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VO LUM E X X X X II NO. 36 Enrollment In Nyssa Schools Shows Increase Larger Increase Expect ed; Schools Badly Over-crowded — "i— The 1947-48 terxn of school was opened ii) Nyssa Monday, with an enrollment of 1052, an Increase of 28 over the figures of last year. Although the Increase Is con siderable less than anticipated, the schools are still badly over-crowd ed. The congestion In the first four grades will be relieved when the new wing to the elementary build ing is completed. Two hundred and flfty-slx were registered in the high school up to Wednesday and an additional 25 are expected. The first week's fig ure Is three short o f the enrollment during the first week o f school last year. Principal Dennis Patch gave the high figures as follows: Freshmen 74, sophomores 71. juniors 61 and seniors 50. The other grades showed the fol lowing enrollments: First 118, rec- ond 103, third 110, fourth 103, fifth 85, sixth 86. seventh 102 and eighth 89, or a total of 796, compared to 765 last year. The first three grades are divided as follows: Nyssa—52 first, 48 second and 42 third; A r cadia—34 first, 32 second and 39 third and Oregon Trail—first 32, second 23 and third 29. The trend of enrollments during the last few years in Nyssa is as follows: 1941-42. 760 students; 42- 43 , 686 ; 43-44, 689 ; 44-45, 744 ; 45-6, 792; 46-47, 1024, and 47-48, 1052. 4-H, F.H.A. Fair Definitely Set The Malheur county fair board definitely decided at a meeting held last Thursday night to hold a 4-H and F F .A . junior fair In On tario September 27. One of the features o f the fair will be a calf .scramble and sale in down-town Ontario. Calves won in the calf scramble in 1946 will be auctioned at a sale to be sponsored by the Ontario Lions club at 3; 30 p.m. The show will be held because of the cancellation of the annual Malheur county fair, which was not held because of the poliomyel itis epidemic. The fair board secretary, Harry Sandutst, said that prizes will be awarded as listed in the 1947 fair book. Exhibits will be shown as they would have been at the regu lar fair. SAFE CONTAINING MONEY, STAMPS IS TAKEN AT ADRIAN A 250-pound safe, containing a considerable amount o f money, postage stamps, migratory bid stamps and post office money order blanks, was stolen from the Adrian post office Saturday night. The burglars gained entrance to the building by jimmleing the back door. The thieves also stole the stamp validating the money orders so that they could fill out the blanks and probaby cash them. Postal Inspectors and state police are investigating the theft. NYSSA MEN W IN PRIZES AT EMMETT Approximately 50 members o f the Owyhee Riding club o f Nyssa par ticipated in the amateur rodeo and race meet sponsored by the W est ern Riding clubs association near Emmett Sunday. September 14. Four hundred members represent ing 15 riding clubs of the Snake river valley appeard at the show. Prizes won by Nyssa residents were as follows: Lynn Snodgrass, third in calf roping and third in the bending race; Hollle Knowles, third In the novelty race, and E. R. Norman, second In the stake race. The Owyhee drill team gave a demonstration. PHONE FACILITIES W ILL BE INCREASED IN NYSSA OFFICE The manager of the Malheur Home Telephone company has been authorized to install two more units in the Nyssa tele- ;>h.me o f ee, which will double the switchboard capacity, acc ording to information received here today. 1 he company will also build 26 more lines out of Nyssa. The work is expected to be started In November. W. E. Snader Is Taken by Death W. E. Snader of Ontario, former Ny^sa resident, died Monday, Sept ember 15 In the veterans hospital in Boise. He had been ill since January. Funeral services will be held Friday at 3 o'clock in Beechler’s Funeral home in Ontario. A mili tary service will be conducted, with Bt hop Earl Wlnegar of the L. D. S. church of Ontario in charge. The, Veterans of Foreign Wars will have barge o f the grave services. Mr. Snader was bom May 29. 