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© u - Of 0. Lib.„ rarv ugc ne, Oregon Nyssa G ate City Journal VOLUME LUI THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL. NYSSA. OREGON. THURSDAY. MARCH 13. 1958 Dropping oi $225.000 Street and Alley Improvements Postponed by Council For Week Alter Residents Object Nyssa’s city council deferred further action on officially scrapping the city’s previously approved $225,000 street and alley improvement district No 5 at their Tuesday night meet ing after a group of 17 people appeared and protested the dropping of the improvements. The council scheduled a special meeting to further discuss ~*keeping or dropping the dis- ! trict for next Thursday, March 20 in the council chambers. The council had been slated to hold the first reading of or- Rural Districts School Budget Set at $21,050 New Owyhee Bridge Completed as Runoff Starts „ §ffe * -T V * _ V m * FIRST SECTION NUMBER 10 Nyssa Attorney Clyde Snider Seeks Demo Nomination for Representative Against Emil Stunz; Coroner Contest A surprise filing late last Friday in Salem will result in a Democratic primary contest that has created interest among members of both parties throughout the county. Clyde H. Snider, Nyssa attorney, filed for the Democratic nomination for state representative and will oppose Emil A. Stunz, incumbent, in the May 16 primaries. Another late filing brings* an additional contest in the Republican primaries with the announcement by Jerome F. Sweeney that he w ill oppose School Election Set for Nyssa, Rural District | dinances establishing the improve George C. Beechler, incumbent THE RECENTLY completed ' ment district and the charter ad- coroner, for the nomination. Last span across tha Owytiee river. mendment providing the issuance week one other Republican con just 22 miles from Nyssa on the Malheur county’s rural school of $48,000 in general obligation test was announced between In- Election of the Malheur Rural district published a $22,850 bud- bonds to pay the city’s portion of road to Cwyhee dam is pictur cumbent County Commissioner School District board and one get for 1958-59 this week and Nys- the project. However this action ed above. The bridge is one George Cleaver of the Nyssa area member of Nyssa’s school board sa’s school district announced the was postponed pending the spec- span of the old Snake river ind O. Z. Matthews of Ironside. has been set for May 5, according highway bridge at Nyssa. Plank Snider told The Journal this to Superintendent of Schools R. first budget meeting will be held ial meeting. April 8. Those in attendance, some ing and stringers were purchas week that his candidacy was a V. Wilson. ed by the Izaak Walton league last-minute decision and coincid The rural school district budget, representing other property Nominations for both boards which moved the bridge to its ed at a Satur- must be made bv petition and printed on page 15, estimates a owners in their area, expiessed , with his attendance . , new site. The new bridge was needed tax levy for the ensuing opinion that the council day meeting of the state_ interim thege musl 5e completed and filed erected fo replace the fill shown committee on judicial admims no later than April 5. year of $21,050, which would be should continue with the already on the right. It will allow year- tration, of which he is a member, inside the six-percent limitation, approved improvements while around traffic to the lake on Nyssa’s school district, as a in Salem Saturday. A meeting will be held in the 'here was still, time to complete zone in the Rural School District, the gradual grade up the canyon Farm Economy Issue county courthouse in Vale April them this summer. will elect one member to the It was pointed out that only 27 | which has usually been closed The attorney stated that he is Seven-man District Board. Voter’s 2 at 10 a m. to discuss the new in the early spring by high wat percent of the property owners I primarily interested in the need ^ N will als0 help choose the budget. living in the improvement district er. Even lafer in the season the of closer unity between Malheur *directors at large for the Superintendent of Schools R. V. had registered any protest against road has frequently been haz The new span is of particular the development of the new county and the state government. Rural board Wllson said. Wilson “ “ “ project and » „ h th.t significance in view of the new Owyhee lake resort. , says . about , , $141,000 . ,, , of the , the that some of ardous before culverts could be As the farmer goes so goe* our Nominations for the board rural district budget ,,___ ________________________ park being built at the lake and budget will wm be i«. used uatn these protested only the method installed in place of the ford. —Journal Photo. country, Smder stated and went member frQm thfi N district ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ as an offset against the upcoming f asa£ sment> not the formation on to say that all possible effort must ^ made b tltion con_ Nyssa district budget levy. He of the district. Although some 39 will be exerted to strengthen the taining the signatures of at least emphasized that these rural dis percent of the total property own- farm economy. 25 legal voters in this district and trict funds will not be added to .u xt , , . , . , . ers in the district representing When asked about his views on must be submitted to the county a sales tax, Snider stated that on School Superintendent’s office by i 6 S i S i ' K . S S »»out 41 percent of the property as an offset after the local budget involved had protested, many of principle he is opposed to such April 5, 30 days prior to the is set. these were out-of-town owners. I . . . . . . a tax measure. election. Five members have been ap In addition another owner that Some misunderstanding appar- and maintain roads into the area, A thief or thieves with more Snider has practiced law in Nominations for the two direc pointed by the Nyssa board to sit had viou’ j protested with- ently exists in connection with People of the Nyssa area are re- Nyssa since coming here in 1948 brawn than sense of value stole tors at large must be made by with them as the budget commit- j drew bis prcdest Tuesday the sale of stock in Owyhee Lake sponsible for keeping the recrea- from St. Louis, Mo., where he tee. These men include John m bt> meetmg Resort, Inc., Lloyd Russell, presi- tional facilities at Lake Owyhee a truck load of concrete and practiced for several years and petition containing the signatures several power poles from the served as an assistant district at of 50 registered voters in Mal Stam, Fred Bracken, Darwin Jen- Jt wag also pointed out that dent oi the organization, told the alive for so many years, Russell sen, Houston Wilson and Lloyd the protests received by the coun- Nyssa Chamber of Commerce told the chamber members. Nyssa Boat club's landing on torney He has been active in heur county and must be in the county superintendent’s office by Wilson. A committee composed of Tom have been granted the re-hired Wednesday. the Snake river sometime Sun j Democratic politics in Malheur teachers this year under the old Russell said the firm is incor- Jones, chairman, Hugh Tobler, day night, according to Speed county since he came here, but the same time. Nominations for the upcoming schedule would have totaled $4,- porated for $250,000 and that an- Paul Penrod, Ken Renstrom and has not sought public office since vacancy on Nyssa’s school board Porter, president of the club. Gus Liming was appointed by 400. Wilson said that under the j other officer’s announcement that i moving to Oregon. must also be made by petition Broken concrete had been ac- __ ____ _ ____ _ be __ __ _ __ the full __ sum could sold to ... in- President Wilton Jackson to work (Continued on Page 5) (Continued on Page 5) bearing the signatures of 10 vestors outside this area might with officers of the corporation to ■umulated by boat enthusiasts registered voters in the district 1 have led Nyssans to think outside "spread the message” and sell and poles had been obtained and must be in Superintendent stock. investments are preferred. The Wilson’s office by April 5. Other chamber discussion in from Idaho Power Co. to rip Ontario man said that $31,700 al r " rap the Idaho side of the river Wilson said that petitions for cluded a further report on the ready has been sold in Ontario I nomination for either board are where the quota has been set at possibility of a hay pellet mill for a boat dock. | now available in his office. $50,000, and $1,900 has been sold here. Hugh Tobler said that such Porter issued another appeal The term of Warren Farmer, in Vale and $15,000 is expected to a mill should be here primarily for additional broken concrete I now the president of Nyssa’s for the feeding of 10,000 head of be raised there. blocks so that work can con I school board, expires this year beef and dairy