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JOURNAL NYSSA THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL. NYSSA. OREGON THURSDAY. JANUARY 1. 1953 VOLUME XXXXVII NO. 51 Nyssa Beats Dec. 31 Sewage Disposal Deadline Two-Way Radios Installed For O w yhee Project Hospital Patients Are Recovering Installation of Dial Mechanism Started Monday Joins Search For Air Crash Victims Early Ad, News Copy Needed For Ru*al Delivery TWELVE PAGES Officers Continue Investigation of Thompson Murder A 2C James O. Stephen of Nor- C. A M.illy was released from ; m Air Force base. San Bernardino. Malheur Memorial ho>piial Christ Calif., son of Mr. and Mrs. James mas eve after 10 days confinement. Stephen of the Buena Vista com He is reported to have returned to Tne Gate City Journal appreciates New frequency modulation two- work at the Amalgamated Sugar munity. was among airmen who the cooperation of correspondents way radios have been in.-talled by Co. factory Tuesday. T.ie first Western El no equip volunteered to climb the 11,000-foot who have submitted their news col Death as the result of foul play The City of Nyssa beat the Dec. the North Board of Control with mountin peak to bring out the bodies Claude Willson underwent major 31 deadline unpo-ed upon it by the base stations located at Nys.-a. Owy surgery Monday morning at the ment for Ny -a s n e » dial telephone of 13 airmen who died when a C47 umns early for this week.' New by some person or persons, was the Year's edition and last week's verdict of a coroner’s jury called Oregon State Health authority for hee dam and Homedale. Six vehicles Ny^ a hospital. He nad entered the system arrived Monday and a skele struck the mountain. Christmas edition, both of which the putting into operation Its sewage under jurisdiction of the North i hospital Friday morning and is now- ton crew started cataloging the Latest reports from Stephen were were published on Wednesday be Saturday to investigate the myster ious death of Arthur W. Thompson, disposal plant by one day, it was an Board are equipped with radio ap- reported to be recovering satisfac thousands c f parts prepatory to in that they were unab’.e to recover the cause the holidays came on regular 65. who body was found Dec. 22 near stallation of the intricate mecha nounced Wednesday morning by E. the South Board, Paul House, man torily. bodies which were under 20 feet of publication days. nism Leon Davenport of Ontario. his home on an island in the Snake ager of the North Board, announced. K Burton, city manager. snow and it was still snowing when Charles Garrison who has been These correspondents and others river near Adrian. Belter control of all activities of ! convalescing in the local hospital Malheur Home Telephone Co engi the volunteer rescue party arrived. After many weelcs of repairing and having news items are requested to rebuilding the partially constructed the vast Owyhee project will be pos following a stroke three weeks ago, neer. stated ihat a full crew will be The coroner's Jury concluded tliat continue with "copy no later than the tune of death was sometime be disposal plant on East 5th street, the sible now, saving long delays and is reported to be slightly improved on the job here by Jan 10 for in Monday ' to enable Wednesday even- stallation of the equipment. city satisfied the Health authority possible disasters. House said. All ! this week. tween 5:30 p. m. Dec. 22 and 10:30 publication every week. The automatic dial mechanism s by placing in operation the chlor personnel working on the project a. m. Dec. 23. District Attorney being installed in a building at the Arrangements have been made Charles Swan of Vale reported. inating machinery and primary col will be able to report any emerg with a majority of Nyssa's retail corner of Bower and Second avenue encies immediately as well as carry lection tanks late Tuesday. At Saturday's hearing, it was re business firms for early copy each north which has Just been com It will be some time yet, however, on routine business with a minium vealed that Dr. Joseph Beeman, Nyssa will have a two-day rodeo week to enable delivery of the Gate pleted by the telephone company it was stated by Burton, before the of delay in locating a telephone. The building will house “ mechanical this year instead of three, it was City Journal to all rural patrons Boise pathologist, had performed an disposal plant will do a complete House cited instances of small telephone girls ’ that select the lines announced this week at a meeting each Thursday. The newspaper will autopsy and reported that Thomp job of purifying Nyssa’s sewage be breaks in laterals when it had been A 14-year-old Vale boy was ap and numbers a patron dials on his of the combined Owyhee Riding club continue to carry the Thursday date son had been in a fight and had fore it enters the Snake river. necessary to travel several miles to prehended in Nyssa Tuesday while suffered severe bruises and cuts and and