THE
Feeding Trial
Data Revealed at
Malheur Station
Students Sing In
University Choir
MYSSÀ GATE CITY JOURMAL, NYSSA. OREGON. THURSDAY.
A P R IL 21. 1955
Homemakers'
Festival Set May 3
At Harper School
P A G E THREE
Studies County
Juniors Prepare
Program
For Annual Prom I Health
Elaine Conklin, duaghter of Mu.
Nannette Bybee and Kenneth
Adrian—The junior-senior ban Marie Conklin, R. N. of Ontario
Cottle, Nyssa high school grad
quet will be held Friday, April | who is a student nurse at Good
uates who are attendinf Brigham
29 at the Adrian grade school. Samaritan hospital, Portland is
Young University at Provo, Utah
; Decorations and all arrangements spending one week in Malheur
will appear with the university
The theme for the 8th annual
Over 300 were present for the college choir in concert, next Sun
are being planned by the junior j county observing the activities of
Homemakers* festival is “ Keep
13th annual Livestock Feeder’s
! class.
day evening in the Joseph Smith ing Step with New Trends,” as
' the public health department M
day held last Wednesday at the auditorium in Provo.
The annual affair will be a part of her student assignment.
announced by Mrs. Marion Peter
Malheur experiment station and
formal dance for juniors, seniors
Miss Bybee, daughter o f Mr. son, chairman of the county home
Miss Conklin is accompaning
were served free lunch by the
and special guests.
Mrs. Edna Ferris, public health
Nyssa. Ontario and Vale Cham and Mrs. D. O. Bybee of Nyssa extension advisory committee. It
Junior class officers in charge nurse for Malheur county, on thu
bers of Commerce and Ontario is a member of the alto section | will be held in the Harper school
and Kenneth, son of Mr. and Mrs. gym May 3, from 10:30 a. m. to
5 week’s schedule. They visited
Kiwanis club.
are Bobby Jo Webster, president;
Kenneth Cottle, Nyssa, sings 3:30 p m. in commeration of Na
Nyssa schools Wednesday.
Profits from cattle feeding ope bass, in the 65-voice group.
Roger Hawes, vice president;
tional Home Demonstration week
rations were pinpointed to three
Kaye Hammon, secretary and
Mrs. Ward Wieneke, Gary and
May
1
to
7.
mam sources at the Feeders’ Day,
Margie Salters, treasurer.
Jeff were dinner guests Sunday
sponsored jointly by Oregon State dred made 6 good. 4 commercial,
Miss Frances Clinton, state
Friday night the mothers of the of Mr. and Mrs. Art Smith at
j leader of home economics for
college experiment station and and average $33.98 net.
junior students held a meeting Vale.
Last year’s trials at the station O S C. extension service will be a
extension service.
at the high school with Miss Ann
Results of a five-month feeding gave comparable results when a special guest. The Harper unit
Harrell, class advisor, presiding.
price
difference
of
more
than
$9
a
will
serve
a
no-host
luncheon.
trial with 60 yearling steers at the
during a visil to the University They discussed preparations for
OSC Malheur branch station peg hundred between choice and in I Child care will be provided for WILLIAM B. FELDENHEI-
Dr. Geo. E. Cobem
of Oregon Medical school. the banquet with Mrs. Bob Web
ged biggest profits to (1) wide ferior feeders also tipped the pro all children attending but mothers MER, left, Oregon's Cancer cru
O P T O M E T R IS T
James Rankin, technician, ex ster named as chairman. All
price spreads between feeder fits in favor of lower grades. Lan I are to take sack lunches for each. sade chairman, learns first
mothers
of
juniors
are
helping
ders
stated,
however,
that
in
some
All
interested
people
are
invited
j
plains
the
process.
