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u . o f 0 . Library Eugene, Oregon Shop In the City W here You Can Park Free Nvssa Gate City Journal Nyssa— The Sugar City of the Great Northwest + VOLUM E L T H E N Y S S A G A T E C I T Y J O U R N A L , N Y S S A , O R E G O N , T H U R S D A Y . A P R IL 21, 1955 Local Labor Camps Receive Workers; Painting and Construction Improve Grounds, Health Clinics to Visit Contracts Let For Nyssa Streets and Vale Highway Health Depi. Has Council Checks Changes I« Polio 1 ” ^ ? " Immunization N O . 15 Irrigation Conditions Improved By Recent Precipitation; Meeting On Cloud Seeding Project Held Monday The Nyssa City Council mem The contract, for a Nyssa city bers viewed completed plans for street pavement project on North Mrs. Edna Farris, Malheur the new water system at a meet Laborers and their families Third Street and Locust Avenue . have betn arriving steadily at the! has been awarded to Russell Ol- county public health nurse statde ing in the city hall Monday night. Summary of 2 Year * City Manager Robert Applegate Audit Shows Expense Nyssa labor camp and it is antici - 1 son Construction Co., Inc , Pend- at noon Wednesday that no report pated that the camp will be filled leton for their low bid of $12.930 . had as yet reached her depart- stated that specifications for the to capacity by the last of April in accrding to an announcement ] ment regarding the date for the system will be completed shortly And Income of Board readiness for the beet thinning from the Oregon State highway ; arrival of the Salk polio vaccine, and the contract should be ready Conditions for an increased irri which will commence around May commission this week. The decis Clinics and all other preliminary I for release in about a week. This Residents of Nyssa and its im 5, Bill Shambaugh, executive di- ion was made at a meeting of the arrangements are in readiness for contract will cover the purchase gation allotment have improved Four representatives of the Ore mediate rural communities have reclor of the Nyssa farm labor commission in Portland last schedule of immunizations of first and installation of a pump and with the recent precipitation in and second grade youngsters as the construction of a pumphouse crease, according to statements re gon Dairy Products commission Thursday. contributed over $900 to the cur camp stated. leased yesterday by Paul House, were guests of the Nyssa Cham Thirty of the 150 available cab rent Red Cross campaign in re This paving will complete the soon as the official word is re and about a mile of transmission manager of the North Board of ber of Commerce for an excursion line, said Applegate. sponse to their annual drive. In ins at the camp had been rented second half of a street improve ceived, Mrs. Farris reported. to the Owyhee dam and reservoir Of tne 1028 children who have Present at the meeting was Control. dications are that the total county to Mexican families from Texas ment project begun last year in "The precipitation on the area last Thursday afternoon and also figure may reach $5500 Mal by Tuesday of this week. Cali - 1 Nyssa when a section of North turned in parental consent slips Eugene W. Silitch, president and heur county chairman Denny fornia laborers and additional ] First street and part of South to be eligible for the shots, ap technical director of the Ranney of the Owyhee watershed has all | toured the Nyssa Amalgamated Dyer of Otnario reported Wednes Texas families are due in the lat First from Good Avenue to King proximately 400 children will be Method Western Corp. of Sacra been in the form of snow,” stated Sugar Co. factory. ter part of this week, Shambaugh were improved. accomodated at the Nyssa clinic. mento, Calif., w ho checked com- House. “ This will have a tenden The delegation was composed day. Nyssa’s chairman Frank Sher reported. Louie Vendrell is labor | Also granted, at the State High Children from Adrian, Lower I pleted plans with the councilmen. cy to incraese the runoff, thereby of Glenn H. Lay, executive secre wood, solicitors and all contribu placement director at the camp, way commission meeting Thurs- Bend, Arcadia and Ridgeview will The Ranney company will supply making possible an increased al tary of the commission, Miss Todd lotment.” Hamilton and Dave Hennigh, tors were highly commended by representing the state unemploy oilday was a contract for a be included here in addition to j the source of water with a coliec- ment office at Ontario. the 265 Nyssa students. i tor system to be sunk south of the manager of the Lucerne Milk Co., The report from