1892 at New Windsor, Maryland. He came to Nyssa in 1935 and lived here until 1944, when he moved to Ontario. He retired from farming In the Nyssa section when he mov ed to Ontario to take a position as state agriculture inspector. He was a member of the VFW of On tario. Survivors are his widow, Mrs. Lillian Snader; two daughters, Mrs. Carl Hunter of Ontario and Miss lean Snader of Pendleton; a son, Donald of Ontario; one grandson; a sister. Mrs. H. F. Wilson of Los Angeles, and a brother, H. J. Snad er of Shatter. California. Nyssa Teachers Attend Meeting Educators from Jjx counties at tended a regional workshop of the Oregon Education association in Baker Saturday, September 13, to rUscnsR the professional problems facing Oregon schools this coming year. Among the problems discussed were improvement of the present educational system, raising of pro fessional standards, and adminis tration o f the recently enacted rural school law. The keynote of the meeting was struck by Super intendent Armstrong of Pendleton When he stated that recent public interest and concern and recent rise in salary schedules should bring about a better educational system equipped with better quali- ifed teachers. O f interest to educators attending the workshop was a report, by Joe Updegrapf of Baker, who attended the National Education association convention in Cincinnati in July. In commenting upon the main speech of the convention, Mr. Up degrapf conveyed the idea that no matter how great the country i found the Job of winning the war, ' the job of "waging the peace” Is even greater. It calls for an even better and more alert educational system. The six counties represented at the workshop Included Malheur. Wallowa, Baker, Umatilla, Grant, and Union. Among the county su perintendents present was Mrs. Kathryn Claypool of Malheur coun ty. Other representatives from M al heur county were Mrs. Harriet Brumbach, Nyssa, president o f the Malheur county unit o f OEA; Mrs. Victoria Schweizer. Nyssa, Miss G ol die Miller and Miss Neva Green, both of Ontario. PAINTING DONE ON PAVING AT SCHOOL Stop signs, warning signs and pedestrian lanes were painted on the new paving at the Nyssa “Y " by state employes this week. One pedestrian lane was painted from the Chadwick side o f the highway to the traffic island and thence to the schoolgrounds and one was painted from the Sweet Visit Here— Guests at the home of Rev. and shop- to the school grounds. The.state is also expected to paint Mrs. Roland Wuest this week are Mrs. Wuest's parents. Mr. and Mrs parking stalls on Main street. Herbert Lowe of Leonard. North Dakota, and Mr. and Mrs. Herman T o Portland— Eckert of Wadena. Minnesota, aunt Dianne Mauldlng. accompanied by and uncle of Mrs. Wuest. They Miss Barbara Ritchie, left for Port arrived in Nyssa Tuesday evening land Saturday evening. Dianne «rill after a trip o f 1700 miles, which visit her grandmother, and go took them through the bad lands •hrough the children's clinic. Miss of South Dakota. Big Horn moun Ritchie went on to Corvallis to en t a in o f Wyoming, and Yellowstone ter her sophomore year at Oregon National park. A fter visiting in State college. Nyssa they will go to Portland and Bremerton. Washington before re Wins Private License— turning to their several homes On E. R. McCurdy, who has been the return trip they plan to go flying at the Nyssa airport, has through Glacier National park. received his private license. Olean Wells and Melvin Kelch recently -oloed New students o f Instructor Brother Dies— Mrs Ed Wilde returned Tuesday Gordon Schmelzer are Homer Nich ols, Rudy Nedbalek. Verl Reiten- evening from Watervllle. Kansas, where she had been called because baugh. Earl Oole, John Weeks and Kenneth Thompson of the death o f her brother NYSSA, OREGON, TH U R SD AY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1947 ATHLETIC FIELD WILL BE SEEDED FOR GRID GAMES Beet Harvest Is Begun In Nyssa, Nampa District The high school agriculture de partment is preparing this week to seed the new athletic field to ;rass Richard wuson, Nyssa high school agriculture instructor, has ilready Installed an underground •prinkler system. I f the transformers or the field lights are secured, football will probably be played on the new field this fall. If not, the old