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Nyssa Gate City Journal The Sugar City THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL, NYSSA, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1966 Thunderegg Capital NUMBER 46 I Named Area Conservationist Sam Hartley Farm Practices Told nksgiving Service Planned Airlift Service Speeds Up Mail ciion With Clothing Drive To By Area Conservation Supervisors Fighting Men Nyssa and Adrian churches will be partici Who Judged Him Tri-Couniy Winner ear’s Union Thanksgiving service to be held American fighting forces over ednesday evening, Nov. 23, at Nyssa First seas are due to get faster service ng Give Thanks” is topic of the sermon to be Orville Jacobson of Faith Lutheran church ♦Other participating ministers will be Wallace Prowell of the host church, Elmer Rosen- kilde of Adrian Community, Ralph A. Lawrence of Nyssa eiia sented riday 8 p.m. for the ake It Easy,” to ’ ay and Friday, school cafetor- ' comedy is un Gary Clawson, tor, and Donald speech instruc- Methodist and Jack Jamison of Nyssa Church of the Nazarene. Also on the program will be choir and solo selections. There is a clothing collection project under way this year in conjunction with many Union Thanksgiving services throughout the nation. Area congregations are already preparing clothing to be taken to the local service. Local Goals Suggested a small town, entered around or the younger elections for the Adams and Lin the lead roles, medy cast are d Royce Bair. ed of the cast are 1, Darr Jensen, Gwen Nelson, Susan Hartley member of the ice staff, other ast include Dan- rt Ure, Bonnie n Haney, Peg- Somers, Junia Main, Roberta s Cruson, Leah thy Strickland. gency oison unly and Wildlife ation with Mal- e Oregon State Agriculture and Game commis- cing lethal bait eur county for edatory animals on of livestock laced in “out of and are posted Members of the Nyssa-Adrian Ministerial asosciation have set a suggested goal of 1000 pounds of clothing and $100 for the Church World Service project. Area residents having clothing to share may take it to their church this week. The clothes should be clean, mended and tied securely in a box. Those having only one or two articles may take them to the Wednesday evening service. Money gifts will also be ac cepted for help with transporta tion costs. The clothing will be picked up at Nyssa on Dec. 14, to be taken to the Church World Service center in Modesto, Calif. Hospital Directors Elected by Balloters Victor Haburchak, owner- oper ator of the Coast-to-Coast store, is returning to office as a member of Malheur Memorial hospital’s board of directors. He received 1130 votes cast by balloters within the district in the Nov. 8 election. New directors are Mural Lewis of Amalagamated Sugar company, 1114 votes, and Richard Miller, head of the Nyssa-Nampa Beet Growers’ research laboratory, with 913. Another candidate for one of the positions was William Willis of Adrian who received 885 votes. The three chosen directors will each serve four-year terms and will replace John Stam and Tom Drydale. Remaining with two years to serve are Ted Morgan and Ever ett Heldt. Gene Stunz is attorney for the hospital district. ation may be cting the local sistant, Chesley G. Leseberg Garage Westfall; Ron Arock, Ore., or Destroyed by Flames Late Monday afternoon a gar isor Darrell L age on the George Leseberg prop end, Ore. erty was gutted by a fire. A nearby worker, George Ship- BE GIVEN ley, summoned the Nyssa fire embers will re- men. Before the men arrived, 8 o’clock meet Shipley tried unsuccessfully to ing, Nov. 22, at put the blaze out with a garden nge hall. Guest hose. event will be Estimated damage was approxi unty extension mately $1,000. Mrs. Leseberg stated cause of the fire is un re asked to take known. The garage was located at 624 each. Re served follow- North Fourth street, just 20 feet from the house. Friends Begin Fund Drive Parents From Costa Rica Dale and Jeine Schraufnagel have started a ye for raising funds to bring Jeine’s parents, vencio Murillo, here from Sarchi, Costa Rica, became the bride of the NHS typing and jour- or on May 21 this year, is critically ill. She is ajor surgery Friday at Holy Rosary hospital d among hert----------------~' s is the pres Murillos are unable to quickly ents. raise the needed funds. transportation The Nyssa friends have set a Tiparative low $500 goal, enough to purchase a on most classes of mail through airlift on a space available basis. The information was recently re ceived by Postmaster J. Lee Dail and results from a new law that became effective Nov. 2. Included are: (1) First class mail including post cards and postals; (2) Second class mail in cluding newspapers of the week ly or daily variety featuring prin cipally local news; (3) Sound re cordings having the character of personal correspondence; (4) Par cels not exceeding five pounds in weight and 60 inches in length and girth combined. Servicemen in Vietnam have had free mailing privileges of letters and post cards and will now have the same on sound re cordings of personal correspond ence. The new airlift will be between all overseas post offices and the point of embarkation or debar kation within the 50 states. Rural Fire District Election Set Dec. 5 Nyssa Rural Fire Protection district’s election to fill a vacancy on the board of directors will be held Monday, Dec. 5, at Nyssa city hall. Present director, whose term expires Dec. 31, is Melvin Spitze. He was elected for a two - year term in 1964 to fill a vacancy created by the resignation of George Coleman. Any qualified elector of