Owyhee reser Dyer for making the drive a suc shoulder oiling project on the Snake river bridge, voir yesterday gave a water ele all of Portland, and Bill Fletcher, cess. According to Sherwood, the Extensive Improvements Vale-Cairo section of the John Vaccine Program Changed An official release was received r Silitch reported that his com vation of 2628.80 feet and the stor of Enterprise. Nyssa business district gave ap- They have just completed fen- Day highway and furnishing Dr. J E. Long, president of the proximately $320, as compared to [ cjng the camp which will afford of crushed material in stockpiles. this week from Dr H. M. Erick pany would move in equipment age has increased to 278,550 acre- $181 last year, the residential area better direction of traffic in and The project was awarded to the son of the Oregon state health de this week and should begin con feet. The release to the canals Isaac Walton league of Malheur $200 and the immediate rural vi-1 out 0f the grounds. Also included N. A. Toole Construction Co., Inc., partment listing changes in the struction some time next week. was 76 cubic feet-per-second and county, led the excursion to the cinity over $350. Included in the in recent improvements is the of Ontario for their bid of $40,000 polio vaccine program It was ! The collector will be in the form there was no release to the river. reservoir. Others accompanying originally planned, as Gf a raison sunk into the ground House said the runoff, though the group were A1 and Herschel residential total which was under painting of 73 cabins and one util - C. E. Leseberg of Nyssa was I | mended by Dr. Jonas Salk, reecom-1 to give | to a depth of 32 feet with the dependent on weather conditions, Thompson, proprietors of a dairy the chairmanship of Mrs. John j ¿ty room last fall. They plan to awarded the Lime-Porter Ferry Long, were $25 from the Civic paint the remaining buifdings rock production project on the a series of three injections of thi water collecting pipes radiating was holding steady. There is no at Adrian. available report on the amount of club and $21 from the IOOF lodge. next fall, Shambaugh explained. Old Oregon Trail highway near vaccine. Now this report indicates from the base. During the afternoon the group that the National Foundation for Also present to cheek the plans precipitation on the watershed sc viewed the dam, the recently The rural section was canvassed j Members of the Malheur Coun- Huntington for his bid of $23,560. Infantile paralysis will supply at was Earl Reynolds, consulting far this month but House said completed boat ramp and did a by a group of grange women with (y parm labor sponsoring associa- this time only sufficient vaccine engineer from Boise. that precipitation here for April little fishing around the banks of Mrs. Fern Runcorn, chairman, j tion announced that considerable for two doses to be given at in measures 1.09 to date. Two ordinances were passed a* the reservoir. Adverse weather Mrs. S. P. Bybee is credited w ith' improvements have also been un- tervals of tw’O to four weeks for the Monday meeting. The alley prevented a planned boat trip on personally soliciting over $1201 derway at the Adrian. Ontario M eetin g H eld M o n d a y all children in the first and sec south of the Sinclair gas station the reservoir. A picnic lunch was from a large area from Alberta to and Vale labor camps. Members of the North and arranged by Jed Lewis, manager ond grades (plus those third and was vacated and the councilmen Klamath Ave. north of Nyssa. fourth graders in Lane. Marion passed an ordinance providing for South Boards of Control met with of the Amalgamated Sugar Co. At Adrian, 10 new cabins have Those soliciting the business dis been constructed to replace tent and Multonomah counties who [ the sale of bonds for the new wat four officers of the North Ameri and chairman of the chamber’s trict were Chet Bowns, Bob Wil frame dwellings and all wooden can Weather Consultants in the participated in the 1954 vaccine er system. committee in charge of the ex son, Ken Pond, Lou Herriman, buildings have been repainted. North Board office Monday after cursion. trials but did not receive vaccine) \ Lloyd Mackrill, Dillon Erickson, This camp accomodates 125 work noon to discuss the cloud seeding who have parental request slips j Mrs. Wayne Chesnut w a s for the vaccination. The Oregon : The representatives of the dairy Fred Bracken and Sherwood. project being carried out over ing people and is anticipated to commission were in this area pri A check for $25 was contributed be filled to capacity. Eight new named president