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\ JOURNAL TOeNYSSA VOLUM E XXXXI1I NO. 27 N YSSA, OREGON, T H U R SD A Y , JU LY 15, 1948 SERVICE HELD FOR City Budget Of KATHERINE HOWARD $52,685 Given OF NYSSA SECTION Graveside services under the aus- f inal Approval ! pices of the L.D.S. church were Nyssa Rodeo Is . Advertised In Valley Cities Streets Vacated , r and , , Oth- held ln c:overlawn cemetery Wed' , nesday morning at 10:30 for Kath- M a t t e i-S Handled erine Howard, who died at the Council family home near Mitchell butte; Livestock and Performers To Be Here Early LEE THRASHER AND T _____ o Rest WIFE INJURED IN Stoker And Halvorson Offer Two Low Bids On Hospital | Face Bid o f Nyssa Man L ow ; W inner To Be Announced Later — ... . ~ ~~ Monday at 3:30 p. m. The Nyssa The city budget for the 1948-49 _. , . , Several Nyssa businessmen and AUTOMOBILE CRASH Funeral home was in charge of | Opening of bids by the board of fiscal year was approved without members of the Owvhee Riding I . . . I interment. , , . . ... ' , Mr. and Mrs. Lee Thrasher of directors of the Malheur Memorial opposition at the final hearing held club went to cities and towns in ____ . , . _ „ , Miss Howard was bom in Eagle, .. _ , „ . Parma were taken to the Holy Hospital association ln the city hall by the city oouncil Tuesday night. the Snake river vallev Monday to .__ , _ , Idaho June 4, 1932. She lived in . . - . ^ , Rosary hospital in Ontario last this morning at 11 o'clock revealed The budget amounts to $52,685, of the vicinity of Eagle and Boise all advertise the Nyssa night rodeo. .......„ . . . . . . . . oiiiKiay suffering from injuries sus- that Leslie W. Stoker o f Nyssa which $24,449 will be raised bv tax of her life until the family moved which will be held July 23 and 24. . . .. . . . amed In an automobile accident was one o f the two lowest bidden ation, $16,299 witthin the six per to this community a year ago. The men distributed advertising „ , cent limitation and $8,150 outside * >n highway 28 west of Cairo junc- on the proposed hospital to be er The .girl is survived by her par material in the cities in which they ion’ ected in Nyssa. the six per cent limitation. The ents, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Howard remaining $28,236 will be raised and several brothers and sisters. Stoker's face bid was t255.M8.at. " «Mrs. Thrasher. 71, sufteied from from sources other than taxation. Miss Howard is reported to have Harley Tuckers famous rodeo evere shock, a leg fracture and with a deduction of $louo for ex Hearings were held on the va been suffering from rheumatic fev cavation ot tne casement, which livestock and performers will fur- oiuusaian. Mr. Thrasher, 70, suf- cation of Pine avenue between First er since she was five years old. was offered as a donation by a nish the excitement and thrills on from shock and other in- and Third streets, Oregon street be campaign subscriber. The next low both nights o f the show. They will 111 "Is' , . tween Fifth and Seventh streets and est bidder was Carl M. Halverson, . f J Lytle of Parma and Agnes an alley running east and west be arrive in Nyssa several days prior ¿orrU and Paul Hyke of Vale who Inc., of Portland, whose face bid tween Sixth and the highway and was $258,506, with a deduction of to the opening date in order that veie riding in the automobile that between Main street and Bower $5400 for excavations. Considering ¡ill may be rested and in top con- 0|l“Jed with the Thrasher mach- avenue. No one was present to pro the deductions, Halvorson offered a dition for the gruelling exhibitions. w« r e , also injured, but were test, so the council ordered an or net bid of $253,106 and Stoker a , , , . elea e.l from the hospital after net bid of $264,048.88 Halvorson dinance drawn to vacate the streets A large carnival will arrive h ere, evening emergency treatment. Funeral services will be held Fri and alleys. day