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University Of Oregon Library Eugene, Ore. 97UO3 X X X X X Nyssa Gate City Journal Thunderegg Capital THE NYS8A GATE CITY JOURNAL. NYSSA. OREGON THURSDAY. APRIL 13. 1967 Civil Defense Meet Scheduled Yturri-Smiih Report Indicates Legislature Provides Choice Of People To Change Tax Base Although more bills have been introduced at this session, it appears as though the general tempo is somewhat slower at Salem, The number of bills debated daily on the floor is some what less than in previous sessions. Also, it is our opinion that more bills of little, If any, real merit have been Introduced. All in all, it would seem that the legislators are waiting with pa tient but eager anticipation for the tax bill that may finally emerge. Once that is decided and the Higher Education and Department of Education budgets are fashioned, members will be scrambling toward adjournment date. More On Property Tax Relief Legislation In response to many letters, WE WISH TO REPEAT--“THE LEGISLATURE IS NOT CON- TEMPLATING A TAX IN CREASE. THE QUESTION IS If You Hamper Fire Fighting Expect to Pay A Civil Defense Emergency Preparedness Conference, un der sponshorship of the Mal heur County Civil Defense Agency, will be held in the Weese Memorial building, Treasure Valley Community college, beginning at 9:00 a.m. on Thursday, April 20. Robert Ingram, Malheur County Sheriff andClvil Defense Director, reports that the con ference is designed to provide assistance and guidance for community action in times of disaster. Prepared by the Division of Continuing Education, Oregon State System of Higher Edu cation, the conference will pro vide background Information on current Civil Defense activi ties, shelter planning, and dis cussion on subjects such as in creased readiness, emergency operations, military support and public information. The afternoon program will feature a seminar-type exer cise with emphasis pertaining to the county U.S. Department of Agriculture Defense Board, this part of the program under sponsorship and direction of the Cooperative Extension Ser vice. Invitations have been mailed to several Malheur County men and women. Sheriff Ingram urged quick response to the invitations so that planning for the conference could continue. The conference will be held in Room W-20 at the Weese Building. Noon luncheon will be served on the campus. (Ed's note; After this release it was learned Sheriff Ingram had resigned as chairman, say ing it required too much time away from his law enforcement duties. Lloyd Castner, Ontario has been appointed to serve the balance of the term.) Reservoir Waler Users Okay; Other Supply Seen as Fair Budget Hearing Sei April 18 Nyssa City Council Accepts Offer of Two Free City Lots; Defers Action on Dog Control NHS Senior is Candidale For Enrollment in NROTC Jim Ableman, a NHS sen ior, was recently informed by the Chiefof Naval personnel that he was chosen by the state selection committee as a prin cipal candidate for enrollment in the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps, with the term beginning next fall. His name has been submit ted to the college he has chosen for pursuing his high education. Jim's appointment comes as a result of his having taken a rigorous battery of aptitude tests, plus interviews, to de termine leadership potential. Charles Quinowski, guidance director at Nyssa high school, describes the NROTC program as having one main purpose, JIM ABLEMAN to educate and train well qual ified young men for careers as commissioned officers in the regular Navy and Marine corps. He states that his and the Naval Academy are the Navy’s two most highly competitive officer candidate porgrams. It is pointed out that students Nyssa’s Annual Mystery Days engaged in regular NROTC pro is scheduled for next weekend grams lead approximately the and most merchants have long same lives as other students. since made purchases for this They make their own arrange once-a-year spring promotion. ments for board and lodging, The event is sponsored by the undertake normal studies lead Merchants’ Promotion com ing to a bachelor's degree and mittee and the response over may pursue any extra-cur the past years had made it ricular activities that do not second only to Crazy Days for interfere with their Naval sci bargains covering most any ence requirements. item needed or found in town. During the period of college Plus the excitement of grab training the Navy pays tuition, bags, bargain tables scheduled costs of books, other fees of to be bared at a certain hour, instructional nature and sub plus prices so low the mer sistence allowance of $50.00 chants dare not advertise in per month. their ads. Upon satisfactory completion It is a day of CURIOSITY, of Naval science and bachelor's SUSPENSE, MYSTERY. It will degree requirements, a mid be CITY-WIDE and the Journal shipman although on reserve will blanket the area with over status in college, is commis KERBYS ATTEND SESSION 4,000 sample copies. sioned as a regular officer in Dr. and Mrs. K. E. Kerby Merchants are asked to get the Navy. traveled to Portland last week their ads in this weekend, if The guidance counsellor end when the doctor attended possible, to enable the Journal states that officer training pro a meeting of the Oregon Phy crew to give them the most grams of this nature, in all sicians Service. careful attention. branches of military services, offer qualified high school grad uates a unique opportunity to> meet their military obligation and to progress toward voca tional goals. Ableman has at tained a great distinction in gaining this appointment. The Nyssa high