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77>eNYSSA vTnXÄThTxxXYl No. 23 JOURNAL NYissÀ. urtEGlHN, ï H U K MMi , JÜNË 20, 1946 STREET OILING CAMPAIGN AGAINST 4-H C lubbers Bo DAIRY PAYMENTS TO Increased Levy Measurement Of TO Ray O. Petersen WEEDS BE MADE IN MONTH START FRIDAY IS LAUNCHED To Corvallis To A reminder to dairymen that Will Be Asked Beet Acreage In The city expects to start oiling Named Manager BY LOCAL BUREAU graveled streets with a dust production payments lor Ap The reclamation bureau's spray By County Court Summer School dairy Area Completed the Of Avoset, Inc. program palliative oil Friday of this week. ril. May and June will be made In for control and eradication Changes At Factory To Help Care For Big ger Crop Following completion of acreage measurements, the Amalgamated Sugar company announced this week that 50,300 acres of beets are now growing In the Nyssa-Nampa district. Thinning of beets has been com pleted and practically all fields have been hoed. R. G. Larson, dis trict manager, estimated that the yield will be average or better, with prospects that a total of 850,000 tons of beets will be harvested in the entire district. At the Nyssa factory the com pany Is now installing a continuous diffuser instead of a cell diffuser with a view of increasing the cap acity, It is estimated that the in- ■tallation will increase the capacity of the mill by approximately 10 per cent, which should make it possi ble for the Nyssa plant to process more than one million bags of su gar out of the 1940 crop. WHITAKER IS NAMED BY UNANIMOUS VOTE R. G. Whitaker was unanimously elected a director of the Nyssa school board in an election held in the grade school building Monday. Mr. Whitaker, who was unopposed, teceived 24 votes. He will serve on the board for a period of five years. On Vacation— Mr and Mrs. Kenneth Cochrun left Saturday for a week's vacation on the coast. En route to Portland they visited Mrs. Cochrun‘s broth er, Earl Patterson, at Bend. They will also visit Mr. and Mrs. Max Williams at Albany. Mr. Cochrun will attend the American Legion department convention in Portland this week. i.o To Calitbriua-» Mr. and Mrs W. W. Foster left Wednesday for Santa Barbara and Los Angeles. They will attend the graduation of their daughter, Fran ces, from Westmount college at Santa Barbara. They were accom panied by their son, Tommy, and daughter, Grace, and Hisako Kido. In Ontario— Mrs. Dale Moss and Mrs. Sher man Bybee were in Ontario and Payette shopping Thursday. IIAPPY EIGHT CLUB MEETS The Happy Eight Pinochle club met at the home of Mrs. Dave Mitchell Friday with Mrs. Mit chell's sister, Mrs. Lbrene Beck- stead winning traveling prize and Mis. Sherman Bybee high score. Refreshments were served to eight. Here From Ontario— Mr. and Mrs. Grant Bybee of Ontario were here Sunday visiting fnends and attending to business. Mr. Bybee is convalescing from a recent heart attack. Returns From Trip— Mrs. O. O Anderson returned Friday from Salinas, California, where she visited friends. Enlists In Army— Ivan D. Thompson òf Ogden has enlisted in the United States army air force, according to word receiv ed from Captain W. J. Gammon, recruiting officer at Hill Field. An aircraft supply Inspector by trade. Pvt. Thompson enlisted In the army air forces In order to abtaln train ing in the field of aviation. Cap tain Gammon said Pvt. Thompson has already received his credits and diploma for flying a Pplper Cub plane. Thompson Is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Thompson, 444- 31st street, Ogden. The Morrison-Knudsen Construc tion company will do the oiling Construction Of Million again this year. Eight miles of Dollar Plant To Be streets, the same as oiled last year, Started In July will be covered in the 1946 program. The only purpose of the oiling is to settle the dust. The work will Avoset, Incorporated announced from its San Francisco offices this require two days. Motorists are asked not to drive week the appointment of Ray O. on the fresh oil for one day. Peterson of Caldwell as manager of the company’s new Nyssa plant. Mr. Petersen is well known among farmers of the Boise and Payette valleys, having