Nyssa gate city journal., June 14, 1945, Image 1

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NYSSA. OREGON. THURSDAY .TUNE 14.* 1945'
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BEDTIME STORIES
WOULD TEACH BOYS
TO BEFRIEND FROG
o k EGON
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l-ond Drive Show Amora lht
prisoners en rou-te home
from
Here Announced prison camps In Germany are Sec­
ond Lieutenant Merle M. Kuri ; ot
Nyssa and First Lieutenant Paul
Only Those Buying Bonds
Will
Bul1
of ° of
nta the
rio Oregon
yv ill See
D t e Lions
laiuith Club
L in o
j M The
names
Surely those fellows never listened
to many bedtime stories, or if they
did it was a long time ago.
Probably they never heard of Amount of Money To Be
Raised By Tax $16,250;
old Grandfather Frog. Why Grand­
father Prog, set tin' on a lily pad,
Meeting Set
Is the wisest fellow in the pool.
Everybody respects him. He does­
The amount of money to be
n’t hurt anybody and he gives a atsed by taxation for the city of
lot of good advice to the pollywogs lyssa for the 1945-46 fiscal year
and other things that live in the will be $16.250, which Is ap.nox-
' water.
mately $800 more than the amount
Well anyway it served those of money raised by taxation this
I two Adrian boys right for being ! year.
fined in Judge Frank Hall’s court ! The amount of money raised by
in the city hall. One of the pol­ I taxation this year was $15.444.
icemen wearing a blue suit said ! The amount of the general bud­
j the boys were fined on charges get for 1945-46 is $35.344 and the
of huntin’ out of season and ftithin' stimated receipts other than tax
without a license, but the thing nonev amount to $19.084, leaving
that really got them in bad was $16.250 to be raised by taxation.
shoot in’ frogs.
The water department budg. t Is
Guess Mr. Hall didn't fine the $28.400 and the sewer department
boys all he could, but he fined budget Is $11.220. making a total
them enough to teach them a less­ budget of $74,954. All of the expend-
on. Maybe Grandfather Frog will 'itures of the water department
be safe around here now for a and the : ewer department are paid
while.
with receipts other than money
aised by taxation.
The total of the general budget
for the 1944-45 fiscal year was
$35.744. which was approximately
i 400 more than the proposed gen­
eral budget for 1945-46.
j Local residents subject to the
Services for Cecil W. Sebum, who proposed tax levies are Invited to
died unexpectedly Friday morning 1 attend a public budget hearing
at his home four miles northwest I to be held In the council chamber
of Nyssa on Gem avenue, were held 'in t^ie city hall at 8 p. m. July 10
in the Methodist church at 2 p.m. ¡for the purpose of discussing the
Monday with Rev. H. J. Gernhardt budget.
officiating. B. B. Lienkaemper of
The Itemized budget will be pub­
the Nyssa Funeral home was in lished in the Gate City Journal
charge of interment in the Nyssa for the first time next week.
cemetery.
Mrs. Gilbert Kltnkenberg
and Woman Is Burned—
Mrs. Carlos Buchner
furnished
Mrs. Ralph Curry was burned
the music at the funeral.
on the hands and arms by a coal
Mr. Sebum, son of Mr. and Mrs. gas explosion at the Curry Produce
P. G. Sebum, was bom June 4, plant Wednesday. Gas formed In
, 1900 at Aurora, Missouri and grew the fire box of the small boiler and
to manhood and obtained his when Mrs. Curry stirred the slack
j school in that state. The family he gas exploded and shot flames
moved to Oklahoma in 1920 and to from the door. Mrs. Curry's clothing
Oregon In 1924. In 1928 Cecil Se­ was not ignited by the fire.
bum came to the Nyssa section to
farm and has since resided here Picnic At Dam—
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Garrison,
with his mother, Mrs. Cordelia
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Newbill and
Sebum.
Besides his mother, Mr. Sebum family, Mr. and Mrs. Dale Garri­
Is survived by a sister, Ooldle son and family and Mrs. John
Roper of Lakevlew, Oregon and Olson and baby enjoyed an out­
two brothers, Carl and John Se­ ing at Owyhee dam Sunday.
bum of Nyssa.
Re-Assigned to Nyssa—
The annual meeting of the Ida­
VISITORS ATTEND
ho conference of the Methodist
GRANGE MEETING
church, held at Burley, Idaho, ad­
journed Sunday noon, June
10.
8everal visitors. Including Mr. with the reading of appointments
and Mrs. Ross and Mr. and Mrs. of the ministers. Rev. and Mrs. H.
