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THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL. NYSSA. OREGON iri -HSJAY. Ji NE 4. 1953
Larceny of Funds Television C o m es
Charged Against From
In ° n High
Bounce
Clouds
Harry S. Sackett
TWELVE PAGES
216 Awards Presented to Students
During Annual Class. Award Night
At Nyssa High School Last Week
Television came to Nyssa last week
and Monday even though there are
Nyssa high school gave 216 letter
Three indictments charging )ar- no TV broadcasting stations within
certificate
awards U during
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crilllL clU t?
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ceny of public money were returned range of this area. No surprise to
last week against Malheur County radio and television people, who ex-
seunbly
embly May 26 to students and class
Clerk Harry S. Sackett by the coun- plained that reception here resulted
groups.
ty grand jury. Circuit Judge M. A. from cloud reflections, but the gen-
Biggs, who is presiding in court in eral public assumed the “ I'm from
Ramon Bergam, retiring stud“nt
Harney county this week, set Mon- Missouri" attitude and flocked to
body president, presided over the
day as the date for Sackett to en- Wilson Brothers Department Store THE BICYCLE BRIGADE in the passed their bicycle training tests in the right background. Bicycles
all-student and faculty participation
ter a plea He is free on $500 bail on and Peterson Furniture Co. where above photograph is composed of with flying colors and received rer- wviv also scotch-lighted by the Jun-
program.
each count.
several programs, complete with pic- students of Nyssu grade school who tificates from Elvin Ballou, shown ¡or chamber of commerce.
The Rev John Briehl, past r
Student council awards were made
the Nyssa Lutheran church, i
District Attorney Charles Swan tures and sound were being “ boun -1
to the retiring and incoming officers
-peaker Saturday at special Mentor- bv R. V. Wilson, high school princi-
said that the first charge allegedly ced" to the receivers from overhang- J
lal day services conducted at Hill- pai.
involved $305 20 received July 3, 1951 ing clouds.
crest
by * the Veterans
of
from John Lequerica for a down
Both business firms installed high
Y ~1 — _ cemetery
t»f
—
* Nineteen
X iliCICvIi iv
t tv 1 ti
A it 1 VI -o were
•» t. i C y»
t
letter
awards
pre-
payment on a contract for county antennas several week* ago in prep- j
S
sented by Coach Howard Lovejoy to
owned land. The second indictment aration for regular TV broadcasting |
der O?
d Fraernal ° r* Dan Lovejoy, Rob and Dave Hartley,
allegedly resulted from the payment from Boise next month. Harold
der of Eagies.
steve Talbot. Dave Savage, Junius
of $139 50 on June 10, 1951 by Bud Brendle manager of Petersons, has
Tlie Legion Auxiliary made 37 Tanner, Dick Gus-tavson, Harry
Rogers on the sale of a county own- 1 installations complete at his home j
wreaths and placed them on every Bumgarner. Larry Vaughn, Bob
Ny-*a Eagle* ledge and its auxil
ed cattle guard. The third allegedly and reported good reception theTe
vereran's
grave in the cemetery. T vo Baker. Elzie Pierce, Rod H lcom h,
iary will held joint installation of
took place Sept. 11, 1951 when $100 this week Richard Labor, 436 North
pillo vs of pansies wreaths for Gold jim C crfietd Ted Keck, R ob ert Tur-
Rfgistered
voters
in
off
cers
in
the
lodge
hall
at
8
p
in.
Nyssa
vili
To
Nyssa
ha*
come
another
was pa.a by Shirley D Tucker for 11th, reported satisfactory TV pro-
Star mothers and a wreath of pop- ner. Leslie Hiatt. Walter D.llon, Glen
the purcha-e of county c vned bull- gram* were coming in ever his set tinction—that cf being visited ty Friday night, with Robert Tactiib have an opportunity n X Monday p t* were made especially for me Marcum and Dick Herriman, n un-
to
vote
yes
or
no
on
a
sp
and
Mrs.»Johnny
Russell
as
in
tai
■
rial
annual
"flying
saucers.”
*ervice by Mrs. E. K Burton. The Uger.
last Thursday and again Monday.
dozer blade.
five-mill tax lew for oil V street ùn ! four organizations placed a special
First to report seeing the agron ling off.cer*.
