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• U. of 0. Library ^¡ugenc, Orc-- c « • • • • Nyssa Gate City Journal VOLUME LIV Over $4 Million Mailed This Week To Henry Sugar Grows Zobell, local manager of The Sugar City THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL. NYSSA. OREGON THURSDAY. NOVEMBER. 12. 1959 Nyssa's Expanding Sugar Refinery Viewed from State Line on Snake River 10 Cents Per Copy NUMBER 45 City Council Accepts Sub-Division, Approves Sewer District Ordinance, Hears Planning Committee Reports At the regular monthly meeting Tuesday night, the city Amalgamated Sugar company council voted to accept the plat of the Miner sub-division, and plant, announced yesterday that instructed the mayor and city recorder to sign the plat; ap checks totaling $4.425,000 will be proved ordinance No. 389, creating sewer district No. 3 and mailed from the Nyssa office Fri set Dec. 8 at 8 p.m. as time for the remonstrance hearing; and day to sugar growers in this area. This is $9.50 per ton and repre considered the various recoin-* ---------- sents approximately 72 percent of mendations that were submit the total amount to be received, ted in the planning commit based on last year’s prices and in tee’s report. come. Mayor Grant Rinehart presided This initial payment will be over the meeting and all members only for beets delivered up to the of the council were present, along last of October. Another payment with City Manager Art Colby and will be made on the same tonnage City Attorney Hal Henigson. Nyssa Education associa basis on Nov. 25 to cover beets Other actions taken were: ap The under the chairmanship of delivered through Nov. 15. Zobell proval of the minutes of the pre tion. John Schenk, sponsored a said the government payment of vious meeting, approval of current Mrs. of radio broadcasts over approximately $2.33 per ton was accounts and the renewal of a series usually mailed by the ASC office liquor license for the Nyssa Tav KSRV and an essay contest to during the month of December. ern for 1960, and rejection of a $25 emphasize American Education Harvest is fast nearing an end offer for a 95- x 114-ft. tract in week, Nov. 8-14 Each program used as its theme with approximately 95 percent of block 1 of Industrial sub-division. song the new alma mater song of the beets delivered. Daily tonnage To Prepare Vacating Ordinance Nvssa high school, composed by of the harvest has dropped from Hearing had been set for this Robert Q. Smith and sung by the 38,000 tons two weeks ago to 12,- night for anyone objecting to the chorus under his direction. 000 tons as of yesterday. Beets petition for the city vacating a The radio programs were as in the ground are no longer grow portion of Park addition and as follows: Sunday, Mrs. Mark Hart ing and there is no incentive for there were no objectors to be ley discussed money spent for the farmer to leave them unhar heard, the council voted to in schools from a parents’ point of vested any longer, Zobell said, struct the city manager to prepare view. Henry Zobell spoke on how and that they would all be gotten an ordinance for this purpose, the Nyssa school board is elected out while the weather was still subject to the submission of a plat and its functions Monday, Supt. good, if possible. of the proposed sub-division by of Schools Walter McPartland dis He reported that the refmerv Ventures, Incorporated. cussed the value of communica is still processing about 4600 to Action was deferred, pending tion to world understandings. Wil 4700 tons per day and would on further study, on the planning ton Jackson discussed adult edu until about the end of February, committee recommendation on the cation in the Nyssa schools. when they hoped to end the cam sale of lot 6, block 1, Industrial paign. Storage beets are keeping HERE'S AN IDAHO-EYE-VIEW of the Amalgamated Sugar com Tuesday, a panel of high school sub-division, and on the report of students well, there has been no spoilage discussed teacher respon pany's big refinery at Nyssa. Gleaming white are the four new silos, the city manager regarding secur to date and none is anticipated. working conditions and ing ambulance service for the city. sibilities, capable of sioring 36,000.000 pounds of White Satin sugar. Pointing salaries of the Nyssa faculty as across the Snake river toward the plant and its growing mountains Halt Permits in Sub-Division compared to the national average. of storage sugar beets is Henry D. Zobell. Nyssa area manager for After discussion, the council re Wednesday, Mrs. Josephine