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N yssa Gate City Jo u rn a l THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL, NYSSA, OREGON. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 21. Moving of Bridge to New Site Progresses Nyssa-Nampa Beet Growers President Asks USDA for Higher 1958 Quotas W illiam M. Carson, Weiser, president of the Nyssa-Nampa , Beet G row ers association, appeared Tuesday at a sugar con-1 sum ption requirem ent hearing in W ashington, D. C. Carson urged the departm ent of agriculture to set 1958 quotas in line ' w ith actual consumption estim ates. ♦ A com plete tex t of C arson’s statem ent at the hearing was i received here W ednesday. He ! is also vice chairm an of t h e ! N ational Beet G row ers feder- j ation. Adults Invited To Physical Ed Class Sessions Health Dept. Offers Polio Shots The M alheur county h ea lth de p a rtm e n t has announced they are again arran g in g Polio im m unization clinics in Nyssa, Vale and O ntario. The first, second or th ird shots w ill be given by the h ea lth d ep artm en t now, w ith la t e r clinics to give the second shot to those now receiving the first dose of polio vaccine. A to tal of 237 individuals w ere im m unized at the Salk polio clinic held in Nyssa S aturday, Mrs. E dna Blaylock, county h ea lth nurse, reported this w eek. Of this num ber 69 r e ceived th eir first shot, the m a jo rity of w hom w ere pre-school children. Mrs. B laylock com m ended N yssa for its high level of im m u n izatio n determ ined by a poll of all grade and high school stu d en ts ju st p rio r to ‘h e clinic. Of the 1189 Nyssa stu d en ts polled out of a 1224 population, 73 V t p ercen t had al read y received th e series of th ree S alk shots. F igures ta b u lated follow ing S atu rd ay 's cli nic now indicate alm ost a com p lete coverage of Nyssa ch il dren, Mrs. B laylock rem arked. O nly persons under 20 years old and p re g n an t w om en are elig- ible to receive this ta x purchased | vaccine, the h ealth d ep artm en t pointed out, and they expressed th e hope th a t no child w ill be left u n p ro tected from this m ost d read ed disease. They also strongly urged th at those who can pay for this ser vice b u t have no t yet received th e vaccine m ake arrangem ents for the shots through th e ir fam ily physician. No case of corfirm ed polio has occurred in M alheur county this y ea r to the know ledge of the h ealth d ep artm en t, but they say this cannot be credited altogether to th e use of the vaccine since such a large proportion of the co u n ty ’s 20 to 40 age group has had no protection. They w arn, th a t because of this, next year the county m ay not be so lucky. Bank D ays P urse In creases to $150 H. A. W ilson of R oute 2. Nyssa m issed collecting the $125 B ank Days jackpot w hen his nam e was d raw n T uesday afternoon, and he was not in one of the 26 Nyssa business houses p artcip atm g in the prom otion. The jackpot w ill increase ®to $150 for n ext T uesday’s draw ing energy (or baggage) beginning n ext M onday, Nov. 25, at 7:30 p.m. w hen the high school physical education facilities w ill be m ade available for ad u lt use, R. V. W il son, su p erin ten d e n t of schools, has announced. If a sufficient nu m b er of adults participate, it is planned th a t such facilities w ill be m ade available each M onday night during D e cem ber, J a n u a ry and F ebruary. Many types of activities w ill be available, such as volleyball, badm inton, tram polining, gym nastics, bask etb all or ju st plain exercise of a p erso n ’s ow n choos ing, W ilson reported. MOVING OF NYSSA'S old S nake riv er highw ay bridge is progressing, as fhe pictures above show. D ism antling of the bridge has progressed even fu r th er by press tim e th an pic tu red in the top photo. P la n k ing and stringers are being m oved to the brid g e's new site across the O w yhee riv er by truck, as show n in th e cen ter photo, w ith some of the m a te r ial already there. The bottom picture shows w here the bridge is to be erected across the O w y hee on the road to the dam ju st 22 m iles from Nyssa. P la n k ing and strin g ers w ere purchas- by th e Izaak W alton league w hich is paying for the cost of m oving the span. Highly Successful Subscription Campaign Concluded Here Saturday Three W eeks W ork Ends w ith Vote Count, A w arding of Seven Bicycles, Com m issions T hree weeks of h ard b u t in teresting w ork cam e to a close last S atu rd ay n ight at 9 o’clock w hen the Nyssa G ate City J o u r nal subscription cam paign ended. T hree girls and four boys w ho w orked in the cam paign received bicycles and the others received cash com m issions of 15 p ercen t of all the m oney they tu rn ed in The official ju d g es’ count d is closed th at tw o bicycles w ent to P rincipal, Ja c k Jen k in s and his candidates living in N yssa C ity, . faculty announced . . th . eir . ___ and girls a p p re c io-1 