Chamber of Commerce rodeo line, however. Work will continue, Burton said, a telephone to call the Nyssa office, in possession of a stolen car, when telephone. that two front teeth were missing. association. The dates have been C. M. Robertson, Ontario manager first phase of which will be the fen which in turn had to locate repair Deputy Sheriff Frank Elfering was Contrary to earlier reports, it was set for Friday and Saturday. July cing of the grounds about the plant. crews. By using the new radio hook here on other business and recog of the company, stated that present, stated that Thompson’s neck had 10 and 11. As weather permits, the grounds will up. costly damages and possible crop nized the boy driving a car the tentative plans are for the switch been dislocated, Instead of broken, The regular meeting of the rodeo over to dial telephones about June be leveled and landscaped, and the losses can be averted. resulting in death by asphyxia. deputy believed was not his own. 1 . association will be held Jan. 13 when primary tanks covered with mesh The sheriff's office reported that the 1953 association will be organ Oliver Freel of Adrian, one of the The city has completed plans for wire to replace heavy planks now the car belongs to Oscar Bankhead, both its fire alarm system and police ized from representatives of the two first men to discover Thompson’s being used. route 2, Ontario, and was taken call system, it was announced by organizations. More details of plans body, reported that he went with Final stages of construction will from in front of the Ontario tele City Manager E. K. Bui for this year’s show will be announ William Kinney, also of Adrian, to 8 include the building of drying beds phone office during the noon hour telephones will be install-d in the ced at that time. Thompson's island Tuesday morn to dispose of sludge collected from Tuesday. The boy was accused of homes of 10 volunteer firemen, all All pledges for the donation of ing. Kinney and Walter E Bishop the tanks. stealing another car In Vale, be connected with one number that blood next Wednesday when the Red had reported hearing calls for help There is no immediate need for longing to Grace Axtell, and driving will be designated for fires only. I Cross bloodmobile comes to Nyssa from the Island Monday night and these, according to Burton, who said it to Ontario the.same day. When that number is dialed, all te n 1 should be turned in as soon as pos had received no answer when they it will be another four months be The youngster is being held in the telephones in the firemen’s homes as sible to Ralph Lawrence or Harold attempted to call back to Thomp- fore the sludge digester will require Malheur county jail at Vale and a Henigson, residents of this area are ) son. Three adult education classes will hearing was scheduled for Wednes well as a phone at the city hall, will cleaning. The Rev. Claire T. Crenshaw, who reminded. ring simultaneously to enable the Witnesses called to testify Satur be held In Malheur county, accord day afternoon. first one answering to turn on the has served as pastor of St. Paul’s Henigson said that considerable day, told the coroner’s jury tliat a ing to William E. Leggitt, county Episcopal church for the past two Interest has been created since Nyssa , trail from the island boat landing I fire siren. school superintendent. These are o f- I The police call system will con years, has accepted the pastorate of challenged Boise that more pints of , to the house led through a gate fered through the department of With snow flurries providing the state-wide services, general exten-1 sist of three flashing lights—one on the Bend Episcopal church, it was blood could be collected here than which was smeared with mud. There only kind o f precipitation, Nyssa's sion division of the state system of I ! each of the water towers and a third announced last weefc. Rev. and Mrs. in the Idaho capitol city. Next | were blood marks on the door of the weather resolved itself mainly into higher education. at Second and Main, in addition to Crenshaw expect to move the lat Thursday is the day set for collec dead man's home and on a pad- a period of gloom and overcast dur All classes will be held in Ontario, | During the past year 110 different i three special telephones in lock ter part of January to Bend where tion of blood in Boise and every | lock, although there was no indica- ing the past week. boxes. The special police telephones be will take over his new duties effort should be made to set a record | tion that the house had been en Malheur county dairymen have kept will be located at Third and Park, Feb. X. Wednesday morning dawned clear, at the junior high school. that Boise cannot touch, Henigson tered. Robert MoConnaha, principal at production records on their herds. on East Second and at the city hall, with the sun breaking forth bright Rev. Crenshaw came to Nyssa in said. Neighbors of Thompson, who were and warm. Daytime temperatures Ontario high school, will teach a The November report lists 96 herds Burton said. Aug., 1950 and during the time he In the past, blood has been used witnesses at the hearing, discounted during the past week hovered be course in Oregon history, Including on test with a total o f 1670 cows, served here the interior of the Nys by the armed forces and for civilian a theory that Thompson might have tween the middle and upper 30's, the cultural, economic, and political according to Don Anderson, Malheur sa church was completely remodeled. u.