Rig Amalgamated. To the left are the stock feeding pens of the com Oregon’s only sugar refinery, which is one of Eastern Ore- fhe^utilities commission ney gave an overall view of the pany. Interested spectator is Harold E. Carlson, Portland, editor the matter of hiring a consulting special education program in Nys gon ’ s largest industries, observed its 22nd birthday last month. v ’ of the Oregon Independent Grocer and secretary of the Independent for the proposed sewer sa. Gene Stunz discussed why the The Amalgamated Sugar company’s sugar beet refinery engineer Retail Grocers of Oregon. State grocers are great boosters of White project, and voted to issue no fur. voting public needs to understand at Nyssa now is recognized as one of the most modern and ther building permits in the In how the tax dollar is proportioned. Satin, since it is the only sugar produced in Oregon. highly efficient among 67 plants now processing beets in the dustrial sub - division until the Oregon farm prices showed a United States. The company*--------------------------------------- Morgan sub —division plat has mixed pattern of ups and downs produces a complete line of gas-fired lime kiln, believed to been recorded and that utilities in October and ended up with an White Satin sugar. be the first utilized by any sugar I be connected to the homes having average 2 percent higher than a ] building permits at the present IS. Right now sugar beet farm plant in the United States' month ago, reports Mrs. Elvera ers in the rich Treasure Valley Storage Facilities Added 'ln}<T Horrell, extension agricultural . At a previous meeting it was of Eastern Oregon are completing economist at Oregon State col This summer, four new storage voted |0 accept the low bid for The 1959 Census of Agriculture, harvest of a crop that will return silos were erected adacent to the a police car of Cable Chevroiet Funeral services were conducted lege. of $9 million. This year’s plant. The 160-foot structures ; cornpany. but since the steel stnke now under way in Malheur Coun Tuesday morning at Lienkaemper upwards At the same time, reports from is expected to tolil- 685.000 have a storage of 36 000,000 bad ty, will bring up to date farm sta down delivery of cars, tistics the U. S. department of agricul The Eastern Oregon chapter of chapel for Curtis Christopherson, crop reports Henry D. Zobell, pounds of bulk sugar to be used the possibility last collected in 1954. when ture show prices received by far the CEC (Council for Exceptional 8-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. tons, of overhauling the Amalgamated’s Nyssa district prior to shipment out to bakeries^ present Hce car wag considere)d the farm census levealed the fol- mers over the nation dropped Children) will meet in Nyssa Sat Clarence “Chris” Christopherson, manager. They will come from candy makers, etc. Some 5,000 ! lowing facts: seasonally in October to a point urday, Nov. 14, in room 3 of the who died Saturday evening in a approximately 25,000 acres. The value of products sold in cubic yards of cement were used, 2 percent lower than last month high school building. Representa Boise hospital from injuries sus- 1954 bv farm operators was $25,- hoisted ni half-yard buckets as the Rural Fire District and the lowest in nearly two tives are expected from Pendle- tained in a one-car accident nine Yield Per Acre Nears Record i 907,764. At the start of the beet harvest silos grew higher. years. National farm prices now ton, La Grande, Baker, Ontario miles west of Boise early that To Elect New Director The value of all crops sold was season on Oct. 5, Zobell reported The White Satin refinery here I afternoon. The family was in the stand 6 percent below last year and Adrian. $14,133,085 and included $12,268,- The Nyssa Rural Fire Protec that the company expected an set a new all-time high record of and the lowest since November General theme of the session process of moving to make their acreage yield of 25.6 tons per acre, production last year of 183.213,- tion District will hold their an 493 for field crops, $1,702,325 for home in Boise after living in Nys 1957. will be “The Crippled Child.” 