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Published every Thursday at Nyssa, Malheur County, Oregon.
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the act of March 3, 1879
Leader to Visit
LDS Conference
Slated March 4-5
Elder Mark E Peterson, a mem
ber of the Council of Twelve
Apostles of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mor
mon) in Salt Lake City, will be
featured speaker Saturday and
¿Sunday, March 4-5, during a
quarterly conference of the Nyssa
stake.
Sunday's general sessions, to
which the public is invited, will
be held at 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.
in the stake house, West Alberta
Ave., Nyssa. Conducting the con
ference will be Stake President
Arvel L. Child.
Elder Peterson is a career news
paperman. He was news editor,
managing editor, then editor and
general manager of the Deseret
News, pioneer daily newspaper in
Salt Lake City. He is now presi
dent of this large church-owned
publishing company.
He has
served in many civic, community
and church assignments.
All conferences held in 1961 |
will focus emphasis on youth de
velopment as part of a special
church - wide parents and youth
program launched in 1960 by
Church President David O. Mc
Kay. A parents’ session on youth
problems is Saturday.
LENTEN
Lenten
March 8
Lutheran
THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1961
THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL. NYSSA. OREGON
PAGE TWO
SERVICES SLATED
services will be held
at 8.30 p.m. at Grace
church in Vale.
MINISTERS' MEETING SET
Nyssa Ministerial association
will meet March 6 at 9:30 a.m. at
the John Bnehl home.
CLOTHING CLUB MEMBERS
PLAN 4-H WINDOW DISPLAY
Oregon Trail clothing club
members voted to prepare a win
dow display at Idaho Power com
pany office in Nyssa when they
met Feb. 20 The meeting was
held at the home of Mrs. Orville
Hickman.
The group met again Feb. 23
together with Duplicate Cookers
4-H members to complete plans
for the window display to remain
through National 4-H week in
March.
Reports were given at the Mon
day meeting by Karen Smith and
Ellen Saito.
—Judy Laurance, Reporter
Christian Action
Meeting Scheduled
At Episcopal Church
Friday, March 10, is the date
set for the next community meet
ing. Sponsored by a central com
mittee consisting of representa
tives from various churches of
the Nyssa community, this meet
ing will be of general public in
terest.
Featured speaker for the March
meeting will be Robert Love,
Nyssa chief of police. His subject
will be “The Youth of Our Com
munity” and will include sugges
tions and plans for solving some
of the current problems.
The public is urged to attend
this meeting. Parents of teenage
boys and girls are especially in
vited. The meeting will be held
in the social room of the Episco
pal church at Fifth and Bower
avenue.
CLUB MEMBERS DISPLAY
RIBBONS DURING 4-H WEEK
Fourth meeting of Adrian Live
stock club was held Feb. 21. The
senior group met in the ag build
ing and junior members met in
Adrian high school.
During the junior meeting,
Mary Laan and Mary Worden
gave reports on "Know Your
County Government” day, which
ihcy attended recently in Vale.
Pauline Butler and Effie Laan
reported to the senior group on
their trip to the county seat. The
senior group judged cattle at the
Tuesday meeting.
Following the business meet
ings, a film taken at the 1960
spring dairy show was shown to
the group. Members handed in
ribbons to be displayed in the
window of Looney’s Shopping
Center during 4-H club week,
March 4-11.
—Mary Laan, Reporter.
BUSY FINGERS ORGANIZE:
TAMMIE WINN CHOSEN HEAD
Third year 4-H sewing club
members held an organizational
meeting Jan. 21 in the Adrian
grade school.
Tammie Winn was chosen pres
ident of the group. Other offi
cers elected were Dixie Fewkes,
vice president, and Carol Harper,
secretary.
’“Busy Fingers” was the name
chosen by the group at their Feb.
17 meeting. Members discussed
buying of materials and voted to
meet every Friday after school.
ACTIVITIES REPORTED
Next meeting will be March 3
BY CLOTHING CLUB GROUP
at Adrian grade school.
