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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-*
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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
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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
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teaching of ihesa subjects.
with experienced dogs found the bers? The question is as puzzling
abled this year or later.
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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