ia -( and five w ent to boys J 6 J - 1 living in this area outside Nyssa. tion this week to those who m ade H ighest of all candidates was national education w eek success David N ishitani, who had a com ful. A pproxim ately 125 m others and m anding lead in votes and earn ec fath ers of high school stu d en ts first choice of the seven prize m et M onday even in g at 8 p.m. to bicycles. H ighest of the candidates liv join in “back to school” activities. R efreshm ents w ere served by ing w ithin the city lim its of N ys Mr. an d Mrs. V aughn S trin g er sa was Rodney Colem an. A l though Rodney had a lesser n u m and th e ir com m ittee. ber of votes than the second high candidate in the ru ral district, Position R esigned he received second choice of By L ab T echnician »>kes. JTtie rules provided that C harles S m ith, M alheur Mem- the highest candidates in th e two orial hospital m anager, announe districts (city and ru ra l) w ould ed W ednesday the resignation of receive the first tw o choices of Tom C am pbell, laboratory and x- bicycles. ray technician. C am pbell has ac T hird choice of bicycles was cepted a sim ilar position in Nome, earned by B illy M artin of O w y hee Junction. This young m an Alaska. At p resen t the vacancy has not gave real com petition for hig h est j been filled. honors and w orked alw ays w ith Back to School Night Termed Very Successful a ready sm ile, good hum or and genuine sportsm anship. David N ishitani and Billy M ar tin each also earn ed one of the tw o $10 cash prizes. Eugene B row n, O regon T rail; K athy S trickland, S u n set Valley; Vlcki D eH aven, O w yhee Corner! and Lynn Jackson of Nyssa fin . ished in the order nam ed and each earn ed one of th e prize b i cycles. Judges' S tatem en t O n an o th er page of to day’s Jo u rn al is the judges’ statem en t /h.. h gives the final standings of the candidates. All candidates had to be in the office by 9 o’clock S atu rd ay n ight to m ake th e ir final reports. W hen the last of these had been w aited on, the cam paign was declared ended and the judges began the work of checking th e subscrip tions, adding the votes and d e te r m ining the w inners. E very re ceipt, coin, bill and check was carefu l]y checked and tab ulated by the h ard w orking and effi cien t judges. H undreds of new and renew al subscriptions w ere found in th e sealed ballot box. It was n early 11 o’clock w hen the last vote had been checked and rechecked and the w inners an- nounced. (C ontinued on P age 12) City Regulates Gas Installations In view of the increased use and installation of n a tu ra l gas in this area, C ity M anager Jac k Mid- daugh today called to re sid e n t’s atten tio n the restrictions placed on such installation’s by th e city ’s gas ordinance. M iddaugh pointed out th e o rd i nance requires th at all n atu ra l gas installations m ust be m ade by licensed journeym en gas fit ters w orking for a licensed gas fitting contractor. The sole e x ception to this, the city m anager said, is th at a person m ay m ake an installation in his own hom e if he resides there. T hen such an installation m ust be inspected by th e city. M iddaugh cautioned th a t th e gas com pany is not perm itted to tu rn gas on unless the ordinance has been com plied w ith and, if it is evident th at th ere has been in ten t to by-pass the ordinance, it’s penalty clause can be p u t into effect. Post Office Film S cheduled for PTA A drian — The film en titled “Men, Mail and M achines” w ill be show n at the re g u la r m eet ing of the A drian PTA tonight (T hursday) at the A drian grade school, Glenwood Pounds, A drian postm aster, announced Tuesday. The film is rep o rted to be a rem ark ab le p resen tatio n of the progress being m ade in th e U. S. m ail service. E veryone is urged to view this interesting film. Three Girls, Four Boys Win Bicycles In the N yssa G a te City Journal Subscription C a m p a ig n D avid N ishitani R ural Council Hears Protests, Praise Of Street, Alley Improvement Plans At Friday's Remonstrance Hearing Nvssa’s city council heard 10 form al protests from proper ty owners to their proposed street and alley im provem ent program F rid ay night. A pproval of the overall program was also expressed by several persons attending the rem onstrance hearing on the city improvem ents. Seven protests came from* property ow ners on G reen avenue betw een the railroad Construction right-of-w ay and Third street. One protest was registered Of Courthouse Nyssa Rural Fire Protection District Section Set Dec. 2 “The situ atio n . . . today is e n tirely d iffe ren t from th at w hich T he Nyssa R ural F ire protec faced us at the tim e of the 1957 tion district will hold an election . . . hearing. . . . Then, a sharp Dec.2, at the City Hall in N yssa ! in c " asJe *n w° rld d *m and for su- to elect a director to fill the post gar had started w orld sugar prices vacated by F rank P a rr whose on an