U. cf 0. Library Eugene, Oregon c Nyssa Gate City Journal VOLUME LVI The Sugar City THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL. NYSSA. OREGON. THURSDAY, AUGUST 3. 1961 10 Cents Per Copy NUMBER 31 County Court Opposes Planned Change Construction Progresses at\gssn Refinery Nyssa's New $60,000 Municipal Swim In Welfare Payments That Would Stop Pool io Open Wednesday, August 9; Malheur's Use of Able-Bodied Clients Dedication Ceremonies Due in 1962 The county court in session at Vale last Wednesday vigor­ ously opposed a proposed change in the method of payment of welfare funds that would eliminate the greater portion of work performed by welfare clients in the county. Under the present plan general assistance funds are used to nay the entire amount received by a family on welfare. *Thus if the family receives $150 and the man is able- bodied, he can work 150 hours at the rate of $1 per hour. Poiaio Shipments Increase as Slow Market Reported Potato shipments continue to increase with a peak expected within the next 10 days, accord­ ing to Tom Jones, freight agent. His records show 95 cars ship­ ped since the report last week with approximately 30 due to have been shipped yesterday (Wednesday). Total number for this year (through Tuesday) was 148, or 100 more than had been shipped at this time last year. Maturity has been slow but quality good up to this time. Hot weather, however, is beginning to have an adverse effect. The mar­ ket has been slow the past few days, according to Tom Eldredge, manager of J. C. Watson com­ pany, and no prices are quoted for Reds. Early Gems have not been less than $1.25 per hundred for No. l’s up to Wednesday of this week. White Rose variety is just starting to move and will prob­ ably open at $1, Eldredge said. Nyssa’s new municipal swimming pool will be ready for use Wednesday of next week, according to City Manager Art Colby. He said there would be considerable work unfinished at that time but that it could be done with the pool operating. An inspection by a Journal reporter Wednesday noon re­ vealed that the decking around the pool had just been com­ pleted, except for smoothing* down. The pool proper was i being cleaned preparatory to | plastering and the bath house , interior was being painted and Cominco Fertilizer hardware installed. The heater Warehouse Here had not yet arrived, the fence to 1 enclose the area was not there and the steps to the bath house Nears Completion Under the proposed plan being considered by congress only the father would receive his portion of the funds from general assist­ ance and the balance paid to the other members of the family would come from aid to depen­ dent children funds. Thus if the father got bnly $30, he would be able to be used only 30 hours al­ though his family would get the other $120—giving the same $150 total. County Man Hours Total 13,843 Malheur county was the second in the state to adopt the work plan and had received a total of 13.843 man hours of work on county projects in addition to 6,311 man hours on the county fair grounds and buildings. Prac­ tically the only cost to the county had been for transportation and supervision. A letter of strong protest was sent by the court to the Oregon congressional delegation and to the sub-committee considering the proposed change. At press time Wednesday night only one letter in response to the court’s opposition had been re­ ceived, according to Commission­ er Earl Flock. He said chairman of the sub - committee acknowl­ edged the letter and said it would receive consideration. Cominco’s new ferti’izer storage still were to be poured, but with approximately 18 men working warehouse on the Union Pacific on the different portions of con- 1 railroad near the intersection of struction it should have a very South I First and King avenue is different appearance in another in the final stage of construction. week. All the steel was delivered Tues­ Park avenue paving along the 1 day afternoon and construction south side will be completed prior began immediately on th. wall NYSSA FACTORY of Amalga­ to pool opening date. and roof supports. mated Sugar company is again Lifeguards Selected Al Garceau, foreman of the making extensive additions and Lifeguards have been secured construction company, said the improvements to care for the and will be on duty at all times steel was prefabricated in their largest acreage of sugar beets the pool is in operation, Colby Spokane plant and would go up ever grown in this area. To the said, but some of the other per­ very rapidly. He said he expect­ left in the above photo can be sonnel was still to be selected. ed to have the entire building seen construction work being Charges for admission during completed in less than a week. done to house a new slope diffus­ the remainder of this season are The building will be all steel er located at the northeast corner as follows: (1) children under 6 with metal roof and walls with of the building. The new addi­ years of age free, if