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THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL. NYSSA. OREGON PAGE TWO THE GATE CITY JOURNAL TED M. BRAMMER. Editor and Publisher SUBSCRIPTION RATES AFFILIATE MEMBER Single Copies 10c In Malheur County, Oregon, and Payette and Canyon Counties, Idaho: One Year $3.50 Six Months $2.50 Elsewhere in the U.S.A.: Per Year $4.00 Six Months $2.50 Published Every Thursday at Nyssa. Malheur County. Oregon Entered at the Post Office at Nyssa. Oregon, for Transmission Through the United States Mails, as a Second Class Matter Under the Act of March 3, 1879. Bible School Begins Monday in Big Bend PREVENT ACCIDENTS Vacation Bible school at the Big Bend schoolhouse will begin Mon day Aug. 2. and continue for one week, it is announced by the Rev. D. M. Barnhart. Activities for all ages will start at 9 a m. each day. with Robert Barnhart in charge. He is a son of the D. M. Barnharts and is a Bible school student from Alber ta. Canada. Owyhee Church Annual Picnic Planned Sunday i : JOIN YOUR COMMUNITY AGRICULTURAL CHEMICAL SAFETY PROGRAM NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL a ♦ LETTERS To the Editor accident*. The Slow - Moving Messrs, and Mmes. James Lang Vehicle sign could alert drivers ley, Keith Langley and Todd, Ho and eliminate many of these mer Brewer and girls, Joe Hobson I tragic accidents. and family of Ontario attended a ' The Governors Committee on dinner Sunday at the East Side Farm Safety is working diligently cafe in Ontario honoring Mr. and to help spread the word and the Mrs. E. J. Hobson on their 55th signs to make this safety emblem wedding anniversary . There were readily recognizable to all who 22 guests attending the event. drive on the highways. Farmers Mr. and Mrs. Elver Nielsen and ranchers should help, too, by spent the weekend at Ritter, Ore., displaying the emblem on all ma with the Doyn Price family of chinery when going down the Pendleton and the Homer Whit roadway. man family of Emmett. The wo This is a good place to start men are sisters of Mrs. Nielsen. carrying out the theme of the Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Harder and 1965 Farm Safety week: “Safe daughter of Avoca, Iowa, were re and Alive in ’65.” cent Thursday dinner guests of METHODIST CONGREGATION Mr. and Mrs. Elver Nielsen. TO HEAR NAMPA PASTOR Guest speaker in the pulpit of Nyssa Methodist church on Sun day, Aug. 1, will be the Rev. Dr. Charles M. Donaldson of Nampa. Dr. Donaldson is a retired Metho dist minister and former dis trict superintendent of the Idaho Methodist conference, western district. He has served churches at Nampa and Idaho Falls and was once president of the Mon tana Wesleyan college. Gene Chester, local church lay leader, will direct services. OF d A The members of the OREGON FUNERAL DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION always available to serve you « Whenever you call or come to an OFDA member mortuary, there are always helpful and experienced people on hand to make your way easier by relieving you of details and respon sibilities. This 24-hour service by trained personnel gives assurance that all matters are in capable hands. YOUR ASSOCIATION OF VAA j LMA. OREGON FUNERAL DIRECTORS Look to this OFDA member in your area.,. NYSSA Lienkaemper Chapel Picnickers Ignore Weather Conditions By Farmerette Club in your community are. Pastor John Milbrath Tells Sermon Theme For Outdoor Service Pastor John Milbrath announces that the second unnual outdoor service for members of Faith Lu theran congregation will be held Sunday, Aug 1. at the Elk Creek campground on south fork of Burnt river near Unity. Theme for the 11 a.m. service will be “All Life Is u Gift From God." Those planning to attend are asked to take own table ser vice and food for a potluck din ner. Pastor Milbrath states that signs will be posted from Unity to the campground for the benefit of those who are unfamiliar with the area. FARM BUREAU FURROW Wiener Roast Held By Sunsei Valley Ladies SUNSET