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Nyssa Gate City Journal
VOLUME LVIII
The Sugar City
THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL, NYSSA, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1963
10 Cents Per Copy
NUMBER 31
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Gov. Mark Hatfield to Give Address
At Dedication of Bully Creek Dam
West of Vale on Saturday, August 10
Thv Journal Staff
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Beet Growers Receive $550,000 Exira
As Result of Higher Price for Sugar;
Total Could Be $1 Million Over 1961
Other Dignitaries to Appear on Program
Featuring Water Show, Free Beef Barbecue
Prospects Bright for This Year's Harvest;
Crop Good, Same Acreage, Price Favorable
More than 30 years of planning and work will reach a cli
max Saturday, Aug. 10, as the Bully Creek dam near Vale will
be officially dedicated in ceremonies at the dam site.
A full day of activities, highlighted with the appearance
of state and national dignitaries, will be staged with invita
tions extended to all persons in Treasure Valley.
♦ The dedication will start at
10:30 a.m. with the singing of
the National Anthem. Gover
nor Mark O. Hatfield will give
| the welcoming address.
..The Amalagamated Sugar company mailed checks totaling
$550,000 to area beet growers Friday. This was based on 75
cents per ton delivered to the factory in 1962 and resulted
from the much-higher-than-usual world price of refined su^ar.
Normally growers get an initial payment shortly after'de
livery of beets, another one in May and the final adjusted
figure in October after the*
previous crop has been sold
and the price averaged out
over the 12 months.
Nyssan Receives
Top Seoul Badge Appearing on the honor plat-
form will be Congressman Al Ull
Al Award Dinner I man;
Senators Maurine Neuber
ger and Wayne Morse; Harold T.
Boy Scouts of troops 419 and
450, together with their parents,
met last Thursday evening for
their annual award banquet serv
ed at the Nyssa school cafetorium.
Victor Haburchak, Jr., received
an Eagle badge, the highest award
to be given in the scouting pro
gram. The badge was presented
by Lewis Thorne of Nampa and
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Nelson, regional director for the
Bureau of Reclamation; Gilbert
A. Stamm, chief of irrigation and
land use for the Bureau of Rec
lamation; Oregon Secretary of
State Howard Appling; State
Senator Anthony Yturri and State
Representative Robert F. Smith.
Dedication of the dam will be
given by Floyd E. Dominy, com-
missioner of reclamation.
Engineer to Present History
Potato Harvesting
This year from the amount of
sugar already sold at higher prices Under Way; Grain
the company made the additional
payment, and it is expected that Nearly Completed
the final payment will be higher
MEMBERS OF THE JOURNAL STAFF are shown
with the building that housed the publication 50
years ago. Left to right, the men are Harry Brown,
Win Brown and a man whose family name was
Gregg. Britt Nedry, who wrote the story accom
panying this picture was unable to locate anyone
who remembered his given name and asks the
question, "Can anyone identify him?" This pio
neer photo, as well as those appearing in the past
few issues of the Journal were taken from a col
lection owned by Bob Thompson. He, too, is a
member of one of Nyssa's pioneer families as
the Thompsons were ranchers, businessmen and
among those who helped develop Malheur county.
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than usual. In 1961 the initial
payment was $9.10, the May pay
ment 50 cents and the final Octo
ber one, $1.51. Payments have
been made on the 1962 crop as
follows, $9.25 initial payment, 75
cents in may and this new July
payment of 75 cents.
With prices leveling off some
what, due to good reports on the
1963 cane and beet crops, the
market is still strong and growers
could well get more than $1 mil
lion more for the 1962 than the
1961 crop.
Total payments of $7,660,299 on
the 1962 crop already exceed the
total made in full for the 1961
crop. Total for that year was $7,-
424,430.
Potato shipments from Malheur
county have begun while the har
vest of small grain is nearing
completion.