-.e, especially in hospitals, and this been attacked by a bull he kept on developments of the Oregon country. with Tuesday’s going to 42, to mark He was elected president of the Nys year much more Is needed than ever the island. One witness testified that county extension agent. the highest climb of the mercury It will meet on Wednesday, at 7:00 sa Ministerial association last Octo before to help fight polio. Recent the bull had been seen grazing in Two full time supervisors, C. A. since Dec. 12, when it registered 40 ! p. m. beginning Jan. 7, and carries ber and was scheduled to take office discoveries have made it possible to a pasture on the island shortly after Nichols of Ontario and Floyd Hig- j | two hours of college credit. degrees. Jan. 1. His pastorial duties also in use gamma globulin for innoculation the calls for help were heard, but Temperature Readings A second term of a course In so- gins of Parma, are employed to cluded Vale’s Episcopal church. purposes and one pint is necessary the animal was in the corral Tues conduct the work in Malheur county. Min. I ciology will be continued by Dr. Max. No announcement has been made for the treatment o f one person. day morning when Freel and Kinney Dairy herd improvement testing are j __________ 28 13 j Joseph Gaiser, professor at Eastern Dec. 25 regarding a successor for the Nyssa Employees at the Amalgamated discovered the body, they reported. 17 ..............35 Dec. 26 Oregon College of Education. This record keeping is a co-operative pro and Vale churches. Sugar Co. have divided into teams The district attorney said Wed 24 | class will meet on Saturdays, be- ject between the state college ex 37 Dec. 27 composed of those working on d if nesday morning that the sheriff's This week has been anything but 28 34 Dec. 28 j ginning at 9 a. m.; Jan. 10, and car- tension service and local dairymen, j a complete vacation for the Nyssa LDS STAKES GIVE ferent shifts, to compete for honors office and state police are working 39 23 ] ries three hours of college credit. Dec. 29 .... Standard test herds in Malheur : high school varsity basketball team, WARD OFFICER PARTY in donating the most blood next on the case, but “ nothing of im- 24 42 Dec. 30 Anyone who wishes to register for county averaging over 40 pounds which has had to spend most of , portance” had been discovered for Nyssa L. D. S. stakes primary Wednesday. 28 Dec. 31 .... Although no challenges have been public announcement. Sheriff John either of the courses may do so for butterfat per cow during November each afternoon practicing in pre board gave a luncheon for the ward ! either college credit or non-credit. include: Fred Burgess, Bland V a u -; paration for their Snake River Val primary officers o f Parma. Vale, On 1 made, Nyssa churches and various Elfering co.uld not be readied for BB HITS BOY’ S GLASSES, Henry Hartley, superintendent o f ghn, Fred Patterson, and Jay and ley conference opener Friday night tario and Owyhee a week ago Sat organizations are exerting every e f comment. NO EYE INJURY RESULTS fort to have the largest turnout of Nyssa schools, or Leggit will have at Weiser. Funeral services for Mr. Thomp Kingman Kolony—Russell Bassett further information about the class- I Rosemary Johnson, all of Vale. Oth- j A little variety was injected into urday here in Nyssa. blood donors in history, Henigson Mrs. Elwood Flinders, Mrs. Flor er herds averaging over 30 pounds son were Wednesday at 2:30 at the narrow’ly escaped serious eye injury i es. reported. the usual monotony of practise when ence Bybee and Mrs. Mark Moncur of butterfat in November are: Ker- Adrian Community church with last week when he and a friend were A class which carries graduate or crest Farms, Oregon Slope; Leroy the Bulldogs Tuesday took on Mar- were in charge of the affair and Rev. H. E. Moore officiating. Inter shooting at targets and a BB rico sing, a class B conference team, for ment was at Owyhee near Adrian. cheted into his eye. The youngsters under graduate credit will begin Herrman, Chas. Grider, and Elver a warm-up game on the Nyssa ma Mrs. Ross Burnett of Ontario acted Mr. Thompson was born in Oct., were target shooting in the Bassett Thursday, Jan. 15, at 6:45 p. m. It Neilsen, all of Nyssa; Ben Hale, ples. The practise schedule called as mistress of ceremonies during the 1887 at Orleans, Neb., and moved to yard and one shot hit and broke his will deal with the use of