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THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 2. 1967 THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL. NYSSA. OREGON PAGE TWO Nyssa Lapidary Tells of Unusual Discoveries al Various Locations THE GATE CITY JOURNAL TED M. BRAMMER. Editor and Publisher Second Inter-Church Meeting to Be Held By ADOLPH SCHROEDER SUBSCRIPTION RATES Single Copies 10c In Malheur County. Oregon, and Payette and Canyon Counties. Idaho: One Year $4.00 NATIONAL NEW SFAMI Six Months $2.75 Elsewhere in the V. S. A.: Per Year $5.00 bwiiìiia.'.iiAina Six Months $3.00 Published Every Thursday at Nyssa. Malheur County. Oregon The early-dav fence posts of central and western Kansas were made from ocean-deposited limestone Often one side of the stone posts was a solid mass of snail shell fossils. 1 first saw these posts in 1897 and thereby was introduced to fossils Those limestone posts are still standing in many parts of Kansas, and should readers of this article ever go through that state, I suggest they look* for and examine them. teeth. Yet it has one less molar Ten years later (in 1907), I on each side, both upper and low- was near Larned, Kan., ex er jaw. making a total of four ploring the Arkansas river. teeth less than the present day The river was dry; however, at the upstream point of an island was a deep hole full of clear water Entered at the Post Office at Nyssa. Oregon, for Transmission and at the bottom was a hollow Through the United States Mails, as a Second Class Matter log, which I found to be petri Under the Act of March 3, 1879. fied. So came my first find of petrified wood. Later I learned that many is lands have their beginning by a large log or snag becoming lodged in a stream bed. with the island gradually building up behind it. No doubt if deep digging should be done at upstream points of the islature will implement the var Snake river islands, many would House Speaker Seeks ious proposals and smooth the be found to contain such drift Vote on Tax Reform way for property tax reduction. wood that perhaps is petrified. Rep. Montgomery also foresees Providing freedom of choice on In 1937, I found a flat thin piece local tax problems is the goal of ' continuation of some state-level of shale rock measuring about F. F. (Monte) Mongomery, speak programs to relieve property six by nine inches and containing er of the House of Representa taxes. Inventory tax relief must a network of markings. A year tives, and he aims for referral come, for example, and he anti later I showed it to a Kansas high to Oregon voters of a tax reform cipates no problem in the ap school professor. He became ex package—including a sales tax— propriation of state funds ear cited and produced a nine by 11- while the 1967 legislature still is marked for this purpose. He also inch plate of identical fossil mark will support a gasoline tax in ings. They are those of one of in session. crease if revenue is tagged to go the first seaweeds to grow in the Interviewed last week, the Eu ocean, a very rare and valuable gene Republican was emphatic on back to cities and counties. Air and water quality, rated by scientific find. one point: His was found in Kansas and "We don't need additional legislators as the state’s number money to run state government; two problem area, is viewed as a mine was found in the Minidoka we can continue and even acce real dilemma by Speaker Mont hills south of Twin Falls. I gave lerate existing programs. I want gomery. A good first step, he him my piece of rock, thinking to keep pounding this and feels, would be to strengthen the that I would go get more at the pounding this, and I want to State Sanitary authority by pro Idaho location. I have yet to do divorce state tax problems from viding it with funds and staff so! equal to its statutory responsibi North of Buhl. Idaho, I was local tax problems." lity. told, fossil bones were to be Speaker Montgomery’s ‘‘Free But there is no consensus, no found. The deposit, I discovered, dom of Choice” proposal would is in a strata of fine sand overlaid allow citizens to choose between place to find answers, he feels, by a heavy cap rock of lava. Pack no change in local taxation or in seeking to purify the air in rats exposed the bones. Joe accepting alternative sources of particular. The federal answer Rose had of Jerome and I proceeded is io appropriate money, he revenue to provide property tax says: often the only answer is to dig until we found the skull. cuts. The teeth are neither those of to shut down offending opera Alternatives would consist tions. meat nor grass - eating animal. mainly of a three percent state “Yet the biggest offender is the They are somewhat rounded like i sales tax. excluding food and automobile. I’ve been to many the tips of a human finger. A drugs, and a corporate income meetings and we conclude we year or so later that skull was tax increase, with a provision to have a problem, but . . . Tm look identified as that of a sea lion. limit property taxes