* L -■ * ■ - . J k ■ 4L . * >* ^ r -» -/-r /* r »• <• r • ,> ■* “r V r/ieNYSSA VOLUME XXXXVII NO. 33 Lettuce Harvest Underway; Good P i _co Expected One >f the Nyssa area's last pro duce crops started to market this week with the shipment of the first fall lettuce Irom the J. C. Watson Produce Co. Other local produce houses are t spot ted to be underway this week ta help take care .f ap proximately 1000 acres in the Nyssa and south Ontario area. Although tne market is expected to bring good returns this year, this week's activities were some what .ijymieci with peak shipments of Calif rma lettuce to all market One local dealer predicted th it growers would realize approximately $. 00 a c; net this jri ur and that the average production is expected to be about 250 crates. Some fields are reported to have yields as high a :tM oiate ■■> the acre, but auch high figures are the exception. Practically all o f Watson’s ship ments thh week have been frain their own fields U njlinj 300 acres Although lettuce in this area is con idered a minor crop, the fact that .t follows other crops, such as potatoes, in the same fields, grower consider "any pr fit is gravy in spite of the risk taken," one farmer stated. He explained that as soon as such produce as potatoes are harvested and marketed, lettuce can be planted and is quick-growing to entail a minimum of expense and an opportunity to gamble on a good market. Tom Jones, Nyssa Union Pacific agent, stated that he has made ar rangements for 485 cars of lettuce to leave this shipping point this fall. That figure was reported to toe "too high” by some shippers, although the unpredictable factors involving the crop "makes it difficult for anyone to make a prediction.” Part of the estimated 1000 acres in the area w.ll be shipped from Ontario produce houses to add to the un certainty of the total to be ex pected from Nyssa. • • JOURNAL J Ë Ë fài THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL. NYSSA. OREGON. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 2. 1952 Siais Board oi Health Recommends Mosquito Control Program For Area Following Survey Here In Seplember Sheriff Reports Juvenile Cases Three separate ca.-e*. one in each of Malheur county’s tlnee towns, involving nine juveniles were re ported during the past wetk by Sheriff John Elfering. Monday five delinquents from the Ontaraj district were sentenced to reform s.civool by County Judge Sewall Stanton. Two were paroled md le remaining three were taken -J th^ MacLaren school f, r boys Tue Jay. Accompanying the three va.> u ’ ther boy who had been >ickea op by Vale city pohee the orevi u Fr day evening. He was an esc..pee from tne MacLaren school. From the Ny.,>a area two juveniles vtre detamed by the sheriff in Winnetnucca. Slit-ruf titering re pined they had "borrowed" a car uni eloped last Thur day. They were ■.turned to ttuir respective home iy the.r parents. T.vo runaways from the Vale area were detained by the Burley. Idaho her.ft's office for their parents to ;et them. They left home for school one day la.t week and failed to appear in class. Their parents went to Hurley after them three days later. SiGm Elected To PMA Committee Committeemen who headed the Malheur county committee of the Production and Marketing Adminis tration were re-elected at the PMA'., annual election, held last Saturday it Ontario, and formally took office Wednesday to beg:n their new terms Off;cers are Glen L Hutchinson, Ontario, ohalrman; R. H Woods. Payette, vice chairman; and Lull Ham, Ny.vsa, member. S. K Skinner, Iordan Valley, and Frank Marchek, Harper, were chosen alternate. The PMA committee is re'-pon- ,ible for he county administration of the agricultural conservation pro gram. price support activities, fed eral crop insurance and such other activities as may be assigned. In the coming year, they will ar range for the training of community committeemen, direct the farm-by farm contacts which community committeemen will make, and have responsibility for approval of con servation practices carried out on Malheur county farms. Tan Men Inducted STANDING BESIDE JALOPY No. 22, in the photograph on In Armed Forces ,:v . the left, is Elbert Hatch, of Adrian, receiving from Garnet Registered Yet? Ritchie, high school freshman, the