» -*•. 1 - 1 M . ~ r ~ r - f~ J T -4 ~ r - r - *— r - .\>VteSa^ V < , — - - NYSSA VOLUME XXXXVIII NO. 2 JOURNAL THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL. NYSSA. OREGON. T HURS DAY . J A N U A R Y 22. 1953 Next Week to See Climax oi Local March of Dimes Activities; Dance, Steer Auction Wednesday Big Event Next week will mart the climax of the various activities featuring the March of Dimes fund raising c a m -' paign in Nyssa and vicinity, withj many major attractions being The 21-member Nyssa high school scheduled. Chronologically, as announced by orchestra will attend a two-day high Hal Henigson, chairman, these in school orchestra clinic at Boise next clude operation of the Morocco club, Wednesday and Thursday, it was an the county-wide March o f Dimes nounced by Richard LoSasso, music dance, the KSRV Bucket of Bucks director. Those who will attend represent and the Nyssa fire department mop- the string section o i the high school up detail. orchestra, LoSasso said, and include Management of the Morroco club Jack Teague, flutist, and Vela Dee on Monday. Jan. 36, will be turned Poulson, pianist. over to the March of Dunes, with The clinic, to be conducted by Spin Brown in charge. All net pro members o f the Boise Symphany or ceeds of the evening's operations chestra, is for the purpose o f mak will be donated to the March of ing a workshop of musical problems. Dimes. There will be a concert in the even During the half-time intermission ing of the final day. of the Nyssa-Weiser basketball game Tuesday at the Nyssa high school, the student council will take up a collection for the March of Dimes. March of Dimes Dance Wilton Jackson is chairman of the March of Dimes dance, set for Wed nesday, Jan. 28, in the new high school gym. Highlighting the even ing will be an auction of a steer and The annual meeting of the Mal a floor show of local talent from heur Memorial hospital association Nyssa, Vale and Ontario. will be held Monday night at the Among local performers will be hospital where four members of the Charlie Taylor, former Met opera board of directors will be elected, a singer, and a tumbling act from the financial report will be given and a Nyssa school, the tumblers being general business meeting held, in Nancy Stringer, Sharon Jacques, cluding a review o f the hospital’s Marilyn Adams and Joy Peterson. operations during the past year. Prom Ontario will come Mr. and Members of the board whose terms Mrs. Rulon Huntington in a musical expire this year are Grant Rine comedy act and Gary Blacker, Bob hart, Glea Billings, Arvil Child and Johnson, Roy Lee Tidwell and Paul Bernard Eastman. Following the Blacker playing instrumental quar election o f board members, the new tet numbers, with Mrs. Fred Blacker board will meet and elect their o ffi as accompanist. cers. Warren Farmer has served as The "Night Ha wks", directed by Dr. president of the board for the past Wilford Sanders, will furnish the year and Billings is the secretary. dance music. Members of the 14- Although only members o f the piece orchestra are Don Moss, Tom association who have contributed a Church and John Savage, Nyssa; minimum of $100 can vote in the Darrell Norris, Ed Gehrke, John Pal- j election, the general public is in Ion and Henry Gehrke, Payette; vited to attend the meeting. As one Reece Jenkins, Roland Washburn, member o f the board explained, the Les Day, Wilson Craft, Gail Harris hospital was built by and for all and W. N. Sanders, Ontario, and E. residents o f this area and there are J. Bullard, Parma. no restrictions on who may attend Nyssa firemen will form a “mop- the general meeting. up” brigade and cover the residential It was announced that special em areas next Thursday night for bene phasis will be given the hospital's fit o f housewives wanting to make handling of the large number of contribution. Listen for the fire polio cases treated here during the siren, firemen warn, and have do severe epidemic last summer and nations ready when the truck is in fall. Pete Fleissner, physio therapist, your neighborhood. will give a detailed account of meth Bucket of Bucks ods used in treating convalescent Radio station KSRV will donate polio patients, as well as other cases its facilities for two Bucket of Bucks requiring the special treatment. (Continued on Page 10) 201 Guests Attend Laymen s League Meeting In Nyssa