cptle, which is Residents of the Nyssa area will The speaker emphasized that tinue. Members of the club and The Malheur County Farm La-j and the May 5 election will fill find bargains gdlore again this j sale of stock is on the basis of an only a small part ot the cattle other boat enthusiasts are plan bor Sponsoring association re- ■ this vacancy. Wilson says that a week in ads pertaining to Dollar investment and not as a contri- population. Such a mill could op ning to work on the project elected Warren Farmer president petition is currently being circu- Days on pages 12 and 13 of this bution. Work is underway on erate 20 hours a day, 300 days a Sunday in spite of the disap of their organization at a meeting lated to re-nominate Farmer for issue of The Gate City Journal. \ modern tourist facilities at Cher- year and produce five tons per pearance of the materials. Por held Friday night at the Nyssa ! the post. | In addition to the specials offered ry creek and is expected to at- hour. A similar plant may be ter said that a 20 by 30-foot Labor camp, Turner Bond, secre- Wilson explained that this is by merchants participating in the tract thousands of additional vis- built near Ontario for both ex concrete ramp will be built and tary reported. I the first year Nyssa has partici- port and local use, but at least monthly event, which is schedul- itors to Lake Owyhee each year. that donations of broken con Ted Morgan, also of Nyssa was pated in the Rural District elec- I ed for Friday and Saturday of Russell explained that facilities three such mills are needed in crete blocks as well as labor are selected to serve as vice pres-1 tion since, prior to legislative ac- this county, Tobler said. this week, are other bargains be must be available and in use be Jackson announced that a rep- needed to complete the project ident; Bond re-elected secretary tion this past session, all first- ing offered by individual stores fore additional state funds can be for use of boaters this spring and new directors-at-large are class school districts did not par Mrs. Owen (Lois) Counsil and business firms through Jour obtained and before the state resentative of the Owyhee Riding and summer. Fred Trenkel, Cairo district and ticipate in the Rural District. 6 will be a chamber guest next The name of this week’s Wo nal advertising throughout this highway department can build I c^u Ray Olson, Oregon Slope district. week to discuss the club’s rodeo ' IT ~ I IT man About Nyssa is no stranger to issue of the newspaper. Plans are tentatively being for-1 « J 1_ grounds in the Morgan addition N y S S C f B a n k D a y S The Dollar Days event was the columns of The Gate City mulated to hold community meet- i n O r i r Q JYi6 ] l l D 6 r S of Nyssa. Purses Increase Journal since she has been this planned and promoted by the ings of labor users and the Spon- paper’s Sunset Valley correspond Nyssa Chamber of Commerce Nyssa Bank Days double jack- I soring association during April, ent since 1951. What’s more she merchants’ committee headed by pots climbed to $100 and $50 for Bond stated. had been a resident of this area Bob Wilson. The chairman report next Tuesday’s drawing after this Consolidation of the four mi for some 37 years when she first ed that unusual cooperation was week’s drawing failed to name grant labor camps in Malheur started writing for the Journal. found when the plan was present an individual who was in one of county—Nyssa, Adrian, Vale and The Adrian Grade school PTA The first meeting of the Adrian Mrs. Owen (Lois) Counsil was ed in February and that unusual the participating stores. Ontario was accomplished at the municipal park board will be held born near Sioux City, Iowa just favorable response from partici has scheduled its March meet annual meeting of the sponsoring Ed Mason, 530 North Second 63 years ago last Friday. When pating firms and the public has ing for Thursday the 20th begin street, was called for the first association held in February. The Thursday, March 20, following a ning at 8 p m. at the grade school, she was 11 years old her father, been received. Nyssa’s planning commission jackpot and A. F. Seward of route merger was made in an effort to meeting of the grade school PTA. according to Mrs. Roy Hirai, pres a minister o f the Methodist improve operating efficiency The meeting will also be at Ad ident. Mrs. Jim Phifer, program met Monday evening in the city 2, Parma, for the second prize of church, moved the family to the through having all camps under rian grade school. Chairman Jake hall for the first time since Dec. $25. The lucky drawing takes chairman has tentatively sched Borge will preside at the meeting state of Washington. one management, a representa uled a cancer film for the meeting. 