Tuesday,' June 20, Boule vard Grange, leader Mrs C. H. Hof fman, subject freezing; Wednesday, June 21, Lincoln Heights Comm unity club, Mrs Orien Hainllne, le ader, the meeting to be held at the home of Mrs George Markham; subject is freezing; Thursday, Ju ne 22, Ontario Heights club, at T i dwell hall, subject,drying; Friday, June 23, Arock Ha:l at Arock, Mrs Ruth Danner, leader, subject drying, storing and brining; Tuesday, June 27, Adrian, Legion hall, Mrs C. E. Elliott, leader, topic Is to be decid ed; Wednesday, June 28, White Settlement 4-H Canning club, Mrs C liff Jordan, leader, subject cann ing; Thursday, J,n e J.9, Willow- creek Ladies’ Community club, sub ject will be clinic; Friday, June 30, Vale, Mrs Frank W. Fulleton, lead er, with clinic as the topic. Those interested in this series of meetings or any one of the meet ings are invited to attend the meet ing most readily available. FIRST CONCERT OF SEASON HELD The first band concert of the season and the first presented in Nyssa in several years as a comm unity event was held on the city hall grounds last Friday night un der the direction of Irshal Davis. The band, comprising 52 pieces, played 11 selections. The twirlers and mascots performed. Mr. Davis said the band will go to Ontario one night next week, to help with the bond drive there. Christian flag and salute to the Bible; devotional, a psalm of praise and prayer. Rev. George Whipple; sons and memory verses, the Son that God Gave and the Children Whom God Owns, beginners dep artment; a story in picture, the Good Shepheid (Psalm 23). primary department; choral groups, primary, junior-intermediate departments; appreciation, offering. Rev. M. H. Greenlee; pageant, the 24th psalm, junior-intermediate department; pr esentation of certificates, and ben ediction, Rev. Lloyd N. Pounds. Mrs M. H. Greenlee was general superintendent of the Bible school. Other workers were Mrs Elmo Ch- add, Mrs Carlos Buchner, Mrs Hor ace Crisp, Rev. Pounds, Mrs A. Chadwick, Mrs Douglas McDonald, Mrs Bert Adams, Mrs Pounds, G r ace Faster, Mrs George Henneman, Mrs Bernard Frost, Mrs Clifford Fox, Mrs D. W. McGinnis, Margery Benedict. Mrs Ronald Whitaker, Mrs Walter McPartland, Mrs Ber nard Eastman, Dorene Bear, Aloha Maw, Mrs Henry Hartley, Rev. G e orge Whipple, Mrs E. L. Jamison, Mrs Nettie Bennett and Mis Char les Evans. Miss Ethel Hempstead was a special speaker. Irshal Davis, director of the we ekly Friday night concerts, has con sented to delay the beginning of the concert this week until the Bible school program is concluded. Tentative Game Laws Set Forth Visits At Farragut— Mrs Robert Davis left Monday for Farragut, Idaho to visit her hus band. .. Assembly Held— A 4-H assembly was held In the Adrian high school building Friday evening. The program was featured by pictures taken by the Union P a cific company. Some of the pictures showed local boys and their swine and dairy projects. Visit H e re - M ajor and Mrs Art Cox were gu ests Monday at the home o f Mr and Mrs Ormand Thomas. They were en route to Portland from De nver. Major Oox served In the Am erican air forces in Italy and A f rica. W b \ Corporal Clara 3. Couchnour, W A C librarian at Fort K noz, Kentucky, helps Sergeant Robert E. M illar, o f Marion, Ohio, select a book fo r o ff-d a .f reading. In the foreground it Pfc. Lather J. Bangka, o f Chattanu a, Tennessee. Corporal Concknoer’t husband is a lieutenant ia the M aritime Service, and bur brother it with the U. 3. Arm y in Italy. Nyssa Area Is Lagging In 5th War Loan Drive Only Sales” Of $17,552 Reported; Show Expect ed To Boost Sales Latest returns show that the N y ssa area is lagging in the 5th war loan drive. Total sales for Nyssa amount to $17.562 or 10 per cent of the assigned quota. Vale leads all Malheur county areas with sales of $50.466.25 or 35 per cent of quota. Ontario is second with sales of $78,- 447 and a percentage of 26. ‘‘Nyssa residents should make th eir way to the bank or post office and buy their bonds at the earliest opportunity”, chairman Henry Har tley said. "People are busy and it is hard to find solicitors to call on everyone. The money is needed now more than ever before. The various offensives now in progress through out the world call for a tremendous outlay of materials and equipment and are costing many lives. We must win this war as quickly as possible and your money Is needed. On Friday evening the weekly band concert will be neld In the gymnasium. Following the band co ncert a film showing actual battle scenes will be shown. Salesmen will be present to take orders for bonds. Because of a conflict of dates with the closing exercises of the dally vacation Bible school, the band concert will not begin until 9 P.M. Everyone is invited to attend. Returns To Council— Miss Viva Mary Sesegerb left Sat urday for her home In Council after visiting for several days at the ho me of M r and Mrs W. L. Lane. Here From Idaho— M r and Mrs George Sparks of Rupert, Idaho were in Nyssa Wed nesday visiting at the home of Mr and Mrs S. P. Bybee. Visit In Nampa— Mr and Mrs C. C. Cotton spent last Friday In Nampa with their grandson, A. E. Moore, and family. Visit In Boise— Lieutenant and Mrs John Blahop spent Tuesday in Boise, where Mr Bishop attended to business. Return From Visit— Mr and Mrs S. C. McConnell ha ve returned home from Aurorà, A ll iance and Scottsbluff, Nebraska, where they visited relatives for two weeks. They accompanied Lee Mon tgomery of Nyssa, who drove to O ’Neal, Nebraska. M r Montgomery expects to make his home with his father. Return From Lakes— Mrs Henry Borgman and grand son, Henry, returned home Tuesday from Payette lakes, where they were guests o f Col. and Mrs Patch of Payette for a week. POET’S CORNER Edited by T. CAROL BYBEE (This poem, when accompanied by a package