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JOURNAL r/ïeNYSSA VOLUME X X X X V I THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL. NYSSA. OREGON. THURSDAY. AUGUST 9. 1951 NO. 30 Provisions Of Contract With U. S. Reviewed School District And Gty Levies Will Be Reduced Week-end Storm Hurts Crops And Power Facilities Water Users Will Vote On Repayment Pro posal Friday Despite Slight (vain In County Levy Tax payers Benefit Hail Beats Down Onions Ami Wind Fells Trees, Whips O o p s With a total of 73.1 mills, Nyssa will have the lowest tax rate of any of the larger towns in the county for the 1951-52 tax year accord ing to figures released this week by County Assessor John Koopman. Vale's millage, including that of the union high school, will amount to 87.3 mills and Ontario’s will be 98.8 mills. The county levy Is 20.9 mills, or 3.4 mills higher than last year. Prac tically all of the increase in the county millage is an item of three mills to be levied for school tax that has been offset by state in come taxes in recent years. Nyssa's tax will be 18.6 mills as compared to 19.6 mills this year. The Nyssa school district tax also shows a size able reduction, dropping from 41A this year to 33.6 mills next year. With the Nyssa city tax dropping one mill and the school district tax falling 8.2 mills for a total of 9.2 mills and the county tax increasing 3.4 mills, the net gain for Nyssa taxpayers will be 5.8 mills or $5 80 per thousand of assessed valuation. The principal cause of the record high levy In Ontario is the planned construction of school buildings. Some damage was caused to farm crops, trees and electric power In stallations by the storm sweeping this area Saturday night and Sun day. The heaviest windstorm of the week-end occurred Saturday even ing when the wind blew down sev eral trees, tangled corn and did other damage. The wind blew a tree across an Idaho Power comp any line and put Adrian out of ser vice for a short time. The lightn ing storm occurring Sunday blew out a few transformer fuses, but did not cause any main power lines to go out. The rainstorm that left .28 of an Inch of rain In Nyssa Sunday after noon seemed to come from the hills north of Mitchell butte and swept across Cow hollow. In some areas, the storm deposited a rather heavy hall, escpeclally In the Richland district northwest of Nyssa. The hall beat down some onions and beet tops. Adrian re ceived scarcely no rain, and only a sprinkle fell at the Owyhee dem. However, rain fell farther up the reservoir. Occupants of one boat on the reservoir went ashore near the dam, but occupants of the other two boats on the reservoir had to wait out the storm on shore above the dam. The storm climaxed several days of extremely warm weather. Ac cording to records of the bureau of reclamation, the temperature of last Thursday reached 108 degrees, the highest of the year. Up to yes terday, the Nyssa area had experi enced io days of maximum temp eratures of 100 degrees and higher. The terms of the proposed re payment contract between the * United States government and the water users of the Owyhee Irrigation district were explained at a meet ing attended by 175 water users in the little theater of the schoolhouse at 8:30 Monday night. William Burpee of the legal de partment of the bureau of recla mation, Boise regional office ex plained the history of the nego tiations and also the general pro visions of the repayment contract, which is to be voted on by the Owy hee Irrigation district water users Friday. August 10 from 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. Mr. Burpee was followed on the program by George Carter of the bureau of reclamation, who is the district manager of irrigation dis tricts in the Snake river area. Mr. Carter told about the history of the project and the negotiations which led to the completion of the pres ent repayment contract. The meeting was then opened for questions and Mr. Burpee and Mr. Carter answered the numerous in quiries of the water users. After the question period. Harold Henigson of Nyssa, secretary of the Owyhee Irrigation district, describ ed the two voting precincts and vot ing places and also the qualificat ions for voting. Precinct No. 1 comprises all of the lands within the district north of King avenue and the polling place will be at the old Ontario labor camp, formerly the C. C. C. camp