VALLEY — Owyhee church annual picnic will be held COUNTY JUDGE TO SPEAK at 1:30 Sunday afternoon, Aug. 1. By SCOTT LAMB SUNDAY AT LOCAL CHURCH at Nyssa south park. Those at County Judge Ellis White will tending should take a covered be guest speaker during the 11 dish and own table service. Farm Safety Is I o’clock worship hour Sunday mor Important Factor ning, Aug. 1, at the local Christian Mr. and Mrs. Jack Wood. Mr. Nyssa, Oregon This week, July 25-31, has been church. and Mrs. Ken Lorensen, Gloria July 27, 1965 The county official will speak and Harriet visited July 22 with designated as National Farm Mr. Ted Brammer, Editor on the Malheur mental health the Gabriel Astoreca family. All Safety week. Volunteer commit tees across the nation will be re Nyssa Gate City Journal program. were served cake and ice cream minding agricultural people to Nyssa, Oregon in honor of Carmen Astoreca's take a look at safety factors on Dear Ted: This is an example of a job well eighth birthday anniversary. farms. Mrs. Gabe Astoreca and girls I their The rodeo is over. Nyssa is to done by cooperation and hard It was long ago determined and Emaline Meiers visited last that farm safety is a stale of be congratulated on the good job work. that was done by all who partici This is just one cf the many Thursday with Norma Asumendi I mind. Hurrying, long hours with projects that I’ve seen where the I and children in Ontario. pated. out a break, faulty equipment— Mr. and Mrs. Jack Knowles and all contribute to an amasing I was particularly impressed best in Nyssa is shown. This type family. Jess Asumendi and chil-1 of working together for the good with the amount of work and cost factor in the farming busi cooperation that went into get of the community was a real in dren spent Sunday afternoon at ness. ting the show on the road and spiration. and makes one glad to Owyhee reservoir water skiing' While these items will be point and swimming. be a part of Nyssa. produced. ed up during Farm Safety week, Not least of all was the publi Some of the people who deserve city and cooperation given by you Vacation at Wallowa the big push will be put on the particular credit are Tex Morgan. and Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Robb new Slow-Moving Vehicle sym Dick Tensen, Lynn Snodgrass and and your staff. All of this com family spent from Thursday un- bol. Like all new things, this bined effort made our rodeo a Roy Holmes. TTie Owyhee Riding til Sunday night at Wallowa, En- triangular-shaped red and orange club put in many evenings of tremendous success. route home they visited Mr. and sign will take some promotion to Sincerely yours, work getting the grounds, chutes, Mrs. Harry Hathaway and family catch on. But in the age of wide- W. L. McPARTLAND corrals and grandstand ready. at Baker. open speeds on the Highways and Mr. and Mrs. Bob Watkins and side roads, the new symbol can Bobby Jo of Bliss, Idaho, visited ' indeed be a life-saver. Monday with Mr. and Mrs. Ora' Accidents on highways involv Newgen and took Mrs. Jeanette ing slow-moving farm machinery Watkins to the Newgen home are almost invariably caused by where she is spending the sum poor judgment on the part of mer. drivers approaching such machin Mr. and Mrs. Harley Wilson, ery. They do not realize the dif- Mr. and Mrs. Werner Peutz spent ference in speed and before ap- the weekend at McCall. plying the brakes, it is too late, Mr. and Mrs. Wally Orcutt of At the lime lima, highway* Bellingham, Wash , were Friday I crossing farms make it more evening dinner guests at the Elver I and more necessary that farm er* use the highway* for short Nielsen home. Mr. and Mrs. Gabe Astoreca distance* io reach their carved- and girls visited Sunday after up field*. The cause and effect noon with Mr. and Mrs. Chuck add* up to a whale of an in crease in auto-farm machinery Romans at Parma. Dinner Fetes Hobson Couple THURSDAY. JULY 29. 