accompanied reinforced concrete foundation tion takes in approximately 9400 by parent, (2) age 6 through high and floor. The interior will be square feet of floor space. To schoc’, 25 cents per day, (3) adults, free of pillars as the roof will be the extreme right of the photo, 50 cents per day or (4) season rigid frame. Interior will be 58 on the new silo, a man can be ticket for family for balance of by 99 feet with 18-foot walls. seen silhouetted against the sky season, $5. Garceau said the fertilizer in a workman's cage. Photo on The pool will be closed each would be stored in boxes with the righi shows the new silo un­ Wednesday, following the open­ each box serving as its own pal­ der construction. It is 116 feet ing next Wednesday, for mainten­ let to facilitate moving. in diameter and will be 82 feet ance and cleaning. All other days high when completed. It is made It is presumed the company in­ it will open at 12 noon and remain of steel and set on a five-foot tends serving a rather wide area open until 8 p.m. base of reinforced concrete. It in the distribution of its Elephant Swimming Pool Regulations is located in the yard northwest brand products as tariff rates Rules and regulations are based have been established for ship­ The Federal-State Market News of the five concrete silos. It will on those set up as standard by ment from Canada to Nyssa and office opened in Caldwell July 31 hold 40 million pounds or 400,000 the state of Oregon and are as redistribution points as far away and will report daily potato mar­ 100-pound bags of sugar and will follows: kets in the local area until mid­ almost double the amount of as New Meadows, Idaho. Accord­ 1. No running, pushing or any ing to Tom Jones, freight agent September, according to Fred bulk storage capacity. “horse play” on the pool deck for Union Pacific in Nyssa, the Hagelstein, Malheur county ex­ —Staff Photos. area or inside the building. tension agent. rate is the same as for other com­ A concrete slab for the patio at 2. Only one person at a time panies operating in this area. The daily potato report includes Malheur Memorial hospital nurs­ to use the diving board. prices of potatoes at shipping ing home was completed Satur­ Union Pacific has had a spur 3. Persons in street shoes or points in this and other producing day, according to Mrs. M. L. Judd, line to the building completed for dressed in street clothes will not districts and at terminal markets. member of A N K Garden club, some time. be allowed on the pool deck. It also shows daily carlot move­ sponsoring organization for the 4. No edibles will be allowed ments of potatoes over the entire project. WHEAT SHIPMENTS SHOW In a special meeting at 113 Main The letter was signed by Hen­ on the pool deck. country. The garden club has asked the A recent inspection and report No artificial swimming de- INCREASE OVER LAST YEAR John Kennedy is in charge of Journal to express its apprecia­ street Tuesday noon, Aug. 1, the igson, Jackson and their wives. , 5 ' Tom Jones, Union Pacific rail­ According to minutes furnished of public prisons in the county. vices are allowed in the deep the Market News office, which is tion to Glade Chadwick, manager city council (1) authorized the city manager to have ordinance by City Manager Art Colby, lie ' made by Malheur’s grand jury, area, (No inner tubes allowed at road freight agent at Nyssa, re­ located at 1204 Cleveland boule­ of Oregon Concrete Products, who found them lacking in facilities all.) ported 68 cars of wheat had been vard in Caldwell. Reports on po­ donated the concrete; Robert drawn up governing operation of 6-inch water line would be run , and sanitation. the municipal swimming pool, (2) “to the city limits or approximate ­ 6. No one except authorized shipped from the local station tato prices and movement of po­ Heidi, supervisor of the project; The Nyssa jail is ‘‘highly un­ personnel will be allowed in the from July 12 through July 29. tatoes are issued each afternoon1 Bernard Eastman, Carl Hill, M. accepted a petition from Harold ly some 340 feet from the LDS and are available by radio or in L. Judd and Charles Smith who Henigson and Wilton Jackson for church fire hydrant and that ad­ sanitary due to inadequate plum­ filter room, office or bag room. This was 28 more than shipped annexation of land they own and justments be made in the proposal bing; floors and bunks are littered 7. No one will be permitted in during the same period last year written form. assisted with excavation work; Radio station KSRV will again Ewen Chard and Bob Taylor, as­ are purchasing on Alberta avenue by Henigson and Jackson for a 2- with refuse and in need of polic­ guard stations except lifeguard. when 40 were moved out. and (3) agreed to run a 6-inch inch service line and that this ing,” according to the report. The He reported no shipments since 8. Small children or others with broadcast these daily market re- j sisting at the time concrete was ports. Anyone wishing to receive poured; Harvey