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V U. of 0. Library Eugens, Oregon e Thunderegg Capital Of Oregon Nyssa Gate City Journal ■ VOLUME LIX - - • *-------------- • ■■■■'- .'„JL. " -! - J ■ — 11 ■ - . jsm ■ - . .. ............................. - — THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL. NYSSA. OREGON. THURSDAY. JULY 7, 1966 Ths Sugar City Thunderegg Days August 4-5-6, 1966 10 Cents Par Copy NUMBER 27 • Down Memory Lane Nyssa Rodeo to Feature Six Events Nyssan Takes Glimpse Into Past; ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Praises Receni Improvements io City 'Old-Timer* to Appear in llodeo Paraden 20ih Annual Nite Show Scheduled “Unto us u town is born. Unto us a town is given.” For Friday and Saturday, July 8-9 The average citizen accepts this plagiarized statement with By BESSIE E. LONG Over 100 Top Cowboy Contestants Sign Up For Competition; Team Roping Added little thought of hardships, toil and vision that lies behind I the birth of any town. Our own is an immediate example and responsibility. Only a very few persons are still around who can remcm- | her pertinent facts relating to the beginning of Nyssa, for | ♦ most of us are aliens coming other cities and states. Adult Swim Lessons from Yet, Nyssa is ours also, and Slated Twice Weekly I we are an integral part of its J growth and future develop- At Municipal Pool Adult swimming lessons will i ment as were the first settlers be conducted on Monday and in their new homes and busi- Wednesday nights for a three- | ness ventures. Heading for Nyssa’s 20th annual Nite Rodeo Friday and Saturday of this week are over 100 cowboy entrants, includ ing some of the top talent in the northwest, according to Lynn i Snodgrass, local chairman of the event. They will be entering six main events and competing for $2,500 or more in prize money. ” Not only will they be in com- I petition with each other, but* with top rodeo stock furnished I by Ralph Stephens of Mid- [ J. Zittercob Memorial Dugout Dedication | vale, Idaho. Snodgrass reports each night’s Set Tuesday Evening | performance will get under way Dedication of the Jack Zitter with a parade at 7:30 p.m., start- cob memorial dugouts on the i ing in the downtown section and [ Nyssa high school baseball field I leading to the rodeo grounds at! will be at 8 o'clock Tuesday I the southwest edge of the city.; evening, July 12. 1966, date of Rodeo starting time will be 8:15 the deceased's birthday anni p.m. when the six main events; versary. will begin, along with some spe- ; Materials and labor for the cial events featuring local talent. ' facilities were donated by rela^ Team Roping Added to Show lives and friends of the late In addition to saddle bronc rid- i Jack Zittercob and his family. ing, bareback riding, calf roping, I Plaques are being furnished by bull riding and steer bulldogging i his widow, Rosemary; daugbr of previous Nyssa rodeos, team | ter, Ann: and son, Tom. roping has been added. The dedication service will something one doesn't see oftenl The "old" is ala as ha shines up the angina in preparation for This has proven very popular be conducted by the Rev. John Harry Miner's steam engine which he put through the Nyssa Nita Rodeo parades to bo held at 7:30 throughout the northwest in re-1 Bullock, pastor of Nyssa Churcjl Keith Remington's "new" coin ■ operated auto Friday and Saturday evenings. The machine will cent years, Snodgrass declares,! of the Nasarene who will leay^ truck washette Monday morning. The two men also be used for Idaho Power company's forth and requires a great deal of skill i next week for his new pastes, are pictured with the old - time vehicle in the coming 50th birthday anniversary celebration. for one member of the team to ate at Newberg. The rites will be followed by —Journal Photo. rope the hind feet while his part truck stall of the washette. Miner is the one wear- ner is busy getting his noose on , a baseball game between " the front feet of the same “crit- ' Oregon - Idaho Babe Ruth Police Chief Reminds Stars. ter.” ool The strictly amateur portion of Nyssans of Dispatch the entertainment will consist of Nyssan's Auto Taken Service From Ontario girls’ barrel racing, kids’ calf Police Chief F. E Petrie reports riding and calf tying by local In Stealing Spree J Following a public hearing in the court house at Vale that his department has received Nyssa Police Chief Franci^rt- businessmen. Most of those en several complaints during the Wednesday, June 29, members of the Malheur county court tering the first two events will , trie reports that a 1955 