up w ard tre n d ,” the W eiser j term expires Dec. 30, 1957, it was m an stated. C onsum ption U nder D istribution announced this week. C arson said th a t estim ates in- [ A candidate to fill this d irec to r sh ip should have a petition sign dicate actual consum ption in 1956 j ed by at least 15 electors, p re was 8,650,000 tons, or about 250,-1 sen ted to the board prior to the 000 tons less than the distribution. d ate of the election. B lanks for He w ent on to explain th a t a | this purpose m ay be secured from sim ilar situ atio n could come about if 1957 quotas are used. He urged th e secretary of the board. P atro n s of the Nyssa R ural a realistic figure for 1958 neces F ire P rotection district will also sitating a su b stan tial reduction ballot on the inclusion into the from the figure for 1957 to pre- < d istrict of territo ry described as vent m aking a sham bles of the I follows: th at p a rt of section five sugar m ark e t in the first p a rt of I lying south of the N orth C anal 1958. The grow er spokesm an called and all sections eight and 17 of T 20, R ange 46, county of M alheur. atten tio n to sugar beet prices, T he farm s included in this elec w hich w ere nearly the sam e i n ! tion for inclusion are recorded 1956 as they w ere in 1951 and u n d er the nam es of V ernon J. 1952. C arson quoted num erous Field, Leslie Topliff, O rm a Good- cost increases as high as 46 p e r ell, Alice Goodell, Glen Hoffm an, cent for som e equipm ent grow ers i G. A. C leaver, S. B. Hoffm an, W il m ust buy. He also pointed out j lis J B ertram , C leaver B rothers, th at the cost of farm labor and , L ester C leaver, Lloyd C leaver, in terest rates and taxes have all Jam es B. R itchie and M iland D ra increased in recent years. C arson urged the secretary of per. ag ric u ltu re to establish quotas for These pro p erty ow ners have petitioned the county com m is 1958 w hich reflect foreseeable sioners for inclusion and the la t needs— th a t quotas be m ore in ter have approved the petition. line w ith actu al consum ption re Since th eir pro p erty is contiguous quirem ents. w ith the N.R.F.P.D. and since they re p resen t a solid block of land w ith no dissenting ow ners w ith in the block of land desiring to join the fire district, there is no need for an election w ithin th a t portion of land desiring in A dults in the com m unity—m en clusion, F ran k P arr, secretary, a n and w om en alike— w ill have an nounced. o p p o rtu n ity to w ork off excess NUMBER 46 Rod nay Colem an Nyssa Billy M artin O w yhee Ju n ctio n ï » Wm Eugene Brown O regon T rail Subscribers who have seen any of the seven happy youngsters picUtred above since they earned their new bicycles will know how sincerely they mean “thank you” to all those who paid a new or renewal*subscrip tion during the Gate City Journal campaign. Most of the other boys and girls stopped long enough. K athy S trick lan d Sunset V alley Vicki Da Haven Owyhee C orner L y n n Jackson Nyssa early this week, in spending of the money they earned as commissions, to ask us to extend their "thank you” to th eir friends and subscribers. A complete listing of all candidates with their final standings will be found on another page of today’s Journal. « (Photos by Schoen) from a property ow ner on Ennis avenue and one from an ow ner in the northern-m ost block of Second street included in the p ro posed im provem ent district. City M anager A. R. (Jack) M iddaugh says th at the protests on G reen rep resen t the ow ners of 22.3 percent of the property proposed to be assessed in those th ree blocks. Union Pacific P ro tests A protest was also registered, not against the im provem ent, but against the am ount of Union P a cific right-of-w ay included in the assessm ent area, by Jim Cox of Y tu rri and O ’K ief in O ntario, re p resenting U P., and Tom J. B ry ant, land and tax agent from the railro a d ’s S alt L ake City office. In addition som e opinions w ere expressed personally to indivi dual councilm en d uring the h e a r ing. C ouncilm en presen t for the rem onstrance hearin g included M ayor Cliff Main, F ran k Morris, Gus Lim ing and G ran t R inehart. P aul N ew ton was also at the council tab le rep resen tin g the engineering firm of C ornell, How land, H ayes and M erryfield, who have been handling the en g in eer ing investigation of the proposed im provem ents. Council S tudies C om plaints E ighteen others, v ary in g from single lot ow ners to ow ners of as m any as 13 lots in the proposed d istrict, w ere presen t in the coun- cil cham bers for the hearing. A fter all protests had been reg- istered th e council adjourned to study the com plaints and w ork out the areas involved. T h ey e x pect to reach a decision on the final assessm ent area an d streets to be included at a special m eet ing to be held n ex t week. At th at time, M iddaugh says, they would hold the first reading o f an im p ro vem ent