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THURSDAY, JULY 25. 1963 THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL. NYSSA. OREGON Rosa Alvarez Calls Coach Leo Long Receives Recognition From New York City In California for Sports Achievements (Editorial Note: The following article from San Jose Mercury- News should be of interest to friend* of Leo Long, former Nys*a ..X® s athlete. With present national emphasis on physical lines*, he seems to be doing hi* »hare. Long with hi* wife. Angela. _ Pr °i O. Petersons of Nyssa, and their three sons left omia last month for Cordoba. Argentina, where he is initiating f a recreation program for 7500 employees of a Kaiser auiotno- ' bile plant. ) OSU Students Mix Earning, Learning To Realize $194,631 LOS ALTOS—A track coach who views his job as an “an nual challenge” is taking on a new challenge in Argentina. Jobs arranged through the Stu dent Employment service made Leo, Long, in his seventh year $194,631 available to students ear as coach at Los Altos High, will ning their way through Oregon leave this week io set up—trom State university last year. scratch—a complete physical edu Mrs. Rose Duthie is in charge cation program for a private high of the Student Employment ser school and a recreation program vice, located in Commerce hall, for employees of a Kaiser Corp, which registers students wanting auto plant in Cordova, Argentina. and needing part or full-time Long will also teach social stu work. dies at the Arguello Academy, a Last year, 2,490 men and 520 high school for Kaiser employees’ women signed up for work. Mini children, where he will establish mum pay is from $1.25 to $1.50 a P.E. program. His wife, Angela, an hour, depending on the type will teach in a grade school there. of job. Seated in his office with win Some of the jobs secured by dows opening onto the gym and men included concrete work, tu the outdoor basketball courts, toring, laboratory work, fry cook, Long — trim and fit from doing, surveying, farm helper, mechanic, “demonstration workouts” with i service station attendant, truck his students—explained that the driver, cafeteria worker, grocery year in Argentina will be both a | clerk, cleaning basements, piling challenge and “a great education wood, gardening and washing al opportunity." windows. He is confident he can estab Coeds worked at clerking, typ lish a good and well - rounded ing, fountain work, waitressing, recreation program for the 7500 housework, mimeographing, car Kaiser personnel at the Cordova ing for children, sewing, assisting plant. in the library, etc. What is a poor program? “One Of the $194,631 total earned by in which only a few participate,” students who secured jobs through Long says. He is going into the Mrs. Duthie’s office $106,420 came job more or less “blind” as to to students with steady jobs dur what facilities and time allot ing the school year and summer; ments are, and he anticipates $65,215 for part-time jobs during i “some problems” when he arrives the school year; and $23,016 was —but nothing that can’t be over earned as room or board in man come. aging apartments or working such Long says mere Is more of a as a houseboy. challenge in high school coaching I Everybody who registered for than in college coaching. work at the Student Employment The big difference is that a service obtained some kind of a high school coach can’t "recruit" job, Mrs. Duthie said. but has to build a program — hopefully a good one—from the students that show up at the beginning of each year. Long’s success in this is shown , by six consecutive Santa Clara Six projects in six Oregon coun Valley Athletic League champion ties were approved July 18 by the ships that have gone to Los Altos Oregon State Highway commis High during his seven years sion as part of the construction there. work authorized on the County But Long is not satsified just 1 Federal-Aid Secondary Highway to have a good team and win tro system for the 1964 fiscal year. Funds programmed for these pro phies for the trophy case in the boys’ gym. His main goal, he ex jects amounted to $522,000. plains, is “to break as many The projects are in Clatsop, national records as possible” Lake, Lane, Lincoln, Malheur and through coaching his students and Wallowa counties. thus to upgrade track and field. Work in Malheur county calls In fact. Long is confident that for grading, surfacing and oiling someday a Los Altos student of 1.9 miles of the Jordan Valley- Idaho State Line section of Broad will make it to the Olympics hurst lane, with improved align and will win, observing that ment on 0.6 mile near the Idaho some students now are poten tial Olympic material. line. Is American youth becoming1 soft? “Not our kids,” Long stated. MOVE TO LASSITER HOME Mr. and Mrs. Billy Farmer and Los Altos High gets a good cross- j four children have moved from section of students in its P. E. their house on Reece avenue to program, he explained, and most i 164 North Third street in Nyssa. of them are “not soft at all.” They recently purchased the resi “When someone projects these dence from Carl Lassiter. Farmer great theories about everyone ‘go-I works on Gamble island for Joe ing soft,’ the truth in them de Albertson. The Farmers moved pends on what group is being I to Nyssa from Meridian about a talked about,” Long said. year ago. There are a few "soft" stu dents. he said, but this has been PORTLANDERS VISIT NYSSA overemphasized and a lot can Louise King and her mother, be corrected with a good P. E. Mrs. Bogart of Portland, are visit program. ing this week with Mrs. Ethel Long cites the Los Altos pro- Wilson of Nyssa and Mrs. Bogart's gram: each day the students do daughter of Vale. about 50 side-straddle-hops, 25 push-ups, 25 sit-ups, a number of stretching exercises and specializ ed exercises and one 440-yard lap around the track. Then they be gin regular athletic activities. The results of the vigorous ex ercise program are evident in fitness tests made recently, cover ing September to June. One stu dent that could only do three push-ups in September can now do 25, while some of the better athletes can do 60. Long, 31. and the