of the Nyssa state medical society has recom- j the Owyhee watershed. marily in the interests of promot by the Sugar Factory Worker’s cabins have been completed at Parent-Teachers Association a t mended that these two doses be Paul House, manager of the ing June Dairy month. union and $25 was given by Dr Ontario and four more are under their annual election of officers given this spring three or prefer- i North Board, reported that plans held Thursday evening in the L. A. Maulding. construction. Five were built at ably four weeks apart. were completed for the installa Vale last summer. Painting was Little Theatre in conjunction Since the two doses of vaccine I tion of five additional cloud seed also done at the Vale camp. Funds with the April PTA meeting. Mrs. can provide only temporary pro- j ing, silver iodide generators. Chesnut succeeds Mrs. Leslie Bal- for construction are contributed tection against polio, parents are ! Tomorrow' we will start our These are to be placed in the by the Malheur County Potato lantyne. being strongly advised to take! central part of the watershed. Other new officers elected and their children to their family phy-1 15th week of the session and we j Growers association, it was re hope to be through in a couple j This expansion of the seeding to be installed at the May 12 sician next fall for the third or ported more weeks. Last week was one | program will bring the total Four persons were injured ser PTA meeting are Vice presidents, booster injection on a fee basis. of the busiest we have had, going ! number of generators operating One new feature to be insti iously in an automobile accident Mrs. Lester Lankford, Nyssa: The health department plans to to work earlier and working later on the Owyhee watershed to tuted for the labor camps this Sunday morning at 11:40, when Mrs. Darwin Jensen, Arcadia and supply parents of each child re at night. Of the 1,177 bills being Twenty-five. House said that the Adrian—Robert Skinner of Ad year for the first time since World their car traveling west, went out rian high school was awarded the War II is. the arrangement for Mrs. Lester Cleaver. Oregon ceiving the two injections this introduced, 201 have been tabled, j additional generators will be in- of control at the east end of the Trail; secretary, Mrs. Victor Hab- spring W'ith a written record of 414 have passed both the House I stalled as conditions permit, annual college scholarship pre mobile health clinics to make Snake river bridge and careened sented b y the Malheur county periodic checks oil all transient urehak and treasurer, Carroll vaccination. and Senate and 9$ were sent to i . Of the twenty now in opera over the steep embankment on Roberts. Mrs. Ken Pond nas been D istrib u tion Plans A lte re d teacher’s association. The an labor camps and cope with health . , , the governor for his signature this The national foundation has an- last week. Among those were: the tion, five were not operated dur- the right hand side of the bridge nouncement was made at a din problems. Roy Hirai, member of < appolj : ,ed prtOK^ m. chalrrni n l ing the month of March due to to the water’s edge. ren. Nancy Lytle sang a F rench pounced that of the 27.060,000 cc ner meeting of the organization the board of directors of the onion bill and the cemetery bill,; unsuitable weather conditions, Members voted to accept The in jured, all admitted to the the 1 nf Salk polio vaccine for which J a bill which would legalize th« I last Wednesday evening at the board of directors of the sponsor said House. Malheur Memorial hospital, were Eastside Cafe. ing association said. The U. S. De recommendation of the executive they have contracted, approximat use of radar to detect the speed of i committee to purchase a plaque According to figures released listed as Austin Kerby, 70, of Rt. The scholarship which will pay partment of Public health and for retiring teachers. Mrs. Victor ely 9,000,000 cc will be returned j vehiees and use of such as basis i by the North American Weather ] 2, Boise, who suffered three frac to the manufacturers for rammer one year’s tuition of $165 at the the states of Idaho and Oregon ia Schweizer, who retires in May for arrest; a bill to authorize j cial distribution in order that county and state welfare officials | Consultants, the remaining fif tured ribs and was released Wed- Eastern Oregon College of Educa- ! are cooperating in making the after 43 years of teaching, is the more children may receive th< j teen were operated during March ! nesday afternoon; his wife, Mrs tion at La Grande is presented clinics possible, Grace Kerby, 