trophy he won in the Only two more days remain to Trophy Dash event of last Sunday’s jalopy races. On the far register for the general election right is Herb Holton, of Vale, holding aloft the trophy it took to be held Nov. 4. All eligible him all season to win as the jalopy racing champion of Mal voters are reminded that registra Brogan Residents heur county. Carolyn Story, freshman, made the presentation. tion books close Saturday night Help Polio Victim —Photo by Yost. and most registrars are making Residents of the Brogan In line witli the nation's stepped- up draft call, ten Malheur county men were inducted into the armed forces Wednesday at Boise, it was announced by Mrs. Ruth L. Ingebrit- .sen, clerk of the county selective service board. Those leaving Ontario Tuesday were George Burnell. Ontario: I Robert Lercy Rookstool, Homedale, formc*rly Nyssa; Charles Elisha Doty. Adrian: James Darrel Holbrook, Bountiful, Utah, formerly Ontario; j No trace had been found of Rich Leo Glen Salter, Woods Cross, Utah. | ard Neely, 28, noon Thursday fol formerly Nyssa; George Herbert lowing his disappearance Monday Ellers, route 3, Parma; Masayoshi] according to local police and friends Kosai, route 2, Payette; Harold Eu gene Bassford, Payette; W ihner: Thirty Boy Scouts received pro- of the Nyssa man. Dale Rhinehart, Payette, formerly i m 'tions and awards Monday night Neely reportedly is suffering from Ontario, and David William Love at a court of honor for L.D8. troop amnesia and had disappeared twice land, Jordan Valley. 445 at the stake house in Nyssa. before for short periods o f time. Thirteen more registrants h a v e 1 One of the top honors in Scouting Mrs. Neely told authorities that her been ordered to report for pre- , went to Melvin Ballentyne of husband left Nyssa Monday morning induction physical e x a m i n a t i o n Owyhee, when he received his Life for Vale, where he is employed as With the exception of one day, within the next ten days, Mrs. \ Scout award from Arthur Hawkins, a mechanic. His car was found temperatures for the Ny< sa area afcij eJ Owbyee, troop committee abandoned at Clro junction and it were relatively ’high for tins -..me I ■ gebritsen reported. chairman. was later reported that a man fitting Induction call for November for of year. The one exception was Sept. Three boys received their Star his description was seen at Cald 23. w'hen the mercury read 76 de eight registrants 'has been received grees. All other days in the Journal’s by the selective service board, but Scout promotions from Ross Butler, well, to where it is believed he rode a bus from Cairo junction. weathe week. Sept. 25 to Oct. 1, the names are being withheld un- | Vale. Mrs. Neely reported that he suf New first class Scouts are Garry ranged from 80 to 8 9 degrees, the til a later adte, the clerk of the Derock. Stanley Pett, Leon Thomp fered an amnesia spell last May later bi ing registerrd Sept. 25. Day boaid announced. son, Donald Tolman, Bobby Joe and was missing three days and time a.erage was slightly under 82 Webb, Rulon Ohristensen, Gary about a month ago was found in degree.'. Blacker, Roy Lee Tidwell, Jimmy Twin Falls after an absence of eight Coolest night was last Monday, Stoker, Richard Grigg and Ronald days. He reportedly has no memory when the mercury dipped to 39, and Peterson. The awards were presented of any activities during his absences. the highest 57 degrees, recorded Sat Dallas W. Keck has Just reg Neely is described as five feet, urday night. Average night tem istered as a junior at Huntington by Scoutmaster Leo Fife. eight inches tall, 175 pounds, brown Second class awards presented by perature was 44-plus degrees. College, Huntington. Ind. for the hair, blue eyes and was wearing Temperature readings follow: first seme.-.ter of the 1952-53 college Leo W. Child, neighborhood com grey work pants, grey shirt, grey missioner, went to Kent Mann, Dar Min. year, it was announced by the school Max. jacket, no hat and high top working 89 this week. He is the son of Mr. and win Gorreil, Ernest Payne, Tommy 43 Thursday, Sept. 25 shoes when he disappeared. 