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U. cf 0, Library Eugene, Oregon e Nyssa Gate City Journal VOLUME LVII The Sugar City THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL. NYSSA. OREGON. THURSDAY. JANUARY 18. 1962 fíig Factory Then! First Official Moisture Report Shows Poor Irrigation Water Outlook Now Despite Increased Snow Pack Over '61 Watersheds Drier Due to Summer Drought; Record Low Holdover in Reservoirs Noted 10 Cents Per Copy NUMBER 3 False Arrest Suit Amounting io $5000 Plus Costs Filed Against Nyssa City, Police Officers R. Love and F. Petrie Plaintiff Alleges Thysical Pain, Suffering, Inconvenience;' City Carries No Insurance At this early winter date outlook for irrigation water sup plies in Malheur county during 1962 is extremely pessimistic in spite of a good mountain snow pack which is slightly better than average for Jan. 1, according to a report released by W. T. Frost, snow survey supervisor for U. S. Department of Agri culture, Soil Conservation service, Oregon Agricultural Ex periment station and Oregon state engineer. Dim prospects are charge- a b 1 e directly to watershed soils which are drier than last A suit for $5000 damages, plus costs, was filed in Circuit court at Vale Jan. 10, 1962, against the city of Nyssa and its police officers, Francis E. Petrie and Robert E. Love, chief of police for the city. The suit arose from a charge of false arrest of Sherwin B. (iuzman, a 15-year-old minor of Nyssa. Suit was filed, by Attorney Pat Albano, Ontario, ♦------- *■---------- ------------------- on behalf of Katie V. Guzman, mother of the minor, who was appointed guardian ad litem for the action. Attorney General Backs Court View year and to record low storage in of the county. Remain In Salary Dispute reservoirs ing winter storms will have to produce super-abundant moisture, Nyssa Musicians According to the complaint fil Earn Hiqh Honors ed, plaintiff alleged that Officer Petrie “did on Dec. 9 unlawfully, At Band Clinic maliciously and without any writ A ruling by the state attorney THIS PHOTO was taken in the fall of 1938 during refinery are the present fertilizer and seed storage ten statement of charges and Comprised of 17 selected high general’s office dated Dec. 1, 1961, preferably as snow, to provide Amalgamated Sugar company's first Nyssa cam school musicians, an “all - star” even average structure and agriculture department implement water supplies for without process, warrant, com upheld the contention of Malheur paign. The photographer was atop a railroad car ■teed. The white buildings to the left of those are mitment for any reasonable or band was organized at the Uni county court that the annual sal county lands. Snow cover on the Owyhee is at the approximate site where the railroad spur residences which no longer exist. The trees still probable cause whatever, appre versity of Nevada stage band cli ary of District Attorney E. Otis 150 percent of last year and 106 joins the main track. He had his camera aimed remain with the present gas metering station near hend and arrest plaintiff against nic held last weekend in Reno. Smith should be $10,800 and not Of the 17 selected students, sev percent of average (1943-57) for at the back of the factory in a northeasterly direc them. To extreme right of the photo is the old his will and without his consent.” $14,300 as demanded and claimed en of them were from the Nyssa this date. On the Malheur water tion. In the foreground may be seen carloads of feed lot. now used for beet piling. In the back Other Charges Quoted by the district attorney. band, it has been announced by sheds, the snow pack is 231 per The ruling was in the form of beets brought in for processing. The row of small ground are the sagebrush-covered hills above the ‘That the said defendant, Pe Bob Q. Smith, Nyssa music in a letter addressed to Smith in re cent of last year and 109 percent buildings is an old labor camp then located at the Snake river. While studying this photo, one long trie, placed the plaintiff in the structor. ply to his request for a ruling on I of the 15 - year average for the present site of pulp drier warehouse and concen time White Satin employee remarked, "And it was Nyssa jail where he was unlaw Those placing were Roger Maul- the matter. A copy of the ruling Jan. 1 date. fully detained against his will for ding, first alto saxophone: D. L. trated sieffen filtrate plant (popularly known as a big factory then!" reached the Journal office in the Water May Be Lost to Soil a period of approximately 44 Fife, second tenor sax; Mike Jef soup house). The long buildings just back of the —Amalgamated Sugar Company Photo. mail from County Judge Ellis j hours; that during that time Pe- feries, baritone sax; Dick Mc Selected soil moisture