1 now raised to 27 tons per acre. 200 pounds, or approximately 10 nual election December 7, 1959. I vegetables, $65,167 for fruits and In Oregon. October egg and tur Josephine Rigney, program chair sa for three years. would near the 1958 sugar percent more than the prior year. At this time they will elect a di nuts, and $97,100 for horticultural key prices moved up. and milk man, announces the following Bishop Charles Mann of the This beet yield of 27.5 tons per acre, This is the equivalent to more rector to replace Frank Sherwood specialties. and milk cows also carried higher program: 9 a.m , registration (cof LDS First ward conducted the The value of all livestock and whose term will expire at the price tags. Feed grains and wheat fee served, courtesy of the Nyssa services and interment was in the which was a world’s record, ex than 100 pounds of sugar per man, end livestock products sold was $11,- of the year. ceeding the prior year by 15 pcr- woman and child in Oregon climbed and hay and potato prices PTA); 9:30 a.m., business meet Nyssa cemetery. • cent. This year’s crop, however. The refinery closed only last I Secretary, Frank Parr, says that 762,328 and included $3.164,158 for also rose. ing; 10:15 a.m., demonstration of The baby was riding in the car 1 is better than average and much March 5. 1959, after a 156-day any qualified member of the dis dairy products, $272,225 for poul These gains in state farm prices physical therapy by Marcelle with his mother when she hit a may run for this vacancy try and poultry products, and $8,- were partially offset by lower Montgomery, physical therapist: soft shoulder and glanced down higher than the national average continuous operation, which was trict the second longest in the plant’s and have his name placed on the 325,945 for livestock and livestock prices on most meat animals and 11:15 a.m.. special music, courtesy to see if he was still asleep on the of about 16 tons per acre. Amalgamated has spent approx history. Refinery wages of more ballot by securing 15 qualified products. wool, broiler prices dropped for of Robert Q. Smith, director of front seat, losing control of the imately $1 milion in improve than $1,200,000, along with that electors on his petition and filing The value of forest products the second straight month and music, Nyssa high school; 11:45 car which overturned. ments to the Nyssa refinery in receive by beet growers and oth it with the secretary at least 10 sold from the county’s farms was corn prices turned lower. How a m., luncheon (served by Nyssa $12,351. Following the accident, Mrs. the past two season. Last year ers, means that White Satin an days prior to the election. ever, gains averaged mere than FHA girls under the direction of Present officials of the fire dis losses for the state’s farmers and Mrs. Charles Steffens); greetings Christopherson was treated in a $250,000 was spent in remodeling nually gives the economy of East trict are: Jacob Fischer, president; LOCAL TEACHERS ATTEND total farm prices averaged 2 per by Dr. Grant Hughes. Malheur Boise hospital and released and the plant and adding equipment. ern Oregon at least a $12 million Frank Sherwood, vice president; MEETING AT PENDLETON her sister. Miss Judy Bingham, 15, The increased unloading facilities shot’ in the arm cent higher than in September county health officer. Nyssa, was hospitalized with a were speeded by one-third. In The importance of Oregonians Wilbur Atherton, Loyd Adams Glenn Purdon, consultant for and 4 percent above a year ago. 1 to 2 p.m., panel discussion. broken arm, abrasions and con cluded was the installation of a - using White Satin is emphasized and Frank Parr. the Oregon State Department of Meanwhile, prices received by “The Crippled Child in tusions. She was moved Monday by Harry Moss, Oregon White The voting place will be the Education, Salem, conducted a U. S. farmers fell to the lowest Subject, Satin sales manager. “If this Ore City Hall in Nyssa, the voting special workshop on the education average in nearly two years. School.” Panel members will in morning to Malheur Memorial gon product were all purchased hours 2 to 6 p.m. and the judges of mentally retarded children in Cattle, hogs, corn, grapefruit, clude Mary Weir, teacher in Ad hospital. Survivors of the infant, besides in Oregon,” he explains, “it would selected are John Wulf, Gerrit Pendleton Saturday. The material calves and eggs all moved down. rian schools; Edna Blaylock; Mai. presented was largely concerned mean $1.50 to $2 per ton more for i Stam, and H. R. Sherwood. Higher prices on milk, fresh to heur county nurse; Dr. David his parents, include two brothers, with the curriculum which is each Oregon beet grower. You matoes and wheat only partially Sarazin, Nyssa physician; Mary Craig and Kim; his grandparents, Ann Edwards, director of special Mr and Mrs. Earl Bingham of ’ needed to teach the mentally re can readily estimate that means