been county agent of Canyon county for the last two and one-half years an J prior to that time county agent of Jerome The Idaho and Oregon refineries county and Gem county as well as of the Amalgamated Sugar com a field representative of the United pany contain 68 per cent more States department of agriculture. sugar than last year, although the “Mr. Petersen’s training and ex ration to bakers, food manufact perience make him an ideal man urers, candy and ice cream makers for this important job," company and bottlers has been reduced under officials said. "Before entering the last year, according to a story University of Idaho, from which he written for the Associated Press by was graduated with a major in Frank W. Pitman, AP staff writer. animal husbandry, Mr. Petersen "An Idaho OPA official said the farmed at Rupert, Idaho with his paradox resulted from the OPA's contention that sugar stocks throu- j parents. This training and experie nce should be of considerable help ghout the nation are less than last to Avoset's program of expanding year,” Pitman said. “The official and improving dairying in the said the stocks were permitted to Nyssa area.” accumulate In this area so they The Avoset plant at Nyssa will be may be shipped to sections that may be threatened by a shortage. the company's largest and most modern plant, costing approximate The sugar can be released into the ly $1,000,000 and occupying about market only upon certified orders— 120,000 square feet. The plant will which in effect represent ration be equipped to manufacture all of coupons. the company's present products. Refineries of the Amalgamated concern at Nyssa, Ore., and Nam Among the products are Avoset. which Is a sterilized, stabilized pa, are both stocked full with sugar cream; sugar of milk, casine and processed during the past sugar Albulac. beet season. A Nyssa official said Avoset, which has attracted much that plant had on hand 350,000 interest, has been discussed in bags (100 pound units) of sugar numerous magazines and newspaper and a similar condition existed at articles. It is made in both whipp Nampa. William F. McCrea of Og den. Utah, public relations dir ing and table grade and is sold in half pint and in gallon glass con ector of the Amalgamated firm said tainers. It was extensively used dur "the present ration is not nearly ing the war by the armed forces and enough to absorb present produc has otherwise been used in all tion." parts of the globe. McCrea emphasized that he re Because the Avoset corporation ferred “only to the domestic beet and. cane growers—not taking into manufactures diversified specialty consideration the sugar this coun milk products, it Is in an enviable try imports from Cuba, the Philip position in changing markets. Be pines; Hawaiian Island and Puerto sides the products already men tioned, the Nyssa plant will be Rico." McCrea said the per capita con able to manufacture several other sumption of sugar in the United dairy products. Construction of the plant will States “now stands at approxl- probably be started sometime in (Continued on page 5) July and be finished about the first of the year. Mr. and Mrs. Petersen and three sons will move to Nyssa as soon as housing facilities become avail able. Sugar Stocks In Warehouses Big Adrian Legion Names Officers Jim Attebery was elected com mander of the Adrian post of the American Legion at a meeting held Tuesday night, June 11. Other new officers are Don Dav is, vice commander; Vernon Parker, adjutant; Dave Beebe, chaplain; Bill WlllLs, sergeant-at-arms; Mel vin Peterson, finance officer; Carl Eachus, service officer, and Claude Eachus, historian. The officers will. be installed June 25 by Albert Heldt of Nyssa, district commander. Delegates to the state convention are Jim Attebery, Vernon Parker and William Ashcraft. Alternates are Robert Kurtz, Carl Eachus and Glenn Pounds. Son Arrives— An 8 pound 3 ounce boy was born to Ensign and Mrs. Dwight O. Wyckoff, former Nyssa residents at the marine hospital In Seattle. June 13. Mrs. Wyckoff is a dau ghter of Mr. and Mrs. Barney Wilson of Nyssa. In Caldwell— Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Sepic and