H. S. Orchestra to Attend Boise Clinic Annual Hospital Meet Scheduled For Monday Night Bauman Equip't Community Day Abundant Jan. Rainfall Exceeds Moisture of Snow A Community Day next Monday is being sponsored by the Bauman Farm Equipment, Allis-Chalmer dealer for Nyssa and Ontario, and will include free lunch, movies, Residents o f this community can prizes and entertainment, Otto Bau truthfully say, "W e’re having very man announced. unusual weather," in commenting on It will be held at the Nyssa store, the abundance o f rain in January J a mile north o f town. There will be and the fact that the unfrozen | a special showing and demonstra ground is becoming saturated. With tion o f the 1963 model tractor ,as the exception of stock feeders and well as other A-C equipment. dairymen who are experiencing ex A free movie, starting at 2:30 at tremely muddy corrals and pastures, the Nyssa Theatre, will feature farmers In general Indicate that the i “Grass Is Gold" together with other heavy rainfaU will benefit almost films including one on the Mar- all spring crops. Beet harvester. A total o f 122 Inches o f rain have Bauman announced that the O n fallen during the first 20 days of tario store will be closed all day January, which Is slightly more than Monday during the various show the 22-year average precipatlon ings here. for the entire month (both snow and rain) at local -weather reporting stations. Figures compiled by Paul House, manager of the North Board o f Control, revealed that average A special meeting o f the Nyssa precipitation since 1931 through 1952 were 1.116 inches for January Rifle and Pistol club was held re Those figures, from Kingman and cently at the Nyssa Insurance office Adrian stations were slightly d if where special training equipment ferent than those recorded at Nyssa was demonstrated by Neal Nichol since 1938. That average, compiled son. Nicholson, a former Army o r with Kingman and Adrian for the dnance man and now a member of eight previous years, showed an ave the club, gave a talk on the use of rage of only slightly more than 1.94 a sighting bar and the use o f tech nical equipment. inches. John Rhodes and Earl Bevlins of The two driest Januaries during the period were in 1935 when there Ontario, and Lauren Wright o f Nys were 22 Inches of precipitation and sa were guests of the club. Vernon Robertson, president of again In 1947 when the reading w«s .25. Those reports were from King- the organization, announced that man and Adrian, while the Nyssa plans are now being made for shoot station recorded only .15 inches in ing matches to start in March at the 1939. The wettest years were 1936 new rifle range built by members when the reading was 2 30 and again last fall. in 1943 when the reading was 2 08 CATHOLIC PRIEST BACK at Kingman and 2.23 at Nyssa. Earlier records at the North Board AFTER TWO MONTHS ABSENCE The Rev. Father Rembert Ahles, office showed the January average from 1906 to 1930 was 1.15, only .01 rector o f St. Hubert’s Catholic Inches less than the recent 22 year church returned to Nyssa last Tues average. During that same period day after a two months’ absence. He January snowfall was 8.1 Inches. had been confined In a hospital at ••Normal” precipitation Is listed as San Francisco for two weeks, then .spent the remaining six weeks con 123 inches. Average temperatures for 14 years valescing in Phoenix. were recorded at 26 3 degree* during January, a 15-year mmimum aver UNDERGOES SURGERY Leo W. Child underwent surgery age was 17 4 degrees. There Is usually snow on the Wednesday at the Malheur Memor ground In January with a maximum ial hospital. He returned to his home Sunday. (Coct.nued ou Fag« 10) J Specialist Explains New Gun Equipment YMONG FFA MEMBERS who have set the pace in local March of Dimes collections by more than doubling their pledged amount are those in the above photograph. Left to right, they are Dale Peterson, Dwight W yckoff, ag instructor and FFA leader; V. L. Kesler. John Simianer, Don Bullard. Delbert Peterson, Jun- ius Tanner and Wayne Chesnnt. The FFA group collected S316.30 Satur- day, Jan. 10. $1200 In March-Dimes Coffers From Nyssa Area; Oilier Funds Unrepcrted Efforts thus far expended in the interests of the March of Dimes fund raising campaign were begin ning to bear fruit this week, accord ing to the report of Hal Henigson, chairman, which gave