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
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living
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outside
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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
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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
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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
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