morning at 10 o’clock in the Jul.. 21 lor a run of several days. ‘ Lytle said the accident occurred considered all excavating, including the drilling of three wells, in the Attorney Harold Henigson pres L.D.S. chapel in Vale for Edmund P. Additional sections have been when he swerved his machine into $5400 and Stoker considered only ented a request asking that Dr. Hendrix, 57, former county assess built onto the grandstand to ass- I *‘e 'etl 'ane °* traffic to avoid the basement excavation. From that L. A. Maulding be allowed to erect or, who committed suicide at his ure seating for 3500 persons. Res- ti,lg an automobile and* tractor standpoint. Stoker offered a much an office building at the corner home in Vale Monday. erve seat tickets and general ad- ^ead of him. The crash occurred better bid. of Fifth street and fhiison avenue. Officials reported that Hendrix shell Lytle's car was still in the n lsion tickets will be placed on The request was denied by the Other face bids were as follows: shot himself in the heart with a -ale at the Nyssa Insurance agency left lane of traffic. council on the grounds that it was 30-30 calibre rifle Monday morn Rlverman and Sons, Portland, $307,- State police officers, saying that office Saturday, July 17. contrary to the zoning ordinance. 196.23: Intermountain Builders, Inc. ing after his wife had called him The program each night will in- ^y te was driving at an uncontroll- of Caldwell, $287,896, and Teller The city completed sale of two for breakfast. He is reported to i elude the grand entry of Queeh ib'e ra’ e sPeed. arrested him on Construction company of Portland. tracts of land on the north end have taken his life because of ill Bette Pett and others, saddle brone •' charge of-reckless driving. The $325,668 cf the city dump. The council sold health and worry over the affairs «r. W ti lading, bareback riding, bulldogging, ron* °f his car and that of Mr. 10 acres to Tobler’s Feed and Fuel The board of directors are still ui ___ ______ brahma uul| bull w riding and clowning, ,nc* Mrs. Thrasher were demolished considering the bids today and will for a broiler plant and 10 acres to of the brick yard which he manag ed. Hendrix resigned as county as- Nyssa’s 1948 rodeo queen, Bette The family moved to this vicinity c a’f " ’ r oping* boys' ca lT'riding* * "and ,y the impact. C. E. Leseberg for equipment stor probably not announce the succeas- sessor in 1947 to become manager Pett, has been riding horses ever eight years ago from Pocatello, fiag ancj »take races --------------------------- age. ful bidder for two or three days. of Oregon Clay Products, Inc. n n c e jh e was a small girl and she where Mr. Pett also engaged in T he following drill teams of the “FIREWORKS” SHOW President Frank Morgan said. The council asked the state high Mr. Hendrix was bom June 9, «s now 18 years old. farming. Western Riding Clubs association way commission to permit the PROVIDED BY SHORT Miss Pett, who was graduated! will perform- Weiser Vale Boise Lutheran church to move the First 1891 in Escalanta, Utah and spent! Queen Bette, daughter of Mr. and Christian church building across most of his life in Malheur county, j Mrs. Bruce Pett, lives with her from the Parma high school in | «heriff’s posse and Caldwell junior IN ELECTRIC WIRES team J Main street, with the understanding He was a member of the American j parents on a farm on the Idaho 1948, will appear at the rodeo on balloon corps during world war I. -¡¡de of Snake river, but is employ- her pinto pony, “ Apache", that the city assume responsibility Power service was interrupted in After his discharge from the ser- ed at Carl's Doll House in Nyssa. ' iPlioto by Evans) I for any damage that might ‘be caus Nyssa Saturday night about 10 o' vice he returned to Vale, where h e --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------ ed. The Lutherans have purchased clock by a short in the lines, which / . i l l r* . . the church and have built a base married Nora Frances Struthers \ \ r I provided a "fireworks" display for The Nyssa city baseball team ment at Fifth street and Park av hose in the north end of town who dropped a close game to the O nt- enue to place it on. Pad not retired for the night. tario Nisei Tuesday evening, July Ed Stockman, consulting engin The short occurred in the lines 13 by a score of 16 to 8. H ie game, eer o f Baker, presented plans and north of the substation on Third played on the local field, was a I ------------ | --------- - a report on future sewer exten and the Malheur Game league. ¡tree!, probably because of a bird constant see-saw between the two Survivors are his widow; three1 Thomas Evans, manager of Evans I Gene Marcom, who lives on the sions, which would provide service flying into the wires or someone teams until the last frame whan that Owyhee river above the reservoir, is S l l l e S o t F o r O p e n i hrowing n g D a a y wire over the lines, car- the Ontario men brought In nine to areas not now serviced and ex daughters, Mrs. Lovinia Homer of studio, announced yesterday Portland, Mrs. Hazel Justus of Vale tend lines about one-fourth mile Jp U l t r a - m o d e r n N y s s a rying 4000 volts, according to Ber - 1 runs while Nyssa could manage and Mrs. Edna Belnap of Homer, Bobby Oxman. son of Mr. and Mrs. j receiving treatment in the Caldwell each way out of the city limits. nard Frost, Idaho Power company only one. P la n t Alaska and a son, David of Vale. W. G. Oxman, and Carol Anderson,' Sanitarium for injuries sustained No action was taken by the coun- manager Although the score makes it app daughter o f Mr. and Mrs. Roger j when a horse he was riding fell cilmen. Many persons were attracted by ear that the game was a walk-«way ,,, , T» • . Anderson, both of Nyssa, won first over a cliff Wednesday of last week The new Union Livestock Comm- he flash. After the wires were the game was exceptionally cloae L y lltlm h C r I v C i e C t S and second prizes respectively i n 1 Bernard Frost of Nyssa. who vis- ,n company salesyard, located blown together, the power ahead until the last Inning. JERSEY BREEDERS - .z the baby contest sponsored by a !*,edMarcom In the sanitarium Sun- ,ne mue north of Third and Main of the short became so hot the In the ‘first frame Graham batt TO HOLD MEETING 1 h n n < r p i n n m O ¡¡ toud of Nvss I merchants The <,ay. '?Ut 1 hc, yoath, l,assed the Greets, will be opened Wednesday, wires melted, and every time a piece ed a home run with C. Wilson on t J.1 I 1 1 A m C ’ criMS last week-end, but wii - ill j u(y 21, when the owners, Mr. and ! dropped another arc was caused, first, bringing in the first two ------------ j contest, which has been in progress in serious condition Sunday. The w . L. Lane and son, Byron, I lighting the entire north side of scores of the contest. From then on Pictures of the 1948 spring dairy The Nyssa chamber of commerce for a month, was entered by 119 father, Herbert Marcom, who was win conduct the first sale in the town. show sponsored by the Malheur the locals managed to stay ahead with his son, said the youth suff- ,lew location | __________________ Jersey Breeders association will be meeeting at a luncheon Wednesday babies until the ninth inning rally by p, . , , . - J a shoulder fracture, fracture The ultra-modern plant has not shown at a meeting of the club noon, voted to recommend to the Ontario. , * ' v<“ u™ al *»•>, consist- | of the cheek bone and bruises on ^ entirely completed, but will, in the high school building at 8 Associated Chambers of Commerce I Nyssa AB R H PO A been entirely completed, but wll* l B Í r ( I S c a S O I l IS of Southwestern Idaho and Eastern 1 ed 01 one 8 bv 10 e oltl frame, one . (he face and body. Marcom operates! be sufficiently finished to permit o ’clock Friday night. Ramtoaud, p -lb 6 3 3 13 0 4 I T> 1 1 Hart loo, 3b Trophies will