12, 1956, and recommended to the place each Tuesday afternoon at at which future improving plans In the spring of 1912, Mrs. tive of the group reported. city council that they grant a 3 o’clock. Mrs. Hirai further stated that an building permit to Dessert Seed will be discussed. Counsil graduated from the Lynn, ------------ Nyssa school children will have executive meeting will be held company to add a warehouse to Those meeting will be Borge; Washington high school, and she Don Brewer, assistant chairman; married Donald Knottingham in their spring vacation next Thurs Thursday evening, March 13, at the back of its present building day and Friday, March 21-22, ac her home. Mrs. Phifer will an at 403 North Main. The group Mrs. Hugh Lamb, secretary-treas December of the same year. urer; Gayle Martin, Junior Math The young couple began dry cording to high school Principal nounce definite program plans at also elected officers. that time. ews and Jim Harper, men-at-large land farming just six miles from Jack Jenkins. The question of Dessert Seed's Jenkins said the high school will The nominating committee will and Mrs. George DeHaven, w o Warden, Washington and remain building permit, which involves man-at-large. ed there for nearly two years let out classes at 3:47 p m. Wed- make a report on election of of- building on to a commercial-type While still in Washington the nesday and they will reconvene ficers at the March 20 meeting building in an area presently clas born in October of 1913. the following Monday morning. Committee members are Jim Arrive Here in 1914 The vacation will coincide with Langley, Mrs. Tavie Hendricks sified as a business zone, was re cently referred to the planning After spending the fourth of the Oregon Education association and Mrs. Irma Hopkins. Julv on the train down here, the convention in Portland and sev- Refreshment committee for the commission for an opinion by the Knottinghams arrived in Malheur eral other school functions on the March meeting will be the third sonry material rather than cor- In recommending the permit for county in 1914 to homestead 640 state level. grade room mothers, Two seniors at Nyssa’s high the 70 by 90 or 100-foot ware acres on Big Mud Flat school have been awarded certi house be granted, the commission As the then Mrs. Knottingham ficates of merit as a result of commented that it would not ex put it, the young couple “ started their outstanding performances in pand the commercial operation in out from scratch” when they ar the 1957-58 National Merit Schol any way and that several other rived in this area. Their 640 acre arship program, according to Prin commercial operations presently homestead had no water or well, cipal Jack Jenkins. exist in the area. no house or buildings, only plenty Barbara McPartland and Tom The commission also suggested Nyssa’s school board re-hired an additional $400 per year with of sagebrush. Sallee have received the certifi that the structure be constructed The three Knottinghams "camp- all 54 of their teachers, principals in two more years. cates which attest to the high aca Under the newly approved tea of cinder blocks or a similar ma- ed" in a tent all summer with the and superintendent, with the ex- demic promise of the students. husband carrying water to the ception of three teachers who chers’ pay plan those with a mas city council. High scores on two college apti camp on his back. Thus they have resigned, at a meeting Tues- ter’s degree will start at $4,248 rugated iron or sheet metal be tude tests led to the nationally started in the ranching and cattle day afternoon and increased the per year and receive an addition cause of its nearness to adjoin recognized academic honors for al $192 for each year’s experience ing residential property. business with the three cows and teachers’ pay scale slightly, i the two. Less than one-half of Mist Shirley Skinner Miu Gloria Gonyer six head of horses they had Superintendent of Schools R V. teaching here. Previously the The cost of the structure was one percent of the seniors in each brought with them from Washing- Wilson said the salary increase scale graduated only $180 for each estimated by Dessert Seed as from A Nyssa