Springer and water line to serve the property cost be paid by Henigson and jail is crowded and more and bet­ poor swimming ability must stay July 29 but said there were still Jackson to supplement the cost ter facilities arc required for at the shallow end or in the wad­ some being held in storage due to of Henigson and Jackson. the report in written form may Theron Gough. handling the premises, the jury ing pool. The ordinance covering opera­ of the 6-inch service line.” increasing prices. do so by requesting it from Ken­ Mrs. Judd reports that the club 9. No glass containers are al­ nedy’s office at Box 301, Caldwell, is planning to plant trees around tion of the swimming pool will The latter agreement replaces reported. The group found that Ontario’s lowed in the building or pool area. TAYLOR MANAGES LOUNGE establish rates for use and rules that agreed upon in the July 12 telephone 9-9396, or by a request the patio in the fall. as set up by the state of Oregon meeting when it was proposed to city jail needs better facilities and 10. All bathers must take a hot at the county agent’s office, city Eddie Taylor took over Aug. 1 (carried elsewhere in this issue furnish outside water service to requires better ventilation and soapy shower before entering pool as owner-operator of Brownie’s hall, Ontario, which will be re­ of the Journal). layed to the reporting office. the two applicants in which they cleaning. The women’s quarters area. lounge at 113 Main street. Pre­ were to “pay all expenses for need clean bedding and cleaner vious owner was Nick Rudelick. (Continued on Page 12) Mrs. Roy Jarvis, route 2, Wilder, Letter Printed The petition of Henigson and lines, hookups and meters, and mattresses, the jury declared. NHS CLASS OF 1954 was recipient of the $10 second Vale’s city jail was found to be SLATES AUGUST REUNION award at Nyssa Bank Days event Jackson to have their lands an­ pay the 30 percent additional Nyssa high school graduating this week. Other names drawn nexed was in the form of a letter charge for outside users and use in need of better maintenance and only for domestic purposes.” cleaning. class of 1954 is planning a reunion were Merildean Robbins, route 2, (copy as follows): ‘‘The undersigned do hereby The grand jury reported that (Editor's Note — We are in­ Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 12-13. Nyssa, $125 jackpot prize, and Members not receiving a notice Roger Tucker, 311 Ennis avenue, petition the City Council to annex formed by City Manager Colby new quarters were needed for the following described real prop­ that the land excepted in the juveniles and women at Malheur of the reunion are asked to con-| third prize of $5. Funeral services for Mary Ellen tact Mrs. Rodney Holcomb, 405 Jackpot prize will advance to erty, owned and being purchased petition for annexation is that county jail. Lyells were conducted Monday by the undersigned, lying contig ­ The jury found that more and of A. C. Swensen, who lives be ­ South Eighth, Nyssa. $150 next Tuesday. uous to the Nyssa city liimts: tween the LDS church and the better facilities are needed to afternoon, July 31, 1961, at Lien- ‘‘All of the N^W^W^NEV« Jackson residence and who is handle prisoners as the present kaemper chapel with the Rev. NE’4 of Section 31, Township 19 not desirous of coming into the jail is antiquated and needs to be Howard Larsen of Ontario First Christian church officiating. She South. Range 47 E.W.M. city at this time.) enlarged and renovated. succumbed July 28, 1961, at Pres­ “Excepting therefrom that par­ byterian nursing home in Ontario. cel of land beginning at a point Mrs. Lyells, a pioneer resident which is 30’ South and 235’ East of eastern Oregon, was born Dec. of the Northwest comer of said 13, 1861, in Denison, Iowa, a N^W%W^NE ’4 NEV4 of Section i daughter of Ben and Rose Ste- 31, Township 19 South, Range 47 | vens. E.W.M.. said point being the true "Recognition of civil defense by ations officer for Oregon CD who She came to Oregon in 1877 by point of beginning; thence run­ wagon train with other members ning South 185’; thence running President John F. Kennedy and spoke on communications. A special award was presented of her family. They left Denison East 80’; thence running North by Governor Mark Hatfield” was 185’; thence running West 80’; to the topic stressed Tuesday by Col. by Sheets to Bob Ilch of Vale, on April 4 of that year and ar­ Arthur M Sheets, director of Ore­ who resigned recently after hav­ rived in Baker City on Sept. 29. the point of beginning. “The undersigned agree to ob­ gon Civil Defense agency, when ing given extensive volunteer: I Enroute to Baker, they arrived tain execution of any legal in­ he spoke at a disaster conference service as county director. Ap-1 in Vale three days following the pearing on the morning program Indian skirmish and were housed struments required by the City of in Ontario. Approximately 350 area resi­ were Ilch and his successor, Wei-, for three days in the old stone