Nyssa gate city journal., June 21, 1956, Image 1

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THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOU RN AL- NYSSA. OREGON.
VOLUM E LI
O re g o n
THURSDAY. J UNE 21. 1956
N yssa Volunteers Host to Visiting Firemen
Special, Informal Meeting Called
To Discuss Aspects of Proposed
City Budget and Special Election
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Firemen Host
At Semi-Annual
Association Meet
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The Nyssa fire d ep artm en t
S unday was the host at the a n ­
nual m eeting of the West Idaho
F irem en's
Association.
The
day's activities included com ­
petitive drills, dem onstrations,
business m eeting and open
house at the local hall.
In the lop p icture the Nyssa
firem en are show n d u rin g a
display of hose w ork at the city
park. T aking p art in the
dem onstration are, startin g in
th e foreground. Chuck G ilbert,
Huck Wilson, A rt Chapm an.
Duke Hipp and G erald C urry.
The second photo included,
from left, E arl A lbright, in ­
structor, state dep artm en t voca­
tional
education,
Corvallis,
John P ickett, deputy fire m a r­
shall, Salem and Jak e Fischer,
president, board of directors.
Nyssa Fire Protection D istrict.
These m en all took part in the
m any activities throughout the
day. —Jo u rn a l photos.
23 Patrons Give
Zohell Approval
Two Volunteer Groups Join Efforts Issues Elsewhere
For Final Phase Hospital Campaign
The intensive stage of the cam ­
paign to raise the foundation fund
to place M alheur M em orial hos­
pital on a self-sustaining basis
was launched Tuesday night at
7:30 o'clock, “School of In stru c­
tion” at the Masonic hall at Nyssa.
A volunteer organization of 120
men from the area served by the
hospital attended the m eeting.
Jed Lewis, president of M alheur
Memorial hospital and general
chairm
an of the hospital cam ­
Continued Zone
paign, presided at the m eeting
C hairm an Lewis paid trib u te to
Hearing Next
W arren Farm er, chairm an, his as­
sociate chairm en and m em bers of
W eek by Council the A dvance gifts com m ittee for
C ontinuation of a recessed zon­ their unselfish work
ing m eeting of the city council
C hairm an Lewis also praised
from J u n e 12 will be T hursday the generosity of m any in d iv id ­
evening o f.n e x t week, according uals and organizations th at are
to C ity M anager Jac k M iddaugh. subscribing for m em orials and
A question of rezoning a bus- other gifts to m ake possible the
I iness district to an industrial dis- continued excellent service of
| trict cam e before the city council this com m unity-ow ned and con­
A pril 7 and has m et w ith opposi­ trolled hospital.
tion from residents of an adjacent
F arm er extended welcom e to
industrial zone in w hich there are
the 60 m em bers of the general
dw ellings. T obler's Feed & Fuel,
organization. F arm er said, “The
a feed industry th at has recently
advance gifts com m ittee of 60
expanded, is now located in a
m en will now work shoulder to
H ilda L. Tensen
business zone and efforts are be­
shoulder w ith the new organiza-
ing m ade to change the zone to
tion. The splendid spirit of co­
tru ly W estern atm osphere of a industrial.
operation and sacrificial service
A petition, not only against thei
young tow n peopled by the
shown by the advance gifts com ­
change of zone but against alleged i
young.
m ittee, I am certain will be con­
She recalled the excitem ent of night-tim e noise and dust from [ tinued during the com ing general
th e announcem ent in 1910 w hen the firm ’s processing plant, was cam paign.’’
it was announced th a t the S h o e ­ presented a t the J u n e 12 m eeting
Lew is introduced W illiam B
strin g ditch would be built. The of the council.
Russell,
chairm an
and
Bob
project fell through u ntil m any The city m anager said th at it is Thom pson, co-chairm an of the
probable
th
at
a
decision
will
be
years later and the tow n quieted
general cam paign C hairm an R us­
down u n til the early 20’s w hen I m ade by the council at next sell said. “All the m en of the
I
w
eek’s
m
eeting.
w a te r was m ade available.
The council will also m ake an
Dick and Hilda sold th e ir ranch
in 1939 and bought into the Nyssa I official count of the next Tues- Sallee Attends
1 day's m unicipal election involving
P ack in g Com pany.
It m ight be added th at through the proposition of exceeding the
OSC Institute
these m any years H ilda tau g h t 6 percent lim itation to m eet the
Tom Sallee of Nyssa is one of
proposed
budget.
piano in h er spare tim e.