school stu dent body president has also gained numerous other honors during his high school career. He was one of two students chosen to represent Ontario Elks lodge No. 1690 in a schol arship district contest held re cently in Madras. In addition to his responsi bilities as student body presi dent, Jim has been quite active in numerous school activities. He served as freshman class president, treasurer and vice president for the student bady and sports editor for the school paper. He also participated in football, baseball, wrestling, With German Instructor Gary Sant, these NHS students and track, as well as being attended a foreign language field day held April 8 on actively involved in Thespians. Jim is the son of Mr. and the EOC campus in La Grande. They are (1 to r) Pam Mrs. Joe Ableman of Nyssa. Saito. Luba Sutchkoev, Betsy Stuns, George Heider and Marcia Jackson. The local participants captured four of He plans to pursue a course six possible awards and one was named honorable men in engineering, however his choice of college is not certain tion. at this time. Under considera tion are Cornell university at Ithica, New York; and Oregon State university at Corvallis. WHETHER OR NOT THE Strict enforcement of the law PEOPLE WILL BE PROVIDED pertaining to hampering fire AN OPPORTUNITY TO VOTE A fighting will be adhered to in SALES OR INCOME TAX IN the future in Nyssa, according That« Nyssa teachers will appear on a panel this evening to discuss the 'continuous CREASE. THE DECISION WILL to Police Chief Alvin Allen. growth' program used in the primary department at the PTA meeting scheduled at , BE THEIRS!” He said it really began during B o'clock this evening- in the school cafetorium. They are {I to r) Tavie Hendricks. If our correspondence is any the weekend when three ci Mrs. Poor. Betty Oft, Lucile Cary and Beverly Aldrich. Other members of the pan ’indication, Eastern Oregon is tations were issued to offenders el will be Sup. Walter McPartland and Josephine Rigney. They were not on hand divided as to whettier or not who interfered with the efforts when this picture was taken late Monday afternoon. property tax relief should come of firemen to quelch a blaze by means of an Increased in of a truck at KS and D ranch come tax, or from a sales tax. north of Nyssa. We have suggested that a multi Tickets were issued to a ple-choice question be submit 17 year old juvenile (name not ted to the people. First, by in permitted under ruling of ju quiring if they WANT property venile court of county), Mario tax relief, and if so, then, the Mosqueda, Nyssa, both charged Farmers, ranchers and other pared with 648,000 acre feet Parents of children, who will FORM of taxation they prefer to with pursuing a fire truck, and, be starting to school next Sep water users of Malheur County a year ago. Carryover water provide the needed revenue. with pursuing a fire truck, and tember, are cordially invited can expect average water sup supplies for 1968 are likely The "local option” plan is Danny Olvera charged with to the Nyssa PTA meeting to plies this spring and summer, to be small this season. Antelope Reservoir, serving again under consideration in reckless driving. be held at 8 o'clock this even according to a report released the Senate. This would permit Alien said the state law ing in the school cafetorium. Monday by A. J. Webber, State the Jordan Valley Irrigation District, now bolds 25,700 acre the separate counties to decide governed the situations and gave The program has been espe Conservationist, Soil Conser for themselves the extent to the brief instructions governing cially planned to describe and vation Service, Portland, and feet compared with 16,500 acre which they wanted property tax situations as follows: "No explain the “Continuous prepared by W. T. Frost, State feet a year ago. The 1967 sea relief. If a county felt that its driver of any vehicle, other Growth” program used in the Snow Survey Supervisor, re son should be improved over tax burden was excessive, then than one on official business, primary department. This un presenting cooperating federal, last year's operations. Total storage in Warm the county would submit to the shall follow closer than 500 graded plan replaces the pre state and private agencies. Al people the question of increas feet of any fire apparatus viously used first, second and though flow of major streams is springs, Agency Valley and ing the income tax by one per traveling in response of a fire third grade idea for describing forecast between 78 and 89 per Bully Creek reservoirs was centage point. The State would alarm, or drive into, or park, a child’s oroaress in school. cent of average the stored water 155,500 acre feet on April first pay for the first such election such vehicle within two (2) A panel of school personnel supplies now on hand will again compared with 227,200 acre in the county. The state would blocks of a point where the will welcome questions and in save the day for many water feet a year ago. Coupled with collect the tax and would re fire fighting apparatus has stop formal discussions from all users. Some irrigators, de streamflow still to come, this turn it to the county for prop ped in answer to the alarm; or parents. pendent on natural flow of stored water will provide a erty tax relief. Corporations within three (3) blocks of a streams heading in low-ele sufficient supply for the Vale- Visitations Planned would not be involved. There point where the fire is in pro vation watersheds, will have Oregon and Warmsprings Ir On the following Thursday, rigation Districts. would be no increase In tax for gress. only fair water supplies. April 