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Nyssa Gate City Journal
The Sugar City
April 16 Freeze Causes Extensive
Damage to Fruit and Field Crops
30 Percent of Sugar Beets Ruined
THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL, NYSSA, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1960
10 Cents Per Copy
NUMBER 16
Small Fry Claim Easter Hunt Prizes
Change Planned;
Certificates Slated
The Tuesday Bank Days pro
gram is due to undergo a drastic
change in the very near future.
Where cash has been given be
fore, certificates will be issued
good for merchandise only at par
ticipating stores. At a meeting
Wednesday of quite a number of
merchants who have been sup
porting the program, it was voted
to buy some flags to be display» d
in front of the places of business
on Tuesdays, identifying the es
tablishment as a participant.
The flags can be made and
painted “Bank Day Member” for
approximately $2 each. Most of
the stores have flag poles of uni
form height to which these can
be attached. (Since JCC mem
bers are furnishing flags in most
cases now, the old poles can be
used for this new purpose.)
If it is necessary to get a new
pole, they can be secured at a
very modest cost. Not only will
the flags identify the places
where certificates can be redeem
ed, they will help dress up the
town when properly displayed.
Bank Day members stressed
that the program was open to all
merchants of Nyssa and those not
now belonging could get infor
mation they would need from any
present participating member.
With the thermometer reading 25 for Saturday night,
April 16, Nyssa experienced the coldest night on record by
4 degrees for that time of year. This late freeze killed out
about 8000 acres of sugar beets, representing about 30 percent
of the total crop in the area, did extensive damage to fruit
across the river on the Idaho side, and did lesser damage to
~ ———«some field crops throughout
the area.
Henry Zobell, manager of
Amalgamated Sugar com
pany’s Nyssa factory, said that
Weiser, Payette, Vale. Ontario
and Parma suffered more damage
than the immediate Nyssa area,
A study is being made by rep both in the number of acres that
resentatives of the city, Malheur would have to be reseeded and
Memorial hospital and the rural percentage - wise. Approximately
fire department to determine the 2000 acres were ruined in Weiher
feasibility of making ambulance area and about 1800 in the Pay
ette territory.
service available in the area.
Representing the city is Walker Foresees Tonnage Decrease
Low; the hospital, Hubert Chris He said that present indications
tensen; and Frank Sherwood, the are that all that were destroyed |
rural fire department. They have would be replanted but that ton-j
met on the matter and worked nage would be cut short due to
SHOWN HERE are Timmy Hamilton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bill
out some of the details necessary the decrease in the growing sei-
to a successful plan.
son. He estimated that most of Hamilton, and Freddy Richter, son of Mr. and Mrs. Tony Richter,
The proposed plan would entail that destroyed had been in about as they received prizes at Schoen studios Saturday. Presenting the
a joint subsidy for a part of the three weeks and that the larger gifts is Miss Nancy Hill, an employee at Schoen's. The lads were
cost for the first year. At the end plants suffered most damage. It recipients of two of the 274 prizes given by 43 local merchants at
of that time the three organiza was thought that the seed that the Jaycee-sponsored annual Easter egg hunt Saturday in Nyssa
tion would review operations for had not yet come through the south park.
—Photo by Schoen.
the year and try to determine if ground was unharmed.
the service could be continued,
Freezeouts are not unusual in
and what changes, if any, should spots but this is the largest on No Winners Tuesday
b» made.
record and caught the sugar com At Bank Days Event
Another meeting will be held pany totally unprepared for such
Names drawn this week at
April 26, and any parties who large damage. The Ogden plant Nyssa bank days event were Dick
started
processing
seed
day
and
might be interested in operating
Stam of route 1, Fruitland, for
the ambulance are asked to con night but the Nyssa factory had the $50 jackpot prize; Cecil O.
tact any of the three men repre to limit the amount of seed to Smith of Adrian, for the $10 sec
each grower to 100 pounds daily ond prize; and Clyde Bybee of
senting the organizations.
due to limitations on trucking route
2, Nyssa, for third prize
and processing facilities. This re of $5.
striction has now been removed,
Zobell said, and needed seed can There were no winners. The
jackpot prize will climb to $100
be obtained all at one time.
next week.
Growers Advised to Irrigate
reducing the tonnage
A $100 scholarship has been the Besides
growers
have considerable ex.
granted students of Nyssa high pense disking
up the fields and
school who study under the Jun preparing the seed beds all over
ior Engineers and Scientists Sum. again. Growers are being urged
mer institute in Oregon colleges. to put water to the beets as soon
The grant was made by the as they can, as this seems to stim
Dwight Wyckoff, manager of
Nyssa beet sugar refinery em ulate the plants, Zobell explained. Farmers Feed and Seed company,
ployees, local union No. 22918.