an approxi mate total o f $1,214 turned in to date. This figure included several size able .sums collected by local organi zations. Among these, and the a- mounts raised, were the FFA chap ter, $316.50; Eagles lodge, $325.50; Baptist Missionary church, $124.50; Adrian community, $101.85; Nyssa Annual Meeting 01 Farmers Co-op Is Next Thursday The annual meeting of the Farm ers Supply Cooperative of Nyssa and Ontario has been scheduled for Thursday of next week, starting at 10 a. m., at the Boulevard Grange hall in Ontario, it was announced by Sid Walker, manager of the Nyssa branch, and Alva P. Goodell, presi dent of the cooperative. Among important business mat ters to be brought before members of the co-op are tae election of two directors and presentation of the annual report by Manager C. E. Newcomer of Ontario. The members will also vote on amendments to the cooperative’s ar ticles and by-laws to increase the authorized capital to $500,000, to provide that patrons invest at least $100 to retain patronage savings in common stock, to minimize the in come tax payable under the 1951 federal co-op tax law and to provide a more definite method for alloca tion and distribution of patronage savings. The officials announced that amendments also include many other changes such as defining the number of members necessary for a quorum. junior high school. $26.11, and the senior high school, $11428. The Baptist church contribution came .from tihe sale at auction o f a weaner pig donated to the March of Dimes by Leslie Hia;;. high school senior and FFA member. The pig was sold Jan. 9 at the Union Live stock Commission sale Henigson reported that the On tario committee had turned to him this week $1,600 In contributions from that city. Activities in the Vale area re main unreported, Henigson said. LAWRENCE OLSON TO RETURN HOME Mr. and Mrs C K Olson have re ceived word from their son, Cpl. Lawrence Olson that he will leave Korea on Jan. 20 for the states. He has served in Korea 12 months with the U. 8. Air Force In technical supply and photography. 4,000 Acre Sugar Beet Area Added To Nyssa Factory District; Local Plant Operations Go Into February Local Schoolmen Will Attend Assoc. Meet Supt of Schools Henry Hartley will head a delegation of Nyssa school officials that will attend the Snake River Valley School Masters association monthly meeting at On tario next Monday night. Representatives o f the 16 schools in the association will have dinner at the East Side cafe, where a part of the business will be conducted, under the presiding of Arthur Hiem- sira, president. Principal item on the agenda is expected to be discussion o f tihe 1953 high school football schedule. Legion, Auxiliary Freedom Crusade Booths Next Week The area served by the Amalga mated Sugar Co.’s Nyssa factory haa been expanded to encompass ap proximately 4,000 additional acres of sugar beet land, with probable further extension of the area to be served by this plant, it was announ ced Tuesday by Jed Lewis, manager o f the Nyssa and Nampa plants. Taken into Nyssa’s area 1« the Parma district, which includes Ros well and Wilder in addition to tue Parma section, that was under the Caldwell district prior to revamp ing of districts and abandonment of a Caldwell sugar beet district sev eral weeks ago. Growers in that area were formerly serviced from the Nampa factory office and will now be serviced at Nyssa, Lewis said. The new area taken into Nyssa's district represents approximately 250 growers and about 80,000 tons of beets produced annually. The area Is one o f the largest in the valley and the addition is expected to have extensive and highly favorable eco nomic benefits for Nyssa and the surrounding community. On a family basis, the Individual growers represent approximately 1.000 additional people who are po tential customers of Nyssa mer chants. Lewis said that past exper ience has proved that “ trading hab its” o f growers and their families follow a pattern of their connection with a headquarters such as the Nyssa office. Even though the new territory does not affect the current factory campaign, the Nyssa plant will be In operation about 40 days longer than any factory in Idaho, the man ager stated. All other plants, both those of the Amalgamated Sugar Co. and other firms, completed their campaigns before Christmas and the Nampa plant halted operations