stations White Tuesday, Jan. 16. He said indicate slightly less moisture 1 trie refused and failed to notify Partland, second trombone; Mi he picked up the copy while in than last year at this date in the the parents of the plaintiff and chael Oft, third trombone; Judi Salem Thursday, Jan. 11, and that soil mantle of the upper water did not allow him to seek the ser Bingham, string bass; and Sondra this was the first the county court sheds. Unless rain or mid-winter vices of an attorney to advise him Holmes, vocalist. had heard on the request for a snowmelt fills the soil, there can of his rights.” Students participating in the ruling. The suit further states that, clinic were from five high schools | be as much as 9 inches of snow In the Dec. 14 issue of the Jour melt water lost from the snow “Stretching Your Money” is theme of a new family finance with the knowledge and consent including Crockett, Portola and Dr. George Rush, plant breeder nal was a report that Smith had pack to recharge the soil mantle, discussion series to be offered Malheur county families start of Police Chief Love, that Petrie Quincy, Calif.; Caldwell, Idaho, received no official opinion on reducing stream flow considerab at Amalgamated Sugar company ing next week, according to Mrs. Edna Mae Wimsatt, Malheur placed plaintiff in a room separ and Nyssa. factory in Nyssa, will be featured the matter and “did not expect ate and apart from other persons Clinician was Buddy De Franco, speaker at the Nyssa Jaycee county extension agent. one until after the first of the ly- tn the police station and did make world-famous clarinet and saxo Total water stored on Jan. 1 in Meeting place for the Nyssa sessions will be the high school I loud and violent threats and accu membership banquet Tuesday, year.” phone player and arranger of Agency Valley and Warmsprings Jan. 23, in the dining room of Background of Differences Given reservoirs is about 21,000 acre feet Brownie’s cafe. The dinner will little theater beginning at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 24, with sations at plaintiff. And that Pe theme song music for many. TV --------- ♦additional sessions on the four trie forcibly and without just programs. In 1959 the annual salary of the compared with 36,000 at this date be served at 8 o’clock. Malheur county district attorney last year. The 15-year average follov\ing Wednesdays at the cause or any cause whatever Selections played by the local Dr. Rush, a native of Vancou pushed plaintiff across the room “Sugar Beats” during their sched same hour. was set at $6500 by state law. storage is close to 79,000 acre feet ver, B.C., has been employed by (This permitted him to practice for Jan. 1. Ontario meetings will begin into a chair thereby bruising and uled concert included “Joshua’s Amalgamated for the past 11 Names drawn this week at at g o’clock on the evening°of injuring plaintiff’s leg. private law.) In 1960 the county Jump,” featuring a drum duet by Big Owyhee reservoir held about years. He received graduate work Nyssa Bank Days event were Ken jan 25 in the Ontario high school Allegedly Photographed budget board approved county Glenda Hoffman and David Parra. 68,000 acre feet Jan. 1, compared and his doctorate degree at the Nelson, route 2, Parma, $75 jack- building. Vale sessions will be in Among other charges were that Sondra Holmes sang "The Near (Continued on Page 4) with 195,000 at this time in 1961. University of Wisconsin. He has pot; Jay G. Robinson, route 1, fhe court house beginning at 2 defendants failed to provide ade ness of You,” accompanied by the The 15-year average is about 378,- been employed at the local White New Plymouth. $10 second award; pm Jan 25 Enrollees will meet quate nourishment and care and local band. Lead alto saxophonist 000 acre feet. Satin refinery for the past seven Ray Evans, route 2, Nyssa, third -weekly at the same time and photographed plaintiff’s head over Roger Maulding was featured in Antelope reservoir is reported years. “Alto Soliloquy.” prize of $5. place for a total of five sessions. a number assigned to him. to be empty—the oulet was low Approximately 15 to 20 young No winners were on hand to Instructors for the course, ac I i Plaintiff claimed damages be Members of the local band and ered last season to permit drain men, prospective members, will claim their awards. Jackpot prize cording to Mrs. Wimsatt, will be cause he claimed that said false Instructor Smith stayed at the ing the last drop of water for use. ■be invited to the dinner by regu will advance to :• *0 next Tues- gjx persons from the Malheur arrest and imprisonment became Silver State lodge while in Reno, day afternoon. lar Jaycee members. At the Jan. 10 Nyssa school Storage Musi Increase and Baker county extension staffs a