ATTENDS NAVY SCHOOL offset the decline. In the last game of the 1959 more than $1 million.” City Manager Art Colby left tarded child who is educable. Prices the nation’s farmers pay education, Ontario schools; and Nyssa, and Mr and Mrs LeRoy Adrian was beaten by Teachers attending from this White Satin Sugar pays more yesterday for Huemene, Calif., for goods and services also moved Norman M. Reynolds, consultant, Christopherson, Gooding, Idaho; season, 26 to 13 in a night game taxes directly and indirectly to’ where he will spend two weeks area were Josephine Rigney, Nys lower in October, but at a much education of crippled children, and his1 great-grandparents, Mr. Fruitland Friday. This left the Antelopes the state and counties of Oregon on Naval Reserve training duty. sa; Thelma Borge, Adrian; Mary slower rate, Mrs. Horrell found. slate department of education, and Mrs. James E. Jones. Magna, with a record of 4 wins and 3 than all other sugar companies He will attend the Civil Engineer Ann Edwards and Jennie Boston, Utah. Farm wage rates were down, as Salem. losses for fourth place in the combine. Moss also reported. I Ontario. corps school. were prices paid for farm produc Table decorations are planned SRV-B league standings. to feature products of Malheur Sugar Beet Price tion items. At the end of the first quarter With prices received by farmers county and each luncheon guest the game was all tied up. 7 to 7 dropping faster than prices paid will receive a tiny sack of White Determination Set through touchdowns by Joe Rob by farmers, the purchasing power Satin sugar, courtesy of Amal The department of agriculture inson and the extra point by gamated Sugar company. has made its determination of Sager of of farm products slipped a little Fruitland and Don Cost- last month. The parity ratio— The meeting is open to the pub fair and reasonable prices for the making the touchdown and the government's yardstick for lic and anyone interested tn prob 1959 crop of sugar beets, accord lv What happened to the pheas going rough The usual comment to the game commission as it is Chuck Nelson the extra point measuring the relationship be lems concerning crippled children ing to the Malheur Agricultural for ants? This puzzling question has by hunters in these two areas is, to sportsmen. And it’s not only Adrian. tween prices received and prices is urged to attend. Luncheon will Stabilization and Conservation of been on the tongues of upland “if you don’t have a good dog the Oregon Game commission that Adrian moved ahead 13 to 7 paid by farmers—fell to one point be $1.25 per plate and luncheon fice. ■ The determination requires on a pas play to Ai n Boat-ight bird gunners ever since the season you might as well stay at home .” is in a quandary since the same below September this year, six reservations should be given to processor-producers to pay prices The Oregon Game commission general decline has been exper Fruitland wei. ahead then opened on Oct. M) points below October 1958, and Mrs. Rigney no later than today for sugar beets not less than those but is also concerned with the unex ienced by almost all of the west There is little doubt that bird a point after by making their ex the lowest since August 1940. provided for in their 1959-crop their touchdown. (Thursday). • hunters have had a hard time pected decline in the pehasant ern states including southern Ida purchase contracts with growers. finding the same action this year populations and at a recent meet- ho, eastern Washington, eastern Fruitland wraop it up in the Department officials stated that quarter w.lr i two plunges that they experienced during last ing in Portland seriously consid- Montana, and last but not least, the 1959 contracts provide for fourth across the goal line Jager and year’« excellent hunt when easy ered curtailing the bag limit in North and South Dakota, two of about the same sharing of returns Robinson limits of birds were the rule. This Malheur county by removal of the the best pheasant states in the between growers and processors year a limit of ringnecks is the one hen in the daily bag allowed country. as the contracts for the 1958 crop. The picture in all these states in this area from Nov. 7 through exception rather than the rule. Average returns to Malheur S.S. Rf»p osentatives' “The Diary of Anne Frank," one night and Shirley Dinneback, has been identical. Game agents, Except for the Willamette val 15 senior class play will be present the other Their oldest daughter, coun y growers for the 1958 crop Schedule Is Changed