two miles north of Ontario and 3/4 mile west of highway 30. Precinct No. 2 consists of all lands south of King avenue and the pol ling place will be the Owyhee schoolhouse. Property Owners File Petitions In Fire District Plan Twenty-eight property owners liv ing between Klamath avenue and the Owyhee river and the Adrian highway and Lytle boulevard have petitioned to have their area in cluded in the Nyssa Rural Fire Pro tection district. The petitions were approved by the district board at a meeting held Tuesday night. - The-petitions will now be taken to the county court with a request for a hearing. If the addition is approved at the hearing, two elect ions will be necessary. One will be held in the present district and one in the new territory. Before the deal can be consummated, it must receive the approval of property owners in the territory to be includ ed and the approval of the district to accept the new territory. ■Vt MM XtH-f'H K:\ftAVA* This traveling historical museum Fifth and Main streets. The raravar, National bank of Portland. The depicting the history of Oregon will | covering the state of Oregon, is be exhibited in Nyssa August 15 at I sponsored by the United States tar® *r i tw0 specially made buses. Firemen ( ’ailed Several Limes Nyssa firemen have had one of their business weeks since last Fri day in several months. Firemen prevented a fire burn ing in weds and grass on the high way right-of-way from spreading into Herbert Fisher’s grain field near Oarrison's corner last Friday. Firemen were called to the re mains of the Polar Cold Storage plant on Arcadia boulevard Satur day night about 7 o’clock. The fire occurred in a storage building that was saved by firemen at the time of the disastrous fire at the plant in January. Occurring during a high wind, the blaze practically de stroyed the structure and was well underway when firemen arrived at the scene. Workmen had been using a cutting torch in the remains of the main section of the plant during the day, but firemen do not know whether that was the cause of the blaze, which also set fire to the redwood fibre insulation. Firemen remained at the plant until 11: JO p. m. and were called there again at 2 a. m. Sunday. During the first call to the cold storage plant, firemen were sum moned about 8 p m to the Vaughn Stringer farm, where a chopped hay stack was ablaze. Forty tons of hay was destroyed, but 80 tons was saved by the firemen. Appar ently the fire had been burning for several days before It broke into the open. All of the inside of the stack was ablaze when fire men broke into it. The firemen returned to the cold storage plant Sunday about 6 p. m. because of a recurrence of the fire in the insulation. A grass fire in the back yard of Mrs. Mollie Nelson, 104 East Fifth street, was the cause of an alarm Wednesday morning. Firemen said apparently fire spread when neigh bors of Mrs. Nelson were burning trash. Some damage was caused to a chicken house and a few trees on the Nelson place. N. Stathopulos, Former Resident Of Nyssa Passes Nicholas Stathopulos, former resi dent of Nyssa, died last Thursday in a hospital in Walla Walla after a lingering illness. Mr. Stathopulos was born July 15, 1893 In Greece and came to the United States in 1906. He was mai- ried to Azul Creech at Basin, Wy oming July 6, 1921. The couple lived at Basin for nine years before mov ing in 1936 to Parma, where they operated the Parma cafe until 1941, when they moved to Nampa. Since 1941 Mr. and Mrs. Stathopulos spent part of the time in Nyssa. They moved to Richland, Washington last year. Besides his wife Mr. Stathopulos is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Faye Aman of Richland, Washing ton, Mrs. Priscilla St.inhaus of Her- miston and Mrs. Cailroy Pewitt of Nampa, and three sons. Randall of Richland, Norman of Hermiston and Gerald, who is serving in the merch ant marines. Funeral services were conducted Monday in the North Nampa church of the Nazarene. Interment was in the Kohlerlawn cemetery at ffampa. Flora MeFarlane Of Nyssa Passes Ore. Historical Caravan Coming Victor Collins of Portland was in Nyssa Wednesday completing ar rangements for the showing of the Oregon historical caravan at Filth and Main streets August 15 from 9 a. m. to 10 p. m. Collins said the caravan, sponsor ed by the United States National bank as a public service, has been on the road