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U. of 0. Library Eugene, Oregon c Nyssa Gate City Journal VOLUME LVI The Sugar City THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL. NYSSA. OREGON. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 28. 1961 Second Annual Krazy Day Attracts Camera Records Highlights oi Huge Crowds to Nyssa; Plans Studied Now for Repeat Performance in 1962 10 Cents Per Copy NUMBER 39 Mayor Rinehart Sees Need for Junior College; Gives Detailed Information On Cost, Curriculum and Operations Krazy Breakfast, Dog Show Supplement Bargains and Prizes Offered by Merchants Present Plan to Utilize High School Facilities Until Growth Requires College Buildings Nyssa was host to one of the largest crowds Saturday that has hit this town in years. And if not the largest of all times, it certainly was one of the happiest. The event was the town’s Second Annual Krazy Day, sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce to celebrate harvest festival time. It started with a Crazy breakfast served to crazy-dressed ♦merchants and clerks by the Junior Chamber of Commerce in the Taylor Market building on Main street. Approximate ly 130 persons came dressed Grant Rinehart, Nyssa mayor and director-candidate for the proposed Treasure Valley area junior college, gave back ground information on the study for such schools in Oregon, together with his personal views on the need for such, at the Wednesday noon meeting of Nyssa chamber of commerce. He said Oregon educational authorities were a very cau tious group and that it was* only after most other states had learned that junior col leges were very successful that Oregon was willing to ♦ ♦ Winners Listed In Five Classes At Canine Show in ridiculous garb in spite of a falling at cold drizzle that that time. Stores delayed opening until 9 a.m. to give all a chance to see how K-R-A-Z-Y other merch- ants and their employees could dress. Following the breakfast, they retired to the stores where practically all reported they were kept “hopping" all day to serve the mobs which came in for the once-a-year offered special bar gains. A number of Nyssa area chil dren entered their pets in the Ken-L-Ration-sponsored dog show held Saturday afternoon on the Nyssa city hall lawn. The canines were entered in five classes—those with the long est ears, shortest tail, biggest dog, smallest dog and best dressed. A Journal reporter was able to get a partial list of winners. Best- of-show award went to Jeff Ste-1 Merchandise Sells Rapidly Some stores reported selling phen and his Dalmatian, Elmer. They were also winners in the most of their specials before noon, when they had anticipated having biggest dog division. For the dog with the longest sufficient for the entire day. And ears, Brent Douglas Richesin and in some instances other items Thunder received first prize. Sec were carried from basement stor ond place award went to Stuart age and placed on sale to fill the Stephen and his Dalmatian, Paula. desires of customers. Nancy Jackson and her puppy, More smiles and loud guffaws Peppy, were first place winners were seen and heard during the in the smallest dog division. Sec day than this Journal reporter ond place went to Molly McCoy had seen since coming to Nyssa. Wisecracks and jokes were the and her pet, Marie. Terry Smith ; and his dog, Petie, were third common thing, with an occasion al remark that someone should place winners. Bobby Lassiter and his tail have “stayed home in bed.” And tourists passing through less dog, Trixie, were first prize winners in the shortest tail divi- stopped to laugh and learn what aion. Zippy and his master, Keith was going on in Nyssa. One Oldemeyer, were winners of sec couple toured downtown stores ond place award; and Duane Hen- to see the crazy garb being sport totn and his dog, Jan, were third ed. place winners. Prizes Exceed Last Year First place prize in the best A list of prize winners was not dressed division went to Bruce available at press time, but it was Jackson and his Pekingese, Ming learned that more were given and her family of five—all dress away than last year—possibly due ed in their finest. Denzel Weeks | (Continued on Page 12) with Joshua was second place winner. Third place award went i to Vicki and Timmy Hamilton and I their bird dog, Mike. Fourth place ribbons and prizes were divided among remaining entrants. Don M. Graham, Civil De Prizes consisted of cameras, i purses, paint sets, loving cups, iens« chairman of local Ameri dog food, dog food dishes, T-shirts can