Checks with the Nyssa Elevator
and Farmers Feed and Seed Wed
nesday show that the harvest of
small grain will probably be over
next week. Rulon Trost, manager
at Farmers, said the quality of
wheat, oats and barley was very
good this year and that as far as
he had been able to determine
yields were near the same as last
year.
Orville Kime, who was con-
struction engineer for the dam
construction, will give a history
Potatoes Maturing Slowly
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of the project. Kime began his
Some of the sheds made their
career with the bureau when he
first runs of the season last week
came to work on the early con
but maturity has been slowed by
struction of the Vale project in
cool weather and only 57 cars had
1927. He ended his career after
been shipped from the county
Crop Prospocts Appear Good
34 years of service this year, again
through Tuesday of this week.
working on the Vale project’s
Nyssa area sugar beets look
J. C. Watson company, Lynn
Bully Creek extension. He is now
The Malheur County Republican good now and prospects for an Josephson and Western Idaho
retired and living in Picabo,
Central committee, in effect, re average, or better, yield are bright
have all made runs but
Idaho.
Brown's Story of 1915 Earthquake Termed jected Nelson Rockefeller as a at this time, according to Henry Growers
will not go on full schedule until
candidate for the U. S. Zobell, local manager. He said next week. Muir-Roberts expects
A free beef barbecue lunch will
Masterpiece of Humor, Quaint Expression : possible
presidency and at the same meet- acreage is about the same as last to start the latter part of the week
be served to all persons at the
By BRITT NEDRY
I ing concluded that Senator Barry year.
site at noon.
and be using full crews early next
This
issue
of
the
Gate
City
Journal
is
Volume
58,
Number
Goldwater enjoys tremendous
week. Simplot’s new building and
Demonstrations of water skiing
machinery are about ready for
and boat racing will be featured 31; that means the 58th year and the 31st issue of 1963. The support from both Republicans Mechanical Courses
operation. They have hauled some
I in a water show to be presented numbers go back to 1905 and on to 58 years of continuous and Democrats.
The information reached the Scheduled at College early spuds to Caldwell for pro
at 1 p.m. Following the show the publication. This reporter met the Browns in August, 1914,
docks and water will be turned when he arrived in Nyssa with a teaching contract, upon the Journal as copies of two letters
Carl Devin, new director of vo cessing.
over to private water sports en- recommendation of R. J. Davis, a former principal of Nyssa dated July 24, signed by Aranka cational - technical education at Quality and Price Good
| Trenkel, secretary of the local
l thusiasts for the remainder of schools and a fine scholarly*
Treasure Valley Community col
Managers of the Nyssa plants
| committee, and resulted from ac-
the day.
gentleman.
lege, has announced the first I
I tion taken at the regular meeting
I report the quality and price being
vocational curriculum to be of
The committee in charge of the
This sketch, then, starts
j very good on the Early Gems now
(July 18, 1963, in Vale.
fered at the college. The course
observance reports that the roads with Volume 9 (1914) of the
The resolution adopted concern
going to market. Tom Eldredge,
work
be offered this fall will
and grounds will be graded and Gate City Journal.
ing Rockefeller read, "Be it re be a mechanical curriculum with ' manager of J. C. Watson, said
watered and will be in excellent
Harry Brown set the type by
solved, that it would be in the
prices paid to growers for Early
options of either industrial or ag
VICTOR HABURCHAK, Sr., is condition for visitors.
hand, with Win pitching in on the
best interest*: of the U. S. of Am ricultural mechanics.
I Gems were $2.75 to $2.85 for
shown pinning an Eagle badge Background of Project Given
final hours to get the paper to
I number ones and about $1 less for
erica and of the Republican party
on the Boy Scout uniform of his
This two-year program will lead number twos.
press, which was hand-operated
for
Governor
Rockefeller
to
de
The
idea
of
a
dam
to
be
con
Nearly 200 4-H members, lead
son, Victor, Jr. The award was
so the grinding out of the sheets
cide not to submit himself as a to an associate of science degree.