high school senior and gree members must achieve high state received the awards, ton will put Nyssa in a better position year’s experience. an Adrian high student were standards of work in school, home Miss McPartland and Sallee are $15.000 to $20.000. A teacher with five years of During those first summer to attract new teachers upon their Bernard Eastman was elected among 50 Oregon high school girls and community programs. among 7,300 finalists in the cur- _____________ _______ _____ _________ ______ ____ ____ National ______ ______ months, Mr Knottingham built graduation and encourage present; training but no master’s degref president of the commission at the ___________ awarded the highest degree to Fu- Oregon now _________________ has 115 FHA chap- rent Merit ___________ Scholarship teachers to keep current in know- will start at $4.128 per year and j Monday evening meeting. John ture Homemakers of America at ters in junior and senior high competition which began last Oc- (Continued on Page 8) ledge and teaching methods by receive increases of $180 for each Briehl was picked as vice presi- the 13th state meeting of the Ore- schools across the state. The state tober with the testing of 256,000 going back t^achool. hrear’s teaching in Nyssa These 1 dent and R V. Wilson was re- gon association of FHA held on meeting is designed as a leader- of the nation's most able high Coreys Purchase The new pay scale provides for with bachelor’s degrees are to re- elected secretary. the Oregon State college campus ship training session, which near-1 school seniors. Over 1,000 of the a beginning teacher with a bach- ceive an additional $168 for each in addition to the officers, the at Corvallis March 7 and 8. ly 400 girls attended this year. finalists will be awarded $ 5 , 000 , - Bend River Ranch commission includes Paul Penrod, Awarded state homemaker de- Miss Gonyer was accompanied j 000 in merit scholarships, as a re- Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Corey re- elor's degree to earn $4.008 per year. centlv purchased “ Bend of the year. Previously, the same tea- Teachers with only three years' recently appointed by Mayor Cliff grees were Gloria Ann Gonyer, by Mrs. Charles Steffens, FHA suit of final judging now being Rjvpr*« ranch from Mr. and Mrs. chcr would have received $3,680. training will start at $3.660 per Main to fill the vacancy left by daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leo advisor; Nancy Stringer, FHA conducted, with winners being an- George Pullens. The latter couple After 10 years experience, but year under the new scale, $120 the death of Jed Lewis, Albert Gonyer, Nvssa, and Shirley Skin- president; Sherry Hendricks, vice nounced about May 1. and their two sons are moving to still with only a bachelors de- more than before, and receive in- Heldt and Fred Bracken. ner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs president, and Barbara McPart- There is no cash award to cer- North Third street in Nvssa gree the teacher would receive creases of $144 for each year’s 1 The group also discussed over- Claude Skinner, Adrian land, state secretary. Those at- tificate of merit winners. How- The new home of the Corev’s is $5,688 However for the same tgach:ng here all planning for the city and sche- The homemaker degree is the tending from Adrian were Mrs. ever, their names will be printed located about three miles south of teacher with a masters degree Wilson said that previous to the duled a meeting for April 14 to highest state honor in home eco- Marie Moore, homemaking advis- in a certificate of merit book Nvs*a. directly on the bank of the new pay scale calls for $6,- pay increase^ granted Tuesday, further explore these possibili- nomics that a high school girl or; Linda Costley, chapter voting which is sent to all colleges and the Snake river. I®* and an opportunity to earn (Continued on Page 5) ties. can w in. To qualify for the de- delegate, and Miss Skinner. | scholarship agencies. Owyhee Resori President Reports To Nyssa Chamber on Stock Sales Brawny Thieves Load and Haul Boaters Material Women About Nyssa! Nyssa Merchants Dollar Days Again This Week Farmer Named Prexy of Labor Group in County Adrian PTA Sets Officer Election At March Meeting To Hold Session On Adrian Park Planning Group Recommendation To Build Given Spring Vacation Slated for Schools Receive State Homemaker Degree Nyssa Seniors Earn Awards Nyssa's School Board Re-Hires 51, Raises Teacher's Pay Scale Slightly