,
127 selected high school stu dents
H er husband passed aw ay in
from Oregon and W ashington now
1944 and afte r his d eath H ilda
attending the first annual “J u n io r
w en t to w ork as city clerk, a po­
Engineers and S cientists” su m ­
sition she has held ever since but
A rm y Pvt. R aym ond D W a tso n ,. m er train in g in stitu e at Oregon
from w hich she is retirin g at the
end of the m onth after over ten son of W ayne O. W atson, 910 N S tate college
Second. Nyssa. recently was g ra d ­
The t\*o-w eek course, which
years service.
Mrs. Tensen has had an e v e n t­ uated from the M ilitary Police I opened Ju n e 10 and continues
ful life and has been active in train in g cen ter at F ort Gordon. through J u n e 23, is designed to
give the high school stu d en ts a
m any fields during h er years in Ga.
W atson, who attended
the look into career possibilities in
Nvssa.
To nam e just some of her con­ school a fte r com pleting basic | the fields o f’ engineering and
nections. she has been a m em ber train in g at F ort Leonard Wood.; science.
Selection to atten d w as based
of th e S tate F arm T ennant C om ­ Mo , was tau g h t unarm ed defan.se.
m ittee. the C ounty R ural R ehail- traffic control an d o th er law e n ­ on scholarship an d in te re st in
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science and engineering subjects.
.tatio n C «•»mittee. C ounty W el­ forcem ent duties.
Watson entered the Army l a s r Students had to be endorsed by
fare committee. Hr« Cross, Li-
th eir high schools.
January
(Continued ( • Pag« V)
Nyssan Graduates
From MP Training
County Real Estate Values Increase,
Personal Property Goes Down; Values
For Cities, Schools To Be Told Later
M alheur co u n ty ’s total assessed valuation, excluding public
utilities, am ounts to $22,529,95, C ounty Assessor Jo h n Koop-
m an announced W ednesday a fte r com pleting sum m aries o f
local assessm ents. This figure com pares w ith last y e a r’s value
of $22,672,705 w hen personal p ro p erty show ed a h ig h er figure
and real prop« rty waa lorn« w hat^ —— —----------------
A public—and in fo rm al—m eetin g h as been called w ith ap ­
proval of th e N yssa city council fo r 7 o’clock th is (T h u rsd ay )
evening to clear up w h at h as been te rm ed as certain m is­
u n d erstan d in g s th a t ap p ea r to h av e arisen concerning th e
budget approved for 1956-57. T he m eetin g w ill be in th e coun-
------------------------------------------^ c il cham bers at the city hall.
M em bers of the city council.
City T re a su re r G ran t R inehart
Pumping Plant
and City M anager Jack M iddaugh
w ill be present to explain all
Work Underway
The C o n tractor-U tility C onstruc­ phases of the budget and answ er
tion com pany of O ntario T uesday questions.
T he proposed budget approved
rem oved th e south w all of the
O w yhee Ditch pum ping p lan t as last W ednesday calls for expendi­
the first setp in the construction tures of $193,333.63, including
of th e new O ntario-N yssa pu m p ­ $35,910.63 for bond and interest
paym ents and $10,000 on the w a t­
ing plant.
The w all was pulled out by a er system . V oters w ill be asked
cat a fte r th e concerte had been to give the council perm ission to
diam ond sawed and line drilled exceed the 6 percent lim itation
along th e lim its of the ex cav a­ by $10,038. T he special election
has been set for n ex t T uesday
tion.
from 8 a. m. u ntil 7 p. m.
The w all was rem oved in one Old E rror Confuses
section and la te r broken up w ith
P rincipal protest seems to be
a “headache ball” for disposal.
that to go outside the 6 percent,
an additional 5.5 mills will have
to be added to the tax levy, plus
Women
about 4 5 already authorized for
old w aterw orks im provem ents
About Nyssa!
and in ad v erten tly om m itted from
the cu rre n t budget. These two
If seeing a com m unity grow levies w ill bring city taxes up to
from a tow n of 500 to a city of 31.5 m ills, although failure of the
n early 3000 .if one had dodged special election will leave the
cowboys w hirling up the street levy at 26 mills.
The city m anager stated: “Com ­
to tie th eir horses to the n earest
“w a te rin g ” place, if one has sta y ­ parisons betw een prior years and
ed “p u t” for 46 years, then the the n ext fiscal year could not
term “Nyssa pioneer” tru ly can be m ade for each item listed for
be bestow ed upon today's guest, the la tte r y ear because of approp­
H ilda Tensen.
riations have been m ade largely
B orn in D avenport, Iowa, in on a lum p basis in previous years.