for school ing for someone with the answers, The question is, "Did the ocean purposes. Unlike Gov. McCall. and I’m not sure there is any reach to Buhl at one time; and if . Rep. Montgomery does not be such person.” not, how did a sea-living animal ' lieve the people will approve an Unemployment compensa t i o n get there?” income tax hike. And, unlike the legislation will loom large this Several years ago the Maurice governor, he does not believe cor session, and Rep. Montgomery Coreys and I were camped at poration income and excise taxes looks for some changes. He op Crooked creek on the ION high should be raised two percent. poses tying benefits to a percen way. I found a petrified front leg "I don't believe $16 million tage of the state’s average weekly bone of a two-toed animal. The can be cut from state programs wage, which he believes would bone forks into two terminals, one j without severe damage io pro relinquish legislative responsibi for each toe, and we judge it to [ grams long since requested and lity for setting dollar amounts. be from the large camel family. approved by the people." says But Republicans are unanimous This last discovery could not Rep. Montgomery, referring to in supporting a 10 percent in have been established as an ac Gov. McCall's budget proposals. crease in benefits this year, and credited find, acceptable to sci “And I don’t believe the peo in revising benefit schedules and ence, as it was found among a lot| ple want an increase in their in rates to “more adequately reward of rubble. come tax, as they have demon those good employer-employee re But the others could have been strated three times in 15 years, lationships." so established if photographs had twice in the last eight. We haven’t Rep. Montgomery anticipates been taken at the site and the re in 20 years had the opportunity this session will last no longer moval witnessed by accredited to vote on a sales tax in the same than in 1965, and hopefully not persons, such as public officials, manner as the cigarette tax last as long. Part of the reason lies with written statements, sworn to May.” in the go-ahead signal he has and notarized by them. Because Rep. Montgomery, a lanky Eu given his appointed committee this was not done, the real scien gene insurance man now serving chairmen. Instead of waiting tific value has been lost forever, his second term as the leading for bills or someone to present as was the sea lion find. House officer, makes it clear he a problem, committees have A study of petrified wood can is not a sales tax advocate. In been instructed to look ahead lead to startling information, even come tax is the best method, he 20 io 30 years and draw up leg in astronomical data of ages past. maintains, “but after two tries islation now to meet future The yearly growth rings are of in my short tenure, I’m prepared state needs. the same sequence of dry and to try something else.” ‘Tm very proud of this con wet years as of today, Any major At any rate, something must structive step forward.” the House weather cycle change of unusual be done for those who seek speaker reports. “Committee character is registered by growth property tax cuts, and he feels chairmen are initiating and in rings in trees. the Senate will share this feel- novating on their own, headlining But fossils having the most ing. He expresses confidence in problem areas and then having amazing implications are those of legislative referral and getting people in to testify. the human being. J. W. Osgood, the measure on the ballot dur “We want to be responsive to owner of a Texaco service sta ing the current session. The the people, but we also have the tion in Rupert, Idaho, has a well package, he predicts, will ap responsibility to lead.” formed and preserved human pear on the ballot in title form, skull. It has a full set of teeth as or outline: if approved, the leg- Classifieds Bring Results! to jaw structure and growth of Salem Scene The public is welcome to at tend the second of three special meetings on the theme "Affluence and Poverty: Dilemma for Chris tinns" at 7:30 p.m. Sunday. Feb 5, in St. Paul’s Episcopal church. Featured speaker will be Jess Armas, Malheur County Welfare department officer ami minister of the Ontario Church of Christ Program topic will be "Listen Be fore You Leap Into Helping " Short talks will also be pre sented by representatives of local helping projects. The meeting will be open for questions from the audience. The Rev. Orville Jacobson of Faith Lutheran church will lead the worship service. The series is an inter-church project of St. Paul’s Episcopal. Faith Lutheran and Methodist churches of Nyssa, according to the Rev. Ralph A Lawrence, coordinator. human skull. The astonishing thing is that the molars are perfect canine teeth with sharp points. The front teeth show very little difference from those of a human. The brain cavity is about two - thirds the size of the average human skull. Osgood also has a giant ox or bison skull which measures four feet from tip to