20, parents and children ____________ _____________ Flow of Malheur River near them, but neither would they Mountain snowpacks failed to The Chief also reminded dri are invited to visit a classroom increase during "March except Drewsey Is forecast at 65,000 receive any tax relief. The vers that the local police would in the primary school building "property tax relief” would operate a radar system within at a few scattered high ele acre feet or 81 percent of the from 1:45 to 3:00 P.M. go only to “owner-occupied the city limits during the sum vations. Water content of the 15-year average, April through Children will be invited to residences'*. The County by a mer months to help curb traf snow is about 82 percent of July. The North Fork at Beulah participate in various acti similar election would also be fic problems. Speed limits in the 15-year average (1948-62) is forecast at 51,000 a.ft. or vities. After school is dis able to terminate the increased the residential areas of Nyssa as of April first. A year ago 87 percent average for the same missed refreshments will be tax at any time if this “local are 25 miles per hour unless the snowpack held about 20 four months period. Flow served in the multi-purpose percent less water than this Bully Creek is expected to option” plan were adopted. otherwise designated. room so that parents will have only fair. year. Action in Senate Judiciary Com an opportunity to visit with the Inflow to Lake Owyhee Snowmelt runoff will be fa mittee teachers and to discuss ques vored by wetter than usual soils forecast at 210,000 acre feet Considerable criticism has tions of mutual Interest. or 58 percent average for the in the upper watersheds under appeared to the action of the Principal Clarice Poor, ] period April through July. Jor the snowpack. Soil moisture Senate Judiciary Committee members of the faculty and PTA which tabled a bill that would officials urge parents to make in the Malheur is now about 80 dan Creek, in the upper Owyhee, percent of capacity and in the is forecast at 71,000 acre feet require every city to provide an effort to attend these meet legal counsel for indigent de ings. Mrs. Poor states that Owyhee watershed it is about or 72 percent for the same four months. A school budget hearing is 87 percent. fendants charged with the vio the "pre-school visitation day” lation of any ordinance or mis scheduled at the Nyssa High Reservoired water supplies These forecasts assume near will be the best opportunity for demeanor law that has any jail school by the board on Tuesday, on Lake Owyhee are 422,600 average conditions of preci the small children to visit acre feet on April first com- pitation and temperature will sentence whatever as a sen April 18, at 8 P.M. for the >chool. prevail during the forecast tence. It was felt that cities purpose of discussing expendi period. could not afford to pay for a tures for the coming term be While lawyer for every drunk or traf ginning July 1, 1968. Statewide, farmers, ranchers and other water users in the fic-light violator. The United no election is anticipated due States Supreme Court may ulti to the board adopting figures south half of the State will have mately force the cities to this within the six percent limitation near average water supplies this summer, while the north expense, but at least they will anyone interested in the manner half will have mostly below have time to prepare their in which the income is to be budgets and arrange finances spent may be heard at this average water conditions. to meet this added expense. open meeting. Stored water supplies are satis At the regular monthly meet made arrangements to pay and factory in most cases and soil About everything we do in ing Tuesday night the Nyssa the balance will have fore moisture is excellent. the Legislature is in some way City Council: (1) Voted to ac closure proceedings filed a- The next report on water sup designed to cost the cities, State for defects at least once a cept the offer of two free city gainst them by City Attorney ply conditions in Oregon will be counties and the people more year, about which we spoke in lots in the down-town section; Harold Henigson. issued on or about May 9,1967. money in one way or another, our letter a couple of weeks deferred any action on a dog ago, seems to be on the brink and it is impossible to stem of defeat. However, there is a control license, and voted to the tide. good chance that the bill requir- purchase a used dump truck. ’• /I Daylight Saving Time The lots are in the 100 block . Ing drivers to be physically ex "Daylight Saving Time” for of South First street, on the Nyssa German students cap Oregon is creating quite a pro amined once each four years North side where the fire a before renewal of their driver ’ s tured four of six possible a- blem, particularly for Malheur few months ago leveled the County. Tills county will either license, may pass. brick structures. They were The "Teachers Tenure ” law, have to adjust its time to con owned by Zigmond Biokioski form with Idaho or Oregon. In long a matter of contention in and were offered without any the Legislature, again faces one case, it would continue to A member of the Adrian strings attached. The only ex serious opposition. At present, be one hour ahead of the rest school board reported Wednes pense to be incurred by the city law only applies to dis the of Oregon and the same as day that Mrs. Helen Conant of is for filling in the basement Idaho. In the other, it would tricts with more than 4,500 Caldwell has been selected to hole, as Mr. Biokioski hadpre- students. The proposed law be equal with the rest of our