Christmas day. Thg current payroll amounts to approximately $150,000 a month. At tlve present time there are 329 men employed at the Nyssa factory, ex cluding office and 'leld personnel. Reports received here Tue.Miay from San Antonio, Texas gave as surances there will be no labor pro blem here this spring or summer, the sugar company manager said. Workers will be recruited from southwest Texas and the various types of work in this area makes it less difficult to get the workers for the lower Snake river valley. The Nyssa American Legion and auxiliary are sponsoring this year’s Crusade for Freedom drive for ex pan um of radio free Europe and Mr Rolland Laura nee has been named general chairman for the drive. Mrs. Laurance announced that booths will be set up at the post o f fice and Wilson's Super Market next Tuesday and Wednesday to collect contributions for the Nyssa area drive. Those contributing will be able to sign their names and add resses to messages of greeting and encouragement in the language of the satellite nations of Central Europe and In Mandarin and Can Colds and other respiratory ail tonese Chinese for Asia. At the close ments this week reach almost epi o it the campaign the message will be demic proportions in both the Nyssa sent through the Iron Curtain. It was explained that the main high school and grade school, it was reported by Henry Hartley, superin purpose of the Crusade for Freedom is to obtain popular support for City and state police officers ar tendent. rested Tony Arriztm, 23. Mexican Abstentees totalled 44 Tuesday af l -dio free Europe and radio free said to be in this country illegally, at ternoon in the high school, with 138 A.-la. The program is chiefly for the 9 p. m. Tuesday in the Nyssa Thea marked absent for the day In the purpose of piercing the Iron Cur tain with truth, to build for the tre following a three-hour search grade school. future by educating young refugees on a charge of rape. The high school figure resulted tn According to the warrant served the lowering o f the normal 93 per from the Communist .satellite na on him by City Police Officer Hull cent absenteeism to 85 percent, it tions, to develop unity and a plat and State Officer Larson, Arrizon was pointed out, although the liigh form for the future among exile was specifically charged with for number of students being absent is groups, to gather and distribute in formation about conditions in the cibly ravishing a woman 1ft years of not viewed with alarm. captive areas, and to create public age or upwards. support for the fight against Com The rape allegedly took place at munism in America, Mrs. Laurance 5 p. m. Tuesday on the premises of said. Coco’s cafe in the vicinity of No. 8th Members of the Nyssa Municipal Radio transmitters, privately ope and Ehrgood streets. band were busy thus week, both with Arrizon, who was arrested on a final rehearsals and with ticket sell rated. have been able to penetrate | warrant issued by Justice o f the ing for their band show next week. the Iron Curtain as has been proved by statements of escaping refugees, Peace Don Graham at 6 p. m. Tues The show will be held in the high day, was arrainged before Judge school gymnasium at 8 p. m. this Communist denials o f statements Graham at 11:30 a. m. Wednesday. Thursday, with Leon Burt directing. made on programs and Communist Stop signs are being erected at efforts to Jam the programs as they Judge Graham said testimony, most of the intersections on coun'.y come through. furnished by the victim, a 30-year old Nyssa woman who was able to The goal of this year’s campaign and Nyssa Road district No. 1 roads throughout Malheur county, County give ipolice officers the first name Jan. 16. son to Mr. and Mrs Nor- throughout America Is $4 million to and full description o f her assail velle Robbins, Nyssa; son to Mr. fight Communism in Asia and Commissioner Alva Goodell announ ced. The signs are the result o f ac ant, was sufficient to bind him over and Mrs. Ralph Young, Nyssa. Europe, Mrs. Lauranc« said. tion taken by the county court last to tiie county grand Jury. fall to legalize the erection of stop Unable to post ball o f $1,500, Ar- signs and to make certain roads rlzo was committed to the county through thoroughfares. Members of jail at Vale. the road district board of directors are cooperating with the county and all regulations