Programs received here included
The district attorney aid that ihe
Lovejoy also presented 11 baseball
fr>v
A
dance
for
members
and
their
provements
for
the
fiscal
years
1953-
omical phenomenon, or strange me
; wreath on the veterans' monument lettermen with their awards. They
grand jury found that the funds had broadcasts fr. m \ma:ri'.o, Texas, chanical
gue-t-s vill fellow the installation 51 through 1957-58. The special levy in the cemetery.
contraption—take
your
Minneapolis and St. Paul, and Oma-
been converted for the defendant
were Vaughn, D Lovejoy, Sivage,
ceremonies.
would raise approximately $3.500 per
C E H™ :h of rcute 2-
Mrs. Don Graham said that Mrs. Talbot, Delwin Mace, Ned Snider,
own use, but were accounted for at t o The two business U itos reported
L dge members to be installed in- year, based on present assessed v.il-
Nyssa.
John Broad and members of the Holcomb, Marcum, Ken Snodgrass,
they were able to receive two or
a later date.
Heath called the Journal office clude Dr. Glen Kenasten. president, uation, and would replace the same
Robert Lytle of Vale and Robert E. more programs for more than an late Tuesday to report set.r.g the vho succeed* D.ek Udlinec: Earl amount of money that ha* been re- j auxiliary provided flowers from Gearald Cox and Gene Servoss.
which the wreaths were made.
Lees c f Ontario are attorneys for the hour without interruption,
Harry McQtnley pre*ented letter
trange” object in the sky while he Bingham, vice president: Woedro v ceived in the past from the county,
county clerk.
awards to 13 ba*ketball players, in
and his sen. Clarence, were planting Seuell, chaplain, Earl Purvis, treas-
The city received one half of ail
cluding Pierce, Hiatt, D. Lovejoy,
Other indictments returned by the
spuds at his ranch, a mile and a urer; Ed Brandt, conductor; John the money raised in Nyssa on the
H b Hartley, Marcum, Jerry Browne,
grand jury and defendants arraign-I
half north of town, about 4:45 p.m. Johnson, inner guard: Robert Run- 10-mill county-wide road tax. but
Harold Bumgarner, Snider, Dillon,
ed last Friday were: Charles L.
Saturday.
corn, outer guard, ar.d Joe Bellon, taxpayers were relieved of the full
Talbot, Holcomb, J. Tanner and Cox.
Strong charged with forging the
Heath said their attention was three-year board member.
ten mills when the issue was voted
name of his employer to a check in
drawn to the sky by a passing plane.
The auxiliary will in. tall Mrs. down t vice by voters of the county,
Letter awards were given to 25
payment of labor. He is being held
bt ond which they sav an object Gladys Byers, president, successor to "Actually, Nyssa taxpayers will be
trackmen by Kinsey Keveren, in
in the county jail in lieu of payment
which seemed to hang stationary as Mrs. Ward Tyler: Mrs. Dorothy paying five mills le * for roads than
cluding Jerry Gordon, Ronald Buck
of SIOCO bail. Daniel Bueno was in
the plane winged its way toward On- Runcorn, vice president; Mrs. Lu- they have in the past even if they
ner, Ronald Forbess, Bob Amble. R.
dicted on a charge of stealing a car
'
cille
Runcorn,
chaplain;
Mrs.
Bar-
tario.
cine rtuncorn, cnapiam; airs. Bar- approve the special tax,” City Man-
Hartley, Ramon Bergam, Harold and
in Ontario and is being held under
Nyssa high school graduated n Harry Bumgarner, Don Bullard. Ken
NyssaV budget committee Tuesday
As described by Heath, the object bara Jacques, secretary; Mrs. M ir- ager E. K Burton said,
$1000 bail. Arthur Williams was night approved a general budget of was similar to a full moon, although nn Meyers, treasurer; Mrs, Lii'.ie
The city manager explained that class of 36 boys and 32 girls In im Cottle. J. Tanner, R. Tanner, Doyle
charged with forging a $20 check $75,258, an increase over that of the 1 smaller with the upper side brighter Hopper, inner guard; Mrs. Betty the special tax is neces-ary to main pressive commencement exerc
exercises Carroll, Keck. Jim Points. D. Love-
and is being held under $1000 bail. 1952-53 fiscal year, but one that will than the lower side. The impression Paries, cuter guard, ar.d Mr*. lone tain the city’s streets and alleys be last Thursday evening, with J. L Joy, Hiatt, Kenny Toomb. Ronald
Juan Torrens Miguel Ra*con
and leave the mill levy at 18.5 outside a of its arrested state came. Heath Storm, cne-year b, ard member.