family were In Caldwell Sunday. Tupelos Available— Two hundred and twenty copies of the Tupelo, Nyssa high school yearbook, have arrived and will be distributed Saturday at the high Here From Idaho— school building. The books will be Mr. and Mrs. John E. Wagner Issued between 10 a. m. and 4 p. m. and children of Twin Falls visited MLss Marjory Merrick will be In at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ber charge of the distribution. nard Frost Monday and Tuesday. Visit In Idaho— Attend Convention— Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Clowers and Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Whitaker Mrs. J. E. Brower and daughter, attended a district Lions club con Irene, spent last week-end in Bur vention in Idaho Falls the first of ley. Idaho visiting relatives and the week. Mr.' Whitaker, delegate friends. representing the Nyssa Lions club, and Mrs. Whitaker went to Idaho Attend Convention— Mr and Mrs. George Mitchell Falls Saturday and returned home Tuesday. have returned home from Portland, where they attended the annual Arrives In U. S. — meeting of the Oregon State Bank Lt. Houston Wilson talked to his ers association. father. Barney Wilson, by long dis tance telephone Wednesday, saying Visit In Ontario— Mrs. D. O. Bybee. Mrs. Oscar he had just arrived In New York City and would be home in a few Pike and Mrs. Frank J. Pike vis days. ited friends in Ontario Monday. Has Sewing Meet— The ladies of the L.D5. Relief society held another sewing meet ing last Tuesday, beginning at 2 o’clock in the afternoon. Each Tuesday this summer will be spent In doing various sewing for the fall bazaar. All ladies are invited to attend and do what they can to assist in the work. of noxious weeds, willows, and sweet clover on the Owyhee pro ject is underway, states George W. Bain, assistant county agent. Ditch rights-of-way will be sprayed with 2,4-D to prevent nox ious weed;, willows, and sweet clov- ei from going to seed and to kill a large percentage of them, ac cording to James Spofford, Irriga tion manager. Mr. Spofford said th a t'a close follow-up will be made this fall with sodium chlorate to eradicate those noxious weed infest ations which are resistant to 2. 4-D. This is an important step in the control of noxious weeds on farms served by the Owyhee irrigation project. If the water users will co operate with the project by treat ing the weeds on their farms, this program can be the biggest and most successful fight ever launched against the plague of noxious weeds that is infesting a large percentage of farms in this area, Bain stated. Dairvmen Plan Annual Picnic The annual dairymen’s picnic and field day program sponsored by the Malheur County Dairy Herd Improvement association will be held in Riverside park at Vale June 27, according to Fred Burgess, pre sident oi the association. A complete program, starting at 10 a. m. with sports before noon, and a pot-luck luncheon at 12, fol lowed by a talk on evaluation of pedigrees, will provide recreation for the entire family, Burgess stated. Rosel Hunter, acting as chairman of the sports program, said there will be a tug-of-war contest by teams to be chosen on the grounds. Prizes for winning team or penalties for losers will be announced later.’’ Batting eyes and pitching arms will get their test in a scheduled soft-ball game t \a t wHl undoubtly last longer that the participants,” Hunter said. "The jersey milkers are making some strong claims for their tyam. However, inforjned observed be lieve that either the holsteln or guernsey faus may place them in their stanchions." Ice cream will be furnished by the association for the potluck din ner. A qualified speaker, not yet an nounced. will talk at 1 o’clock on the evaluation of pedigrees. Bur gess said that one of the cattle club fieldman would be present to fill this part of the program. All interested dairymen and their families are invited to attend the picnic. Owyhee Bridge Work Is Asked Swim At Caldwell— Mr. and Mrs. Grant Jones and A delegation of Nyssa residents family and Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Ray and family spent Sunday at are planning to visit R. J. Newell the