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Nyssa Gate City Journal Th» Sugar City____________ THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL. NYSSA. OREGON. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17. 1968____________ Thuaderagg Capital anksgiving Service Planned Airlift Service Speeds Up Mail iction With Clothing Drive To Fighting Men Named Area Coaservatioaist Nyssa and Adrian churches will be partici rear’s Union Thanksgiving service to be held American fighting forces over are due to get faster service 1 Wednesday evening, Nov. 23, at Nyssa First seas on most classes of mail through ing 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 reila esenied Friday I 8 p.m. for the •ake It Easy,” to jay and Friday, e school cafetor- 1 comedy is un Gary Clawson, •tor, and Donald J 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 I a small town, centered around for the younger Belections for the Adams and Lin the lead roles, imedy cast are nd Royce Bair. tmed L of the cast are [el. Darr Jensen, [ Gwen Nelson, Susan Hartley In. ■ member of the rice staff, other past include Dan- [bert Ure, Bonnie |wn Haney, Feg te Somers, Junia Main, Roberta Les Cruson, Leah pthy Strickland. igency oison puniy ■h and Wildlife [ration with Mal le Oregon State Agriculture and e Game commis- pcing lethal bait hour county for fedatory animals Bon of livestock 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. [laced in “out of and are posted tns. rmation may be ^acting the local isistant, Chesley G. Leseberg Garage , Westfall; Ron [ Arock, Ore.; or Destroyed by Flames Late Monday afternoon a gar risor Darrell I. age on the George Leseberg prop Bend, Ore. erty was gutted by a fire. A nearby worker, George Ship- 3 BE GIVEN ley, summoned the Nyssa fire members will re- men. Before the men arrived, n 8 o’clock meet- Shipley tried unsuccessfully to iing, Nov. 22, at put the blaze out with a garden inge hall. Guest hose. event will be Estimated damage was approxi ounty extension mately $1,000. Mrs, Leseberg stated cause of the fire is un are asked to take known. The garage was located at 624 ikies each. Re- x> served follow- North Fourth street, just 20 feet from the house. Friends Begin Fund Drive I Parents From Cosia Rica Dale and Jeine Schraufnagel have started a lye for raising funds to bring Jeine’s parents, Evencio Murillo, here from Sarchi, Costa Rica, became the bride of the NHS typing and jour- tor on May 21 this year, is critically ill. She is major surgery Friday at Holy Rosary hospital nd among herf-------------------------- s is the pres Murillos are unable to quickly ents. raise the needed funds. transportation The Nyssa friends have set a nparative low $500 goal, enough to purchase a 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 I 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. Michael, chair- iristmas parade, 11 have a very rith those who freed to finance he stated that added daily to ho have already W'U be kept Prior to the F. Dec. 10. Sam Hartley Farm Practices Told Ry Area Conservation Supervisors Who Judged Him Tri-Couniy Winner 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 were 375 acres being irrigated. Fields were small, irrigation was done in many directions $199,453 Grant Made to TVCC and there was only one head gate. Since then this winner of the 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 Tailwater 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 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 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 hills, with the Owyhee river in the foreground. adhered to by Hartley. He keeps 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 dicated an interest in this phase corn and then back to alfalfa 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 the 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 any 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 the direction of Larry Sights. “All My Sons,” one of the most management and irrigation water der Mrs. Chris Valdez will be work widely acclaimed dramatic suc management. ing as an aide. The building la Max. Min. Prec. cesses to have reached the Ameri Dal» being readied now. Have Feeding Operation — can theater in recent years, will 42 27 Nov. 9____ Eligibility can be ascertained be staged Thursday, Friday and Another son, Mark, who has his .22 Nov. 10 40 31 by checking with the director. 34 .23 | Saturday evenings at Treasure own farming operation, joins Nov. 11 . 45 58 .24 Valley Community college in On with his father each year in Nov. 12 35 feeding about 600 head of choice Radio Club Members 57 45 .02 tario. Nov. 13 Curtain time will be 8 o’clock calves out to choice beef. Need Elect New Officers 60 48 .06 Nov 14 62 Nov. 15___ 47 .01 in the east lounge of the adminis less to say, all the manure from 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 Nov. 14, 1965 519,650 Acre Ft. man. This is truly an operation that Young of Payette. Others chosen tends to conserve the resources are Bill Marostica of Nyssa, vice i of this river bottom farm, where president; Mrs. Bill Marostica, by when most of the adult popu- secretary; Jim Buttram of Fru!i- , lation has gone and it is operated land, treasurer; Mrs. Dean P-itet | by the sons and grandsons when of Ontario, activity chairman. J 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 I farm family and those like it geant Russell Haynes of the Ore- throughout the nation. ■ gon State Police department. 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 7300 feet of irrigation pipe installed. Nyssa Weather. . 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 I have workmen’s compensation insurance coverage, reports I the Workmen’s Compensation ♦ I 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. »me country, the round-trip plane ticket for only one — but at the same time are hoping to raise twice that amount. Parade isured NUMBER 46 Organizations Donate $155 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 A POST OFFICE SCENE — Az member» of the left at the Nyssa branch of First NJHS All-American club and Advi»er Irl Nolan National Bank of Oregon. mail package» of Chriitm«» cookie* to Ny»»a aer- Contributions are being accept vicemen »tationed in Vietnam and other area». ed from both organizations and Accepting their holiday-decorated container« 1* individuals and may also be left Glen Frederik»en of the poctal »taff. The cookie at the high school office, St. lender* are (left to right) Janet Tekami, Jan Pe- Bridget’s Catholic church or at cora. Mary Haburchak. Jeanine Sailo. Adviier the Coast-to-Coast store. Nolen, Merdi Tensen, Nancy Wilson and Janis Takami. The students were checking every source for a list of names and addresses. This particular group of packages went to Ted Krause, William Church, Jesse Pierce Jr. C. O. Carroll. Gerald D. Finch, Sage Hosaka, Richard Young, Jack E. Dail, Joe Grijalva Jr. Robert Ritchie, R. A. Skogan and Kenneth E. Gifford.—Journal Photo. The board is alerting employers j 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— i who are not protected by work men’s compensation insurance on Jan. 1. may find themselves le- ; gaily 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 The Red Cross bloodmobila will be in Nyssa from 1:30 to 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 30 at the Eagles hall. All eligible area donors are urged to keep the date in mind.