He said the sugar company will Nyssa, announced Monday that
Each year Nyssa students re accept replants up to May 10 but his firm was planning to conduct
ceive specialized training in sum that most growers would be done a market survey of farmers and
stockmen of this area, with the
mer science and engineering considerably before then.
PLOTTING STRATEGY last week during final preparations for
possibility in mind of establishing
courses and it is sometimes at a
a new related industry in the the Nyssa junior class play being presented this week are cast
considerable financial sacrifice to
members, kneeling left to right. Mike Wilson. Carolyn Horn. Peggy
the family.
area.
Among the questions to be ask Yost: standing. Harlan Sager. Karen Ellis. David Moore. Richard
Charles Steffens, Nyssa high
ed are: “What services are you Krause and Reed Patterson.
school science instructor, states
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now receiving from your feed
that Forrest Huffman plans to
and seed dealer? “What services,
attend JESSI this summer and
there may be others. They will
City Manager Art Colby said not received, do you think would
be recipients of the scholarship that the irrigation season was be desirable? How much grain
monies.
here and that the city was about do you raise; how much do you
The high school science club ready to start making the addi- buy? Are you interested in diver
wishes to express appreciation to tional 30 cents per front foot to sifying your operations for addi
“It was one of the funniest plays I’ve seen in ages,” and
tional sources of income? Would “I was able to hear every line,’’ were typical audience com
the local sugar refiners union for cover the cost of the water.
the generous grant and interest
He said that a number of you be interested in a hay pellet ments heard by Director Clyde Swisher following opening
in conscientious students.
people had their own pumps and mill in this area?”
performance of the junior class arena-style play “Lo and Be
did not use city water for irri Wyckoff says nis firm had se hold” Tuesday evening at Nyssa high school.
gation. and hence did not pay cured the services of the Nyssa
Tonight’s performance is set*
| the charge. They are asked to FFA chapter to make the survey, for a prompt 8 p.m. in the ADRIAN GRADE SCHOOL PTA
which
is
to
begin
Monday,
April
j sign a certificate that they will
i not use the city water for other 25. He said he felt they were a cafetorium. Limited seating ELECTION MEET TONIGHT
i than household purposes. These worthy organization that would is offered in order to main Adrian grr.dc school PTA will
! should be signed and back in the do the job efficiently and that at tain the intimacy of the arena meet tonight at 8 o’clock at the
After seven continuous years city water office no later than the same time it would provide method of staging. Tickets are Adrian grade school building.
an the Nyssa police force, patrol- Monday, April 25, Colby said.
them with funds needed to send available at the door; patrons are
Election of officers will be held
mafi Clement (“Clem”) Lopez De
their two delegates to the nation warned that latecom«rs will not and the program will be on inti r-
If
anyone
has
put
in
their
own
Vinaspre, has tendered his resig water system since the last irriga al convention in Kansas City, or be seated until the first inter national relations, with an ex-
nation to become effective May tion season, and does not plan to aid in the cost of putting on the mission.
change student from Italy as fea-
1, 1960
The
comedy
“
Lo
and
Behold
”
annual
father
and
son
banquet.
tured speaker.
use city water, they are asked to
De Vinaspre’s letter to the city come
There are about 40 FFA boys tells of Milo Alcott (Reed Patter All parents and interested per-
in
to
the
city
hall
and
sign
officials dated April 15, 1960 the necessary papers to avoid the who will be taking part in this son) who dies, but finds no peace sons are urged to attend this
reads as follows: “Gentlemen; irrigation charge.
program, calling on each of their in the house he has willed to him meeting.
Please accept my resignation as
nearest neighbors, on their owp self as a sanctuary for his spirit.
patrolman effective by May 1,
time. TTieir 6urvey will cover He is pestered by three spirits MISS ERSTAD RESIGNS
1960
about the same area as in the who also want to share his home TO JOIN BOISE STAFF
“ I have enjoyed my employ
Miss Marjorie Erstad, junior
Nyssa school district, according to (Carolyn Horn, Mike Wilson and
ment with the city during the
and senior high girls’ physical
Carl Devin, ag instructor. The Peggy Yost).
past seven years and particularly
answers will be held in strict con Other in the cast who tend to education instructor, is resigning
the opportunity of serving under
fidence and cooperation of farm frustrate the “dead” man are her position with the Nyssa
Chief of Police E. L. Hansen.”
ers called on will be appreciated, . nai . Krause. Karen Ellis, Har schools to join the PE department
Lloyd
W
Lewis
informed
the
Yours truly. Clement Lopez De
in Sa^er and Dave Moore.
of the Boise school system.
Journal the first part of the week Wyckoff said.•
Vinaspre.
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De Vinaspre says his plans are that there was a small area near
not fully complete but that he Nyssa infested with rats. He had
will be working in Boise and that seen them in some loose straw
it will not be police work.
along the bank of the Snake river
Mrs De Vinaspre is employed about one half mile below the
at the Malheur Memorial hospital Nyssa bridge on the Oregon side
in Nyssa.
of the river.
