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TH UR SD AY. M A Y 21. 1959 THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL. NYSSA. OREGON PAGE FOUR THE GATE CITY JOURNAL TED M. BRAMMER tad GALE Z. »R AMMER FROM THIS CORNER By T-M-B. Ed iters ar-d Puüaiiaw SUBSCRIPTION RATES niwspamr S-r.g.e Co? « Ilf FUI USHEI S Ir. Ma ae_r C o-rtr. Oregon, ASSOCIATION and Faveti* and C-aryer. Cc _r.:.es Izaho «53 I Tear EDI TORI AL NATI ONAL SL50 6 Mantas Eli*» sere is lie USA 54 X' Per Year ^ % flltAM Kl KI l l ■ SC 5è € M ortii Pubiabed f.-it) Thursday at Nyssa V i V . r County Or*gor. Er.-èred at tie postofi.ee at Nyssa. Oregon. for tzar-amissx» through the United State; M±..i a« a ser-erd dass —atte: under the act ci March 3. : ï T5> To escape comment or criticism, do nothing, be nothing, say nothing. Mutual Assistance Most everyone has some idea of what constitutes a good newspaper. They may not be able to pir.-point. in detail, the differences between a rood one and a poor one but certainly recognize the net result We do know that the Journal has been an excellent paper ar.d that it will be some time before we car. e:ve you as good as have Duane and Fern. But we ask that you bear with us until we have had more time to get established. We have spent the past nine months corresponding with newspaper brokers and/or owners, with some on- the-spot inspections, to locate a good newspaper in a suitable town and community. Nyssa "filled the bill,” so it is no accident that we are here. W e want you to continue to refer to the Journal as “ our” paper. You can assist us by calling in your per sonal news items and by written reporting of the acti vities of your organizations. The Journal will attempt to cover the regular meetings of city council, school boards, chamber of commerce. Nyssa industries and any others that are of city wide interest and benefit.— T.M.B. It All Begins at Home Next week is cleanup week in Nyssa. Everyone is asked to brush up their premises and let the city truck haul off the trash. In this city-wide project the city fathers ask your cooperation. You pile it up; they’ll carry it off. Neatness is an infectious thing that spreads rapidly once it has a good start. And nowhere is this maxim more readily demonstrated than here in Nyssa.’ Pride is reflected in the general neatness of the city. A house without a neat yard, a cluttered alley or an unswept sidewalk is a rarity. Just as community neatness must begin with the in dividual, so must it be maintained with individual effort. When a person’s own yard and buildings are neat, the neighbor will usually go to work on his. With a little pride, paint and perseverance we can keep this neatness which has marked Nyssa, and perhaps spread it into those few corners in which it is now lacking. The problem of keeping up a neighborhood is a two- edged sword. It cuts both ways. As neatness and order liness can spread, so can disorderliness and slovenliness spread. Our city can look exactly as we want it to look. It takes a concentrated effort— and it all starts in each citizen’s own yard. R — eTiber -his com.r.g Satur- y s Popp y Day. It -S claimed the r.ew geographic renter of the 50 United States will be at Med cai Spring», in Baker county, Oregon. The oil producers, who are gtv- er. a T ' i cred.t against federal .ncome taxes, seem to be afra.d public opinion might change this. It seems that an allowance is needed but the question is how much? How expensive are the I drv holes? We can rerperr.ber when spon taneous combustion caused fires in hay that had been put up rather wet. but had never heard of a wet cable causing a fire alarm to go off. as was reported about 1 pm. Friday from the telephone office. A common court practice on vagranev charges is to “ float them out of town”—meaning to release them if they will leave town. We have been unable to see the pur pose of this. Is this something bad we wish off on our neighboring towns (knowing they will do the same to us with their vagrants) or could it be such a good thing that we wish to share with them! Where national safety is not a consideration, the public is en titled to every fact about govern ment operation and the withhold ing of this information by Wash ington bureaucrats should be looked on with suspicion. 'WHAT do they want to hide and W’ HY? "Progress never follows out right waste"—not even when it meant the slaughter of pigs and dumping them in the river. More and more people are be coming concerned about inflation and are thinking of some of the causes. Not the least of these is higher and higher taxes. One can start at the city level and go to ! county, state and federal govern ments and see an increase each year. It might total a small amount each year but that soon mounts up And just as long as we clamor for more and bigger services, just because the govern ment makes funds available, they will continue to mount. Malheur county is way below the national average in juvenile delinquency. County Judge Chest r sa d that a new jail was not needed, that no one had ever escaped from the present one, and that he does not believe the people want to pay in creased taxes to pay for a new one County Supt i S hools W E Leggitt explained how it was a common thing for one to be pay ing school taxes ir. three different districts with three separate and varying levies. Learned from Dor. Hosier that he is one of only three county auditors in the whole stat« of Oregon. The other counties are Clackamas (Oregon City) and Multnomah (Portland) He is ap pointed by the county court and his duties are to audit all the county records am make all coun ty purchases. Another difference in Oregon's U. S. senators seems to be that Neuberger explained his vote for the confirmation of Clare Boothe Luce as ambassador to Brazil and Morse is on the de fensive for his actions. An observation from the Ben ton County (Mo.) Enterprise: FDR proved that in th - country a man can be president forever; Harry Truman proved that anybody can be president; Ei.