THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL. NYSSA. OREGON
THURSDAY. OCTOBER 21. 1965
PAGE THREE
Grange Women Plan
Slugs, Snails Pose Grower Problems; Booster
Night; Elect Journal Names New Correspondent To Report Buena Vista Activities
(Beginning with th.s issue, Mrs f Mr. and Mrs George Nesbitt* Mr.
Mr. and
and Mrs
Mrs. Ben
and Mrs.
Ben Ekanger
Ekanger and*
and* Mr.
Mr. and
Mrs. Lester
Lester < Cleaver,
1965-66 Officers Glenn
(Helen) Hoffman is new and son, Spencer of Wenatchee, family of Caldwell, Mr. and Mrs. John, Carl and Dave; Mr. and
OSU Eniomologisi Studies Controls New
Horne Economics club members correspondent for the Buena Vis- Wash., visited from Thursday to Bill Richesin and family were
A European Npecies of garden slug and a plant-eating snail
are spreading through the Northwest, potting a new problem
for flower gaxleners, vegetable growers and ranchers, reports
Dr. Hamblin Crowell, Oregon State university entomologist.
Weapons against them are few, because chemical comp**
nies in the past have riot considered the land relatives of
clams and oysters enough of ' a ♦
problem to bother developing must remain on products for hu-
an effective pesticide for con num consumption.
Crowell emphasized that the
trolling them, he added.
tolerance
was set not because the
Tin- European black slug, first
found in the Portland areu in the chemical is particularly poisonous
1940’s, is a ravenous feeder on to man, but because no one has
most types of vegetution and wanted to spend the time »nd
seeks shrubbery, ground cover money needed to prove higher
plnnts and piles of debris for shel levels arc safe.
ter. The mollusks, which range Damage Many Crops
Oregon weather is ideal for
In color from black through
brick red, are gradually spreading periodic outbreaks of slugs, Crow
throughout the Northwest and ell declared The animals multiply
appear to be replacing the more rapidly during a cool, wet spring
and, while not as spectacular as
familiar gray garden slug.
some insect epidemics, they do
Introduced From Europe
much damage to crops such ax
The other invader, the brown lettuce, beans and clover.
garden snail, was introduced 100
Crowell is working on an OSU
years ago into California from Agricultural Experiment station
Europe where it is considered a project to find alternate methods
delicacy. The 1 Mi • inch brown of
controlling them. Although an
speckled snail is not yet u pest entomologist, whose traditional
in Oregon, but colonies have been field is insects, he became inter-
found at Coquille and Seaside und
in land mollusks because
at Long Beach, Wash They also ‘ ested
they damage plants in much the
appear to I m - spreading, Crowell same
ways as Insects.
noted.
The scientist, who keeps several
The two animals differ in that thousand lugs and snails for stu
a snail has un external shell into dy, has been experimenting with
which it can withdraw, while a biological controls. 11c found that
slug has only a shell rudiment a species of mite will attack and
enclosed within its body.
kill slugs under laboratory con
Slugs, which so far are the ditions, but in nature mite popu
only land mollusks of economic lations have not been observed to
importance in Oregon, have few get high enough to be effective.
natural enemies and arc unaffect Other Controls Tested
cd by most pesticides, the scien
Another possibility is a chemi-
tist explained For some 25 years, cnl fertilizer called Cyanamid.
the only weapon against them was Crowell has found that 300
a chemical called metaldehyde, pounds per acre — about double
which has not been entirely sat- the normal application—will kill
isfactory.
80 to 85 percent. A herbicide also
Slugs May Recover
has been useful on corn and beans
Metaldehyde the active ingre- if applied early enough, he said.
A species of fly larva has been
dient in most slug baits—some-
times only paralyzes the pests, reported ns a possible parasite on
Crowell said. If a period of cool, slugs, but it has not been tested
damp weather follows, they may yet by Crowell.
recover without ill effects.
Another difficulty is the "zero
tolerance" the Food and Drug ad
ministration has set on metalde
hyde This means that no trace
By SCOTT LAMB
Information Director
of Oregon Trail Grunge met Mon tu community. The Journal pub Saturday in the Alva Goodell
day afternoon at the home of lishers ask area residents to co home.
Marguerite Moss with nine wo operate by giving her any news Navyman Calls Moth*r
which they feel will be of
men present. Roll call was an items
Mrs. Edith Whipple received a
interest to relatives, neighbors long
distance telephone call Sun
swered by members telling their and friends.)
day
evening
from her son, Ken
favorite TV program.
|
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neth,
who
is
in the Submarine
Plans were completed for Boos-
By Helen Hoffman
division of the U. S. Navy at New
t< i night to be held on Oct 21
BUENA VISTA—Mr and Mrs. London, Conn. Mrs. Teddie Rook
and discussion was held regard
ing 4-H club night and a banquet Russell Talbot visited from Fri- stool of Orovada, Nev., spent the
day until Sunday afternoon with weekend with her mother, Mrs.
for Grange Insurance officials.
Whipple.
Election of officers was held the Buster Talbot family at West
Gary, Brian, Don and Alan
fall.
and the following members were
Cleaver hunted near Juntura last
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Glenn
Hoffman
elected: Ornu Cleaver, president;
week and returned home with
Polly Holub, vice president; and were Sunday dinner guests of I four deer.
Mrs.
Blanche
Hoffman.
Iva Adams, renamed treasurer.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Morrett of
Refreshments were served by Visitors From Kansas
Benton, Wash., visited Sunday
the hostess.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Garwood afternoon in the Esther Stephen
Next meeting will be held Mon of Auburn, Kan., arrived Friday home.
