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1 University Of Oregon Library Eugene, Ore. 97LO3 X X X X X Nyssa Gate City Journal THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL, NYSSA, OREGON THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1967 THUNDEREGG CAPITAL Yiurri-Smiih Report Covers Late Legislative Activities 71ie 100th day of (he session will soon be here, and it is ex pected that the Speaker, President of the Senate and the Governor will make an announcement as to the number of vitally important bills which remain to be considered. An examination of the various committees actually indicates that there are not as many important bills laying in committee as was suspected earlier. This means, that the session may not be as long as many had predicted. Once the Education budgets and the Tax program have found their way through the houses, the end will come suddenly. Action During the Week The Senate defeated Senate Bill 501 which had as Its purpose the elimination of the three-day waiting period for those injured during the course of employment. At present, a person injured on the job receives no pay unless his Injury results in neces sity, on a doctor’s certificate of a three-day absence. However, if he is injured for more than 14 days, then he receives com pensation for all time from the date of injury. Floor arguments , disclosed that there is only one state in the Union that has more liberal condensation benefits for the employee than Oregon. It was also pointed out that in view of the 25% increase in bene fits granted employees in 1965, the elimination of the three- day waiting period would greatly Increase the cost to employers, and particularly to farmers who come within the scope of the law on January 1, 1968. Area Honor SI udon in New AFS Officers JIM ABLEMAN Rural or P.O. Boxholdor (On* io Each Family) VOL. LX NUMBER 1« Annual Mystery Days Offer Many Bargains Rainbow Planted In Upper Owyhee BOB OKA (0 SAMPLE COPY It is reported that the Oregon State Game Commission planted 105,000 fish in the upper 16 miles of the Owyhee River be low the dam. This area was recently treated with rotenone to elimi nate trash fish. Larry Bisbee and Ralph Elie, game commission fish biolo gists, stated that excellent fish ing should be available this weekend on the Owyhee River and should remain so for sev eral years. DAVID PATTERSON A total of 5,000 legal Rain bow Trout, averaging eight Mr. and Mrs. Hiroto Okano inches in length, and 100,000 Rainbow fingerlings Were also of route 1, Nyssa. planted to complete the project. Ableman is now NHS student Other plantings took place at body president and has gained numberous other honors during Antelope Reservoir, Bully his four years of high school. C reek, Malheur Reservoir and He was recently chosen as a Murphy Reservoir. It is planned that Malheur principal candidate for enroll River, Beulah Reservoir and ment in the Naval Reserve Of ficer Training Corps. He is a upper Cow Lakes will also be son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Able stocked this spring. man, and was one of two students chosen to represent Ontario Elks Lodge No. 1690 in the district scholarship contest. Jim has been active in numer Today, April 20,--Apple Valley ous scho. 1 Activities. He served PTA at school. as freshman class president, Today, April 20, 8 p.m. — treasurer and vice president for Adrian PTA meeting in multi the student body and sports purpose room. editor for the school paper, Today, April 20, 2 p.m.--OKK the NHS Bulldog. He also par Club meeting at Tom Okaihome. ticipated in football, baseball, Today, April 20,--Worthwhile wrestling and track, as well as Club meeting at Homer Brewer being actively involved in Thes home. pians. April 21,--Upsilon Chapter of He plans to study engineering, Delta Kappa Gamma meeting however his choice of college at Starlite Cafe, Vale. has not been determined. He April 22, 8 p.m.— Pinochle is considering OSU or Cornell party at IOOF hall. university at Ithica, New York. April 22, 8 p.m. -- Pinochle Patterson, too, has been Party and Silent Auction in Nu active during his high school Acres Community Hall. career having served as class April 22, 9:30 a.m.-ANK Plant J.dpr*»^- ;‘ative. vice president sals a* vacant Mere building. of the science club and was a April 22,-- Alpha Delta Kappa, member of the play cast during International Teachers Sorority his junior year. While a senior, State convention in Portland. he is serving as president of the April 24,—Nyssa Duplicate science club and vice presi Bridge Group, Spring Trophy dent for the Vale high school Party, Houston Wilson home. band organization. He is a April 25, 7:30 p.m.—Jay-C- drummer for the high school Ettes meeting at Stanley Sisson and pep bands. home. David plans to enroll this April 27, 10:00 a.m.