67, who suffered first name to appeal on the two doses sehecFule pTior to the j to investigate public assistance] for a total of 365 hours. I cases: a bill which would redefine] each year to a graduating senior sponsoring Association lacerations of the scalp, brain con plaque which will be kept as a 1955 polio season. (Continued on page 12) in Malheur county who w ishes ,to true cash value for tax purposes cussion, back sprain and bruises; Approximately 200 growers are permanent fixture in the school. The Oregon State Medical So study for the teaching profession. Lois Smotherman, 75, of Spring- reported to belong to the county A letter of appreciation wTas read ciety has recommended that a , (it would be based upon current market value, starting in 1961); | Skinner, the son of Mr. and field, Mo., listed with lacteration sponsoring association with an from the county Health Depart- portion of this 9.000.000 cc be re- Mrs. Claude Skinner of Owyhee and bill which would limit dam- j of the forehead; fractured, dislo nual membership fees amounting ment to the Nyssa PTA for pur- served by the National Founda- corners, has been acti%’e in drama to one dollar per acre on row ehase of 12 syringes to be used in (lon for infantile Paralysis for re- ages collectible under libel law if! cated right shoulder, fractured i libel is unintentional and a retrac- ] tics and athletics during his high crops right ankle, brain concussion and the immunization clinic. Murl it,ase to State and local health de- Members of Owyhee Post 3506 school years, according to Athol President of the association is k Lancaster, junior high principal partments at cost for the purpose j j i " " * * ^ > V d a v l which"would ^eive of the Veterans of Foreign Wars bruises; and Mrs. Clara Davis, Sayre, Adrian school principal. Lawron King of Ontario and ! n d ™ g a t i n g R e a l l y in d ig o« £ > £ B o S Corn “ untu Collogo. traveled to Huntington to attend Boise, who suffered slight concus His ambition is to be a teacher of sion, sprain of lower back and members of the board of directors ! meeting he attended at Baker. j children and expectant mothers commercial subjects i n high a junior college $1000 plus $100 for the district 9 meting and annual bruises about the hips and should are Roy Hirai and Vernal Sharp.: ^rs. Ballantyne, Mrs. Chesnut It is not yet known whether the each full time student enrollment election Sunday. school. ers Adrian; Warren Farmer and Nor- an<^ Mrs. Dick Forbess represent- [ National Foundation for Infantile The potato bill was introduced Merton B. Tice of South Dak bert Sarazin, Nyssa; Mat Shaffer *^e I’TA at the Baker Paralysis will accept this proposal. on the floor of the senate, by Sen. The three women were reported ota, national commander-in- by Dr K. A Danford, Nyssa phy and Harry Fukiage of Vale; Ray meet. Leth, last week. There followed chief of the VF"W was present According to the treasurer’s re sician, as in fair condition. Olsen and George Mayeda of Ore argument as to the legal wording Draft Board Closed and gave a talk on Americanism gon Slope and Everett Taylor, On port given by Brig Olsen, a net Mr. and Mrs. Kerby of Boiso of the bill, which would not, and community service. District tario. director at large. Bill Smi profit of $428 was realized from This W eek; March are parents of Dr. Ken Kerby; when corrected, effect the intent 9. which comprises the posts in All water users under the ley of Nyssa is camp manager for the minstrel show sponsored by of the bill. Sen. Leth had it sent Nyssa, Ontario and Huntington Mrs. Davis is mother of Mrs. Inductees Listed the PTA Feb. 24 and 25. North Board of Control are urged the association. Clyde Snider and Mrs. Smother The office of the local draft back to the committee for these won the state membership contest John Relk was guest speaker to attend a public water meeting man is a sister of Mrs. Kerby and amendments, rather than take a thus entitling the members to board, No. 22 at Ontario is closed on the program entitled "Inter tonight (Thursday) at 8:30 at the Mrs. Davis. Those involved in the chance of having it defeated on host the Commander-in Chief from Wednesday national Friendliness” , arranged this w e e k Oregon Trail hall. the floor. It should be back in the during his official visit to Oregon. accident were en route here for a through Friday, Mrs. Ruth Inge- by Mr. and Mrs. John Stam. He Paul House, manager of the dinner party and family reunion In the election, three out of talked and showed colored slides britsen, clerk of the board an senate the first of the week. North Board and members of the The