At a recent meeting of Oregon
—Wenona Matthews. Reporter.
Trail Clothing club Marilyn Hick
man and Ellen Saito were chosen
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. McKinney
delegates to attend Malheur coun-: and sons of Portland spent the
ty government meeting at Vale. weekend with her sister, Mr. and
Members of the club attended Mrs. Earl Jennings and girls.
the leaders’ training meeting Feb. Saturday evening guests at the
11 in Ontario.
Jennings home were Mr. and Mrs.
Pam Saito became a member of O. L. Hendry of Glenns Ferry,
the organization and recently at J. W. Jennings of Caldwell and
tended her first meeting.
Mr and Mrs. H. W. Harpham and
The group decided to contribute family of Payette.
to the March of Dimes.
Clothing reports were given by
Mel Beck spent Monday and
Karen and Ellen Saito.
Tuesday in Preston, Idaho, on a
—Judy Laurance, Reporter] business trip.
Sen. Yturri Discusses Court's Decision
That Lessees Owe Taxes on Grazing
Land; Introduces State Bill for Relief
In view of the importance of a recent Supreme court de
cision, I will defer commencement of the series on reorgan
ization.
The Supreme court of Oregon has tossed a bomb shell that
has rudely awakened Eastern Oregon livestock operations.
For many, many years, our cattlemen have grazed their
livestock on public domain.
Since passage of the Taylor duce Senate Bill 417, which will
Grazing act back in the early overcome the effect of the Su
decision. This bill
1930’s, our livestock men have preme court
that a leasehold interest
had to apply to the Bureau of provides
of this nature is not subject to ad
Land management for a permit or
license to graze on federal lands.
Grazing districts were created
throughout Eastern Oregon. How
ever, much of the federal land,
due to location, intermingling of
private lands or other reasons, did
not adapt itself for inclusion with
in a grazing district.
"Permit" or "Lease"
Therefore, when an application
is made for grazing privileges
within a district a “permit” is
issued to the cattleman. On the
other hand, if he applies for per
mission to graze upon lands that
are not within a district, he re
ceives what is called a “lease.”
Whether he has a “permit” or
a “lease,” the cattleman is sub
jected to substantially the same
restrictions. He may only graze
a limited number of livestock; he
may only graze during specified
months, and so forth. In either
case, the cattleman has never be
fore had to pay taxes on the real
property, owned by the federal
government, upon which his cat
tle graze. Federal lands are ex
empt from state or county taxa
tion. In the case of private own
ership, however, it is the landlord
who pays the tax, unless the lease
otherwise specifies.
Oregon has a statute — ORS
307.660—which provides that any
person who holds a lease on fed
eral lands must pay the taxes on
the land. This law has never ap
plied to cover the grazing rights
that cattlemen acquire under the
Taylor Grazing act.
Grant County Brings Test Case
However, Grant county decided
to test this law, so an attempt was
made to tax the holders of these
so-called "leases” on about 40,-
000 acres. The case was tried, and
the Circuit court held that these
“leases” were, in fact, nothing
more than “permits" that are is
sued in ordinary grazing districts
and consequently not taxable.
On Feb. 8 of this year the Su
preme court, in the case of Sproul
et al vs. Gilbert, ruled that the
rights acquired by the cattlemen
under these “leases” were tax
able. It was a split decision —
5 to 2.
The majority opinion appears
sound on its face and perhaps is
right if any weight is given to
the titles and words contained in
the documents which cattlemen
receive. The court ruled that the
“leases” transferred certain pos
sessory rights that created some-
thing more than a “license” or a
"permit.”
Nevertheless, in my judgment.
the dissenting opinion is not only
more realistic, but more correctly
analyzes the true situation as it
actually exists. I see no logical
reason for distinguishing, for tax
purposes or otherwise, between
a “permit" and a “lease.” One in
volves land within a district and
the other does not. There is no
difference in the nature of the
land involved. Both are used for
grazing purposes. The use in each
case is limited as to time and the
number of livestock permitted.