matter of common notoriety returning home Sunday evening. Bob Chatelain, general chair board meeting Muri Lancaster, with each specializing in one among friends and associates and These record low figures of junior high principal, and Gene storage will have to increase by man, has announced that Gene SCOUT LEADERS SLATE phase of course presentation. The in the general public, causing in Chester, high school principal, great strides if water is to be DeMinck, program chairman, and BANQUET FOR JAN. 29 I same course is being offered si jury to plaintiff’s reputation in Girl Scout and Brownie troop multaneously in the two counties. the community. Plaintiff further presented their policies in ac available in sufficient quantity his committee comprised of Don Bowers and Bud Tibbets, have leaders met Jan. 8 at the home Mrs. K. Baalman, consultant in counting for students. It was ex for next season’s irrigation. Brochures giving a “sneak pre claimed physical pain, inconven scheduled an evening of interest of Mrs. Bill Hamilton, neighbor view” of the course are now being ience and mental suffering and education of mentally retarded plained how each student was One striking indication of the ing features. It is anticipated that hood chairman The group dis- distributed throughout the coun humiliation. children, Oregon State Depart- asked to telephone whenever it At a special meeting of the ment of Education, spent last was necessary to be absent. The extreme dryness of these south membership in the local organiza ' cussed plans for the annual ty by members of an extension father - daughter banquet which advisory committee assisting with city council Friday it was agreed Wednesday in the Arcadia school. regulation gives illness as the eastern watersheds is the slow tion will be increased. ness with which they begin to President David W. Sarazin will will be held Jan. 29 in the school enrollments for the course. Bro that City Attorney Harold Henig- While there she gave several only excusable absence. cafetorium. Some of the problems involved produce stream flow after the ex speak to prospective members. chures and enrollment blanks are son should represent the city’s demonstrations in various tech niques for teaching children in are parents who write excuses treme summer drought. Records also available at the county ex interest in defense of the suit. City Manager Art Colby told a the special classes. Mrs. Baalman that are not valid and the lack show that flow of the Owyhee tension office in Ontario. They of an adequate program for stu river since Oct. 1 has been only may be picked up at the office or Journal reporter Wednesday that expressed appreciation of the dents not academically inclined. 69 percent of average. The De will be sent out to interested per- no insurance was carried to cover work Miss Nelle Hayes is doing I sons upon telephone request by false arrest by city police officers. and was very pleased with physi Committee members studying cember flow was only 50 percent i cal arrangements at the school. [ calling TU 9-8628. the bus stop at Garrison corner— of average. Statewide, the early winter out GOLD AND GREEN BALL SET During her demonstration les E. H. Brandt, chairman. Dale Gar Malheur potato growers will face critical issues affecting Various Topics To Be Covered SATURDAY BY FIRST WARD sons, she emphasized the impor rison, Don Graham, Sgt. Haines of look for 1962 irrigation water sup their industry when they convene in the annual membership The five-week course will cover Nyssa LDS First ward will tance of teaching social compe Oregon State police, Tom Jones, plies range from a pessimistic timely and basic information on Ralph Lawrence and W. L. Me- situation in the southern tier of meeting of Malheur Potato Growers association Jan. 22, ac-, family financial planning, bud stage its anuual Gold and Green tencies to these children and Partland — made the following counties—'Malheur, Harney, Lake cording to Turner Bond, extension agent and group secretary. gets, attitudes and money, social ball Saturday evening in Nyssa showed how they can become a Potato quality problems that resulted in local crops aver continual way of relating read stake house. recommendations to the school and eastern Klamath — to ade quate water supplies in most of j aging less than 50 percent of number one grade for the 1961 security, life insurance and credit. Honored young lady will be ing, writing, spelling and arith board, which were adopted: Mrs. Wimsatt points out that Miss Linda Myrick. A floor show metic to practical situations which season threaten to destroy the*' : basic 1. That the school bus stop in the rest of the state. to wise management of in will be presented at 10:30 o’clock. are needed by all adults if they Although the mountain snow ’ local industry unless they can LOCAL FIREMEN CALLED the morning not be changed and come is to accept the fact that The public is invited to attend are to live acceptably within a TO ROY MEDINA RESIDENCE everyone has 100 percent of in that the vehicle continue to stop pack is normal or better, the pes-11 be solved, Bond declares. community. this annual event. Nyssa volunteer firemen were on the right-hand side of the road simism arises from lack of mois Oversupplies of potatoes na come to use—regardless of size. ture in the soil mantle and espe tionally have resulted in de called Jan. 12 to the Roy Medina “Every time you spend a penny, for loading. 