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THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL, NYSSA, OREGON THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1963 Rural Youths Should Attend College According to Bulletin Issued at OSU More young people from the rural areas of America should be going to college. And "individual genius” must not be lost or submerged in the large scale, team-type research programs under way in America today, the president of the American Society of Ani mal Science emphasized this week at Oregon State university. ♦ Dr. L. E. Hanson of the Uni o f Minnesota noted Airman G. Price versity that only about half as many are graduated each Arrives on Leave students year as are needed to fill posi From California tions in agriculture and indus tries related to agriculture. For many of these employment opportunities, a rural background is a distinct asset, he observed. However, the percentage of stu- dents going on to college from rural areas is about half that from metropolitan areas. By Roxy Ritchie BUENA VISTA—Airman Sec ond Class Gary Price is home on 1 leave from Travis Air Force base in California. He flew to Boise ' and took a bus to Nyssa. He ar rived Wednesday evening, Aug. 21 at the home of his parents, Survey Shows Small Percentage Mr. and Mrs. John Price. A 1961 Minnesota survey of i Pamela and Melodie Bullock high school youths showed that spent from Friday morning until only 28 percent of rural farm j Saturday morning at the home of youths were intending to enroll I Mr. and Mrs. John Price and in college, compared to 43 per- j family. They are daughters of cent for non-farm, non-metropoli- the Rev. and Mrs. John Bullock tan youths and 56 percent for metropolitan youths, Hanson re- of Nyssa Nazarene church. ported. Mr. and Mrs. Mike Myers of The net result is a terrible loss Broken Bow, Neb., were last Thursday overnight guests of Mr. to the individual and society, and Mrs. John Price and family. Hanson insisted. He urged mem They are Price’s uncle and aunt. bers of the society to help stimu late interest in higher education Mr. and Mrs. Ed Price, Mrs. among farm youths. Bob Sweeney and children were Hanson’s address came at the Sunday afternoon visitors at the end of the society’s 55th annual John Price home. meeting in Corvallis. It was the Attend Sunday Party first time that the group had met Mr. and Mrs. Harold Dail and outside of Chicago since 1920. Dr. Clair Terrill, U. S. Depart family attended open house in Big Bend Sunday in honor of ment o f Agriculture research her grandmother, Mrs. William worker at Beltsville, Md., was Stradley on her 85th birthday an elected to succeed Hanson as president. niversary. Research in America has grown Mr. and Mrs. Bob Ewell are visiting at the home of her par tremendously in the past 10 years ents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Stephen. but “germs of problems” exist They will be here about a week which could become serious “if we are not alert to them,” Han before going to South Dakota. The Roger Van Pelt family of son cautioned. Central City, Neb., has been vis Scientists Show Concern iting the Stephen families in this Scientists are most concerned area. about the possible loss of, or fail Mr. and Mrs. Bob Ewell, Peter ure to recognize and develop, the and Ruthie Stephen were Sunday individual genius in our large, dinner guests of their grandmo highly organized research pro ther, Mrs. Martha Norland in jects that have sharply defined Apple Valley. goals, he said. Mr. and Mrs. Don MacArthur The system commonly used by and Homer of Boise were Sunday agencies in granting funds to in afternoon guests of Mrs. Esther dividual scientists instead of to Stephen. the institutions in which they are Mrs. Bob Ewell and Mrs. Gene staff members has had the effect Stephen were Saturday evening in some cases of “eroding univer guests at the home of Mrs. Esther sity responsibility and shifting Stephen. Mr. and Mrs. Roger Van faculty loyalty away from the in Pelt were also recent guests in stitution and toward the agency,” the Stephen home. he also noted. Arrives From California Larry SteDhen, who has been staying i n California, arrived home Thursday morning, He has been visiting his brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Roger Stephen. Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Tanner went to Ontario Saturday even ing to visit her sister, Mrs. Pratt of Beaverton. The Tanners’ son, Rollo, was lucky enough last week to bag an antelope. Mrs. Tanner went to Emmett Aug. 21 to visit her mother, Mrs. Jessie Pierson. Mr. and Mrs. Claude Day were Sunday dinner guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Silas Hoff man. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Maze of Nyssa and Mr. and Mrs. Troy Myers of Callaway, Neb., were guests last Thursday at the home of Mr. and Mrs Silas Hoffman. Mr. and Mrs. Hoffman were re cent visitors at the Maze home. Local Group Attends Ketchum Celebration BOISEANS VISIT HERE Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Eldredge of Boise were Sunday visitors at A group of Owyhee Riding club the home of Mr. and Mrs. Tom members and friends attended Eldredge. the Wagon Days celebration in The historical parade was in Ketchum during the weekend. commemoration of the freight Highlights of the parade in- I line days of the 1880’s and all i eluded seeing George Fleming of entries were horse, man or steam- Wood River valley drive a 16- powered. horse team with the jerk - line The local group also viewed a method. It is reported that he display of mining town paintings is one of few men who can guide by Rex Painter. a 16-horse outfit by this method. The Nyssans took pickup camp Another unusual feature of the ers and house trailers and camp parade was the wedding scene ed Friday night on Wood river in which Roberta L. Barns be near Ketchum. Returning home came the bride of Gordon Hoop via Stanley Basin, they camped er. This is the first year that an Saturday night on Trap creek actual wedding has been per-I where the salmon were running. formed. They returned home Sunday. V J < Yr Y I / Jr Steven L. Patterson, interior communications electrician fire man, USN, son of Mrs. Ileen Patterson of route 1, Nyssa, serving aboard the destroyer USS Radford, recently saw a number of Pollywogs become Shellbacks in shipboard cere monies conducted by King Nep tune and his Royal Court. Although the Pollywogs out numbered the Shellbacks by considerable odds, by sunset all Pollywogs aboard the Radford had been forced to join the Shellbacks in accordance with the tradition of the U. S. Navy »1 Í Franks HAMS BUNS HOT DOG or HAMBURGER Steps are being taken now which can restore balance and strengthen university responsibi lity and control over its activities, he indicated. More than 700 scientists from throughout the United States and Canada attended the national meeting. The Oregon State uni versity Department of Animal Science was host. Dr James Old field of OSU is secretary-treasur er of the 2600-member society. TAKE CAMPING TRIP Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Lowe and Patty, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Cham berlain and family and Bill Lowe returned last Thursday afternoon from a week’s camping trip to Logan Valley. Mr. and Mrs. Lowe and Patty left Friday evening to take Carolyn Lowe and Linda Wilson to McCall to join other members of Job’s Daughters who were spending the weekend there. The Lowes returned home Sun day afternoon. VISIT IN HOOPER HOME Mrs. Newell Baker of Bend and daughter, Rosella of Salt Lake, Mr. and Mrs. Blaine Hooper and daughters of Boise were Sunday visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Hooper. BALD? RECEDING? and the laws of King Neptune. The memorable ceremonies were conducted July 14 when the Radford, in company with two other units of Destroyer Di vision 252. crossed the equator. For the uninitiated, in the ways of the sea, "Pollywogs" are sea men crossing the line for the first time. "Shellbacks," on the other hand, are "old salts" who have crossed it before. Decked in colorful costumes made of everything from dyed bed sheets to colored signal flags. King Neptune and the Royal Court (composed of Shell- backs) passed judgment on the renegades. AU Shellbacks were equipped with paddles; some manned fire ho«es to "assist" the many Pollywogs in getting through the initiation. 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