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U. of 0. Library Eugene, Oregon e Nyssa Gate City Journal VOLUME LIX Th. Sugar City General Trout Season Opens Saturday In Oregon; Prospects Appear Good; Stream Runoff, Roads Affect Start THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL, NYS3A. OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 21, ISM State Librarian Vini tn During * Week9 Fingerlings Planted in Local Fishing Waters With 3,000 Ten-Inchers in Owyhee River 10 C.nta P.r Copy NUMBER IS Nyssa io Host County-Wide Auction To Raise $2,000 Quota for Addition Representing Agriculture at OMSI Delegation From Portland Due to Arrive By Plane for Auction at Rodeo Grounds It will lx* a long ilx-month battle, but somewhere around 400,000 anglers are poised eagerly for the mass invasion of Oregon's lakes and streams scheduled to open for fishing Sat urday, April 23. The objective — trout, with the forward charge to be launched at dawn on that day. A successful campaign is expected, not only for the open ring but throughout the season. In some areas, melting snow or bad weather could make th<* opening show miserable or put the streams out of shape for top fishing. In some lakes und impoundments around the! state, the opening thrill has been dulled u little by the year-round The Nyssa ChnmlH'r of Com trout angling rule, but even here merce is sponsoring u clinic on excellent fishing should result. . “shoplifting” for the noon pro Most anglers already have their i Krum ut Brownie's cafe Wednes little hot spots picked for the day. April 27. It will be conduct opening charge. For those who IN OBSERVANCE OF NATIONAL LIBRARY Eloise Ebert, state librarian: and Malheur County ed by Police Chief F. E. Petrie haven’t, here are a few waters WEEK, a coffee hour was held Wednesday morn Librarian Wilma Brown of Ontario. A number ing at city hall with City Librarian Norma Urry of other area residents were present for the social und all merchants are invited. that are tried and true producers Prevention will be the main or are expected to yield good re and members of the local board serving as hos •nd business session during which the stale offi cial discussed activities as well as problems con them., but merchants will also be sults during the coming campaign. , tesses. Among those present were these guests pictured with Mrs. Urry (on left) and Nyssa Li fronting library personnel. Other members of the advised what they can do legully if the act is committed and the Northesstern Oregon Picture brary Board Chairman Joyce Liankaemper (Mat local library board are Mmes. Dick Forbes*. Joe As in past years, the trout fish ed). The other woman are (left to right) Miss purty apprehended. Cundall, Joe Maughan and Desmond Jonas. Similar clinics have been held ing picture in northeastern Ore Hasel Hope, librarian for the city of Vale; Miss —Journal Photo. recently at Vale and Ontario with gon will depend on the spring » ♦ • ---------- much interest shown on the part runoff excellent if rivers are in of merchants. Chamber President shape and mediocre if streams Governor Proclaims Ray Tarter says an additional are muddy. Anglers in this area Library Week in April meeting will be used if time does should plan on impoundment or The dynamic social, educa not permit full coverage at the lake fishing; u change of plans | tional and economic growth of can always be made at the last first one. minute it streams are in fishable ! our country today is increasing Nyssa school board members met in special session Monday the nation** need tor better in <?vening, primarily to canvass ballots of the budget election, condition. Top stream bet should be the , formed citisens. I but also to enact several other important matters The results upper John Day, but this river Our libraries are a major of the election were 238 votes in favor of the budget, 196 is expected to be out of shape for source of information readily against and one spoiled ballot for a total of 435 votes. the opening. Lower elevation available to all our citisens. It Sealed bids were opened for roofing the north half of the streams in the John Day should is through academic, public and I---------------------------------------------- ♦elementary school, with Wil be fair. Barring adverse weather, school libraries that each indi liamson Roofing company of Nyssa Jaycee members were vidual can find material to en (Continued on Page 10) hosts for a district political cau New Plymouth the low bidder large hi* world, gain a new per cus Sunday afternoon ut the at $12.50 per square. Other spective. find new meaning in Eagles hall with 50 Jaycees from Wind, Frost Damage bids were received from Van his work and realise hi* poten all over the state in attendance. Chairman Bob West of the Petten Lumber company of On tial excellence. Purpose of the session was to give Fruit and Field Crops Nyssa Lions club aommittee said tario at $1445 per square; and National Library Week, April that their solicitations Saturday Treasure Valley Roofing company Frost Monday and Tuesday I candidates seeking offices an op portunity to state their platforms nights, plus strong winds over a ’ 17-23. 