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U. of 0. Library Eugene, Oregon Nyssa Gate City Journal VOLUME LVIII The Sugar City Federal Controls and Subsidies Are Shackling the Farmer,' Farm Bureau State Official Tells Nyssa Chamber THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL. NYSSA. OREGON. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 14. 1963 .7^ Year* in fiuaar lndusiru Declares Returning to Market Price System Would Aid Farmers and Lower Tax Costs with the consumer’s viewpoint in mind instead of what might be good for agriculture. Hobson said agriculture used to be able to rely on the U. S. De partment o f Agriculture as a source of information that pre sented the facts and did not try to promote a specific political idea. But this is no longer true. He used as an illustration a meeting he attended in Portland recently where a multitude of “facts” were presented to con vince everyone that only a “yes” vote for the department’s propo sal was a logical analysis of these facts. Whereas, had the other side been presented, he said he felt sure the opposite conclusion would have resulted. NUMBER 7 Nyssa School Board Approves Plans For New Vo-Ag Building; Proposal To Be Submitted io Voters March 4 $95,000 Cost Includes Remodeling of Old Building for Biology Classroom and Lab Joe Hobson of Ontario, vice president of Oregon Farm the Nyssa Chamber of Commerce last week that Federal controls and subsidies are shackling the American farmer today and that there must be a return to the market price system.” In tracing the trend in agriculture, Hobson noted that un- ♦til recent years agriculture held the balance of power in the halls of legislature. Now, he said, because of the popula tion shift, decisions are made Firms io Display Farm Equipment Used in This Area 10 Cents Per Copy Nyssa school board okayed plans for a new vocational ag riculture shop and classroom and remodeling of the old vo-ag shop for biology classroom and lab at the regular meeting Monday evening. Members voted to submit the proposal to voters of the district at a bond election to be held Monday, March 4, according to Dirick Nedry, district clerk. This action culminates many*--------------------------------------- months of planning, sessions with the architects, public meetings and joint meetings with the vocational agricul Special Education ture advisory council, vo-ag and To Be Discussed biology instructors, Nedry said. The new vo-ag building will be At PTA Tonight located just north of the bus gar Nyssa has long been recognized When the Nyssa Parent-Teacher age and will consist of classroom, association • as the center of one of the best for its regu shop, office, storage, rest rooms lar meeting convenes farming areas in the Treasure at 8 o’clock this eve and fenced area. Estimated cost Valley. Not only is the land fer ning, the subject will be special of this building is $51,440; and ar education. tile but row crop farming is high chitects and legal fees will place ly specialized. Marcelle Montgomery, physical total cost right at $55,000, a figure Farm equipment manufacturers therapist and a well - recognized proposed by the advisory council are aware of this and design and J. L. (LEN) CHURCH will retire early this sum bag of sugar packaged at 1:45 a-m. on the day at the public hearing a year ago. authority in the field of cerebral test machinery for use here. Spe mer from his duties as assistant superintendent of •nding Feb. 6 of this year. This is claimed to be palsy, will discuss the aspects of cial equipment has been designed this disorder and explain how Amalgamated's sugar factory in Nyssa. He has a record in sugar production and according to Total Figur* Set at $95,000 and come into use in similar farm It is proposed to remodel the children so afflicted can be better been with the White Satin company since 1938 H*nry Zobell, plant manager, it is the first time areas after having been proven present vo-ag shop into a biology understood and helped. production has hit this figure in one campaign in and in the sugar business for 52 years. He is shown here. Onions, potatoes, sugar beets here with the Nyssa plant's 2.000,000th 100-pound any of the company's factories.—Photo by Schoen. classroom and laboratory. Cost of Miss Montgomery is not a stran- and sweet com are some of the this construction and equipment ger to Nyssa. She has been mak —------------------ ♦ ♦ ♦ crops using this new equipment will be $34,185. Architects fees, ing regular visits to Malheur for planting, cultivating and har legal fees and contingency, plus county during the past two years vesting. a small amount to refurbish the and in that time some 35 children But making this equipment is present vo - ag classroom will and adults have been on her pro- not sufficient for the farmer— Opposition Trend Developing bring the estimated cost of all i gram for therapy. By WALTER L. McPARTLAND, Superintendent of Schools 11 UGHI V there must be a distributor with Hobson cited instances that in construction to about $95,000, and Paul Starkovich of Salem, con- the machinery on hand for actual dicated government intervention this amount will be proposed in I suitant in the education of vis- GENE CHESTER, High School Principal demonstrations, shops manned by was on the wane. He said, (1) last the bond election. 