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THE GATE CITY JOURNAL TED M. BRAMMER. Editor and Publisher NATIONAL THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21. 1961 THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL. NYSSA. OREGON PAGE TWO EDITORIAL Farewell Service Sunday to Honor Dennis Leavitt SUBSCRIPTION RATES Single Copies 10c In Malheur Countv, Oregon, and Payette and Canyon Counties, Idaho $3 50 6 Months $2 50 Elsewhere in the USA Per Year $4 00 6 Months $2 50 Published every Thursday at Nyssa, Malheur Countv, Oregon Entered at the postoffice at Nyssa, Oregon, for transmission through the tinted States Mails, as a second class matter under the act of March 3. 1370 Nyssa LDS Church Schedules Carnival On Crazy Saturday Nyssa First ward LDS church is sponsoring a carnival from 2 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 23, at the highway “Y” in Nyssa, on the grade school lawn and in the old gym. Proceeds will be used for a building program. Entertainment will be all the traditional carnival booths, plus lots of rides for the kiddies, in cluding a stage coach, and there will also be plenty of food, ac cording to committee members. Door prize drawings will be held every hour, with gifts donated by (Nyssa merchants. Those sponsoring the carnival state that all residents of the area are invited to participate in the afternoon and evening fun. Heading the various committees are Lavin Roberts, Nina Cottle, Bessie Hendricks, Snoden Rob erts, Grant Jones, Barbara Burn ingham. Reba Mitchell, J. B. Lewis. Carl Burningham, Jim Skeen, Robert Palmer, Clarence Lancas ter, Reed Ray, Devone Leavitt, (Morrell Bunn, Marvin Jefferies, W. O. Peterson, Carrie Fife, Joy Bell, Leone Butcher, June Walk er, Kay Cottle, Melvin Nielsen, Tam Ashby, Marilyn Spangler and Florence Lewis. A. E. Zikmund Rites Conducted in Nyssa Funeral services for Anton ■ Zikmund were conducted at io o’clock on the morning of Sept. 42, 1961, at Lienkaemper chapel. ■Father John Baumgartner of St. Bridget’s Catholic church officiat ed during the services. Mr. Zikmund, a farmer who lived approximately eight miles southwest of Nyssa, was pronoun ced dead by an examining physi cian when he was discovered Sept. 8, 1961, by a neighbor, lying in a field where he had been irri- igating. Death was attributed to a heart attack. Mr. Zikmund was born June 9, 1897, at Ord, Neb., a son of James and Francis Van Cura Zikmund He had resided near Nyssa since 4935. He was married in 1942 to Norma Jean Pitkins. In addition to his widow, he is survived by three sons, Anton, Jr., Alan and Billy of the home; two brothers, Emil of Ord and Joe of Comstock, Neb.; four sis ters, Mrs. Lillian Novotny, Mrs. Minnie Thomsen, Mrs. Helen Meese and Mrs. Mary Dworak, all of Ord. His parents and one brother, William, preceded him in death, his brother having succumbed on July 7 this year. Interment was made in Owyhee cemetery. Pallbearers for the ser vice were John Ulrey, L. E. New- gen, W. E. Schireman, Lewis Skinner, Hudson Robb and Ewen Chard. — ■■ CARD OF THANKS We wish to express our thanks and appreciation to friends and neighbors for their many acts of kindness and expressions of sym pathy following the loss of our beloved daughter and sister, Carolyn. —Mr. and Mrs. Harry Nakashima Skipper and Roger GOLDEN HOUR SOCIETY MEETS AT ALEXANDER HOME Mrs. David Alexander was hos tess Sept. 7 to members of the Golden Hour Missionary society of the Nazarene church. Fifteen members and three guests were present for the fellowship meet ing. Devotions were led by Miss Marie Coate with “emphasis” giv- by Mrs. Bill Fitzsimmons. Mrs. Ellis Parrill presented the study lesson. Following the business session, refreshments were served by Mrs. Alexander and Mrs Charles Bel- veal, co-hostess. CARD OF THANKS We wish to express our thanks and appreciation to friends and neighbors who remembered us by their acts of kindness, messages of sympathy anH beautiful floral oxieiings during the sickness and death of our beloved husband and father. Also, thanks to Dr. Kerby and Malheur Memorial hospital staff. —‘Mrs. John Barnett Edward Barnett Mr. and Mrs. Howard Pickett Mr. and Mrs. Wally Powell Mr. and Mrs. Mike Erie Ella Johnson Mr. and Mrs. A J. Belcher METHODIST WSCS CIRCLE MEETINGS SLATED TODAY Methodist WSCS afternoon cir cles meet today at 2 p.m. Helen Barnes group meets with Mrs. Sherman Wilson in Apple Valley. Barbara Firl members will meet in the church parlor and Mrs. Charles Garrison will host the Frances Major circle. Evelyn DeVries members will meet at 8 o’clock tjiis evening with Mrs. Don Jones. CARD OF THANKS We take this opportunity to thank our friends, neighbors and Dr. K. E. Kerby for the many kindnesses expressed in thought and deed during the illness and death of our wife and mother, Helen