Caldwell park at a swimming of Boise, regional director of the United States bureau of reclama party and picnic. tion, asking that the bridges be tween Nyssa and the Owyhee dam Class Has Swim Party— Mr. and Mrs. Dean Fife enter-1 be Improved. tallied Mrs. Fife’s Sunday school. The delegation will represent the class with a swimming party and Nyssa Boat club, the Lions club, weiner roast Friday evening at the chamber of commerce and Malheur Game league. The men will call on Caldwell park. Mr. Newell at his convenience. The local groups are also working Receives Shoulder Bruises— Oscar Pike, local carpenter, sus on plans to ask for federal money tained bad bruises and a possible for parks at the Owyhee reservoir. shoulder dislocation when he fell The boat club voted a t Its last from a seven-foot scaffold to a meeting to appoint a committee to cement floor. He Is under a doctor's consider holding a regatta on Snake river at Nyssa this summer. are. David Sarazin showed motion pic tures taken on the Owyhee reser In Germany— Pvt. Frank J. Pike, who is now voir, in Yellowstone park and other «rvlng in Germany, reports that places. he land is beautiful and green. Not a waste piece of lumber is to be Church Services Postponed— There will be no church services een anywhere in the forests. The Germans are very good farmers. At at the St. Paul’s Mission Sunday, the present time Pike Is guard June 23 because of the vicar, C. L over a group of men in construction Callahan, attending the summer school that is being held at Cove, aork. Oregon. Returns From Boise— Mrs. Lillian Newby returned Sun Visit Here — Mr and Mrs. F. L. Church of day after a 10-day visit with her son, Tom, at Boise. Her other son, LaJunta, Colorado visited over the Harry of Hagerman valley, visited week-end at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Church. The two men her while she was in Boise. are brothers. Goes To Marsing— Mrs. Earl Larson went to Mars Lamp Stolen— ing Wednesday for a week's visit A plastic pre-war floor lamp was with relatives. stolen from the garage at the Nyssa Nursing home. The owner. Here From Halfway— Mrs. Naomi Buchert, said appar Miss Marie Coate, who has ac ently nothing else was stolen from cepted a position as English teacher the garage, although the lamp in the local high school, visited In shade was located In a container Nyssa Tuesday. nearby. July and August was Issued today Measure Providing For by Glen L. Hutchinson, chairman 10 Mills Will Ap of the Malheur county committee pear On Ballot Application may be made by pre The county court, meeting last Forty-six Malheur 4-H club mem senting statements at the AAA of bers left Tuesday to attend the fice showing hundred weight of week, decided to place on the Nov annual 4-H summer session at Ore »hole milk and pounds of butterfal ember ballot a measure providing gon State college, June 18 to 28. sold during the three month per for a special levy of 10 mills for Most of those attending are winners iod. roads each year for a period of of scholarships awarded by spon six years. soring organizations. H. C. Seymour, state club leader, On the basis of the present as states that attendance at summer sessed valuation the proposal would school will be limited to 1600 club raise approximately $140.000 a year. members due to the lack of housing The money could be used only fer facilities. Pre-war attendance was The highest butterfat production around 2100. A quota was set for ever recorded in Malheur county bridges and road construction and each county, based on club enroll was made by L, C„ a grâde holsteln Improvements. ment, with scholarship winners giv cow owned by W. C. Wilcox ol County officials said the six per en first preference, and those pay Willow Creek, over a 31-day period cent limitation will not permit them ing their own way given later con ending In May, states Clifford C. sideration. Cox, cow tester for the Malheur to raise enough money to take care Scholarship winners from Mal County Dairy Herd Improvement of the needed increases. association. heur county include: Fair board—Beverly Russell of A total of 102.9 pounds of butter- Grove, Nola Caverhill of White Set fat