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THURSDAY. AUGUST 25. 1968 THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL. NYSSA. OREGON PAGE TWO THE GATE CITY JOURNAL TED M. BRAMMER. Editor and Publi»her NATIONAL NEWSPAPER I *^ c 6’6 h muHlJIlJhW.IlLIltl SUBSCRIPTION RATES Single Copies 10c In Malheur County, Oregon, and Payette and Canyon Counties, Idaho: One Year M 00 Six Months ------ $2.79 Elsewhere in the U. S. A.: Per Year $5.00 Six Months------ $3.00 Published Every Thursday at Nyssa. Malheur County. Oregon Entered at the Post Office at Nyssa. Oregon, for Transmission Through the United States Mails, as a Second Class Matter Under the Act of March 3, 1879. METHODIST WOMEN HOLD MYF Group Slates JOINT SESSION IN PARK Movie Presentation Members of two afternoon cir Members of the Methodist cle» of the Methodist Woman’s Youth Fellowship group are upon- Society of Christian Service met soring u full-length movie en Aug. 18 ut the south park. Due titled "A Man Called Peter,” to vacations and work schedule«, which will lx* shown at 8 o'clock only 10 women were present, six Sunday evening, Aug. 28 ut the representing the Kay Greene church. circle and four from the Mnrgarct The picture, filmed in techni Martin group. color, is based on a book written The afternoon was spent so by Catherine Marshall who telLa cially and refreshments of cookies | the story of her husband, Peter and punch were served by the Murshall, U. S. Senate chaplain. hostesses, Mrs. W. W. Foster and Mrs. Wilbur Coffman. Clayton Jensen returned home The session ended rather Aug. 17 after spending u week abruptly due to the arrival of a with his son and daughter-in-law, severe dust storm and a few Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Jensen and drops of rain. four sons in Denver. Promotion Program To Be Held Sunday At Nazarene Church A Sunday school promotion program will be held Sunday. Aug. 28. at Nyssa Church of the Nazarene, it is announced by Pas tor Jack Jamison. A combined opening exercise will be held in the sanctuary at 9 45 am. when Superintendent Don Wilson will present promo tion certificates to pupils grad uating to another department There will be a “special feature” for all children in attendance during the program. “Our Privilege of Walking With God” is topic of the message to be delivered by Pastor Jamison during the 11 o’clock worship METHODIST WOMEN PLAN TWO-DAY RUMMAGE SALE Members of the Woman’s So- ' ciety of Christian Service of Nys sa Methodist church are sponsor ing a rummage sale to be held (U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT. Aug. 22. 1966) Friday and Saturday, Aug. 26-27. A plain-spoken woman has written a letter to the editor The sale is scheduled between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. that is attracting widespread attention. In this letter Mrs. Irene Palmer of De Quincy. La., chal and will be held in the church lenges the theory—often stated by top officials—that hard basement. À Down-lo-Earih Look al a Growing Problem in Modern American Life ships and poor living conditions explain riots, crime, and growing dependence on government doles. To Mrs. Palmer, this is nonsense. Crippled, forced to leave school at 17, Mrs. Palmer has worked hard, without luxuries, but: “You will never see us in a marching demonstration line wanting something for nothing. We’re too proud for that.” FARM BUREAU FURROW By LOU NORRIS. Director Tax and Legislative Affairs Following are excerpt» from up town when I get hot and turn a letter to "The Beaumont | on the water hydrants, nor start Windfall to Counties At the insistence of the Asso (Texas) Enterprise" from Mr«. rioting and looting stores. Do ciation of Oregon Counties, the Irene Palmer of De Quincy, La^ you see any civil-rights workers and published in "The Enter doing this kind of work, trying 1965 Oregon Legislature amended the County School Fund law. The prise" on Aug. 3, 1966: to add to their income? If you amendment froze the amount the These marches, demonstrations, do, show me. counties were required to levy riotings, lootings, police slayings I have two wonderful children for the school fund to the amount and the such makes me literally who were reared most of their levied in 1964-65. sick, especially the reasons our lives in hot, crowded apartments. The county school fund is the Government officials are trying They know what it is to do with remains of an antiquated statute to cram down our throats as out a lot of the better things of causes of these law-breaking epi life. If we could