the fire district is eligible for a position on the board. A petition must be signed by at least 15 electors and presented to the secretary of the board at least 15 days prior to election day. Petition forms may be secured from Frank Parr at the Nyssa junior high school of fice or at his home. Polls will be open from 2 to 6 p.m. on Dec. 5, and election judges will be Wesley Browne and Ger rit Stam. WICS Seeks Girls For Job Corps Work Local girls eligible for women’s Job Corps training are now being recruited by Nyssa “Women in Community Service*’ (WICS). Job Corps training is open to girls between the ages of 16 and 21. Enrollees attend school in one of 11 women’s Job Corps centers located in larger cities. The girls will receive basic education, as well as individual specialized training. Job Corps women are trained in three areas including home making, employed worker and participant in citizenship affairs. Among local WICS are Mmes. Gene Chester, Steve Fonda, Ar mand Larive, Maylin Maxfield, Charles Quinowski, Grant Rine hart, Max Urry and William Wah- lert. Interested unemployed girls who are out of school, may con tact one of these women, or call the state employment office in Ontario. Crop Rotation, Land Leveling, Changes In Irrigation System Make It Possible Sam Hartley is one of those rare individuals who not only thinks conservation but really does something about it. This farmer who has quite an operation in the bend of the Owyhee river south of Nyssa, near Mitchell Butte, was a pioneer in soil and water conservation. In fact he started be fore the Adrian Soil Conservation district was formed in 1958. When he began operating* his present farm in 1950 there AEQ Pynnl were 375 acres being irrigated. ip&UU/TlJu Ulalll Fields were small, irrigation was done in many directions and there was only one head gate. Since then this winner of the district award, and later that of area 11 comprised of Malheur, Hareny, Grant and part of Baker county, has added 75 acres of ad ditional land that has been brought under water. The whole irrigation system has been reorganized. Leveling has been done, an inverted siphon under the Owyhee delivers water to 18 acres, over three miles of concrete lining has been put in, and 7360 feet of irrigation pipe installed. will be kept Prior to the •T. Dec. 10. I Nyssa S' Weather ! I Workmen Compensation Law Changes Require Checking by All Employers Oregon employers who employ one or more workmen will be affected by an important change in workmen’s compen sation law Jan. 1, 1967. The new provision is part of the 1965 law revision. On that date employers of one or more workmen must have workmen’s compensation insurance coverage, reports the Workmen’s Compensation♦' board, regulatory agency cre elusions, but to be safe, the board ated by the legislature. suggests employers check. If they At present employers of are required to have coverage, more than three workmen are the board recommends obtaining workmen’s compensation insur covered. Organizations Donate $155 be Santa's fint Nyna for the !>od of transpor- ept secret now b>7 interesting Made to TVCC For Migrant Aid Treasure Valley Community college received word recently that a federal grant in the amount of $199,453 was being made for aid to migrants. The notice was in the form of a telegram from Senator Wayne Morse and Congressman Al Ull man. It stated it was from the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) and to be used “for mi grant adult education and self help housing assistance in Nyssa and Ontario. A check with Robert Patterson, Saves Water and Soil director of migrant education in This has cut down loss of water the area, revealed the telegram by seepage, from gopher holes, was in error in including Ontario evaporation, and has saved soil being eligible for the “self-hous that otherwise would have been ing” portion of the program, due SAM HARTLEY, a farmer in the Adrian Soil and Water Conser washed off the sides and “gone ' to it being too large population vation district, was one of 11 outstanding cooperator nominees to down the river.” wise to qualify. receive honors last Thursday evening at the awards banquet of the Tail water from 71 acres in Of the amount, $17,000 has been 18ih annual meeting of the Oregon Association of Conservation three different fields is picked up 1 set aside for technical assistance districts. Here he displays his walnut plaque, plated with gold and and reused in lower elevations. in advising applicants for loans insribed to read, "OACD—Oregon Association of Soil and Water Hartley can also pump water • for self-housing through 30-year, Conservation Districts — 1966 — Outstanding SWCD Cooperator— from the Owyhee that forms a i low - interest loans from FHA. Area 11—Sam Hartley." With the camera pointed south, the half - circle of his farm on the ‘ Much of the work would be done by the migrant families with photo below shows a portion of the Hartley farm nestled in the south and east. A crop rotation plan is strictly ’ supervision also furnished Owyhee hiils, with the Owyhee river in the foreground. adhered to by Hartley. He keeps s throughout the first year. alfalfa in half the time, He ■ Patterson said last summer keeps this in hay and seed for ’ there were about 1‘5 families in one year, one year potatoes, one ’ the Nyssa-Adrian area who in- in sugar beets, one in onions and l dicated an interest in this phase corn and then back to alfalfa i of the program. However, he again. These apply to different said it would probably be next fields—not to the whole farm on summer before any actual con a one-crop basis