applying to the county pertain to the road district. Goodell explained that most east V L Kesler edged out Junius T an and west roads in the county are ner for coveted first place In the an thoroughfares with certain excep Letters received last week by E L. growth of brush and trees, the for nual Future Farmers o f America tions. In the road district, Lytle speech contest, staged last Thursday Jamison from U. S. Sen. Guy Cor mation of bars, and other channel Boulevard, a north and south road, in the Little Theatre o f the high don and U. 8. Rep Sam Coon stated aggradation which has materially is a thoroughfare with traffic from school. Third place went to Larry that $50,000 Is being allotted for reduced the channel capacity. Ac intersecting roads coming from the clearing and straightening of the cordingly, even relatively minor east or west, being forced to stop be Holmes. Kesler will thus represent Nyssa Owyhee river at several locations floods now overflow agricultural fore entering. Also in the road dis high school and the local chapiter along the lower eight miles of the properties and transportation facili trict is a north and south thorough ties, causing extensive damage. For fare extending from Nyssa’s Third at the district FFA district speech stream. contest, set for Wednesday and Rep. Ooon’s letter stated, “As I example, the flood of April 1952 street, for which all east and west Thursday, Feb. 4 and 5, at Ontario. understand it, the $50,000 is being damaged agricultural lands, washed traffic must stop. The county commissioner announ alloted to this project with the pro out county roads at several locations vision that local Interests furnish and destroyed two bridges o f the ced that anyone having suggestions assurances that they will assume Union Pacific railroad. The direct for stop signs at dangerous comers, full resp>onsibility for maintaining damages from this flood were esti where arrangements have not been mated at the time at $220,000. The made by either the county court or the work. An essay and poster contest spon overall flood problem In the Owyhee the road district, should notify Brig. Oen. C. H. Chorpening, as sored by the Oregon Federation of river basin will be given oonsidera- either board so that officials action Garden clubs Is being sponsored in sistant chief of engineers o f civil [ tlon in connection with our recently can be taken. Nyssa by the A.N.K. Oarden club I works, in a letter to Sen. Cordon re authorized comprehensive Investiga Goodell said that failure to ob and is open to both Junior high and viewed a report furnished by the tion o f that stream. That procedure, serve the stop signs is a traffic vio dLstrlct engineer at Walla Walla tn senior high school students, It was however, is not a solution of lm- lation and in the event o f an inter announced this week. The purpose of which the Owyhee river was de I mediate needs.” section accident of any kind, ^ d riv scribed as having a drainage area the contest is to encourage young er “going through" a stop sign is The assistant chief of engineers people to obtain knowledge o f the of some 12,000 square miles In Ne held liable, regardless o f whether or explained provisions of the flood vada, Idaho and Oregon. problems of conservation. not he Is on the right o f the other “The Owyhee valley along the oontrol act of Aug. 28, 1937 which The choice of subjects for either vehicle. limits the maximum expenditure for essay work or the poster is varied lower 13 miles o f the stream is a such work to $50,000 on any single enough to interest many students. highly developed, Intensely cultivat tributary for any one fiscal year. Subjects to be considered are soil ed agricultural area where many His letter to Sen. Cordon continued: erosion, flood control, water resour crops are grown under Irrigation,” “ After consideration o f the data ces, animal life, wild flowers, fores the repxirt stated. Further describing Only four convalescent polio pa try. protection o f parks, improve the project, Oen. Chorpening said, furnished by our division and dis ment of recreational areas, birds and T h e Owyhee dam and reservoir, trict engineers It has been deter tients remain In the Malheur M a- with a total storage capacity o f a- mined that the clearing and straigh morlal hospital following the trans fish. District essays and praters should bout 1,130,000 