Krueger of Boulevard Orange and J. Gernhardt -have been re-as­
Master Frank Cummine and a sign-
j the Nyssa church.
number
of
Kingman
Kolony
Grangers attended a meeting of
the Chalk Butte Grange Tuesday CONSTRUCTION ON
WAREHOUSE BEGUN
evening of last week.
Mr. Ure, a representative of the
Construction of the Hartley and
General Mills. Inc., gave a talk
on dairying and farm products. A Maw warehouse near the Veltex
potluck supper was served to 40 oil tanks along the Union Pacific
railroad was started this week.
persons.
The building. 60 by 128 feet, will
The next meeting will be held
be constructed of cinder blocks on
Tuesday evening. June 19.
a high concrete foundation. The
building will be used for storing
Visits in Nebraska—
Miss Arlene Carter left Tuesday onions and shipping.
H. H. Klngrey is the contractor
for a three-weeks visit with friends
In charge of construction.
and relatives in Nebraska.
sol hers
¡liberated in Germany were iia -e
public recently as the men p. 3ed
The vaudeville to be presented through a recovered allied tnili-
by the Nyssa Lions club in the tary
personnel camp
neat
a
Nyssa theater Monday night. June French port on their way home.
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Many of the soldiers told stories
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! of German atrocities, starvation
loan campaign will be a play, diets an(j forCed marches of hun-
“Curses, VVliat A Night".
dreds of miles from one camp to
The cast for the short play is another,
composed of Harry Shelton, Ward j After a 60-day furlough in the
Wieneke. Robert Thompson, Grant I United States, the men will report
Rinehart and Orin Sumner.
j to an army distribution center for
Other numbers will include an I either re-assignment or discharge
accordian solo, Reed Ray; vocal from the service. None of them
solo, Henry Hartley; dancing doll will be returned to t)he European
demonstration, conducted by Claude theater.
Willson; selections. Barber Shop
William Boersma, former Nyssa
quartet, composed of R. G. Whit- ! resident, is also among Oregon j
aker, Charles Taylor, Dave M il- prisoners released from
prison
cheli and Al Thompson; rendition camps in Germany, according to
of "The Sow Song". Wayne Morris; information received by Nyssa res- I
and a hula dance, Dr. J. J. Sarazin. idents. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs
Lloyd Lewis. Klaas Tensen and Andrew Boersma of Baker.
Adam Pocht of Oklahoma, for-
Claude Willson.
Frank Parr will be master of ( merly employed by the reclama-
ceremonies and Mrs. J. L. Church j tion bureau in Nyssa and the
SITTING IN ONE of three wheel chairs presented hy the Sunset Valley club of Nyssa, Ore., to Bush-
will be pianist.
| Amalgamated Sugar company, has ,
nell general hospital patients, S/Sgt. Robert II. Iliekson, a native of Nyssa chats with Col. Robert
The feature picture will be “The | also been released from a German
M. Hardway, commanding officer at Rushnell, who accepted the gift in behalf of the hospital.
Merry Monohans” . The entire en- ! ramp.
Picture Courtesy Idaho Statesman
U rtainment will cover a period of I
two end one-half hours, starting j
at 7:30.
22 ARRESTED IN MAY
FROST IS NAMED
Admission to the show will be j
PAY FINES OF $245
LIONS PRESIDENT
gained by war bond only. Olean
Wells, theater manager and war
Fines totaling $245 were assessed
bond chairman, asks persons de­
Officers of the _Nyssa Lions club
Several matters of general in­
siring to attend the show to buy
The U. S. first army, of which g a in st persons hailed into city
were
elected
at
a
meeting
of
the
their bonds at the theater now terest to Nyssa residents were con­
organization Monday noon in the Pic. George Allen of Nyssa is a ¡police court during May.
and not wait until the last minute. sidered and disposed of at a
member, is reported to be on the j Most of the fines were, assessed
Gate City cafe.
Glea Billings, director of the meeting of the city council Tuesday
The new officers, who will take move from the ETO to the Pacific. for drunkenness and most of the
night.
Lions show, said those attending
Pic. Allen, son of Mr. and Mrs.
The council ordered trees in the office July 1, are Bernard Frost,
22 arrested persons were Mexicans.
are assured of an hilarious evening
Ralph Scates o f route 1, Nyssa,
o f ” enterV1
Including “some ¡city sprayed as soon as possible president; Frank T. Morgan, vice
Two automobiles were stolen dur­
has
sent
a
clipping
to
his
parents
president; Olean Wells, secretary-
of the poorest vaudeville acting f° r control of elm beetles,
ing the month. They were owned
about the first army movements.
treasurer;
Klass
V.