1888, Mrs. TÊnsen came W est w ith W here possible, individual item
h e r folks w hile a baby and set­ com parisons have been m ade and
tled in Spokane w here she r e ­ com parison of totals are provided
ceived h er grade and high school in every case. W hile the change
education. H ilda com pleted her in form has been substantial, a
education at W ashington S tate detailed breakdow n or item iza­
College w here she received a tion of each fund has been p ro ­
vided so th at costs of providing
bachelor of m usic degree.
In 1910 th e Tensens m oved to each separate m unicipal service
Nyssa, Mr. Tensen opening a gro­ m ay be reflected.”
cery and h ard w are store, building
M iddaugh w ent on to explain
Ihe Tensen block w hich w as a th at had the authorized w a te r­
th in g of beauty in its hey-day. w orks levy been m ade during the
Tim e has long since taken its toll fiscal year as should have been
of th e now forlorne looking edi­ done, property tax increase for
fice on Main betw een F irst stree t th e com ing fiscal y ear w ould
and th e railroad.
have been only 6.8 m ills or slig h t­
H ilda w orked in the store w ith ly less than .7 of one percent.
h er dad u n til h er m arriage in 1912
“It should be realized th at the
to D ick Tensen.
per capita tax by the city of Nvs-
Dick was a farm er and stock other cities in the valley,” M id­
ra ise r in the days “of the BIG daugh said.
h ay stack s” according to Hilda, d e ­
It should be noted th at accord-
veloping a farm from the sage jn g t 0 the county assessor’s office
b ru sh a t L ockett Gulch. W hile 1955-56 tax levies in the three
they operated the Gulch property principal tow ns in the county
th ey lived in a hom e across from are: O ntario, 38.6 m ills; Vale 25.9
th e presen t M alheur M em orial mills and Nyssa 21.5 mills.
hospital.
S urplus Is E arm arked
H ilda’s eyes blinked just a little j “A nother m atter w hich seems
as she recalled the early days i n ! to be the subject to m isinterpreta-
ffyssa, th e hitching posts, the tion is the cash surplus which
w aterin g troughs on Main street was on hand but not budgeted for
(w hat th ere was of it) and the the cu rren t fiscal y ear,” M iddaugh
w ent on to explain. “This surplus,
in the am ount of $19,838.79 has
been budgeted for the coming
(C ontinued on P age 8)
Journal
cam paign are dedicated to this
great C hristian project of m aking
possible th e efficient service of
the hospital in saving hum an
lives and p rev en tin g unnecessary
suffering.”
T hom pson said, “The tim e has
come for all who w an t m em orials,
m em berships to give to th eir hos­
pital project. This problem of
m aintaining ad equate non-profit
com m unity-w ide hospital service
is the problem and responsibility
of every m an and w om an in the
large area served by the hospitaT.”
The installm ent paym ents allow
the subscribers to tak e several
years in which to pay. Please re ­
p ort to w orkers any propaganda.
We w ant to m ake this clear—no
person is “dow n” for any am ount
of m oney there are no quotas, ac­
cording to C hairm an Thom pson
R everend R em bert Ahles, of St.
H u b ert’s C hurch gave an inspira­
tional talk. R everend . John L.
B riehl, one of the cam paign w o rk ­
ers gave the invocation.
The d in n er was served cafeteria
style by the Ladies’ A uxiliary of
the M alheur M emorial hospital
(C ontinued on P age 8)
T w en ty -th ree electors in school
d istrict 26C voted unanim ously
M onday to re tu rn Henry D. Zobell
to the school board for another
five years. T here w ere no other
condidate filings for the office.
Im m ediately after the election,
the board m et to organize and
nam ed Jo h n Schenk chairm an;
W arren F arm er, vice chairm an,
and R. V. Wilson was reappointed
clerk of the board.
The group set the reg u lar m eet­
ing date for 8 o’clock on the sec­
ond Tuesday evening of each
m onth at the ju n io r high school
building. P lans w ere m ade for a
tour of the d istrict’s physical plant
this afternoon and arrangem ents
w ere m ade for purchase of cafe­
teria, shop and grade school
equipm ent w ith surplus funds re ­
m aining from the 1955-56 budget.
At Vale the sam e day, 274 p a ­
trons tu rn ed out to vote for a d i­
rector and relected Ernest Adams.
They tu rn ed down a proposal to
increase the d istrict’s tax base
from $40.000 to $90,000 w ith a
vote of 200 to 74.
A contest at O ntario brought
out 374 electors who voted 220 to
154 for G eorge Bain as a board
m em ber over Mrs. M artha Beech-
ler. incum bent.
