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Ü. of 0. Library Eugene, Oregon e Nyssa Gate City Journal VOLUME LVI11 THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL, NYSSA. OREGON. THURSDAY. JUNE 3. 1965 The Sugar City idriini CapiurvH Slate H-HaxvbaU frorrn I lì / ! ? F x V1 XT/ I 3. 5 » r rr % ih * THESE ARE THE OREGON CLASS B BASE BALL CHAMPS of Adrian high school. Thoy re turned homo from Portland Sunday after takinq a 5 0 victory from the Siloti team. In the front row (loft to right) are Joel Price, Gone Worden. Eugene Pratt. Dick Skogan. Donald Brewer. Or- 10 Cents Per Copy a— ville Carroll. Lawrence Clucas and Isaac Mar tines. Bohind them are Norm Nelson, Timmy Tallman, Jerry Brower. Coach Roger Watts. Tim Holly. Duane Munn. Grant Pstterson and Leslie Strawn. Veryl Harrison, assistant coach, and Stewart Ward, bat boy. did not get in the picture. ♦ ♦ ♦ AHS Antelopes Take Stale Honors By Shutting Out Sidleiz in 5-0 Game * • Auto Collides With Building On Main Street Siudenls Desire Work io Finance California Trip The Nyssa high school band has been invited to present a half time show during the San Diego Chargers - Oakland Raiders pro fessional football game on Dec. 119, 1965, it is announced by Frank I Turner, NHS music instructor. The game and show are scheduled to be televised on national net- works. Turner states that the trip has been approved by Nyssa school board Tentative plans call for departure during the afternoon of Dec. 16 with return slated Dec. 20. Among activities being ar ranged for the students are an appearance at Disn-ylanri. brief visit into Mexico, tour of installa tions and ships at the U. S. Naval base in San Diego and a visit to the San Diego zoo. School officials state that the major portion of expense money will be raised by the students in dividually rather than community contributions. Each student de siring to make the trip should place $50 on deposit in the high school office on or before Oct. 1, 1965. Parents and school personnel are in the process of setting up an employment service for band members who desire summer work to finance their trip. Stu dents living within the city should contact Mrs. Lloyd Wilson and those residing in the country should call Mrs. Mark Hartley for assistance m securing work Area residents having employ ment for students should also . contact either of the above-listed women. It is requested that i checks be made payable to both the student and the Nyssa band. Members are responsible for turn- , ing checks into either Mrs. Wilson or Mrs. Hartley. If for any reason, students do not qualify for the trip, their money will be refunded. Turner concluded Potato Commission Sets Public Hearing On Proposed Budget Oregon Potato commission will hold a public hearing on its pro posed 1965-6« budget of $84.405, according to Steve Besse. The hearing is scheduled at 1 30 p.m on Wednesday, June 9. at Moore hotel. All interested persons are invited to attend The potato commission always holds its June quarterly meeting in Ontario to carry on business activities. Sam Hartley and Roy Hirai, potato growers from Nyssa, are commissioners representing this area. Besse stated that the meeting will begin at 9 a.m. with the public hearing set for 1:30. Malheur Couniy Budget Committee Submits Total of $903,977 io Court For Approval During 1965-66 Year New Mental Health Clinic Cost Accounts For Almost Half of Proposed $43,336 Raise The Malheur county budget, approved by the budget com mittee May 20, nears the $1 million mark. The $903,977 for the 1965-66 year starting July 1, 1965, is up $43,336 from that of the current year. The budget figures will be scanned by the county court - * a meeting in the court house at Vale Wednesday, June 30, at ♦ which time any person may appear to discuss any part of this document. The biggest single increase Malheur county came through shown is $20,377 for a new the long Memorial Day weekend Mental Health clinic, an expendi SENIOR CITIZENS HEAR without any loss of lives on the ture not showing in any previous COLLEGE REPRESENTATIVE A meeting of the Senior Citi highway or in any other violent budgets. Of this amount. $16.177 zens’ club was held last Friday manner, according to the Oregon is for salaries; $2,455 for service, supplies and rent; and $1,745 for at Faith Lutheran church, Fol- State Police office in Ontario. A United Press national count capital outlay (office equipment lowing a sack lunch. Dean Mc- Donald of TVCC showed a film showed 490 traffic deaths and 707 other than $450 to remodel the about community colleges and from accidental causes of all clinic room in the hospital). Under general headings the fol told of their role in community kinds during the 78-hour period lowing call for increases as noted: starting at 6 p.m. Friday and affairs. A question and answer County General, $49,605; Road ending at midnight Monday. session followed. Levy, $11,650; County School, $2,- 270. Decreases are shown in non tax totals of $19,739 and $450 in county fair funds. Increases in General Fund Sub-heads under County Gen