cause of the lack cf funds from the • Lev) Herriman, chairman of the Cooper, Ronald Pruyn, Daryl Wil
Mr*. Lydia Wilson will serve
Juan Ganzale* were indicted for al- special street tax if approved n e x t' said, with the moving of clouds in
county. If the entire amount had 10 school board, presenting the gradu liams, Talbot, Savage and Dick Cor-
auxiliary mother for the year.
legedly stealing $100 worth of tool.*. Tuesday.
j the same direction as the plane.
field, manager.
be taken from the general fund to ates with their diplomas.
Donald Richard*on and Jce Burg
c i ty Manager E. K. Burton said
Heath said he was unsure as to
Richard LoSasso presented a ma
The large class was presented for
make up for the defied brought a-
were indicted cf robbery resulting tj,e budget is based on anticipated! whom to report the incident, bui af T
bout by defeat of the county tax. graduation by Richard V. Wilson, jorette award to Olive Beus, yell
front the theft of $104.52 from Wil- income c f $75,253, an increase cf ter bad phone connection* prevented
leader awards to Janell Haney, Irene
there would not be enough money high school principal.
liani Kreiter who had given them a $ 3,195 over the current year, includ- calls to Fort Le vis, Wash., and Spo-
to meet ether obligations, he said.
Dr. Paul M. Pitman, president, the and Sylvia Jayo and Betty Jean
a ride as hitch-hiker*. They are be- ins approximately $3,500 that will be kane, he talked with an officer at
The combined millage being paid ; College of Idaho, delivered the com Strickland, and a band award to
ing held under $1000 bail.
raised if voters approve a five-m ill! Go wen Field, Boise, who told him to
at the pre.-ent time for city a n d , mencement address. He was intro . j Lynette Hickman.
LoSasso also gave orchestra n-
District Attorney Swan said the street tax.
1 make his report to Paul Penrod,
county expenses amounts to 39.5 in- duced by Henry Hartley, .*chcol su-
wards to 12 students, including Gar
grand jury has been discharged and
Actually the amount budgeted for ^.vssa civilian defense officer,
j eluding the county road tax that perintendent.
The object was also seen by
net Ritchie, Lyle Wilson, Bill HJ-
expires June 30. This is broken down
the next grand jury will be selected streets is only $2,500 greater than
The capped nnd gowned class, the
(Continued on Page 12)
from the current jury list.
[ to 18.5 mill* for the city and 21 mills girls in gleaming white and the boys
1 that for the current year which was Heath’s wife and daughter-in-law
Dollar Days, with which will be for the county. The combined mill- fn black, slowly marched up the
budgeted from the general fund.
combined “ Nyssa T V. Days," will age, if Nyssa voters approve the ,asie of the high school auditorium i
Among increased expenses approved
return to Nyssa this month, as re - 1 street tax,» would be 34.5, or five to the tune of the Grand March i
by the budget committee are tele
phones which have risen from $175
suit of the Nyssa Business Men’s as- mill: le.*s than they are paying now, from “ Aida," rendered by the high
sooiation voting at lts»Tuesday noon Burton explained
to $720 because of the new fire and
school orchestra directed by Rich-
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police alarm system, electricity for
Au£hority to ^ en MalheUr coun- meeting to participate in the dual
ard LoSasso.
1 more and larger street lights and j , public welfare rolls for public
The Rev. H. G. McCallister, pastor]
numerous other increases.
June 18-20 were the dates set by
of the Methodist church, gave th e!
inspection had not been received
invocation, which was followed by a 1
Anticipated revenue has risen pro Monday, but complete information the association for the combined
X T 'C X I T Ti
1
student speech by Miss Amy Lewis, I
portionately including a larger a- from state headquarters is expected Nv M TV-DoUar Day* event, Which| I M y S S O V i W F O S t
Crcp damage resulting from a hail mount expected from the state gas later this week, it was announced by will have as Its minor theme the an
I Sugar beet acreage in the area
Emil Wohlcke, who was elected salutatorian of the class.
storm and near-cloudburt Sunday tax and other sources that will bring Mrs. Dorothy Berger, Administrator nual Father’s Day observance.
commander of the Nyssa Veterans of
L: K ? y„ Bi*Ss, class valedictorian, served by the Amalgamated Sugar
evening was reported from negligible a natural increase with expansion of of the Malheur county welfare office.
