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THURSDAY, JANUARY 21. 1B60 THE NYSSA GATE CITY •OURNAL? NYS^t. OREGON PAGE TWO JU Heallh Dept. Says Flu Shots Needed THE GATE CITY JOURNAL By T.M.B. TED M. BRAMMER. Editor Y»ci M. Brammer and Gala Z. Brammer, Publiihers SUBSCRIPTION RATES \ ewpami J^S^ á Í sociation AFFILIA Tt MtMSt» Single Copies-------- 10c In Malheur County, Oregon, and Payette and Canyon Counties, Idaho:’ 1 Year .... . $3 50 6 Months _ $2 50 ELsewhere in the USA: Year $4.00 6 Months $2 50 Published every Thursday at Nyssa, Malheur County, Oregon. Entered at the postoffice at Nyssa, Oregon, for transmission through the United States Mails, as a second class matter under the act of March 3, 1879, A Lesson in Civics Webster defines civics as “the study of the duties, rights, and privileges of citizens.” This is a rather broad definition and can mean little to us unless we learn just what our DUTIES are, what RIGHTS we are given by law, and the resultant privileges that accompany these rights. These objects apply to the various forms of govern ment that we Americans have here in the U. S., but the one we want you to think about is our city form of government. It appears to us that some people have a mistaken notion about it. In Nyssa we have a governing body consisting of a mayor and six councilmen, all elected by the voters, in a city-wide election. In turn they hire a city manager, un der a plan previously approved by the voters, who acts for them in supervising the various departments of the city. The city manager is given authority to hire and fire personnel as he sees fit. The department heads are di rectly responsible to the city manager for all their actions in an official 'ficial capacity ca and the city council does not inter as they believe he is doing the job properly. fere as long 1 So when anything occurs within the jurisdiction of the city, such as the recent violent death on Main street, it is not the direct responsibility of the city council. Mem bers of the council cannot go out and make arrests, they cannot call for an inquest, they are frequently as un familiar with the details as any other citizen. Since this is true there is no reason for pressure being placed on them to act where they have n > capacity or authority. But by the same authority voters gave them when they elected councilmen as representatives in this city government, they cannot be considered as separate and distinct, and disassociate themselves from the problems arising in the various city departments. If citizens de sire to meet in peaceable assembly and petition the city council for some particular action to be taken, council men will hear the plea, whether it be for vacating a certain alley, the establishment of a stop sign, or to ask that all city ordinances be enforced as written. Recently the American Legion voted to authorize a committee to meet with the city council to inform the members that they desired to have all laws enforced im partially, whether minor or major laws, and that the Legion offered its full support in doing this. This action was not a criticism for events that had occurred in the past, but an effort to control factors that might be con ducive to the same thing reoccurring. The city manager let it be known that he did not approve of this and as a result the committee met with him instead of the council. We believe this is wrong . . . not from a moral stand point, but from a "civics” point of view. The committee had been authorized to go to the council—not the city manager—and the matter was not taken officially on to the council. There is a place on the agenda for people to be heard at council meetings. If citizens have a com plaint about merchandise 9old by some store, they natur ally go to the “boss” and not necessarily to the clerk. Suppose some of the departments of the city under the supervision of the city manager were grossly ineffi cient, the condition had been that way for some time, the city manager was aware of it but had done nothing to correct it, should the citizens carry their cause of action to the council or to the city manager'1 This is not meant as a personal matter with the cit manager; as a man we like him, and as a whole we thin he is doing a good job, but we do think he’s wrong in this matter and we also feel that he is failing to let the public know all they are entitled to know about the city affairs. A well-informed public is our best protec tion for our present form of democratic government. ☆ ☆ You’d better get your annual flu shots and take special c^re of your health during the next few • • • • The best guardian of liberty is weeks. The was the advice Friday of a well-informed public, and we are thoroughly convinced that the j the state board of health after the best method of informing citi-, department’s disease control ex zens is through the local paper. perts had finished reviewing in It is read by a higher percentage fluenza reports from Oregon and of people, is retained longer, and 1 the rest of the nation. must be much surer of its facts j Although reported Oregon in than TV and radio, where the fluenza increased 28.5 percent last message is oral and soon forgot week, from 617 to 793 cases, the ten. disease still is “about at normal • • • • seasonal levels,” according to the With county elections not too health board. many months away it is not too None of the reports so far in early for us to begin studying the dicated that the epidemic which office seekers and their programs. has struck an estimated half-mil At one time government was More poor public officials have lion persons in the Los