audio visual j Vale; Louis Wettstein, and Chester' for work-outs this Wednesday and program. aids materials and their uses in the Idaho In 1893 He had made his glasses, but the shattered glass was Clark, both of Ontario. Thursday. home on the Island in the Snake removed without injury to the boy’s classroom. Easton Sampson from EI> JAMESON ENTERS _______________ Coach McGinley is expected ti E. iR. Jackman, crop specialist river near Adrian most of the time Eastern Oregon College o f Educa-1 eyeball. list his usual starters in the lineup BOISE VETS HOSPITAL tion will be the instructor for the TO UNDERGO SURGERY from Oregon State college will lead since he came here from Nebraska. E. L. (Ed) Jameson, 213 So. 4th Word has been received by friends! for Friday night’s game. These in ! course. This class is particularly the grassland farming discussion He was a veteran of World War I, BROKEN FINGERS SUFFERED helpful to teachers, but anyone may here that Tom Sager, former Nyssa clude Pierce and Hiatt, co-captains, street, entered U. S. veterans’ hos that will be held in the Union Pa having enlisted in the Army Aug. 27, John Yoneyama suffered two register either for credit or non- resident, is in St. Luke’s hospital in in the guard positions; Hartley at pital at Boise Saturday morning for cific agricultural improvement car 1918 and served at Camp Lewis, broken fingers on his left hand the credit. center, and Marcum and Browne at a period of rest and a series o f tests when it stops in Nyssa, next Thurs Boise pending an operation. Wash., until he was discharged Jan. night of Dec. 20, when he had them and examinations. He has been ail fore ward. day, Jan. 8, Harry Sandquist, Mal caught in the distributor belt o f his ing for several weeks, and expects heur county agent, said that the 12. 1919. Lovejoy Ready to Play NYSSA STAKE WINNER car while making minor repairs. He is survived by an aunt, Miss Another first string regular, Dan to return to his home here in about public meeting will start at 2 o ’clock The Nyssa stake of the L. D. S. The program will include discus Cora Thompson, of Beaver City, was the third to meet its quota of Lovejoy, Who has shown but briefly a month. SON VISITS PARENTS 75 per cent among all churdhes dur in one game before local fans this sions on pasture fertilization, irriga Nebr. Mr. and Mrs. Torvald Olson, tion, and general management as Fire of undetermined origin in the ing their recent subscription drive season is expected to see increasing route 2, Nyssa, were visited during upholstering of a car belonging to of the children magazine, “Chil ly more action as the season goes well as several colored moving films on. He was forced out o f athletic the past week by their son, Elmer W. E. Graham of Idaho, called Nys dren’s friend.” on grassland farming. Sandquist E. Olson, and family who reside at sa fireman to the Walter Pox resi competition about mid-way of the said that a meeting will be held football season with a fractured Tulle Lake, Wash. While here, the dence Saturday evening. Assistant Wayne Chesnut, manager of Nys in the morning for F. F. A. students junior Mrs. Olson also visited at the Fire Chief Ralph Lawrence said the shoulder, sustained in the Nyssa- sa Motors, Inc., recently returned from Nyssa and Adrian, and one in Four new members were received home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. fire started in the front cushion of from Portland where dealers and evening for the veterans enrolled in into the Nyssa Eagles auxiliary at Meridian game. Other squad members who form their representatives met for the the agricultural training program. fox-mal initiation ceremonies held John Riddle of Boise. the car while Grahams were visiting The grassman o f the year contest, Dec. 16 at the F. O. E. hall. New at the Fox home. A registered Jersey cow owned by the varsity’s reserve strength are showing of the 1953 Chevrolet. Ned Snider, center; Harold Bum The Chevrolet dealer stated that sponsored by the Portland chamber members are Mrs. Norman Hipp, At 6:45 Tuesday morning the de Kenneth and Norma Vanderpool, garner and Rod Holcomb, guards, the new model, coupled with plans Mrs. Lilly Hooper, Mrs. Roxie Kille- partment was called to the I. L. route 1, Nyssa, has been rated a and Junius Tanner and Gerald Cox, of the company to stimulate sales, of commerce will be explained by brew and Mrs. Rose Gaston. Jackman at the meetings. Births, three girls and one boy, Cooper farm, one and a half miles tested dam by the American Jersey assured good business possibilities forwards. The agricultural improvement car The ceremonies were preceded by during the past week at Malheur north of Nyssa on the Ontario high Cattle club. The distinction was a- These players comprised last for the coming year. that is being made available for a 7 o ’clock potluck dinner with Memorial hospital were all to Nyssa way. An alarm system in the Cooper warded Valiant Loretta for having year's junior varsity, and