Powell,
tail-
ever perpetrated upon the unsus-
The council decided to fill the
The war department statement by Frank Wolf and H. Harris.
pectlng public”.
low pressure slough in the south twister, and Kenneth Cottle, di­
reads:
Two bicycles were stolen. The
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part of town with dirt because of rector.
’’The first army is being re-de- ’ wheel” owned by Frank Morris
Veiling Here
¡the mosquito menace.
B
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ployed by way of the U. S. and j was recovered and the one owned
Mrs. Una Cannon of Gainesville,! Th<? officials requested and in-
I * 10™ proceeding ^ ,,he war ag~ by Bert Haney was not recovered.
Te^as is spending the summer v is -, vestigatlon of the local garbage
its personnel will receive furloughs
¡ling relatives In Nyssa, Portland, collection and ordered enforcement
lainst the Japanese.
j
Feattle and Glendale. Mrs. Can- of the regulations pertaining
to
|
"The
divisions
and
army
corps
J*y K l * i n g S
non. a sister of Mrs. A. H. Wil- use of irrigation water,
that fight with the first army ’
son, will be here until June 23.
Carlos Buchner and Melvin Jen-
Because of weather conditions, ngMjjst Japan will not necessarily j
Mrs. Cannon-and Mrs* Wilson I»?d ten were issued a permit to con- harve; ting of lettuce was started be the same as those that fought I
not seen each other for 25 years, struct an individual hangar at about 10 days later than usual and jn Germany. However, enough vet-
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the airport under city supervision
[ is still progressing slowly. The p] mi units and veteran personnel
Sergeant Laurence W. Fischer,
To Visit H usband-
and specifications.
packing may reach its peak about will take the field under General brother of Jacob Fischer of Nyssa,
Mrs. George Callahan left Wed-
the first of next week.
Courtney H. Hodges to insure the has been awarded the bronze star
nesday for San Diego to visit her Return From Portland-
The first car of lettuce packed iame vigorous assault against the medal for his activities with the
hm-band for three weeks. Mr. CaU*
^ h n e ll and
in the Snake river valley this Japanese as was made by the first 104 th infantry regiment,
chan is serving in the navy.
Ire lu rn e d ^
^
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rpring was shipped by the Eastern javmy against the Germans.
j Sergeant Fischer, a former stud-
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Thev vi ited at the home of Mr Oregon Produce company May 29. | -The fighting record of the first ent of the Nyssa high school, en-
l e - e s On V is it-
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.. . Pnrtllnd U,p to Wednesday of this w eek1 army ranks with (,he proudest in listed in the army four years ago.
Frank T. Morgan has gone to and Mrs. J. A. Schnell in Portland
company had shipped 14 cars the allied expeditionary forces Al-1 In the skirmish for which the
Chicago and Gakfield. Wisconsin and also attended com m en cem en t^ ^
olher flrms
though the army itself did not citation was issued one of Fisch-
to vi it relatives. He will return exercises for her sister. Lucille shipping today, but others are ex-|enter comba,t until the invasion cr's men was killed and another
I he first of next week.
James at Forest Grove. Oregon.
peoted to start this week-end.
ol Normandy, several of its units I°st a leg-
The quality of the lettuce is good, took part in its original landings j The citation reads: “ Sergeant
B-n'l Sa'nm rn Needed—
Ogden Resident Here—
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Workers are badly needed for
Mrs. Arvel Child is enjoying a
Bov’s Leg Broken--
| “Troops of the first army para- Pauy, 104th infantry
regiment,
soli iting for the women’s division visit with her sister, who lives at
Cecil Eason, son of Floyd Eason, V,huted into Fi ance before H-hour j United States army. For heroic
in the soy-nth war bond sales Ogden,
sustained a fracture of the leg 011 D-day, ied the way across the achievement In connection with
campaign, Mrs. Hilda Tensen local
Sunday when he was kicked by a German frontier, broke through the -military operations against
an
chairman, annooheed. Mrs. Tensen Here From N am pa-
horse.
Siegfried line, seized and estab- armed enemy ngpr Bad Soden,
said all of the money credited to
Charles Wilson of Nampa was a
ll-hed the Remagen bridgehead Germany, on 1 April, 1945. On 1
the women’s division will be used dinner guest of Mr. and Mrs. Emil Sells Barber Shop-
and were the first to make a April, 1945, Sergeant Fischer, a
for ho-pital services.