1 ually handicapped children, State Gene Chester is completing his* ♦ * skilled mechanics for necessary year turkey growers of the nation This is a story of a man who Superintendent W. L. McPart- Department of Education, will fourth year as principal of Nyssa repairs and with replacement j overwhelmingly defeated a gov has worked with the sugar indus land advised the board that high also be present. He is expected high school. Gene came to Nyssa parts. try for 52 years and will retire school enrollment will increase to show a film on experiences ernment proposal for “birth con- from Harper after serving that Nyssa is well blessed with farm | trol,” (2) controls over potatoes community for four years as sup early this summer from his duties from 365 this year to about 390 1 of a blind child and he will dis- machinery dealers who keep up had been strongly opposed, and erintendent. Previous to his stint a s assistant superintendent o f next year and will go to 425 in 1 cuss ways in which the state de to date with the newest machin (3) last spring in the wheat refer there, Chester had been associat Amalgamated Sugar’s Nyssa re the 1964-65 school year, based on partment can be of assistance to the size of the seventh and eighth 1 this district on matters of special ery and latest methods of use. endum the Department of Agri ed with the Vale high school in finery. classes that will enter high 1 education. Recently B & M Equipment had culture got only 1.8 percent more the capacity of coach, social stu i He is J. L. (Len) Church who grade school in the next two years. a John Deere day for this pur votes than needed to carry the dies teacher and biology instruc was born in Denver, Colo., a son Further aspects of this evening’s pose; Farmers Equipment had a issue. Extra Room Needed Next Year of Jack C. and Stella Church, and program will be displays of work tor for eight years. Case Prevue day. moved with his parents to Rocky In the latter instance, he said After that the enrollment will done by the special class for Gene is fundamentally a coun This Saturday, Ideal Gas and this was the lowest percentage Ford, Colo., when he was 8 years level off, McPartland stated, bar retarded children. Miss Nelle try boy at heart. Somewhere up Appliance company will have a since 1956 and that it failed in 17 of age. ring any unforeseen economic de Hayes, teacher of the class, will “Flaming Cultivation” day at the states producing almost two- around Soda Spring, Idaho, he velopments m veiopmenis in tne the area, as the tne be present to discuss her work At age 11, he started working started his school life in that in Nyssa school cafetorium showing thirds of the wheat in the United classes all through the lower I and answer questions. as office boy in the American stitution fondly recalled as the how LP gas can be used profit States. grades average between MO and Committee members for the Beet Sugar company in Rocky “ little red schoolhouse. ” From ably on the farm. i Ford and when 15 went to work 120 students. For this reason the program are Josephine Rigney, that first year until graduation, On Feb. 22 Nyssa Implement Discu**** Grain Program ! in the factory there, (it was dur- extra classroom will be badly Mr. and Mrs. William Wahlert the Soda Springs public school ’ Hobson said that the secretary company will have an Oliver day I ing this period that office em- needed next year, as well as the and Fred Arai, member of the system provided most of his guid- i of agriculture used one of his de at their North Main street store i ployees would take his errand expanded biology facilities, the Nyssa school board. ance in academic work. showing new tractors and ma partments last year to try to sell tips, put them in a container and superintendent said. The halls of higher learning of chinery plus improvements made ! farmers that his Emergency Grain save the total sum for his Christ After studying many different Local Unemployment on existing models. Many of the program had been a whopping Boise Junior college and the Col mas savings.) He was boiling plans and proposals over the last changes ate geared for areas like success. It brought some decrease lege of Idaho provided for his several meetings, the board con- > Down Considerably sugar at age 18. in feed grain stocks but at such bachelor’s degree and the Uni we have here. Mr. Church was united in mar- eluded that they will never be I From Previous Year a high price that congress refused versity of Oregon was the site riage on June 30, 1921, to Pauline able to provide the additional Claims for unemployment in continue it beyond this year. of his quest for a master’s. Organizational Meet to Farmers Gauger at La Juanta, Colo. They classrooms needed at so reason surance remained well below used it to earn money The Chesters have two boys, moved from Rocky Ford to Grand able cost, and voted unanimously January of 1962, according to For PT A Cub Scouts from land that was (1) of ques- ages 8 and 12. Mrs. Chester is Junction in 1923 when Lennie to proceed with the bond issue. Horace L. Arment, manager of occupied in her spare time with a (Continued on Page 7) Set Monday Evening went to work for the Holly Sugar Budget Board Member* Named the Ontario office, Oregon State job selling