With
television
reception
coming! » Foreign
Wars
Wednesday,
.P.
f . ,
is — about
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. a vocal selection. by | Co.’s Nyssa factory
»
— * 28 * per-
to extensive in localized areas. The activities.
ni~ . school. mixed chorus, “ My cent greater than that of last year,
Mrs. Berger said that a bulletin re here with the completion early in I was installed Wednesday night of ,,
Till» of » a Tt
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n . other
.
M i II fll
If* t . "Svm
v}’l HIT • P Jed
f o/l Lewis,
I m ttr i e W
ire iso _ M o in
m
o rv ) roe
this
week
with
neviy GOtI*V.
Country." A
A V
violin
duet.
"Sym T
phonie.
Nyssa-Nampa
manager,
hail storm was centered around Nys-
A detailed account oi the city’s ceived last week instructed the coun July
TV TV broadcasting
station in l
sa, reportedly about a three mile budget for the 1953-54 fiscal year ty department to keep a list o f per Boise, the Gate City Journal Journal elected officers. Joint instalkition I ? oncei'tallte No: 1 was_ played by announced. He said that the increase
strip from Overstreet road to south will appear in next week's Journal. sons making inquiry about the wel will feature local TV dealers in their ceremonies were held with Ontari >'s j
^ ‘ sney, •
’»c- is far greater here than it is in the
of Nyssa
area served by the Nampa factory.
post at the Ontario Veterans M e -, cn™ P a,]led by Vela Dee Poulsen.
The budget committee recommen fare rolls. So far, there have been debut into the television field.
Tom Burningham reported that ded to the city council that a study no inquiries here, she said.
Contrary to early reports of hail
&’b<>larsh;P a ward* were presented
Nyssa has seven TV dealers. They morlal hall with Ralph Cornmesser
some damage was discovered north ^ made of wJater rental rates wlt£
According to the new law passed are Wilson Bros. Department Store. 11th district commander presiding.
presiding ( b:v C°uie Aitebery, senior class *d- damage in the immediate Nyssa are*
of Nyssa where leaves had been the idea of _________________
Other new officers o f the Nyssa i visor, to eight seniors. Kay Riggs re Sunday evening, Lewis stated that
_ pro- by the last Oregon legislature and intermountain Furniture Co., Ed
possible increases to
stripped from potato vines, although vide a working fund. The present ! signed 'April 29 by the governor, any Case Furniture Co., Nyssa Furniture post are Douglas Fllppence, senior ceivcd two for $500 each, one a sus- the damage was practically non-
the damage was so spotted in the rate is $2 per month for domestic registered voter may inspect the Co., Peterson Furniture Co. and Eder vice commander; Ted Te.*ke, junior talnlng scholarship for the College existant. The excessive rain o f the
fields checked that it is believed use, a rate in force for over 10 i rolls, but there are certain restric- Hardware Co.
vice commander; Don Graham, of Idaho and the other from the pa*t month can be considered a
"million dollar rain," insofar as the
even th~.se damaged will make a years, and 5 cents per front foot for *ons on the use of names of those
The Dollar Day theme has been a chaplain; Clifford Mink, quarter- Oregon Federation of Labor.
Doris Rigney received a four-year beet crop and pastureland is con-
comeback. Other produce men re irrigation purposes.
persons receiving public welfare popular one in Ny.*.*a, the most sue- master; E. E. Cloninger, po-H advo-
ported little or no damage to potato
I cessful promotion in many months cate, and Kermit Lienkaemper, three full tuition and fee scholarship to cerned, he commented. "The storm
Members of the budget committee | funds.
Eastern Oregon College of Educa- has been good for the beet crop, and
crops they had inspected and Henry
The
new
law
requires
that
a
list
of
being the Dollar Dav promotion con- I year trustee,
tion from the Oregon Congress of even though it has delayed thinning.
