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u. of 0. Library Eugene, Oregon Nyssa—Thunderegg Capital Of Oregon VOLUME L1X Nyssa Gate City Journal The Sugar Cliy Nyssa Hosts Over 3000 Out-oi-Towners During Weekend; Thunderegg Days, UP Sieam Locomotive Attract Visitors THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL. NYSSA. OREGON. THURSDAY. AUGUST 11. 1966 Union Pacific biant fteliqhtn Depot Irotrd Publicity Invaluable as Guests Carry Story Of Program, Friendliness to Distant Places (Tin. I'll.-. ..t . .... !<■< lation was •afH.-rium wen- horn MffMund received Monday by Mayor Grant ,f»wns within a 100-mile ra- Rinchart it had been written. dius and the 613 passengers on signed by 42 visiting rockhounds the,UP train ^consisted mainly <»f and mailed prior to their leaving model ruilroud enthusiasts attend- ¡ ing a Boise convention. Nyssa ) Harold Brendle, chairman of Friday, Aug. 5. 1966 Thunderi'gg Days, said he was "To ina City of Nyssa: extremely well pleased with the "We wish to axpra** our rin event and proud of the reception cara thank* for tha splendid given the visitors He stated that hospitality extended to tha he talked to a number of them rock hound*—and our apprecia and they were happy with the tion for having tha privilege of program and the treatment re- •laying in your park. ceived while here. "The gem *how was enjoyed Rockhound* Plan Return by everyone, according to com Many expressed a desire to re- ment*: and the rock* war* very turn next year and said they well displayed." would tell their friends and rec Among those signing the letter ommend the trip to them were Canadians from Richmond. In an adjacent column Is a let B C. AblH.tsfonl, B C ; Port Moody, B.C.; Edmondton, Alber ter signed by 42 rockhounds ex pressing their gratitude. Several ta; and Vancouver, B, C. Tlie signatures also contained ' of the visitors told Journal re porters that they had never been those of Californians from Nevada treated as nice anywhere during City and Los Angeles; Danville years of traveling. and Woodlawn, III.; Sunnyside. The only sour note voiced by WMh by the visitors was the heat on Among Oregonian signatures were those from Sandy, Beaver Wednesday and Thursday when ton, Pirtland, Gresham and Sweet the temperature soared to over Home; Idahoans from Sandpoint. 100 degrees. But some said they expected he«t in a semi • desert Caldwell, Nampa and Emmett. area such as this valley. Guest* Little League All-Star Undemanding Not to be overlooked in treat Tourney Ends in Tie ment afforded the guests is that The Little League Baseball they arc the type who are always tournament between the Valley welcome. They were clean, con Ail Star and Nyssa All-Star teams genial. and as a whole, very un ended in a tie, according to Chuck demanding. Michael, one of the local coaches Chairman Brendle will make a The three-game series was played full report to the Chamber of in Nyssa south park on Thursday, Commerce, which with the Snake Friday and Saturday evenings of River Gem club, sponsored the last week. event. Highlights will be carried later, The teams are comprised of outstanding Little League players but there is little doubt of an of the area. Michael said that or even bigger and better repeat dinarily two squads arc selected performance next year. to play as "Valley All-Stars;’’ Steam Engine Stops however, this year only one team Tom Jones, local U P freight was chosen, with the entire Nyssa agent, told Nyssa C of C members unit named as the opposing team. Wednesday that the old steam During the Thursday evening engine train was a big event and contest, the local boys were on (Continued on Page 10) the losing end of a 1-0 score. The following evening, they defeated their opponents by the same UNITED FUND PRESIDENT PLANS SPECIAL MEETING margin. Dale Mcl^ane, president of the In the Saturday game, both teams were scoreless through the United Fund campaign for Mal- eighth inning and the contest was heur county, announces that a calk'd off due to lack of daylight special meeting will be held at 7:30 Tuesday evening, Sept. 6, at hours. Michael stated that it was Moore hotel in Ontario. agreed to leave the results ns a Purpose of the session is to tie and not schedule future play present an educational program offs. Other Nyssa coaches are for those helping with the United Don Perdue and Terry Thomp Fund drive. A film will also be son. I shown. 