tip of the bone which held the horns, and 16 in- ches from center to center of eye PACIFIC LUTHERAN CHOIR TO APPEAR THIS EVENING sockets. The 63 - voice "Choir of the These two objects were found in a gravel pit near Idaho Falls. West” from Pacific Lutheran uni Again no accredited witness was versity in Tacoma, Wash, will on hand, so the scientific value present a concert of sacred music was lost. In Casper. Wyo., there at 8 o’clock this evening. Feb. 2 is a 22-inch tall mature human in the Ontario high school audi male mummy, owned by a drug torium. According to a release submit gist, It was found sitting on a shelf in a crypt or small cave, in ted by Pastor Orville Jacobson of Faith Lutheran church, powerful solid granite. Those in the scientific world motets and chorales, traditional raved and stormed about it for songs of the church and refresh several years, then quietly forgot ing contemporary works will be it. Again, no accredited witness included on the program. A featured composition will be What about the vertebra Dr Lamentations of Jeremiah,” John Long showed at a recent a “The dramatic selection by Alberta meeting? Could it be an artifi cial vertebra of a Mayan sacred Ginastua. serpent idol. Looking at it close CHURCH BUILDER SUCCUMBS ly, I was certain it could not be Nyssa friends were recently no natural, but feel that it is an arti- ■ tified of the death of D. R. De fact. Fossils, only in a way, but gross in Santa Ana, Calif. with most fascinating implica- j According to the Rev. Ralph A tions. Lawrence, the deceased built the ___ , sanctuary portion of Nyssa Meth- CLASSIFIEDS FOR RESULTSI | odist church. Money Borrowing Guides Outlined In Oregon State University Bulletin Shopping for money is like shopping for uny other pro duct. The intelligent buyer will compare cost, convenience and service before “purchasing” a loan. There are many different sources of personal loans, points out Mrs Alberta Johnston, extension family finance specialist at Oregon State university. ♦ All of these sources should that make loans only to members. be investigated before you Consumer finance companies, borrow, she cautions. Look or small loan companies, arc in for till" lowest possible inter business only to make personal est rate, service that mulches your needs and a repayment schedule that fits your budget. Deal with reliable financial in stitutions or lenders and compare loan costs from the various sour ces, Mrs. Johnston says. Remem ber that the note you sign is n legal document written so the company can collect in case you fail to pay. Repayment Should Be Studied Mrs. Johnston also advises bor rowing only for something which is important to you and which will last longer than the time it takes to repay the loan. The re payment schedule is also an im portant consideration if the loan is not to become too much of n financial burden. Bank loans are among the low est in cost for those who can qua- lify, but commercial banks may be more conservative in their lending policies, preferring to loan to their customers or people they know. Under Oregon laws, banks can charge 8 percent discounted per year on loans under $500 Dis- counted loans mean the interest is deducted before the borrower1 receives the money. The maxi mum interest rate is 10 percent simple interest on loans over $500 Credit Unions Cooperative Credit union interest charges also are set by law. The maxi mum is 1 percent per month on the unpaid balance of the loan Credit unions are cooperatives or consumer loans, both secured and unsecured. Because they lend to a wider range of customers, their interest rates arc higher than either commercial banks or credit unions. The Oregon Consumer Finance act sets a maximum per month interest rate that may be charged by finance companies on the un paid balance of loans. Maximum rates are 3 percent on the unpaid balance up to $300; 2 percent from $300 to $500; and 1 percent over $500 and less than $1500. Insurance Policies Offer Loans Insurance companies will loan up to the cash value of an insur ance policy, but the face value of the jxilicy is reduced by the amount of the loan until it Is re paid. Interest rates are set forth in the insurance policy. Usuully no deadline is set for repayment, but the borrower pays interest ns long us he keeps the money. Mrs. Johnston bus written a bulletin, “Use Consumer Credit Wisely.” Copies are available on request from county extension service offices or from the Bulle tin Clerk, Department of Print ing, Oregon State University, Cor- vallis, Ore 97331. The bulletin number u 815. VISIT FLINDERS COUPLE Mr. and Mrs. Arvel Child of Quincy, Wash., were Friday vis itors and overnight guests of his brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. J. F.lwood Flinders. YOU ARE INVITED ■A New (UsS) Farm Service Center * Ontario, Thursday, February 9 10 a.m. to 4 p.m PRIZES’ A PRIZE EVERY HOUR A valuable gift will be awarded every hour to a Farmer in ' attendance at the Open House. 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