A later check showed that
there had been some along the
dump of the Amalgamated Sugar
factory previously but the com
pany had been placing poison out
for them and they had either
1 been killed or had moved from
Mary Johnson of the county I there.
health office in Ontario met
In November 1958 another in-
Friday morning at the Metho
dist church with a group of : testation was found in approxi
local women to discuss plans mately the same area. Dick For-
for the Oregon stale board of 1 bess had cleaned these out for
health chest x-ray unit that the sugar company, following in
structions from tie county health
will be here soon.
The ladies were representa J sanitarian.
Dr Grant B Hughes, county
tives of the various churches
and organizations of Nyssa. health officer, said Wednesday
Mrs. Clifford Fox has been morning that he would try to get
action to destroy the “colony” at
named local chairman.
is scheduled to be in once before <Xhe rodents spread
The unit
i
Nyssa, Friday and Saturday, over a&15rger a:®a and become a
SHOWN ABOVE is Carl Devin, agriculture vention in Kansal City. Seated, left to right, ar*
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May 6 and 7. On May 6 it will health problem.
teacher
in Nyssa high school, together with the Skipper Nakashima. Georg* Jones, Jim Fanner,
The Journal was unable to con.
be at the Nyssa labor camp
frsvr. 3 I p.m. to 8:30 p.m. and on tact the county sanitarian but was old officers and the newly elected of the Future Dave Moore, Reed Patters«» and David Hill. In
May 7 it will be located on informed that he was aware of Farmers of America chapter. They are a part of the back row are Andrew Child. Will Hust, John
Main street in front of the Ida the problem and would be in the 40 boys who will begin a market survey for Peterson. Instructor Devin, Dean Sisson and Gary
ho Power office from 10 aun. Nyssa Wednesday afternoon to a local firm this Monday. They plan to use the Pric*.
Ichtck into it.
funds for delegate expense to the national con-
—Photo by Schoe©
to 5 p.m.
Local Groups Plan
Study for Area
Ambulance Use
Thespians Discuss Play Presentation
Science Students
Receive Grant
From Local Union
FIRST
SECTION
Local Feed Dealer
Plans Area Survey
By FFA Students
Fill Out City
Forms to Avoid
Irrigation Fees
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Viewers Acclaim Junior Class Play;
Second Staging Set Tonight at NHS
Nyssa Policeman
Clem DeVinaspre
To Resign May 1
Rat Infested Area
Found Near Nyssa
Being Investigated
Outgoing, Incoming FFA Officers to Aid Market Survey
Chest X-ray Unit
Slates May 6-7
Filming in Nyssa
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On Aims
of f JCC,
Solon Flegel
Propose
Merit' Pay Plan for Oregon Teachers
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A.embers ot the Nvssa Chamber of Commerce heard JCC
State President “Corky" Corbett of Burns and Al Flegel,
Roseburg, member of the legislative education interim com
mittee make short talks at the Wednesday noon meeting
Corbett explained that the Junior Chamber of Commerce
had no connection with the Chamber of Commerce and that
they were referred to as “jun-*
ior” merely due to the age1
limits, 21-35, restricting active
membership.
He said the main objective of the
organization was training mem-i
bers for leadership and trying to
instill the sense of responsibility
nectssary for citizens to have in
our form of government. Cited Official announcement was made
as a danger to our form of gov Tuesday that Dr. Grant B. Hughes
ernment is the apathy of quali had sold his equipment to Dr.
fied voters when in a presidential David W. Sarazin and would be
year only 60 percent vote and in leaving for Salem, Ore., some
off years there are quite fre time in June.
Dr. Hughes will take extensive
quently only 25 percent voting.
training in psychiatry to prepare
Relates Educational Problems
for child guidance work. This
Flegel, besides being a member study will be taken at Salem
of the interim education commit State hospital.
tee, has served three terms as
Dr. Sarazin, who has been as
representative for his county and sociated with Dr. K. A. Danford
owns a trucking concern in Rose and Dr. K. E. Kerby of the Sara-
burg. He was introduced by Emil zin clinic for the past two years,
Stunz as a Democratic delegate will move to the Dr. Hughes
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of-
at large to the national conven fice at 2 North Main street May 1
tion.
and will be associated with Dr.
He told of some of the prob Hughes until he leaves for Salem.
lems he felt were facing educa Dr. Hughes came to Nyssa in
tion in the state of Oregon, and the spring of 1955, following a
said that it was the responsibility tour in the Naval Medical corps
of the state, and not the national ending in Hawthorne, Nev., and
government, to give equal edu has been in the same location here
cational opportunity to all citi all the time. He has been presi
zens of the state. He further said dent of the county medical socie
that he very much doubted that ty, has served as county chairman
we were paying as much property of the Republican central com
tax as we could, but that we were mittee and is county health of
comparing the number of dollars ficer at the present time.
