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
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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.
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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