7. bell,
Amalgamated Sngar Co. were Jed Lewis, chairman, Carlos all public assistance ree.pients in the ducted last February by the Journal
Parents nnd Teachers.
ft will Increase the tonnage far more
fieldman, said the sugar beet dam Buchner, secretary, Orin Sumner, county, together with their addresses
Walker Low and John Palmer, as
Freight Shipments
Jack Teague received a scholar- than enough to overcome the slight
age was practically nil.
and
amounts
paid
for
the
previous
ship if $120 to Ea-tern Oregon Col- extra cost of blocking at a slightly
Onion crops are reported by Burn well as members of the city council. month will be made public
Ken Snodgrass Enlists Increase Xkis Year
lege cf Education from the La- later than normal date,” Lewis went
ingham to be extensively damaged
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by the extensive rain of the past
cn to say.
In
Paratrooper
Unit
There
<fas
a
decided
Increa
ing
in
State Attorney Gen.
several days, as well as lack of Sun
By Wednesday night approximate
Graduation day was also com- both incoming and outgoing rail
shine. Some field* are turning yel
ly 90 percent of the crop in this area
mencement
day
for
Kenneth
Sued-
shipments
during
May
over
the
same
To Make Address
low, he said, but there is hope that
had been thinned to bring all opera
grass, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lynn month last year, it was reported by
some of the crop can be salvaged
tions almost up to normal. The rapid
Robert Y. Thornton, state attor- Snodgrass, who began a three-year Thomas Jones, Union Pacific agent
Most recent ne w equipment at the ney general, will address an audience hitch in the airborne corp* upon his for Nyssa.
with immediate summer weather.
make-up of time lost by unfavorable
Flowers and family gardens were Malheur Memorial hospital is a pos compli ed of members of Nyssa’s induction last Thur*day at Boise. Jones said that 167 cars of freight
weather conditions can be attributed
itive
pressure
attachment
for
the
re-
battered by hail and rain Sunday
A total of £0 charges were made ¡to the new mechanized operations,
service clubs, granges, church groups
Young Sncdgra* who is 17 years were received here Ia*t month as
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M o __ f reports
. ----- sp.rator donated by residents of the . and women’s o r g a n iz a tio n s _______________
_________
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____ _ with
_____ 103
™ cars ,,,
evening
at a of age and _____
ha ■ aspirations
of __
becom-
compared
in May, 1952. and 74 people were arrested by city j the sugar company manager repori-
that gardens will either have to be
«urns community last winter. public meeting in the high school ing a mini- ter enl:*ted several week- During May 1953 there were 127 P 'Uce during May, according to the j ed At least 10 percent of the opera-
replanted or the family project post-
Pete Fici.*-ner. hospital physio- gym at I p. m. Friday.
ago but was granted a reprieve un-I cars of various commodities - 1'ipn . ’
1 I *1 !'■<’•’ department’« monthly tion here is completely mechan.z-d
poned until another season. Cattle- therapist, explained that the attach- The speaker, whose subject
i* til graduation day
from Nyssa
to show an lncrei.se rpPorl
Th(’
report showed that a for the first time in history, and
men have welcomed the exce.** rain
men; synchronizes air or gas pres- “Prostitution -Do We Need It?," will
He left early M nday morning f. r over n i leaving here during May :' |T■’ 1 * ■ * ' ;1
> been collected in sb ut TO percent < : the o p
that has brought moisture to the
sure to provide both negative and be introduced by Malheur county Fort Lewis. W.t h for an eight-day last year. Incoming freight amount- flnes and J al1 pntences amounted being handled with partial mechan-
i ical operations formerly done entire-
area s dry rangeland. An ‘ open positive pressure in the respirator, prosecuting attorney Charles Swan. Indoctrination course before leaving ed to 43,373 pounds during the month
127 days,
winter followed by an early spring The respirator has only negative Thornton’s address will be follow- for Fort Campbell, Ken for para- Just passed as compared with 47 210
o f lhe 80
different charge filed, ! ly by hand labor. Le wis explained
35
were for Public
public Intoxication,
lntoxicatio; 23 that the mechanical thinners are
caused considerable concern for the pressure and is used for polio vict- ed bv a question and answer forum,
trooper training
during the same period last year
35 '*ere
ranges that failed to get sufficient ims and for other oases in which j -------------------------------------------- -------- ---------------------------- 1 ______________________________________ ___________ J
were traffic violations and the r e - 1 better able to control weeds, elimi-
moisture for spring grass, according j long artificial respiration is required, j
maining 32 were miscellaneous min- natc weak plants and In general cut
to reports-
I Tlle attachment takes room air
i or violations. Traffic arrests included the rnan-hours of labor that Is aa
Sunday's hail and rain storm com- ; through a filter — on to which oxyg-
1 nine persons arrested for having no expense to growers,
pleted something of a record for en or helium tanks can be attached
operators' licenses and were arrest-I “The general beet crop Is farth'T
May precipitation with a total of — into the lungs of a patient being
ed only after a previous warning advanced than it was a year ago at
2.33 inches during the month. Of treated in the respirator, or iron
bad been is ued. Three of the ar- this time and we have every reason
this total, .47 inches fell Sunday, lung. While pressure inside the re
j rests were for drunken driving.