have afforded which, prior to the 1965 amend ments, required the counties to sodes. just one vacation for them, it i make a levy of $10 per child be Sir. I know what hard work, would have been a luxury, yet tween the ages of 4 and 20, but hardship, pain and suffering is. neither are rioters, rock-throwers, the amount levied could not be I had polio at age 5 months which nor lawbreakers. less than the per capita amount left my left leg one and one-half I would like to show some of levied in 1919. inches shorter than my right and the officials in Washington, the County officials complained about one-third the size. marchers, rioters, and all those that under the old law, in some My ft ther died at 6 p.m. Sun who have their hand stretched day in .935. was buried Monday out for a handout, some of the' counties the entire annual 6 on my seventeenth birthday. My handicapped people who are mak percent increase allowed in brother died at 5 a.m. Tuesday ing it on their own and not ask their tax base was absorbed by and was buried Wednesday, leav ing Mr. Nobody for anything . . . the mandatory school fund levy because of the increase in the ing me with two small sisters and number of children. "Excuse« for Riot« my mother to support. Are Tommyrot" Since the county school fund is At 17 I was not a drop-out in Sir, can our President, Vice part of the county tax base, the school. With no education — not enough, anyway — no experience President, any civil-rights worker, net effect of the amendment was and with only one good leg, I quit agitator, or whomever they may to make more money available for county purposes. school and went to work to sup be, stand up and look us handi caps, whose very life itself has But the amendment went fur port a family. I didn’t have a teen-age life because my working been a struggle for most of us, ther than the legislature had an hours were always from 10 to 20 in the eye and try to cram down ticipated. In April of this year our throats an idea as idiotic as the attorney general ruled that hours a day. hot weather, crowded living quar In 1948, I got my right hand— ters, low income, hard working forest service receipts and other my working hand; I’m right- conditions and all the other ex miscellaneous revenues could be handed—in an electric ice shaver cuses they try to pass on to the used by the county to offset the and mangled it. I was doubtful people as being reasons for these county school fund levy. Under Oregon law, 25 percent whether I’d ever be able to use riots we are having? I for one it again, but after much pain and cannot nor will I swallow such of the money received by the counties from the sale of timber suffering I learned to use what tommyrot. on federal forest reserves is ear I had left of a hand. This left me You may see us handicaps be marked for schools. with one good leg and one good come furious when we see a gang The attorney general's opin hand, but I didn’t give up. of able-bodied men and women, ion state« these funds may be "Follow Me Just One Day—" whether they are black, white, used to offset the county school I would like for Earl Warren, purple or spotted, running up and fund, thus giving an unexpected President Johnson, H. H. Humph down our nation saying I want and unintended windfall io the rey, Martin Luther King, and all this, gimme that, without lifting counties. the hell-raising juveniles to come a finger to earn it, but you will School districts in preparing to my home and follow me just never see us in a marching dem one day. I can guarantee that onstration line wanting something their budgets anticipated their they wouldn’t have enough pep for nothing. We’re too proud for papers, until I just had to say left to go on a demonstration, that. marching or rock-throwing party. I believe a great lesson could my piece. My day begins at 4 a.m. and be learned from the handicaps. So I will close and leave an ends about 8 or 9 p.m., when my First, faith; then courage, pa open invitation for the President, health permits. I do my own tience, love, kindness, long suffer H. H. H., Martin Luther King and housework, cooking, ironing, ing, pride, competence and all the his followers, the agitators or washing, sewing, raising flowers things that make life worthwhile. whoever it may be who thinks and a garden. In fact, for the; Sir, I didn’t intend to write a it takes a crime wave to make past three weeks I have been newspaper when I started, but I a living in this old world, to come standing in a hot kitchen, over a have watched so much of these and follow in my footsteps just hot stove, canning my vegetables. disgraceful crime waves, which one day and I’ll show them what Have an air conditioner? Are are so useless, on television, and can be done if anyone has the you kidding? Neither do I run, read so much about it in the I get-up about them to try. INTRODUCING PASTOR and MRS. ORVILLE A. JACOBSON, who on Wednesday, Aug. 17. 