ChevRflkt adopted an all-^ime all-iime high budget of $1,105,333 for the 1966-67 past several days regarding house stolen Saturday from THWi- fiscal year. F Lodal taxes were also at a peak in the amount of have been practicing for weeks, car prowlers. deregg Mall and belonging to but the local merchants have sligptly over 50 percent of the total expenditures. t Petrie stated that complaints $561,470, or sli Mrs. Ed Michaelson was reatmdt- Total expenditures set up for 1965-66 were $903,977, or been in training by “throwing ed Monday at Ashland. It was had also been filed by citizens the bull ” up and down the streets. ♦$201,356 lower than those about the length of time it takes believed to have been takasn<jgy adopted last week. However, Neil Dimmick is chairman for two juveniles on a car-steadorig for a police officer to arrive on the kids ’ calf roping event and the greater part of the in the scene. He said that this can spree covering several statewvis crease is from other than lo- those desiring to participate Shortly after the Michanlestn be corrected by residents using should contact him. , cal taxes as this shows only the proper procedure in calling car was reported to be majahg. Parade Route Given $31,781 higher. assistance for an auto stolen earlier at eflbisa Miss Karen Main returned Sunday from Willamette uni Mln Max. While all units of the county Office hours are from 8 a.m. Data According to Parade Chairman was found in Nyssa Afttmttoe versity in Salem where she attended this year’s Junior En- 63 showed increases, due in large W. L. McPartland, the groups to 5 p.m. week days only and , June 2 29___ _______ 01 Michaelson vehicle was diqeoxar- gineers and Scientists Summer Institute. 60 part to higher salaries, the addi will form at the corner of First ed 88 1 June 3 X) the number to call at that time at Ashland, a car was; stolen The annual sessions are designed to acquaint education- 55 tion of Medicare and Migrant and Bower avenue each evening. * July 1 ......... ..... ..... ..... 88 from that city. Via” n inded high school students with college life and to promote is 372-3112. Between the hours July 2 42 Health project accounted for over The parade will proceed one block 76 of 5 p.m. and 8 p m. and during Two teenagers from Minnesota specific interest in various fields of science. 46 $50.000 of the raise. These are south down North First to Main _______ 77 Nyssa policemen may j July 3 were later arrested in Eustffca. Miss Main was among 75*~ ------ -—■----------------- weekends, 47 anticipated to be financed from and then west to Fifth street, Calif., and were in possesion »f : _________ __ ...88 July 4 be contacted by dialing 889-5316, - - I girls attending the June 19- zoology, genetic«, stereochemistry, which is the Nyssa police radio July 5 94 54 other governmental sources with turning south to Thompson ave the auto taken from AshMn® July 2 JESSI session, and they mathematics, botany, psychology, dispatching number. 58 only about $7,000 coming from nue and thence west to the rodeo July 6 Michaelson planned t<$>riitoaue divided into three groups anthropology, microbiology, phy local taxes. Welfare department grounds. Petrie said that this is actually Owyhee Reservoir Storage today for Ashland to pickzufphis They were selected on scho siology, the universe, organic the Ontario police department July 6, 1966 460.310 Acre Ft costs continued to rise — about Prizes will be awarded for the wife’s vehicle. ornrnoo lastic ability by application. evolution, organic and inorganic number, but the city of Nyssa is July 6, 1965 679,740 Acre Ft. $6,000 over the past year. best in the _ __ following ____ classes: Chief Petrie urges eitMins Karen is a daughter of Mr and chemistry. — paying a substantial sum for this But the largest increase in any youth entry (under 14 years of to remove keys from pailraii Mrs. Clifford Main and will be * Among subjects for the eve service. Residents are urged to one item, and appearing for the age), riding club, floats and most autos ai all times, even it ittsag an NHS senior this fall. She told ning lectures were nursing, medi contact the department in the C. Bellows Assumes first time, is an appropriation of unusual. There is no time limit plan to be gone for only a Journal reporter that science, cine. oceanography, atomic ener neighboring city for assistance. county funds of $79,745 for opera (Continued on Page 10) Managership of KYET period of time. chemistry and mathematics have gy, women engineers and pri- tion of Malheur Nursing home. Clint Bellows, who recently always been among her