2. That the evening bus cross cially from extremely short stor mands by many producing areas home located at 801 Ehrgood nickle, dime or dollar you’re using the railroad tracks and unload age water supplies for many for controls over production, and avenue. The blaze, starting from a little piece of your 100 percent j^st before the second railroad southeastern areas. local growers need to formulate an overheated stove in the kit of income that may move you Next report on snow surveys their own wishes in this regard if chen, did some damage to the closer or farther away from the crossing. (The railroad at this point is in the Nyssa city yard and water supply conditions will they are to have any voice in pro- dwelling. kind of living you really want,” It is reported the loss was par the extension agent declared. limit so trains travel under 20 be issued on Feb. 8 by the super l grams that may be attempted. Nyssa high school vocational agricultural advisory com tially covered by insurance. miles an hour, according to Tom visor for the state and national mittee met with school board members at the regular Jan. 10 Five Sessions Being Offered Meeting Set al Boulevard Hall agencies. Jones, Union Pacific agent). meeting and presented the following recommendation, ac These five sessions being offer The meeting, called at Boule- cording to Supt. Walter L. McPartland. ed in each of the three Malheur , vard Grange hall at 9:30 a m., will Changes Announced county communities will get down The advisory council has studied the present facilities and j study these and other problems In Time Regulations to some "’basics” of actually de- needs of the vocational agriculture department and has found ; through both expert opinion and - department - - for * many 0--------------------------------------- pooling of ideas. Association Pres At Local Post Office veloping a pattern of spending that the that will take care of monthly ident Sam Hartley of Adrian will years has been working under outside work area, lavatories and Acting Postmaster William B. preside over the meeting. Russell announces the following needs and also set aside some a difficult handicap in major washing facilities. By MURL LANCASTER, Nyssa Junior High Principal 3. That the vo-ag plant be con Al E. Mercker of Washington, changes in operations at the money for long-term goals—such shop facilities and space for as education of children, home structed immediately north of the D.C., executive director of the local office. Junior and senior high schools of Nyssa will hold a joint high school and adult classes. present bus garage, as first choice. (Continued on Page 4) Last mail drop pickup at the Science Fair on March 9, 1962. Science and math exhibits will National Potato council, is sched Upon checking shop space, it 4. That general considerations uled to discuss market outlook post office and outside car-drop be on display in the little theater and science department and was discovered that students were in the “Oregon Planning for Vo review national thinking on in front of the building has working in less than 70 square rooms of the high school from 7:30 to 10 p.m. cational Agricultural Facilities” production control programs. He been changed from 7 to 6 p.m. feet of floor space per student Faculty members of the science and math departments are is an authority of national stature booklet be followed. on weekdays and 5:30 p.m. on where 200 square feet per student especially interested in secur-* 5. That the construction follow on potato marketings, as indicated Sunday. Mail in all other drops is recommended (one - third the ing cooperation of parents in Therefore, the process that the by his nickname of “Mr. Potato,” will be picked up at about the design of other additions made in recommended size), McPartland the past few years. promoting this affair. They student follows in arriving at cer by which he is known through same time as usual. reported. Present size of the shop Roy Hirai of Nyssa, Oregon is 29 by 48 feet with state recom Areas To Be Upgraded hope parents will stimulate tain conclusions, or concepts, is