Watson’s manager estimated the
presented to the young Nyssan structed on Bully creek was first on a hot summer day was an or ers and parents attended the an candidate for the Republican no At the present time a study com acreage down about 15 percent
conceived
in
the
early
1930
’
s
when
nual 4-H livestock field day at
last Thursday evening when
deal requiring hard work and in
mination for the office of Presi mittee, made up of area and com from last year in the area from
munity leaders, is assisting Devin Weiser to Nampa.
members of troops 419 and 450, water rights for storage were first exhaustible energy. However, the Malheur county fairgrounds last dent of the U. S. of America.”
obtained
by
the
Vale
Irrigation
Thursday, July 25.
together with their parents, met
in the details of course offerings
files
show
clear
print
and
good
(The
letter
was
addressed
to
Maylin Maxfield, manager of
Featured at this event were Rockefeller with copies to the for this vocational curriculum.
for their banquet at the school district and surveys were started composition.
Muir-Roberts, said he had receiv
by
the
Bureau
of
Reclamation.
demonstrations o n fitting and state committee and the press of
cafetorium. The Eagle badge is
When announcing this vocation ed enough applications for jobs
showing the various types of live Malheur county.)
the highest award given in the Work bogged down and World Win Writes "Masterpiece"
curriculum, Devin noted that the in the sheds to man five full
War
II
came
along,
delaying
the
Win Brown was an excellent stock.
Scouting program.
The letter concerning Goldwater college will also expand its offer crews. The majority were unem
authorization and construction of journalist of the old school, a bril
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John Tschirgi of Fruitland and was addressed to the Oregon ing of adult-occupational centered ployed migrants, he said.
the dam.
liant writer and dedicated news Norman Ireland of Cairo showed Draft - Goldwater committee in courses in the fields of general
pinned onto the shirt of the reci
Early indications are that the
About 1956, a committee again paperman. His report on an earth 4-H members how to fit and show Portland and was in response to education, business education, onion crop will also bring good
pient by his father, Victor Habur
chak, Sr. Twenty-one merit bad began pushing for establishment quake that hit Nyssa late on a beef animals. Lew Johnson of an inquiry as to what strength he homemaking and agriculture.
prices this year, the packers said.
ges must be earned before the top of the dam for flood control and Saturday night in 1915, I believe, Vale demonstrated the proper me might carry in the county as a
awatd is given, according to Tom additional irrigation water in the as Win was leaning against a tree, thods of fitting and showing dairy possible candidate for the presi
Nishitani, scoutmaster of troop Vale area. It was approved in an was a masterpiece of humor and animals.
dency.
419 of which Haburchak is a election Jan. 6, 1961, and work quaint expression.
Beth Sather of Cairo put on the
began
last
spring.
The
dam
was
member.
We read with great interest the sheep demonstrations and Terry TOASTMASTERS ADJOURN
Other awards presented to completed a year ahead of sched issue of August 27, 1914, carrying Tallman o f Ridgeview showed FOR MONTH'S VACATION
members of troop 419 included ule and is storing water this irri an item about our arrival in town, swine club members how to pre
Following their Wednesday
The Red Cross bloodmobile will pay its next semi-annual
second class pins to Billy Kouns, gation season. The network of which event was a short para pare their animals.
morning meeting, Nyssa Toast visit to Nyssa Wednesday, Aug. 7, according to Dr. David W.
Otto Heider, Steve Parker, Don
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graph but of great importance to
Program for the field day be masters adjourned until Sept. 11
ald Söderström and Steve Wilson.
this writer. School was scheduled gan with a swim in the Ontario when they will resume their Sarazin, chairman and member of the sponsoring Jaycees.
