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u. of 0. Library Eugene, Oregon c MERRY CHRISTMAS! Nyssa Gate City Journal The Sugar City VOLUME LVHI THE NfSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL, NYSSA. OREGON. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 23. 1965 Simla Linlvnn io Younnnha'H* W ìh I ivh In the Spirit of the Season Christmas Draws Near; Area Firms Extend Greetings Via Journal Pages Wlu-n this issue of the Journal reaches local readers, there will he only one full «lay until Christmas. Late shoppers will still be able to buy gifts, probably at marked-down prices but with less selection. Most stores will close Christmas Eve (Friday) at fl p.m. to let employees have the evening with ♦their families. This edition of the Journal is devoted largely to local news, stories of the Christmas event as celebrated in differ- ent countries and localities, and I greeting ads from a lug majority .of Nyssa-Adriun merchants, also some from neighboring towns Fire Wednesday morning «lid serving the area. considerable damage to the stock This is a practical way of wish and equipment of th«- Dee-Ute ing the >M*st to customers and Bakery, owned by Mr. and Mrs. friends. It saves time and post Willard Covert, and to the rear age for busy merchants and of the building, owned by Harold makes it possible for the Journal Henigson at lit) Main street in to print the special issue. Santa has made two appear Nyssa. Th«* bakery operators had com ances in town, trad«* has lieen pleted baking for Wednesday's brisk and weather hus b«*cn fav deliveries and were ready to go orable. Favorable comments arc home when the fire was discover still being voiced over the reli ed going up the wall near an gious parade having the theme, icing machine in the rear part "Peace on Earth." of the budding, which was an annex of the original structure. Nyssa Police Recover A representative of the state health department was on the Stolen, Damaged Car sccn<* within hours and told the The Nyssa police d<-purtm«*nt re- Coverts what wus and was not I covered a stolen car this week, according to Police Chief Francis contaminated. Petrie. The vehicle, reported At press tune Wednesday night missing by John Hour«- of Nyssa, no estimate had been made of the was found near th«* Airport hill damage to the building or equip on the Idaho side of the Snake ment. river. Chn*f Petrie said the car had been damaged and had a flat tire when recovered Hoare said the car was taken from the parking lot between the Sugar City 5 At 10 store and Idaho Power company office where it had been left with the key in the After a preliminary hearing ignition switch. Wednesday morning in Nyssa Justice court, Juan Joe Mireles RELEASED FROM HOSPITAL Mrs. Thomas Sant was released was returned to Malheur county jail awaiting a trial on a rape Dec. 10 and her husband went charge. Bond was continued at home yesterday morning from $5,000 by Justice E. Otis Smith. Malheur Memorial hospital where The 35-ycar-oid ex-convict from they were being treated for in Idaho allegedly raped an elderly juries sustained in a Dec. 12 auto lady of Nyssa Thursday night. mishap Mrs. Cora Mitchell, driver of Chief of Police Francis Petri«* said the lady reported ahe awoke the other vehicle involved, suc about 2 30 a m. and discover<*d cumbed last Thursday after being the intruder in her home after critically injured in the collision hearing a noise and finding a bathroom window open. She said she was kept a prisoner until about 7 o’clock that morning when she was permitted to go to a neighbor's home where she was l—- Date Max. du«* to report for work Min. 15 18 M The employer called the police H. 32 13 and the suspect wus picked up a Dec. 16 34 17 short time* later. He was identi Dec 17 31 14 fied as the intruder by th«* woman Dec. 18 31 12 he had allegedly assaulted. The I >. . Ill 28 13 suspect later admitted to the Dec. 20 28 13 theft of a TV set, watch and ring D m 21 Dec. 21 28 13 from the home of the woman. — 28 Tlie suspect was represented at Dec. 22 the preliminary hearing by Carl Owyhee Reservoir Storage Burnham, Ontario, who was ap Dec. 20. 1965 543,390 Acre Ft. pointed by the circuit judge. Dec 20. 