Oregon
Divi
grades at buying time and (2) ani
220 Main Street
Phone 6649
hand about the use of micros
sion, American Cancer society, with the banquet furnishing the
mals that have fast gaining abil years the profits might come from
This week provides an oppor-1
Nyssa,
Ore.
food.
provides grants to train tech
ity rather than conformation a- “ putting gain through animals for tunity to interpret the work of copic slides in the “ smear tech
nicians for this work.
lone, and (3) selling lower grade weight gains; not just for up the entire extension service. Rec-1 nique'* for cancer diagnosis
finished animals by "carcass grading.” During the past two ognition of volunteer local lead
grade” rather than “ live slaugh years, weight gains alone did not ers who have contributed to home j
pay the feed costs.
Bulldog Awarded
ter grade.”
and community improvement is I
Landers said choice, good, and emphasized by the style revue
The 60 animals, representing
Merit Certificate
five grades of feeders ranging medium feeders this year all made and exhibits displayed by the
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson
from "choice” dow n to “ inferior” good and choice slaughter grades home extension units in Malheur
Phone 2-2769, Parma
For Editorials
had been fed identical rations of after 70 days feeding and would county.
have
given
higher
returns
if
sold
Exhibits will include home
alfalfa hay and grain since No
The Bulldog. Nyssa high school's
beauty salon by the A K H. unit; WSCS will meet Wednesday, paper was awarded a certificate
vember 18 to measure net returns then.
vegetables
prepared
attractively
Ability to put on rapid gains
of each grade above purchase
at the home of Mrs. Francis of merit in the second division of
meant $30 extra profit from the by the White Settlement unit; Smalley.
price and feed costs.
the Oregon Scholastic press edi
Neil Hoffman, station superin best animal in the choice lot as plaids and stripes in shirts by
torial page excellence contest
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..H , N
u r u . e s u . i l by
u y the
me v
, . - , , Thu
e WSCS birthday group
unit;
shirtmaking
On-
dent in charge of the trials, said compared with the poorest gainer Vale
tario Heights unit; demonstrations luncheon scheduled for Wednes which was just conducted. Judg
ing was done at the University of
all animals were bought at ran in the same lot, Hoffman explain
on sleeve placket and sewing on day was called off, due to the Oregon School of Journalism,
dom last fall from local ranches ed
recent
death
of
Mrs
Jack
Reed’s
One-pound per day separated of pocket without top stitching,
headquarters for the OSP.
and the local auction sale Hoff
the
fastest and slowest gainers in Big Bend unit; regisration and nephew in Seattle. It will be May
man was assisted in the trials by
The present staff of the Bulldog
4
at
the
Jack
Reed
home.
The most overtaxed people in the country, without a doubt,
tags.
Jamieson-Brogan;
OSC extension livestock special each of the five lots during the name
is
composed of Carl Tyler, editor-
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Jack
Reed
re
are car owners who drink. They shouldn’t be doing both at the
craft
work.
Ontario
unit;
keeping
ist John Landers and Malheur 135-day feeding trials. Even in the
ceived word of the death of her in-chief, Virginia Tucker, business
same time, of course, but when you’re either driving or dring-
county extension agent George the lot of “ inferior” grade feeders, up-to-date with fabrics. Ridge- nephew, Levi Stephen, age 15, of manager and reporters are Pat
view;
and
table
decorations.
West
stated
Hoffman,
it
meant
$22.61
ing you’re paying a healthy wallop in taxes.
Bain.
Seattle. The Reed family left Barclay, Kristin Rinehart, Karen
net difference between the animal Bench unit.
Extra profits came mainly from with “ inherited efficiency for con
Fife,
Molly
Yoneyama,
Bill
Bow
Home
economics
extension Tuesday morning for Seattle to
Of every dollar spent for a new car. an average of 32
watching the price spread be verting feed to beef" and the units in communities are the hub attend the funeral. Holton Step- en, Thomas Simmons, Boyd j
cents is paid in federal, state and local taxes. On top of that
tween feeder grades last fall. In slowest gainer.
Haney,
Gordon
Greaves.