real estate for a com There will be an organizational company. In other action at the long ses Employment service. The most pany in Vale. meeting at 7:30 Monday evening, Local Bar Association In 1927 he went to England with sion Roy Holmes and Clarence striking difference appears in Leo Gonyer retired from his ■ the Feb. 18, for boys in the 8-10 age Elects New Officers Sugar company Lancaster were elected to three- weeks claimed. While new claims work at Amalgamated Sugar which Lincsgran group who are interested in Cub later became the British year terms on the budget board. filed fell from 262 in January of Malheur Seed Group company on Feb. 5, 1963. He came Sugar corporation. While Scouting. The session will be in Malheur County Sä’- association Holmes succeeds himself and Lan 1962 to 209 for last month, the to Nyssa in the spring of 1938 and he worked in a supervisory abroad the junior high school little thea met at a breakfast session Feb. Dates Annual Meet capa caster replaces Glen Peterson, weeks of unemployment dropped 7 in Moore hotel, according to worked on construction of the ter. Keith T. Gates, area Boy Wednesday, Feb. 20 local plant as a locomotive crane city and on construction. He did who has served many years on from 2,448 in January of 1962 Scout representative, will be in Martin P. Gallagher. not take his family the first year, the board. to 1,267 for January 1963. New officers elected included Malheur County Alfalfa Seed operator. With the exception of attendance. (Continued on Page 7) Grower ’ s association will hold its Workers placed on jobs through two summers at Grand Coulee he Chairman Warren Farmer ap Parents and boys are requested Charles W. Swan, president; Don annual meeting at Oregon Trail the local office increased from 47 has worked continuously for the pointed Mark Hartley a s the Denning, vice president; and John to be there promptly at 7:30 so Wednesday, Feb. 20, starting White Satin company as head Toastmasters Discuss school board’s representative on in January 1962 to 115 in January an early adjournment may be N. Hutchens, secretary-treasurer. hall at 10 a.m., according to Ted Av crane operator. Plans were laid for continuing ery, achieved. Advertising Phrases the vo-ag advisory council for a this year. association president. Prior to this time he had spent Three five - minute talks were three-year term, succeeding Ray The first class under the Man This troop will be under spon legal education series and there power Training and Development sorship erf the Nyssa PTA and has was a discussion of pending legis W. P. Stephen, entomologist a number of years in the sugar presented last Thursday morning Larson, board member. The law firm of Yturri, O’Kief Act of 1962 commenced Feb. 4, been inactive for approximately lation before the current session from Oregon State university, will industry. He worked for the Holly at the regular meeting of Nyssa discuss latest research findings company in factories at Sidney, __ _____________ and Cox was hired by _ the board with 40 students enrolled. All are of the Oregon legislature. six months. relating to leaf-cutter and alkali Mont., and Torrington, Wyo. In Toastmasters. Don Bowers spoke to handle the legal work connect-1 residents of the local area taking bees. These two insects have Belle Fourche, S.D., and Toppen on the subject, “Are We Doing ed with the bond issue. It was English as a basic course and been the main source of pollina ish, Wash., he was employed by Our Part?” in connection with the pointed out that the local firm of tractor operation as a vocational tion for local seed growers. J. the Utah-Idaho Sugar company. Oregon State Game commission Hengison and Stunz could not be choice with the objective in view report cards. Bob Love discussed Ritchie Cowan, head of the Farm Gonyer spent the early years of “Our Past and Changing Times,” retained because of Stunz’ mem of farm production equipment Crops department at OSU, will his life in the vicinity of Bangor, comparing operators. the Roaring ’20’s to bership on the school board. inform growers of the latest ad Maine. A brother and four sisters By ROBERT F. SMITH. Stat* Repr**entativ* vances in alfalfa plant breeding still reside there. He has two today in the world of crime. This week of the legislature found the discussion centering work and will cover latest varie daughters, Gloria a fifth-year stu “Centuries of Struggle” was title of the speech given by the around taxation. Most of the tax proposals have now been ties available for seed production. dent at BYU, Provo, Utah, and Rev. Paul Ludlow in which he heard before the House Tax committee. They are many and Another OSU entomologist, R. Marilyn, a sophomore at Nyssa. presented an account of slavery varied. They roam from sales taxes to net business taxes. W. Every, will talk about insect Mrs. Gonyer has been employed through history. Representative Rogers would tax three areas — through a control and problems relating to by the Nyssa schools for the past Table topics were selected By ANTHONY YTURRI. State Senator sales tax, a net receipts tax and a net business tax — and refer resistance to insecticides encoun 11 years. phrases from television advertis The longer one serves in the legislature, the more he is im the package to the people