1964 4H6.440 Acre Ft. Refinery 55% Through Campaign; Tonnage Over '64 With Sugar Content At 15.56 for One of All-Time Highs Amalgamated's Nyssa sugar factory was 55 percent through the current campaign with 475,000 tons of beets processed Wednesday afternoon. Tonnage per acre was 23.98 (up about l*/2 tons from 1964) and sugar content was running 15.56 for about the same as last year — which was an all-time high. District Manager Ray Lar son said beets were keeping very well in the stockpiles to date and that this year they • ♦ ♦ WHEN SANTA CLAUS VISITED Nyssa the past two Saturday afternoons, he not only distributed numerous candy canes, but listened to Christmas desires of Nyssa area small fry. It has been reported that in all seriousness one small lad requested a mouse trap. Why? No one but the small boy knows. Among Santa's visitors were (above photo, left to right) the children of Don and Janice Bowers: Brenda. 7; Mark, l1/*,* Barbara, 5: and tiny Miss Joy Ballou, three-year-old daughter of the Elvin Ballous. As is evident, Mark Bowers didn't much like the way Santa looked, so began to cry. The little lady in the picture on the left is four-year- old Shelly Mayden. belonging to the Bill Maydens. And who was Santa Claus? Why he was . . . Santa Claus, of course! —Journal Photos. I----------- Rural Fire District Board Members Accept Bid for Purchase of Truck Assault Suspect Returned to Jail After Hearing SEATED IN THEIR WHEELCHAIRS in front of four Nyssa Jay- C-Ettas are two residents of the nursing home wing at Malheur Memorial hospital. The men are D. Kitamura and John Schults, and the Jay-C-Ettes (left to right) are Mrs. Ray (Evelyn) Tarter, Mrs. Mervil (Donna) Hutchinson. Mrs. Dick (Myrna) Walters and Mrs. Jim (Judy) Grunke. Members of the organisation had made tiny snowmen out of egg cartons which decorated each plate con taining homemade cookies and punch. On Monday afternoon each patient was given a refreshment plate, a handkerchief, a friendly smile and a "Merry Christmas’* greeting.—Journal Photo. NUMBER 51 Manager Sees No Cut in Acreage Allotment From 1965 Due to Poor Crops in Some Areas Dee-Liie Bakery Damaged by Fire Early Wednesday Nyssa Weather 10 Cents Per Copy Withdrawal Hearing Slated for Patrons Of Rural Fire Area Board members of the Nyssa Rural Fire Protection dis trict. together with officers of the Nyssa Volunteer Fire de partment, accepted the bid of The Sawtooth company in Boise for the purchase of a new fire truck for the district. This action was taken at a special meeting held Dec. 17. Only two bids were submitted to the board, due to the fact that one of the stipula ♦------------------------------ tions was that service shops fire-fighting equipment. must be within 100 miles of The fine cooperation between i the rural district and the city has the district. ♦ ♦ Sugar Company To Eliminate Soot Deposits harvested every single acre in the district. Some growers had beets averaging over 30 tons per acre, he said, but they did not yet have The “black snow” conditions a record of the high producers. existing in Nyssa the first part No Acreage Reduction Seen of this week will soon be in the The best news in the manager's past, according to Ray Larson, report was that it now appears manager of the Nyssa district of there will be no reduction in the Amalgamated Sugar company. It was caused by the company acreage for the district in 1966. Company and grower officials , converting the local plant fur had estimated a 9 to 10 percent naces from natural gas to coal cut from the previous year, but (Dec. 14) and not having a system due to poorer crops than predict to filter or clean the unbumed ed in some areas it now appears waste escaping into the air. it would be about the same. As Larson explained it to a Sign-up for acreage for 1966 Journal reporter, the company will start Jan. 3 and continue used coal until 1957 when they through Jan. 14 with company converted to natural gas. They fieldmen notifying growers of have a contract that curtails their times and places. New growers use of the fuel when domestic us may apply at ASCS office in On ers need additional gas in cold weather. But until 1964 — at al tario for acreage allotment. most the same period in Decem ber—they had never had to go Babson 1966 Forecast back to coal. This lasted for a four-day per To Appear Dec. 30 iod and the temperatures were The Gate City Journal will below zero at that time. publish "Babson's Business and well did not anticipate it coming Financial Forecast for 1966" in They when temperatures were as high the Dec. 30 issue. Readers will as they have been during this find it on page one. period. A careful checking of Bab Northwest Wind Diverts Grime son predictions made in the The gas company gives the Business and Financial Forecast plant 10 or 12 hours’ notice and for the past year upholds his to convert it takes 15 to 20 men remarkable record by being 88 a four to six-hour period. But percent correct. With a top per now the company expects to be centage of 95 in 1946 and a low using coal the rest of the cam of 80 in I960, over a 2!