44 Mrs. A, H. Keck o f route 1, Nyssa. Nielson, Delbert Wilson, Robert Friday, Sept. 38 84 Saturday, Sept 27 80 Another enrollment announced Shaw, Marvin Pett and Darle Duf- I 57 3 BOYS, 1 GIBL 42 this week is that of Esther Benedict fin. LeRoy Cammack of Ontario Sunday, Sept. 28 78 was also promoted with the Nyssa Three boys and one girl were 80 who began classes last week at Monday, Sept 30 39 given birth at Malheur Memorial Tuesday. Sept. 30 80 43 Westmont College at Santa Barbara. group. New tenderfoot scouts are L a - 1 hospital during the past week, the Calif. 84 44 Wednesday, Oct. 1 Monte Burnlngham, Jimmy Moss, lone girl being born to Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Roberts, Arnold Whipple, Ronald Saxton, of Nyssa, on Sept. 29 Baby boys include one born to Mi Dennis Elliot and Gary Grigg of and Mrs. Albert Sandy, of Parma, on Vale. Several merit badges were award Sept. 27; to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph ed to various boys by Harold "Dusty" Braden, of Nyssa Sept. 28, and to Rhodes, chairman of the distract Mr. and Mrs. Howard Fenn, o f Tlie Malheur district fall flower gher’s all-white arrangement of advancement committee, of Ontario. Adrian, on Oct. 1. Others participating in the court show last Friday and Saturday at gladiolas and asters; Mrs. Hatt’s the Nyssa parish hall drew 247 baskets of dahlias and gladiolas; of honor included Jerry Thorn, field visitors from all parts of the lower Mrs. Houston’s bronze dahlias; Mrs. Scout executive o f the Ida-Ore Snake river valley as well as from Don Wood's purple asters and cat council, and Henry Zotoell, commit tails; Mrs. Ray Wilson's blue del tee member from the high council California and Arizona. The show, "Rainbow Fantasy,” phinium and copper leaves in a blue of the L.DJS. church, of Nyssa, who was under the direction of Mrs. bowl; Mrs. Carl Hill’s roses and gave talks, and C liff Saunders, stake George Sehweizer with flowers and ; rubellum lilies; Mrs. Tom Nishitani's commissioner, of Ontario, who gave arrangements from Nyssa, Vale, arrangement of crimson glory roses, the welcome. Ontario, Owyhee Junction, Parma variegated and toosta lily foliage in During the program Scoutmaster Filing of names for candidates for and the surrounding communities, a white bowl; the dry arrangement displayed against a background of in a copper pot and the all-white Fife was presented a training cer oity council posts has been at the a colorful rainbw complete with arrangement in an old white soup tificate and the troop was given rate of three a week for the past a pot of gold, fairies, a small foun tureen done by Mrs. George Glenn, a B award as district champions foi three weeks to bring the total as tain, driftwod, rocks and plant'. Mrs. John Miller, Mrs. Don Wood two patrol» achievements in cleanli pirants to nine for four positions There were numerous baskets of and Mrs. John Faw of Vale. ness at the district camporee. on the council. Members of the Ontario Garden flowers, dry arrangements, minia Since last Thursday, the three tures, potted plants, and table ar club who contributed many arrange filings were for Clifford Mink, man rangements of gladiolas, roses, as ments were Mrs. Gallagher, Mrs. ager of the Boise Payette Lumber ters, dahlias, chrysanthemums, snap Dave Stoner; Mrs. W'nnie Wisdom, dragons and p>etunias. Attracting Mrs, A. B. Conner, Mrs. F. Schuler, Co.; Jim Elkins, manager of the special attention were a table of Mrs. V. V. Staples, Mrs. Theo Moore The Malheur district Cub Pow- Nyssa Elevator, and Ken Renstroin, all white arrangements, one of all and N. E. Bain. Wow wll lbe held Saturday after Nyssa insurance agent. Furnishing background music for green arrangements and one all pur noon, Oct. 11, at the Nyssa city Other candidates in the race are ple. with the latter attracting the | the two days were Mrs. Wilson Win ters and Miss Betty Jean Strick park with activity beginning at 2 Incumbents Emil Stunz and Oeorge most attention. o'clock, Jerry Thorne, field execu Sallee, whose terms expire this year, Mrs. Oerrit Stam showed the most land. Special music was provided tive of the Malheur and Snake Dick Fortoess, Dale Oarrison, John by Mrs. Dwight Wyckoff and Mrs. flowers, having 25 arrangements on river district, announced. Dority and Tom Jones. display, but large quantities of Tom Nishitani, vocal solos, and by Thorne said there will be plenty Oity Manager E K. Burton