eral with largest increases asked Dan Reece, a senior at Nyssa high school, is one of more for are: Miscellaneous, $10,844; than 60 candidates eligible for a trip to Europe later this sum County Welfare, $9.400; Assessor’s mer when a tryout camp for Oregon prep wrestlers opens Office. $7.105; Sheriffs Office, June 12 at Corvallis. $1.105; Tax Collector Office, $1,- Reece placed first in the Oregon A-2 tournament to earn 080; Vale Justice of Peace Office, >. He is eligible to compete County Health Department, a spot in the two-day tryout camp. com ... f the 140-pound class. He is *910; Nyssa Justice, $898; and ♦ • *in a son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Co2inty, Clerk, $870 The largest increases under the Reece. Miscellaneous section are as fol Nine wrestlers, from 110 lows: Weed Control, $1.500; Of pounds to heavyweight, ex fice Equipment. $3.500; Destruc cluding 190 pounds, will make the tion of Predatory Animals, $1,- month - long trip with Coaches 169; Official Advertising. $700; John Platt of Corvallis and Bill Foster Home Care, $500: Auto Re Ryder of Grants Pass. placement, $700; and Election Ex To qualify for the tryout camp, pense, $1,000. a wrestler must have placed at These items make up a total of least fourth in the state AAU $9.069 of the $10.844 increase in freestyle meet or have won a this section. state A-l or A-2 championship. Challengers io Compete Top - seeded wrestlers in each weight are the AAU freestyle champions and challengers to the Helen Dwelle, Malheur exten- AAU titlists at each weight will s|on agent, presented the pro go through a round-robin tourna. gram -How to Live With Ten- ment on Saturday. June 12. sion,’’ at a meeting of the Jay- Winners of the round - robin c-Ettes held last Thursday eve tournaments earn the right to ning in the home of Mrs. Ray meet the AAU champs in a best- , Tarter. of-three series on Sunday. June Mrs. Jim Grunke, chairman of DAN REECE 13. with the winner getting the i the recent rummage sale, report - . . Wrestles at 140 Pounds European team spot. J ed on the project. Following a 12 - day training The 12 members in attendance program, the Oregon prep team 1 voted to purchase pins for the of will leave for Copenhagen, Den ficers. After much discussion, a mark, on June 25. arriving the pattern and material were select following day. ♦ ♦ ed by the group as the official From then until July 12, the Jay-C-Ette attire. This will con team will tour Sweden, then con sist of a blue vest and pleated tinue on to Poland for nine more skirt. days of matches. Mrs. Bob West was winner of Tourney Planned in Poland the money tree door prize. Next Highlight of the trip will be the meeting will be June 24 at the July 21-22 International Youth home of Mrs. Richard Gustavson. Tournament in Danzig, Poland. The tourney will be attended by high school wrestlers from six Min. Max Communist countries, Bulgaria, Date 77 48 Yugoslavia. Russia. Rumania. Po May 26 47 80 land and East Germany, as well May 27 49 as the Oregon and Swedish dele May 28 ___________ 86 56 May 29 ___________ 88 gations. 76 55 The team will leave Poland on May 30 _ 54 July 25 for Helsinki. Finland. May 31 __________ 73 79 53 Other matches may be arranged June 1 Owyhee Reservoir Storage with Finland, Norway or Den 715,260 Acre Ft. mark, after which the team will June 2, 1965 June 2, 1964 629.870 Acre Ft. return home about Aug. 1. No Highway Deaths In Malheur County NHS Wrestler Eligible io Compete At Tryout Camp for Trip io Europe With a 5-0 win over a team from Siletz, a small town near A car driven by Al Chadwick, the Oregon coast, the Adrian Antelopes returned home Sun day with state championship honors in class B baseball com 73, Nyssa, went out of control about 10:30 Friday night, crossed petition. This was the AHS Antelopes third non-consecutive year Main street, hit the curb and blew to capture the title. Drain is the only other Oregon school to out a tire. The vehicle then side swiped a parked car and came •have taken the honors three to rest with one corner of the ' times. car through the brick wall of the The game was played Sat Twilight Cafe and Lounge build urday afternoon at Multno ing at 508 Main street. mah stadium in Portland. The auto was being driven from Eugene Pratt, AHS honor stu the owner’s Nyssa Food Center dent and valedictorian this year. when it hit the curb at the west | pitched the Antelopes to the win end of the Phillips "66" service Nearly 75 head of 4-H dairy land limited the Siletz lads to station and blew the tire. There animals arc expected at the three hits. Adnan knocked out were heavy skid marks through Spring Dairy show to be held five hits and committed only one the driveway, showing the brakes Monday. June 7, at the Malheur error, whili* their opponents were applied before the car hit a 1955 Chevrolet parked outside county fairgrounds All Malheur muffed three chances. 4-H members who have dairy Adrian's five ] points came in the Twilight by Norman M Lars FORMAL OPENING SLATED animal* for their projects may the second and third innings son of route 2, Nyssa. AT ONTARIO GOLF COURSE compete nt this annual one-day Pratt and Gene Worden. 