acre feet, is a bureau tening of the Owyhee river at a fer of George Ren wick to the Elks’ be turned in to Mrs. Bud Wilson o f reclamation project located at number o f locations along the low Convalescent hospital In Boise. Ren- local chairman. A local award o f $5 river mile 25.0, and has its entire er eight miles o f the stream may be wick, who must spend part o f the will be presented by the A N K. G ar usable storage o f 715,000 acre feet accomplished . . . and would be of time tn a respirator, will be cared . . . benefit In reducing flooding, If for with other similar cases In the den club and there will be a $36 reserved for irrigation.” The report continued In detail: properly maintained. . . . You may Boise hospital. prize for the best essay in the state Hospital officials report that sev as well as the same amount for the “Since the start of irrigation ope be assured that this work will be rations at the dam, the channel of accomplished as expeditiously as eral polio victims, who have been best all-state poster All posters and essays mu*t be the river has undergone a drastic practicable, upon receipt of the re released, are reporting at regular In completed by F<-b 36, Mrs WUeon change. The small regulated down quired a durances for maintenance tervals for physio - tiheraphy treat- mersts. stream flow have augmented the of the work by local interest«.” said. Transient Charged With Rape Of Nyssa Woman Absentee Wave Hits Nyssa School System Band Show Thursday Slop Signs Being Erected al Most Corners in County Births 2 Queens Crowned At Gold-Green Ball Kesler to Represent Nyssa stake house was the scene FFA In District Meet Saturday night lor the colorful an nual Gold and Green ball, sponsored jointly by the Young Women and Young Men Mutual Improvement associations o f the L. D. S. first ward. Co-chairmen for the affair were Mrs. Carrie Fife and Vern Moncur, presidents of their respective M I.A. groups. Highlight of the evening was the dual crowning o f Gold and Green queens by Bishop Gordon Ray and Mrs. Leda Ray. Crowned were Miss Olive Beus and Miss Avon Peterson. Princesses in attendance were Jo Ann Moncur, daughter o f Vern Moncur, and her cousin, Judy Moncur. Special features o f the bail were an exhibition of the Tennessee Waltz, by Darlene Bateman and Valdo Talbot; a vocal duet, Winter Waltz, by Lloyd Poulson and Mrs. Blanche Jeffries, and a six-couple exhibition of the Skater’s WaKz. Participating In this were, by pairs, Kenneth Cottle and Merle Bumingham, Vard Olson and Mary Lou Bateman, Kay Riggs and Carolyn Vaughn, Valdo Talbot and Darlene Bateman and Devone Leavitt and Corrine Fry. Accompanist for the program numbers was Mrs Hortense Zobell, with Devone Leavitt acting as mas ter o f ceremonies. The men o f the local Christian church were host* to 301 guests of tlie Laymen’s League of Southwest ern Idaho and Eastern Oregon for a fellowship dinner and meeting Monday evening at the church. Men were present from as far distant as Mountain Home, Ida., with a dele gation of 40 reported from Boise First church, large groups from Caldwell and Nampa and represen tatives from throughout Malheur county and other towns o f the area The program Included two selec tions by the violin trio from the high school composed of Doris Rig- ney, Lois Wilson and Amy Lewis, accompanied at the piano by Phyllis Cheldelin and three vocal numbers by Hugh Tobler with Mrs. C. W. Buchner accompanist. H W. Van Slyke o f Caldwell, president of the Laymen’s League was presiding officer and introduced the guest peaker. the Rev. Monte Smith, pastor of the Weiser Christ- tian church. Rev. Smith gave a three-fold talk on "W e Have the Must and We have the Money with which to accomplish the message and must"; closing with a note on stew ardship. Community singing was led by Harry Harper o f Caldwell with Mrs. Elvln Ballou at the piano. R. A Thral of Emmett, in charge of at tendance awards, presented the first award to the Mountain Home church for having the largest ag gregate miles for their delegation. The Christian Women’s Fellow ship o f the local church, under the chairmanship of their president, Mrs. Richard Mason, served dinner to the group. FIRST SECTION Army Engineers Alloied $50,000 for Clearing,Slraightening Owyhee River Channel Where 1952 Floods Occured A.N.K. Garden Club Offers Cash Prize Four Polio Cases Remain In Hospital