field will be extended to the south to make room for a regular football layout. The section to be seeded, about three acres, will include thq. area vithin the track. Elden Yergensen of the Owyhee Truck and Implement company has loaned the district equipment for seeding, discing, harrowing and floating. Beets O f Good Quality But Weather Too Warm For Piling The 1947 beet harvest was starte in the Nyssa-Nampa district o f th 4iralgamated Sugar company th) week, with both factories operat ing on a limited basis because o the early start of the campa.gn. Acceptance of beets will be 11m ited to the tonnage the two fac Lories can slice until cooler wea 'her permits piling of the beet1 which will probably be during th early part of October. Th e Nyssi factory sliced approximately 23.00 tons of beets Tuesday and was ex pected to be operating near capa city todayr District Manager R. G. Larser said the beets are of good qualitj and the sugar content, indiciater by tests taken Tuesday, is expecter to be favorable. Factory labor Ls plentiful ant* other conditions are improved sc that the company feels that opera tions will be normal again following its war-time and post-war experi ences. Adequate field labor, including '¿ex ican nationals. Is expected to oe available when the peak of the eason is reached. Nyssa Ward Of LDS Church Is Split Into Two Mrs A. Willson Dies In Nyssa friends related upon their return from a trip with congressmen and engineers to the site of the new Cascade reservoir at Cascade, Ida ho that in the top picture Dr. J. J. Earazin of Nyssa, a life-long re publican. is receiving some confidential information from former Idaho Governor Charles Gossett on how the democrats are going to race to victory in the 1948 elections. In the lower picture, taken by Harold Henigson of Nyssa, George Mitchell, Ray Larson and Frank Morgan of Nyssa are shown with a group of other men. Earl H ar mon, formerly of Nyssa, chief construction engineer on the project, is facing the Nyssa men. Rapid Growth Reason; Arvel Child, Dean Fife Named Bishops SEWER EXTENSION Because of the rapid growth in membership, the Nyssa ward of the L.DB. church was divided into two wards at a meeting held Sun day, September 14, The wards will be divided by the Nyssa-Ontario highway and a line running straight south from the curve in the highway at Nyssa. The ward in the city will be known as the first ward and that west of the highway as the second ward. Dean Fife was chosen as bishop of the first ward, with Rodger S. Ander son as first counselor and Henry D. Zobell as second counselor. A r vel L. Ohild, bishop of the Nyssa ward for the last few years, was named bishop of the second ward, with Roeel H. Hunter as first counselor and D. Hubert Christen sen as second counselor, and Glen W. Peterson as cleik. The Nyssa Independent branch was organized July 21, 1935, with 92 members and Luther L. F ife as president. By the end o f the next year the population had increased to 198 and the Nyssa indepedent branch was organized into a ward and Mr. Fife was installed as the first bishop. Th e members first met in a little one-room building on the site of the present structure, which has twice been remodeled and en larged. Up to 1939 Boise was the head quarters for all L.D.S. activity from Olenn's Ferry to Baker. A t that time the Weiser stake was organiz ed and all activity for this vicinity was directed from there. Luther L. F ile was taken as counselor in the stake presideivcy and Duwayne L. Anderson was installed as bishop of Nyssa. In June, 1942 the ward was re-organized and Arvel L. Ohild was installed as bishop. At that time the membership of the Nyssa ward was 731, including members In Parma, Adrian, Owyhee and Nyssa districts. During that year Independent branches were organized at Parma, Adrián and Owyhee. Total membership of the Nyssa ward has grown from 92 in 1935 to approximately 1500 at the present time. During the last war the govern ment took much of the fertile farm land in Utah on which to establish defense plants and many of the people living thereon were attracted to the Nyssa section by the agri cultural possibilités of this