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u. of 0. Library Eugene, Oregon c City Atanayer Art Colby Outlines Afunieipul Aeemuplishnieuts Ouriny iOtii (Editor’s Note: _ In early 1961 the Journal carried the high lights of the city's activities for the previous year. These have again been furnished by City Manager Art Colby, but we also received a copy of the annual report he made to the city council and believe it to be of sufficient interest to all Nyssa citizens that we are carrying it in its entirety.) GENERAL GOVERNMENT The City of Nyssa operates un der the council - manager plan, this plan having been adopted in 194b. Nyssa has seven councilmen with the mayor selected by the council for a two-year term The mayor is recognized as the head of the city government and is the presiding officer at all council Hjeetings, signs all legal instru ments and documents, and by the governor for purposes of military law. The manager works in close harmony with the mayor and the council and is responsible for the day-to-day administration of the councilman alley in Green addition, amen city government. ' The __ r ______ represents thé comrttunrtj ‘ as a ding rates chargeable for garbage legislative and policy - making removal. Providing for the li censing and regulation of amuse body. Nyssa was incorporated on Feb. ment devices. 24. 1903. 4^5’ The majority of city employees During 1961 «tyA 5n to the were given salary increases of ap ieri in this proximately six percent during other activities ’ nutlTiad report, the following significant 1961. steps were taken: Student Government day was a Municipal Studies Made highlight in public relations when Arrangements were made with some 16 senior high school stu the State Board of Higher Educa dents participated in a full day tion and Bureau of Municipal Re of activity with each student search to provide planning assist working with a department head. ance for a land use study, popu lation study, utilities maps, zon PUBLIC WORKS SUMMARY The Department of Public ing maps, a land use plan, extend the city base map to include pro Works maintains the appearance perty adjacent to the city tending and health conditions of our city. The five-man department is re toward urbanization. Ordinances were adopted amen sponsible for street repair and ding election procedure, provid maintenance, installation of water ing for the saie of $60,1)00 in gen and sewer line and connections eral obligation bonds for swim thereto, maintenance and care of ming pool construction, vacation the parks and cemetery, mainte of a portion of Eighth street. nance and cleaning of catch ba Bower to Ehrgood; Park avenue, sins, ice and snow removal and east end adjacent to the Union control, surveying and grades of Pacific railroad and a portion of streets. f■ leaks repaired, 47; meters install-*bestos cement pipe, 1,435 lineal ’ During the year .._... the Public' *STREET DEPARTMENT Works department purchased, Park avenue, Fourth street to ed, 47; water turned on, 79; water feet; total miles new sewer. 4.18; among other things, a diesel-oper Main, received a complete new turned off, 114; total gallons from total manholes constructed, 62. ated backhoe and front end load base and oil mat paving. auxiliary well, 11,749,600; six-inch PARKS and RECREATION er, a 105-c.f.m. air compressor, The new 170,000-gallon gunite A new sewer map was prepar main installed, 752 lineal feet; salt spreader, steam cleaner and ed, city crews surveyed for con eight-inch main installed, 1,218 swimming pool and bathhouse miscellaneous maintenance tools. struction and conducted inspec lineal feet; total annual power project was completed and open The Public Works building was tion of the sewer project for a cost, $3,974.61, ed Aug. 9. painted and additional storage period of six months of 1961. Although the swimming season SEWER DEPARTMENT space provided. was short, morning swimming Street lighting was improved for Total sanitary connections, 743; Welfare Personnel Employed classes were conducted for varied better residential illumination. sanitary sewer taps, 47. age groups from beginners to life Public Works personnel re The street department assumed Due to construction at the saving. A program is planned to mained the same during the year responsibility for resurfacing of without increase or decrease. A streets involved in the sewer pro treatment plant site, the plant expand these classes for the 1962 was not in operation for five season. new program was implemented in ject. Days open, 22; total attendance, the fall by the State Welfare com Grading streets, 582 hours; gra months of the year. mission whereby welfare partici vel hauled, 2,223 cubic yards; rock Total cost of treatment plant 7,051; average daily attendance, pants would work in a munici hauled, 480 cubic yards; street improvements, $55,200.91; total 320. Additional work was conducted pality during a period when jobs sweeping, 627 miles; dirt