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.
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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
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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.
Everyone ... all Pollywogs
. . . appearing before the Royal
Judge was pronounced guilty
. . . of being a PoUywog.
By the time the trials were
over, every Pollywog had visit
ed the Royal Barber for a hair
cut. kissed the Royal Baby, been
treated by the Royal Doctor (a
dose of bad-tasting concoction)
and bathed in the Royal Bath
of salt water.
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VISIT IN IDAHO, UTAH
Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. For-
bess spent several days last week
in Malad, Idaho, visiting her fath
er, Evan J. Evans, who is hospi
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Navyman Steven Patterson Witnesses
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