are ex Although the date for showing these stops by the Union Pacific is Christmas party and gift exchange. parents, including a daughter to home sounded and the family im three offsprings with official pro pected to do their bit in pulling the new Chevrolet has not yet been well equipped to hold meeting of The next meeting, a regular busi Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Widmer, Dec. mediately turned in the alarm to many a game out of the fire. Snider, announced, Nyssa Motors Is already this type, according to Sandquist. ness meeting is scheduled for 8 27: a son to Mr. and Mrs. Jay Bunn, the telephone office. Firemen found duction records. The cow’s progeny averaged 10,743 whose specialty Is hook shots under making plans for a display of the The car is well heated and ventilated p. in. January 6 at the F. O. E. hall. Dec. 28; a daughter tc Mr. and Mrs. no trace of fire or smoke and noth pounds milk containing 619 pounds the basket, and Bumgarner are par car here. Chesnut said he is confi and has the latest type of sound and Bunco will be in play. Hostesses will Dick Tensen. Dec 29, and a daughter ing could be found that might have dent that interest In the new model film equipment to show colored be Alberta Smith and Mrs. Bill ticularly promising. to Mr. and Mrs. Roland Maw, Dec. tripped the automatic home fire butterfat on a twice daily milking, Scoring Edge Over Apponents will draw record-breaking crowds. slides. Schoen. * alarm system. 305-day mature equivalent basis. 30. The Bulldogs are expected to give 1953 Rodeo Will Be July 10 and 11 Vale Lad Charged With Auto Theft Area Residents Remined to Give Blood Wednesday Adult Education Classes Begin At Ontario On Wed. Weather . . . . Episcopal Pastor Will Move to Bend 96 DairyHerds on DHIA Report Tests Nyssa Bulldogs Ready for SRV Conference Play On Agenda For U.P. Ag Car Visit Car Fire, False Alarm Call Truck W ayne Chesnut Back From Dealer Meet Local Jersey Cow High Test Rate Eagles Auxiliary Initiates Members Births . . . . Former Park Chairman Continues With Details Of Owyhee Lake Development Possibilities The last part of “ A Recreational Area of Promise” written by Sam uel H. Boardman of Salem, former head of the Oregon state highway department parks division, Is pub lished here. The first part of Boardman’s ar ticle dealt with Oregon's tourist business which he stated results in an income of $25,000,000. He recom mended that financial assistance be Increased in development that may lead in all state income. The former head of the parks di vision, who is now a member of the highway planning department, men tioned Owyhee lake in the first part of this article, describing the vol canic setting and scenic grandeur. The following gives more details of Boardman’s views of the possibili ties In making a recreational area at Owyhee. R e p o rt C on tin » * 4 A motor purrs, you glide away from the dock, and you are on your way through a land that Dante might once have moulded and col ored. Each turn In the lake brings various vistas o f formation and col oring. Sheer bluffs at the water's edge, a hill distant from the water’s edge. Spires, columns, walls o f per I miles apart. They still stand intact fected dimensions, pillars chiseled as if awaiting the throwing o f a switch for a new flow of lava. Va with the delicacy o f an Italian ar pors can almost be Imagined if a tisan. Coloring likened unto Bryce haze blankets the valley. These Canyon. A pigment o l varied color cones stand some ten to fifteen feet ing that only an artist could canvas. As to coloring, the following descrip in height. They remind you of an oversized coke oven or an Eskimo's tion is given by Reverend Wire, now igloo. Conduits of tubes, gutters, retired and living in Salem—“ Every pressure ridges are still discernible. imaginable shade and color from Dr. Howell Williams o f Berkeley, nearly white to darkest burnt brown; ! noted Volcanologist, states that pink and rose; yellow and orange, ! these flows are of the most recent ochre and tan, brownish red and ' in western America, that they came light green. Here a light-colored after the first migrations of Indians cliff Is marked with perpendicular to the country. This Jordon field is ribbons o f rust stain, while there be little known, a minimum of study yond It is a hill o f greenish yellow having been given to it. What clay armored with a whole flock of stories, facts, remain hidden in this knife blades of rock of richest sien vast field that convulsed Mother na hue.” All of this panorama un Earth In her labors o f creation? veiling before your eyes as you What a setting of lake and geology glide along the water in your boat. for the harvesting o f tourist dollars. The gondolas plyiny the canals of Trail it, sign it, and a world will Venice would be Insipid after mak trod It for both pleasure and knowl ing this trip. edge. The canyons leading into the lake, It might not be amiss to note the especially Leslie Canyon, are spec purpose o f the impounding o f this tacular in their formations and co l water. Through tunnel, concrete- oring. lined ditches, canals, great syphons, As yon leave the south end o f the the water Is conveyed to the valley lake, you enter the Jordan Craters below 101,700 arid acres com* un area of some fifty square miles. der the magic wand o f these life Across the bottom of the valley are giving waters. Seventy percent of (Continued on Page #) four cinder cones spaced eeveral a good account of themselves in con ference play. They ended the season last year in a third place tie in the SRV class A conference. In four non-conference games to date the Bulldogs have a 20-point margin over apponents, with three wins and one loss. 