said blooms were also shown by Mrs. the Misses Lois Wilson and Amy Maurice L. Judd, Mrs. Niss Hatt, Lewis, violin duets, all accompanied of action games for the cubs dur that no more petitions are out at Mrs. C. C. Houston, Mrs. Sehweizer at the piano by Mrs. Carlos Buchner ing the afternoon with a picnic the present time, but interested Door prizes were won by Mrs. dinner with the boys' families about persons can file his name of any and Mrs. P. J. Gallagher. Anna Fitzpatrick of Parma, Mrs. 4 or 5 o'clock. eligible candidate any time between Considered the most unusual ar Nishitani of Parma, and Miss Betty An evening program is being now and 5 o ’clock Saturday night rangement was an all green display Jean Strickland, Nyssa. Visitors were of cockletourrs and hydranges in a present from Nyssa, Salem, Payette, planned and will be announced later. when filings close. claartreu.se bowl done by Mrs. Ontario, Vale, Fruitland, Parma, In the event o f bad weather, ar Eurton recalled that at the present Sehweizer. Chosen as the most out- Caldwell, Boise, Santa Barbara, rangements will be maed to have time, there are the same number stndingly beautiful arrangement was | Calif, and Phoenix. Ariz. the event indoors. of contendors for the offices as that of Mrs. Bud Wilson who used Plans are also being made for a there were at the last city election Committees assisting Mrs. Schwei- a pale blue delphinium, pink rose zer were Mr3. V B Staples, On Scout camporee to be held in Vale two years ago. buds and pink phlox around a trio tario, and Mrs Oeorge Glenn, Vale, Oct, 17 and 18 and will be an Mayor Oeorge Heneman and Har o f pink and blue candles on • large chairmen for their respective gar- nounced next week. ry Miner, the other two outgoing blue pottery. ! den clubs; Mrs. Carl Hill, Mrs. Sid members of the council whose terms Among other outstanding arrange Flanagan. Mrs. Walter Fox and Mrs. expire at the end of this jrear, have ments were Mrs M. L. Judd's massed Clyde Snider, Nyssa, and Mrs. John BIND GIVES CONCEHT An e-timated 1,000 persons gave declined to seek re-election. copper and bronze chrysanthemums Miller. Ontario, registration; Mrs. Members of the council who will in a large copper bowl with a green P J Oallagher, Ontario, Mrs. L. J. audience to an hour-long concert background; Mrs. Oerrit Stam's Hadley and Mrs. Cathryn Claypool. given Monday evening at Fruitland serve for two more years are Hugh white petunias in front of a white Vale, Mrs Ray Wilson. Parma, and by the Ny a Municipal band Leon Tdbler. Bib Thompson and Lloyd Madonna and child. Mrs. Galla Mrs Oerit Stum-» Nyssa. hospitality Burt was director. W ilwo L.D.S. Scouts Get Awards At Mon. Court of Honor Am nesia Victim Still Is Missing Temperatures High For Early Fall Two Local Students Attending Colleges Hundreds View Artistically Arranged Flowers at 2-Day Annual Show Here City Candidates Total Nine; Trio File Each Week Cub Pow-Wow Here Saturday, Oct. 11 com arrangements to have their books munity recently came to the aid open each evening this week. Registrars in the Nyssa com of a polio victim of their town munity are; Mrs. Hilda Tensrn, as well as the Malheur Memorial l Nyssa 1, 2 and 3, Arcadia and hospital and the .polio fund, it was Owyhee precincts; II. T. Holly, revealed this week. Sandra Dearborn, daughter of Mr. Adrian and Big Bend precincts; Gabriel Klordi, Jordan Valley and and Mrs. Lewis Dearborn of Brogan Juniper precincts; Claude Skinner, j was admitted to the hospital here Sept. 11 with polio and was re Owyhee precinct. Mrs. Ten sen reported that dur leased Sept. 27. A few days ago, ing the past week the mimlcer of ! tile local hospital received a 8200 registrations have increased to the j check to help defray expenses of the youngster's treatment here and rate of about 20 each day. j additional funds were applied to other expenses. The money was raised at Brogan by people of the community who I joined together to sponsor a dance for the cause. Memorial Hospital Admits Six More Toastmasters Install Polio Patients Officers Fri. Morning Six more polio cases have been admitted to the Malheur Memorial hospital during the past week to bring total admissions during the current epidemic to 44 Remaining .n the ho pital, as of Thursday morn