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University of Oregon Library 9 ¡»W, ore. Û74O3 |k f 11 ■ Nyssa Gate City-Journal VOLUME XL THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL, NYSSA, OREGON THE SUGAR CITY THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1967 Two Men Injured In Boat Two men were injured about 4:15 Sunday afternoon, following tile Jaycee sponsored boat races, when a speeding hydroplane side-swiped a crash boat. Seriously injured was Calvin Hendon, 42, Ontario, who was pinned tietween the boats. He was rushed to Malheur Memorial hospital by an ambulance on the grounds and found to be suffer ing from a fractured pelvis, lacerations of the thigh and con tusions of the chest. Jerry Ward, Caldwell, driver TVCC Stock Shares of the speed boat, was treated at (tie hospital for minor in Ordered Sold Cash juries and released. According to Rodney Cow Needed To Operate fill, one of the co-chairmen of the event, and a rider in the crash boat driven by Bernard In actions taken by (tie Trea Eastman, they were in shallow sure Valley Community college water near the east bank of the board of education at its June Snake under the bridge to pick 14 meeting, the board Instructed up the hydroplane belonging to Phil Ashford to sell marketable Hendon and tow it upstream to stock stares left to the college the dock. Hendon iiad stepped in the Weese estate, according out into the water with a rope to William Schroeder, chair to tie onto his boat when the man. These monies will be speeding boat driven by Ward used to finish the financial ob •nit the Eastman boat a glancing ligations of the fiscal year. blow pliuilng Hendon against the Morley, chief fiscal officer, side of the crash boat. Others in (tie crash boat were Pat is preparing a revised budget Eastman and Bob Moore, both to tie published in the press, presenting a clearer picture of uninjured. After the glancing hit, ttie the disposal of operational Ward boat went aground on ttie funds, The revised budget will sloping ground on Hie east side in no way change the levy. of ttie river with the throttle Joe Saito, chairman of the wide open. The Eastman boat was totaled finance committee, recom- out but no estimate of the dam mended changes in the business age to the Ward boat was avail office and book store contracts and discussed budget revisio n. able. The board accepted the re Hendon’s condition was term ed satisfactory by local hospital signation of Carl Devin, dean authorities Tuesday afternoon of vocational-technical educa when he was trasferred to Holy tion, as of August 12, 1967. Rosary hospital in Ontario. Devin was relieved of all duties and responsibilities. Royce Zobell, a graduate of Ogden high school will spend his summer at Albany, Calif., doing research in a special study program sponsored by the U. S. Department of Agricul ture. Zobell, son of former Nyssans Mr. and Mrs. Henry Zobell of Ogden, Utah, will enter Brigham Young univer sity in the fall on a four-year tuition scholarship. The youth was top winner in the Weber Regional Science fair in March and took first place in the department's com petition in connection with the International Science fair in San Francisco. In other action, Edwin Hay nes, dean of instruction, re commended ttie rehiring of two vocational-technical instruc tors who tad resigned: Glenn Cook, electronics, and Joe Gad dis, welding. He also recom mended the hiring of Marvin Pash, lawyer and former FBI agent, to head the law enforce ment program. Haynes fur ther recommended that college text books be sold rather than rented, effective immediately. The board approved the recom mendations. Schroeder instructed Dean Haynes to have all reports on each college program ready by July 1. The board will meet on July 1 to discuss the sale of bonds approved by the col lege patrons in the budget-bond election of May 24. Perfect Attendance David Saxton, 16, son of Mrs. Delores Monahan, Ontario drowned Monday afternoon about 6:30 while swimming with two companions in the Owyhee river near Mitchell Butte. According to Deputy Sheriff Dick Pounds, who was called about 6:45, young Saxton with Alan Zikmund and Don Cartwright all of whom tad been haying at a nearby ranch decided to take a swim in the Flatrock hole. The companions swam to the opposite shore when they discovered Saxton was in trouble and had panicked. Zikmund went to the rescue and was nearly drowned in his efforts to save his companion. He was so weakened that he had to be pulled ashore after the struggle. ■%.«* The doors of Nyssa’s new public library swung open Tuesday with numerous area residents, if all ages, visiting the facil ity now located at the southeast corner of the Main and Fourth street intersection. In addition to an outside view of the build ing from across the inter section, the Journal camera was taken inside where a number of youngsters were at the check out counter, being waited on by 0 to r) Teresa Haburchak, Karen Main, Linda Morrison and Librarian Norma Urry. New library hours are Tues day, 2 to 8 p.m.; Wednesday, 12 noon to 6 p.m.; Thursday, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 12 noon to 6 p.m.; Sunday and Monday, closed. Date of the library’s grand opening ceremonies will be an nounced later. Kathy Dority, daughter of Mr. Jim Anderson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Anderson, attended and Mrs. John Dority, attended Nyssa schools seven years con- NHS three years and Bishop tinously with perfect attend Kelly high one year, with