--Malheur fall at Eastern Oregon college County Homemakers festival In in La Grande. Oregon Slope Weekend Event is Publicized By Journal Blanketing Area Nyssa’s Fifth Annual Mystery Day, Saturday, April 22 pro mises to be the biggest town-wide promotion since Crazy Day last fall. With practically all retail stores and service shops participating, the buying public s offered top bargains in almost every field. some merchants are offering special items at real-honest- to-goodness low prices; some are offering store-wide dis counts for cash, and others do not list prices but will let the buying public learn when they come into the stores. The lat ter are advertised by???? where normally the price would be found. The budget hearing for the Each merchant has adver Nyssa schools was held Tues tised as he chose and there will day evening, as advertised, with be some novel displays that will no school district patrons on afford fun as well as bargains. hand to discuss the budget with Some are running items Thurs the school board. After a very day, Friday and Saturday— brief discussion the board a- some Saturday only—but the dopted the budget for the 1967- latter day is designated as My 68 school year, as presented stery Day and is one that no and approved by the budget one in the area should miss. committee at an earlier hear Journal Reaches 12,000-14,000 ing. The Journal is blanketing the The proposed budget calls area with over 4,000 copies, for general fund expenditures reaching 12,000 to 14,000 read of $712,496, an increase of ers in the nearby areas. $11,300 over the current budget. In checking the pages of the The budget is wholly within Journal, readers will find spe the 6% limitation so will not cial prices covering such items require a vote for the first as food, clothing, used cars, time in many years, and pro automotive equipment,tires, poses a cut in district taxes jewelry, farm tools and imple- of about 2 1/2 mills based on meuts, paint, irrigation sup the present assessed valuation. plies, garden and lawn equip At the regular meeting of the ment, drugs and novelties. school board held last Thurs The event is sponsored by day evening bids were opened Nyssa Businessmen’s Promo for gasoline requirements for tion committee and they invite the 1967-68 school year, with everyone to come to the Sinclair Refining Company the Thunderegg Capital for this low bidder with a price of $20.58 special event. Only by seeing low bidder with a price of 20.58 the low prices of these quality cents per gallon. goods will buyers be convinced! The board also opened bids for a new furnace at the Arcadia School, with Eder’s Plumbing and Heating of Nyssa submitting tu?”low bid of $1,475.00. The board accepted the bid subject Members of Treasure Valley to firm committments by the Association for Handicapped Cascade Natural Gas Corpora and Retar ted Children met April tion on pipeline installation to 11 to adopt bylaws and a consti the school, and the same rate tution. There were approxi structure as provided to the mately 30 area residents pre rest of the school system. sent to hear Dr. Paul W. Thor- Daylight savings time was mahlen speak on "What Oregon discussed, with the board de ciding to wait until the City of Is Doing for the Trainable Re Nyssa and Malheur County tarded Children”. Next meeting will be May 9, makes a definite decision. It was agreed that the area should 1967 at the Moore hotel in On remain on the same time as tario. All interested area resi Boise and Idaho if at all possi dents are cordially invited to attend. ble. School Board Adopts Budget As Presented Nyssa High School Principal lence, he has found time to Student Visits A meeting of the local Amer Gene Chester announced this participate in various school Students of the John Day ican Field Service committee week that Bob Okano has earned activities. He has been active Grade School visited the State was held April 6 In the Nyssa honors as valedictorian of the in the science club, American 1967 graduating class with a Field Service program, as well Capitol this week for the first high school cafetorium. time. We made arrangements Newly elected officers are 3.95 grad? point average. Jim as being active in student for them to speak to the Gov Wilton Jackson, chairman; Ableman, with a 3.88 GPA, is government functions. ernor and inspect ail phases Dirick Nedry, vice chairman; salutatorian of the class. He has served as student body David Patterson, a senior treasurer, freshman class pre of the legislative process--the Mrs. Dick (Margaret) Tensen, Senate and House Chambers secretary; Mrs. George (Mary) at Vale Union high school and sident and junior class activity son of Nyssans Mr. and Mrs. chairman. Among other extra as well as committee rooms. Sallee, treasurer. George Patterson, and Okano curricular activities, Bob has We only wish that more of the NYSSA DOCTOR RENAMED have been selected for four- participated in athletics, being