favorite mates. this has been a pri Instruction to Begin purchased KYET radio station in Heretofore, subjects College -Laval Instruction • Payette, assumed managership vate operation with the county She also said that she is think Karen said the students were Monday at Parma I of the broadcasting facility last assisting by making payments Swimming lessons will be given ing strongly of majoring in chem treated on a college - freshman from the Indigent Liquor fund in I Friday. istry and upon her graduation level by the professors, and lec at the Parma pool for youngsters Bellows was sales manager of various amounts. from high school, plans to study tures were given on the same of the Adrian area, beginning on KSRV in Ontario for 11 years. The question of whether or not Burnall Brown, vice president and general superintende Monday, July 11, and continuing I He announces that he has sold this was legal arose at the hear- of Amalgamated Sugar company, has announced oaganiz t at Pacific university in Forest plane. Grove. At a farewell banquet the stu- through Friday, July 22. it is an his interest in the Inland Empire j ing when Pheral Dodson, John tional changes, effective July 1, in Nyssa plant persoWiel. Institute Program Outlined 1 dents were given certificates of nounced by Glenn Ward. Radio company and will devote Stam and Gene Stunz, represent Richard A. (Dick) Forbess, former factory superintender A bus, provided to take the full time to the Payette station. ing Malheur Memorial hospital in is now factory manager in charge of refinery operations; ar i During the institute, daily pro JESSI completion and examina Nyssa, appeared in opposition. grams began with general assem tions were given at the close of swimmers to the pool site, will John S. (Stan) Newman, former chief chemist, has been nar - Kim Henry, manager of the leave Adrian at 8:30 each morning blies. classes started at 8'45 a m., the institute. Stunz Questions Legality ed factory superintendent, as-* ♦ ♦ Payette station for the past year, and there will be no charge for ’ with the final ones beginning at Dodson, as Malheur Memorial sisting with factory operations Special activities included a transportation, Ward said. will remain at the station in a 1:30 in the afternoon. These were * field trip to Silver Creek falls administrator, told the court it and in-training for a position Students covered by insurance sales capacity, Bellows reported. amounted to double taxation for as factory manager. followed by 3:30 p.m. recreation on Sunday afternoon and attend Bellows, recently re-elected to I citizens of the hospital district hours and lectures at 7 o'clock ance at a play, "Stop the World, must bring a note from their par Forbess has been with the com ents on the first morning; other the Ontario City council for a who already pay a tax to support pany since June 15, 1926. when each evening. I Want to Get Off." The produc wise, a $1 insurance fee will be second term, said that he plans their own institution. Stunz said he went to work at the Lewiston Classes included studies of geo tion was staged at the Pentacle to continue to live in that city. necessary. the county should not be in the (Utah) refinery. After working chemistry, earth Science, physics, theater in Salem. business and questioned legali at Amalgamated’s various other ty of setting up the funds as an plants, he came to the Nyssa re finery in 1941 and until 1945 expenditure. He suggested the county should served as assistant superinten- sell the Vale nursing home or get dent. He then went to the Rupert a Vale district to operate it, as is Fifteen ministers and lay persons from eight Malheur done in connection with the Nyssa plant where he was factory sup county churches voted during a meeting held Sunday June hospital and that of the Presby erintendent until January 1950 26, at Nyssa First Christian cnurch to form a County Coun terian Nursing home at Ontario. when he returned to the Nyssa cil of Churches. Judge Ellis A. White defended refinery in that same capacity. This decision was reached after about six months of inter the court's position, saying it was ♦ ♦ denominational meetings and discussions, during which time committed to run the home until a constitution and by - laws* other arrangements could be were drafted. The actual char of an inclusive cooperative agen made. He said anticipated reve ter meeting and election of cy of the Christian Churches in nues of $85.000 were in officers is set at 3 p.m. Sun Malheur County, State of Ore of the $80,000 set up for opera day, Sept. 18, at Nyssa Metho