ing, were 13 cases, five of whom were in Isolation. Three of the five Isolation cases are in respirators, County Health Officer Dr. L. A Maulding reported. A youngster from western Mal heur county was expected to be ad mitted later today with possible bul bar polio, it was reported. Admitted last Saturday were Dee F. H:ui6en. a four-yeur-old boy from Vale, and Billie M. Burke, an 18-year-old girl from Jamison. Sunday Opal Fraley, 38, Ontario, wife of Mark Fraley of Waggoner Motor Co., and Monday Patricia Hcbenrr, 6, o f Burns entered the hospital here. Tuesday Richard Counsil, nine-year-old son of Mrs. Phyllis Counsil was ad mitted and Wednesday’s admis sion was Ronnie Stimson, 5, of Pay ette. A dome-type respirator furn ished by the March o f Dimes was flown in from Portland Sunday by the Army Air Force to make four iron lungs on hand here. Three of them are In use and one is in re serve, Hospital Manager John O' Toole said. O Toole explained that there is u definite shortage of respirators and a policy has been adoped to release any iron lungs over one that Is kept in reserve during an emergency per iod The Malheur Memorial hospital has released iron lungs whenever there aer at least two free. Some of them have been shipped from here by freight, while one was flown by the Air Force to Idaho Falls when emergency existed in that area. In the event the reserve respirator Is put into use, The March oi Dimes headquarters in Portland Is called and the Air Force has another here for reserve within two hours, the hospital manager said. FFA Class Offers Signs For Nyssa Nyssa may have welcome signs at the entrances to the city if all arrangements can be completed by Dwight Wyckoff's Future Farm ers of America class at the high school. A recent project resulted In the selection of four different signs with slogans about the area and the Nyssa Chamber has been asked to choose one of the four as an appropriate sign to be erected. V. L. Kessler, president of the FFA. told Chamber members Wed nesday that his class would finance and erect the signs as soon as the selection Is made. Newly elected officers of Nyssa Toastmasters chib will be installed during the Friday morning meeting, with Clifford Mink, deputy governor in the role of installing officer. To be installed are Tom Jones, president; Emil Stunz, vice presi dent; Dick Yost, secretary-treasurer, and Bob Thompson, sergeant-at- arms. They will serve a six month's term, Jones will serve as toastmaster for the Friday morning program, which starts at 7 o ’clock at Brownie's cafe. Henry Hartley will announce the table topic and Earl Alexander will be general critic. Five-minute speeches will be de livered by Mink, Bill Wahlert and Yost. A survey of mosquito pioblems in Nyrsa and the immediate area sur rounding the city by three members of the Oregon State Board of Health on Sept. 3 and 4 resulted In find ings of mosquito breeding areas and recommendations for better control. The survey was the result of a request made by County Health Officer Dr. L. A. Maulding follow ing at least one polio case that was listed as "symptomatically sug gestive of equine encephalomyelitis '’ The disease is listed as a virus disease of hordes and is com municable to man by the Aedus mosquito. A four-page report received by Dr. Mauld.ng this week contained tlie conclusions that mosquito prob lems at Nyssa result from the sur rounding irrigated areas in Oregon and Idaho, from local small im poundments of water resulting from vegetable packing plants and sec ondary irrigation impoundments and tlie seasonal flooding of contiguous lowlands by the Snake river It was recommended that certain phases of the problem, present and potential, can be partially met by local measures. Waste water from all vegetable packing plants should be discharged by way of sumps into the city sewage system, the report stated, and the use of insecticides in the city can be performed more efficiently by the use of one of the insecticide fog or mist divtses on the market, was recommended. The report listed in detail the investigation made here, including the fact that the city each year treats the town with insecticides for mosquito and fly control. The spraying is timed to coincide with the peak of the early summer flights of