ordinance am ending the original ordinance, No. 376, in accordance w ith th eir decisions. Election S et in Decem ber M iddaugh also expects th e coun cil to adopt a resolution at the special m eeting su bm itting to the city ’s voters th e proposal for a general obligation bond issue at a special election. The city m anager says such a bond election, to finance th e city ’s portion of the stre e t im prove m ents, will probably be held in m id-D ecem ber. Nears Reality According to C ounty Ju d g e G. Y. C hester, predictions of con stru ctio n on M alheur co u n ty ’s courthouse, estim ated at $275,000, will be under way by n ex t Ju n e. A special courthouse fund now consists of $175,000 and it is b e lieved the county court will d e cide at its n ex t session to place a bond issue m easure before the voters at the May prim ary elec tion. If this plan succeeds, con struction will begin 30 days later. Roald, S ehm eer and H arrin g ton. P ortland architects, are d ra w ing plans for the building w hich will be erected on the presen t lo cation of the courthouse, b u ilt in 1896. D uring the period of erecting the new building, county offices will be established in o th er Vale public buildings. Local Beet Harvest Ended Last Week T he last of this y e a r’s sugar beets w ere delivered to A m alga m ated Sugar com pany’s Nyssa p lan t last F riday and the final load was delivered in N am pa T uesday, according to A m alga m ated spokesm an H enry Zobell. “All beets in this area h av e been harv ested ,” he said, "and they are keeping very w ell in storage.” .. Zobell added th at it appears the average tonnage will be 24 5 per acre this y ear for the Nyssa dis- trict. com pares w ith an av ‘ ‘ This ^ erage of 24.9 last year. TTie A gricultural S tabilization and C onservation com m ittee of fice will sta rt taking applications Dec. 16, Zobell announced, for the 1958 beet acreage. Memorial Fund Established Here For Jed Lewis A m em orial fund for M alheur M emorial hospital in m em ory of the late J e d Lew is was estab lish ed this w eek, according to Hos p ital M anager C h arles Sm ith. M em bers of Mr. L ew is’ fam ily re quested donations to be given to w ard new hospital eq u ip m en t in lieu of flowers. C o n trib u tio n s are being receiv ed by the hospital or w om en of th e M alheur M em orial hospital au x iliary . S ervices for Mr. Lew is w ere held S atu rd ay in P resto n , Ida. Those atten d in g from Nyssa in cluded Don O ldem eyer, W. E. Kouns, Jo h n M aughn, B ernard Johnson, Ray Larson, G len T al bot, Elden Jensen, Jero m e L in der, W alker Low, G eorge Daley and H enry Zobell. To date no one has been nam ed to succeed Mr. Lew is as Nyssa- N am pa d istrict m anager of the A m algam ated S ugar com pany. W illiam (BUI) Peutz. Sr. In A ugust of 1909 a 27-year-old G erm an lad who h ad been in this country only about three years came to a Nyssa th at boast ed a ferry crossing of the Snake riv er, m ud streets, a two-foot wooden sidew alk and a few build ings on th e n o rth side of Mam stre e t w ith no sidew alk and only one building on the south side. He had come over from P ay e tte to look at an 80-acre ranch 10 miles southw est of town th at he was considering buying. T o day, o ur Man A bout Nyssa still resides on th at sam e ranch. W illiam (Bill) Peutz, Sr., was born M arch 29, 1882 in Schloswig- H olstein in the n o rth ern p art of G erm any near the D anish border. As he pointed out, th a t’s the orginal hom e of the H olstein cow. B ro th er C om et to P ay ette D uring his youth P eutz spent tw o years in the G erm an arm y, P lan s are in full sw ing this from 1902 to 1904, and his young w eek for the buffalo d in n er b e e r b ro th er cam e to P ay ette in ing sponsored by A m erican Le- i A m erica at th e age of 15. This gion post 79 Dec. 7 at the Nyssa i brother, incidentally, lived in high school cafeteria. P ay ette from th at tim e u n til last C o-chairm en of the ev en t are A ugust w hen he passed away. He Fred E. B ennett, d istrict com m an had lived there longer th an any d er and Mrs. B ennett, district o th er resident. president. C om m ittees appointed In 1906 Bill P eu tz’s bro th er sent to date include Harold Brendle, post com m ander, tickets and sales; him $100 so he too could come to Mrs. B rendle, publicity; H arold Am erica. A fter purchasing a tic K urtz, assistant chairm an of the ket from Schlosw ig-H olstein to buffalo d in n er, and Ham ilton P ay ette for $97, he left G erm any C hadderdon and E D. Michael- Feb. 8th, 190« on the m aiden voy age of the new K aiser W ilhelm. son, cashiers. T ickets are now available and 2nd. Five days later he landed m ay be obtained from Legion in >*?w York, the ship having m em bers. O w yhee D rug or P eter- set a new record for th a fastest « i*on F u rn itu re stores in O ntario, crossing of the Alantic. (C ontinued o a feme 1 9 Vale and Nyssa. Buffalo Dinner Plans Announced o