students from Eastern Oregon TO BLUE SHIELD BOARD yea r scholarships by the State a member of the cross-country would visit. Actually, students Dr. Kenneth E. Kerby of Scholarship Commissions. from virtually every Willamette team, baseball and basketball Nyssa was re-elected to a five- The youths were chosen from squads. Valley school visit the session He has also served year term on the board of at one time or another, and we trustees of OPS-Blue Shield, m are than 5,500 applicants and as Nyssa representative for believe that they learn a great Oregon health plan at a recent selections were based ori high the Junior Japanese-American academic achievements during league. deal from tills first hand obser board meeting In Portland, ac vation. Students from Crane cording to DonChapman, execu their high school careers. Okano plans to pursue a Okano plans to enroll this course of study in the area of School also visited last Friday, tive vice president. fall at Oregon State university math and science. His present thirty students in all - and were Dr. Edward L. Stevenson of In addition to vocational interest is chemical taken to breakfast IntheCapitol the Dalles was re-elected board in Corvallis. achieving scholastic excel- engineering. Bob is a son of Coffee Shop by Representative chairman at the session. Smith. Constitutional Revision The Senate has refused to concur in the House amend ments to the newproposedCon- stitution. A Conference Com mittee with two members from each house will now be appointed to see if they can iron out the differences between the House and Senate. If agreement can be reached, then the measure will go to the people for their approval or rejection in Novem ber, 1968. The House version is considerably more liberal in that it makes many more changes in fundamental govern ment than does the Senate ver sion. Political Participation The House has passed and sent to the Senate a measure that will permit school teach ers, public employees, and owners and employees of liquor outlets to contribute to political Th* Grange commemorative stamp went on tale this week, and among th* first campaigns and candidates as to purchase some of them from Nyssa Postmaster Lee Dail were these grangers well as to actively participate from the Nyssa area. They ar* Don Somers, master of Oregon Trail Grange; Frank The first of the 1400 migrants recruited in Texas by Amalga in the election of candidates of Sherwood, chairman of the legislative committee; Ellen Jones, lecturer for Mal mated Sugar company for work in the area beet fields began their ( holer. Uli', la drastic heur Pomona Grange No. 33; Lucielle Runcorn, secretary for Oregon Trail Grange; arriving in Nyssa Wednesday. departure from present law Eric Boenig; Lois Boenig, Oregon Trail lecturer; and Mrs. Don Somers. Poet, District manager Ray Larson said 550 had been shipped and which prohibits such activities. master Dail holds a sheet of the stamps and Somers is holding the letter containing by Monday of next week 700 would be here with the others arriv It will grant full political rights the first stamp to be sold in the local postoffice. The item of correspondence is ad- ing by May 1. Recruiting points are Eagle Pass, McAllen and to some 48,000 Oregonians who iressed to his brother. Dale Somers, who farms near Central City. Iowa. Forty-six students from Nyssa school auditorium. Del Rio--all on the Mexican border. have hitherto been deprived ol The revue is sponsored each The 1400 will be housed in the labor camps with the distri Betty Wilson's School of Danc- this activity. activities, and after school is ing will be featured in their year by Malheur Memorial bution as follows; Nyssa 300, Vale 215, Adrian 80, Payette Erosion of Highway Funds dismissed refreshments will be Junction 125, Payette 100, Parma 200, Homedale 180 and 18th annual dancing display hospital auxiliary and proceeds There are a raft of bills which served in the multi-purpose would encroach upon highway Weiser 260. There will also be a few hundred “free lancers” scheduled to begin at 8 o’clock are used to purchase needed room. funds. At present, revenues who will find private living quarters while seeking work. Friday evening, April 21 in the items for the hospital. Featured on the program this from gasoline and diesel tax, Mrs. Clarice Poor, Nyssa year will be the “Jewel Ballet”, license fees and other taxes elementary principal, has asked the story of a princess (played can be used only for construct- This coming Sunday, April 23 the Journal to remind parents of by Susan Bratton) who chooses l ion, maintenance and the lo has been designated as Consul a jewel for her wedding crown. cation of highways, and for tation on Church Union (COCU) children who will be in the first There are 20 different jewels, state highway parks. This Is Sunday with pulpit exchanges in g; ide next year, of visitations