Legion post, has asked the and ribbons. Journal to announce that he has Civil Defense Data On Home Survival Available to All All Prizes Unclaimed At Tuesday Drawing Names drawn this week at Nys- j sa Bank Days event were Rodney | Holcomb, 405 South Eighth street, $50 jackpot prize; H. B. Slippy, North Eighth street, $10 second award and Tony Marostica, route 2, Nyssa, third prize of $5. No winners were on hand to claimi their awards. Jackpot prize will advance to j $75 next Tuesday. important information available for anyone interested in "survi val" in case of atomic bombing and the resulting fallout. This includes "Home Prepar edness, Workshop Guide for Group Leaders and Home Pro tection Exercises," which in cludes most all needs for the home and family. Also available is information for farmers covering their crops, livestock and land. This is all available for the asking, Graham said. Spud Diversion Program Approved; Cull Price Listed al 60 Cents by USDA Malheur potato growers and livestock feeders have started diverting potatoes from fresh market to livestock feed under a federal program providing incentive payments for such di version, according to Turner Bond, county extension agent. Such a program was requested by potato growers at the end of August, but did not become effective until the end of last week (Sept. 21), Bond re ports. The program so far is be diverted and an identification in effect only for Oregon pro number for the person qualifying ducers. Idaho growers are as diverter. seeking changes in required Inspections Must Be Made specifications for diverted pota Later steps in the process re toes, and the program there is quire that scale weights of pota toes delivered for diversion be still under discussion. kept and that inspection of each Purposes of Program Outlined load for percent of eligible grades Purpose of the diversion pro be carried out by federal-state in gram as stated by U. S. Depart spectors. Final step in the diver, ment of Agriculture is to assist sion is that potatoes piled or stor growers in marketing the potato ed for later feeding must be crop by encouraging diversion of punctured or otherwise mutilated some supplies to starch or flour so that they are no longer No. 2 manufacture, or livestock feed. or better grade. To encourage the diversion, an Potatoes put mto ensilage pits incentive payment of 60 cents per mixed with com or other ensilage hundredweight is made for pota material do not need to be muti toes of U. S. No. 2 or better grade, lated to qualify for diversion. 2-inch minimum diameter, that Incentive payments are made are diverted into one of the above I by ASG on the basis of records uses. presented by authorized diverters Malheur growers do not have I showing that all the required ready access to starch or flour steps have been carried out. The manufacturing plants. Bond says, person initially authorized as di- so the chief diversion outlet avail i verier receives the incentive pay- able is livestock feed. | ment, whether he be the grower Procedure to be followed in di of diverted potatoes or a livestock verting potatoes and qualifying feeder receiving supplies from j for incentive payment starts with several growers. completing a diversion contract A grower who does not contract with the local office of Agricul as a diverter but who delivers ture Conservation and Stabiliza potatoes to a second person who tion. This contract must be en | is an authorized diverter, needs tered into before diversion is to reach agreement in advance started and includes approval for covering his rights to incentive a certain volume of potatoes to payments. JEFF and STUART STEPHEN (on left), sons of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Stephen, posed for a Journal photographer with their Dalmatians, Elmer and Paula, after they were announced winners in the Saturday dog show. Elmer was named best-of- show winner and also took first place as the big gest dog entered. Paula received second prize for the canine with the longest ears. On the right are Banquet Slated For Congressmen At Ontario Cafe Mr. M and W, his wife, Gladys Mackrill and Mari anne Blanch as they ran around in busy circles on Krazy day, together with other M and W Market •mployees. The gals were lovely in their "yeller" hair bedecked with ribbons. These subjects of the Journal camera were typical of the many crasily dressed Nyssans found downtown during the Sec ond Annual Krazy Daze celebration. Lost in the Hills 1962 Model Cars consider a study of their need Shown This Week and