TH UR SD AY. M A Y 21. 1959
THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL. NYSSA. OREGON
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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?
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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. Robert Kriner, county
juvenile officer, tells me his
problems are not very bad since
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