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Nyssa Gate City Journal J VOLUME LIX 1967 Stork Derby In 15th Running Starts Sunday The Sugar City THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL, NYSSA. OREGON. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1966 Arvid tv ft Dvpivt* Proposed Addition to Honpitul Wide-Open Race The race is open to anyone wishing to use the hospital facili ties for this purpose. There arc no racial or religious barriers and no entry fee. Nor is there any geographical limitations. Entrants muy be Nyssans, Oregonians or from any other state. There is a definite time limit for which the awards are given the event must tuke place in 19(17. The hospital offers $50 on ex penses for the winner, the local (Nyssa) physicians will knock $50 off their bill where the mother is their patient, A N-D—there is a “Heap of Other Loot" for the baby and parents. For a complete list of the don ors and gifts offered by Nyssans see page six of this issue of the Journal. For information of those de siring to enter next year's con test, the best medical authorities say it takes time Normally, plans should lie made in— say three months from now! Bank Manager Ronald E. Young To Leave Nyssa Ronald E. Young, manager of the local bank, announced Wed nesday that he would be moving to The Dalles in January to as sume a similar position there. He was recently selected as president of the local Chamber of Commerce for the 1967 year, a position from which he resigned at the Wednesday meeting. Young said it was a nice promo tion for him but that he and his family liked Nyssa and hated to leave. The family will be moving in March during spring school vacation after he has secured suit able housing in his new location and has sold his home here on Reece avenue. Tlie First National Bank of Ore gon home office has made no an nouncement as to his successor here. Dale Adams is the new vice president of the Nyssa C of C and will probably take over as presi dent. A new member will be se lected at the Jan. 6 board meeting. TB, Health Officials Urge Prompt Payment For Christmas Seals M rs. Madge Flegel of Ontario, representative director for the Malheur County council, Oregon Tuberculosis and Health associa tion, reports that so far this year the Christmas seal drive total for the eastern region is $18,415.67. By this time I m I ye.u. $18,383.87 had been received in the area comprising Baker, Malheur, Mor row, Umatilla, Union and Wallo wa counties. This represents 80 percent of the total 1965 seal in come. Malheur county residents will soon be receiving colorful remin ders about Christmas seals from the eastern region office of the association in La Grande. The re minders are also pleas asking those who received seals to send contributions. Those who have already sent their payments, but received re minders a week or more later, are asked to notify the association immediately so that records can be corrected. Contributions and other cor respondence should be mailed to Anthony F. Haberlach, Program Director, Eastern Region, Oregon TB and Health Association, P. O. Box 847, La Grande, Ore. 97850. NUMBER 52 Babson Sees Bigger War in '67; Taxes Up on All Levels; Further Wage Rises Causing Unemployment, Rankruptcy Urges Businessmen and Investors to Go Slow Through Uncertainties of the Year Winner and Parents To Get Many Prizes The 15th annual Stork Derby, sponsored l>y Malheur Memorial hospital, Nyssa physicians and lo cal business firms gets under way one minute after midnight Satur day. The rules are the same as in the previous 14 years. The winner must arrive after the starting date, be of natural birth and born in the local hospital. The attend ing physician must certify the exact time of birth. In the very unlikely case of a tie, gifts will lie divided equally. Thunderegg Capital By ROGER W. BABSON Founder. Publishers' Financial Bureau, Inc.. Massachusetts The close of 1966 marks the 70th consecutive month in the life span of the longest business boom of all time for the American economy. However, “trees do not grow to the sky.” Already, signs of deterioration in the expansive vigor that characterized the earlier phase of the business upsweep have been increasing in 1966. Hence, the outlook for business and finance in 1967 is of greater-than-usual importance. Lest readers of this column be tempted to “push the panic button,” however, let me state that it would be unwise to expect a major depression in 1967. Our greatly expanded eco nomy still has a considerable degree of momentum. The spot light on 1967, therefore, should focus upon those factors which are likely to cause a breathing spell in economic activity. Politicians and labor leaders have a phobia against even a hesitancy in business, and rush headlong into measures de signed to treat a case of pneumonia when cold pills would be more appropriate. 1 Although business and financial problems loom large in * the prospects for 1967, I must warn readers that the greatest danger for the year ahead does not exist on the do mestic front. Surely it will be developments abroad that will hold the gravest threat to our country. These could be eco nomic as well as military or political. 9 I see no war between the United States and Russia in • 1967. However, tensions between the two world leaders THE ARCHITECTS DRAWING pictured above shows what the may seem to reach the breaking point as the Kremlin “goes Malheur Memorial hospital would look like when completed, if all out” to create diversions to our efforts in Vietnam. Look voters of the district approve a bond election for the addition of for Moscow to throw salt on festering wounds in the Middle a nursing home wing Jan. 10. At the top is Alberta avenue, to the East, Africa and Germany. upper left a faint outline of the LDS church on the west. The O I am also hopeful that a direct clash between Red China addition would be onclosod inside the broken line areas shown by Voters of Malheur Memorial hospital district are again and the U. S. can be avoided in 1967. Internal dissen Numbers 1 and 2. Area 1 would house the recreation and dining reminded of the bond election Tuesday, Jan. 10. 