father of three boys aged five through 10 years, keeps in shape by ._________________________ . working out with the students. One of the main points of exterior coaching, he feels, is in demon ^OUSE PAI stration. “If a coach can get out and throw a discus, it is going to have more meaning to students than if he says; ‘Do as I say and not as I do’.” Long was graduated from Stan-1 ford in 1954. majoring in P. E. and social studies, and got his master’s degree the following year. Under Coach Jack Weierhau- ser, he spent two years on the same team as Bob Mathias, win ning the National Collegiate Athletic Association champion Gal. ship in 1954 and setting a num ber of other records, "most of which have been wiped out.” DON B. MOSS He lost his last record—a Stan ford javelin mark of 235-9—last year. However, he said, “Records are made to be broken.” Every year, he pointed out, school records at Los Altos are Nyssa. Oregon broken, “and I often wonder — where it will stop.” Highway Department Approves Road Work In Jordan Valley Area JULY SPECIAL ( FULLER Fuller s Outside Weather Coat In White and Colors s4.79 FIRESTONE Dealer Store Rosa Alvarez, NHS’s former Chilean exchange student called her American family, the Maylin Maxfields, Sunday from New York City. Rosa commented that she miss ed everyone in Nyssa. She asked the Maxfields to say “hello” to all her Nyssa friends. She left Monday from Miami Beach for her home in Chile. Following their year’s stay at their respective homes, .APS ex changees from throughout t h e United States gather for a bus tour of the country. After leaving from Pendleton June 29, some of the highlight ci ties on Rosa’s trip included Spo kane, Wash.; Missoula, Mont.; Yellowstone national park; Cleve land, Ohio; Chicago; Washington, D. C., and New York. Each year, the exchange stu dents stop at a city known to them as "Midway” where they gather and evaluate their year in the United States. This year the city was New Brunswick, N.J. Try the Classified Page! To Buy. Sell or Rent, 4 H CLUB TO PARTICIPATE ON FIELD DAY; SET PICNIC The July 11 meeting of Adnan Livestock club was held at the G. E. Mackey farm Main activity during the session was the judg ing of beef cattle. It was reported that a good beef animal is a broad short one. Some members attended a July 19 judging tour. Today, July 25, is field day, in conjunction with a free swimming party. On Aug. 18 a potluck picnic will be held in the Adrian park Mem bers will take their parents as guests. —Jane Timmerman, Reporter MRS. COOK HAS VISITORS Mrs. Margaret Tunney and Mrs Sylvia Palmer visited last week with the latter’s sister, Mrs. An gie Cook. Mrs. Lyda Kohl, Mrs Aden Wil son and Mrs. Cook traveled to Boise last week to see Mrs. Wil son’s brother, Earl Powell who is hospitalized there. The ladies al so visited Mrs. Palmer of Boise. Tuesday, July 16, evening din ner guests at the Reuben Harold- sen home were Mr. and Mrs. El- win Haroldsen and Christy of Boise. PAGE THREE Tuition Scholarship Awarded to Nyssan At North Park College Milk Production Decreases in Oregon Despite Having Best Pastures in U.S. Karen E. Ellis is among 29 stu dents at North Park college in Oregon’s July 1 pasture condition was rated best in the Chicago who have been awarded nation, thanks to the cool damp June weather which benefit- tuition scholarships based on aca ted the state’s milk cows, reports Mrs. Elvera Horrell, Oregon demic achievements during the State university extension agricultural economist. past school year. Oregon pasture conditions, rated at 93 percent of normal The 10 sophomore, nine junior on July 1, shared honors with Nevada as the best in the nation, and 10 senior scholarships will, apply to the 1963-64 school term, she noted from U. S. Depart-* according to announcement by ment of Agriculture reports tinued its downward trend the Carroll J. Peterson, dean of stu and other information. For! first six months of 1963, Mrs. Hor- dents. Oregon, this was three percen rell said, with production about Each award covers a tuition re tage points better »han July 1, six percent below the similar per bate ranging from 50 to 100 per 1962, and about the same as aver iod last year. Prices were off two cent. To be eligible, a student age for that date from 1957 to percent. Oregon’s 1962 milk production must have completed a minimum 1961. of eight term courses in the year Pasture conditions elsewhere in totalled approximately 1.1 billion for which the award was made. the west were spotty, with good pounds, down three percent from North Park college, founded in growth evident from Montana and 1961 and the smallest since 1925. 1891, is owned and operated by Wyoming to the Pacific coast. Fewer cows were milked last year the Evangelical Covenant Church However, eastern Colorado suf and production per cow was off a of America composed of 540 chur fered drought and pasture condi- shade, the first time in 10 years ches. Dr. Karl A. Olsson has been i tions in that area were rated at that output per cow reversed its president since 1959. 49 percent of normal, while Ari upward trend, she said. Produc Miss Ellis, daughter of Mrs. zona and New Mexico recorded tion per cow in Oregon, however, Beth Ellis of 406 King avenue in very little measurable rainfall. is the second highest on record. Nyssa, will be a junior this year. California pastures were unusual Last year, Oregon milk produc ly good during June except for ers sold 84 percent of their out the extreme south. NYSSANS DINE IN ONTARIO put to plants and dealers as whole Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Simpson milk. Such sales took only 68 per Milk Production Below 1962 and Mr. and Mrs. Willis Bertram cent of the total 10 years ago, Mrs. dined Sunday evening in Ontario. Milk production in Oregon con Horrell pointed out. EVERY PRICE m fe..J U LOWER I tkan. Lost Week! á /MM « 1 I DELICIOUS Fresh — Creamy % CREAM PUFFS fe'" \ 1sProy and WA NET ECLAIRS 5‘ B 79' "'HUE Ea. WELLS & DAVIES USDA Good & Choice it LASTS! « LEAN — SELECT CUTS BEEF POT TASTY — NEW CROP — FRESH 35. Cob Com. I 3 A 10 Lean — Tender .9 LBS. 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