perfect ance. Anderson lettered in attendance. She also had per baseball in 1966 and 67, was fect attendance in grades one She has been manager of the football team through eight. during 1964, 65 and 66, was active in drill team, GAA, Thes manager of the basketball squad pians, pep club and won the during the 1964, 66 and 67 outstanding' Thespian award. seasons. He plans to attend Kathy plans to attend Southern Eastern Oregon college at La Oregon college with a tuition Grande this fall, with a partial and partial fee remission state scholarship. tuition scholarship. The body was found by Nyssa skindiver, S. H. “Speed” Por ter and Bill Marostica, who had been called by Pounds, about an hour after the drown ing. It was in about seven foot deep water that was very muddy and heavy silt. Dr. Kenneth Pfaff, Malheur county medical investigator pronounced him dead at the scene and no inquest is planned. Saxton made his home with his grandmother, Mrs. Mary Auker, in the Big Bend com munity and was a junior in the Adrian high school. Zikmund is the son of Mrs. Gregory Thiel, Highland Drive, Nyssa and Mr. and Mrs. Ray mond Cartwright are the par ents of the other lad. PLAN TO ATTEND NYSSA NITE RODEO ON JULY 14 - 15 Dairy Industry Important Australian Offe rs Ra re riiiin<lereg<i For Exhibit r (The following letter was re ceived in Nyssa early this week and will be turned over to mem bers of the Thunderegg Days exhibition, committee for tb«ir consideration. The item of correspondence was dated June 8, 1967 and was sent from Daddow’s Rock Shop, 60Caven- dish Road, Coorparoo, Bris bane, Australia.) "Thunderegg Days, 217 Main Street, Nyssa, Oregon 97913, USA. Dear Sir or Madam: "In the April issue of Amer ican Lapidary Journal I notic ed with interest that you are conducting a display and tours of August 3-6, inclusive. “I would like to display in your exhibit, a rare thunderegg of Beechmont Queensland. Would you send me information regarding the exhibition. I would require a guarantee that the specimen or specimens would be returned to Australia immediately after conclusion of the exhibition and that suitable precautions be taken against loss whilst in the USA. “If you are interested in this offer, please contact me at your earliest convenience so that the necessary arrange- KIDS' BASEBALL PLAN ASSISTS .* NUMBER 25 Adrian Lad Drowns In Owyhee Monday Collision Al Nyssa Sunday Royce Zobell Wins Grant THUNDEREGG CAPITAL Three Nyssa stores plan an "assist” for the “Kids For Baseball” program this week end. MAW Market, Don B. Moss Firestone store and Brac ken’s Dept, store, all of which give SR V stamps with purchases have offered to match all stamps left for the cause by purchasers. These will be converted to cash and the proceeds given to aid the baseball endeavor. The offer ends June 24, as indicated in individual ads for the firms. Memorial Bill Enacted By Legislature ments can be made to forward the specimen to you. "Hoping to bear from you in Representative Robert F. the near future. Yours faith- f-illv, V. F. Dadrtow, Dad. , Smith (R-Burns) Majority Leader of the Oregon House of dow’s Rock Shop.” Representatives stated recently that both the Senate and the Many Out-Of-Area House have completed action on HJM 19, a memorial to the Visitors Inquire AJS Congress regarding the About Thundereggs BLM’s proposed forage reduc tions on public grazing lands. Many out-of-area residents The BLM has recently announc are registering at the Nyssa ed that 52,886 AUM’s will be Chamber of Commerce office reduced from exisiting graz to inquire about the 1967 Thun- ing capacity over the next three deregg Days event to be held years because of forage dete in August, location of the thun rioration. The Memorial, in deregg beds and sites of other troduced by Representative minerals to be found in the Smith, requests $3 million for vicinity. rehabilitation of the BLM Members of the C of C Thun managed public grazing lands in deregg Days committee feel Oregon where forage deterior that this information should be ation is most critical, an<J asks of the utmost importance to the Congress to prevent any Nyssa merchantsand other area further grazing reductions until residents, as it indicates a the rehabilitation funds are year-around Interest from appropriated. many faraway places. HJM 19 orginally passed the According to the Chamber House April 5. The Senate records, 234 visitors have call passed tlfc bill June 6, but ed at the office since the be had amended it so drastically ginning of 1967. Comprising that the House refused to con the total have been out-of-area cur in the Senate amendments. Oregonians, 83; from Idaho, 77; As a result, a conference com Washington, 22; Missouri, 8; mittee was appointed, of which Wyoming, 5; California and Representative Smith was one North Carolina, 4 each; Kansas, of the two House conferees, New York, Texas and Utah, 3 and the committee recommend each; Kentucky, Colorado, Neb ed that the House and Senate raska, Minnesota, 2 each; In repass the bill in its orginal diana, Wisconsin, New Jersey form. This the House did and South Carolina, 1 each. June 9, and the Senate fol Other visitors have been lowed June 12. those from Alberta, Canada, ”1 am extremely pleased that Korea and Holland, 2 each; the legislature has, in the end, and from Peru, 1. enacted this important memor Of the year’s total, 59 have ial in substantially the same registered during June, with form as I orginally presented 14 of those from June 12-17. it,” Representative Smith And as recorded