1965 NU ACRES — Farmerette club held its annual picnic July 21 at the home of Mrs. Ralph Baxter, with officers serving as hostesses. Despite a change in weather with heavy winds, there was a good attendance. Mrs. Susan Chesney, a former member, was among those in at tendance. Mrs. Omar Betts was admitted last Thursday to Holy Rosary hos pital in Ontario where she under went surgery Friday morning. She had been in ill health for some time. Visit From Iowa Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Harder and Judy of Avoca, Iowa, visited July '21 with her aunt, Mrs. Effie Niel sen and family. They were over night guests of the Clifford Niel sens. Mr. and Mrs. Norman Schoen- born and Lorraine of Mollala, Ore., were guests last week in the home of their daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Wilson and family. The Schoenboms were enroute home from a vacation trip and ! stopped for a brief visit. Stephen Kersey left Sunday for ! Camp Billy Rice at Warm lake to spend a week camping with other Boy Scouts. He is expected home Saturday. Cherry Lee Steinke of Vale is spending two weeks visiting her grandparents, Mrs. Verda Steinke, Mr. and Mrs Tom Weeks. Tourists Appreciate Nyssa Riverside Park Youth Revival Now in Progress At Local Church A youth revival service began last evening ut the Bible Mission ary church and will continue through Aug 1. The meetings are at 8 o'clock each evening, with the Rev. Doug Mullins as .speaker. Special music is being furnish ed by the Kings Messengers quar tet. At 8 o’clock Friday evening u youth singspirution will be held in Nyssa south park. Pastor Mike Kelly and mem bers of his congregation invite all young people of the area to at tend any or all of these special meetings being held in the church at Second street and Beech ave nue. HOLD SWIMMING PARTY After Swim Session Members of Adrian Community church youth choir held a swim ming party Friday evening at the Nyssa municipal pool, with trans portation furnished by Frankie Worden, Karla Kriegh and Mrs. Jake Borge. The group then returned to the church lawn where they roasted wieners over the fireplace, with Mrs. Dick Kriegh in charge Among those attending were Connie Campbell. Katie La an, Mary Looney, Danny Judd. Lynn Hall, Leah Ausman, Roger Phifer, Steve Kriegh, Lisa Wynn. Marge Ausman, Jeanette Phifer, Judy Steiner and Marie Borge, accom panist for a practice singing ses sion. Members of the Baptist chur ches in Notus and Roswell held a swimming party Friday evening at the Nyssa pool. After swim ming the group went to the Jim Obenchain home where 42 were in attendance for a hamburger j fry. ! The following letter we* re ceived last week by City Man ager Fred Koch. Toledo. Oregon July 20. 1965 City of Nysi* Nyssa. Oregon Dear Sir»: I want io tell you how much my husband, myself and two children appreciate your park by the river where you allow overnight camping. One night last week a* we crossed the bridge from Idaho, after driving from Sunnyaide. Utah, we saw the sign about the park. We pulled into the area and »pent the rest of the night, getting a rest before starting for home the next morning. Thank you for having the park available for travelers like us. Mr*. Paul Clabaugh SERVE SUNDAY BREAKFAST Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Quinowski were hosts Sunday morning at breakfast for members of St Bridget's Catholic parish. The Five Will Get You Twenty meal was served in the Smith When the Phillips "66" residence with a large number re- Girl Calls! -Adv. ! ported in attendance. YOUTH K Revival Service (NOW IN PROGRESS) MEETING POSTPONED Executive council meeting of the Woman’s Society of Christian Service of Nyssa Methodist church has been postponed for one week. The session will be held at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 10, with the WSCS general meeting sche duled at 2 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 12. Nightly at 8 p.m. Thru Aug. 1 — at — BIBLE MISSIONARY CHURCH Second Street and Beech Avenue — Nyssa. Oregon ALL YOUTH OF AREA WELCOME! To Buy. 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