Mrs Gene Fisher of Meridian
day, Nov. 1, at tile home of Jan- evening to visit their son-in-law
sic Stum, with Polly Holub as co and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Thur was a Monday visitor at the Eu-
hostess.
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Huge Welfare State?
This session of congress may
well go down in American his
tory as marking the death knell |
of representative government and I
the birth of an expanded welfare
Physicians and
state ruled by •entralizcd federal
Surgeons
power.
The so • called Medicare bill,
K. E. KERBY. M. D.
which perverts the original con-
cept of the social security •ys-
K. A. DANFORD. M. D.
tern, is now law. It is the first I
KEN PFAFF. M. D.
step toward a complete system
Physicians and Surgeons
of medical and hospital care
Dial 372-2241
under the complete domination I
Hours: 10 to 12 and 2 to 5 p.m.
of the federal government.
Daily Except Saturday and
The U. S. Senate is current
Sunday; Saturday, 10 to 12.
ly considering a constitutional
amendment which would permit
MAULDING CLINIC
states to decide how they should
elect their legislators. If this
L. A. Maulding. M. D.
amendment fails, rural and farm
Physician and Surgeon
people will lose their right to rep
“By Appointment Only”
resentative government.
Dial 372-2218
The U. S. House has voted to
Hours: 9 to 12 and 2 to 5 p.m.
remove Section 14 (b) of the Taft-
Daily Except Wednesday, Satur Hartley law. and if the U. S. Sen
day and Sunday; Wednesday
ate follows this lead, 19 states will
and Saturday, 9 to 12.
lose their right - to - work laws.
Human and state rights will be
DAVID W. SARAZIN. M. D. loser to central government and
Physician and Surgeon
the labor czars.
Hours: 10 to 12 and 2 to 5 p.m.
The U. S. House has voted for
Daily Except Thursday, Saturday an expanded anti-poverty pro
and Sunday; Thursday and
gram and has stripped state
Saturday, 10 to 12 Noon.
governors of any veto power
over projects in their states.
— Phones —
Office 372-3385
Res. 372-3173 There is speculation that the
real objective of the anti-pover
Office: 213 Main Street
ty program is not to provide
jobs or education for the poor
Dentists
and untrained, but to build a
Ì political following of poverty
clients who will receive their
J. R. CUNDALL
voting instructions directly from
DENTIST
the party chiefs in Washington.
17 South Third Street
At the moment there appears to
Dial 372-3538
be
no impediment to the fanatical
Nyssa
Oregon
drive of the administration to
ward a gigantic welfare state.
J. W. OLSEN. D. M. D.
Even the war in Viet Nam serves
DENTAL OFFICE
as a cloak and distraction to con
Seventh and Bower Ave.
ceal what is happening to state
Dial 372-3311
rights and representative govern
ment in the United States.
Nyssa
Oregon
The old political pork barrel
projects of the past now appear
Optometrist
as puny devices when compared
with the direct pipeline from the
DR. JOHN EASLY
federal treasury to the millions
of Medicare and anti-poverty pro
18 North Third Street
gram clients. This pipeline will
Nyssa, Oregon
be enlarged with rent subsidies
— Phones —
under a new federal housing law.
Nyssa . . . 372-2949
A cynical observer of the cur
Ontario . . . 889-8017
rent scene recently suggested
that he was postponing the pur
Veterinarians
chase of a new car as he had
heard rumors of a possible sub
sidy fo persons who needed
TREASURE VALLEY
autos to reach their places of
ANIMAL HOSPITAL
employment.
On Alberta Ave. Dial 372-2251
Sound incredible? So did rent
Nyssa, Oregon
subsidies, but even now there are
Dr. B. E. R om
those who say they are not as bad
Nyssa — 372-3552
as they sound. Perhaps we can
look forward to nationwide ad
Dr. D. R. Mason
vertising campaigns which will
Parma — 722-0332
suggest that you see your smiling
Large and Small Animals
Uncle Sam, the friendly car deal
er.
Mrs. LaVem Cleaver, Karey, Les
lie, Kim and Kevin; Eugene
Cleaver, Calvin and Darrel hunt*
ed during the weekend near Iron
side. The Leslie Cleavers return
ed home Sunday evening with
thre deer. Other members of the
party remained for a longer hunt.
Edith Ann and Merry Joyce
Corfield and Terry Neely were
recent guests of their grandmoth
er, Mrs. Edith Whipple, while
their mother, Mrs. Dick Province,
accompanied Mrs. Teddie Rook
stool to Orovada, Nev. Mrs. Pro
vince returned Oct. 13 by bus to
Caldwell where she was met by
Mrs. Whipple and the girls.
Mrs. Orma Cleaver visited Sun
day in the Delbert Cleaver home.
Mr. and Mrs. Alva Goodell at
tended the recent Knife and Fork
club dinner-meeting at East Side
cafe in Ontario.
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Andrew Ekangers.
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Corfield
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ning until Sunday afternoon with
his mother and sister, Mrs. Clara
Corfield and Mrs. Emily Myers.
Mrs. William Guthrie spent the
weekend with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Guy Tanner. Corporal
Guthrie, her husband, left last
Thursday for Fort Lee, Va. He is
a paratrooper in the U. S. Army.
William Orrs Return
Mr. and Mrs. William Orr re
cently moved back to this com
munity from Richland, Wash.
Melissa and Terry Cleaver stay
ed with their grandparents, the
Orrs, while their parents were
hunting.
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