fill haul cost of existing pumping station were not available, supplementing ed, 2,630 cubic yards; all depart improvements, $7,492.00; total cost during the year in landscaping public works personnel but not ments used 8,605 gallons of gas. of two new pumping stations, the pool, filling the 2.93 acre pool replacing them for jobs of normal $32,391.00; total cost of sewer park site with top soil, seeding, WATER DEPARTMENT mains, laterals and trunk line, constructing concrete walkways labor. Total service connections, 847; $104,533.49, four-inch asbestos ce and preparing the parking area This program involves a cost to the city of state industrial acci total pumping hours, 73,440; total ment pipe, 355 lineal feet; six- for the construction of curb and dent insurance only and provides gallons from collector, 332,223,000; inch concrete pipe, 350 lineal feet; paving. considerable work not normally gallons per capita per day (in eight - inch concrete pipe, 9,679 Activities Enumerated accomplished by public works cluding irrigation), 361. feet; 18-inch concrete pipe, 1,462 Wood floors were removed from personnel due to their more spe Water connections installed, 17; feet; eight-inch asbestos cement! the south park rest rooms and re- total pounds chlorine used, 2,307; pipe, 8,810 lineal feet; 10-inch as-1 (Continued on Page 6) cific duties. o------------------------------------- ----- Nyssa Gate City Journal VOLUME LVII THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL, NYSSA. OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 11. 1962 NUMBER 2 'Philippine Fiesta' Featuring Island ItusseH Taken Oath aa Xyasa Pontmanter Entertainment Slated by AFS Group To Finance 1962-63 Exchange Student By PAT WRIGHT A Philippine Fiesta! The Nyssa high school cafetorium will be decked in the colorful trappings of native Filipino dec orations Thursday, Feb. 8, as the American Field Service com mittee sponsors this money-raising project for next year’s exchange student. The Fiesta, inspired by Nyssa’s present exchangee, Leila ^Alampay, will begin with a program including a Filipino style show, a group of folk songs of the island sung by the Nyssa high chorus, Fili pino folk dances by Leila and a group of senior girls, and a speech Panfila De La Rosa, 30-year-old by Leila herself. woman in the county jail at Vale After program, the Fiesta on a theft charge, led sheriff’s will go the into full swing with a officers Tuesday afternoon to the dance featuring by the shallow grave of her infant son NHS Sugar Beats. music Philippine mo 302 buried on the lot of her home, vies, Food booths sponsored by North Seventh street, Nyssa. school classes and featuring The investigation was initiated high foods at 10 cents per por by Nyssa police Monday morning native tion. and the sheriff’s office furnished Additional attractions include information that brought her ad a trade booth displaying products mission and discovery of the and exports of the Philippines, a grave. and service auction offering According to Malheur Sheriff sales useful and humorous articles, and Bob Ingram, the mother said she a Philippine art display which is gave birth to the child, unaided, being prepared by Miss Margery on Oct. 12, 1961, and it died the ’s art class. same day. She buried it near the Nihart Admission to the Fiesta is $1 WILLIAM B. RUSSELL (center) was installed Nyssa office. A veteran of World War I, Russell corner of the house without re for adults, 50 cents for students. Tuesday as acting postmaster for Nyssa, effective has been a well-known rancher in the Nyssa area porting either the birth or death. Family tickets which will admit as of close of business Tuesday, Jan. 9, 1962. Per since March 26, 1944. He was born Jan. II, 1901, Mrs. De La Rosa is the mother both parents and children for manent appointment requires congressional action. at Lincoln Neb. He and his wife Dorothy reside of seven other children, ranging $2.50 are also available. Shown with the new PM are Assistant Postmaster cn route 2. They have two children, William who in age from 17 months to 10 years. Lee Dail (left) and L. P. Love, postal inspector attends the University of Oregon in Eugene and They had previously been made from Boise. Russell, installed by Love, replaces Mary Jo Athey of Berkeley, Calif. wards of the county court when Nyssa FFA Chapter she was charged with stealing To Hold Saturday Lloyd W. Lewis, deceased, as administrator of the —Staff Photo. $250 from Pound’s Grocery store Jack of Dimes Drive and placed in the county jail. Whereabouts of the husband Nyssa FFA chapter members Nyssa High School Soybean Production was unknown. held a meeting Jan. 4 when they Students to Attend As Crop to Be Studied District Attorney E. Otis Smith voted to hold a “Jack of Dimes” said his office would take no ac drive on Jan. 13, as part of the Music Clinic in Reno At Jan. 18 Meeting Seventeen members of Nyssa tion until results of an autopsy, “Teen-Agers