reappointment bill came | the eleven offices to be filled with the Kerbys and Sniders at The Oregon State President of of his recent visits to the French nounced. board of directors will be present before the house for vote last were won by Nyssa men. Douglas the Snider home. The regular office hours of 8:30 to give a financial report and the American Legion Auxiliary, Riviera, Copenhagen, Switzer Tuesday and was sent back to answer questions from those in Mrs. Guy Wilcox of Grants Pass, land and Germany while in the to 5:30, Monday through Friday the committee by a 25 to 33 vote. Flippence was elected Junior vice will be resumed Monday, April commander, Don Graham was will visit Nyssa Monday, May 2 service. attendance. We want to make the following chosen f or the post of judge advo Also included in the program 25. a a stop on her speaking tour The meeting is sponsored by were foreign songs by four child Pereival Ray Parrish, Sweet amendments: Sherman, Gilliam, cate and Ted Teske was elected the Oregon Trail Grange. Each through Oregon. ren. Nancy Little sang a French Home, Ore., formerly of Nyssa and Morrow counties combined. district chaplain. Grange member is requested to Mrs. Wilcox, who will be ac number, Gail and Carol Haney, and Ray Wallace Barklow of On (Continued on Page 12) Dan Gallegos of Nyssa was Adrian—Students making the take salad and sandwiches for a companied b y Mrs. Marjory a French selection and D. L. Fife, tario, both volunteers were in -1 “ ~ sworn in as a member by Com honor roll at the Adrian Union potluck lunch to follow the meet Leach of Bonneville, auxiliary an Indian song. Ralph Anderson ducted from the local board in j Cancer Crusade Lags, mander Tice. Discussion was held high school last term were an ing, according to Grange Master state vice president, has express led the singing with Mrs. Ander March. There is no one called for| at the meeting on the various pro nounced by Athol Sayre, princi ed a desire to speak to any civic son as piano accompanist. Frank Sherwood. pal. induction from this board for County Total to $685 jects of the VFW or community organizations in Incomplete returns for the can Mr. and Mrs. Earl Alexander April, Mrs. Ingebritsen stated. Named to the senior honor who are interested. The were chairman of the refresh Three will be called for induc cer crusade campaign which v s Mrs. Nolan At Helm Nyssa roll were Dede Connaughy, Jun context of her talks are on civil ment committee launched in Malheur county April tion for May. ior McGinnis, Bob Montgomery, defense, community service and 1 indicated a total of $685 con-j » t t - i Of .County Ed. Assn. Anita Pratt, Ronald Peterson, welfare. tributed by Wednesday from t h e ' I N y S S a L l O F lS V / i U O Members of the Malheur County Jim Stoker and Ronnie Thomp She has also scheduled a lunch entire county, only about one- Education association held their eon meeting in Adrian and a pot- The members of the Nyssa son. Juniors, La Dawn Wolley, half of the approximate goal of Lions c lub heard a talk by R V. Vanae Stokes, Francene Peterson. concluding meeting of the school luck supper in Ontario. $1300 which had been set, accord-1 W’llson, superintendent of Nyssa Edith Matthews and George Jeli- year last Wednesday evening at ing to Mrs. Paul Penrod, Nyssa schools, at their regular luncheon enk Sophomores, Earl Wilson. the East Side Cafe. The dinner! Approximately 400 children of^t.vpe of program, the principal al- drive chairman. meeting was climaxed with elec Bill Wahlert Resigns meeting Monday in the dining Edna Linville, Darlene Davis, A portion of the Nyssa business room of Carl’s Doll House. the first three grades in the Nyssa so commented. An invitation is tion of officers. Margaret Butler and Richard From Nyssa Fire Dept. I elementary houses were solicited under the school will partici- j exlTnde,d |° * e im m u n ity Wilson told of the need for an Lovitt Freshman, Shirley Skin Mrs. Dorothy Nolen of Nyssa Bill Wahlert, a member of the ., . . . The festival program will in chairmanship of Mrs. John Broad, was named president; Everett Nyssa Volunteer fire department pate m the annual spring music clud{>i first Krades; Rythm band resulting in $110 being collected. expanded school system here and ner and Karen Mitchell. gave data on the increasing local Cornet. Vale, vice president; Ruth for the past 10 years, turned in festival to be held next Thursday : by Miss Emma Zwemke’s room; All residents of the community Jones, Nyssa, secretary and Mary his resignation from the depart evening at 8 o’clock, Walter Me- I "Lantern Parade” by students of are urged to