value. It was his opinion that since Ry Local Dealers World War II the state supported four-year universities had a “Don’t give a damn” attitude whether students were able to make passing grades and stay in school or not. This, he said, was probably the basis for starting junior colleges. Bend has had a junior college in operation for the past 11 years on an experimental basis and the people of that area and the state edcational authorities were well pleased with the results, he said, High school facilities have been used with college hours being from 4 to 10 p.m. and no difficul ties had arisen in getting adminis years, became worried when the trators and faculty members trio did not show up Wednesday there. evening as scheduled. They, to Curriculum Provided gether with L L. (Red) Kreager, Rinehart said that 40 percent began searching with two pick the curriculum would be de ups, continuing until approxi of voted o vocational - technical mately 2 o’clock in the morning training t with the balance for stu and ending up in Vale. dents planning to continue a col Search Conducted by Plane lege career and for adult and ser County Sheriff Robert Ingram, vice programs. He said this would who was contacted Thursday depend on what was determined morning, flew over the area to be the needs of the local com where the family was supposedly munity and could be altered to meet changing conditions. lost, but he sighted nothing. Following the plane search, the The state department of educa Dimmicks set up camp on the tion made the following enroll summit between Mitchell Butte ment and cost projection for an and Lone Willow Springs, from nual operating needs: For 1962- where friends and neighbors join 63, 90 students at $650 each for ed them in another search. Among a total of $58,500 with state pay those assisting were Charles Mc ing two-thirds of the cost ($39,- Coy, Glen Strickland, Johnny 000), $18,000 derived from $200 Niccum, John Strickland, Delbert tuition per student and the re- Cleaver and Kreager. (Continued on Page 6) The Wijloughby family, in the meantime, had returned about noon to the ranch southwest of Nyssa, but had come home by way of Jordan Valley, which is about 80 miles south of Nyssa. Willoughby Family Returns Safely To Nyssa Ranch After Weary Trek New 1962 model automobiles are on display at three Nyssa dealers this week. Buick models were displayed yesterday (Wed nesday) at Roberts-Nyssa, Fords are slated to be shown Friday at Swager Ford and on the same day new Chevrolets will be unveiled at Nyssa Motors. Buick Highlights Told According to Buick division of General Motors, all regular size cars boast a completely new de sign with sporty new roof styles and long sweeping lines that make the car look bigger and more massive. Engineering changes will be highlighted by the almost com plete elimination of the transmis sion hump in the floor of the front passenger compartment. Heater and defroster will be standard on all models and all push-button radios will be tran- sistorized. A two-door hardtop will be of- offered in Invicta and Le Sabre series. An informal banquet will be held this evening at East Side Nyssans Dale Willoughby, his cafe in Ontario beginning at 7 wife, Juanita, and their five- o’clock to honor Senator Wayne month-old baby returned safely Morse and Representative Al Ull last Thursday to the Neil Dim- man. The event is being sponsored by mick ranch following an unpleas experience during an excur Malheur County Livestock asso ant sion into the mountains. ciation. Tickets for the dinner must be purchased at the Centre The family left the Dimmick theatre or Ontario Chamber of farm early Wednesday morning Commerce by noon today. No ! for a day’s jaunt into the hills, tickets will be sold this evening. expecting to return that evening. The banquet is open to the pub The outing was to be a desired Ford Feature« Discussed lic and all interested are invited. present foi Mrs. Willoughby on Ford again plays up what they A meeting is scheduled at 10 her birthday anniversary. They were headed for the Twin call "engineering advancements” a.m. Thursday at the Centre thea to reduce owner maintenance to tre in connection with Bureau of Springs area, but along the route, a convenient “twice-a-year” level. Land Management problems and made a wrong turn out of Dead They list 30,000 mile service for policies. An informal question man’s gulch and found themselves wheel bearings, radiator coolant and answer type discussion is in strange territory. and oil filter life, recommended