There is no basic difference what
ever. Yet, there are over 700,000
acres of such land in Eastern Ore
gon, not to mention many more
thousands of acres of forest lands
throughout the state.
Introduces Bill for Relief
This situation led me to intro-
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valorem taxation. Emil Stunz and
Bob Smith joined with me on
this bill.
It is not my desire to remove
any more property from a tax-
able status than is absolutely nec
essary. However, these lease in
terests have not been taxed in the
past. I cannot agree to non-exist
ing distinctions. There is no logi
cal reason for treating a “permit”
differently from a “lease” in these
cases. If the bill passes, the prob
lem will be solved and a group
of cattlemen will escape unfair
taxation.
Little Regard for Eastern Oregon
One of the “big shots” in the
labor movement in Portland, who
is also a legislator, was speaking
of reapportionment a few days
ago. He said that “Eastern Ore
gon is trying to get representa
tion for jack rabbits."
This is typical of the views of
many legislators from densely
populated areas. They care noth
ing about Eastern Oregon! They
fail to realize that we are people;
that we pay taxes; and that we
are interested in the state of Ore
gon! At times I am inclined to
think that even the jack rabbits
in our area have more common
sense than some legislators who
scorn them!
Remember, folks, when these
big shots come to Eastern Oregon
and try to soft-soap our people
with words of conservatism and
economy—forget their words . . .
LOOK AT THEIR VOTING REC
ORDS . . therein lies the proof!
Sincerely,
ANTHONY YTURRI
State Senator
Member Joins
Merry Matrons
At Recent Meet
Letters to Editor
Signed letters to the editor are
welcomed and will be printed if
they do not contain comments of
a libelous nature or attacks on
religious and racial groups. ! Pub-
lication of tha letters does I net
signify the agreement ot this
newspaper with opinions •x-
pressed.
Revolution Noted by OSC Economist
In Way of Living for Aged in U.S.
.
Methodist
By Mrs Frank Byer*.
OREGON TO All, The Merry
Matrons club met Wednesday af
ternoon, Feb. 22, at the home of
Opal Holmes. Eleven members
and one guest, Alberta Tinner,
were present. Mrs. Tinner joined
the club. Games were played with
several winning prizes. Refresh
ments were served by the hostess.
Next meeting will be March 8
with Reva Edens as hostess.
NEEDLE AND THREAD CLUB
DISCUSSES MATERIAL
Mrs. Glenn Brown and Timmy
Needle and Thread 4-H club
spent Tuesday afternoon with
Mrs. Kenneth Godbout at On- members met Feb. 21 at the home
of Mrs. Bill Hamilton. Business
tario.
meeting was conducted by Karen
Mrs. Frank Byers returned
Main, president. Peggy Lewis led |
home Saturday morning after
spending two weeks with her the flag salute and Junia Mitchell i
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. James was leader of the 4-H pledge.
Marsha Savage gave a demon
Carson and family at El Cerrito,
Calif. The Carsons have a new stration on how to use a sewing
son, James Marlow, born Feb. 8. machine. The group discussed [
material to be brought to the next
Grecsleys Return Home
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Gressley meeting.
—Sheila Huffman, Reporter i
returned home Thursday after a
2V4-month vacation. They spent
Mrs. Jake Fischer returned
Christmas with their daughter,
Mr. and Mrs. Max Jones and chil home Thursday from Othello,
dren at Bell, Calif. In January Wash., where she accompanied
they visited in Florida with Mrs. her sister, Mrs. Bill Lefler and
Gressley’s brother at Ft. Pierce family who moved there. She |
and cousins of Mr. Gressley at also spent two days in Quincy
West Palm Beach. While in Flor visiting Mr. and Mrs. Jake Groot.
ida they took a number of inter
Mr. and Mrs. George McKee
esting trips which included Cy
press gardens, a tour of a cane were Sunday dinner guests of her
sugar refinery. Lake Okeechobee. brother-in-law and sister, Mr and
Miami and the Gold coast. They Mrs. J. R. Dougal in Boise.
spent several weeks at their
daughter’s home in California be
fore returning home.