be presented to the Oregon that the name of Snake 8 by 10 oil timed portrait, one case a cattle ranch about five miles !lle firsl sale. Four hundred cattle, 4 0 j f canned milk, one Radio Flyer above the back-water of the dam. aiong w¡tn the usual run of live- V J lT P H tlV lv C Q U C G (I owners of livestock that won prizes River valley be retained. Wilson, C, If 3 1 For several months the associated1 mbber-tired w-uron one Tavlnr I Marcom. about 24 years old, was stock. are expected to be consigned | ________ donated for the show by Nyssa Graham, rf-p -cf 5 2 chambers have been considering _ t ,, B ' - injured when he was leading two lor the flr9t auction beginning at . , , . merchants. The public Is invited to Wohlcke, lb -p -rf 0 4 plans for changing the name of th e; Tot stroller, one stuffed animal, I pack horses along a winding trail. ¡ „ m However, more consignments “ PJ0“ ! of disapproval has attend the meeting. 0 5 territory known as the lower Snake |°ne pair caper cords, one Walt (The main drop of the horse and ,vlll fce aeceptable before that tunc Kreetea the tentative hunting reg- Lserl, cf-p Glover, 2b 2 4 river valley. However, much con- Disney T shirt, one set plastic baby , rider was about 40 feet, but they ThP concrete block building. 40 by U aU° " s , set by. th® state 8ame Hartley, 2b 0 1 troversy has developed over the pro- hangers, one pair of baby shoes continued to roll down the hill ^ feet inside, includes an otlice, , “ le • season ®nd Holcomb, c 2 3 posal, which win be considered a- and one silver set (cup, spoon and for some distance. Johnny Myers lunch iunch room, r(K(m. lobbv seats for of _ aines<‘ Pheasants ln Mal- lobby and and seats for Cleaver, ss 0 0 lain at a meeting of the associated j fork'. of Caldwell flew to the ranch and 1000 persons under one roof. The heur county among the few sports Wilson, D, ss 0 3 chambers In Payette next Monday Second prize, valued at $10, in- took Marcom to the hospital after office, lunch room and lobby are men w'ho have learned of the com Total 37 B 27 18 8 night at 7 o'clock. i eluded one shoe baby bank, one one of the hired men at the ranch located under the seats. The floor mission’s proposals. The commission will meet July 24 The Boise Ad club, meeting Mon- plastic bib, one bottle holder and \ went to Jordan Valley to telephone “ : hed concrete. Mrs. M. A. U) makp what (.lutlll,„s m cleeml.(1 Ontario Charles Abel Phillips of Ontario AB R H PO A E > for help. Rodda, operator of the former Nys necessary and authorize the final Mural was killed instantly about 5:30 p. day, "passed along” the name of j one 8 by 10 portrait. 5 2 1 1 3 0 “ Idora-H o!” as a possible name f o r 1 The firms sponsoring the affair | The horse was also hurt in the sa coffee shop, will serve meals to m. Tuesday when the automobile 1 1 0 0 | Q jori the area. and giving the prizes were Evans’ fall, but the extent of its injuries the public on sale days and will regulations. he was operating was struck by an 3 0 1 13 The general season on ringneck Hashitant The Nyssa chamber voted Wed- studio. Bracken's, Nyssa Food ceil was not learned here. serve other meals by appointment. engine on the Homedale branch at 6 13 1 r. » ___ _ . pheasants will be from noon Oct- Saito nesday to ask the state highway i ter. Firestone store, Owyhee Drug Because of the ccm i^ tn ess of >ber ^ tQ o c ^ , , . 3I inclusive. The Mat-silby 5 2 the Dale Garrison corner south department to take measures to company and Intermountain Fur- the plant and the arrangements, a , nmit wm pc one cock a day, Ka meal va west of Nyssa. 2 1 sale of practically a^y rize can he more than two coclls dur.,D . Lserl Phillips. 