place their donations population which is the reason C ol C Plans Talk Weir, Adrian, treasurer. ment at a business meeting of the Partland, grade school principal Mrs. lxmnie Berkley, Mrs. Zette in the cancer crusade envelopes for this need. He also discussed Mrs. Victoria Schweizer of Nys firemen held Monday night at the announced. The event will be held Bumgarner, Mrs. Gladys Engel which were mailed throughout the necessity for raising funds On Social Security for this expansion. sa, a past president of the county firehall, according to Ralph Lawr in the high school gymnasium. Paul House, manager of the hardt and Mrs Naomi May and the county and return them as In the convention fund project, association was presented with ence, fire chief. The program this year is a de- “ Poor Little Robin” by Mrs. Opal soon as possible. Cannisters have the prize of a key chain auto North Board of Control, was her retirement pin and corsage. Wahlert, proprietor of the Des parture from the usual one given Alcorn’s room Second gr.i also been placed in numerous emblem was won by Walter Mc speaker at the regular meeting of Ralph Anderson presented a sert Seed Co., joined the force in that it is an outgrowth of var “ Lili Marlene” and Heel and Toe’’ business houses for convenience Partland The prize was donated the Nyssa Chamber of Commerce Wednesday noon at Brownie’s group from the Nyssa high school during the winter of 1944, shortly ious music, rythmics and art work by students of Mrs. Frances Bates of donors. by Ray Larson. cafe. He gave an extensive review music department on the program after the department was organ accomplished in the school during and Mrs. Eulah McConnell; "Old Extensive research which is un of the water situation for this the term. Each grade has taken a Brass Wagon” and “ The Blue Tail derway to curb cancer, the second Included were violin quartet num ized to its present status. area. Applications are being consid- phase of their program and with Fly" by children taught by Miss largest killer, is made possible C. Grider M anages bers by Garnet Ritchie, Bill Rus sell, Marylin Whitaker and Nellie ered for his successor, Lawrence some modifications has prepared Anne Bauman, Mrs. Rosanelle through cancer drive funds, Mrs Ham Chadderdon, secretary of Van der Oord, with Ilene Moss as stated. their contribution to the festival, 1 Copeland, Mrs. Mildred Elliott Penrod pointed out. In view of Adrian Labor Camp the chamber, announced that the Charley Grider assumed the speaker for next Wednesday’s the sensational scientific work ----------------------- - McPartland stated. It is more rep- and Mrs. Florence Roth. accompanist. Violin solos were played" by each Ritchie and Rus- STAMS LEAVE FOR HOLLAND resentative of actual school actvi- Third grade “ Pop Goes the which resulted in development of managership of the Adrian Labor meeting will be Ed Russell, field sell. j Mr. and Mrs. Garrit Stam left ties with a minimum of ouside Weasel," Miss Boydell’s class and the Salk vaccine to conquer polio, camp Monday morning of this representative for the department During the meeting, Robert Nyssa Wednesday morning for accessories. a Mavpole number by students of donors are urged to contribute week, it has been reported. He of health, education and welfare Skinner of Owyhee Corners was New York City and Holland for There will be no costuming due Mrs. Helen Gonyer and Mrs. Mau- generously so research in the will serve as coordinator between of the social security administra announced as winner of the a n -! an extended trip to visit relatives to the necessary expense involved, dest Teague. The entire chorus of fields of cancer may be acceler the laborers and farmers and is tion. He will cover a detailed re nual scholarship presented by the and friends. They expect to spend The faculty hopes to determine children will conclude the pro ated that it too may be conquered employed by the Oregon employ port on social security and its benefits. ment service at Ontario. • association. the summer there. the public sentiment toward this gram with "April Showers. in the near future. Red Cross Totals For Nyssa Area To Exceed $900 Delegates State Dairy Commission Visit O w yhee Dam Mrs. Chesnul Is P.T.A. President; John Relk Sneaks R. Stunz Reviews Many Bills Before Ore. Legislature R. Skinner Wins Scholarship Given By Teachers' Assn. Four Persons Hurl In Accident Sun. Three Nyssa Men Win VFW Offices Public Water Meet At Ore. Trail Hall Auxiliary Pres. To Visit Nyssa Honor Students Named At Adrian Wilson Speaks To 400 Children in Lower Three Grades to Present Annual Music Festival Thurs.