since February 5. The group will have visited 96 towns in Oregon and will have been visited by 225,000 persons when the tour is concluded. Many priceless objects are includ ed in the traveling museum, which will have been driven from the Paci fic ocean to the Snake River valley and from the Columbia river to the California border. As pointed out by Governor Doug las McKay in an official proclama tion, "The caravan vividly portrays the vision and pioneering spirit of Oregon's early settlers. Its many objects of Incalculable value should be regarded as the ingredients that have gone into the making of a great state". The historical Hems, ranging from the letter in wh«*b Abraham Lincoln declined the governorship o f the Oregon territory to rare Oregon beaver coins, are taken around the state In two specially constructed steel buses, which are so designed as to form a single display unit when viewed by the public. Selec tion and arrangement of the exhibits in the 14 panels were supervised by a committee composed of Lancaster Pollard, chairman, superintendent of the Oregon Historical society: Dan E. Clark, head of the department of history, University of Oregon and Rex Putnam, state superintendent of public instruction. The historical objects and docu ments were loaned to the caravan sponsors by museums, libraries and private citizens in various parts of the nation. Driving On Fire Hose Costs $5 Six traffic tickets were Issued by firemen to motorists who drove their cars over hose at the Polar Gold Storage fire Saturday night. Only two of the six had appeared in municipal court Wednesday morning. The two, Clarence Suiter of Parma and E. B. Davis, were fined $5 each. Firemen said the hose did not ob struct traffic on the highway and persons Involved were going to the Morocco club, located next to the former cold storage plant. Most of those ticketed had been warned a few minutes before not to run over the hose, firemen said. "In the first place”, said firemen, "motorists are not allowed in the block where a fire is burning unless along the highway and if the fire is on the highway, motorists are not supposed to stop. It is impos sible for firemen to patrol every foot of fire hose. If a motorist dis regards our road blocks and pulls through a fire zone he is apt to get a ticket and if he drives over a hose he Is certain to get a ticket. “Another thing we are going to have to stop is motorists chasing the fire truck and racing with the fire truck and firemen in private cars. The police have indicated they are going to give the firemen 100 per cent support. Motorists viol ating the ordinance are hampering firemen going to fires, endanger ing lives and destroying city prop.» erty. Mrs. Flora A. MeFarlane, resi dent of Nyssa for many years, died in Teddie's nursing home in On tario Wednesday. She had been In the nursing home for the last eight months. Mrs. MeFarlane was bom October 9, 1872 in Kansas and came to Nyssa 24 years ago. Her husband. A. C. MeFarlane, died here in Feb ruary, 1949. Survivors are a daughter, Mrs. Frances Ray of New Plymouth: a son, R. A. MeFarlane of Boulder City, Nevada, and six grandchild Youths Practice ren. Funeral services will be held at For Judging At 10:30 a. m. Saturday in the Lienk- Man Is Arrested aemper chapel, with Rev. A. J. Hol Malheur Go. Fair Mrs. George Bear On Knifing Charge lingsworth of the Church of Christ officiating. Interment will be in Malheur County 4-H club lead Hurt In Accident ers and 4-H club members met Louis Gonzales of Nyssa was the Nyssa cemetery. Thursday morning with Mr. Hauser Lateral Break Is Mrs. George Bear sustained bruis bound over to the grand jury by and Mr. Anderson of the extension es and possible rib fractures when Judge Ruby Moore in Justice couit Softball Outfits Repaired Monday service at the O. E. Cheldelln ranch an automobile driven by her hus Tuesday night on a charge of as Seek City Title to begin a tour of ranches in the A break occurring in Mitchell band was involved in an accident sault with a dangerous weapon. valley. with a truck at an intersection while Gonzales' bail was set at 8500. The purpose of the tour was to butte lateral 7.5 on the Owyhee Gonzales, arrested by city and they were en route to Emmett Sun Wednesday Night Scores select the 4-H judging teams from project at 3 p. m. Sunday one mile state police, was accused of slash day. Mrs. Bear