Mr. and Mrs. Jess Shuster of
Huntington visited Monday at the
Robert Holmes home helping
their grandson, Bobby, celebrate
his seventh birthday anniversary.
Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Holmes were
afternoon guests for birthday
cake and coffee.
Nifty N liters Meet
Nifty Nitters 4-H knitting club
met Thursday afternoon at the
home of their instructor, Mrs. Al
fred Adams. Following the les
son. refreshments were served to
11 members by Kathleen McPart-
land.
EVANGELIST
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Adams
and David of Boise spent Sunday
afternoon at the Alfred Adams
home.
Mrs. Willis Conant is convalesc
ing at the Glenn Brown home af
7:45 EACH EVENING
ter major surgery several weeks
ago. Sunday afternoon callers in
cluded Mr. and Mrs Gerald Con
ant and Mr. and Mrs. Dale Conant
and Randy of Caldwell and the
Kenneth Godbout family of On
tario.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Seuell
were Sunday evening callers at
the Woodrow Seuell home.
Your Invitation
To Hear
Mar idei Harding
Feb. 23 - March 5
NYSSA
NAZARENE
CHURCH
Dr. Henry A. Jones of El Cen
tro, Calif., ¡a visiting this week
at the W K. Wahlert home
,m ,h<
have taken place in “ways of liv
The majority of retirees will
ing for the elderly” in recent dec
ades and still more are ahead as take it for granted that they will
the number of older persons in continue to live as they have done
creases in the U. S., a retired Ore during their working years, the
Ted M. Brammer, Editor
gon State college home economist article said. To reduce the labor
Gate City Journal
points out in the November Jour involved in operating a home,
they may see possibilities in re
Nyssa, Oregon
nal of Home Economics.
Dear Ted:
Opinions concerning the duty modeling and adding mechanical
Although removed from the lo of children for the tare of aged equipment for greater comfort
cal scene, we are still much at parents—and the duty of the par and convenience and in the use
tached in more ways than one. ents to conform to what is plan of more commercial services such
We continue to enjoy the local ned for them—are in the process as laundry, housecleaning, yard
news and appreciate your edi of reversal, Maud M. Wilson j work, etc.
torial comments. I would only
Specially - planned housing
express th* hope that more than points out in her article.
makes living easier, provides
The
reversal
has
widespread
a few read this worthy effort you
greater companionship for older
make in keeping them informed. ramifications, she adds, for both people in many cases, and lets
old
and
young.
Sincerely,
them remain independent. Retire
“In the old days, members of! ment homes and retirement vill
Dr. Grant B. Hughes, M D.
each generation felt it a duty to ages, apartments planned for old
615 Winding Way SE
look after their old folks with the er persons and progressive nurs
Salem, Oregon
expectation that they in turn ing homes are new concepts that
would be cared for by their de have come about, Miss Wilson
Methodist WSCS
scendants," Miss Wilson added.
said.
“The problem of how the old
General Meeting
About 10 percent of the “mobile
er person lived was relatively
Scheduled Tonight
simple,” she noted. “If he could, home” owners in the U. S. are re
General meeting of Methodist he stayed on in the family home tirees and trailer manufacturers
WSCS will be held this evening with someone to keep it up and expect this group to grow in size,
beginning at 8 p.m. Mrs. Frances care for him. Or he might go to she noted. In some areas trailer
Bates and Mrs. Leo Gonyer are live with a married son or daugh parks have been made a part of
devotion and program leaders. ter, sharing in the life and work overall-community planning.
