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
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athlete. With present national emphasis on physical
lines*, he seems to be doing hi* »hare. Long with hi* wife. Angela.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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