19«5 Chadwick told a Journal re Formal opening of the new 18- event, according to Mrs Betty salutatoriun, both took walks to porter that he hit the gas instead hole golf course at Ontario is Jean Phifer, secretary for the j first base Pratt scored on an of the brake when he started into planned Sunday arfiq*6on There dairy sponsoring group. I error and Worden reachi'd home Sixth street and let the car get will be a brief program at 2 p m Animals will be entered in plate on a passed ball i' the out of control until he hit the with Ontario Mayor Morgan Beck curb diagonally across the street. cutting the ceremonial ribbon. their respective classes on arrival second. at the fairgrounds, with judging Antelopes Score Three Damage had not been estimated The public opening is scheduled of the various groups to start at at press time but consisted large from I to 5 p.m. and will include During the third Stanza, Law ly to the 1965 Dodge four-door 9 30 a m. Ribbons for classes arc refreshments and tours of the being provided by the dairy breed rence Clucas hit a double; Dick sedan driven by Chadwick. There terrain. Skogan a single with Orville Car associations. was some damage in the Twilight roll hitting a triple to bring them from broken liquor bottles, glasses In addition to classes for the home. The latter then scored on and an electric motor under the animals, 4-H members may com an error by the Siletz shortstop bar just inside the wall where the pete in a fitting and showman Teamwork seemed to prevail all collision occurred. There were no ship contest, with trophies going These four young people, who' to top-scoring indiVKiuals Vale the way. It was noted that Ante injuries reported. were members of the 1965 gra Grain and Feed is providing the lope Joel Price made a double Nyssa Patrolman Richard Van duating classes at Nyssa and Ad trophy for top junior showman, play in the first inning to retire Zante made the investigation and rian high schools, were recipients with Ranch-Way of Ontario and , the West Coast boys. issued a citation charging Chad I of this year’s DAR "Good Citi- Nyssa giving trophies for inter- I A good crowd of Adrian fans wick with driving while under j zenship” medals and small cash was on hand for the game Among the influence of intoxicating li awards. The presentations were mediate and senior divisions. Joe Pntzl, outstanding dairy them were Superintendent and quor. Hearing is set for Thurs 'made during awards night acti- breeder from Fruitland, will Mrs. Glenn Ward and their son, day morning (today) in municipal vities at each of the high schools. ♦ ♦ judge both the animals and the Stewart, who served as bat boy court before Judge A C. Sallee. fitting and showmanship contest. for the champions. Also on hand Mrs. Ruth Robbins of Cairo will were Principal and Mrs. Bob Pat terson. Baseball Coach and Mrs. serve as clerk. Lunch will lx- served by Mal Roger Watts, Assistant Conch and heur Dniry wives under the su Mrs. Veryl Harrison. The Adrian athletes nnd their pervision of Mrs Bernice Toomb, Mrs Mary Loan and Mrs. Nelli«' coaches have asked the Journal Sproul. Frei1 milk will be pro to express their appreciation to vided by the Grade A Producers I nil fans who gave their loyal' support. association. It was reported recently by Ray Buckwaiter, program direc tor for the eastern region, that the Malheur County council of the Oregon Tuberculosis and Health MARILYN NISHIHARI association donated $325.72 to the . . Adrianite Receives Award , Malheur Health department for ♦ ♦ the purpose of buying 1,500 tines By NORA B. GRAHAM for tuberculin testing in schools At the request of the Gate City Journal publisher*, I am I this year. relating some of the highlights of my March 17-May 18 In 1959, the association pur vaca'ion trip to England and France. The trip was to have chased 300 tuberculin syringes been made by my late husband, Don M. Graham, and myself for use by the health department the previously fall if he had lived. LINDA MORRISON | and the work of testing was be . . . Nyssa Graduate Honored I made the journey to visit* gun. Of 944 high school students, ♦ ♦ my homeland, family and would not be true, as I had never 109 were found with positive re actions. the highest rate reported friends whom I had not seen ridden in a plane before. It was a lovely, clear morning in the state of Oregon. for 16 years. It was not sup and a little snow had fallen over In 1960, 45 previously unknown posed to be a tour, although it turned out to be one when 'I night. I tried to look down, but [ reactors were found; in 1961, 41 got to France. Everyone should thought better of it for a while. were found, while in 1965, there But when we leveled off, I really were 12 discovered. see Paris! began to enjoy the ride. On March 17 I boarded a jet The reaction rate has now de The pilot said that we would clined from the highest to about plane at Boise, having been driv arrive in Salt Lake City a little en there by Emil and Vera Pau state