vicinity, Bishop Child said. This condition has largely accounted for the rapid growth of L.D S. membership here Through their agricultural experi ence, the Mormahs have proved to be good row crop farmers and have thus contributed much to the development of this section during the last few years. The second ward is making plans for a new building, which will in clude a chapel, recreation room and class rooms. The site has not been selected. IN NYSSA ASKED Members of the Nyssa chamber of commerce voted at a luncheon Wednesday Boor to authorize the president to apiLi.y. a committee to meet with the city council to discuss prospects for extension of the city sewer to include a sec tion in the ndrthwest part of town. Those appearing at the luncheon as sponsors of the proposal were A. P. Andersen and W. C. Brown. A chamber of commerce comm ittee will be appointed this week. Mr. Brown said petitions asking for the extension have been filed with the city. First Lettuce Shipped Here The produce shipping business changed complexion this week, with some firms making their last Ship ments of potatoes and onions and one company shipping the first lettuce of the season. J. C. Watson company Ls shipping lettuce on a limited scale from two or three plots. The marked and the quality of the lettuce are reported to be fair. The lettuce Watson is shipping Ls the Oreat Lakes var iety. Heavy shipping of lettuce will not be started until next month. Potato and onion shipments are practically completed. Many onions are expected to go into storage. Circuit Court Term Postponed The fall term o f the Malheur circuit court has been postponed until October 21 by Judge M. A. Biggs. The term will open with trial of the case of state of Oregon against Dee J. C. Cox of Cuprum, Idaho, oharged with negligent homicide in connection with the death of Chris tine Katahira o f Ontario August 16. Seven other cases have also been set for trial. They are as follows: State versus Floyd Qllmer. charged with assault and battery on Charles B. Johnson August 14, set for trial October 24; state versus H. Mor- com. Gene Morcom and Ben Tur ner, charged with killing horses; two trials set for October 27 and 29; state versus H. T. Morcom, charged with larceny by bailee, set for Oc tober 31; state versus George M. Black, larceny of livestock, two trials, November 3 and 6 and state versus J. H. Miller, assault and battery, set for November 6. Members of the Jury panel In clude Lloyd G. Adams, route 1, Nyssa; Benjamin Ashby, Nyssa; Harvey L. Bennett, route 3, Parma; Willard A. Bishop, route 1, Nyssa; O E. Cheldelin, route 2, Nyssa; Ralph L. Hayworth, rural route, Parma: John Low, route 1, Nyssa; E. E. Prosser, route 3, Parma; A l ma Cochrun, Nyssa; Wanda Lee Qroot, route 2, Nyssa; John Os- trom, Nyssa; Roy Pounds, Nyssa. and Claude Willson, Nyssa. REGISTRATION IN RIDING CLUB IS RE-BUILDING SEATS COUNTY HITS 6000 More than 6000 persons arc reg istered in Malheur county for the special election to be held October 7, according to County Clerk H. S. Sackett. Arcadia precinct has the largest registration. 385. Ontario No. 1 is second with 360 and Cairo third with 350. At the special election the people will pass on two proposals, a bill taxing retail sales at three per cent and a cigajette tax bill p ro viding for a tax of one-tenth of one cent on each cigarette. LAND LEVELING TO BE DEMONSTRATED Action will describe the land lev eling equipment demonstration that has been scheduled for September 26 near Ontario. Leeds Bailey, assis tant county agent, announced Wed nesday. The field to be used Ls on the Carl McD'Roe farm on the high way between Ontario and Snake river, adjoining the old Ontario livestock salesyards. Visit Mother— E. R. Lyells of Emmett and W ill Parents of Girl— iam Lyells of Boise visited their A daughter, Carol Ann. was bom mother. Mrs Mary E Lyells last in the Samaritan hospital In Nam pa September 9 to Mr. and Mrs week-end. J t f n e L. Luthi of Nyssa. The girl weighed 7 pounds. Mr. Luthi is Church Service Bet— St. Paul’s Episcopal church will English world history and jour hold a special service at 9 o’clock nalism teacher in the Nyssa high school. Sunday