| to expect another bumper crop thi»
according to North Beard of Con- spirator is released, the attachment
During the month 26 complaints year," Lewis said He stated that It
The Gate City Journal was informed last week by Neighboring newspapers have sine* the “fateful May 7
trol records. During May, the 19th forces air into the lungs to compel Postmaster Lloyd Lewis that no mention of any draw- issue of the Journal” earried stories and advertising al- were reoorded, although David Gray, | is impossible to make any predic-
was the “ wettest” when .70 inches! synchronized movement of the pat-
ings, free give-aways with tickets, intimation of some- most identical with that carried in the Journal, but who was acting chief of police at tlons about the sugar content, which
fell, followed by .56 inches last ient’s lungs, which might be paral- thing free on a drawing or the names of winners can it is believed that Nyssa’s “crime” is the only one re that time, stated that numerous| is dependent on numerous factor*
Thursday.
ized or damaged to limit the normal, lic made if the newspapor is to be accepted for delivery ported to postal inspei tors, who have no choice but to other reports were not recorded be - 1 that cannot be determined until th*
(Continued on Page 12)
| involuntary movement.
cause of lack of time.
I crop Is harvested next fall.
through the United States mail.
“enforce regulations to the very letter.”
The order came to the Nyssa postmaster from Paul D.
Like all other activities, both this newspaper and the
Bentley, inspector in charge of the post office depart- local post offioe, have heretofore taken the stand that
ment inspection service, Seattle and was confirmed by precedent and custom are guiding factors.
Ross Kizley, solicitor, post office department. Washing-
Postmaster Lewis stated that any postmaster has
the authority to intercept incoming mail of any kind--
ton, D. C.
The Journal had announced a sales promotion prog- publieations, circulars and even first class letters—and
T Sgt. Robert C. Jones, a member the air intelligence corps, in which j *ram sponsored by the Nyssa Business Men’s assoc- withhold them from delivery if it Is believed that postal
Nyssa Lions club Is officially in j carries the signatures of Walter F.
for the past 11 years of the army air capacity he has had the opportunity iation, a commute of the chamber of commerce, in regulations are being violated In regard to the lottery business once again—after opérât- Dexter, International president, and
Ing some seven years without a Melvin Jones, secretary,
intelligence, arrived in Nyssa last to meet officers and soldiers of the the issue of ■VIav 7- A c|1PPin* was mailed by an un- laws.
The Journal publisher, Duane R. Alters, Is announc charter. The charter has been lost I Jones was the organizer o f th*
Thursday to spend a 30-day leave various UN armies serving in the known person to the inspector in Seattle, but the oom-
ing
that
postal
regulations
will
be
complied
with
acc-
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs Far East.
plainant’s name was not revealed to Postmaster Lewis
during all that time, and all efforts Lions organization when, in 1914,
Thomas Jones.
