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THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1963 THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL. NYSSA. OREGON Experiment Station Superintendent Navyman B. Conant Develops World's First Hybrid Onion The worlds first hybrid onion derived entirely from Yel SMORGASBORD SCHEDULED SATURDAY AT EAGLES HALL A smorgasbord and dancing will highlight activities at the Eagles hall Saturday evening, it has been announced by officers. Dinner will be served from 7 until , 9:30. Dance music will be by Ralph Fry and his band. I low Sweet Spanish inbreds was announced this week by the Parma branch of the University of Idaho Agricultural Ex periment station. The name is E’l Capitan. DeLance Franklin, station superintendent who developed e onion, said it has high-yielding capacity and good storage quality. Onion seed producers»- —-------- ------------- — J1?'1 obtained parent seed of standing need for a Yellow Sweet generation hybrid Spanish hybrid having all the desirable characteristics of the variety with few of its defects. seed should be available to grow It meets this requirement by hav ers by the 1965 season, Franklin ing __ few “doubles,” “bolters” or said. A general supply is expect- scallions. ” Trials indicate con - —------- ----- i “ ------------ ed by 1967. siderable resistance to pink root— El Capitan is adapted to west- an ailment that troubles many ern areas where Spanish onions onions. are most commonly grown—Colo Trials Indicate Superiority rado, Idaho and Oregon. Performance of El Capitan in The announcement said the new onion is intended to fill a long- three years of trials at Parma and one year at Greeley, Colo., indi cates superiority to open-pollin ated Yellow Sweet Spanish strains in total yield, yield of U. S. No. 1 quality and percentage of bulbs I larger than three inches in dia- meter. At - Parma in 1961, El — Capitan By Joe Estrada --- -................. —*> — -»-*•—• Recently I read an article in the Nyssa Gate City Journal about acre, compared with 1070 bags of Bronze Perfection and 986 for a! the All-American club in the jun Yellow Sweet Spanish onion. ior high school. During the two previous years, El I would like to let people know Capitan had greater yield than that the senior high has a Spanish Fiesta, another onion developed club, too. It is called ‘Los Com at Parma, and then open-pollin pañeros” which means “The Com ated Sweet Spanish varieties. In panions.” This club was organ 1959, El Capitan averaged 1600 ized the second semester of last bags. year and has about 25 members. Similar yield advantages in The requirement for membership comparison with other varieties is the ability to speak Spanish or | to be enrolled in a Spanish class were obtained at Greeley where We have two regular meetings j the work was conducted by the each month, one on the last United States Department of Ag Thursday of the month. One of riculture. them is an after school meeting New Variety Described and the other is a night session. El Capitan varies in shape from Purpose of the club is to pro- i a full to a slightly flattened globe. mote interest in Spanish, the The outer scales, which are yel Spanish - speaking countries and low with a reddish tinge, adhere to further participation in all the 1 well to the bulb after long stor activities planned and approved age. Although multiple growing by club members and officers. points develop, doubling of the At Christmas time we had a bulb does not occur often enough party with a piñata. We sang to affect grade and shape because Spanish Christmas carols, ex the growing points are usually changed gifts and had some Span surrounded by several layers of ish refreshments. We also had a fleshy scales. panel discussion on the Christmas One of the onions from which customs of Spanish countries. El Capitan was produced was de Rosa Alvarez told about Yule ac veloped by H. G. Peckham of tivities in Chile. Wilder. This inbred was selected Have Spanish Programs at the Parma station. The other We have had a number of pro was developed from the Utah grams on Spanish-speaking coun strain of Yellow Sweet Spanish tries—Miss Poulton showed pic at the same station. Both inbreds tures of her trip to Spain, Mrs. showed desirable characteristics Witty of her trip to Mexico and that have been carried over in El Billy Hammon showed films on Capitan. South America. Last year Leila Alampay talked on the Spanish CLUB SEES JUDGING FILM; background of the Philippine Is- j GIVES PARK PICNIC TABLE At the April 9 meeting of the lands and Rosa Alvarez discuss Adrian Livestock 4-H club, it was ed Chile this year. At meetings the members some announced that E. M. Hauser times prepare and give special I would be present at the meeting reports on some Spanish-speaking planned April 16 to show some nation. Also, in one meeting we films on judging animals. had a humorous impersonation of ! Dallas Chaney stated that the Fidel Castro on a supposed visit1 picnic table was ready. It will be to the United States. Castro was donated to the Adrian park. Joe Hite gave a report on swine; played by Joe Estrada and the governor was played by Tone ■ Laura Mackey, beef; Teresa Top- liff and Danny Cutler reported on Wahlert. Mr. and Mrs. Irl Nolen were County Government day. —Jane Timmerman, Reporter special guests one night and took some movies of the club’s skit which were shown at a later ¡ GUESTS IN JACKSON HOME Mr. and Mrs. Gene Patterson meeting. Los Compañeros officers this and family of Bend were Sunday »year are Mrs. Bonita Witty, ad guests in the Wilton Jackson viser; Joe Estrada, president; Vir home. The Pattersons were en ginia Montoya, vice president; Joe route to their home after spend Grijalva, treasurer; Hazel Dillon, ing Easter in Nampa. Bunt Dan secretary; and Kathy Farmer, iels of Madras was also a Sunday program chairman. ’ visitor in the Jackson home. SUNDAY DINNER GUESTS Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Malloy were Sunday dinner guests of their son-in-law and daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Chet Bowns and family. fr.ir^ from the Parma station. A small amount of El Capitan I NHS Spanish Club Activities Told By Nyssa Student BILLY CONANT . . . Arrives Home on Leave ♦ • Kingman Kolony—Seaman Ap prentice Billy Conant arrived by plane last Thursday evening at the Boise air terminal from the San Diego Naval base where he had been stationed for the past several months. He was met by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Willis Conant, and will spend a 14-day leave with them before flying to Key West. Fla, where he will attend fleet sonar school for six months. A family dinner was served Sunday at the parental home. In addition to Billy, guests included Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Brown and family, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Conant and family of Mountain Home, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Stacy and Teresa Kay of Parma and Bob Mondy of Caldwell. Afternoon visitors and evening dinner guests were Mr. and Mrs. Bob Stednitz and Lola, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Barnett and boys of Boise. The ladies are nieces of Willis Conant. t. Í í \ í ■>•>« • ▼ *• iS X ■ J ■ ■rv .. - PORK STEAK I «¿JS X It :W. St I sa MONEY-SAVER COUPON LEAN PORK SELECT PORK RAY'S —LARGE lVz-LB. 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If a loss was application of the law.) >. W i 'Begin Now to Maintain Tax Records' Is Advice Given by Oregon State Bar Plans for the annual bridge-pi- nochle party were discussed at the regular meeting of Women’s council, Malheur County Chapter of the National Association of Real Estate Boards, held April 9 j at Palomino cafe in Ontario. Purpose of the party is to help provide funds for a business scho larship which the Women's coun cil gives each year to a deserving senior girl from Nyssa, Vale or Ontario. An evening of cards, entertain ment and dessert is being planned and the public will be invited. President Nell Christiansen pre sided at the meeting and ap pointed the following committees: bridge, Jen Taylor; pinochle. Shir ley Little; prizes, Dorothea Ches ter; tickets, Clarice Johnson and Ruth Cunningham; entertain ment, Nell Christiansen; decora tions, Doris Clausen. According to Shirley A. 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