planned in which a guest speaker, Run Out of G m Midstream oil change at only 6000 miles, self- the congressmen and others will They followed a road which led adjusting brakes, double-wrapped participate. to what Willoughby supposed was aluminized muffler and specially A field trip to Jordan Valley ■ | the Owyhee river, attempted to processed underbody parts. With is planned for Friday with those I i ford the stream-rfhich appeared little variation these apply to all attending being shown reseeding to be shallow, bfct found it too Ford products on display Friday. and range improvement projects. I deep to cross. Then the car ran Ford Thunderbird has doubled Morse and Ullman will hold a ,,OI.a J* I out of gas. its size for 1962 with the addition public meeting about 9 o ' ’------ clocK i Willoughby left his wife and of a special two-seat sport road this evening in the Walnut room j baby sitting in the car in the ster and a Landau hardtop and of Moore hotel. The session will middle of the stream and walked convertible, making four models be for those who have general as until he found help and his car well as political questions to ask and family were towed from the Since deer season opens this available for the year. the Democratic congressmen. Saturday and the pheasant sea Chevrolet Changes Noted river. He reported that he was Possibly the biggest news from son only two weeks later, Ed really afraid to go off and leave the Chevrolet division of General I Pruyn, local chairman of Red College Information them as black clouds were hover Hat Days, calls attention to the Motors is introduction of a new and he feared it I ing in the sky Received by Seniors would rain and the stream would need for all hunters to be ex line of passenger cars called the Chevy Two. Donald T. Arai, son of Mr. and tremely careful while afield. At Ontario Assembly rise. This new line will feature nine Mrs. Fred Arai, has been named He said objectives of the plan couple, for whom A number of high school sen The Dimmick models of a new-sized car—small iors and counselors met Wednes Willoughby has worked for three a semi - finalist in the 1961-62 are the same as last year: "To er than the regular Chevy but merit program, according to an bring about better relations be day morning at the Ontario high nouncement made Wednesday by tween landowner* and hunters (Continued on Page 6) school auditorium with represen Tom Sallee Returns Dale Overstake, Nyssa high school and to provide safer, saner and tatives from several small col more productive hunting oppor TREATED AT HOSPITAL leges. Students were divided into From European Tour vice principal. Arai is among 10,000 seniors tunities." Christopher Weymouth, 3-year- Tom Sallee, son of Mr. and Mrs. groups according to first, second The pledge that has charac old son of ¡Mr. and Mrs. R. C. and third college choice and were George Sallee, returned recently throughout the United States who given general information regard from a European tour. He was have attained similar status as a terized the program sine« its Weymouth, was released follow ing those particular institutions. one of three from California In result of their high scores on the start in 1955 is: (1) to obey the ing treatment Friday at Malheur Butch Bingman, Vai Glenn, Bob stitute of Technology in Pasa qualifying examination. This test game laws. (2) to respect the Memorial hospital. He received Bower and Dale Larsson, accom dena selected to take the trip. of educational development was rights and property of others, lacerations of the scalp when he panied by Principal Gene Ches The trio was chosen from junior given last March in more than (3) to be careful with fire and fell from a chair and struck his 15,000 high schools. firearms. head on a table. ter, attended from Nyssa. Col boys on the college honor roll. leges represented at the meeting The students visited sugar fac Among 7007 Oregon students c were Reed, Lewis and Clark and tories in Europe to compare their taking the test only 29 ranked as high or higher than Don ’ s selec Portland university, all located in operations with those in the U. S. While in Europe, Sallee visited tion score of 149. Portland; Linfield, McMinnville; Pacific university, Forest Grove; Gerald Talbot in England, Larry These high - scoring students Willamette university, Salem; Schenk in Germany and Kent from each state will take a three- George Fox, Newberg; Whit Lovejoy in Austria. Talbot is a hour scholastic aptitude test of Effective on Oct. 4, all of Malheur county will become a son of