Nyssa to effectuate the annexa­ fort which still stands. tion of said land within said dents attended the meeting spon­ don Reynolds of Ontario. A film was shown and an illus- j Mrs. Lyells was married July City.” sored by Malheur county civil de­ fense agency and district 20 of trated talk on radioactive fallout 25, 1880, in Baker to George W Mary Ellen Lyells Oregon Nurses association. The was given by Dr. J. T. Burdic of, j Lyells. To this union six chil- ♦ ♦ number attending, including rep­ Ontario. The morning session1 i dren were bom, four of whom She is survived by one son, resentatives of many civic and was considered a civic and com-1 ! survive. The family lived in Baker un­ William B. Lyells of Nyssa; three Three men were arrested by community groups, far exceeded munity approach to civil defense, while the afternoon meeting was til 1883 when they moved to Mal­ daughters, Mrs. Angie Cook of that which was anticipated by Nyssa police Sunday night on a devoted to home problems and heur City and in 1891 moved to Nyssa, Mrs. Eva Poorman of charge of breaking and entering. sponsoring organizations. The program featured practical the family. Vale. In 1900 the Lyells moved to Seattle and Mrs. Sylvia Palmer Thomas Albert Hassell, 26; Her­ Afternoon speakers included Ontario where they resided until of Boise Two sons preceded her bert Thompson, 19, both of Phoe­ home protection plans, facts about Mrs. Nova Young, nurse consul­ Mr. Lyells’ death in 1924. Mrs. in death. They were Frank who nix, Ariz.; and Roger Johnson. 17, radioactive fallout, emergency Nyssa labor camp, were placed health measures and training, tant for the Oregon CD, who gave Lyells then made her home in died in 1941 and Ed who suc- an illustrated talk on family plans Boise and Seattle until 1941 when cumbed in 1955. under $1500 bail and are still in home fallout shelters and a dis­ against an emergency; Mrs. Paul­ she came to Nyssa. She entered Other survivors include one the Nyssa jail awaiting prelimin­ play of mobile emergency hospi- ine O ’ Harra, Boise, who told of half - brother, Tom Stevens of tai equipment. the Ontario nursing home three ary hearing set for Aug. 3. Bloomington, Ill.; a half-sister, The morning program was op- her experiences as a member of years ago. The trio is charged with break­ Mrs. Lyells was baptized at the Mrs. Grace Miller of Sac City, ELIZABETH CRAY (MISS RUSSET) was selected recently by ing into Treasure Valley Packing ened by Mrs. Keith Carpenter, a family unit in a shelter; and Mrs Velma Dye, Idaho director age of three years in a river near Iowa; 10 grandchildren; 16 great­ Malheur Potato Growers to appear in five large display ads in a company on Alberta avenue and registered nurse, who gave a brief of women’s activities, who stress­ national publication. "The Packer." for promotion of Malheur taking approximately $6 in cur­ talk on purpose of the conference. ed the importance of women’s Denison and was again baptized grandchildren and 20 great-great­ at the age of 92 in the Nyssa grandchildren. rency. Stale CD Officer* Speak county Russet potatoes. She is shown here with chamber of com­ work in connection with civil de­ Christian church when she be­ Interment services were con­ They were apprehended through In addition to Col. Sheets, state merce heads (left to right) Ken Kessler, Vale; Chuck Harland. On­ fense. came a member of that denomina­ ducted by members of Rebekah tario; and Ken Renstrom. Nyssa, as they display Malheur county the efforts of a Nyssa resident speakers included Anthony R. Mobile Hospital Displayed tion. She was a member of the lodge at Evergreen cemetery in Russets. Miss Cray is a daughter of Mrs. Violet Cray of Vale. She who became suspicious of their Cardiello, welfare officer for the In the Ontario high school hall­ auxiliary of Legion post 79 and Ontario. Pallbearers were Aden actions near the packing plant state CD agency, who told of as­ was a 1961 graduate of Vale high school and plans to attend college and followed their car into town, sistance to be expected from this way was a large mobile emergen­ had been a member of Rebekah Wilson, Elvin Ballou, Marion Tra­ this fall She is active in many sports and her hobbies are swim­ notifying police who made the area for evacuees of disaster re­ cy hospital display Surgical in- I lodge for 61 years, having joined cy, Sam McConnell. Tom Joh.wum ming. waler skiing and horseback riding. —Photo by Schoen. and Hubert Leuck. in 1900 at Ontario. arrest. (Continued on Page 12) gions, and Mayion E Scott, oper- Daily Potato Market Reports to Be Issued By New Idaho Office Garden Club Project Receives Assistance From Local Residents Council Approves Henigson-Jackson Petition for Annexation, Poo! Rules Grand Jury Finds Prisons in County To Be Inadequate Wilder Matron Wins Final Rites Held Monday Afternoon For Mary Lyells, Pioneer Resident Prowoh* Jíalheur Potatoe» Practical Plans for Home Protection Featured at Civil Defense Conference Three Men Arrested On Burglary Charge