ley reports from biologists show After consideration, the com as did biologists for the Oregon ed Friday and Saturday, Nov. Margot, will be played by Ed.th of sugar beets will upproximate • Allan Rainsberry, field f*pn that the pheasant populations are mission concluded that hunting Stat* Game commission, this $11.1! pi*“ ton. In addition, grow tentative from the La Grande dis- • dec ilily b< lo# that of last pressures would be light because spring tallied one of the highest 13th and 14th at 8 pm. at the Pound« %nd Evelyn Whitaker Nyssa high school, under the di Takine the part of Mr. Van er» will receive Sugar act pay- t,-i t office if the Social ^Security year. When hunters begin to com of the poor shooting and tl^t an winter carryover of adult birds rection of Lawrence Schwarz and Daan«will be Rolf Sutschkow and mi r.ts of about $2 33 per ton ad ministration, announces that pare gunning last year’s bumper emergency change in the printed going into the breeding season Sugnx : ■ et . ■ iwe: - Mrs. Harriet Brumbach, senior Mrs. Van Daan is Linda Hipp his n-e :e nee at the Ontar'o city bird crop with the meager gun regulations would result in un- evef recorded. class advisors. The play will fea Their son Peter becomes a good fied when their application for hr Here in Oregon, the spring duled for Nov. 12 has ning this year, it’s like comparing necessary confusion yvith the pavment is ready fowsignature ture a double female cast. # friend of Anne He is played by ?ed to Nov. 13 Office a full rain barrel with one that roosters wild and mainly in the breeding census was exceptional It deals with the daily lives of Dennis Leavitt. *s \ 1 be 9 a m to 4 p.m • has a busted stave. However, al sagebrush draws and a good dog ly high, and with good food and two Jewisn families, the Franks A young stenographer, Meip, is GRADE SCHOOL OMEN HOUSE air • . ry advises any farmers though hunting is not up to par, e? »ntial for any degree of success cover available, the fall outlook and the Van Daans during the played by Sharen Jaques and Su TO BE HELD TONIGHT e operated their farms field checks of hunter success on a single hen in the bag would be appeared bright. But, the antici years o^World War II »n Amster san Stringer Mr Kraler will be Grade school "open house” and have become totally opening weekend compared fav little incentive to lure hunters pated good hatch of young birds dam. They hide in Mr. Frank’s Gary Dail and Lloyd Cartwright will be he’d at 8 p.m. tonight and permanently disabled to con orably with the 1955 and 1956 any distance The game commis failed to materialize. attic-office to escape capture by while Phil Kent will act as Mr (Thursday) in tha grade school tact h.m for information about seasons, before the boom in up sion suggested that hunters in the Small broods and late nesting Dus?el • he Nazis. gymnasium. There will ba a the disability program. land bird populations began, p Malheur district apply their own were the rule throughout eastern Anne Frank will be Saturday night will be student special program on science and Most noticeable drop in the brakes in shooting hen pheasants Oregon pheasant country. Many Farmers have now been covered by Dianne Mauld:ng a night with a dance following the arithmetic and also a display of under So. îal Se ur Q iong enough pheasant population is through during the Nov. 7-15 period of the broods were so late the Nicholson. Mr Frank will be production. Proceeds from thia new books and manipulative to meet the time requirements for the heavily hunted Umatilla and But what’s the answer to this youngsters were barely able to played by Marlyn Johnson Mrs will go to Nyssa h.gh school’s teaching devices used in tha disability should they become dir- Malheur districts where hunters sudden decline in pheasant num fly by the time the bird season Frank will be Sharon Medlock foreign student fund (Continued on Page 12) teaching of ihesa subjects. with experienced dogs found the bers? The question is as puzzling abled this year or later. Local Educators Sponsor Series Of Broadcasts ♦ ♦ Amaigamaled's White Satin Factory Declared One of Most Modern in U.S. State Farm Prices Mark Oct. Gains; U.S. Total Down Nyssa to Host Eastern Oregon CEO Organization 1959 Farm Census Now Underway; 1954 Figures Given One-Car Accident Saturday Claims Nyssa Infant's Life Antelopes Lose Final Contest Rate Fourth Place Hunters' Question 'What Happened to 1959 Pheasants?' Answered by Oregon State Game Commission Biologists 'Diary of Anne Frank' Will Feature Double Female Cast in Senior Play