Angeles the servant of the people but been elected by those potential area the past few days has yet with all the bureaucratic agen voters who stayed at home on moved into Oregon. cies being given law - making election day than those who went However, Dr. Richard H. Wil- authority, we wonder if that is to the polls. cox, state health officer, warned • • • • still true. Support of national, that there is “a strong possibility” , A recent editorial of the States that the disease could become epi state and local governments takes a third of all the nation man, speaking of a recent out demic here within the next few break of burglaries in Boise, said, weeks. Flu outbreaks have been produces. • • • • ‘The persons most concerned are noted recently in several other The U.S. Commerce department not the townsfolk or the owners parts of the country, and Dr. Wil of the places of business that have defines big business as those em been visited by burglars. The real cox said the flu virus could be ploying over 500 people and a concern is in the police depart transported quickly to all parts of Oregon by travelers. 1 small business employing fewer (The U. S. Public Health service than 500. Where only two or three ment and it won't rest on the es tablished laurels.” (Can you fea are employed would it refer to ture a policeman being more con already has attributed several of the outbreaks to Asian influenza, the business as MINUTE, and see cerned than the man who lost it only with the use of a micro the property, or a politician being the same disease given mo^t of infections such as pneumonia, the the blame for Oregon’s epidemic health officer urged that anyone scope! more interested in giving you of more than 47,000 cases two becoming ill with suspected flu e • e • good government than in winning years ago.) call a physician promptly. The Old Timer says, “Many a the office???) Flu shots were recommended as Symptoms of Asian flu are the boy is the kind of kid his mother • • • • the best defense against the dis same as those of other ty^es. They wouldn’t want him to play with.” Putting a few cents in the . ease, and Dr. Wilcox especially include sudden onset of illness, • • • • collection plate does not make j urged them for the very young often similar to a severe cold, When you feel dog - tired at one a philanthropist. Going to or old persons, pregnant women, fever up to 104 degrees, chills, night, it may be because you’ve church does not make one a or persons already weakened by sore throat, cough and muscular growled all day. i Christian but it will do no some other illness. aches and pains. • » • • harm . . . and it will give One shot gives protection to Danger signals might include: J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI Christians a better whack at most older children and adults, 1. A sudden rise in temperature said that law enforcement was you to become one. although the health officer rec • • • • no better than the training of the ommended a second shot three to after the fourth or fifth day. officers and only through modern 2. Severe chest pain, especially The harassed teacher was tug four months after the first. The training can we keep abreast of ging away to get a pair of over immunity does not carry over during deep breathing. the times in the increasing fight shoes on one of the children. Suc from one year to another, and the 3. Coughing which brings up a against lawlessness. ceeding, she remarked, “My, but shots do not become effective un great deal of yellowish or green • • • • those were hard to get on.” Yeth, til 10 to 14 days after vaccination. ish mucous material. Dr. Wilcox also recommended Speaking of law enforcement said the little boy, “that's because 4. Heavy, deep, difficult breath- . . . the Ontario Argu»-Ob»errer they aren’t mine.” The exasper maintenance of good personal ing. of Jan. 18, 1960, quoted Chief ated teacher pulled the overshoes health habits, including plenty of 5. Unusual drowsiness or stu- Frank Williams of the Ontario off. “Well,” said the little boy, rest, a well-balanced diet, cleanli city police as saying that in a “they aren’t mine; they’re my ness and avoidance of fatigue and por. 8. Excessive muscular pain or one-month period 122 persons brothers but I have to wear chilling. . Because influenza is dangerous 1 stiff neck. were arrested there for "being them.” chiefly as a result of secondary 1 7. A sore throat not relieved under the influence." Nyssa's record for 1959 shows 138 ar It’s hard for us to remember rests for public intoxication. A how important this snow is to man who would try to prove our area . . . The old hometown his point by using Bible quota paper reported 57.66 inches of tions might show that their rainfall there in 1959, with 9.05 drunkenness was many times in May and 7.83 in October. Janu worse than ours, since Ontario ary was the ^jiest month with is approximately twice the site 11.75 inches of precipitation. According to a Gallup poll, as reported in the Jan 5 issue of Look magazine, people are more concerned with peace than any other problem. In second place comes the unions of the nation, with 41 percent of those polled thinking they have too much pow er and offer a bigger threat to the country than either big business or big government. It seems to us that they demonstrated in the recent steel strike settlement that they were much bigger than eith er .. . and it came to a point where government virtually said, "We can’t whip you, so we’ll join you.” e of Nyssa. (But few at mc wh UI ’ balicva it.) by aspirin or simple home reme dies. 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