THURSDAY. AUGUST 25. 1968
THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL. NYSSA. OREGON
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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.
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