for*--------------- —-------------------- tered in destroying bugs that re-, Gonyer is anticipating follow ing provided by Dr. John Olsen, pressed with the fact that the problems never change. Ses their choice of one, or three, while eliminating all deductions duce alfalfa seed yields. ing his hobby of landscaping and topic master. W. L. McPartland H. E. Finnell, certification spe doing a bit of fishing and travel served as toastmaster and W. A. sion after session, the legislature faces the same situation. or none. and exemptions. Representative There is always the question of how much money the state Barton was evaluator. Representative John Mosser McKinnis proposes a 3 percent cialist from OSU, will inform seed ing. should spend, and this raises the question of whether or not growers of latest policies concern of Washington county would sales tax which would be used ing the certification of alfalfa the tax laws should be changed. establish a flat 5 percent tax, ex for property tax relief and build seed. Ray Teal, marketing spe tending the $600 exemption to ings for higher education. We continue to hear the level of services which the people $800 and eliminating the federal See* Rejection of Tax Propoulc cialist from OSU, will present the same arguments for spending expect latest information on the alfalfa receive from the state. income tax deduction. Of course, and for taxes. In fact, it is not A sales to After hearing all of these pro seed supply outlook. tax for Oregon is gaining the governor’s net receipts tax I posals I am confident that any at all unusual for the same more and more favor and it is not plan would broaden the base of tax measure will either be refer During the meeting directors witnesses “for and against” to at all unlikely that we will have taxation, including people who red to the people for a vote by will be elected to fill the expired appear before the committees. such a tax in the next few years. have never paid a tax before, the legislature or by petition of terms of George Schiemer, L. W. Even the bills introduced are fre Several bills of interest have Dierking, T. R. Avery, Harold and reduce the existing rates the people. In any case there will quently the same. Legislators re been introduced recently. Among Alexander and Lester Cleaver. fer to such bills as “the old dogs.” them is Senate Bill 37 which no doubt be a vote and probably They are defeated session after would require an employer to fur rejection of any tax proposal All Prizes Unclaimed a passed. session, but they continue to re nish, free of charge, special pro Sweetheart Ball Set appear. The trouble is that even tective equipment or apparel re- The question now arises — Tomorrow Eveninq At Tuesday Drawina; should tually they pass and become law. the legislature ask the (Continued on Page 7) Jackpot Reaches $200 people to vote on the question of By Nyssa Stake MIA Debai* Tax*« on Television Names drawn this week at taxes during the session, to elimi Nyssa stake MIA is sponsoring I appeared on the "Let’s Face Nyssa Bank Days event wer* nate the necessity to reassemble a Sweetheart ball to be held at It” television program Wednes Host Family Needed Dale Schneider, 613 North Sixth in Salem if any tax proposal is 9 o’clock Friday evening in the day evening in Portland together For Exchange Student street, $175 jackpot: Raymond turned down, or should the legis Nyssa stake house, it has been with Senator Pearson. We debat Sager, 17 North Ninth street, lature complete its duties on sche announced by Mrs Frank Skeen. According to Mr*. Paul H oum . ed the respective merits of the $10 second award: and Melvin dule and await a decision by the chairman of the AFS housing During intermission a floor “sales tax,” "net receipts tax” and Spits*- rout* L Ontario, third voters? committee, a boat family is show will be presented, at which all the other tax programs that Therefore, it appears to be a time tribute will be paid to some pri** of $5. needed for the 1963-64 foreign | are being advocated. ( Jackpot prise will advance to choice between a special election of the oldest sweethearts in the I SCHOOL PATROL HONORS last month want to Larry Wilson and exchange student. $200 next Tuesday afternoon. and a special session. If the peo stake, Mrs Skeen said. Special Peggy Moore. Larry, »on of Mr. and Mr*. Bill Wilion, was named We were in disagreement on| Any family interested in host Thi« i* th* first time since Dec. ple turn down the tax proposals, music and dance numbers will patrol officer. Peggy i* a daughter of Mr. and Mr*. Ton. Moore and j several aspects, but the simple i ing an exchange student should 18 that high pris* has reached it would then become necessary also be presented. was given honor* a* patrolman of th* month. Both ar* sixth grad* I fact seems to be that our economy contact Mrs. House at 372-3417. the maximum amount. | is not keeping abreast of the | (Continued on Page 7) students in Mrs. Mary Halt's class room. —Staff Photo. The public is invited to attend. I Long-Time Sugar - Know Your Faculty w £ t R In Early Summer L. Gonyer Retires After Many Years In Sugar Industry Variety of Tax Measures Considered Al Salem; Referral io Voters Predicted I Sen. Yturri Sees Recurring Problems Facing Sessions of State Legislature SvhooiPairolmen Honored