Lyle
An
of Oregon’s home economics work \ ^U>I]S of Portland "■’ho was a week
are the gas taxes. In this country 53 million drivers are con
ferior grade feeders bought at
A1 Oliver, OSC animal Hus These units or clubs, open to all end visitor at the Reed home, ac derson. Alice Mayden, Carroll
$9.53 a hundredweight had net bandman who discussed carcass women in the community, meet companied them.
tributing close to 5 billion dollars a year in tax revenue.
Lundy and Ray Holcomb. Louie
ted an average of $38.52 per head grading Wednesday, said this once each month from October to
Severt Fox, Jr., son of Mr. and Attebery is staff advisor for the ;
when weighed and graded just phase of extra feeder profits May and receive instruction. Top Mrs. Severt Fox entered the Nys school paper which is published
The users of the highways should, of course, pay for those
prior to Wednesday’s program. would not be nailed down until ics are presented either by county sa hospital Friday suffering from every other week and printed at \ highways. But nearly half of the taxes collected from car
Choice feeders bought at $18.50 a animals are slaughtered and grad home extension agents or by their pneumonia. He is improving and the Gate City Journal.
drivers are used for government expenses that have nothing
hundredweight had netted only ed early in May. He used one car own members, specially trained will soon be able to return home.
Judging was based on three!
to do with automobiles. So the car owner is being soaked twice,
$24.67. Labor costs were not in cass from each of five lots to ex by the agent or a specialist.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Campbell criteria;
physical
appearance
once ar an ordinary citizen paying his regular taxes and a
cluded in the trials.
and
boys
of
Weiser
were
Sunday
(make-up
and
typography);
scope
Malheur county has 16 units
plain what makes up “ grade” and
second time as a car owner.
Landers emphasized that when to show how lower grades boost made up of 450 homemakers dinner guests at the home of Mr. and variety of content on the edi-1
and
Mrs.
David
Bay.
torial
page
and
quality
of
content.
such a price spread exists be returns when sold on the rail.
These units cover the territory
Every year the motorist pays for a coast fo coast highway
Mr. and Mrs. Everett Housman Competition was in three divis
tween feeder grades it “ clearly
The tendency to under-rate from Jordan Valley, Ridgeview,
he never gets. By now., says the experts, there could be 40
places the odds on buying lower lower grade firiished animals on Big Bend. Adrian. Nyssa, Arcadia. and family of Nampa were Sun ions; the first for schools over 900 ;
such roads if car and gas taxes were used to improve driv
grade animals for up-grading in the hoof, he stated, was demon HO.A. (Cairo Junction), White day dinner guests at the Raymond enrollment having printed papers,
the second division for other
to improved slaughter grades.”
ing conditions.
strated at last year’s trials after Settlement. Vale. West Bench. Arnold home.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Gourley printed papers and third for all
The 10 “ inferior” grade feeders carcass grades were made.
Harper. Brogan - Jamieson. Iron
Most of these taxes are based on the theory that a car is a
received live slaughter grades of
Inferior grade feeder» that re side, Ontario Heights, Ontario af of Albany, Ore., were Friday duplicated papers.
overnight guests at the home of
1 good. 7 commercial, and 2 util ceived live slaughter grades of ternoon and evening group.
luxury, or that by taxing the car owner you are soaking the
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Plagman. Mrs. Mason's Mother
ity. Only one of the “choice” feed 1 commercial and 9 utility were
rich. There’s a positive answer to that right at our own car
The Gourley’s. who own a large
ers moved up a grade into given carcass grades of 1 good, 5
lot. It’s pretty obvious just from looking over our used cars that
Activities Reported
registered herd of cattle, attended Passes In Montana
"prime.”
commercial, and 4 utility. Com
you can buy the feel of luxury without paying luxury money.
the registered Jersey sale held
Dr. and Mrs. Dwight Mason.
Other grade results were that mon feeders that had live slaugh Of Local Army Men
Here we have rows and rows of ears that have been checked
near Nyssa Friday.