Profits From FFA Projects Realized
By Boys Working In Important Class
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N yssa’s 59 F u tu re F arm ers of
A m erica under the direction of
LeRoy Pulliam realized a net
profit of $15.931 63 for 7,472 stu ­
d en t hours of work involved d u r­
ing the period ending last Dec.
1, according to an an n u al report
filed by the FFA advisor.
P ulliam
said these figures
rep resen t actual profits which in ­
volve sales of products after all
expenses are deducted. U nder
th e FFA program , stu d en ts m ust
even figure cu rren t rates of re n t­
al for land and o th e r facilities
even if they are ow ned by a boy’s
fa th e r who doesn’t actu ally m ake
a charge.
G ross value of all crops and
anim als am ounted to m ore than
$42.500 while expenses w ere more
th an $26,500.
Some of the boys lost m oney on
some of th eir projects while
others, ju st like th e farm ers of
area,
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age profits w hen th ey happened
to sell at the right tim e.
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In beef and
d airy projects, • sev­
eral boys saw com fortable net
gains although one of them lost
$230 on two cows and a calf in
the beef division. On the o th er
hand, an o th er FFA m em ber re al­
ized a net profit of $307 from five
cows in the d airy division.
E xcellent profits w ere shown
by some of the youths growing
crops—one of them had corn on
three acres w hich grossed $453
and expenses am ounted to only
$83 37. A nother boy realized
$544 25 net profit from tw o and
one half acres of alfalfa and his
rep o rt showed only 32 hours of
stu d en t labor. By contrast, a n ­
o th er youth spent 224 hours on
his dairy cow project and realized
$308 net p rofit from the three
anim als. Of course, he still had
the cows after th eir products w ere
sold, it was explained.
S ugar Beets P ro fitab le
Boys ® grow ing ~ beets w ere
gefter
.
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ally financially succcessful as was
indicated by $329 net p rofit from
(C ontinued on P age •)
lower.
Real estate values showed a Milking Contest
$243,845 increase d uring the one
y ear period, while personal p ro p ­ Slated Prior to
erty showed a $386,595 decline, or
an overall decline of $142,750 in Payette Gam e
local assessed valuations w ithin
H arry Miner, a Nyssa baseball
the county.
m anager of some years back
No Details Yet
K oopm an said th at figures had will challenge Hugh Tobler,
not been broken dow n to give in ­ present day boss of the Nyssas
dividual valuations of m unicipali­ to a contest F riday night ju st
ties or school districts. He said p rio r to the P ay ette gam e to
th at in view of the dow nw ard see w hich has the g reater pulL
The event will be a cow m ilk­
value of livestock, it is possible
th at school districts may suffer ing contest in deference to dairy
some lost valuations while it is m onth w ith a special aw ard
possible th at cities may hold their going to the victor.
own or enjoy slight increases if
Both adm it being a little
there has been m uch building.
rusty but rum or has it th at they
A county-w ide program of re- I have been visiting farm er fr i­
evaluation which has been under- j ends this week just to "get the
way for the past four years might | feel of things.”
tend to bolster m unicipal values,
The event, w ith no holds b a r ­
although the program is no d if­ red. will take place near home
ferent than th at which has been plate if the bossies are w illing.
underw ay constantly since 1952,
Both are a little concerned as
the assessor said.
Koopm an also pointed out that to w hat cow they will milk,
public utility valuations, handled fearing a pran k ish dam e m ight
en tirely by the state, would have be ru n in. Schem ing will do no
some bearing on total values of good, how ever ,as they will be
quasi-m unicipal corporations, or forced to draw for their bovine
taxing bodies, but he would not pals.
ven tu re a guess as to w hether
they will be higher or lower.
L ast year public utility values Beet Growers
w ere set at $4,573,426.
Livestock Down
Beard Considers
To show w here a large part of
the low er valuation on personal Child Labor Case
property came, the assessor said
H. S. Davis, Nyssa area beet
th at last year there w ere 11,207
grow
er charged w ith use of child
head of cattle valued at $2,202,92f
and this y ea r’s count is 115,598 labor and assessed $20 penalties
head valued at $2,128,550. Horses by th e M alheur county ASC com ­
and m ules also showed an in­ m ittee, appeared last week b e­
crease in num bers and a decrease fore the Nyssa-Nam pa Beet G row ­
in values; the 1955 count being ers association board of directors
2,970 valued at $32,405 and the to present his case. Davis told
1956 total at 3,004 valued at $27,- the board he had appealed his case
to the state ACS office in P o rtland
I 465.
O ther livestock populations and after his appeal from the original
values for 1955 and 1956, respec- charge w as rejected by the county
! tively, are: sheep, 43,155 head, com m ittee.
