Image provided by: Nyssa Public Library; Nyssa, OR
About Nyssa gate city journal. (Nyssa, Or.) 1937-199? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 22, 1960)
'5 O o 0 o o o o THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL, NYSSA. OnOCV o PAGI TWO — Farewell Service Advent Season Letters to Editor Signed letters to the editor are Theme of Program welcomed and will be printed if For Kent Mann they do not contain comments of a libelous nature or attacks on WSCS Meetings religious Scheduled Sunday At Members and racial groups. Pub of the Methodist Wo THE GATE CITY JOURNAL TED M. BRAMMER. Editor and Publisher 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: P Y( ur $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. Jehovah’s Witnesses associated with the Nyssa and Payette groups have completed plans to attend a special winter conven tion of the organization to be held in Burley Dec. 23-25, it was an nounced recently by Ronald Franklin, minister in charge. Franklin said that nearly 800 ministers representing 20 com munities will be present for the mid-winter training session. Con gregations involved will extend as far northwest as Walla Walla, Wash., to Winnemucca, Nev. The Ruy Atagi, a student at EOC, arrived home Friday evening to spend the holidays with his mo ther, Mrs. Asako Atagi. last such meeting of the combin ed groups was held in March at Walla Walla. The session will be held at the Burley high school beginning Fri day, Dec. 23, at 6:45 p.m. The public is program. Among those from the Nyssa area planning to attend the con vention are the Gerald Cooper family, Ray Simpson family, Ju lian Rodriquez family and E. J. Seybold. Greeting k ELDER KENT MANN A farewell testimonial for Elder Kent Mann will be held Sunday, Dec. 25, at 6 p.m. in the Nyssa LDS First ward. Mann, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mann, route 2, Parma, will leave Jan. 2, 1961, on a Southern States mission. Included on the program will be remarks by Bishop Frell Blair and Mrs. Loren Goates. Invoca tion will be by Bill Jefferies. Mrs. Walker Low, Mrs. Marvin Jefferies and Mrs. Lloyd Lewis will render a vocal selection and remarks will be made by Paul Wynn and Mr. and Mrs. Mann. Elder Larry Dean Hafen will present a vocal solo and a re-, sponse from the missionary will be heard. Darrell Williams will pronounce the benediction. Friends are invited to attend this service. MISSIONARY RETURNS HOME FROM FIELD IN NORWAY wonderful customers and we take this opportunity to say, "Thank you ! Fox's Sinclair Service abundantly of Christmas I NYSSA FOOD CENTER O GATE CITY CLEANERS o • # ! * * lication of the letters does not man’s Society of Christian Ser- I signify the agreement of this | vice circles recently held meet-1 newspaper with opinions ex mgs using the theme “The Ad-1 pressed. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Jehovah's Witnesses To Attend Three-Day Convention in Burley THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1960 ---------------------------------------------------------- •— --------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- — Miss Amy Lewis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray C. Lewis, arriv ed home Friday from a 26-month mission in Norway for the LDS church. A family dinner was given in her honor Sunday at her parents’ home. In addition to the honored guest, Mr. and Mrs. Mural Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Lewis and family were in attendance. vent Season.” Marlene Harmon circle met in the church parlor with Mrs. George Coleman as hostess. She i also presided at the business meeting. Seven members were i present and signed cards for mem bers who were ill. Mrs. Grover Lytle led devotions and Mrs. Coleman presented the program. The group decided to provide a box of food for a needy family. Jessie Lee circle members met at the home of Mrs. Herman Springen with 11 members and one visitor present. Mrs. Clarence Fritts was leader for devotions and program. Mrs. Gene Honey read "The Greatest Thing in the World.” A candle lighting service and litany were used with an offering given for "Meals for Mil lions.” Mrs. Roy Knoedler was hostess for the Iris Bell group. Seven members, Mrs. Kinsey Keveren and Miss Frances