Dean and Marc spent from Thurs
good feeders bQught at $17.50 a ter grades of 1 good and 9 com
Pvt. George R. Lawrence, son
and
examined to make sure you will get from them what you
David
Transue
was
a
Saturday
day
until
Monday
in
Cushman,
hundredweight
reached
live j mercial were graded on the rail of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lawrence.
slaughter grades of 7 choice, 3 j as 2 choice, 7 good, and I com Ontario has completed a phase overnight guest o f Darwin Arn Mont., where they had been call- j want from any car: They’ll get you there surely economically
old.
in style and in comfort. Take one out for a spin yourself.
ed by the death of Mrs. Mason’s
good, and an average net profit mercial.
of the spring training exercise j
of $29.15. Medium feeders, $16.45 j Oliver noted, howover, that live held by the 4th Infantry division ! L. J. Boles of Payette was a mother, Mrs. G. H. Belcher.
Mrs. Belcher passed away,
This w eek w e o ffe r these lu x u ry m odels af a fraction
a hundred, also made 7 choice, 3 \ slaughter grades of choice and in Germany. He is rifleman with i Sunday dinner guest at the Ted
good, and averaged $35.69 net. good tended to hold those grades Company C of the division's 22nd ; Dick home. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Tuesday, April, 12. Services were
o f their origin *! cost:
Whittaker and family of Nyssa held there Saturday, afternoon.
Common feeders at $13 46 a hun- I on the rail.
regiment.
and Mr. and Mrs. Conley Wilson
1950 C hevrolet, 4 door sedan, new paint and tires. An
The Ivy division s
sPr*nR j were afternoon visitors.
Mrs. Tom Rust and Jean and
ex cep tion a lly good m otor.
maneuvers are part of the North
Jack Reed returned by plane Mrs. Rust’s daughter, Mrs. E. B.
Alantic treaty organization’s pre from a business trip to Montana
1951 D eSoto, locally ow ned, has low m ilage, a really
Brady and children, Barbara,
paredness for defense of Western Saturday. He was met at the air Jimmie and Bobbie from Hono
sharp car.
Europe.
port in Boise by his family.
lulu were callers at the H. R
Sgt. Julian D. Hagood, son of
George Griffin is recovering Sherwood home recently.
1950 Ford, 4 door sedan, has V8 engine and overdrive.
Mr. and Mrs. Alvus A. Hagood, nicely from his emergency opera
This w ou ld be a lot of econ om ical transportation.
Route 2 Ontario, is among 26,000 tion last week and will soon be at Chesley Fisk and family. On the
soldiers slated to participate in home.
return trip, they stayed overnight
1948 C hevrolet, tw o to choose from .
exercise Apple Jack during May
The PTA meeting will be held in Bliss and arrived home Mon
at the Yakima firing center near i Thursday April 21 in the school day morning.
Fort Lewis, Wash. It will test gym. New officers will be install-
Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson
the efficience of infantry and | ed and an interesting program and family visited at the Gordon
support units in mountainous and | has been arranged.
Toomb home near Nyssa Sunday
desert terrain.
The Apple Valley 7th and 8th 1 afternoon.
Hagood is assistant supply serg grades held a party at the school
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Wilson and
eant in the 4th battalion of the j gym Saturday night. Chaperones Mr. and Mrs. Homer Wood of
2nd Infantry division’s 23rd Reg were Frank Huett and Mrs. Tom Parma motored to Arrowrock
iment.
dam Sunday afternoon
Ferguson.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Wilson at
Ted Dick left Tuesday morning
i to attend the funeral of his broth- tended the Harley Breshears-
Called to Portland
OREGON
| er, llelmuth Dick at Rapid City, Cordell Jones fight in Ontario
By Father's Illness
S. D., He was accompanied by Saturday evening.
Ward Wieneke returned Tues- Mr. and Mrs. Joe Adkins of Col
! day morning from Portland lege Place, Wash. He returned
I where he had been called by the Saturday night.
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serious illness of his father, H. A
Mr. and Mrs. Orley Smith took j
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