was having x-rays Tobler's 8, Waggoner’s 4 the individual clubs for the com south and one mile east of Ole's ing Robert Apodaca with a knife in taken the first of the week. Bauman 13, M. R. and B. 11 ing county fair. Each member was corner was repaired and water turn a fight on Main street Monday. As the truck came into the Inter Apodaca was treated in a doctor’s given a scorecard for each type of ed back into the canal Monday. section, Bear swerved his car ab office for a wound in his back. The four leading Nyssa teams in animal, then given Instruction from The water washed out a break in ruptly to the left to avoid the crash, the Snake River Valley Softball Hauser and Anderson on judging the bank, apparently as the result but his machine ran under the bed league have started a tournament Mr. Anderson Judged, and after all of a gopher hole. The water flood of the beet truck. The side panel Hood River Beats to be conducted during the remaind club members' card were turned In ed land that Wllford Bybee had of the Bear car was sprung, allow er of August for the city champion he gave the members his decision on been leveling. The water, which Vale Team Twice ship ing the right door to open, and damaged no crops, drained into Cow the animals. Mrs. Bear was thrown to the high Each team will play each other The group judged the Cheldelln hollow. The Hood River American Legion team once and the outfit with the way. Bear and Mrs. Perlee Klnser ranch swine. Grider's Jersey cattle, of Nyssa, who was also riding in Junior baseball team won the dis highest percentage will be declared trict title and the right to play In the winner. If the series ends in a Hickman's fat steers, Corn's Here- Griders Establish the car, were not injured. fords, Richmond's Holstelns, and the state tournament by defeating tie. the tie will be played off. sheep at the fairgrounds. Award For Jersey the Vale district nine In two games Undergoes Operation— The schedule has been drawn up At noon the group ate a picnic Mrs Eugene H. Fleshman of played at Vale Saturday and Sun as follows: August 8 — Tobler’s, lunch In the Nyssa park. To climax Mr. and Mrs. Charley Orlder, Walla Walla, former Nyssa resident, day. Snake River valley champions, ver Hood River scored *ix runs In the sus Waggoner's and Bauman Farm the day. they went swimming In Nyssa Jersey breeders, have estab underwent a major operation in the I the Ontario pool. lished a trophy to be awarded at the Malheur Memorial hospital Tues top of the ninth to win the first Equipment versus Tobler's and M. Malheur County fair. The award day morning. Mr. and Mrs. Flesh- game, played Saturday night. In R. B. versus Waggoner's and Aug will be made to the boy or girl show man arrived here Sunday night the Sunday afternoon game, the ust 22—Bauman versus Waggoner’s Grunge Assists ing the best quality 4-H Jersey ex from Walla Walla. Mr and Mrs. score was 3 to 2 until the eighth and M. R. B. versus Tobler's. Softball Outfit hibit at the fair. Fleshman will be guests of Mrs and Hood River scored five runs Don Oraham until Mrs. Fleshman's In the last of that frame. Twins Arrive— The trophy, which will be re The Oregon Trail Grange, gather The three Nyssa boys playing for 1 Twin boys were born to Mr and ing on Us new meeting date, voted volving and must be won three recovery. Vale. Lovejoy. Vaughn and Savage, Mrs Eugene Grasty of Nyssa Aug. 2 to donate 860 to the Farmers Daugh times for permanent p os»'"ion , made a good showing Lovejoy drove at the Malheur Memorial hospital. ters softball team. To Payette Lakes— will be engraved "Premier 4-H Jer Mr and Mrs. A. H. Boydell and i out four hits in four times at bat The babies, weighing 6 pounds. 7 Mr. and Mrs Monty Frazer be sey exhibit—Malheur County fair. ounces and 6 pounds, 8 ounces, were came new members Mrs Ethel Mary Beckham and in the final contest. Plana were Presented by Hope and Charley children left Tuesday for Payette named Scott Lewis and Steven Eu made for the county fair booth. Dis Orlder". gene They are the third twins bom cussions were held on weed control lakes They will spend several days Ordered Into Service— The award has been founded to Gene Stunz. who Is associated in the new hospital. Other babies and the gambling laws. Announce encourage larger showings at the there before returning home. with his father, Emil, in the lumb bom at the hospital during