Program for March Possibility of soybeans as a new set for Wednesday, had been of Dimes” drive sponsored by high school dance band and their The adult class program in the crop for Malheur county will be Nyssa high school, according to instructor, Bob Q. Smith, will at Nyssa community is getting well discussed during a special meet completed. tend a stage band clinic Saturday organized, according to school of ing sponsored by Western Farm Gene Jones, chapter reporter. SUNDAY CHARIOT RACES FFA members will meet Satur in Reno. ficials. ers association Jan. 18 at 1:30 p m. The Saturday afternoon clinic There will be an organizational at Moore hotel in Ontario. Wm. SCHEDULED AT ADRIAN day morning in front of the ag Adrian Lions club members are shop. They will be loaded onto will be conducted by Buddy De meeting Monday evening, Jan. 15, the group’s seed division, made sponsoring chariot races to be a manure spreader and deposited Franco. During the evening each at 8 o’clock in the little theater the announcement this week. held Sunday, Jan. 14, at 2 p.m. around town for a house-to-house of the various bands attending to determine any additional cour The association will be prepar will play a 20-minute concert. ses that patrons in the community on the airport strip located south collection. ed to offer 1962 production con In 1960 the chapter collected I DeFranco will direct the Univer might desire. of the city. The group will also approximately $110 and in 1961,1 sity of Nevada stage band in con A minimum of 10 students is tracts, Briggs said, as a part Of have a concession stand. its efforts to develop the crop in All proceeds will go to the or about $95. This year the boys are! cert. necessary for each class that is the Pacific Northwest. Several The Nyssa group will return organized to pay expenses. ganization’s sight conservation hoping again to exceed the $100 thousand acres are anticipated in mark, Jones said. home Sunday. fund. Those interested are asked to the Yakima valley and Columbia call FR 2-3579 to indicate desires basin this year following intro for classes in Spanish, English, duction of the crop in 1961. typing or any others. E N. Hoffman and Luther Classes are now being conduct Fitch of Malheur Branch Experi ed in adult farm wiring and elec ment station will be on hand to tricity on Monday evenings and review the results of four years in adult wiring on Thursday eve- of research on soybeans. Definite rungs. A short class in shirt con- variety and cultural practices struction will begin Jan. 22. This have been worked out for the class is filled. area, according to researchers, On Wednesday evening, Jan. 24, with average yields in excess of the home extension class in fi 55 bushels having been obtained nance will be held in the little with the better varieties. theater. This class, for both hus bands and wives, will be free of charge and registration blanks NYSSA FAMILY STRANDED may be secured at the county IN IOWA BY COLD WEATHER Bill LaBounty received a phone agent’s office. Enrollments are now being received at the exten call Tuesday evening from his wife, stating that she and their sion office in Ontario. four children were enroute home Five weekly sessions will in train but were snowbound at clude family spending, social se by curity and its benefits, insurance, Lake City, Iowa. She added that they did not know when they credit and interest. would be able to get out. A FEW OF THE MODEL HOMES on display in Food Fair, Bestway Building Center, Firestone various business firm windows this week are store, Mel Beck agency, Ken Pond agency, Bob It had been 13 degrees below zero there, the train’s heating shown above. The dwellings were planned, con Thompson agency, Nyssa Insurance agency, Ber- WEATHER Min system failed and they were with Date Max. structed and some furnished by seniors in modern nard Eastman agency. Farmer's Insurance Ex- Jan. 3 ...... 33 25 out heat and water for some time. problems class at Nyssa high school. The students change. The Merc and Peterson Furniture. Jan. 4 42 22 The family is returning from also prepared evaluation summary sheets giving In the near future, realtors of Nyssa will select Jan. 5 21 38 Superior, Wis., where they had cost of construction including labor, materials, the three entries which they consider best. The Jan. 6 36 28 visited Mrs. LaBounty’s parents landscaping, etc. dwellings are being evaluated on the basis of Jan. 7 33 during the holidays. 49 The model house project was under supervision functional floor plan, originality, floor plan, syl Jan. 8 42 50 of Chick Quinowski and the completed dwellings labus, landscaping and interior decorating. 