morning. September 21. The Owyhee Riding club ls re building the new rodeo grandstand, which was damaged by fire several weeks ago. More than one-third of the seats were destroyed. The riding club has employed C. K. Olsen to re-bulld the seats. It is raising the money by selling ad ditional shares of stock. The riding club will meet at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chet Sage Friday, September 26 at 8 p. m. Funeral services were held Mon day, September 15 at 2 p.m. In the MethodLst church for Mrs. A. H. Willson of NyssA. who died Friday after an illness of several months. Mrs. Willson was bom In Texas and moved to the Washington coast in 1909 She moved to Nyssa In 1920 and lived here the remainder oX her life. Mrs. Willson was a mem ber of the Methodist church. Survivors are her husband, Aus tin H. Willson of Nyssa; three sons, Claude of Nyssa, Fred of Renton, Washington and Guy of Moses Lake. Washington; three sisters liv ing in Texas, California and Ore gon; five brothers, all of whom live in Texas; 14 grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren. The Rev. Henry T. Stong of Boise officiated at the services. In terment was in the Nyssa ceme tery. NO NEW CASES OF POLIO REPORTED Dr. L. A. Mauldlng of Nyssa, county health -officer, stated W ed nesday that no new cases of polio myelitis had been reported in M al heur county during the last several days. However, he stated that there will be a chance o f more cases for another month. Butch" K eefer of Nyssa, who received treatment in St. Luke's hospital In Boise, has been taken to his home, Marsena Duncan of Nyssa. receiving treatment In the same hospital, was to have been taken home Wednesday. 45 Practicing With Grid Team Forty-five Nyssa high school boys have started practicing football in preparation for their first game, which will be played with Vale on the Vale gridiron September 26. Coach Howard Lovejoy said the boys are all about the same size, good lads and "full of zipper". He stated that this year's prospects have the best attitude of any he has coached In the last three years. They are not large, but are rather fast. The boys include 12 or 13 lettermen, equally divided between the line and backfield. They will not scrimmage until next week. The schedule will be the longest for the Nyssa high school in several years. The Nyssa and Adrian sched ules are as follows: September 26, Nyssa a t Vale and Adrian at W ei ser; October 3, Ontario at Nyssa; October 10, Nyssa at Adrian; October 24. Adrian at Vale and Nyssa at Frultland; October 31, Weiser a t Nyssa and Adrian at Emmett; November 7, Ontario at Adrian; November 18-21, Nyssa at Payette and Adrian at Frultland. BUILDINGS TO BE MOVED TO ADRIAN One Killed And Five Injured In Idaho Accident Val Hardy O f Homedale Dies Near Nyssa-Par- ma Junction The five persons who were injured in a three-way collision that re sulted in the death of one man on highway 30 south of the Nyssa- Parma Junction last Saturday ev ening were recovered today. The dead man Was Val 9. Hardy, a Homedale resident who had been working In Ontario. The injured, taken to the Holy Rosary hospital by ambulance driv ers of the Nyssa Funeral home of Nyssa and the Beechler Funeral home of Ontario and Dr. K. E. Kerby of Nyssa, were Roy F. Hardy, a cousin of Val Hardy, who suf fered lacerations about the face; Lloyd R. Clements, a leg fracture, and Harry Leavitt, head and shoul der injuries; Donna Bray o f Fruit- land, leg fracture, and Donna Ward of Frultland, face lacerations. Information gathered from sev eral officers revealed that Val Hardy, accompnled by Ills cousin and Lloyd R. Clements, all of Homedale, were traveling south when the car sldeswiped a truck operated by Homer H. Wood of Parma. After one side of the Har dy car had been tom off, the wreck swerved into the barrowplt and back onto the road into the path of a car driven by Wallace Shaver of Frultland and occupied by the two girls and Duane VanLeuven of Frultland. Shaver and VanLeuven were released from the hospital after receiving treatment. The Hardy car was towed to the Nyssa Auto Body shop, where It was still located today. Following