1967. It will sions are rampant throughout Mainland China, and a great facilities with additional beds in the narrow section underneath j be held in the little theater room of the high school from scramble for power is in full swing. Sabre-rattling may help the figure 1. Area 2 would be composed of beds, therapy and re to unify the people; but pressing problems of low producti ception rooms. The addition would house 30 more beds for 8 a m. to 8 p.m. vity, plus the demands of her nuclear program, should re The purpose is to decide if the board shall be empowered nursing home patients, more than double the floor space and pro to issue and sell bonds in the amount of $321,116 for the con strain Red China from direct attack upon the United States. vide additional black-topped parking areas. The present hospital A The struggle for leadership of the Communist world is the result of contributions of area residents ranging from a few struction of a 30-bed nursing*' camp will continue unabated throughout 1967. Full io thousands of dollars. The drive was spearheaded by the Nyssa wing addition to the existing MALE OPERATOR JOINS STAFF AT BEAUTY NOOK political attack will be mounted by the Kremlin against Pe Lions club in the late 1940's to secure a hospital, and after repeated hospital. Another "first” in Nyssa, as far king. It will be touch and go, however, whether Russia can failures a Mr. Barr was retained to direct the drive which resulted I Total cost of the addition is as can be determined, is “Ernie,” persuade her wavering satellites to sign a final manifesto in $250.000 in cash and pledges for construction of a 32-bed itruc- estimated at $450,116, but ap a male beauty operator who joins ' reading Red China out of the Party. plication for a grant of $129,000 ture. Later, following a polio epidemic in Nyssa a lecond drive the staff at Alice Neiger’s Beauty was conducted by Barr and volunteer solicitors and another $100. | has been approved by the federal C Recent elections in West Germany have fanned the em- Nook. 000 raised with the result of anoihor 10-bed addition. According to government under the Hill-Bur- bers of nationalism into a tiny flame. This has surely He comes to this area from I ton act and would be available Dr. K. E. Kerby, actual construction was begun in 1949 and the for use toward the total if the Portland and specializes in the thrown a scaje into Russian leaders. I predict that they will building completed for occupancy in 1951. The present board of new Sassoon cuts (the women’s take a harder line against Germany in 1967 than in some time. ■ bond issue is approved locally. bard -headed business men is composed of John Siam, chairman; hair-dos with sideburns). Ernie is I feel that we should particularly watch General de Gaulle, Everett Heldt. secretary: Ted Morgan, treasurer; Tom Drydale and Background Given also taking appointments for per who is playing closer and closer to Moscow from month to Vic Haburchak. members. It Is their thinking the time has arrived At the beginning of the opera manent waves, shampoos and month. for another addition to the hospital to care for the increase in the tion of the hospital in 1951 occu other beauty shop services. C Heavily armed with Soviet weapons, the Arabs of the patient load of older folks with funds provided through Medicare. pancies of 50 percent and more Middle East — squared off against Israel — present a were common. This provided NEW YEAR'S EVE EVENT grave threat to world peace. Nevertheless, I do not believe funds for costs of current opera SLATED AT STAKE CENTER that Russia or the United States can afford a direct confron tion plus debt retirement. But A New Year’s Eve dance, spon with the use of new miracle drugs sored by the Nyssa LDS stake, tation at this time; hence my forecast that the smoldering and changes in thinking on treat- will be held between the hours conflagration there will not erupt into World War III. j ment of patients the time-stay of 9 p.m. and 12:30 a.m. at the •7 While all reasonable people are hoping for a genuine became shorter and shorter—thus stake center on Alberta avenue. '* peace in Vietnam, I predict that the issue will not be According to Nyssa Postmaster Lee Dail, vandals have ! cutting income. A buffet dinner, hats and noise resolved in 1967. Though the tide of battle is swinging in our struck again. This time it was the theft of a mailbox from By 1955 the hospital was oper- makers are on the Saturday eve favor, we may be forced to increase our commitment in order one of the rural routes. The boxes are protected by federal I ating at a loss, which condition ning agenda. to retain this upper hand. law. and pranksters or vandals who damage or destroy them continued to exist until 1959 when Q I predict, therefore, that military spending will be raised or their contents are subject to a heavy fine or even impris the hospital district was formed in 1967. This can help soften the impact of any easing ♦— onment, Dail said. and local taxes used to help de in the private sector of the economy. The law reads, “Whoever Nyssa Area Glows fray expenses. It also enabled the Q Turning now to domestic conditions, I foresee a definite board to pay off the balance of a wilfully or maliciously in deceleration in business activity in 1967. The fantastic $35,000 mortgage held by Connec jures, tears down or destroys With Yule Displays boom is in need of a rest. Instead of the strong uptrend of any letterbox or other recep It appears that residents of ticut Mutual Life Insurance com recent years, I look for a high level of industrial production tacle intended or used for the re Nyssa and the surrounding area pany. ceipt or delivery of mail on any really had the holiday spirit this Revenue From Increased Taxes early in the year; but unless some new stimulus is introduced, mail route, or breaks open the year when it came to outdoor I fear that a cresting-over pattern is likely to develop as 1967 Since 1959 the average