average. A reaction to the lus. To say I wasn’t nervous early as there was quite a tail TH skin test indicates that the wind. Luncheon was served, and germ, tubercle bacillus, is in the in 20 minutes we arrived in the body. Utah capital city. Off again, an “We are particularly pleased other lunchimn was served with with absence of the new infection cocktails, and before long we among grade school pupils,” said The “Baseball for Kids" auc landed in Denver. tion last Saturday afternoon When we arrived in Chicago, Mrs. Edna Blaylock, Malheur was rated a big success by we were forced to circle for half county public health nurse. MIKE HIRAI Commissioner John Bullock. He an hour as there had been a very “While our first testing showed . . . Nyssa Senior Chosen said a total of $263 was raised heavy snowfall; however, we slightly over five percent reac ♦ ♦ tion in the grades, 1965 testing and this wculd go a long way touched down around 5 p.m. I According to Mr .1 I. Brady, in broadening the program this was met by a Pan American rep shows about 1 *4 percent, average project chairman, student selec summer. resentative, calling my name over for the state.” tions are not based on a contest. DICK SKOGAN Jack Blind, president of Mal Committee members in charge a walkie-talkie. He told me I Recipients are chosen for quali . . Selected From Adrian heur council of OTHA, mention was lucky not to have arrived of the program ask that the ties of service, leadership, respon Journal express their thanks to that morning as I would have ' ed that all projects by the asso sibility and patriotism. The ciation are supported by the had to gone back since they had CORRECTION the merchants and other resi- The Journal regrets an error awards are acknowledgment of dents of the community who only one runway cleared. There Christmas Seal campaign. donated articles that were ■old. was a foot of snow on the ground. “With the use of tines, in the made in the Nyssa swimming pool effort and past performance. Daughters of the American Re He then escorted me to the In And, a special thanks to Col. future, we could test each year rates ad carried last week. The Roger Baker and Col. Guy ternational airport to board the all first graders, all seventh grad fourth rate item should have read volution, Malheur chapter, spon Sparks who donated their time Pan Am jet. I had gone to Chi- I ers and all high school seniors," “Season Family — No Children. sors annual presentation of the awards. as auctioneers. Mrs. Blaylock concluded. (Continued on Page 6) $12.00.” Yearly 4-H Spring Dairy Show Dated June 7 in Ontario NUMBER 22 I Program on Tensions Heard by Jay-C-Ettes IIAIt 'Good Citizens9 TB Skin Testing Report Submitted By Health Group Nyssan Gives Highlights of Recent Trip to Homeland Via Jet Aircraft Successful Auction Aids Baseball Project WEATHER Nyssa Firms Plan Downtown Mall For Parking al Second and Main Houston Wilson, president of Wilson’s Markets, Inc., an nounced this week that the firm had acquired the old Chev- I ron Station building and property at the corner of Second and Main street from Mrs. Nellie Powell. He said it was the intent, in the near future, in conjunction with the First National Bank of Oregon, Bracken’s Depart- ment store and Nyssa Phar macy to demolish the old are celebrating the 54th anniver building and blacktop the lot sary date of the founding of the to provide additional parking firms. The original store was es tablished by Brothers Barney and for downtown customers. This area, along with the pres Ernest Wilson, fathers of the ent parking lot at Wilsons, will present operators of the two be beautified with potted trees stores. This makes them the old or shrubs and increased lighting, est continuous firms in Nyssa This issue of the Journal carries conforming with parking malls— their anniversary ads and they so popular in many cities. Wilson said this was a “step wish to express their thank.-, to all forward in modernizing and keep who have contributed to their ing abreast of the times and in success throughout the 54 years. dicated the faith of the firms in the future growth and progress of the Nyssa area.” To Be Completed Next May- The Nyssa municipal swim Start of the project depends on ming pool is scheduled to open when possession of the building i at 1 p.m. Saturday unless there can be obtained. The Nyssa-Nam-! is a drastic change in weather pa Beet Growers association lab-1 conditions. Glenn Walker will again be oratory occupies part of the struc ture and unless they can find an- ! pool manager with Sherri Hust other suitable location for their and Gary Mason as lifeguards, work the new owners must wait and Marilyn Gonyer in the of until the end of the one - year fice. Walker will not be home lease, In any event, Wilson said, from college until June 13 and the project will be completed not Ralph Lowe will be in charge until that time. later than May of next year. Starting dates for swimming This week Wilson’s Market and Wilson Bros. Department store classes will bo announced later. Swim Pool Opening Slated for Saturday