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
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Eligibility can be ascertained
be
staged
Thursday,
Friday
and
Another
son,
Mark,
who
has
his
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by
checking with the director.
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Nov. 11
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feeding about 600 head of choice Radio Club Members
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Nov. 13
Curtain time will be 8 o’clock calves out to choice beef. Need Elect New Officers
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.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.
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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.