1 I division chief for the State Department of Agriculture, to represent him at an Aug. 8 meeting in Burns. The session with Eastern Oregon stockmen was to discuss possible grazing and feed measures needed to offset the droutn. The meeting was called by ,arry Williams of Canyon City, president of the Oregon Cat tlemen’s association, after the Governor Hatfield had already Forest service served notice requested relief for Wallowa that cattle will have to come county. off federal ranges early this Other Relief Considered year. 10 Cania Per Copy NUMBER 32 Idaho Canning Company Nyssa Plant Corn Processing Begins Last Week; Operating Two 10-Hour Shifts Daily Annual Ram Sale Planned Saturday At Fair Grounds Some 230 rams have been con signed to the sixth annual Trea sure Valley Invitational Ram sale. Harry Sandquist, Malheur county agent, reported that 15 top breed ers from Oregon, Washington and Idaho have consigned to the sale. The event will be held at Mal heur county fair grounds in On tario Saturday, Aug. 13, starting at 1 p.m. As in the past, bulk of the consignments will be Suffolk* with 12 breeders having entries. T B Burton of Cambridge, Idaho, has one consignment of Suffolk- Hampshire crossbreds. The Uni versity of Idaho will have an en- try of Hampshire«. Other Consignments Listed U of 1 Caldwell branch will also have three pens of Panamas. Columbias will be furnished by Benjy Koch of Rockford, Wash., Charles D. Simpson of Baker and E. J. Hardley of McMinnville, Ore. Suffolk breeders who have con signed include the U of I, Moscow. L. D Warfield, Cambridge. Idaho; Keith N. Simmons, Oregon City; Rodney Warfield, Buck Howland and Son, T. B. Burton. Steve Howland, Stan Howland, Roy C. Blakley and Lawson Howland, all of Cambridge; A. W Scott of Wallowa, Ore.; and Douglas Wood of Nampa, Idaho. Catalogues listing all lots can be obtained at the county agent's office in Ontario or at the On tario Livestock Commission com pany. Two-Dav Reunion Set By Graduates of 1956 Sweet corn processing at Idaho Canning company’s Nyssa plant started with one shift Wednesday of last week. The second shift was added the following day and .350 workers are employed daily (except Sundays) keeping up with the rapidly maturing crop. Acreage is up about 20 percent over last year and some new machinery has been add-* ed to give the plant an in crease of 10 percent additional daily capacity. And while the company plans controlled har Hospital Charges Due io Increase vest (through variations in plant ing time) they cannot account for weather conditions and have a By September 1 half-hour later than anticipated, so Nyssa police men worked full-time keeping the small fry away from the track — they just wanted to see if the engine was coming in. Also on hand was this continual worry until the harvest Room rates at Malheur Memor group of musicians playing a variety of welcoming is over. ial hospital are expected to be tunes. They are Terry Stone of Parma, Frank Bob Moss of Payette, Nyssa increased substantially by Sept. 1. Turner, Eggert. Terry and Mike Oft of Nyssa. plant manager, says labor has The exact amount will not be been scarce, especially at the known until after the monthly Payette plant, and will become a board meeting Tuesday, Aug. 16. bigger worry when area schools Members will study cost account start. In trying to plan through ing figures presented by Adminis the campaign, more students have trator Pheral Dodson. been hired from the Idaho side The raise is a result of sal Miss Prapasri Tangtatswasdi from Bangkok, Thailand, on of the line than Oregon, due to ary increases, higher cost of food delay of the opening of their and hospital supplies, and an an the southern tip of Asia, will be Nyssa high’s AFS exchange the schools for a week. ticipated raise in pay for nurses. student during the 1966-67 school year. She will make her The same is true for 10 other Nyssa Schools Open Early home with Mr. and Mrs. Mel Beck and family. Prapasri is 18 years old, five-feet, three-inches tall, weighs Nyssa schools are due to open towns of the Eastern Oregon Area 119 pounds and has black hair and very dark eyes. Her father, Aug. 29 and there will be 10 to * Hospital council, composed of On Kanchana Tangtatswasdi, is 12 days left after that before the tario, Baker, La Grande, Pendle ton, Hermiston, Umatilla and manager of Bangkok bank, harvest will be completed. Sampeng branch; and her mo Moss reported the quality of Heppner. The announcement was made the corn is good and that grow ther is deceased. The exchange student has four ers can probably expect about by Council President A. D. Cob brothers, Sitth, 29; Kampol, 27; the same returns for the 1966 crop bin of the Pendleton Community Singh, 24; and Anant, 15. She as for last year — on the same hospital following a meeting of all 11 towns Thursday, Aug. 4, also has three sisters, Sukanya, acreage. in Pendleton. 22; Vichitra, 20; and Naunpen, 14. Treasure Valley is known for Two brothers are now in the the unusually high quality of its Figures Similar to Portland the United States. Kampol re sweet com, and as in most years, While no figures were announc sides in St. Louis, Mo., and Singh the company had the total pack ed either for salaries or rate in is a student at Wharton School contracted before harvest began. creases, it was felt that they of Finance and Commerce, Uni Moss reported heavy buying by would be similar to announce versity of Pennsylvania in Phila the federal government and said ments made recently for the delphia. this would tend to stabilize the Portland area Interested in Sport* price, eyanif the crop should be Administrator Dodson said he Miss Tangtatswasdi is inter much larger than usual. felt the average increase for the in cooking, gardening, interior area would be about $6 per day decorating, shorthand and typing. with Nyssa being less, due to a She likes most outdoor