27 ATTENDS PORTLAND MEET Jan. 9 35 were judged by faculty members. They selected Purpose of the project, Quinowski said, was to Jan. 10 18 Elvin Ballou returned Sunday the top IS which are among those on display at present problems in building and for the student 15 precipitation, Sunday, Jan. 7 evening from Portland where he First National Bank, U. S. Post Office. Bracken's to get a more realistic picture of the cost of land, Owyhee Lake Storage attended an insurance committee Department store, Wilson Bros. Department store, legal and professional services, interior decorating Jan. 8, 1962 72,260 Acre Ft meeting Saturday of the Oregon Idaho Power company, M and W Market, Ray's and landscaping. —Staff Photo. Jan. 8, 1961 198,040 Acre Ft Education association. failed Mother Leads Officers To Grave of Son Organizing Meet For Adult Classes Set Monday Night They fíuill Their Houses of Many Thinys Blood Donors Top Quota by 16 Pints As 248 Residents of Area Visit Unit; Group Expresses 'Thanks' for Success The area’s recent successful blood drive was a community enterprise, involving efforts of many groups and individuals, it has been noted by the local committee. The Jan. 4 drawing exceeded the 200-pint quota by 16. Members of the group wish to express particular thanks and appreciation to those whose enthusiastic support and co operation made the success ♦ possible. They include Nyssa high school, Eagles lodge, Lions club, Nyssa Jaycees, St. Paul’s Episcopal guild, radio station KSRV, the Gate City Journal staff. Dr. David Sarazin, Houston “The Male Animal,” a three- Wilson, the Rev. John Briehl, Bob act comedy, will be staged at 8 Humphries, W L. McPartland, o’clock Tuesday and Thursday, Mmes. Lloyd Lewis, John Dority, Jan. 16-18, in the high school cafe Delbert Hooper, Werner Peutz, torium. Lester Cleaver, Ted Brammer, Most female roles in the pro Dick Tensen, K. A. Danford, Jim duction are double cast for the Thiel, Stan Thompson, Max Jones, two - night run and most male Bob Smith, Don Bowers, Frank parts are being played by one Morris, Kenneth Cottle and Dean actor on both nights. Fife. According to Director Donald High Donors Reported Bates, junior class members will According to records of the be acting on Tuesday night. On committee, new one-gallon don Thursday evening the senior cast ors are Archie Strom, Neva Ha will assume the roles. ney, Gene DeMinck, Gladys En- Has College Campus Setting glehardt, Gabriel Astoreca, Jess The play, set on a college cam Asumendi and W. H. Tyrell. Those having reached the two- pus, concerns the trials and tribu gallon mark at the Thursday lations of Tommy Turner (Rob drawing include Patience Dim- Hendricks), professor of English, mick, Jake Fischer, Carl Devin, in his struggle for the rights of the teacher. His wife Ellen (Mary (Continued on Page 12) K. Olsen and Kathleen McPart land) is drawn into the dilemma, Tape on Communism which is complicated by the ar rival of an old flame, Joe Fergu Slated to Be Heard son (Chuck Corak). At Meeting Tonight Other members of the double By Mrs. Duane Holcomb cast include Sharon Newman, “I’m not interested in PTA!’’ Neva Flake, Roger Barnes, Karen says Mrs. Larry Woodell, program Kent, George Jones, Vicki Max- chairman. She is a "non-member" field, Pat Wright, Linda Parker, who thinks that this is a group Judy Wilson, Sherry Hust, Gor- that will be especially interested don Leavitt, Bill Hammon, Gayle in tonight’s PTA meeting at 8 Baughman and Francis McCrady. o’clock in the cafetorium. Director Bates is being assisted She is going to try to change by Don Arai and a production the “boring, do-nothing” evening staff. Various departments are into a stimulating, thought-pro headed by Bill Hammon, Mario voking program. Parra, Dawn Bohannon, Jackie The interest of local school ad Barnhouse, Karen Saito and Jan ministrators, parents and minis ice Baker. ters is going to be aroused by the special tape that is to be play Two Nyssa Residents ed. Major Meyer, an army psy chologist, will narrate the tape. Win Bank Day Prizes He explains why the communists In Tuesday Drawing had so much success in changing Winners at this week’s Nyssa the views of American soldiers Bank Days event were Carl F. during the Korean conflict. Weaknesses in their religion Hansen, 111 North Third street, award and Alvin Root, 426 and schooling and closeness of $10 North Fifth, third prize of $5. families ties are some of the Tony Martinez, route 1, Nyssa, topics he will cover. Refreshments will be served at was drawn for the $50 jackpot the beginning of tonight’s meet but was not present to win. Jackpot prize will advance to ing by a committee headed by $75 next Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Asa Winchester. Nyssa High Plans Jan. 16-18 Staging Of 'Male Animal' Tirnt flahy9 Joins Family "LITTLE MR. 1962," Darryn Floyd Flezhman, is shown here on the lap of his mother, Mrs. Keith Fleshman. On his daddy's lap is Dougie. age 18 months, and sitting between his parents is Danny, 4'/i yean of age. This photo of the Fleshman family was taken Sunday in their home at Vale. The infant was named winner of the many gifts from Nyssa merchants, having been the first baby born in 1962 at Malheur Memorial hospital. —Staff Photo.