Foster, mission ary from Japan, were present. Mrs. Eugene Butzer conducted the business meeting. Members voted to make an offering for “Meals for Millions” and to aid a needy family in the area. Mrs. Paul Ludlow presented the devotions and program, "Meaning of the Star in Advent.” A worship set ting of pictures, candles and greenery was used. Celia Cowan circle members met at the home of Mrs. Boyd Wilson with 12 members present. Mrs. Arie Bakker was co-hostess. Mrs. Duane Holcomb presided at the business meeting. Tentative plans were made for a bake sale within the circle in February. Mrs. Holcomb led devotions and Mrs. Kenneth Toomb presented the program. Read and Use Gate City Journal Classified Ads. It’s the time of year when we turn to those we hold dear, and in thankfulness to the Old Man Upstairs. He who knows all our trials, joys and cares, and the teachings that He gave us, be we freemen, poor, rich or slave. In body and spirit we draw near each other, one and all, to give cheer; our joys to share; our sorrows to lift. To each other giv ing our love and heartwarming gift, ever remembering He who shares His eternal love, that Old Man Upstairs. —Adolph E. Schroeder. I ★ Christinas Decorative Candles ★ Christmas Cards Boxed Sets and Singles ★ Men's Dress Slacks All Sizes and Styles ★ Men's and Boys' Sweaters Still a Large Assortment ★ Boxed Blankets Regular Price From $4.99 to $12.95 1Z> Regular /2 Price ★ All Christmas Decorations ♦z Pillow Case Sets : ★ Cannon Regular $2.98 Farm Land Values In Oregon Drop, Reversing Trend Farmland values in Oregon dip ped the middle of 1960, reversing the steady upward trend of the last seven years, reports Mrs. El- vera Horrell, extension agricul tural economist at Oregon State college. At midyear, the USDA Agricul tural Research Service (ARS) placed the index on Oregon’s farmlands, with improvements, at 154 percent of the 1947-49 aver age, Mrs. Horrell said. While this was 3 percent below the high reached last March, it is still a fraction of a percent above that of a year earlier. Over the nation, the average of all farmland values also edged downward, but the drop totaled less than one percent, This aver age still stands a shade above that of July 1959, Mrs. Horrell noted. The ARS attributes the general leveling of farmland values to a readjustment in the unusual re lationship between farmland mar ket values and farm income, Mrs Horrell said. Land values have zoomed up a third since 1954, she pointed out, while farm income has changed little. As a result, price of farm real estate is now nearly 10 times the net income per acre of farmland ■ —the highest ratio since the early thirties. The general easing in the na tional economy may have also had some effect on farmland values. Mrs. Horrell thinks. And, in Oregon, cash receipts from farm sales are down as reduced output from farms more than off set slightly higher farm prices. But nationally, there are no new developments in the agricultural situation to account for the slip page, Mrs Horrell said. Farm in come was down in 1959 but level ed off this year and is expected to hold about the same next year. Farmers made up more than tin ( « -fifths of the farm buyers in l?59-60, a slightly higher pro portion than a year earlier, she said. Non-farmers bought nearly a third of the farms, slightly less than the previous year. Tenants continued to decline as farmland buyers, Mrs. Horrell found, *but p»wner operators bought a higher proportion. Oregon was one of about a doz- en states where farmland values j decreased two percent or more. Mrs. Horrell also noted. Values continuerf^o rise in some states, i but except for California and Florida where non-farm uses con tinued to bolster the market, these rises were held to two per- s cent or less. THURSDAY, FRIDAY and SATURDAY ONLY! I • PRUYN'S Auto Repair Pre-Christmas CLEARANCE Owyhee Rarber Shop I ★ Place Mais Regular 79c to $1.00 ★ One Lot Men's Oxfords —JUST ARRIVED— The Unique, Inflatable "CLINGING” WINKIE DOLL We will close Saturday, Dec. 24, at 6 p.m. and will also be closed Mon day, Dec. 26. Thank You. Merry Christmas to All From "THE GANG" NYSSA DEPT, and VARIETY STORE o Open ‘til 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday Nyssa Veterinary Clinic GOLD STRIKE STAMPS