of flower seed, mail ed to a friend, tells a story). FRIENDSH IP-A FLOWER By Anna Jemmett, Apple Valley. I'd like to think, each day I live. T h at to my neighbor, I could give Seeds of love and kindness that would grow Into flowers o f friendship . . and so . . . Nrwspaper Plant Moved— The publishers of the Oatr Olty That I could be a friend to all; Journal have moved their news paper and printing plant to their T o old and young, to large and new location in the former Foster small building near the post office. The That they would be. My friend too, building, purchased by the publtsh- For we all need friends, really we eihs, has been rather extensively re do. This is a very small gift Indeed . . paired for the plant. Just a tiny package of flower seed, But it stands as a symbol true Attend Convention— Mr and Mrs Bernard Frost spent For the friendship o f me and you; the week-end at Twin Falls, where That with cultivation and loving they vlaited Mrs Frost's parents. care. Grant Rinehart. R G. Whitaker With faith, confidence, trust and and Mr. Frost attended a district prayer. Lions dub convention In Tarin Falls Our friendship will grow and grow. T o blossom. Just as the flowers do Sunday and Monday. and so , . As we prtae our flowers, them Attend Opening— I Several Nyssa residents attended carefully tend. j the opening of the Caldwell rase Let's do the same, with the love, gardens in Caldwell Sunday o f a friend. Visiting In Portland— Mrs Virgil McOee is visiting at the home of her parents in Port land. Her father is quite ill. Visit In Baker— Mr and Mrs Harlan Maw and fam ily spent Sunday at Baker visit ing Mr and Mrs Maw’s daughter. Madeline. Returns From Calif,— Mrs H. D. Sherwood has returned from California, where she was called because of the serious Illness of her brother Food Sale Planned— The ladles auxiliary of the V.F.W will hold a cooked food sale at Mrs Oraham’s real estate office Satur day, July 1. Returns To Ogden— Joe Mautfhn, Sr of Ogden left for his home Friday after a 10-week visit with his son and daughter-in- law. Mr and Mrs Joe Maughn, Jr. ij Visit Here— Robert DeGross, seaman 2nd cl ass. and Mrs DeGross of Farragut, Idaho are visiting their parents, Mr and Mrs D. R. DeGross and M r and Mrs L. E. Smith. Tribute Paid To Harold W. Elliot First Sergeant Paul S. Yale, for mer buddy of the late Sergeant Harold W. Elliot, formerly of this community, has paid tribute to the memory of Sergeant Elliot for his courage and ability in a letter wr itten to relatives. Sergeant Yale said “ I was first sergeant o f Co. B., I86th Infantry from the time Harold was inducted until our arrival In New Guinea. Shortly after our arrival there I was promoted to master sergeant and transferred to another comp any, but I was in contact with my old outfit and ’my boys’ throughout our hetic stay In New Ouinea. That is my introduction. “ I had many personal talks with Harold in the early days of his ser vice when he was trying to adjust himself to army ways. As time went on he developed into a fine soldier and a superior leader of men. My reliance on him was unlimited and he became one of my key men. “ In combat he was an inspiration to all that served even near him. He seemed to have an especial gr udge against the Jap-rat and carr ied the fight to the Nip without thought of personal peril and with utter disregrad of fatigue and hun • — The bag’ limit on Chinese pheas ger. His level judgement saved ma ants will be increased to five cocks ny a boys life. The unfortunate in a day in Malheur county this fall, cident that cost him his life was a if Pile tentative recommendations of piece of Jap trickery, namely a trail the state game commission are app ambush, but Harold’s gun was still roved at a meeting to be held June hot when the aid man reached him 24. Even in death he was an Inspira The law provides for not more tion for the men of his command than 10 cocks in any seven consec went berserk and hunted down utive days or in possession. The law i every Nip like the rats they are. makes no mention of pheasant "It will do little to ease your sor hens. row but I want you to believe me The season will run from October when I say that the memory of Sgt. 14 to November 12. Harold W. Elliot will live forever The recommended season on Hu in the hearts of every man that ngarian partridge is the same as had the pleasure of soldiering with him.” that of Chinese pheasants. Special big game tags this year will be limited to 500 cow elk tags JAPANESE FARM for an area in Umatilla, Wallowa and Union counties lying Just south LABORER PASSES of the Oregon-Washington line, Kiyoshlge Inouye, farm laborer 3000 doe deer tags for an area In northern Grant county, and 2500 from the Ontario camp, died in the antelope tags. Applications for tags Nyssa Nursing home June 17. Mr. Inouye, who had been in the will not be accepted, however, until the final regulations are determin hospital for 12 days, was born Dec ed, and then no money should acc ember 2. 1891 in Japan and came to the United States 37 years ago. ompany the applications. The body was sent to Hunt, Id aho. A Vt ac Points the Path to Good Reading Boy Is Injured— Paul Flannery crushed three fin gers Sunday while helping unhitch a team. Information for Inductees and th eir dependents will be broadcast on a program over radio station K F X D Tuesday night, June 27 from 8 to 8:15. Inductees will be told what will happen to them when they reach the Induction center, what happens after they have passed their physical examinations and how they are classified. The pro gram has been arranged at the request of the war department by the Oregon state and Idaho state county defense council. The same defense councils and the Malheur program will be broadcast over K F X D July 4 and 11. $2,00 PEk Y F A k /