He has also been quite active
we spend for taxes now as against
those spent before inflation cut in church and civic affairs irj the
the value of the dollar so much. community. Dr. and Mrs Hughes
say they look forward to the new
Advocates 'Merit' Pay System
work that he will be engaged in
The greater part of the time but that they regret having to
was spent by Flegel telling why leave the many friends they have
he felt that a “merit” pay system made here.
was so essential to getting good
Dr. Sarazin, having been bom
teachers in Oregon schools. He and reared in Nyssa, needs no in
told of some schools that had troduction to people in this area.
adopted the plan in some form
or other and quoted from studies
made by the New England School Area Scout Council
Development council which had Annual Dinner Set
made a study of teacher compe
tence and its relation to salary. April 23 at Ontario
The Ore-Ida Scout council an
Their summary said that "a nual
dinner will be held
number of studies had been made at the potluck
Ontario
high school Sat
and others reviewed but the evi
April 23 at 7:30 p.m.
dence indicates that the relation urday,
dinner is for all unit lead
ship between experience and ef ers The
and
committeemen.
ficiency is variable but very low
Election
of officers will be held.
After studying 673 articles on
teacher competence no study was Arvel Child of Nyssa has been
found which could definitely re chosen by the nominating com
port a relationship between pro mittee for council president for
the coming year, according to Sid
ficiency as a teacher and the Tate
of Payette.
amount of training.”
There will be a 50th annivers
Suggests Wider Salary Range
ary show presented by Scout
Flegel cited findings from the units of Nyssa and Ontario.
Rockefeller Fund report in which
it said, “As important as the level
of pay is the fact that promotion
al policy for our school system is
routine and depends more on
seniority and training than on
merit, and the top salary is not
pred E Bennett, departmental
sufficiently above the bottom sal
ary to constitute an incentive." commander of the Oregon Ameri
Other guests at the luncheon can Legion, will be honored at a
were Tully A. Griffin, Democratic party at the Moore hotel thia
candidate for Malheur county Saturday night, April 23. The
treasurer, and a representative of event is being sponsored by Le-
gion posts of Vale, Ontario, Ad-
the Shell Oil company.
drian and Nyssa, with the latter
acting as host.
Many Legion dignitaries from
throughout Oregon have made
plans to attend along with Le-
gionnaires, their wives and aux-
iliary members.
The party will start with a so
A second and final pre-school cial hour from 6 to 7, to be fol
meeting will be held Tuesday, lowed with a banquet at 8 and a
April 26, at 8 p.m. in the multi short program, with dancing to
purpose room of the primary start about 9 o’clock. Jim "Win
school building. The first session dy” Wilkins of La Grande will
was held Monday night.
serve as master of ceremonies.
The meetings, sponsored by the
Bennett has climbed the Am
PTA with “
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.
Mrs. W A.
Barton
as erican Legion steps from being
chairman, were especially plan- Nyssa post commander on through
ned to be of informational value the district leadership to vice
to parents who have children en- commander and commander of
tering the first grade next Sep- the state of Oregon. His term will
tember, that is, children who will expire the first part of July when
be six years old on or before his successor will be elected at
Nov. 15.
the state convention.
A first grade teacher panel will
briefly review such areas of in County Cancer Unit
terest as (1) What is readiness?
(2) Do we have a phonetic pro Sponsors Vaudeville
gram? (3) What is the basic Show Next Thursday
reading program? (4) developing
Humphreys, chairman of
readiness for number concepts; the Bob
Malheur county unit of th*
(5) manuscript writing and (6) American
Cancer society, has
other activities such as art, PE, asked th* Journal
announce
music, science and social studies. that th* unit will to sponsor
a
Everyone will be invited to ask fund - raising vaudeville show
questions, to browse through the Thursday. April 28. at 8 p.m.
primary building and to look in the Ontario high school audi
over instructional materials in torium.
use.
The show will feature "Top
Talent from Treasure Valley.”
ATTENDS PORTLAND MEET
Clint Bellows, well known vo-
° Walter L. McPartland, Nyssa aalist, will perform as well as
^hool superintendent, will leave tne newly formed barbershop
Saturday to attend a superinten quartet. Ontario chapter.
dents meeting in Portland. His
According to Humphreys, in
family will accompany him and addition there will bo singing,
will visit with Mr. and Mrs. Jack dancing and instrumental acts
Jenkins, former Nyssans, in West especially selected to perform
Linn.
in this vaudeville presentation.
Physicians Tell
Of Future Plans;
Hughes lo Leave
Legion Dinner Set
Saturday Night
To Honor Bennett
Final Pre-School
Meeting Slated
Tuesday Evening