-year paign and have made plans to period he has come up with an eliminate the soot problem. Wind overall average of 86 percent direction and a supply of old coal for the span. carried over all the years since This Babson forecast will con conversion to gas made the local tain prediction* covering such situation worse. Wednesday there important topics as peace pros i was a northwest wind and there pects. new power showdown in ; was no problem. Russia. Red China and the The plant manager said the United Nations, soaring produc company was putting in tanks tion costs, tightening profits for diesel in the one furnace that pinch, attractive opportunities had been burning gas that could in bonds, danger of a stock not be converted to coal. When market stumble, inflation blow ■ it is shut down completely pro- off, discord in the Great Society j duction goes from 6600 to 3600 and foreign doubts about the tons of beets that can be sliced dollar. ! daily. Watch for this forecast in the Larson said, ‘‘We regret these next issue of the Journal. It is ; conditions have come up. but informative and could be very j do appreciate the understanding helpful in making plans for the shown by the people of Nyssa new year. while it exists.” A hearing for withdrawal of a Both bids weri fc from Boise resulted in better and less expen- contiguous area from the Nyssa firms and that of! the Sawtooth I sive service for fire fighting than Rural Fire Protection district will company was in e amount of can be found in any other area of be h«*ld at 10 a m. Wednesday, $18.833, and was proximately the state, according to reports Dec. 29. in the court room of the $2,000 under the petitive fig- from the state fire marshal. Malheur county courthouse in ure. The $18 tho nd figure in- Vale. I eludes trqde - in e present CHRISTMAS DANCE SLATED At that tune the court will lis ' truck. Delivery be made' in TONIGHT BY AHS STUDENTS ten to any and all persons who about six months. Adrian high school students are may wish to be heard on matters The original vehicle was pur planning their Christmas formal regarding the petition of with chased 16 years ago and cost the dance at 8:30 this evening in the drawal, and objections, either oral district approximately $14,000. Adrian Legion hall. Dancing will or written, may be filed. While the price offered on the be to live music provided by an Involved is the area south of new truck included trade-in, the Ontario quartet. the Owyhee river and east of the board estimates that about $7,000 railroad tracks. Farmers of the was allowed for the old vehicle. area are contemplating joining Money on Hand for Purchase the Adrian district. Board members report to dis trict patrons that the money for SENIOR CITIZENS RELATE this purchase is on hand in a MEMORIES OF CHRISTMAS Senior Citizens group met Fri sinking fund established for this day morning at Faith Lutheran purpose. A large part of the church. Table games, visiting and credit for this foresight goes to a potluck dinner were highlights Grant Rinehart, auditor of the district’s books, and to Jacob of the holiday meeting. Following the noon luncheon i Fischer, who acted as president hour, a business meeting was of the board until elected to the held with each one present an office of county commissioner. Frank Sherwood, Loyd Adams swering roll call by telling of a memorable Christmas during his and Frank Parr have served con- 1 Edward Niederer Jr., vice president-operations of Cascade I tinuously on the board since its j or her lifetime Natural Gas corporation, has issued this statement to local Afternoon activities included a inception. Wilbur Atherton will gas users: take over the duties of president j talk on senior citizen housing by “There is no shortage of natural gas. The shortage is sim Pastor John Milbrath of Faith this coming year. He has been a ply in the pipeline capacity on cold winter days when all cus member of the board since 1956. Lutheran church, group singing tomers are at their maximum requirements. The current Melvin Spitze was