yearly. struction would start. Other phases of the program Various Tests Made covered by the grant are 30 scho Soil samples are taken each larships at the college (books, year to determine fertilizer needs. tuition, fees) with 16 in school In addition, leaf analysis tests now. The training is vocational are made throughout the growing or technical in most cases under season to determine further fer Jeff Ford at the college. If the tilizer requirements. And close applicants have finished high supervision is given to irrigating school and capable of going into to be sure that adequate water is academic training, they are elig gotten to tne crops when needed ible. without giving them an overdose. Another phase provides for es Hartley, whose farm is a pic tablishing community centers in ture-place from the elevations of Ontario, Nyssa and Weiser with the surrounding hills, is aided by a director and an aide being avail his wife, Allie, who, as he puts it, able in the afternoons and eve '♦“never lets anv grass grow un nings to help with any problems der her feet;” his son, Brent, with arising. The one in Nyssa will AREA COLLEGE STUDENTS TO STAGE DRAMATIC PLAY a college degree in agriculture, be in the old Catholic church un who is a fulltime student of soils “All My Sons,” one of the most management and irrigation water der the direction of Larry Sights. • • • Mrs. Chris Valdez will be work widely acclaimed dramatic suc management. ing as an aide. The building is cesses to have reached the Ameri Max. Min. Prec. Date being readied now. — can theater in recent years, will Have Feeding Operation 27 Nov. 9 _.... . .... 42 Eligibility can be ascertained be staged Thursday, Friday and Another son, Mark, who has his .22 40 31 Nov. 10 by checking with the director. Saturday evenings at Treasure own farming operation, joins 45 34 .23 Nov. 11 .24 Valley Community college in On with his father each year in Nov. 12 _____ 58 35 feeding about 600 head of choice Radio Club Members 57 .02 tario. Nov. 13 45 Curtain time will be 8 o’clock calves out to choice beef. Need Elect New Officers 48 .06 Nov. 14 ......... 60 47 .01 in the east lounge of the adminis less to say, all the manure from Nov. 15 _____ 62 Members of State Line Citizens tration building. The production this operation goes back into the Band Radio club recently elected Owyhee Reservoir Storage Nov. 14, 1966... 267,180 Acre Ft. is under direction of Fred Nor soil. new officers. President is Keith This is truly an operation that Young of Payette. Others chosen Nov. 14, 1965 519,650 Acre Ft. man. tends to conserve the resources are Bill Marostica of Nyssa, vice of this river bottom farm, where president; Mrs. Bill Marostica, by when most of the adult popu secretary; Jim Buttram of Fruit lation has gone and it is operated land, treasurer; Mrs. Dean Pettet by the sons and grandsons when of Ontario, activity chairman. food may be scarce and the far Next meeting will be at 8 p.m. mer “really appreciated.” Wednesday, Nov. 23, at Nyssa city We take off our hats to this hall. Guest speaker will be Ser farm family and those like it geant Russell Haynes of the Ore throughout the nation. gon State Police department. ome country, the round-trip plane ticket for only one —but at the same time are hoping to raise twice that amount. Job’s Daughters of Bethel 33 started the ball rolling with a $20 contribution, the Nyssa Chamber of Commerce has added $50, Sal vation Army, $10, and the Jay- C-Ettes have given $25. Twenty - five dollars each has been added by Men’s Holy Name society and St. Bridget’s Altar society of the local Catholic church. Four collection stations have been established so that funds may be added quickly. Checks marked “special fund” may be left at the Nyssa branch of First National Bank of Oregon. Contributions are being accept- i ed from both organizations and ' individuals and may also be left at the high school office, St. Bridget’s Catholic church or at : the Coast-to-Coast store. J 4 » A POST OFFICE SCENE —A« member» of the Nolan, Mardi Tensen, Nancy Wilson and Janis NJHS AU-American club and Adviser Irl Nolan Takami. The student* were checking every source mail packages of Christmas cookies to Nyssa ser for a list of names and addresses. This particular vicemen stationed in Vietnam and other area*. group of packages went io Ted Krause, William Accepting their holiday decorated containers is Church, Jesse Pierce Jr„ C. O. Carroll. Gerald D. Glen Frederiksen of the postal staff. The cookie Finch. Sage Hosaka. Richard Young, Jack E. Dail, sender* are (left to right) Janet Takami. Jan Pe- Joe Grijalva Jr.. Robert Ritchie. R. A. Skogan and cora. Mary Haburchak. Jeanine Saito, Adviser Kenneth E. Gifford.—Journal Photo. The board is alerting employers early so that they may obtain coverage from the State Compen sation department or private car riers before Jan. 1. Employers of one or more workmen—with few exclusions— who are not protected by work men's compensation insurance on Jan. 1, may find themselves le gally bound for claims of their injured workmen. Farmer* Excluded Until 1968 Employers engaged in farming are not affected by the law until Jan. 1, 1968. There are other ex- ance from the carrier of their choice before Jan. 1. For additional details, the board advises writing for its pamphlet regarding employer coverage to Workmen’s Compensation Board, Labor and Industries Building, Salem, Ore. 97310. BLOOD DRAWING SLATED Th« Red Cross bloodmobile will be in Ny**a from 1:30 to 6 p.m. on Wednesday. Nov. 30 at the Eagle* hall. All «ligibla area donor* are urged to keep the date in mind. ■