portrayed by the dancing stu one of the reasons that Oregon’s most of the ten denominations scheduled today, April 20. Both children and parents dents. Other characters in the highway system is enviable and participating. This is the production include ladies in because of this, Oregon Is ahead second annual pulpit exchange are invited to visit from 1:45 waiting, tiny bridesmaids and of all states in the extent to sponsored by COCU. Here in to 3 p.m. In the primary build The youngsters will be two small page boys. which federal matching funds Malheur County nine churches ing. The students range from pre are utilized. However, various will be participating in the pul invited to participate in various schoolers to teenagers and they bills would erode this fund by pit exchange this coming Sun will present various styles of using the same for other pur day, according to the Reverend dancing including tap, modern poses. Some want a larger Tom Foster of Ontario who is ballet and novelty numbers. portion to be used for parks the convenor for the exchange. The finale is entitled and recreation. Others insist At the Kingman Memorial "Tijuana Taxi” and will star that the Willamette Valley Presbyterian church in Adrian the entire cast. Achievement Greenway, at a cost of millions, the guest will be the Reverend awards will also be presented. take precedence over the Inter Wallace Prowell of Nyssa. In Following a request from Susan Leavitt and Barbara state and arterial highway Nyssa at the First Christian Rep. Robert F. Smith, the House Fangen will be pianists, with system. It appears, however, Church, the guest will be the Planning and Development com Wayne Takami on drums. In that the Legislature will not Reverend Virden Seybold of mittee approved Tuesday a bill addition to accompanying the permit any great diversion of Vale; at the Nyssa Methodist which would allow Malheur dancers, they will provide in Church the Reverend Elmer these funds. county to remain in the Mountain termission entertainment. Rosenkllde of Adrian will be Insurance Time zone with Idaho. This will Decorations will be provided House Bill 1320, which is a the guest speaker and at the by Mr. and Mrs. Bob Fangen huge volume in itself, has the St. Paul’s Episcopal Church be allowed only if the measure does not jeopardize Pacific and candy stripers from the purpose of completely recc In Nyssa, the Reverend Tom Daylight time for the rest of local hospital will serve as fylng the entire insurance code Foster will speak. In Vale usherettes. for the state of Oregon. It will at the Methodist Church the Oregon. According to a new federal require a great deal of work Reverend Armand larive of law, when a state goes on day to ascertain whether or not any Nyssa will speak and at the changes in substance are in Holy Trinity Episcopal Church light saving time, the entire Date Max. Min Prec. cluded. We doubt whether more the Reverend Tom Foster will state must do so; however, April 12 64 42 .2b Malheur county residents seem than a handful of legislators be the guest minister. In On April 13 62 36 to prefer staying in the same have yet read this 250-page bill. tario the guest preacher at the April 14 56 36 The Senate Financial Affairs Bethany United Presbyterian time zone as Idaho. — 31 April 15 55 April 30 is the scheduled Committee is working on it Church will be the Reverend — 33 53 April 16 date for both Idaho and Oregon now and it should reach the George Uyemura of Ontario; ___ 59 37 17 April residents to set their clocks floor in about ten days. at the First Methodist Church 40 — 54 April 18 ahead one hour. The decision Courts the speaker will be the Reverend 19 37 April — ers are (I »or) Jan Pecora, Debra Fnngen. Nancy Barton. These young ladies are pup'll from B«tty Wilson's S'-’’oo as to whether eastern Oregon The Senate Judiciary Com Wesley Jones of Ontario and of Dancing, and are pictured as they will appear in a Renee DeMinick, Stephanie Wilson, Susan Bratton, Jan OWYHEE ians will be an hour ahead of mittee has approved the es at the Community Methodist black light precision number, Jasx Pixsicato, at their an Saito, LeAnne Wilson. Shannon Sadamori and Debbie STORAGE tablishment of an intermediate Church, the guest minister will their neighbors acorss Snake river is still to be decided by nual dancing display slated io b*gin at 8 pun. Friday, Hendricks. Staff Photo April 19, 1967,451,920 Acre Ft. be the Reverend Ralph Law (Cont’d on Pg. 2) the lawmakers. April 21 in the Nyssa school cafeiorium. The young danc April 19, 1966,645,200 Acre Ft. rence of Nyssa. J Hundreds of Texas Migrants Now Arriving for Crop Work Activities Slated To Aid Children Friday Evening Dance Revue To Feature Youthful Nyssans Pulpii Trades To Aid Effort Toward Union Children, Parents To Visit Primary Classrooms Today Legislators Debate Daylight Savings For Malheur Area Weather... * * *