made on three times a day tlement Ellen Judd, Delores Salter, | milking was produced during the and Betty Newbill of Kingman Kol- j test period. The five year old cow The city council has granted a ony. freshened Aprlll 11. The test was lease on the city airport to Gor Ontario Commercial club—Bon made May H and a surprise re- nie Hyde of Grove, lone Robbins of tese was made two days later to don Schmelzer of Vale field. Calif ornia. Lincoln, Mark White and Kenneth verify the figures, Cox said. Mr, Schmelzer and wife ana Romans of Willowcreek. The Wilcox dairy herd is made Farmers Supply cooperative—Elo- up of foundation stgick composed twin daughters are moving to the ise Richmond of Cairo. Lois Jordan of local utility cows and mixed residence at the airport this week. of White Settlement, Darlene Rob range stock. In 1939, Wilcox pur bins of Lincoln, and Deane Hunter chased a registered holsteln bull. The aviator's equipment includes a new Taylorcraft two-place plana. of Arcadia. Sleepy Hollow Governor’s Inca Nyssa chamber of commerce— Bubbles, from John Bggers of Nam Patsy DeHuven of Kingman Kolony, pa, Idaho. The addition of this pro and Patrick McClure of Willow- ven sire has greatly stimulated the creek. milk and butterfat production of his Harper Grange—Georgia Palmer herd, Wilcox claims. of Harper. To prove the value of this herd The Women’s Civic club held Its Ontario Lions club—Patsy Lee of sire, a half sister of the leading Harper, and Pete Schaffeld of cow produced 84 pounds of butter regular meeting In the Garret Stain fat during the same month, Cox garden Wednesday afternoon. Jamlesoh. The members voted to work for Pomona Grange—Geraldine Dick said. the building of a swimming pool ey of Brogan. Dairymaid, a registered guernsey either by the school district or by Malheur 4-H leaders council— cow owned by H. E. Hight, Nyssa, the city and to promote activities placed second in butterfat pro Patricia Reed of Brogan. lor the youth of the community. Kingman Kolony 4-H clubs—Car duction with 94 pounds of fate pro A children's parade will be held oline Schiemer and Francis Thiel. duced on official test. Dairymaid Is in August with prizes and games White Settlement 4rH clubs—Eve a nine year old cow and Is milked In the »ark. Mas. Bernard S -slm.vi three times a day. lyn Hiutz and Esther Ogura. Is In charge-of the parade and A grade jersey, Dolly, owned by Mrs. Leonard Huseby, chairman of Hyline Community club—Joanne Hale of Jefferson. Fred Burgess of Vale, produced 84 park activities. Plans were made Harper Civic club and Harper pounds of butterfat for the 31-day (or lyceum entertainment during 4-H clubs—Tressa Shira and Mary period. the (all and winter. Bodewlg. A fall flower show will be held Lincoln 4-H clubs—Cleone Pettet. during early fall on a competitive Brogan Grange and Brogan Wo basis. Mrs. George Mitchell Is gen men's club—Rosemary Vilsmeyer eral chairman. and Dorothy Williams. Round Robbln card games and West Bench Community club— Kensingtons will be an activity of Shirley Russell. Dairymen will discuss the poss the next eight weeks. County Health association—May- Mrs. H. O. Hopkins, president of ann Wroten of Jordan Valley and ibility or organizing a local arti the American Legion auxiliary, pre ficial Insemination association at a Charles Burtis of Harper. sented the club with a beautiful Ontario Branch of U. S. National meeting to be held in the Nyssa flag as a part of the auxiliary's high school building Friday, June Bank—Rosemary Reed of Brogan 21, at 8:30 p. m , according to Har American activities for the year. and Donna Wlnnlford of Harper. Red Cross sewing was done and R. R. Robertson, Standard Oil ry Sandqulst, county agent. refreshments were served by Mrs. company—Norma Stohler of Lin This meeting climaxes a series ol Herbert Fisher and Mrs. Emma group meetings that have been held Quimby. coln. Star 4-H clubs—Evelyn Barnes. recently to determine the local In Grove Community club—LaVene terest In this type of an organiza Go On Weiner Roast— tion. Aldrich and Sammy Ooucher. Marlin. Betty Jean and Beverley Park Improvement club—Vernon Local artificial insemination ass Burbrldge entertained at a weiner