1966. through a combina for pumice blocks for a restroom of New Plymouth at $14.51 per and views before attending the four-day period have destroyed tion of national and local activi concession stand at the high square. May 13 - 15 state convention at about 1.000 acres of sugar beets ties. serves to focus attention school athletic field met with The board adopted the school in the Nyssa Amalgamated Sugar J on these important facilities and reasonably good success consider calendar as proposed by the coun Pendleton, ,, school administrators, with ...... Seeking the office of state vice company district, according toI their program*. Their theme ing the cold, blusteyy day. About ty this year is "Keep Growing — $400 was raised the first day, or classes scheduled to begin Aug. president arc Dick Peters of Cot Manager Ray Larson. ljirxon said the damage was. Read.“ about one-fourth of the goal. 29, 1966. and the last day of school tage Grove; Don Welch, Eugene; I urge all the citisens of thia West said that club members will be May 24, 1967. Teacher in Pete Reinccker, Hillsboro; and about 50-50 with the wind dam Red Gilbert, Gladstone Candi age being confined to fields in; state to join other* throughout will be downtown again Satur- service begins Aug. 22, and the dates for national director arc the Weiser district and the frost the nation in recognising, uti day. May 7, and people who did teachers will have May 25-26 to Don Jimerson of Scappoose; Rod- I damage being scattered over the i lising and supporting the im not get a chance to donate may 1 wind up their school year. This ger Blomberg of La Grande and entire district without any pat-: portant services offered by do so on that date. Any persons makes a total of 179 school days, these institution*. tern. wishing to contribute to this pro plus seven in-service days. Jerry Evans, Medford. MARK O. HATFIELD ject may send their checks to the Gasoline Bid Accepted Those* running for the office Steve Besse, county extension Governor of Oregon Nyssa Lions club, in care of Laur of state president are Harris Han agent, told a Journal reporter that The bid of Sinclair Refining en Wright, treasurer. sen of Tigard; Bill Winters, Bea it was too early to assess damage company to furnish gas for the The Lions club hopes to have 1966-67 school year at .2034 cents verton; and Gus Garrigus, Bend. done to fruit in the area but that ' Meeting Set Tonight the money raised and the building was accepted by the board in co Richard Gustavson, local Jaycee there was no damage to potatoes completed before the Thunderegg operation with the city of Nyssa. president, has asked the Journal and very little to onions. The lat By Adrian PTA Unit Adrian PTA patrons will meet Days in August and start of the This bid was previously accepted to extend thanks on behalf of the ter was wind damage where the unit to the Eagles for use of the fields were dry and the plants in regular session at 8 o'clock to football season in September. by the Nyssa city council at its night in the high school gym Many people have been enthus meeting last week, and compares hall and to the Nyssa Jay-C-Ettes cut by driven sand. for preparing and serving dinner. The weather forecast from nasium. Officers for the 1966-67 iastic over this project. West said, with .206 cents for the current Next regular meeting of the Fruitland Wednesday was for a school year will be installed dur and there is every indication that year. it will be quite successful. local group group will be this i low of 32 Wednesday night with ing the session. The board authorized the clerk A program of musical selections evening at the Jaycee hall, iocat- ' a gradual warming throughout to advertise for a new 54-passen- will be presented by students of ADRIAN BUDGET APPROVED ger school bus, with bids to be ed at 216 Bower avenue. the rest of the week. Voters in the Adrian district received at the special school Mary Lou Denman. Candidates seeking county positions will also approved the school budget for board meeting on May 2. There next year with 79 ballots in favor will be a 1956 GMC bus to be be present. Refreshments will be served by and 36 against the proposed fig traded as part payment on the mothers of freshman and sopho ures. The election was held last new vehicle. Friday. more students. Existing Vacancies Reported Four students have been select Superintendent W. L. McPart- ed from among members of the land said that John Moawad has Adrian high school junior class submitted his resignation as head to attend Girls' and Boys’ State football coach, so applications will sessions during June. They are be accepted for this position. Cecile Smith, Becky Wenke, Jim Moawad is also assistant basket Brewer and Barry Fujishin. Pic Idaho Power company plays host in Hells Canyon, deepest ball coach and teaches social tures of the boys and a report of of North America’s gorges, Sunday for what may be the only studies. their school activities will be pub The superintendent is also seek Cublic viewing of its dam project until construction of the lished in next week's Journal. ing a guidance counselor for the uge undertaking is completed in 1968. Cecile is a daughter of Mrs. The occasion is an open house at the final project in the high school. For the past several Emily Smith and has lieen a mem years Mrs. Harriet Brumbach has utility company’s three-dam development on Snake river. ber (if