Davis w as charged w ith allow ­
| $81,585 value and 45,829 head and
$84 420 value; hogs, 2,448 head. ing a 7-year-old d au g h ter of an
$17,850 value, and 2,474 head and em ployed farm w orker couple to
$9.970 value; poultry, 71,941 head hoe beets on his farm . The charge
and $25,090 value, and 63,673 head was denied w ith th e explanation
th a t th e child was "playing w ith
and $20,205 value.
A nother factor affecting v alu a­ a hoe w hile her m o th er was n u rs­
tions is the large increase in v et­ ing h er baby."
eran s’ exem ptions which rose
The association board is now
from $85,155 in 1955 to $118,210 considering Davis' appeal for as-
this year, th e assessor reported, sistanre.
CountyBudget Stands at Original
Figure; Health Group Gives Views
Final aproval of a $670,286.85
budget last F riday was given by
the M alheur county budget board
m eeting at Vale. Of the total a-
m ount, $369,261.85 will be raised
by taxes w ith $23,300 expected
to be d elinquent by the end of
the fiscal year next Ju n e. The
rem aining $324,325 is expected to
be raised from o th er sources such
as gasoline and liquor taxes, fines
and o th er means.
The 1956-57 budget com pares
com pares w ith a cu rren t budget
of $648,760.
A pearing at the hearing was a
represen tativ e com m itte p ro test­
ing the board’s earlier slash in
requested funds for the county
health d ep artm en t. The com m it­
tee was composed of Mrs. J . W.
Rigney and F ran k P arr, Nyssa;
Mrs. Em m ett K nott and Mrs. John
Elfering. Vale, and Dr. Sam Po-
banz, Ontario.
C om m ittee P rotests
Mrs. Rigney, spokesm an for the
group, explained th at the com ­
m ittee wished to protest action of
the county budget board in lim it­
ing the county health budget to
$15,960, and em phasized the fol­
lowing points:
“The requested budget of $25,-
780 w as an effort of a co u n ty ­
wide com m ittee to provide more
ad eq u ate health services for the
Truck Fire Calls
Rural Department
Firem en w ere called at 8:20
T uesday m orning to the W atson-
L am atia farm 4 m iles south of
Nyssa w here a farm tru ck was
enveloped in flam es. F ire Chief
R alph said th a t ap p aren tly the
gas tan k had been filled too full
and had seeped o u t around the
vehicles's seat. A possible w iring
sh o rt was believed to have ignited
the gasoline.
W orkers at the farm h ad a t­
tem pted to p u t out th e blaze by
throw ing d irt onto the truck and
called th e ru ra l fire dep artm en t
w hen th e ir efforts w ere unsucces­
sful. C hem icals w ere used to quell
the flam es.
23,000 people in the county.
"T hat as far as actual progress
tow ard b etter service is concern­
ed, M alheur county seems to be
going backw ard instead of fo r­
ward.
“T hat the services asked for
w ere a direct result of the sug­
gestions m ade by Dr. Harold M.
Erickson, director of Oregon State
Board of H ealth.”
In an sw er to the court’s state­
m ent th at very few people a tte n d ­
ed the first budget hearing, Mrs.
E lfering stated th at her presence
a t the hearing represented 1400
m em bers of the FTA in M alheur
county. The court was rem inded
th at approving statem ents had
been received from at least 21
civic organizations throughout th e
county and th at m ore than 600
individuals were represented.
C om pares C ourthouse Fund
Dr. Pobanz asked each m em ber
of th e court his personal opinion
in regard to a full-tim e health
d ep artm en t and each board m em ­
ber said he was fully in accord
w ith the idea. “But you continue
to feel th at it is m ore im p o rtan t
to p u t $20,000 into a sinking fund
for a new courthouse than to
m ake provisions for two nurses?”
th e O n tario doctor asked.
T here was fu rth e r discussion
concerning needs for child g uid­
ance clinics, fu rth e r prevention of
tuberculosis and general health
(education. The gorup em phasized
th at it is im possible to secure
an y th in g like adequate services
in this area w ith ju st one nurse.
Mrs Rigney said the court was
em phatic in saying th at $4500 had
been budgeted for a public health
nurse and "m ade it plain th at if
one is hired, the present nurse,
w orking hard for h er $3600, will
be out of a job!” The court m ade
it clear if a public health nurse
is not found, the $800 saved will
re v e rt to the general fund.
“S everal tim es d u rin g th e d is­
cussion, Ju d g e G. Y. C hester s ta t­
ed th at the m atter of h ealth se r­
vice m M alheur county would
have to be settled by ballot and
th at in such an event he would
vote for it," Mrs. Rigney reported.
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