Mr. and Mrs. Waynard the college entrance examination mint control district under order of the State Department of worth, Spokane. board Dec. 2, 1961, to determine A nurses’ group was also rep Talbot, Schenk’s parents are Mr. and Mrs. John Schenk and Love who will be finalists in the com Agriculture. resented at the meeting. This action, sparked by mint growers in the county, was joy is a son of Mr. and Mrs. How petition. In past years 97 percent LEAVES FOR CALIFORNIA ard Lovejoy, former Nyssans. The of the semi-finalists have become taken following public hearing Sept. 12. The control district Dennis Forbess left Thursday youths are on missions for the finalists and received a certificate was created to prevent the disease which causes mint wilt—a of merit for their performance in disease which has necessitated*-------------------------- ---- for Palo Alto, Calif., after spend LDS church. ing the summer with his parents, After spending some time with the program. abandonment of some mint trol area of planting stock from any infested field. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Forbess. He his parents, Sallee returned Fri As finalists they will be eligible growing areas in the state. will enter Stanford university for day to Cal-Tech where he is a for scholarship awards sponsored further protection provides The control area imposes no A part by about 130 business corpora senior student. of any mint plant may graduate study. tions, foundations, associations, obligations upon growers, im enter the county unless certified individuals and the scholarship porters and the department. as to source and freedom from corporation. They will be named After Oct. 4 growers, including disease by the state agriculture in April 1962. supervisors or those owning and department or Oregon State uni Each scholarship is a four-year controlling mint fields, must re-1 versity. award to the college of the stu port the location of these fields Stale May Order Eradication dent’s choice and the amount is to the department. The order permits the depart based on the family’s financial Malheur county growers or oth-1 ment to seize infested mint "sep condition, ranging from $100 to ers may not move tools, equip arated from the land” and for $1500 per year. ment or machinery which have j and control of any in The National Merit Scholarship not been properly cleaned and eradication festation of mint or mint fields. corporation is a non-profit organ sterilized into the control district. In the case of mint fields, how ization and was established in if they have been used in other ever, the department may order 1955 with grants from the Ford mint producing areas. eradication or control only if less foundation and the Carnegie cor than 50 percent of the mint fields poration Assistance has been giv Mini Fields Must Be Posted in the county are infested. en to almost 5000 students to date. Mint fields in the county must Export and import restrictions be posted with a standard control may be relaxed with respect to area sign or notification. WEATHER any control area which might be The department must inspect formed later in areas adjacent to Max. Min Date 48 mint fields for the disease and Malheur county. 68 Sept. 20--------- 60 45 must, if the mint grower so re Copies of the complete order Sept. 21--------- 62 33 quests, certify fields found free may be obtained from the SDA Sept. 22--------- shipping point inspection office in 37 of the wilt. 63 Sept 23 --------- BRUCE md NANCY JACKSON (on left), children of Mr. and Mrs. 62 34 The department will supervise Ontario, from SDA headquarters Sept 24 --------- Wilton Jackson, are shown here with their Pekingese, Ming, and 68 31 I importation of mint planting stock j at Salem. A copy has also been Sept. 25______ her fire babies. They were winners in the best-dressed division at 67 35 j into the county. It will establish filed with the county clerk at Sept. 26 the Saturday dog show sponsored by Ken-L-Raiion. On the right loading areas for exportation of | Vale or one is available at the Owyhee Lake Storage are Marge Jefferies and Kitty Jensen as they appeared on the job Sept. 27, 1961 34,120 Acre Ft i mint roots and must approve any , county extension agent's office in on Kraxy day in fancy dress at Nyssa Pharmacy. Sept 27, 1960 180,540 Acre Ft. selection and use within the con-1 Ontario. Red Hat Days Head Requests Care in Hunting Don Arai Named As Semi-Finalist In Merit Program County Declared Mini Control Area; State Ag Department Seis Regulations Scene on Saturday