sports and Registration Dates, higher salary schedule now tn games, and has played basketball, Teacher Vacancies effect than any of the other net-ball, badminton and table in the council. Reported for Adrian towns tennis. Most nurses in the local hospi Registration for Adrian high tal now receive $2.50 per hour for Prapasri says she loves to take care of her pets and has one hen, school students will be held be 173 hours per month — figuring two tortoises, three fish and four tween the hours of 2 and 8 p.m. out $432.50 on a 30-day basis. PRAPASRI TANGTATSWASDI cats. She once had a civet cat, on Wednesday and Thursday, More specifics will be carried . . . Comes From Large Family but it escaped and was killed. Aug. 24-25, it is announced by following the board meeting next Another of the exchange student’s Superintendent Glenn Ward. Tuesday. Fees will be about the same as hobbies is stamp collecting. NJHS Registration last year, the superintendent re I* Fond of Music Rural Fire District Schedule Reported She states that she is fond of ported, the only change depend music, but does not play any in ing on whether the student elects Purchases New Truck By School Officials A brand new fire truck has Registration dates for Nyssa strument; however, she sings ev to take school insurance. Ward states that two instruc been purchased by the Nyssa junior high students have been erywhere she goes. Jokingly, she set for Tuesday and Wednesday, says that her mother once advised tors are still needed — one to Rural Fire district and was de Aug. 16 - 17, in the junior high her not to sing while bathing or teach all commercial subjects in livered Tuesday evening. Repre school building, it is announced cooking, as there is an old Chin the high school department and sentatives of the Boise company ese proverb stating that a woman a third grade teacher in the ele- from which the vehicle was pur by Principal Muri Lancaster. chased, were still on hand Wed- Hours are from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. who sings on such occasions will mentary school. nesday afternoon and the slick and students who are unable to marry an old man. looking white truck was used to Miss Tangtatswasdi wants to register on the above dates may sign up for their classes on Thurs become an accountant and after Adrian Fire Destroys answer a call to the comer of North First street and Bower ave a year in the United States, hopes Martin Automobile day, Aug. 18. Lancaster said. nue. Fees in the amounts of $1 for to study the subject at Thamasart Adrian volunteer firemen an A transport truck, owned by university. books and $2 for towels must be swered two alarms last week. On Ideal Gas & Appliance company, She says she is proud of Thai Wednesday, Aug. 3, an auto own paid by all junior high students at time of registration. Optional land and Thai culture, and is most ed by Gayle Martin was destroy was threatening to explode after fees include student insurance, anxious to learn the American ed by a blaze caused by a faulty heat expansion of propane gas from the sun’s rays. $2; football insurance, $10; and way of life. She hopes to see a wheel bearing. Nyssans within hearing distance lot of the U. S., and among her activity ticket, $3. On Thursday afternoon the fire were of the opinion that some Students may wish to talk greatest desires is a chance to crew was summoned to the ranch thing was arriving from outer to their physical education in visit her two brothers in this owned by Mrs. W. W. Webb. A space, as the electronic siren on structors before purchasing gym country. fire burning along a ditch bank the new truck has the sound of clothes, the principal said. and straw field went out of con space vehicles seen and heard on All students are urged to regis Blood Drawing Nets trol, endangering a wheat field. television. ter before the opening day of 120 Units; Donors school on Aug. 29. NUMEROUS AREA RESIDENTS, many of them children, were on the scene at the Union Pacific depot as the big steam engine pulled into the sta tion Saturday afternoon. A typical sight was kids holding their hands over their ears as the mon ster's whistle blew loud and long — io them it was an unfamiliar sound. The train was about a Plans are complete for an Aug. 13-14 reunion of the NHS gradu ating class of 1956, it is announc ed by Mrs. Nadine Igo Sparks and Mrs. Pat Nicholson Savage, co- chairmen for the two-day event. A banquet will be served Sat urday evening at Moore hotel in Ontario with a social hour plan ned between 7 and 8 p m. A pic nic dinner for graduates and their families will be held at 1 o’clock Sunday afternoon on the high school grounds. All former teachers of the class Governor Mark O. Hatfield named Ben Allen, marketing are also invited to attend. Drouth Relief Measures Discussed By Area Stockmen and State Official Thunderegg Days—First Week in August Area Acreage Up 20 Percent Over 1965; Anticipate Harvest Completion by Sept. 10 Nyssa was host to over .3000 out-of-town guests during the past weekend. These arc from actual count, and not the usual wild estimate of a small-town official. Of these visitors, 450 