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Published every Thursday at Nyssa, Malheur County. Oregon
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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