25 years old. was pinned eliminate so far as possible railroad i nlture company, 4 1 crossings on the Homedale branch Honorable mention went to Karen handled at the yards. The set-up . s e a s o n in the automobile, which was dem 4 3 Carltanaka Includes two sets of corrals. The; i,. ______ ' ,,, Mektoka olished. The machine was carried railroad, on which several persons Lee Andrews, Sandra Weeks, Chand- 5 2 have been killed and Injured during ier Bear, Dennis Mason, Catherine incoming livestock is^fed ^ water- run concurrent with the pheasant Harada 5 1 along the track for 447 feet, officers the last few years. Bailey, Dennis Howard, Jam- ed in the coasigning corrak « « d l ,n ^ eastern Oregon reported. 4 3 Nakamuri The chamber also passed a res- cs Cannon and Ronald Haroldson The first potatoes dug here thLs .fter the sale are placed in the _ountles , b ut no „ p ‘ 0_ The engineer, backing his locomo 43 16 12 27 8 Totals The judges were appointed by. season were hauled to Nyssa by|buyers' corrals. Each buyer is given tive toward Nyssa, said he gave olution asking the public utilities vided . in Malheur county. The open commission of Oregon to permit the j * e Nyssa Civic club. * I Dale Friel for the J. C. Watson ¡ a separate pen for his stock. . _ ample warning when he approached --------------------------- (company Monday. The potatoes. The yards have a capacity for ;ountles include.Harney county . Tne the crossing and at one time be Oreyhound buses to operate in tra -[ taken from the J C. Wai -on farm. 'holding 50 ratroad cars of cattle, a« hmit will be rive quail. lieved the youth was about to stop state fcetween Nyssa and Ontario. Phones From Tokyo— Ed P. Hendrix Takes His Life Ontario Nisei Beat Nyssa 16-8 Union Livestock w - 0xm an Haby | Horse And Rider Salesyard To He ISTw.TZ iSS? S. S3; Contest Winner^ Injured In Fall Opened July 21 ¡XI Youth Is Killed As Engine Hits First Potatoes O f Year Shipped t he C*a u tomoWle!' ih e ^ d and head were badly crushed and the inter-state commerce commis- hr^cen sion to pennit the Winnemucca Phillios son of Mr and Mrs A stages to operate between Home- W PhUlins of Ontario had been dale. Adrian. Nyssa, Parma and working ^ on the A. M. Ekanger ranch. He had lived in the Ont-1 ario section for 20 years. Besides1 his parents, he is survived by his widow. Margaret, formerly Margar et Low of Nyssa. who is now in j so thrilled upon receipt of a tele- phone call from her son in Tokyo last Sunday that she forgot the many questions she had planned l to ask him during the anti conversation. Pfc. Robert Shaw, erving with the cavalry in Jai>an j since last October, notified his par- ents that he would telephone to them and the call was completed short time after it was seched- uled. Shaw, who ts is operating *a ' ' ’“ ■uled. a Use O f W ater Is we,B!ied at Toblei s Feed a“ d I w .« « „„„ e n lK yeT oo Hun„n,n W m l t o 'q u .U . . M M and sage grouse, of potatoes early this week a n d ; banger cows. No open season will be allowed will ship again Friday. All of the I The plant is conveniently located produce firms are expected to start j near the Union Pacific Railroad an antelope. The general season on deer Is .«hipping next week. company's new stockyards. Growers operating under the gov-1 sales will be held regularly on to be from October 1 to October 20, or mule rmment support program are ass- Wednesday of each week. , j Inclusive . . . for _ black-tall , ured of at least $1.76 for No. l| a hou-te-warming party, includ- having not less than forked potatoes as that is the supjxirt price, (ng a free dance, will be held ln a,nt c ^ i 1? a counties with except The last of the lettuce crop, am- , the new building Saturday night, ;ion of Sherman and Gilliam coun- inUng^'to 120 carsT w as' shipped ’ July 'i Y ' .......... I ‘j S , .•pec‘ i‘ *d c“ ¡Softball Teams IPlay For Title WEDNESDAY’S SCORES Hartley Produce 16; A.A.A 8 Owyhee Truck A Imp. 9; M.I.A 8 A playoff series, leading to the softball championship of the Nyasa- Adrian district Is underway ln Nys sa this week. Three double-headers were sched ¿S m u “ O _~ "T uled to be played Wednesday. Thurs Philhps was a n a v ^ vereran l i Officers o f the dUtricts interested T \ " n I la,‘ ****' I Mr and Mrs Lane, haVe op- T ^ e r ^ ^ Z e p ^ e d * in day and Friday, July 14. 