the last ment was made of the tri-county fair and to stress the importance of er business, has been ordered to week were a boy. Aug. 1 to Mr and Grange picnic to be held on Camp founding a herd on the right quality COMING EVENTS report for duty with the navy. As Mrs Martin O. Oreig of Nyssa: girl creek August 12. Mr. and Mrs. of animals. Friday. August 10—Fourth Epis- . a lieutenant, junior grade, Stunz to Mr and Mrs. Laurence Dalton of James Stephen. Jr., and Frank Sher- copal guild bridge party. Parish will report to the amphibious train Nyssa. Aug. 1; a boy to Mr and Mrs. ! wood furnished refreshments. G o Fishing— ing command at San Diego in Oct Keith Budge of California Aug. 5: hall at 8 o'clock. Edison Child and Joe Maughan Sunday. August 12—Tri-county! ober a girl to Mr and Mrs Tom Moore of Going To Utah— left Saturday morning for Drum Nyssa. Aug 8. and a girl to Mr. and Orange picnic at picnic grounds at > and Mrs. George Oxnam. ac East Camp creek 12 o'clock. L. | Children Visit G randparen ts— Mrs P. D. Ftelssner of Nyssa. Aug 8 companied by their daughter. Rox mond. Montana, where they planned to spend a week fishing Mr D S Stake conference at the stake Maxine and 8usanne Schweizer cf anne, will go to Ogden this week Maughan will also visit relatives Richland. Washington arrived here Tent H O U S TS Burned— house. end for their daughter. Oeorgia Lee. while he is there. Monday. August 13—Saint Paul's i Sunday morning to visit their Two tent houses on the Kajmo who has spent a month with her Episcopal guild to meet with Mrs. grandparents. Mr and Mrs Oeorge Salto farm about 14 miles north grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. H. 8. G range T o Hold Picnic— Schweizer for two or three weeks of Nyssa on the Ontario highway | Curt right J L Church at 8 o'clock. A trt-oounty grange picnic will were practically destroyed about 1 Tuesday. August 14— American be held for Malheur. Baker and o’clock this morning Firemen ex New Student At CeUrgr— Legion auxiliary garden party. Mrs | Ret nena From Hospital— Among the new students this Orant counties Sunday, August 12 E K Bunon home on First street, Mrs Al Chadwick returned home tinguished flames In a nearby shed. from the Malheur Memorial hospital They had to pump water from a week at Nampa Business college is at the picnic grounds on East camp 7 30 She success ditch across the highway, so traffic Gladys Leaver of Nyssa, who Is creek. Bach family la to take a Thursday. August 18 — 8 a 1 n t Tuesday afternoon basket lunch and watermelon. i taking secretarial studies Anne's Altar society meeting. 1 fully enderwent a major operation. was blocked for a time. Mr Dr. Thomas L. Martin, dean of ap plied sciences of Brigham Young university, will be one of the speak ers at the quarterly conference of the Nyssa stake of the L. D. S. church, to be held In Nyssa Sunday, August 12. Stock Exhibits At Fair Will Be Unusually Large Malheur county’s 42nd annual fair will be opened for a four-day run August 29 and already the coun ty fairgrounds at Ontario are being readied in expectation of the larg est class of livestock in this county's history. Volunteer labor provided by live stock exhibitors and other interest ed persons throughout the county is assisting the fair board in its at tempt to provide sufficient space to house these animals. A new barn, matching in size and plan the three 30 x 120 foot barns already on the premises, will soon be erected, and If there is sufficient time and help, Nell Hoffman, chairman of the fair board, revealed today it Is proposed to also erect corrals to accommodate 4-H saddle horses which have not been on exhtplt in past years, due to lack of facilities. "At las* year's show some 528 animals ware an display," Roffman said, “ and an advance forecast In dicates that an even larger show may be forthcoming this year." New trophies and awards in addit ion to the $5,000 In premium monies are expected to greatly Increase ex hibits In the other departments of the fair. Newest among them is an engraved placue offered by the Malheur Pomona Orange to en courage additional Interest In the farm crops divisions—crops for which Malheur county is famous throughout the nation. William Ross, master of the Pomona Orange, said that this contest Is not neces sarily limited to participating grang ers. He explained that at entry time individual exhibitors wishing