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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
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Down Memory Lane
Nyssa Rodeo to Feature Six Events
Nyssan Takes Glimpse Into Past;
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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Nyssa policemen may j July 3
were later arrested in Eustffca.
Miss Main was among 75*~
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47 anticipated to be financed from and then west to Fifth street, Calif., and were in possesion »f
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July
4
be
contacted
by
dialing
889-5316,
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girls attending the June 19- zoology, genetic«, stereochemistry, which is the Nyssa police radio July 5
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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
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classes:
Chief Petrie urges eitMins
Karen is a daughter of Mr and chemistry.
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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
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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-*
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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