Aedes mosquitoes. The total cost was listed as $15,000. Following Dr. Maulding’s sugges tion to the inspectors, breeding areas outside the city limits were investi gated as such .places as gravel pits, borrow pits and irrigation sys tems, might be potential uroducers of mosquitoes. The report warned that in ad dition to present sources o f mosquito problems, development of Irrigation on nearly 28,000 acres . . . will re sult In an upswing in the annual production of mosquitoes In this area. “ It should be recognized that no single small community located In a heavily irrigated area can achieve satisfactory control of mosquitoes by working alone, whatever the techniques employed,” the report stated. *'A coordinated abatement program in which neighbor com munities cooperate to achieve Che desired result Is far more likely to produce success. Immediate con sideration should be given by re sponsible officials in Nyssa and other towns in the vicinity, both Oregon and Idaho, to the formation of a mosquito abatement district. . (Continued on Page 10) Malheur County Among Top Ten For Federal, Slate, County Road Plans A six-page bulletin released by the Oregon state highway commission in connection with county federal aid secondary program policy and preedure, reveals that Malheur county stands In tenth place among the 36 counties In the amount of funds passible for the 1954 and 1955 programs. New arrangements requiring dis tribution of federal and state road funds based on county road milage and rural population, make the total allocation figure for each of the two years $77,543. The only catch to this amount programmed for Malheur county's secondary road system Is that the county must spend $15,508, or a proportionate amount, of the total each year. County officials contend that t'hat much money will not be available unless the voters of the county vote in favor o f continuation of tlie special, county-wide road levy for another five years, begin ning with the fiscal year 1953-1954 According to a table of figures in the State highway bulletin. $46,526 will be available from the federal government and $15,509 will be furnished by state with the county's matching fund of $15,508. The only counties leading Malheur •cut with the group was Mrs. Lela are Clackamas, Marion. Multnomah, Washington, Douglas, U m a t i l l a , Linn, Lane and Jackson counties. A formula developed by the As sociation of Oregon Counties and approved by the state highway com mission, is set to divide 26 percent of all federal road funds equally among the counties. Of the remain ing 75 percent. 89 percent is dis tributed on the basis of rural popu lation and the other 29 percent on county road ml Malheur county benefits on the remaining 75 percent because the entire population of this county is considered rural, while counties with cities having more than 5,000 population must deduct the urban population. Malheur county's large area resulting in hundreds of miles of roads also brings it among the top ten in allocation, despite the lack of overall population. When a county, such as Malheur, enters Into a long-range road pro gram with the Xunds required, a definite policy of procedure must be agreed upon by the three par ticipating units. Preliminary sur veys and preparation of plans and specifications must be performed by state forces with the state paying 100 percent of tlie cost. The state must furnish description o f property required and the county must handle all negotiations for acquistlon in the name of the county and pay all of the acquisition costs. Construction is done toy contract awarded In the usual manner by the highway commission with highway depart ment personnel supervising the con struction work. The figures quoted in the tables do not necessarily mean that all the allocation money must be spent. The county must request a project for the given year and the project will be reviewed by the state. After a project is completed the county is responsible for main tenance with county funds, but there will be an annual inspection by representatives of the Bureau of Public Roads. According to county officials, the funds available for 1954 as listed In the bulletin, would be applicable for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1963