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THE NVSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL PAGE TWO I he bate City Journal KI.ASS V. SU BSCRIPTIO N One fd iljr tnd FOW LLL A D VERTISIN G RATES Y war $200 $1.20 .................05 (Strictly In Advance« Publisher RAT^S Opt it rate, per Inch....... 35c National, per inch........... .351 Classified^. per w ord.... ... 2.* Minimum 30c Published every Thursday at Nyssa, Malheur County. Oregon Entered at the postoffices at Nyssa, Oregon for transmission through the United States Malls, as second class matter, under the art ol March 3, 1879 TRUMAN IN “ HOT SPOT’ The “ little friend of labor” has drawn the ire o f labor leaders because as president o f the United States he has insisted that the country’s economic system be kept in operation. President Truman “ cracked down” on the railroad unions and is now emphasizing that the maritime strike, scheduled for June 15, be avoided. During his senate career, Tinman was known as the friend of labor and he was a great help to the laboring man. However, when the welfare o f the country was threatened with dire results as the result of the railroad strike he acted with firmness. That firmness has cost him favor with the labor unions, but has increased his prestig' with other classes of society. What effect hi action in the railroad strike will have on 1 ' chances in 1948 is not clear at this time, but We Congratulate Elden Yergensen and Ira Ure on completion of the new OWYHEE TRUCK AND IMPLEMENT CO. Building at Main and Fourth Streets Electrical Installation By A Morrison Electric Co. Nyssa, Oregon perhaps time will reduce the anger of the rail- toad brotherhood leadership. Most certainly, however, his recent tactics Will have a decided effect on his political aspir ations and probably those o f the democratic party in 1948 and in the election this fall. Yergensen with Company 8 Years Elden J. Yergensen. manager of the Owyhee Truck and Implement company, which will open Its new building at Fourth and Main streets to the public Saturday, has been ; associated with the International Harvester company lor eight years. Yergensen was manager ol the McCormick-Deerlng store In Rlrlc, Idaho prior to entering the army In 1943. He served In the army until October, 1945 and came to Nyssa soon afterwards. Yergensen served overseas In live different countries. Mr. and Mrs. Yergensen and two children moved to Nyssa from Salt Lake City early last winter and purchased the residence of Mrs John Barkel, where they are new living. Since last fall Mr. Yergensen has been operating the Owyhee Truck and Implement company business In Freeman’s machine shop. SEED POTATOES TO BE CERTIFIED HERE Certification of seed potatoes will be carried out in Malheur county this year, according to word re ceived from J. R. McCamtorldge, ex tension specialist In seed certifica tion. This will be the Ilrst year that a complete potato certification program has been In effect In this county. Eleven growers qualltied for war approved seed In 1945. Due to the long hot growing seasons In Malheur county, some virus disease develops but does not show up In the potato plants. For this reason samples from the crops will be taken and grown out during the winter at Oceanside California. Then plots are usually checked for disease In February. Potatoes qualifying for certification will be tagged as soon as the plots are checked for disease. Applications and certification ru les are available at the county agent's office, according to Leeds Bailey, assistant county agent la charge of seed certification. ONTARIO REVIVAL MEETING OPENED The revival meeting, which has been advertised for several weeks, began Sunday night In a tent next to the Church of Christ In On tario. The Alber Evangelistic party con ducting the meeting consists ol Raymond L. Alber, evangelist, solo ist and song leader, Mrs. Alber. who Is the children's specialist, making "rag pictures" and pantom imas, and Howard T. House, gos pel song pianist and crayon artist. The services begin each night with Hats Off To The Owyhee Truck And Implement Co. upon the opening of its beautiful new building at Main and Fourth Streets. Nyssa and vicinity will benefit from any increase in the number o f business houses here and we are glad to cooperate in any program that will benefit this community. The new implement firm can feel justly proud in making such a fine contribution to an already fine city. We congratulate Elden Yergensen of the Owyhee Truck and Implement Company and Ira Ure, owner o f the building, on their efforts and we predict for the new firm many years of successful operation in Nyssa. Hollingsworths’,Inc. Hardware and Implements THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1946 ** LOOKING AHEAD ft GEORGE 1 BENSON Prendrai— Hard mg College St arc g Ark** tat Saddles Casper, Wyo., beasts a caddie laker who has been at the business >r forty years in that city. He nows his trade, a fact not hard to rove. You see there are a great ■any people in nis state who know good saddle when they see one nd a saddle maker has to be good j stay In business long In Wyo ming. Not many days ago I iropped Into his shop and got intro duced. I was a prospective customer. We need a couple of good saddles at the Harding College stable and had shopped close to home with no suc cess. To my astonishment the Cas per saddler was no better able to supply our needs than those in Memphis or Little Rock. He was able, however, to give me some facts I had not learned before from any of the saddle stores visited earlier. Saddletrees Scarce. A good saddle is built un a wood en frame called a tree, much as a shoe is built on a wooden last, ex cept that the tree is built into the saddle and becomes a permanent part of it. Saddletrees are made by men of a highly specialized craft. Trees have to be shaped right, no bulkier and no heavier than strength and design require. Men able to do such things with wood are by no means common. During the war Uncle Sam need ed skillful saddletree men in the construction of gliders. “ The gov ernment employed most of them at about $160 a week," the saddler de clared. Good saddles, not being made any more, might have sky rocketed In price but the Office of Price Administration Axed a ceiling to stop it Stocks of new saddles soon were bought up by users at ceiling prices. But the Wsr Is Over Now the glider business is slack. Wonders have been done with glid ers and they are not being forgot ten, but fewer are being built. Un employed saddletree men would like to start building saddletrees again—there's quite a demand. Liv ing costs have built up, however, and they think they ought to have $120 a week. That’s $6,000 s year and 25% under their defense-plant scale of pay. Saddle manufacturers, like the one in Casper, want trees because —no trees, no saddles. They are willing to pay tree builders $120 a week and wouldn’t kick a bit if saddles might be sold at prices they would easily bring. 