15 and 14. world war n. in the gravity water supply from * eat.h. y 1 L ^ rating the Nyssa Uvestock Com-1 1 retfulatio^T ^ The games will be started at 8 Funeral services have not been the Owyhee reservoir decided at init he likes the country and hi* Go To Boise mission company for the last few ^ ^ K work. He was operating a Jeep| Ron Whitaker and Dean Smil ar.s. but have' closed the plant' T ) h e “ mlt °,n ,elk,1 for th*| °'clock on Ny8“ athletlc arranged. The body is in the Nyssa a meeting held Tuesday night to 10 . " L j 1 Kenera e k U<:ens* “ grounds. Funeral home. increase the water allotment to for the Red Cross before transfers went to Boise last Thursday after- in Nyssa preparatory to opening of me Games were scheduled to have elk. The sex and aige class are ' noon on business. the new yards. --------------------------- fhe water users from 4.25 acre feet Ir.g to the service club. I determined by the area and season been played last night between P I A N Q P f lM P I FTFD per acre to 4 50 acre feet per acre. the Hartley Produce and the A A A . ! in which the elk is killed. Japanese team of Adrian, and the K F n p Y in P R (V B AM The aUounentfi ^ re increased af- K JK K ID P R O G R A M ter the officers had discussed wat- M.I.A. of Nyssa and the Owyhee DIRK SELMAN, 81 - j er supply conditions and delivery rv irc i i n n o a d ax a ! Truck and company. Plans have been completed f o r , requirements. Storage in the res- D lL b N EAR P A R M A oth er games scheduled for this the Kid day celebration to be held ervoir July 13 was 406.000 acre | week are as follows: Tonight— Wednesday. July 21 under the aus- feet, compared with 459.060 acre The body of Dirk Selman. 81, who (Thursday) Hartley Produce versBa pices of the Nyssa chamber of fee; at the same time last year, died Sunday at the home of his Waggoner Motor company and M. commerce. As a measure to conserve the nle-e, Mrs Oerrit Oroot. Parma I.A. versus Adrian; Friday Owyhee The parade will be started at 1:30 storage supply, all possible pump- route 2, was sent to Portland by Truck and Implement company ver- p. m. at First and Main streets A ing from the Snake river at the the Nyssa Funeral home for ere- sus A.A A., and Waggoner Motor program of sports will be held in Dunaway plant has been done and company versus Adrian. -nation. the park and a free show will be will cotinue until October 1, which Mr. Selman. who was born In The league will skip several days given in the Nyssa theater Prizes bas been set as the end of the Holland, came to this country 55 before playing the last three double- will be awarded winners in the irrigation season. James Spofford, years ago and spent most at the headers because of the Nyaaa rodeo parade and sports. project manager, stated. remainder of his Hfe at Mewford. to be staged July 23 and 34 The --------------------------- With the new regulations in He had been ln this valley only- dates will be announced later. Here From Ogden— force, officials anticipate that there six weeks. No funeral service* were The Hartley Produce won the Mrs. Jack Clifford of Ogden vs will be at least 150.000 acit L f.' | first half championship, with the held here. here visiting her two sisters. Mrs carry-over storage in the Owyhee The new plant of the Union l.ivestork Commission «lie«card is located one mile north of Nyssa’» Main Mr. Selman seas an uncle of Mrs. Vf I A finishing second and the Ersel Be us and Mrs. Frank Skeen, reservoir at the end o f the irri- company of Nyssa, operated by Mr. and Mrs. W. L. street. The opening sale in the new plant will be John Timmerman and Klaas and Owyhee Truck and Implement com and their families. gstion season. | Lane and son. Byron, is shown above. The modern held Wednesday, July 21. (Photo by Evans) Luit Stam. pany third. Again Increased