in the May 25 stated. "The economic effects issue of the Journal, there have upon our Eastern Oregon live been 75 visitors at the C of C stock communities would be office since Mav 22. disastrous if the proposed re ductions were implimented without an accompanying min imal appropriation for rehabili tation funds. By passing this ■/ I w. * memorial in its unamended form, the legislature has spoken clearly to the Congress the * ' wishes of the people of Oregon on this important matter.” To All Of Malheur County The nearest the average American comes to contacting those responsible for the dairying industry is through buying the finished product in the grocery store. Be it milk, cheese, butter most take it for granted and seldom find a shortage. But it really is not that simple. Not too many years ago the man that owned thé cows sold his product in tne form of raw milk, separated cream, or going back some years farther, the housewife of the farmer sold butter formedin a wooden mold after it had been churned in a dasher-type container or the hand-cranked Daisy churn. With government regulations as a full-time business and not concerning sanitation, with high as a side-line to supplement feed and mounting labor costs, other income. dairying has become big busi Dairying is important enough ness, eliminating the milker that June is observed nation of a few cows. The remain wide as “Dairy-Month”. A number of local merchants, ing dairy farmers have become accountants, feed and fertilizer realizing the importance of the specialists and experts of an industry, have ads in this week's imal husbandry. He had to do Journal observing the event Don’t forget its importance- so to exist. Oregon dairying ranks high ifs the food upon which most on the list of income for the got their start! farmer. And Malheur county ranks third within the state, based on income. In 1965 the total income from this Migrant Ministry source in the county was list Committee To Meet ed at $3.5 million from a total of 14,700 cows ( second in the Members of the Nyssa Mi number of cows at that time). The number of milk produc grant Ministry committee will ers dropped one-third from meet at 10 a.m., Saturday,June 1960 to 1965 without any drop in 24 at Faith Lutheran church. the amount of the finished pro A guest will be Kenneth Seitz, duct. The small dairy far director of the voluntary ser mer, faced with a big increase vice office of the Mennonite in capital investment, simply Board of Missions, Elkhart, dropped out of the picture and Ind. A discussion will center was replaced by a larger,more upon a unique ministry program efficient operator who operated for migrants in the Nyssa area. aAMDWXBTaa Harper Girl Takes Nyssa Rodeo Title Queen of the 1967 Nyssa Nite Rodeo was selected Sunday fol lowing competition among eight contestants. Rena McKay, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rod McKay of Harper, will reign over this years rodeo activities. Rodeo princesses are Lucille Bertram of Nyssa and Rena’s sister, Dorothy. Nyssa Nite Rodeo will be held July 14-15 at the Nyssa rodeo grounds announced chairman Lynn Snodgrass. It is sponsored by the Owyhee Riding club and stock will be furnished by Ralph Stephens of Midvale. Deadline Set To Certify Seed Fields The deadline for applying for field inspections of certified crops is July 1 according to a reminder by Leeds Bailey, county extension agent. This date applies to farmers who want to certify eligible alfalfa, red clover and grain varieties. He pointed out that a differ ent deadline applies to appli cations for seedling Inspections of red clover and alfalfa. These requests should be made within 60 days of the time of plant ing. Regulations governing the certification of Oregon crops are available at the county ex tension office. Early Day Students Plan Annual Picnic Students who attended early- day Nyssa schools have slated their annual potluck picnic at 11 a. m. Sunday, June 25 in Nyssa south part All students and teachers affiliated with the schools up to and including 1920 are urged to attend and take a potluck dinner. Beverages will be furnished. Those traveling from a distance are not expected to furnish food. According to those who have attended these yearly gather- ings, visiting and reminiscing furnish the only entertainment needed. i THE WEATHER This Journal photo was snapped at the scene of the Nyssa Jaycee sponsored boat races Sunday afternoon, but most of the action was on the other side of the Snake river. The picture was taken just as Bernard Eastman’s damaged boat was being towed outof the water, and up the ramp to be fastened to his Jeep vehicle. The boat ramp is near the right hand side of the picture. Weather Max. Min. Prec. Date — 81 55 June 14 — 54 June 15 84 — 88 54 June 16 — 56 June 17 91 — 92 57 June 18 — 59 97 June 19 —- 92 65 June 20 62 .25 June 21 OWYHEE RESERVOIR STORAGE June 21, 1967 548,780 Acre Ft. June 21, 1966 502,110 Acre Ft. The crown of the Malheur County Dairy Prin cess will be worn for the coming year by Miss Carol Ann McCormick (center). On her right is Miss Cindy Bratton, another candidate and on her left is Miss Joan Durfee who served in the same ‘Royal’ capacity last year. Speak er for the evening was Lou Wettstein, with Dale McLane serving as master of ceremonies at the coronation banquet served June 10 at the Victorian room in Vale. Vocal selections were by Adrian’s young tenor, Earnle Lewis. Miss McCormick will now compete for the state title. — Photo courtesy of Malheur Enterprise.