Iris Bell circle meeting will be of the household, assured of care
Old age, like other phases of
held March 9 at the home of Mrs. when he needed it, but with little , life, is marked by change, not
Meyers at 219 Good avenue.
freedom to pursue his own inter only in physical condition but in
Jessie Lee circle of Apple Val ests.”
outlook, ambitions and desires,
ley will have a “galloping lunch-
Today, family homes are small Miss Wilson pointed out. This cer
eon” March 15. Miss Celia Cowan, er, fewer have extra rooms suit tainty of change points up the
retired missionary from Africa able for aging relatives and there desirability of “readily changed
now residing in Homedale, will is less household work for old living arrangements,” she stress
be a guest.
sters to do, making them less apt ed. There is need also for a per
Marlene Harmon . and Celia to feel needed, Miss Wilson stated. iod in which a contemplated liv
Cowan circles will meet March 16.
“This revolution is hard on the ing arrangement can be tried out
old folks who in their younger before the shift is made perma
days took care of their aging par nent.
Miss Wilson suggests that the
ents in their own homes or who
Church News
spent their surplus earnings home economics profession can
Methodist youth from Nyssa maintaining separate homes for help with design and arrange
will attend the interdenomina them with the expectation that ment of housing for older persons
tional youth rally in Boise begin they in turn would be cared for by research on how specific feat
ning Friday evening, March 3, by their children,” Miss Wilson ures are evaluated by represen
and continuing until Sunday wrote. “There are still countless tative old people of various cul
noon. ---------
Sunday
Methodist three-generation families, but us- tural and income groups.
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youth of the Idaho conference ! ually from choice, not necessity,
Miss Wilson was formerly in
will hold their annual business | “Basic to the recommendation charge
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of home economics
re-
meeting in Boise First Methodist for a good life for the older per- 1 search at OSC before her retire-
church.
son is that it should be possible ment and is author of numerous
Parents and teachers of chil- ! for him to maintain his status as publications on household plan
dren will have an opportunity for an independent and useful per- ning and management.
special training March 8, 15 and son as long as life lasts,” she in-
22 at 7:30 p.m. in Nyssa Methodist | sists in the article.
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Corbett of
church. Mrs. Estella Denny, con-
Home needs and choices of re Fenn, Idaho, were recent visitors
ference director of children’s tired persons must be considered, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Da
work, will be instructor. This of course, in the light of finances, vid Beers.
will be a standard leadership
course and is open to all with no
enrollment fee.
Sunday evening services are
Now
being conducted at 8 p.m. in the
Nyssa Methodist church during
Lent. Meditations on the New
Testament book of Romans are
especially helpful for youth and
adults
Chapter 5 of Romans will be
discussed next Sunday. The Rev.
Ludlow’s Sunday morning sermon
will be entitled “Practicing the
Presence of God.”
are
Good Music Nightly!
NYSSA BANK
DAYS
BIGGER and BETTER
THAN EVER!
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Three Names Are Drawn Each Tuesday
at 3 p.m. — One for the Jackpot Prize of
$50 to $200 — One Each for $10 and $5
—Winning Amounts Are Issued by Nyssa
Chamber of Commerce on Certificates.
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s50—TUESDAY, MARCH 7
IN TRADE CERTIFICATES!
. . . Sponsored by . . .
Nyssa C of C Businessmen's Committee
With the Following Merchant* Participating . . .
The Merc Department Store
Wilson's Super Market
Bracken's Department Store
Farmers Feed & Seed
Wilson Bros. Department Stor<o
M & W Market
Eder's . . . Nyssa
Ray's Food Fair
Ben Franklin Store
Firestone Store
Idaho Power Company
The Gate City Journal
Nyssa Food Center
Nyssa Co-op Supply
Brownie's Cafe
O. K. Rubber Welders
Ideal Gas & Appliance
Bob Thompson Agency
The Polar Bear
Nyssa Insurance Agency
Bernard Eastman Insurance
Peterson Furniture Co.
Pound's Grocery o
Renstronj Insurance Agency
Malheur Memorial Hospital
• Gate City Cleaners
Bestway Building Center
Cascade Natural Gas, Inc.