gon." JOHN S. NEI (AN tion and the county should gain. Each church submitting appli dist church. (Editor's Note — District At . . . Plant Super! vndvnt A nominating committee con cation for membership is asked. torney John Hutchens told a ♦ ♦ sisting at the Rev. Ralph Lawr to name four representatives to i Journal reporter Monday of Dick was born at Richmor ence of Nyssa Methodist; Mrs. the council. Ky., grew up in CMforqu I ai this week that he had not been William Schireman, St. Paul’s To Become Voting Members studied for two y£ar 9“ ^1 h consulted about the legality of the University of LllAaw ' ai Episcopal; and Mrs. Robert Long, These delegates shall include the operation. Normally, this Adrian’s Kingman Memorial Pres a minister, layman, laywoman and ! is the source of legal advice for University of Utah. byterian church, will submit a one youth. These persons will [ the county court, but Hutchens Newman is a ni slate of nominations. and was graduated become voting members of the | said the law had been changed lege of Idaho in 1 and district attorneys no longer Premble Subscribers Invited council. served for appr( All Malheur county churches The eight churches represented I enter into these matters "un years in the Unit^T Stlifts which subscribe to the preamble at the Sunday meeting included less asked." Corps. , | V of the constitution are invited to Christian, Episcopal, Presbyterian After his service duly^lje join the council. The preamble and Methodist of Adrian. Nyssa, ADRIAN FIREMEN CALLED turned to C of I frtrfOWge A blaze of unknown origin states: Vale and Ontario. fresher courses and began “In the Providence of God, the Persons desiring more informa caused slight damage to some career with Amalgamated in Jut time has come when it seems tion are urged to contact the clothing last Friday morning at 1947 as assistant chenus ¡st. In 191 fitting more fully to manifest our Rev. Wallace Prowell of Nyssa the Mike Elliott i evidence. Ad was named chiePcni lemist, tl oneness in Jesus Christ as Divine First Christian church. He serves rian volunteer firemen answered RICHARD A. FORBESS position he held until his recei Lord and Savior according to the as acting secretary for the plan the alarm, but the fire was ex Ä MISS KAREN MAIN . . . Prepares Resume . . . Factory Manager new appointment. tinguished when they arrived. Holy Scripture, by the creation ning committee. Renders of this article, which week period beginning July 11 at Nyssa municipal pool, it Is reflects on years so wide in scope announced by Glenn Walker, and urea, may feel the absence pool manager. The instruction of points familiar to them as these is slated to begin at 9 p.m. with ure to me Our tx?autiful ceme the class period to end at 9:50. tery holds many secrets never to liecome known because wc failed Walker also stated that Thurs to probe the deceaseds’ experi day evenings have been desig ences when possible nated as "family nights.” The We are so prone to accept the pool will be available for fam life we sec about us as bearing ily groups between the hours no direct relation to the past, and of 8:30 and 10 p.m.. and if chil so fail to pass information on to dren swim at this time, they a younger generation until too must be accompanied by their late for them to learn the heri parents. tage in tradition. An so, with no Regular admission rates will written pages, these years so full be effective and season tickets of richness are lost. will also bo honored, the pool Recalls Hitching Post Days manager concluded. Nyssa has come a long way the day of the watering Highland Games Set from trough across from the former July 10 at Caldwell Nyssa Furniture store and the The second annual Treasure line of hitching pu»ts full of rest Valley Highland games are sche less horses stirring the summer duled July 10 in Caldwell city dust—and a long way from the park with activities slated to be early-day grocery store at the east gin at 10 a m. end of the underpass. The hotel Among competitive events will owned by Peers stood on the be Highland dancing, the playing ground now holding the Long of bagpipes, caber tossing, open apartments and the same deep track and field events for boys well now supplies water for six and girls from 8 to 17 years of families. “i*' (Continued on Page 4) Nyssa Student Gives Report on JESSI Session at Willamette University $1 Million Budget Adopted by Court Of Malheur; Taxes Increased $32,000 € Nyssa Weather Sugar Company Official Announces Changes in Local Factory Personne Area Residents Hold Recent Session To Form County Council of Churches