Irene Maulding. —Dr. L. A. Maulding Dianne and Roger CARD OF THANKS We wish to express our heart felt thanks to all our friends and neighbors for their thoughtful deeds following the loss of our beloved husband and father, An ton E. Zikmund. The words of sympathy, flowers, money offer ings and food were sincerely ap preciated. We also wish to thank Dr. K E. Kerby and Father John Baumgartner for their assistance. “Your kindness will never be for gotten.” Mrs A E. Zikmund Toney, Jr., Alan and Billy. VISITS FROM CASCADE Mrs. Dick Stockham of Cascade spent the weekend in Nyssa vis iting in the Aden Wilson and Guy Sparks homes. ATTENDS CONFERENCE Mrs. W. W. Foster left Monday morning for Salt Lake City to attend a three-day regional brief ing conference of Christian social concerns for Methodist churches of the western area. Journal Classified* Gat Resultai Dennis Leavitt A farewell testimonial service for Dennis Leavitt will be held at 6 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 24, in Nyssa LDS stake house. Leavitt, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Devone Leavitt, will leave Oct. 9 on a Northern California mission. Musical selections for the Sun day evening service will be pro vided by Annette Kapp, David Tolman, Margaret Brown and one number by the ward choir. Speakers during the evening will be Frank Anderson and Dean Fife. Adrian Ladies Discuss Plans To Improve Park By Mrs. Herschel Thompson KINGMAN KOLONY — Adrian Garden club met Wednesday af ternoon at the home of Mrs. Wes ley Piercy. Attending from the area were Mrs. Dale Ashcraft, Mrs. Bill Toomb and Mrs. Al Thompson. Mrs W. W. Webb was appointed news reporter for club activities. A discussion was held on pla?s to beautify Adrian park by add ing trees and flowers. Hone Hut Not Forgotten Nyssa Chapel Rites Seed of Friendship Conducted Monday For I. L. Phillips Sown by Oldtime Final rites for Isaac Leonard Phillips were conducted at 2 o’- Owyhee Resident I ! I clock Monday afternoon, Sept. 18. 1961, at Lienkaemper chapel with Dear Editor: Thought some of your readers Pastor John Briehl of Faith Lu might be interested in the “doins” theran church offiicating. Mr. Phillips was born Oct. 19. of a man who was raised on the 1881, at Peculiar, Mo., a son of Owyhee river below Mitchell Mr. and Mrs. Polk Phillips. He Butte but now living in Kuna. I like to see things grow and was found dead Friday morning, have had some kind of “green Sept. 15, 1961, in the home of his thumb” project going on for son, Leonard Phillips, with whom years. I have sent seeds, flowers he had been residing. Investigating officers stated that and tulip bulbs to Old Mexico, Alaska and Missouri. But I guess the cause of death was a self-in my pumpkins are spread farther flicted gunshot wound in the i chest. He had been a wheelchair than anything else now. Usually I grow them and squash ' invalid for the past few years fol just to give or trade to my neigh lowing an automobile accident in bors. These sometimes grow to which he was injured. In addition to his widow, Mr. 50 pounds. Some cooks estimate that one that size will make 40 Phillips is survived by two sons, nine-inch pies These pumpkins Leonard of Nyssa and Oscar of have been responsible for a lot Salem; four brothers, Harry of La Crosse, Kan., Chester and John of pies in Malheur county. I saved the seed from a 50- of Scott City, Kan., Ted of Tole pound Monmouth pumpkin that do, Ore., and eight grandchildren. Interment was made in Nyssa measured 68 inches around and cemetery under direction of Lien sent 15 of them by air to a mis sion in South Africa to see if they kaemper funeral home. Pallbear ers were Robert Palmer, William would be good there. They were sent to Bremersdorf, Van Zelf, Ward Lundy, John Pal S. Swaziland, Africa, and the mis mer, James Mitchell and O. E. sionary wrote that they grew well Cheldelin. and that the natives took great delight in cultivating them and 1 Bamhouse Elected eating them. Their climate is much different I President of Local to ours . . . They are having their Ministerial Group spring while we have our fall. The Rev. Omar Barnhouse was And their tilling is all dong by elected new president of Nyssa hand or with wooden plows. Ministerial association Sept. 14 They named their pumpkin | following a fellowship potluck “Greeting from Kuna,” so my ef-1 dinner meeting in the Barnhouse forts at neighborliness is making home. people in other countries aware Other officers elected were the of a spot in the U.S.A. called Rev. J. L. Mussell, vice president, Treasure Valley. and Pastor John Briehl, secretary Yours truly, treasurer. Fred Pullen Those attending the dinner 212 N. Chicago Ave. meeting were the Revs, and Kuna, Idaho Mmes. Paul Ludlow, J. L. Mussell, family were guests that evening. Mrs. John Thiel, Mrs. Bob Skin ner and Mike visited Friday mor ning with the Carl Begeman fam ily. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Bowers and Bob and Jim Phifer helped at the Charlie Bowers home Sunday. They are putting in a new well Mrs. Don Fox and granddaugh and piping water. They were all ter, Paula, visited Friday after dinner guests. Mrs. Bob Haney of Nyssa and noon at the Al Thompson home Don Fox and Mr and Mrs. John Mrs. Ed Brandt were guests Wed ny Thiel spent the day chukar nesday at the home of Mrs. Mike Elliott in Adrian. It was Mrs. hunting. Mr and Mrs. Jim Phifer and Haney’s birthday anniversary. Fred Schafer and George Jele- Jannie, Mr. and Mrs. Dick Kriegh and Steve dined and attended a nick 08 Big <lend left Wednesday movie Saturday evening in On I for Seattle, Wash. Fred is em ployed at the Boeing Missile plant tario. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Skinner and and George will attend the Uni boys left Sunday for their home versity of Washington. The Thurman Piercy family of in San Pablo, Calif., after visiting Nyssa and the Carl Piercy family relatives here for two weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Dick Sparks and went chukar hunting Sunday family of Boise and Mr. and Mrs. They returned for supper at the Guy Sparks and sons of Nyssa Carl Piercy home where Mr. and were guests at a Sunday birthday Mrs. Wesley Piercy were guests. Tony Martinez attended a Boy dinner honoring their father, Art Scout council meeting Thursday Sparks at the Sparks home. Mrs. Wesley Piercy attended in Ontario. Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Crocker the Women’s Presbyterian associ ation meeting Thursday afternoon and family, Mr. and Mrs. Carl at the home of Mrs. Henry Day. Piercy an« family were Friday Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Piercy evening guests in the Thurman were Thursday overnight guests Piercy home at Nyssa. Mr. and Mrs. George Besendor- in Weiser at the Herb Thomas home. The two couples went to fer went to Grandview, Idaho, Pendleton Friday to attend the Sunday to visit Mr. and Mrs. Roundup. Friday evening they Clyde Hipwell and other friends were overnight guests at the home for the day. of Piercy’s brother, Myron Pier-1 Josephine and Paula Guirerro cy in Hermiston. Saturday they were Sunday luncheon guests in visited another brother, Harold in the Carl Begeman home Pendleton, returning home Sun Group Hears of Foreign Lands Mr. and Mrs. Bill Van DeWater, day. Mr. and Mrs. Ted Laird and Miss Hosts Farewell Party Mrs. Dale Witt was hostess at Margaret Rankin of San Diego, a farewell party Wednesday af Calif., were Sunday afternoon ternoon honoring Mrs. Elida Hal- and evening guests in the Carl seth, mother of Mrs. John Fahr- Begeman home. Miss Rankin had enbruch, who has been visiting made a tour around the world by here. Ice cream, strawberries and plane last year and entertained cake were served. Guests were the group with interesting stories Mmes. Carl Begeman. Ida Hodge, and descriptions of the foreign Hannah Smedley and Mrs Fahr- lands she had visited on her trip. Mr. and Mrs. Tony Martinez enbruch. Mrs. Hodge. Mrs. Smed ley and Mrs. Halseth were all over left Sunday evening to take their son, Tony, Jr., to Ashland, Ore., 80 years old. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Begeman, where he will attend Southern Mrs. Ida Hodge and Mrs. Hannah Oregon college. Mr. and Mrs. George Besendor- Smedley visited at the Johnny Thiel home Wednesday evening. fer went to Caldwell last Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Bob Skinner and to visit Mr. and Mrs. Leo Hart. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Sattler, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Benton and Richard Hughes of Caldwell and Mrs. Eva Mattox of Portland were dinner guests Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bernal Maybon. Mrs. Herb Andrews and chil dren of Caldwell visited Thurs day afternoon at the Al Thompson home. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Toomb went to Ironside Sunday to visit his sis ter, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Dixon. In the evening they visited at the Dale Ashcraft home. Mrs. Myrtle Schafer of Love land, Colo., Mrs. Nettie Croy and Mrs. Jordan of Canada visited Monday afternoon at the Walter Pinkston home. Mrs. Croy was formerly a resident of Kingman Kolony. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Pinkston were hosts Monday evening at a family dinner in their home Guests were Mrs. Violet McKee and Dale, Mr. and Mrs Thomas Sant and boys. Mr. and Mrs. Al- von McGinnis and Mrs Loura Smith. Mrs McKee and Dale left Thursday for their home in Al- turas, Calif. DEER HUNTERS! We will process your deer to your specifica lions. We will also make salami, wieners and bologna for you again this year. FOR THE BEST IN MEAT PROCESSING Come to . . Treasure Valley Packing Co Noble Hunt, Armand Larive and Gerard Kuiper. Rev. Briehl Attends Pastoral Conference Pastor John Briehl returned Tuesday, Sept. 14, after spending three days at Camp Holden, Wash., where he attended a pas- toral conference. Approximately 121 ministers in the North Pacific district of the church, which includes Washing ton, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska, attended the sessions. Camp Holden, located in the Cascade mountains, was original ly a mining town with approxi mately 600 population. Trailblazer Group Takes Hiking Trip Accompanied by Don L. Wilson and Bill Fitzsimmons, guides, the Trailblazer Caravan group of Nyssa Church of the Nazarene went on a hiking trip Friday and Saturday to Twin Springs. The boys made their own beds, cooked their meals, hiked and went rock hunting. Those taking the trip were Ter ry Martin, Orville Anderson, Glen Pattee, Lonnie Bamhouse, Tim Clarkson, Joe Hobson, Larry Mc Ardle, Garry Berg, Jimmy Lang ley, Donnie Wilson, Larry Conner and Stephen Reece. METHODIST DINNER SLATED THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 Men of the Methodist church don aprons twice a year to work with the ladies on all-church pro jects. The spring breakfasts are the first events. In the fall, church members serve an annual harvest dinner which is slated Thursday, Sept. 28. Serving of “turkey and all the trimmings” will begin at 5:30 and continue until 8:30. Tickets are available from any church member and proceeds will go to the building fund. .¿»-ja s ARTIST STAN THOMPSON, who drew all the "Rogue's Gallery" sketches for the mad, mad section of this issue of the Journal and who is attending an insurance school in Hartford, Conn., for several weeks, is not aware that he, too, can be a victim of the "Gallery." The drawing depicts "Sian's" every day activities in the office of the Bob Thompson agency as he attends to insurance business, carries on his art work, writes the Journal sports column, "Sian's Stand From the Stands," and helps boys of the area with his "Base ball for Kids" program. DON'T BLAME THE CHILDREN A poem entitled “Don’t Blame^Kids don’t make the movies, they don’t write the books the Children,” as printed below, was furnished by Mrs. Wilson That paint gay pictures of gang, Witt of route 1, Nyssa. Enroute sters and crooks; home from a recent trip to Kan They don’t make the liquor, they sas, the Witts visited old friends, don’t run the bars, Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Vaughn at They don’t make the laws, and Doniphan, Neb. they don’t buy the cars. Mrs. Vaughn gave the poem to Mrs. Witt after it had been read , They don’t peddle drugs that addle the brain, by the minister in their home That’s all done by older folks church and published in a Grand greedy for gain. Island newspaper. * • Delinquent teenagers; Oh, how we condemn We read in the papers and hear The sins of the nation and on the air blame it on them. Of killings and stealing and By the laws of the blameless the crime everywhere. Savior made known We sigh and we say as we notice J Who is there among us to cast the trend, the first stone? “This young generation. Where For in so many cases—it’s sad but will it all end?” it’s true— But can we be sure that it’s their j The title “Delinquents” fits older folks too! fault alone— —Author Unknown. That maybe a part of it isn’t i our own? Are we less gufity who place in , their way Too many things that lead them astray? Too much money to spend, too much idle time, Too many movies of passion and crime, Too many books not fit to be read, Quarrelsome words that could be unsaid. Too many children encouraged to roam By too many parents who won’t stay at home. Owvhee Community Cvurch Events Jim Obenchain of Nyssa will be guest speaker at the 11 o’clock Service Sunday, Sept. 24. The Rev. Dempsey Mylar of ra dio station KBGM in Caldwell preached the morning sermon last Sunday. The Rev. and Mrs. My lar and daughters were dinner guests that day at the Joe Stephen home. Young people of the church went on a hay ride and later had a watermelon feed last Thursday evening. They are invited to at tend a youth rally tonight at the Oregon Slope church. Anyone needing a ride to the church should contact Jennifer Stephen. COMPLETt OPTICAL SERVICE •EYES EXAMINED GLASSES FITTED •CHILDREN’S VISUAL CARE •CONTACT LENSES Dr. JOHN IASLY OPTOMITItllT Vision Specialist TU9-S017 196 SOOTH MEWNONTMIO ANNOUNCEMENT... I have leased the Courtesy Corner Phillips "66” Station at 518 Main and changed the name to— s ‘66’ Service We welcome all old customers and invite all others to give us a try. We promise prompt and courteous service . . . Bill LaBounty 518 Main Street Nyssa Phone FR 2-3167