to do so will request that their entries be credited to a particular grange and after registration has been closed the subordinate grange tallying the highest score will retain permanent possession of the plaque. (Continued on Page 8) Pfeiler Suggests Favorable Vote On Reclamation Plans Albert Pfeiler, Nyssa farmer who spends part of each year In Ven tura county. California, where water shortage Is serious, today Issued a statement urging farmers to vote In favor of the proposed transfer of control of the Owy'iee project from the government to the water users. Mr. Pfeiler. who recently returned to Nyssa with Mrs. Pfeiler from California, said "There is a move ment underway to have the recla mation bureau go into the valley In California to help relieve the situ ation, but there Is so much oppo sition to such a move and a re luctance on the part of some people to tie up with the reclamation bureau for various reasons that nothing can be done. “ In Nyssa we are about to vote on a proposition to take over the management of our project and op erate It as farmer-owned under a reclamation bureau contract. In variably, I am Informed by people In California that we are foollah tf Playoff Game Is we do not avail ourselves of the opportunity. Reclamation Is under Cancelled By Rain the control of congress, which la composed of our representatives and The softball game that was to would naturally welcome farmer In have been played Monday night to terest In the reclamation venture determine the first half champions here". of the women's league was post poned because of wet grounds. The league will try to pick up an open Gem County Fair date during the second half play Includes Review for the first half playoff, contest. Members o f the Nyssa Lions club, The Raynor Lehr attraction! will which operates the concession it the games and pays for the umpir present the Hollywood review, a vaudeville program, each night of ing and lights, attempted to place the field In shape for Monday night the Gem Oounty fair at Emmett. after Sunday's hard rain, but were The program, opening about g o’ clock, will Include novelties, singing, unseccessful. The Fanners Daughters defeated dancing, acrobatics, comedy and the Ontario Mill Works 24 to 7 trained animal performances. Each evening also an hour of fire Wednesday night in a regular league works display will be presented. The game. fireworks display will Include nine Short score: Farmers Daughters 18 24 0 large scenes, such as the U. 8. flag Ontario Mill Works 6 7 12 and Niagara falls. Batteries: Price and Mitchell; The fairgrounds will be open ad day for the viewing of displays. Hone and Oarcta and Halcome. Visit At Brtehl H om e- Reverend and Mrs. John L3rlenl entertained a number of guests at the Lutheran parsonage last week On Monday and Tuesday Reverend Briehl’s aunts and uncles, Mr and Mrs. William Maxwell of Los Angel es and Reverend and Mrs Raymond Kronberger of Bakersfield, Cali fornia. visited. The party was en route to Iowa. Mrs. Briehl's mother, Mrs. F. W Miles and aunts, Norma and Nelda Brechler and Mrs Emil Brechler and Miss Helen Doerlngs- feld were guests Saturday and Sun day While In Nyssa they were Join ed by Mrs. Briehl's sister. Dorothy Miles, who has been with the Brlehls for the p u t month. They returned to Wisconsin through Glacier Nat ional park. Reverend and Mrs Lloyd Dobroth ■ La Orande. were dinner guests at the Brlehl home 8unday evening. They too were en route to Iowa and Wisconsin. Boys Teams Will Play In Jamboree A Jamboree for the boys who are participating In the summer rec reation baseball program will be held at the rodeo grounds Thursday evening, August 18. Coach Howard Lovejoy said. The park Knothole team defeat ed the Sunset Panthers In an extra- Inning game 5 to 4 Tueoday night, throwing the two teams Into a tie for first place The Thursday night game will be the playoff. The Thumper league teams will play the preliminary game, begin ning at 5:30. The Thumpers de feated Adrian 7 to 1 at Adrian Monday and walloped the White Hardware team in Boise Wednesday night 9 to 2. W ord Her» From Big Bend— Bemice Chaney of Big Bend spent Tuesday and Wednesday vis itine In Nyasa st thè home of Mr,. Anna Chaney Of Promotion Received— Mrs Norman Bieakman has re ceived word that her husband, who Is stationed at Okinawa with the army, has been promoted to the rank o f oorporal.