.
Paulus Wednesday.
Roy Pounds has sold the Owyhee junctjon with the Russians at the cannon company chief of section
Barber shop to George Bates and EU)e Hundreds of thousands of End 'his men were ln heavy weap-
Pvt. George S. Cartwright has Ciay Doolittle of Eugene. Mr. j Germans were killed or captured on support of a friendly rifle corn-
arrived at Camp
Wolters, Texas j Pounds, who -has been engaged i n 1 by thp fjrst army in its battles papy whose advance had halted
to begin his
basic training in the barbering here for the last 20 across France, Belgium and Ger- before a road block by strong ar-
infantry. His wife, Mrs. Lois Cant-j years, will work in the grocery' nvany -
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itillery fire.
wright resides in Parma.
j store which he and his wife
pur- j The war department statement j “While under the hostile fire,
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'chased last December. Mr. Bates 'concluded:
“ Under the point sys- Sergeant Fischer put his howitzer
Pvt. Maurice O. Judd, son of i started working In the barber shop , f m for reiPase 0f men with ex- lnto immediate operation, destroy-
Mr. and Mrs. Maurice L. Judd of j Wednesday, but Mr. Doolittle will tpndecl and arduous combat sir- 6(1 an enemy assault gun only four
. Nyssa has arrived at Camp W ol- remain in Eugene for about two 1 vjce many of thP present personnel hundred yards off and with sus-
ters. Texas to begin his basic weeks.
Icl units to be sent Into the Pacific twined accurate fire,
effectively
training as an Infantryman.
-------------------------- j with the first army will be separat- silenced the enemy artillery. Hl3
Missionary To Speak
-pd from their organizations before heroic action aided the friendly
Word was received from Pvt.
John R. Blalock, Baptist mis- (hey ¡pavp Europe and replaced by rifle elements to continue their
Edited by
Eldon D. Bibbey, former operator sionary of Portland, who spent m(,n wh0 do not have enough advance. His courage under fire,
T. CAROL BYBEE
of the Inland Oil company service seven years in the foreign field, pcints p, qua’j f y for discharge." |skm and loyal devotion to duty
Written ln New Ouinea by a pal
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¡station, that he is now stationed Including three years of intern -1
A n l r A TDNTITM f i f Sergeant Fischer and the armed
I at Camp Wolters, Texas, and drill- ment in the Philippines, will deliver 1 D ^
of Alvin Nye, who submitted It
i» r » » ; S
P- T. A. CHAIRMEN OF forces of the United States.”
ju in Knottingham, C. M. o. M. ¡ng every day. He invited his „ „
for publication.
"By command of Major Gen­
M., son of Mr. and Mrs. D. J. friends to write. He is in A Co. church of Nyssa Thursday and | KOLONY ARE NAMED
A HITCH IN HELL
eral Paul."
Knottingham of route 2, Nyssa. 65th. A.S.N.
Friday. June 21 and 22, at 8 p.m.
I’m sitting here a thanking
The chairmen of committees of
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He will tell of his experiences in
arrived home Sunday on a 30-day
Of the things I've left behind
leave from the European -theater.
Pfc. Martin Sayers, son of Mr. China and the Philippines and of the Kingman Kolony P. T. A. were Buy Interest In Store
Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Peterson j I’d hate to put on paper
He has been In the service three and Mrs. Forrest Sayers, has been faith in God and what it meant selected at a recent executive meet-
have purchased a half interest ln
appointed as a military police since to -him during his experiences in ng.
years.
What’s running through my mind
The chairmen are as follows:
the Nyssa Furniture company from
V-E day.
the Orient.
Mrs. Maurice Judd, program; Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Aston. Mr. We've dug so many dltohes
T|5 Bill Points has been pro­
Clifford Wright, hot lunch; W. H.'Peterson, employed by the forest cleanea many mUes of ground
moted to sergeant, according to
Sgt Verdo A. Harris of Lincoln - Goes To Portland
13 A neater place this side of hell,
word received here. He is a ward Heights was one of 185,000 men of j Miss Leona Calvert left for Port- Bunch, legislation: Mrs Lynn Hurst, I service, lived in Welser for
master in a surgical ward on Leyte the eighth air force congratulated, land Sunday for an extended visit ways and means; Mrs. Stanley j years and lived at Salmon, Idaho 1 I’m sure cannot be found.
island. A brother, Howard, has been on V-E day by Lt. Gen James H. ¡with her grandmother. Mrs. Rachel Hill, pre-school; Mrs. Laurence (during the past year. Mr. and There’s a certain consolation
Kreager, magazine; Mrs. James Mrs. Peterson have five children. ! I think of, now will tell
promoted to S sergeant at Camp Doolittle. Mrs. Harris and their e Wilson, and other relatives.