a conference between sheriff’s officers o f Payette and Canyon counties, Idaho officials decided not to hold an Inquest into the death of Val Hardy. First Shoot O f ^easoi) Is Set The first shoot sponsored by ti»e Malheur Game league this season will be held Sunday, September 21 at the traipgrounds north of the Ontario airport. Shooting will be started at 11 o'clock on two new regular traqs and one new skeet trap. Many prizes donated by merchants of Nyssa and Ontario will be given to shoot winners. A special prize will be awarded in the skeet shoot. It will consist of a .22 calibre auto matic rifle. Shooting will be for men, women and Juniors. Lunoh will be served on the grounds. The proceeds will be used to im prove fishing and hunting in M al heur county and eastern Oregon, Including the Improvement of the road to the Owyhee dam. HEALTH GROUP TO SEEK TO EXPAND The regular monthly meeting of the executive committee o f the Malheur County Public Health as sociation was held Saturday morn ing In the Moore hotel In Ontario. Present at the meeting were Mrs. Charles P. Plegel, William Blacka- by, Earl Blackaby, Mrs Wesley Blanton. Miss Lillian Nlsbet and Mias Margaret Beattie of Ontario and Mrs. T. C. McElroy, Rev. Don ald Crego and Mrs. Edna Farris of Vale. Plans for holding an ev ening meeting in the near future for the purpose o f enlarging the membership and stimulating inter est in the work of the association were discussed. A committee con sisting o f Rev. Crego, William Blackaby and MLsa Beattie, was appointed to write a new constitu tion and by-lawa to be presented for approval o f the executive com mittee at their next meeting. Here from Baker— Mr and Mrs Jesse Thompson of Baker and McEwen, former Nys sa residents, visited In Nyssa W ed nesday. Mr. Thompson and son, Robert, are operating a stock ranch at McEwen, 25 miles from Baker. Leslie W Stoker has started work of moving and reconstructing two Firemen Called— A davenport was damaged by fire federal buildings that will be erect ed for the Adrian union high school. in an upstairs apartment in Mrs. The project, announced several Betty FVtrbes' apartment house on months ago. has been started under north First street last week. Fire the supervision of Axel Refer, fed men said the fire started from an eral works agency engineer, who oily cloth. The apartment is oc arrived In Adrian last week from cupied by Mr And Mrs. Cy Chan nel. Seattle. The two buildings, awarded to Adrian by the federal works ag EAGLES T O HAVE DANCE ency, will be used for a vocational The Eagles lodge will hold an agriculture shop, class room and { ‘apron and overall" dance for its office building. They will be moved | members at the Eagles hall 8at- from Gowen field at Boise. I urday evening, September 20. Here from London— Mrs. N. P. Whlncup of London, England Is visiting her daughter. Mrs. Lloyd Wilson. Mrs. Whlncup arrived in New York from Lon don on a British Overseas Airway corporation plane. From New York she traveled by train, visiting at Toronto. Winnepeg, Jasper, Van couver and Portland. Mrs. W hln cup lived in Portland 20 years o She will return to England, flying from New York October 26. LEO ION A U X IL IA R Y MEETS Locate in Nyiiaa— Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Gamble, who The executive board of the Ameri have moved here from Idaho Falls, can Legion met Monday evening at have purchased the residence of the home o f Mrs. E. K. Burton, Mrs. Jean Fletcher and have taken president. Plans were discussed for posse is ton o f the property, located the district meeting to be held in at 247 Fifth street Mr Gamble Nyssa October 15. Mrs. Steloff of Railway Express Agency at Nyssa Burns, district president, will be M r Oambie. who has been with j present for this meeting. The regular monthly meeting of the company for 28 years, said he would appreciate patronage of local the Nyssa auxiliary will be held this evening at 8 o'clock at the residents has been appointed agent of the Burton home Visits Relative*— Leslie Clements of Charlotte, Michigan arrived In Nyssa Saturday and is a guest at the H. R. Sher wood home. Mr Clements and Mre. Sherwood are cousins.