The drawing will be held between the hours of 12 noon
Bruce Jackson, Reid Saito and
to start in late September, so he pool, followed by a picnic lunch weekly sessions.
and
6 p.m. in the multi-purpose room at the Nyssa primary
Söderström received first class
was lucky to get a job as checker in the Ontario Lions park. The
Don Bates served as toastmas
pins.
in a prune packing shed, an easy swim and free ice cream were ter. Don Bowers, topic master, school building. Quota for the Nyssa-Adrian area is again set
Star awards went to Pat Sav-
assignment, paying $2.25 per day sponsored by the Ontario Cham selected a novelty topic for five- at 200 pints. According to re-*——---------------------------------
age, Tom Stringer, Dirk Tibbets
in wages.
corded figures, last year’s Aug. donors every half hour. Cards
ber of Commerce.
minute talks.
' and Stuart Henigson. Receiving
Nearly everybody in the area
28 drawing fell short of the will be mailed to previous donors,
merit badges were Bruce Sarazin,
worked in the fruit packing in
quota by 12 pints. On Jan. 4 indicating appointment times.
Larry Hirai, David Nishitani,
dustry—a big thing in those days.
of this year there was a short On behalf of those who have or
The Nyssa Chamber of Com The hay fields also gave extensive
Henigson, Haburchak and Savage.
will be administered the body
age
of 11 units.
Several members of troop 450, merce endorsed use of north city summer employment.
Dr. Sarazin has reported that fluid or one of its derivatives, the
park
for
Baseball-for-Kids
at
the
whose scoutmaster is Virgil Sew
Advertisements in these issues
during the past six months, a total Journal joins the Jaycees in urg
ard, received second class pins. Wednesday noon meeting. City featured Hart, Schafner and Marx
of 89 pints of blood have been ing all able area residents to re
The boys are Dan Greig, David Manager Art Colby said it was suits for $18 at L. Speer’s store
administered to area residents. port to the designated location
Wilson, Bob Sanders, Roger Mof- impossible to maintain a park that and meals for 25 cents at the Ho
Also given have been 744 cc’s of next Wednesday afternoon. A
fis and Bryce Hight. A star award was used for baseball and it tel Western.
thorough examination is given to
gamma globulin.
should be for one or the other
was presented to Roy Seiber.
each
donor in advance and from
Reporter Meets "True Beauty"
The Nyssa physician says it
and not for both.
actual experience, previous don
An issue in October carries a
takes one pint of blood to derive
The discussion followed a reso
ors know that it does no physical
IDAHO POWER EMPLOYEES
social item about a card party at
2 cc’s of gamma globulin. Actual
lution
adopted
by
Lions
club
to
harm.
HAVE PICNIC IN PAYETTE
the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. Boy
comparison reveals that in the
Mentally, the feeling is good as
Idaho Power company em name the north park and that at
dell. It was at this occasion that
past six months, residents of the
a donor can say to himself, "f
ployees and their families met the swimming pool and designate
area have donated 189 pints of
we met Elizabeth Boydell and her
gave so that a relative, neighbor
Monday evening in a Payette their use so that necessary plan sisters, Eva and Ethelwyn. In the
the life-saving fluid, but 461 have
ning
could
be
done
to
beautify
or friend might live or be cured
park for their annual summer pic
been administered locally.
language of the Bard of Avon, “I
of some serious illness.”
nic. Representing the local office them.
ne’er saw true beauty until that
Other Neceetary Derivatives
Colby said that Nyssa had more
were Mr. and Mrs. Paul Penrod,
night.”
Mr. and Mrs. Emil Wohlcke, Mr. acreage in parks than was con
In addition to this total, there
The charming Boydell home
Governor to Speak
and Mrs. Dale Bingman and Bob, sidered necessary for a city this and the gracious entertainment
are serums derived from blood
Mr. and Mrs Harvey Easton and size and that since the north park shown to all was an attraction for
which must be administered on At Republican Picnic
had never been developed and no
occasion by local physicians or the
Governor Mark Hatfield will
family.
people of the town. Mr. and Mrs.
sanitation facilities erected, i t
hospital staff.