1966. moved Into the Faith Lutheran church parsonage and became residents of Nyssa. The Rev. Jacob son assumed pastoral duties of the church last Sunday and an nounces that at the present time, worship service is being held at 8:30 each Sunday morning. Announcement of other services will be made as soon as a regular schedule can be worked out. Pastor Jacobson is a native of Minnesota and moved with his par ents to Bellingham. Wash., when he was eight years old. Ho was graduated from high school there in 1957, and the following year studied at Lutheran Bible institute in Seattle. In 1962 ho was grad uated from Pacific Lutheran university and the following year en rolled in Luther Theological seminary at St. Paul. Minn. He served his internship at Bethlehem Lutheran church in Kalispell. Mont., and on May 29 this year was graduated from Luther seminary with a bachelor of divinity degree. Mrs. Jacobson is the former Kathryn E. Belgum of Spokane and became the wife of a minister's son on June 29. 1963. The new Nyssa pastor is a son of the Rev. and Mrs. Oscar A. Jacobson, now residing at Silverton. Ore__ Staff Photo. SUNDAY VISITORS Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schilling and sons visited Sunday with her daughters. Miss Carolyn Bohan- J non at Caldwell, Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Auker and son at Nampa GUESTS IN LEWIS HOME Recent visitors in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ray C. Lewis were Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Ashby and boys of Redwood City, Calif., Mr. and Mrs. Tom Lewis and Miss Fay Hallburg of Poulsbo, Wash Family gatherings were held dur j ing their visit in this area ami Nyssans attending included Mr and Mrs. Mural l^ewis and grand- 1 children, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Lewis and girls, Mrs. Gladys Kessler and family, Mr. and Mrs. Joel Mit- | ehell and family. Rummage Sale F riday—Saturday AUGUST 26 and 27 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. METHODIST CHURCH BASEMENT - Sponsored by — W.S.C.S. Mr. Retailer: meet Oregon’s newest "money” LETTER To the Editor Box 697 Fallon Nev. 8940»! full allocation from the county Aug. 19, 1966 school fund as well as the 25 per cent of the money from the fed The Gate City Journal eral forest reserve. Nyssa, Oregon In Marion county, for example, ■ Gentlemen: the commissioners notified the: Attached is my check for $5 00 school districts they intended to use the 25 percent forest reserve subscription renewal for your very fin* paper. It is truly Am money as an pffset. The result is that approximate erican. Sad to say, there are ly $112,000 less will be available fewer like it with each passing to the school districts in Marion year. county, all of which will be avail-' Don’t ever change your editor able for expenditures by Marion ials; we thoroughly enjoy them. county. Voters in that county this i Yours truly, year decisively turned down a Mrs. M. C. Leveaux proposal to increase the county tax base. It is difficult to follow the IN APPRECIATION attorney general's reasoning as I wish to express my apprecia to how funds already statutorily tion to Drs. K. E. Kerby and K. A. earmarked for schools could be Danford and to all the nurses at used to offset another tax which Malheur Memorial for their pro also is required by law to be fessional care and considerations levied for schools. while I was hospitalized. I also We don’t know whether the want to thank my friends for get- attorney general’s interpretation well messages and visitations is correct, but if it is the 1967 which helped greatly in making Oregon Legislature should correct my recent hospital stay and time the statute so that it can be inter of convalescence more pleasant. preted only as it was intended. —Mrs. Lois Counsil. Beginning this Fall, it will be the convenient way to buy, for several hundred thousand Oregon consumers—for clothing, meals, appli ances, gasoline, transportation, services—al most everything. First National’s BankAmericard brings a con venient retail credit system to nearly all Ore gon businessmen and professionals. 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