It is the personal opinion of Sgt
or the Journal. It was assumed that someone familiar ording to decisions of the postal inspector, the solicitor of officers to find It have been for he conceived the idea o f uniting on
This is Sgt Jones’ first visit here Jones that peace will be won or lost with postal regulations and the post office headquart- and In turn the local postmaster, whose instructions naught.
the basis of unselfish service busi
since 1948. and it terminates a 35- in the Far East He bases this opin- ers for this district, or an individual or group with must come from higher authority, but who must be
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It was right there all the
time- ness men’s clubs in
the United
month tour of service in the Far ion on his own belief that Russia is access to such Information, entered the protest for held responsible, along with a publisher, In determining meaning the back of the Marshall States which had no other affflia-
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store, tt*
where
Victor' Habur
tions.
East, where he has been a member afraid o f her own back door, mean- reasons unknown.
The Seattle inspector's letter in part, stated: “It is
Postmaster I«cwis has been conferring with other ' chak found it last Wednesday and
of an air intelligence unit stationed ing that Russia’s attempt to com-
The International Association of
Lions clubs was formed In 1917,
in Korea.
munize China is not working out ac- our judgment that the article does violate the lottery postmasters in the area, but none has been informed j took it to Calvin Wilson,
laws and it Is suggested you contact the editor of the of any recent crack-down. Some of them indicated re- Wilson explained that the Mar-
when an organization meeting was
At the end of his leave, Sgt. Jones cording to plan,
luctance to warn publishers and patrons or to forbid
hall Wells store building at one held in Chicago, at which approxi
will report to Craig Field, a pilot
ROK army officers, according to newspaper and inform him accordingly.”
The Nyssa postmaster referred the matter, along mailing of matter pertaining to lotteries because of dif- time housed the old Oate City res- mately 150 Independent clubs were
training center at Selma, Ala., for Sgt. Jones, "think that America is
taurant, where the Lions club held represented. The first annual oon-
routine duties.
God's gift to the Far East,” and this with the clipping, to the office of solicitor, post office ferences in interpretation of the law.
According to a ropy of postal lottery laws, even the forth in it* weekly meetings,
Sgt Jones’ armv career dates back well expresses the general sentiment department. Washington, D. C., and reeelved confirm-
I vent ion wa s held in October o f that
to September, 1940. when he enlisted of the Far East toward the United ation of the order to caution the Journal publisher the person who mailed a check to purchase tickets J W h e n apparent that the charter year at Dallas, Tex.
in the Canadia army at Trail, B.C., States, Jones added,
"against depositing such matter in the mails in the for Nyssa’s promotion Is subject to penalties. The pub- was lost for good, Wilson said tne
Jones still holds the office of in
Usher of a newspaper carrying news or advertising Lions International office was pe- ternational secretary.
while a student at Spokane, Wa-ii.
Th: feeling ha- c me atout Sgt. future.”
Because a precedent has been set through Hie north- pertaining to lotteries, or any person sending such in titioned for * n o t on*, but the re-
Of the 26 signatures of charter
Two years later he was transfer- Jones stated, as result o f two sepa-
members on the charter, headed by
red to the U. S. army infantry while rate “ Invasions” from the United west communites with both weekly and dally news- formation riiromch the malls, |s subject to a maximum que ' wa* refa-ed
The charter, which was l.s*ued to the late A L Fletcher, attorney.
papers, limited publicity has been given to drawings S1.000 fine or not more than two years lmprisw*in>ent,
stationed in North Ireland For the States The one with the mo t pro
the i-sal dub in September, IMS,
past 11 year* he has been serving in
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C erem onies Honor annua,t cla^ m*ht a:d a* u 1 a -
W ar D ead Here
M em orial Day
"Flying Saucer'
Reported Seen
Here Saturday
E agles Lodge,
Auxiliary to
Install Friday
Voters to Decide
Special Street
Tax Next Monday
68 Students
Graduated By
High School
CcmmiSieo Okays
$73.030 Budge!
For City Expanse
V-DoHar
Days Sei For
June 18-20
W elfare Rolls To
May Rain Brings
Varied Reports of
Crop Conditions
Bee! Acreage Up
28%; Bumper Crop
Predicted Here
Be M ad e Public
E, W ohlcke H eads
m
Hospital Lung
City Court Fines
Are $931 In M a y
G ets Attachm ent
Mention oi Drawings Gr Results Taboo Through Mail,
Journal Informed After Local News Story Reported
T-Sgt. Bob Jones Returns from K orea;
Finding of Lost Charter Recalls Early
Will Report to Craig Field in 30 D ays
History Lions Club, N o w 15 Y ears Old
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