be main speaker al the annual
J. Boydell (Joe and Harriet) came
be sold as building sires if
The Nyssa Jaycees have taken Republican picnic io be held
to Nyssa from Canada; Mrs. Boy
Quinowski to Appear could
it were not to be used. But with
over the local blood program as a Friday evening, Aug. 9, at Lions
dell was the sister of the Ward
On TV Trice Is Right' an expanding baseball program brothers, prominent ranchers and
part of their “Life Line” activi park in Ontario. The picnic sup
per will be served from 7 until
According io word received it was felt that it should be kept stockmen of Eastern Oregon. Any
ties.
in Nyssa, Chick Quinowski will and used.
history of those days would in
Assisting with the drawing next, 8:15 o'clock with a program
Walt Ford displayed a pattern clude the names of these families THIS PHOTO WILL ACQUAINT area residents with the family of Wednesday will be a number of I scheduled to begin at 8:30. Rob
be seen on the TV show. The
Price Is Right," at 9 aun. Fri for the road sign to be erected and their influence in the devel Lynn Gray who assumed duties as pro-assistant cashier on May 20 volunteer workers. Among them ! ert Humphreys will serve as
master of ceremonies.
day over Boise's KTVB, chan near Cairo junction and said the I opment of the area.
at the Nyssa branch of the First National Bank of Oregon. His wife, will be committee chairmen, Mrs
Committee heads appointed
drive
for
funds
was
progressing
j
nel 7.
Moreover, the young "profes Anna; daughter, Melinda, age 2l/t. and son. Phillip, 6 weeks old, E. D. Michaelson, receptionists
“O.K.”
It has been reported that he
sor” and the young doctor, J. J. joined him on June 30. They are residing on Gem avenue in the and typists; Mrs. Beth Ellis, nur- j by Louis Weitstein. Malheur
county Republican chairman,
Musical numbers were given by Sarazin, couldn’t stay away from
appeared earlier, won $2,100 in
house formerly occupied by the Royce Irby family and came to ses; and Mrs. Jake Fischer, nurses’ |
include Bob Dye, lights and
merchandise and the Friday ap Carol Ann Booth, Ellen and Joyce this charming place — ending up
Nyssa from Lakeview. The Grays attend the Methodist church. aides. These ladies are in charge speaker system; Mrs. Max Tag
pearance wi.. be a taped record Piercy of Apple Valley. Carol with two social items in 1916, de
of
securing
others
to
aid
during
j
gart, table service; Gary Good
Ann and Ellen played accordion scribing the weddings of Eliza Lynn was graduated from high school at Lakeview and spent four the bloodmobile’s visitation.
ing of that program.
years in the engineering division of the U.S. Air Force, stationed
fellow, location and tables.
Quinowski, Nyssa high school solos, while Joyce sang “On beth and Ethelwyn.
at Travis base near Englewood, Calif. Anna is a graduate of the Plan 20 Donor* Each Half Hour
Plates, table service, rolls,
instructor and basketball coach, Mockingbird Hill,” accompanied
Chico, Calif., high school. Gray says his favorite hobbies are fish
Dr Sarazin and Dr. L. A. Maul- ! butter, ice cream, coffee and
together with his family, has by her sister, Ellen. They then Hone Named After General
1014 was an eventful year in ing, deer hunting, coin collecting and searching for arrowheads. ding will be attending physicians. punch will be provided by the
been in Washington. D.C., and invited all to attend the Ft. Boise
The blood chairman has stated Malheur County Republican
New York City attending school Days celebration Aug. 15-17 in world history as the guns of Au- He has about 1500 arrowheads in his present collection.
—Staff Photo.
Parma.
that the group hopes to take 20 Central committee.
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this summer.
Writer Reflects on Early-Day Issues Goldwater 'Yes/
Of Gate City Journal; Recalls Method Rockefeller 'No/
Says County GOP
of Printing; Names Former Publishers
Annual Livestock
Demonstrations
Draw 200 4-H'ers
Able Area Residents Urged io Donale
Blood al August 7 Drawing in Nyssa
C of C Endorses
Use of North Park
As Baseball Field
Nynsa Newcomers