were rockhounds, 2.300 who attended the rock exhibit and 613 on the Union Pacific Railroad steam engine train stop ping here for 45 minutes Saturday afternoon. a ♦ ♦ The rockhounds came from Visiting Rockhounds 20 states and three Canadian H provinces for the Thunderegg Express Appreciation (\)nvention The 2.300 viewers For City's Hospitality of the gems on display at the Thailand Miss Named AFS Exchange Student; To Live Wiih Beck Family Stockmen are also considering asking for relief under the emer gency livestock feed program available through the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation service. This relief can be author ized by Secretary of Agriculture Former NHS Students Orville Freeman upon recom mendation of Governor Hatfield Set Two-Day Reunion and approval of the State Dis Nyssa high school graduates aster committee. of 1961 are planning a reunion Under the program, government for this weekend, Aug. 13-14. according to Mrs. Patty Mi grain can be made available to chaelson Thiel and Mrs. Peggy cow-calf ranchers (not feeders) at 75 percent of the county support Yost Nielsen. David Moore will serve as rate. Because of the drouth situation, master of ceremonies during a banquet to be served Saturday Eastern Oregon cattlemen were evening at McGarvin's Smor- forced to pasture on hay meadows earlier this summer and this, THIS PICTURE WILL INTRODUCE Dr. and Mrs. James Reilly, gasbord in Caldwell. A pot luck picnic dinner is being coupled with a short crop of both area newcomer* from the state of Washington. Dr. Reilly recently planned at 1 o'clock Sunday hay and grain, has put the cattle joined Dr. Bert Ros* on the veterinarian staff at Treasure Valley afternoon in Nyssa south park, industry in a precarious position hospital, replacing Dr. Dwight Mason. The new doctor was gradu Graduates are urged to regis- for the winter ahead. ated from Washington State university School of Veterinary Medi ter any time Saturday at the The governor has recommend cine at Pullman and report* that he spent most of hi* lifetime in E. D. Michaelson home, located ed both grazing and grain relief Yakima Valley. Hi* wife is a native of the Seattle area. Th* couple at 218 North Sixth street in for Malheur county, as well as i* presently residing on th* Lawr*nc* Pace farm in the Apple Nyssa. grain relief for Wallowa. Valley community—Journal Photo. The cattlemen were expected to take unified action requesting use of grazing and hay lands idled by USDA diversion pro grams. % Given Recognition Mrs. Richard Gustavson and Mrs. Stanley Sisson of the spon soring Jay-C-Ettes report that 120 pints of blood were collected during the Aug. 3 visitation of the bloodmobile unit, with 19 would-be donors being rejected. Quota for this drawing was set at 150 pints plus an additional 20 percent (180 total) which was to have been sent to Vietnam. It is believed that the insufficient number of donors reporting was not from lack of interest but due to the fact that it is an extremely busy season for many residents. Another factor may have been the high temperatures which have prevailed in the area during the past several weeks. Pin recipients included Glenn McGinnis, three-gallon; Kenneth Saunders, Mark Moncur, Peg Zinn and William Fitzsimmons, two- gallon; Ione Storm and Dick Wal ters, one-gallon. The Jay-C-Ettes have expressed their appreciation to the Gate City Journal and have asked the pub lication to thank women of the LDS First ward Relief society, Girl Scouts of Troop 2, Nyssa Eagles and Jaycees. They also express appreciation to Mmes. Ted Morgan, Ralph G. Lawrence, E. D. Michaelson and David Sarazin and to all others who assisted in any way to make the project a success. Miss Pally Urry Granted Scholarship By Oregon Pareni-Teachers Congress Miss Patty Anne Urry has been awarded a teacher education scholarship from Oregon Congress of Parents and Teachers. Inc., according to a recent letter re ceived by NHS Principal Gene L. Chester from Mrs. Albert Gass- ner, president of the congress. PATTY URRY . . . Receive« Additional Award The scholarship, in a substan tial amount, is to be applied an nually on tuition, with provision that the student maintain the re quired grade point average at the college of her choice. Miss Urry is a 1966 graduate of Nyssa high school and daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Max W. Urry. Her father is foreman of the i Gate City Journal and her moth er serves as librarian for the city of Nyssa. Serve* on Journal Staff Patty, co - editor of the NHS Bulldog during the 1965-66 school year, is an accomplished pianist. During the month of June, she worked as a member of the Jour nal staff while the Ted Brammers were on vacation and is presently employed at Schoen Studios. Miss Urry ranked third scho lastically among 1966 seniors and also was Nyssa’s girl representa tive in this year’s Elks leadership contest. She plans to begin stu dies this fall at Eastern Oregon college in La Grande. Prior to the state PTA recogni tion, Patty was awarded a four- yea r full-tuition with partial fe« remission grant by the Oregon State Scholarship committee of the legislature.