much of the industry. City carriers are on their equally important to A panel of four potato field routes from approximately 30 representative to the National mended size being 40 by U) feet. The committee stated that it is and encourage youngsters to considered the desired hope these recommen their best efforts in whatever pro the body of knowledge as that men, assisted by the extension minutes io one hour earlier. Advisory committee of the potato The present shop is further re which he learns in building the jects they decide to undertake. (Continued on Page 4) Drop time for contact with city industry, returned home Jan. 8 duced by one-fourth by having dations be followed and carried project. delivery is now no later than from attendance at the first meet valuable floor space taken up out to aid in upgrading of the vo- Instructors urge parents to give ing of the advisory committee in with stairways, a store room and ag department in the following 8:30 a.m. as little physical aid as possible A Worthwhile Experience Meeting Set Washington, DC. The Science Fair stimulates in All patrons on rural routes benches, all of which are neces areas: but want them to guide and en 1. Increased shop size to enable County Group are now being visited by their Appointed and called together sary. courage. A student may list any dividual initiative. Someone has better learning of farm machine According to Mrs. George Mill carriers approximately one-half by Secretary of Agriculture Or Recommendations Listed physical aid given him in the de said, “What you will be, you are repair. velopment of his project. This is now becoming.” This applies to er, county PTA publicity chair hour earlier. Drop time to catch ville Freeman, the committee met The superintendent said the ad 2. Better and larger facilities as an opportunity to learn intellec the science student. By working man, a meeting will be held Tues rural route mail is now no later in Washington Jan. 3-5. At the end of three days deliberation, visory council made the follow washing, lavatories, classroom together, instructors, parents and day evening, Jan. 23, at 8 o’clock than 9 a.m. tual honesty. students can make the Science in the Adrian grade rchool rec Post office hours io the public the committee recommended es ing recommendations after much shop vision, lighting, doors, etc. Process Important in Science Fair a rich and educationally reation room. 3. That these and other im remain the same—8:30 a.m. to tablishment of acreage allotments consideration: Science education is a unique worthwhile experience. 1. That new vocational agricul provements will attract more en A panel discussion regarding 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. and marketing quotas for potatoes March 9 may seem a long way physical fitness programs in local Saturday hours are 8:30 a.m. to and consideration of a national ture facilities be built as soon as rollment in vo-ag classes and en area of learning. In all other sub jects the product or accumulation off. A boy or girl may be prone schools will be held. Panelists 12 noon and the office is closed marketing agreement for potatoes. possible—possibly with or before able more and better adult classes Hirai was one of 27 represen other building programs being to be held in the shop area. of knowledge is the important to say, “I’ve got lots of time.” had not been selected at press on Sunday. tatives of the potato industry j and/or to be considered. 4. Much better safety for stu thing. In science it is not the pro The result is known. Parents can time Wednesday but the group Russell also announces that duct but the process one under help instructors to get students hoped to secure participation of the pamphlet, "Fallout Protec throughout the nation called to 2. That the facilities include a dents due to more working space goes to acquire the knowledge. started now to make this year’s county teachers from various tion." is now available al the serve on the secretary’s advisory shop (size to be shown), class- and better accessibility from the fair the best ever. That is real science education. grade levels. 1 room, office, storage, laboratories, shop due to better planned doors. (Continued on Page 5) local post office. Dr. G. Rush Slated To Speak Tuesday At Jaycee Dinner Family Finance Discussion Series Slated To Begin Wednesday in Nyssa All Prizes Unclaimed At Tuesday Drawing Schools Accept Phoned Excuses From Ill Students State Consultant Visits Arcadia School Potato Growers to Face Critical Issues Monday at County Association Meet Vo-Ag Committee Tells School Board New Shop Facilities Needed al Nyssa Parents Urged To Guide, Encourage Students Making Science Fair Entries Roy Hirai Attends Potato Conference In Nation's Capital Adrian By PTA