1 guess there are thousands of customers besides me who are ready to pay more for a saddle than it would have cost in the months immediately before the war. Celling Lingers On "If today I engaged a good tree builder," said the Wyoming saddler, “ paid him $120 a week in return for his best services and most com petent work, and then sold the total product at ceiling prices, it would pay about three-fourths of the wages of the man who made the tree.’* Obviously it is out of bal ance. Craftsmen, manufacturers, dealers and users are all waiting for ceilings to lift. The saddle business is not large when you contrast it to automobiles and railroads, but it is no isolated case. Many small business men are smothering for sales that are tied up by o P A. Small plants, employing less than 1,000 men, pro vide Jobs for 78% of Industrial work ers. Carried too far, this price pol icy can bring panic and poverty Liquidating some war-year bureaus would help balance the national budget and help clear the way for new and much needed production a short concert for two pianos and solovox. Mr. House, assisted by Mrs. Joy Moore, play. One of the big features of the meeting Is the Boaster club for the boys and girls. The club Is In charge of Mrs. Alber and Is free to all children who care to take advantage of the opportunity to Join. Free rides have been provided for all children who care to at tend The services begin at 8 o'clock each night except Saturday. Big Bend Cpl. Jim Miller received his dis charge from the marines and re turned home Wednesday. He was accompanied home by his sister, Miss Virginia Miller of Corvallis. Mr. and Mrs. Will Jordan and three children of San Francisco, were callers Saturday m the Brum bach and Roberts homes They were visiting relatives In Caldwell and Roswell. Walter Bishop left Wednesday evening for Monrovia. California to attend funeral services for his brother. Fred, who died that day. He returned home Tuesday. Four-H club girls and their lead ers attended a demonstration at Adrian last Tuesday evening. Lor- and famUy, Mrs. George Ellers and etta Van de Water and Audrey while he is tn California. Mecham took pan m a cooking BUI Van de Water received word son. OeOrge, Mrs. H. R. Hatch, Miss demonstration and Lorraine Van last Monday that he had been a- Helen Hatch. Joyce Maglnnls and de Water and Ethel Mecham In warded the Croix de Guerre for Barbara Hatch. a sewing demonstration. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Recla and On Saturday the county demon distinguished services while he was stration was held in Ontario. Mar serving in the army during the chUdren of Vale were Sunday guests In the Brumbach home. Joe Recla garet Bennett won second prize Freniffi campaign. Miss Dorothy Mae Hamilton and arul Ezra Brumbach were members in sewing, Betty Jones, first in her aivtslun in the styie show, Ethel Dr. Rodney R. Funk of Nampa of the tenth mountain division that ai.d Eva Mecahm firsts in cooking, ! were married Saturday evening at took part In the closing battles in Loretta Van de Water and Audrey the First Baptist church In Cald Italy. Mrs. Joe Brock attended a blr- Mecam third in sewing and Lor well. Sharon and Karon Roberts, raine Van de Water second tn twin daughters of Mr. and Mrs. tday dinner given Sunday In the j Dyre Roberts were train bearers. 8am Smyser home In honor of Mrs cooking and third in sewing. Mrs. Jack Jones and Mrs. Joe ■Those attending from Bend were ¡Charles Skelton. King were club leaders in Lower Mi's R. L. Haworth, Mrs. M. E. j Mrs. Lora PUlsbury and B. O. Bend and Mrs. H. Bennett and Rogers, Mr. and Mrs. Will Sweet, Roberts were Sunday dinner guests Mrs. Boyce Van de Water in Wade. | Mrs Dyre Roberts, Mr. and Mrs | In the Robert Weir home. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Brumbach were Harvey Bennett and famUy, Miss Mrs. Jack Jones and daughters, \ Elaine, Betty and Maryann, and (Laura Prosser. Mrs. Louise Klahr, guests of friends in Payette ana Mr. and Mrs. Boyce Van de Water ' Mr. and Mrs. Boyce Van de Water New Plymouth Sunday. and daughters attended the show. Mrs. Joe Brumbach attended a P.T.A. county council meeting in Radio Repairing Ontario Saturday. Mrs. Ulmer of Alma, Nebraska arrived Wednesday for a visit with her daughter, Mrs. Cyrus Bishop. Shop is at Nordale-New8om Furniture Store Mr. and Mrs. Dyre Roberts and children and B. O. Roberts were guests In the Clyde Riggs home In Repairing all types o f radios. Parma Decoration day. Miss Forrestlne Wilson has en rolled In a Boise business college Gene Seybold for nine months of training. Bert Wiley of Donnelly is help ing on the Walter Bishop ranch Congratulations TO THE Owyhee Truck and Implement Co. Upon completion o f its new cement block and brick building on Main street. The farmers o f the Nyssa area are entitled to the best possible farm equipment and all o f us in the implement business are de termined that they shall have it. We compliment Ira Ure, owner of the new building, and Elden Yergensen, on the erection of such a fine structure. They can be proud of it as one of the finest implement buildings in Eastern Oregon. WAGGONER MOTOR COMPANY Nyssa, Oregon We Are Happy To Have Had a Part in the Construction of the New International Harvester Building o f the Owyhee Truck and Implement Co. Despite rationing, shortages and other post-war restrictions we were able to finish the building in reasonable time. We hope that within the next few months material shortages will disappear and Nyssa will be able to launch the building program that it badly needs. We congratulate Ira Ure, owner, and the Owyhee Truck and Implement company for such a fine contribution to the business section of Nyssa. Luther L. Fife General Contractor