elected to the i and additional table games. situation faces other distribute------------------------------------- . board when George Coleman re- ing companies in the north so that shutdowns will not be SUFFERS SHOULDER INJURY i signed in 1963. west as well as Cascade.” necessary during cold weather.” Craig Lewis returned Monday District Operate* on One Mill Niederer explained that a Natural gas, it was pointed out, to classes at Nyssa junior high The district operates at the special low rate is granted to has received wide acceptance onv school after being hospitalized for present time, and has done so for inno, duu three days last week suffering several years, on less than one GAN of Caldwell assumed du- large industrial users, with an throughout the northwest since understanding that curtailment its introduction less than 10 years with a dislocated collar bone. mill per year. The savings a ties Dec. 1 as director of nurses His mother, Mrs. Dorothea Mit patron makes on fire insurance and surgery supervisor at Mal may be necessary at such times ago. Pipeline companies that chell, reports that he will have more than compensates for tax heur Memorial hospital. She as the pipeline from the gas fields transport the gas to this region to carry his arm in a sling for outlay. This is largely due to the came to her Nyssa job from is running at full load in the win have not kept pace with the rapid some time but he is making a fact that the city furnishes hous Samaritan Community hospital ter period. This enables the pipe growth in number of consumers, fast recovery. The youth was ing for two trucks and the volun- in Nampa where she had work line to operate closer to the capa a situation that will be corrected. injured Dee. 14 during a super I teer fire department operates ed in various supervisory capa city of the line every day of the vised intramural wrestling match them. The district makes no out cities. Mrs. Brogan was gradu year and effect savings that are Nyssa High Band Trip passed along. at school. lay except for a $600 contribution ated from the School of Nurs Story in Next Issue Small Users Have Priority ing at the University of Denver to the volunteer firemen’s club The Nyssa high school band NHS OFFICERS NAMED “ Domestic users of natural gas and received her practical fund. The Boys' Rally Squad held its training at St. Luke's hospital and small commercial users have returned Monday afternoon As compensation for housing of in the Colorado capital city. a priority on the fuel.” the from a trip to San Diego, Calif., second meeting of the year Dec. 7. the fire district's trucks, the city She received her bachelor of spokesman continued. Their rates, where they made a televised Newly elected officers are Larry Larson, president; Rodney Atagi, has -use of one truck unless it is arts degree in 1964 at North however, could not be as low as halftime appearance at the pro vice president: Victor Haburchak, needed for a call from the rural west Nazarene college in Nam they are if it were not for the fessional football game between secretary; Mark Ward, treasurer. area. pa and is now enrolled for con special rate — subject to curtail the Oakland Raiders and San The board has received inestim ference training with the Uni ment — extended to large indus Diego Chargers. Uniforms for the boys partici Lack of space does not per pating on the rally squad include able help over the years from versity of Utah. She is a life tries. “The industries using this rate mit carrying it this week, but a a blue vest, which is being creat Frank Morris and Ralph Lawr time resident of Treasure Val ed and designed by Dale Schrauf- ence, particularly, for their ad ley, as she was bom at Caldwell are obliged, by the governing tar detailed account written by nagel, adviser of the new club, a vice and judicious use of the dis and grew up in the Murphy iff, to provide their operation Dirick Ni»dry will appear in with some form of standby fuel. the Journal next week. white shirt, dark tie and slacks. trict's money in the purchase of area. Hvad Xurne Cascade VP Says Pipeline Capacity, Not Gas Shortage Causes Problems From the Journal Staff... Ted and Arlene Brammer, Max Urry, Earlene Jennings, Jim Raeder, Ruben Lopez AND RURAL CORRESPONDENTS . . . Freda Astoreca, Sharon Findley, Helen Hoffman, Mabelle McKague, Pauline Mackey, Susana Menchaca, Avo Moeller, Emily Myers, Goldie Roberts, Frances Smalley, Alberta Tyner, Dale Witt