-er-hower proved that this country doesn’t need a president. In the May 9 issue of the Pub lishers’ Auxiliary (the newspapers' paper), page 1. column 1, in an article by Frank R Neu, director of public relations for the .Ameri can Dairy association, he charged that the greatest threat to the freedom of the press in the U. S today is the irresponsibility of the press itself. He further charged that the more important forms of the mass media had not advanced beyond that stage in which it was assum ed that everything had to be pre pared for a public with the men tality of an 8 year old. But at the bottom of this same page the collective advice of some of the outstanding jour nalists in the country was to: Service Academy Jaques Is Elected President Testing Days Set Eagles Elmer Jaques was elected presi Letters to Editor Signed letters to the editor are welcomed and will be printed if they do not contain comments of • libelous nature or attacks on religious and racial groups. Pub- .icaticn of the letters does not tigmiy the agreement of this newspaper with opinions ex pressed. Adrian, May 18. 59 To the Ed.tor of the Gate City Journal. How pleasant it is to see our community in print for some praiseworthy reason! And our home paper, the Nyssa Gate C.tv Journal, as well as the Boise Statesman, gave us a good s.x inches of what was real red hot news, when 138 of our busy, busy people got out at this time of the year to vote on our final school budget. Both papers know we are alive May their shadow never grow less! I feel impelled to tell you of the Adrian School’s spring con cert. Of course school events have a thr.ll and significance pe culiarly their own. not to be at tained by any rendition of Caruso o r Schumann-Heinck. because that’s OUR Tommy banging away on the b.g bass drum It’s our Mary's solo in her th.n sweet treble— anybody can see she's a genius! It’s OUR por.v tail brig ade in the beginners band, with the assistant of a stout drummer, who puts over a recognizable Skaters Waltz. Only those who have helped the young human to develop from the caveman chrys alis in which he comes to us know how difficult it is to persuade him even to hold a spoon proper ly. let alone to play in a band in tune and unison. And when the young teacher stood before the causes of wrinkled brows in fifty homes, with no defense but his slender baton. I remembered Clyde Beatty in his white jodh purs, standing slim and straight in the lions steel cage But those C;vil Service examinations for young men seeking appointments to service academies will be given throughout Oregon July 13 Unmarried men in good physi cal condition who will have reach ed their 17th but not their 22nd birthday by July 15, 1960, are eligible for the exam-nation. The tests are the first steps to ward appointment to the military academy at West Point, N Y., nav al academy at Annapolis, Md., Air Force academy at Colorado Springs. Colo., or the Merchant Mar.ne academy at K-.ngs Point, N Y. June 12 is the deadline for ap plications to be sent to Sen Wayne Morse at Washington, DC. dent of the Nyssa Eagles lodge at its annual election last week E.ected with Jaques were Ken Rinstrom, vice president; Rolland Laurance, chaplain; La Verne Cleaver, conductor; Clyde Steph- ensen. inside guard; Dale Bmg- man, outside guard. Bob Thompson, holdover secre tary; Aden W.Ison, treasurer; E. H. Brandt, 3-year trustee, and Richard Udlinek and Bob Toomb, holdover trustees. Duane Holcomb, outgoing pres ident, will be junior past presi dent. Ken Renstrom, Claud Willson, Werner Peutz, Chet Mills, Elmer Jaques and Bernard FYost are delegates to the state Eagles con vention June 25-27 at Tillamook. j youngsters swung into a song The lodge will hold a joint in with a sad little Spanish lilt, like stallation with the auxiliary June a bunch of black birds in a big 6 . tree in the springtime.Wonderful! .And the Mex.can ensemble—no DRIVERS EXAMS SET MAY 29 Spanish don ever doffed his som The next visit of the state driv brero with more sweeping grace ers 1.cense examiner will be May than did our young grandee. Was 29 at citv hall. he from the camp? There were too many creditable performances Mrs. R. L. Williamson left Sun- by the high school band and clev day for her home in Santa Cruz, er skits by the grades to relate Calif. She arrived in Nyssa May here— but “twas a great concert, 8 for a visit with her daughter, ar.d reflected much credit on the Mrs. Don Herron and family. patience and skill—and dare I say endurance?—of the music To sell, buy, rent, hire, etc., use teacher. Mr Davidson The Gate City Journal classified Anna D. S Pratt. page! (1) simplify your writing, (2) use more and better news pic tures, (3) beware of new legal problems. Now what should the country- editor do about writing the news? FRONT END ALIGNMENT Wheel Balancing—Motor Tune-up And General Repairing COMPLETE LAWN M OW ER SERVICE TOWNE G A R A G E 218 Main St., Nyssa Phone 2570 The grasshopper who came to dinner Duane introduced me to some of the county officials at Vale Friday. Some of them were out of town and some were in the court room attending a murder trial. 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