occu same wilfully or maliciously in decorating for others to enjoy. progresses. And it wasn’t done for prizes, pancy rate has been slightly over jures, defaces or destroys any IQ I forecast a continuation of the tug of war between in- 30 percent which is below the mail deposited therein, shall be because to knowledge of the Jour- flation and deflation in 1967. Tight credit, and increased break-even point. Each successive ■ nal publishers, there was no con fined not more than $1,000 or im hospital board has been faced productive capacity resulting from the flood of business capi prisoned not more than three test as in years past. with the need for more revenue tal expenditures in recent years, are deflationary. However, years." There are many gaily lighted with the only place to get it I can see no substantial relief from the inflation in labor and This applies to all mail recep j homes and unique displays with i through increasing local taxes. other operating costs. In short, we can have “cost-push” in tacles and mail in them, even in the city limits, including those In addition to the hospital woes flation co-existing with deflation. though the boxes are purchased in the east side section. there has been a definite need for II A key factor in the business and financial outlook for by citizens and are their personal Then by traveling west on Al- 1967 is taxes. With defense outlays climbing, I look for property, the postmaster stated i berta avenue, one finds that Jake more nursing home beds to care for the aged. The medical staff “Pranksters — and especially and Nona Fischer have done it a rise in corporate and personal taxes in 1967. Moreover, I has talked this for years, but the children who do not know better again, with Santa in his plane forecast that various levies at the state and local levels will should be made to realize the and a big snowman going 'round board saw no way to finance the I continue to increase. construction costs. seriousness of their actions. A and 'round on turntables to the 1 O The tightening fax squeeze on all fronts will worsen as Then came Medicare—and whe $1,000 fine or jail term is enough tunes of Christmas music — it’s the year advances. And there will also be rising com to take the humor out of any truly a sight and sound for young ther one liked it or not there was plaints from both businessmen and employees that social se to be more and more older folks prank," Dail declared. and old. curity taxes are becoming unbearable. 1 living to take advantage of it. Often mail box damage is the By turning north on Gray Taxpayers were supporting the 1 O Results of the recent elections indicate that the head- work of youths who do it for boulevard and returning to Nyssa long run of the Great Society program must take a "kicks.” The courts have shown via Columbia avenue, one will program through payments to the little sympathy for this youthful find the gaily decorated S. P. federal government. This being CLIFFORD E. CHRISTENSEN breather along with the economy. Gains scored by the Re means of expression as some local Bybee home and lawn. Then true, there was a decreasing joined the Nyssa police force publicans have altered the balance of power sufficiently to amount of care of the aged by [ in late September as reserve force a more sober look in public spending. lads will testify. there’s the Anne Tensen residence relatives and an increasing de- patrolman. He is a native of and yard which is truly a Christ mand on hospital facilities and 1 A One of the primary reasons for expecting a deceleration Various Fines Listed Vale, was graduated from high mas wonderland of color. in the economy is the likelihood that business capital straight nursing homes. Dail cited these several in school there and, before joining It’s amazing how even just one expenditures may ease. Tight credit, suspension of acceler stances. In Michigan two 18-year- the local force, took a police tiny string of lights or a Santa’s A Two-Way Plan ated depreciation guidelines and suspension of tax credit on olds received a 10-day jail sen After months of continuous science course at Treasure Val face beaming from a window can business capital outlays will be tough obstacles to surmount. tence, including a diet of baby make even grown-ups catch the study the local board felt they ley Community college. During food, as the judge explained they 1 c Except in defense industries, I look for an abrupt switch saw a way to provide the needed the recent heavy shopping sea true feeling of the Christmas acted like infants. They were beds for older patients and at the . son he served as plain-clothes during 1967 from a business policy of inventory accu spirit. also fined $25 each, plus $15 court same time improve the hospital man for the department, con mulation to one of inventory liquidation. The Journal publishers feel that costs. stantly checking the local stores i r I forecast that scarcity of credit will continue to be a those who decorated for the en financial condition. Two Iowa youths who damaged joyment of others deserve a big The government pays practi for shoplifters. Chief Alvin Al problem with which business must contend in the early 39 mail boxes were required to round of applause — it makes cally all the expenses for use of vin reports that the local mer personally apologize to each box "our” hometown and community nursing home facilities. The older chants he has talked with defi- part of 1967. The money managers should keep enough credit holder, in addition to making re one that truly reflects a warm patients stay longer than regular nitely feel that thefts were available for legitimate business needs, but I expect no early radical easing of credit. pairs or providing new boxes. glow of friendliness during the hospital patients and thus pro-1 fewer this year due to this (Continued on Page 4) added service. (Continued on Page 4) (Continued on Page 8) holiday season. Hospital Board Feels Bond Approval Would Solve Major Money Problems Posimaster Reports Mailbox Theft; Quotes Law Concerning Punishment