'Hie loss was suffered In the fourth game, Dec. 19, When the strong and alert Baker Bulldogs handed Nyssa a 54-38 defeat. Games won were against Adrian, 45-18: Parma, 56-50, and LaGrande, 45-42. Total point standings are Nyssa 184, apponents 164. Toastmasters of Nyssa, Parma In Joint Meeting Nyssa and Parma Toastmasters clubs held an inter-chib meeting Tuesday night at Parma, with R ich ard Keim, area governor, and Lloyd Chapman, district governor, both of Nampa, and their wives as special guests. Tom Jones, Henry Hartley and the Rev. John Briehl represented the Nyssa club on the program as five- minute speakers. Others attending the inter-club meeting were Emil Stonz, Ous Lim ing, Don Engstrom, Walter McPart- land, Oene Stunz, Ted Morgan. Bill Wahlert. Mark Purcell, Art Walz, Earl Wynn and Cliff Mink, deputy governor, and their wives. Chronology of Past Twelve Months Reveal Progress and Achievements in Nyssa Area The past year in the Nyssa area ! chased Origg Bros, and Butler Real dairymen in attendance. Bridges and has been somewhat different from Estate and Insurance which he had culverts were torn out when a flash flood hit the Cow Hollow area. The previous years, as each one is, with managed for three years. The Nyssa Chamber of Commerce Bulldogs were In a three-way tie for progress far overshadowing any backwardness. There was a national and Owyhee Riding club formed a the SRV basketball conference after and state election thrown in for rodeo association to Join forces In beating Vale 45 to 35. SRV music clinic drew 800 stu good measure, farmers were blessed staging Nyssa’s annual cowboy show. with better-than-average crops of Nyssa and area residents gave 242 dent musicians for event here. Tem all kinds and the markets hit an | pints of blood to exceed the Red porary rodeo association officials were announced as Lloyd Adams, all-time high on Just about every Cross quota o f 200. A total of 10 V4 inches of snow fell | chairman; J. L. Herriman, vice product. Many of the plans made by Indi In January and sufficient snowfall chairman; Robert Holmes, treasurer, viduals and groups were not entirely In the mountains assured a plentiful Robert Thompson, secretary. Diph fulfilled, but so much has been ac water supply. On the darker side, theria, Whooping cough, tetanus and complished by so many that those “ the meanest thief” stole funds from small pox immunization shots given who have their hopes centered on an Iron lung cannister. Railroad, to 700 Nyssa area youngsters. Vale this rural community can fill a shipments totaled 5,381 for 1961, ex won the SRV basketball title, but required to play Nyssa and Ontario notebook with assets and have only ceeding those of 1950. Funds for the March o f Dimes for right to represent county In dis a few marks in the liability column. reached a total of $1743 with more trict playoffs. The following are a few o f the to come In. More than 1000 persons March highlights of activities that made attended the grand opening of Nys Beet growers approved the 1952 news during 1952. A hurried search sa Motors, the new Chevrolet dealer sugar beet contracts. The city and through the files of the Oate City here. The Amalgamated Sugar Co. Chamber announced plans for clean Journal brought forth the following announced that beet processing up week. Merchants Joined to spon happenings that affected the entire would stop here Feb. 10. Loretta sor Bunny Bonus days from March community. Russell was named valedictorian and 22 to April 12. A district American January Betty Fife salutatorian, o f the Nyssa Legion meeting drew state leaders the year started with the temper- high school '52 graduating class. and delegates to Nyssa. A total of ture reading at 8 degrees above Warren Farmer was elected presi $1,112 30 collected for the 1952 Boy zero. The Bureau of Reclamation dent of the Malheur Memorial hos Scout campaign. turned over operation of the Owyhee pital board. Harold Bumgarner, Junius Tan Irrigation district to the water users February ner and James Lissman honored for The first annual Junior Dairyman activities at annual FFA banquet. All and the North and South boards of control »ere formed. Mel Beck pur- , show was held here with 100 young (Continued on Page 4)
