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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.