GAA. Pep club and FHA been counselor as well as librar- Guided bus tours will be* during her three years in high ' ian, but both are full-time jobs conducted from 10 a.m. to 5 areas at McCormick and Wood J and she will devote all her school. As a freshman, she was time p.m. for visitors, who also are head parks. FHA song leader and attended to the library in the future. Boy Scouts and 4-H girls at invited to inspect the develop FHA district meetings her first The only other vacancies that ment’s first two projects — the development will sell light exist at this time are two posi two years in high school. While refreshments at Oxbow Village. Brownlee and Oxbow dams — a freshman, she also participated Features of the Hells Canyon tions at the elementary level. in chorus and was a delegate to while they are in the area. project, where concrete placement the Nyssa hootenanny. Company President T. E. Roach, for the dam and powerhouse be Blaze, High Winds She served as secretary-treas describing the Hells Canyon pro CECILE SMITH gan early in March, include three Cause Extensive Loss urer of the sophomore class and ject as the largest single genera ♦ ♦ attended both district and state arms for the junior class. She tion project now being built by 95-foot-high cranes and a 200- To Bartron Property FHA meetings while a junior. an investor-owned utility in the I foot-high steel trestle spanning A combination garage and This year she is also serving as was selected as homecoming at Pacific Northwest, explained that the narrow canyon. tendant, is a member of the paper equipment storage building and Visitors will also view a 10- secretary of the Adrian chapter, staff and is taking part in the it ordinarily is closed to visitors | acre park now being developed contents, owned by the Earl Bar- treasurer of the Girls’ Athletic class play. “because of the vast construction | by Idaho Power for public use trons at 1102 Park avenue in Nys association and is sergeant-at- Becky has participated in Pep activity taking place in a very 1 beginning in 10ti8. sa. were completely destroyed by • ♦ club, GAA and FHA during her limited space.” fire Saturday afternoon. high school career. She also has Cite* Scenic Location Volunteer firemen were ham been a member of the chorus and “On this special occasion, how Mystery of Backward pered by high w'inds and were a twirler with the high school ever, it is being opened to give Businessmen Solved kept busy for several hours, but band for three years. During her the public an opportunity to see For readers who couldn't prevented the blaze from spread freshman and sophomore years, at first - hand the tremendous identify all the Backward Busi ing to nearby buildings. she was a member of Thespians building feat that is being ac nessmen pictured in last week's Estimated damage totals more and also served as a 4-H junior complished in one of Idaho's most Mystery Days issue of the Jour than $10.000. The building was leader. scenic locations,” he said. nal. they are (left to right) top leveled and all items within the Becky has been drill team cap Visitors will travel to within row. Chuck Michael of Mi structure were destroyed. tain for the past two years. This two miles of the dam sitt on the chael's Pharmacy, Don Moss of Bartron, who is in the excavat year she is treasurer of the Honor paved, two - lane highway that the Firestone store. Ernie Met ing business, lost an implement society, point secretary for Pep Idaho Power built downstream | calf of Nyssa Co-op Supply. trailer, welding machines, air club, class reporter, n member of from Oxbow for construction ac- Those in the bottom row are compressors, large quantities of student council, paper staff, high cess. Rulon Trost of Farmers Feed & painting equipment and tools. His school band and junior play cast. From there, they will be taken Seed, Dick Wilson of Wilson's bird dog was killed when a wall She hns also conducted a twirling by bus on guided tours of the J Market and Les Burbank of of the garage collapsed. class and attended several district project. B & M Equipment company. It is reported that the blaze FHA sessions. Roach said that following the Wilson served as chairman of apparently started in a haystack Sponsors for the girls are the tours, the public is invited to tra the event, sponsored by the near the rear of the building, with Adrian American Ix»gion auxil vel back upstream to company- Businessmen'* Promotion com high winds carrying the burning BECKY WENKE iary and Adrian Farm Bureau. developed picnic and recreation mittea. material to the structure. Chamber Clinic On Shoplifting Dated April 27 Voters Approve Nyssa School Rudget; Roard Takes Action on Various Items Nyssa Unit Hosts Political Caucus For State Jaycees Lions to Repeat Block Sale May 7 Two Girls' Stale Delegates Named Ry Sponsors in Adrian Community The Nyssa rodeo grounds will be the scene of a county« wide auction Saturday, May 14, to raise funds for an agricul ture wing on the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. Thomas G. Jones, Union Pacific freight agent of Nyssa, is chairman of the project and has set up committee heads in Ontario, Vale, Jordan Valley, Adrian and Nyssa. They in turn, have filled in their com-*----- - ------------------------ —------------ - mittees and are working en thusiastically to raise the $2,- 000 set as Malheur county’s part of the $258,000 estimated cost of the addition. Background Given The OMSI building, just off Southwest Canyon road in Port Nyssa high school’s concert land, already attracts 300,000 vis band added another I (superior itors annually. And since agri rating) to a long list Friday, April culture is the number two indus 15, at the Idaho District III Music try (outranked only by timber) Festival held at Borah high school in the state of Oregon, it appears in Boise, according to information that agriculture should be repre reported by Director Frank Tur sented in the display available ner. to both out-of-state and in-state The band performed three num visitors. And also since Malheur county bers in the concert division and comprises about 10 percent of the received superior rating* from all area and only one percent of the three judges. The local musical total population, residents should group also earned a I in sight try to tell the Malheur side of reading where students are grad ed on their ability to play un the story. familiar music. With the one - man, one - vote The choir sang three numbers theory of representation handed down by the U. S. Supreme court and received a II (excellent) rat in the concert division and a decision, it becomes all the more ing I in sight reading. necessary for rural areas to sell Nyssa entered three ensembles city people on the value and im in the festival. Superior ratings portance of agriculture. That ac were earned by Janet Nedry, Ma counts for the eagerness of Mal rie Durfee and Christine Burning heur and other rural counties to ham, clarinet trio; and LaDawn make a success of this project. Haney, Ruth Ann McGinley and Other than the 300,000 annual Brenda McKinney, bass clarinet visitors, the OSMI is the scene trio. A saxophone quartet com for instruction. Nearly 4,000 tea prised of Linda Ballou, Denzel chers have enrolled in these spe Weeks, Brad Maxfield and Scott ck*] classes and 2,800 students Jefferies was awarded a II. take science enrichment courses Ten NHS soloists participated taught there. It was built with in festival activities. Division I private funds and maintained ratings were earned by David without tax funds It now covers Nishitani, Meria Ashby and Pam the physical, industrial and bio Saito, clarinet; Terry Oft, sousa- logical sciences. It lacks agricul phone; and Stewart Henigson, ture! snare drum. Earning division II Nature of Auction ratings were Bruce Sarazin and Jones said his county com^rit- Susan Bratton, snare drum, while tee had been planning on the pro division III ratings went to Linda gram for many weeks and deter Ballou, alto saxophone; Terry mined that an auction was the Obenchain and Jim Bishop, trom best way to raise the county’s bone. quota. And, with Nyssa being the most centrally located and in the April 29 Recital Set center of the agricultural area, was selected as site of the auction. For Betty Wilson's The auction will start at 1:30 Young Dancing Stars p.m. and continue until all items The 17th annual dancing dis are sold, Jones said. But the com play, by pupil* of Betty Madge mittee is hoping to hold the num Wilson'* School of Dancing, will ber of items to near 150 due to ba staged at 8 pan. Friday, Ap the time element involved in the ril 29, in the Nyssa school cafe- sale. torium. with the doors to ba The chairman said this in no I open at 7:30. way is a “rummage” sale but will The event is sponsored an consist of usable items having a nually by Malheur Memorial good cash value. Ontario has a hospital auxiliary and all pro quota of 45 items, Nyssa and Vale ceeds are used to purchase 35 each, Adrian and Jordan Vai- ! needed item* for the local bos- ley 15 each. pitaL Variety of Article* Offered A resume of the recital* since It is expected that items for April 13, 1950, and an account sale will consist largely of live of item* purchased by the spon stock, merchandise, machinery,: sors will be published in next (Continued on Page 4) week's issue of the Journal. NHS Rand Earns Superior Rating At Roise Festival Idaho Power Company to Host Sunday Open House Event in Hells Canyon JOHN DORITY OF NYSSA (above) was granted patent No. 418- 044 by the U.S. Patent office Feb. 4, 1966. on a bee-hatching de vice. He started manufacturing bee boards in the fall of 1962, boring holes in boards as homes for the leaf cutter bee. This serv ed okay when the boards were new, but after one season dua to unhatched larvae many holes were plugged for the next season. So John started study of a method for cleaning out the plugged holes io make the board useful indefinitely, and that was the start of the new method whereby he was granted the patent. In the new process from 1800 to 2040 holes are drilled in four-foot length* of Ponderosa or Sugar pine that is either three- or four-inchas thick. Then on one side is a laminated board with hole* io fit those in the center board and with a removable back not penetrated by the drill. These can be removed to clean the board of unhaiched larvae and other residue, furnishing a clean home for the baa* in the next season. Dority say* he recommend* only the use of sugar pine as there is a certain amount of distortion in other wood*.—Staff Photo.