serve as school librarian for viously cleared away the debris. state and one hour behind Idaho. would extend it to all districts. the 1967-68 term. The dog control matter was This would require teachers to Representative Smith was suc Mrs. Conant has served three discussed at length before the cessful in returning the Day receive three-year contracts years as clerk of the Caldwell conclusion that the present after having served a three- light Saving Time bill to com public library and will obtain manner was reasonably effec mittee this week to allow op year probationary period. The her degree this summer at the tive. They noted that since the portunity to learn the wishes small school district boards College of Idaho. first of January off-duty police believe that this would rob them of the people of MalheurCounty. of the control they now have had destroyed over 200 dogs. Other News in granting only one-year con They further stated there was The $1.25 per hour minimum tracts, thereby scrutinizing a a nuisance ordinance on the wage law has passed the House teacher’s record from year to books that would care for most and is in the Senate for action. year. The bill has been sent cases if the injured person It is expected to pass. to Committee in the House for would sign a complaint. Since nearly one-half of the further study. The dump truck purchased' Mr. and Mrs. Norvelle Rob appeals to the Supreme Court Lastly — a bill has come to was a 1954 Ford, five yard bins, Route 2, Nyssa, purchased are criminal cases, the Senate the Senate from the House which capacity; with hoist, and fully the Starlite Cafe in Vale the is considering a bill to create would extend civil rights pro operational. It had been traded early part of this month. They a new Criminal Appeals Court. tection to every employer in to Wilson Buick company by will continue living on their The federal Supreme Court de stead of to those having six the Nyssa Road district. Pur farm southwest of Nyssa with cisions have caused a great or more employees, as is now chase price was $2500.00. Mr. Robbins operating the cafe increase in criminal appeals, the case. This would apply City manager Fred Koch re NYSSA SIXTH GRADERS Patsy Wilson (on left) and Rosa full time, as he has rented the and as a result, the Oregon to all employees, with a pen ported that delinquent payments Brito took school patrol honors for the month of March. farm. Mrs. Robbins will con Supreme Court judges are writ alty of up to $500 for dis due on Bancraft bonds of street Patsy, daughter of Dorothy Wilson and a student in Mrs. tinue caring for children in ing more than twice as many crimination between applicants improvement district number 6 Hazel Lane’s classroom, was named patrol captain of the the home and not engage in decisions as they have in the for jobs on the basis of color, and Sewer Improvement district month. Rosa’s parents are Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Brito. She the new business. past. There is a good chance race or religion. number 3 had been coming in took honors as patrolman and is in Mrs. Dorothy Wilson’s Former owners, Mr. and for the passage of this bill. Senator Anthony Yturri real well after notice of legal room. The students are selected each month by police de Mrs. R. P. Duncan have made The bill requiring motor ve Representative Robert Smith action had been mailed out to partment officials and members of the elementary school no immediate plans other than hicles to be inspected by the Salem, Oregon property owners. Others have faculty.--Staff Photo. to rest and fish. Primary Work To be Discussed At PTA Meet NUMBER 15 Mystery Days Set for Nyssa Next Weekend ■ I NHS German Students Earn Honors at La Grande Meet Librarian Hired For Adrian School Nyssa Couple Buys Vale Cafe wards plus one honorable men tion at a foreign language field day in LaGrande. In German level I, George Heider took first-place and Pam Saito gained third-place honors. Betsy Stunz was awarded honor able mention. In German level II, Luba Suchkoev and Marcia Jackson placed second and third, respectively. Nineteen Nyssa high school students from German I and 11 classes participated in the April Eastern Oregon competition. The group was accompanied by NHS German Instructor Gary Sant. The local students registered at 9:15 a.m. and met with 300 students from other eastern Oregon high schools. Langu ages represented were French, German, Latin and Spanish. Students were tested on their respective language levels to compete for prizes and place ment honors. In the afternoon all parti cipants met at the Eastern Ore gon College auditorium for na tive music, songs, entertain ment and announcement of win ners in each division. Sant stated that the field day was well organized and gave the students an opportunity to compare their proficiency with those from other schools. SOLDIER IMPROVES Mr. and Mrs. Dee Zink of Nyssa were notified Friday that their son, Army Specialist Wil liam F. Zink was normally improving, is off the very cri tically ill list and is now on the seriously ill list. The Journal carried a picture and story in last week’s issue. Daneiny April 21 The eighteenth annual dancing display by pupils of Betty Madge Wilson’s School of Dancing, will be staged at 8 p.m. Friday, April 21 in the Nyssa school cafetorium. The revue is sponsored by Malheur Memorial hospital auxiliary, and proceeds are used to purchase needed equip ment and items for the hospi tal. Tickets are now on sale by the dancing pupils and wo- men of the auxiliary. Weekend guests in the Dr. John Olsen home were their son-in-law and daughter, Tom and Mary K. Flaschner of Port land.