Olson. ociations are now operating In six roast Saturday evening on the bank Individuals going are ArdLs Hurst, counties in Oregon. One central f Snake river. Those attending were Selma Stam, Ilea Kreager and bull-stud Is maintained at McMinn Edna. Betty and Helen Miller, Pat Sally Ross. ville to service all of the associa sy, Jimmie and Dickie Settles, Mel The delegation Is chaproned by tions. The Yamhill County associa vin and Carlas Tellford, Carl and Mrs. George Lang of Grove, and tion has been operating for several Lonnie Emery, Billie Bowen, Marvin Mrs. Don Joseph of Jefferson. E. years, and dairymen in that area Wetchensky and Byron Caldwell. M. Hauser, county club agent, ac are convinced of the value of this The group was accompanied by companied the group. type service. Colleen Hopp. Roger Morse, extension dairyman Babies Arrive— of Oregon State College, will be pre Visit At Caldwell— Six babies were born in the Nys sent to discuss the proposed pro Mr. and Mrs. Russell Cochrun vis sa Nursing home during the past gram with dairymen. All dairymen ited their daughter, Mrs. Clyde two weeks. and other Interested persons are Schurr of Caldwell Sunday. The The babies and parents are; invited to attend this meeting, family picnicked at Ferncroft lodge Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Eason, Nys Sandqulst stated. near Caldwell. sa, girl, 6 pounds, 14 ounces, Cath erine Sue, June 9. Riding In Rodeos— Attend Summer School— Mr. and Mrs. Reinle Bashon, Bobby Williamson of Nyssa Is rid Miss Greta Stunz and Miss Marie Ironside, boy, 9 pounds, June 14, ing in rodeo events In Montana, Sebum entered Boise Junior college Ronald Gene. according to Information received Monday to attend summer school. Mr and Mrs. Charles Pile, girl, here. He will return to Nyssa this 7 pounds, 5 ounces, June 14, Lenda fall to re-enter high school. Return From Visit— Cheryl. Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Sager and Mr. and Mrs. J E. Samuel, Par Return From Trip— children returned Friday after a ma. girl, 7 pounds, Kathie Lorina. Mr. and Mrs Tom Eldredge re two-weeks trip through Montana, Mr and Mrs. Willie Huff, JUne turned Tuesday from a 10-day trip where they visited relatives ar.d 16, son, 6 pounds, 8 ounces. Dennis to Corvallis, where they attended friends. Lee. the graduation of their son, Don, Mr. and Mrs. Miles Teter, June from Oregon State college June 10. On Varation— 16, girl, 8 pounds, 2 ounces, Sharon Mr and Mrs. Ward Wlenekc are Louise. OHcharged From Navy— spending their vacation in Portland William Lowe of Nyssa has been Relatives Attend Funeral— discharged from the navy at the PICNtCK AT WEI HER Funeral services were held In personnel separation center at Employees of the Payette division Payette last Thursday for Jonas Bremerton. Washington. of the Idaho Power company held Brown of Echo, Oregon, brother-in- a picnic at Welser Sunday. Those law of Bernard Frost of Nyssa. Re Takes Position— attending from Nyssa were Mr. and latives visiting at the Frost home A. M Morgan of Portland has Mrs. Vern Parson and family and Thursday and Friday were Mrs. taken a position as teller In the Miss Betty Tillman. Bessie Brown and two daughters. Nyssa branch of the First National Wilma and Barbara Brown, and bank of Portland He was discharg WOMEN PLAN MEETING son. Jack, of Echo, Mr. and Mrs. ed from the army last fall. The Methodist Women's 8ocitty Max Brown of Twin FalLs and Mrs of Christian Service will meet at Charlotte Lleb of Burlington, W&rti- Visiting Mater— 2 p. m. Thursday, June 7, at the ington. Other guests at the Frost Mlsa Joyce Todd, student at home of Mrs. L. E. Robbins for the home were Mr and Mrs. Stanley Washington State college. Pullman. summer social meeting. The social Brown and daughter. Ruth Marie, Washington, arrived here Saturday hour will be In charge of Mrs. of Blackfoot, Idaho and Mr and for an Indefinite visit with her sis Vern Parson and Mrs. Hugh Tob- Mrs. C. C. McVkter of Echo. ler. ter, Mrs. Joe Sutherland. Trips Of Boys And Girls Sponsored By Local Organizations Wilcox-Cow Is High Producer AVIATOR IS GIVEN LEASE ON AIRPORT Women To Seek Swimming Pool Dairy Breeding Plan Considered