Lane
recreation;
Mrs. Charles Mr. Peterson and Mr. Aston plan When we die well go to heaven
Roberts. California. He has return- j daughter, Carolyn, are residing at 1
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Newbill, publicity: Mrs. K. I. Pet - j to enlarge the furniture ware- We’ve done our hitch In hell.
ed to the states after serving 29 the T. C. Nielson home.
! Move Here From Portland—
Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Plant have erson. membership;
Mrs. Ellen house and display room. Mr. Aston
months in -the Pacific.
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I James Aston, son of Mr. a n d ! moved to Nyssa from Portland. Mrs. Sparks, social: Mrs. Guy Glenn, Is now on a buying trip to the We built so many kitchens
Where the cook can stew the beans
Mr. and Mrs. Homer L. Earnest Mrs. Clarence Aston, is now serv-1 Plant will make her home here summer round-up, and Mrs. Hazel coast,
We stood a thousand guard hours
received a letter this week fram in g on the medical staff of the while her husband Is in the ser- Kressly. recreation
Cleaned the camp latrines.
The P T. A. has a small fund Returns From Colorado—
their son, Lt. Loren E. Earnest |u.S. naval hospital at Oakland, vice,
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from which It Is purchasing some j Mrs. La Dell Lowe returned last We washed so many pots and pans
stating that he was promoted from California.
Visits Relatives—
needed materials for recreation in Thursday from Pueblo, Colorado, i And peeled so many spuds
second to first lieutenant May 14
Mrs. Kenneth Kvgar and two the school. Such as new records, i where she took a course in X-ray We rolled so many blanket packs
On May 26 he participated in a
Roy Barnes of Nyssa is recelv-
And washed our dally duds
,wrk.
raid over Tokyo. Two of the en- in« his basic army training at the daughters. Helen and Jeanette, vis­ puzzles and small games.
The actual count of reveilles
gines o f his B-29 plane were shot infantry replacement training cen- ited the past two weeks with Mrs.
We stood Is hard to tell
Home From University—
Kygar's sister, Mrs. Ray Linville, Week-end At Emmett—
away and the men were forced to ter at Camp Wolters, Texas.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin C. Wertz I Miss Dar Thel Bybee arrived In heaven there'll be no reveilles
and family. Sgt. Kenneth Kygar.
bail out). In landing. Earnest's
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left leg was broken. He Is now
A veteran of 28 months in the serving with the 9th army and 30th and two sons spent the week-end home Saturday for her mld-summ- as we did our hitch in hell.
ln one of the base hospitals ln.Pacific. Marine Corporal Glen L. division in Germany, has written in Emmett with Mrs. Wertz’s par- er vacation, after attending Brlg-
I
We’ve killed a million bugs
ham Young university.
I that he will return home soon.
ents.
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the Pacific area.
Entertainment
Nyssa Tax Will
Be Some Higher
Than 1^1944-45
Cecil W.Seburn
Taken By Death
Council Issues
Several Orders
Nyssa \outh In
Army On Move
Lettuce Shipping
In Valley Slow
Fischer Award
Our Boys In
The Service
'jC
POET’S
CORNER
That get Into our eats
Beautiful ln the night
We Jump to muddy trenches
To get clear out of sight,
'Put out -those lights and cigar­
ettes"
We hear the sergeant yell.
This Is no ladies picnic,
It’s part of our hitch ln hell.”
When the final taps are sounded
We shed our earthly cares.
We pull our best parade of all
Right -up them golden stairs
The angels «here will greet us
Their harps they'll gladly play
We’ll draw a million canteen
Checks
And spend them all ln a day.
The angel Gabriel will blow his
horn
St. Peter will loudly yell
“Up front, you guys from Guinea,
You’ve done your hitch ln hell” .
From mouldy shoes we’ve shaken
Spiders and centipedes
With us lt Is no wise-crack
We’ve had ants in our pants
We’ve worked where no one’s
worked before
There’s no word with us for can’t
When our work Is finished
Our friends will surely tell
These boys all went to heaven
For they did their hitch ln hell.
We take our atabrlne dally
Those bitter little pills
That elevate our system
Against fever, aches and chills.
The ack-ack bursts above us