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University Of Oregon Library Eugene, Ore • 97403 Nyssa Gate City Journal VOLUMI LX THE SUGAR CITY THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL, NYSSA, OREGON THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1967 Ore-Ida Pictures Show Development Of Skyline, World's Top Spud Patch YIELD G(X)D-QUALITY HX)R The yield of the ¡xitatoes harvested this first yeai was especially good. McLane said, Migrant Faces Felony Charge Ernesto Bueno Perez, a mi grant living at ttie Nyssa labor camp, was arrested Tuesday and charged with assault and robbery while armed with a dangerous weapon. According to Nyssa Police ( hlef Alvin Allen, Perez re portedly pulled a gun on Victor Rico and got a check made out to him by J. C. Watson company and delivered to Rico as crew boss. This followed an argu ment over Perez not returning some onion baskets borrowed from Rico for which the latter was holding the check until paid. It is reported that Perez got the check, which he still has, but at gun - point. The whole affair, including the ar rest upon the complaint of Rico, transpired within a 30-minute period. Perez was arraigned before Nyssa Justice of the Peace I . ( Mis Smith, who will si h. d- ule a preliminary hearing at a future date. Perez requested a court-appointed attorney. In the meantime, he is in the county jail in Vale in lieu of the $2,500 bail set by Justice Smith. Nyssa’s Amalgamated sugar factory will start processing ttie 1967 crop of beets about midnight Monday, October 9. Harvesting will start that morning on a controlled basis, but the plant will have to wait until sufficient beets have been delivered to start a run. Acreage is up about 2,500 above that of last year for a total of 32,000 and with anticipated tonnage of 24 per acre, should produce a $10 million crop. Tin .*• pictures are aimxig those taken by a Journal photograph er during Nyssa’s Eighth Annual Krazv Days. The one o.i the left nkowa local barbai Richard, “Di<k”, "Gus”, “Slim” Gustavson butchering ttie hair of a spud inspector from Klam ath Falls. In the center* is Bob Hedges, part-time salesman and part time bartender al the Twilight, embracing the likeable GOV. TOM McCALL EXTOLS ONTARIO Governor Tom McCall, in the last of a series of 13 "Town Hall” meetings in Ontario, last Thursday was very lavish in his praises of the city. The program, arranged by the Chamber of Commerce, start ed when the head of Oregon’s government, was met by a del egation of city officials and well-wishers at the Ontarioair- port Thursday afternoon. With a pat.ide and visit to several of the city’s best highpoints, with Holdren carrying placards and showering flowers on his shoulders to make him wel come, it was a thing a polit ician seldom gets except by those of his party. And, to show that tie felt it deeply ttie Governor is reported to have said, “Gosh, this has never happened before. All tlie other welcomes I have received ' in all other "Town Half” meet ings would not match the one given me in Ontario." But there is a (xissibility that McCall did not tielp him self politically. There are two other towns in the county and there are a number who at tended the meeting who felt he ignored them, what they had accomplished, and what their problems might be. To many of them it was a mutual "Admiration Society” with the governor making a very weak speech at the $2.50 per ticket banquet at East Side cafe that evening. To those unhappy, because their towns had been ignored, it was a repeating of all the good things Ontario enjoyed, that had been told to him at a previous meeting at the Moore hotel in the afternoon. At this informal meeting 10 men were heard on various phases of business, plans, schools, industry, etc. Of these there were two out siders, Bill Moore, chairman Malheur W ater Resources com mittee; and Fred Jackson, pres ident of the Vale Chamber of Commerce, who asked that more of the government and state offices be located in Vale as the seatof the county govern ment. UNLIKE HATFIELD’S VISIT MISS LEILA ALAMPAY An American Field Service exchange student from the Phil ippines, who attended Nyssa high school in 1961-62 and made her home with the Paul House family, was a Friday visitor In Nyssa. She is the first NHS AFS exchangee to return to her hometown, away from home. An assembly was held Fri day morning to honor Miss Alampay, with many of her former friends invited. Leila arrived in the United States on Sept. 2 at San Francisco. She visited AFS headquarters in New York where she saw many friends whom she met at AFS inter national conference in Manila. She visited friends in New Jersey, New York, Ohio and Wisconsin. Then she went to Seattle where she was met by Mr. and Mrs. Paul House who now res.de at Quincy, Wash. Mrs. House brought Leila to Nyssa. They arrived Thursday evening and were guests of Mrs. House’s son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Marcum, Billy and Sara. After leaving Nyssa, they planned to visit Paul (Butch) House Jr. who is a freshman at Wash ington State university in Pullman; and Bonnie House who is now teaching in Hermiston. Leila was to leave Seattle Monday for San Francisco, and after visiting friends in Los Angeles, Bakersfield and Whittier, she will leave Frisco on Oct. 9’ bound for her home in Manila. Miss Alampay is now serving as AFS Overseas representative in the Philippines and has two assistants working under her. NUMBER XL AMALGAMATED STARTS PROCESSING MONDAY ON $10 MILLION CROP Dale McLane, public relations director for Ore-Ida Foods, Inc. showed a film of tlw development of Skyline farm at the Wednesday meeting of the Nyssa Chamber of Commerce, The 10, 000 acre tract northwest of Ontario lias been classed as the world’s largest potato patch. The film, made by the director over .i |H‘iiod <>f many months, showed Hie land while still in sagebrush with a few abandoned homes and shacks that served as reminders that a lack of water lud caused previous failures. While enormous machines but like a lot of others In the were rooting out Hie sage and area were of poorer than usual piling it for burning, other quality. He said one 1,500 acre equipment was pi eparing places portion of the tract, where for pump stations on Hie Snake watering was short had pro acre. and Malheur rivers. ‘Die film duced over 500 bags The company maintains a 40- showed both in progressive stages up to Hie completion acre test plot and has been ex of Ixith projects. Either one, perimenting with potatoes, ttie preparation of Hie land foi tomatoes, corn, cucumbers and tilling, or, getting the watei (H pix-rs. All these are utilized pipe and |>ower stations ready in Heinz (ttie parent comjiany) to deliver ttie Water to land prixlucts on h large scab“. In closing, McLane said ttie 500-600 feet higher than Hie water level of the feeding Northwest should be establish streams, would liave been an ing and using water-rights in enormous project for this rural any manner possible before national legislation is passed area. giving some of it to our south ern neighbors. He reminded LABOR PROBLEMS those present that California McLane told of the labor pro alone could out-vote all the blems faced l>y the company other states in the affected in irrigating th* current crop. areas. He S.lld, it seemed, tla-re Were always people seeking work but they were not available III suf ficient forces when needed. This, lie stated, caused tliem to import Indians to move the aluminum pipe feeding the sprinklers. It see ins ttie company was unaware of how well Indians (<>i at least these o:. the payroll) loved alcoholic beveragr . To try to keepttiese pl otilems at a 111 I li I til u III, they were paid only each two weeks at the stai t. But about the middle of the summer, wlien temperatures were soaring above the 100 degree mark, Hu- Indians de manded to Ire paid each Sat urday and threatened to quit and go home otherwise. After cal’lng in their tribal council, their demands were met. As a result they had money for drinks each week and were not always back on the job when needed. Ontario Police Chief Jim Jones told company officials they were not trouble makers - they just kept drinking until they passed out anil were carted off to J.ill THUNDEREGG CAPITAL While the present governor’s visit was supposedly unpolit ical, it has been compared critically by a number of peo ple, They have compared it with that of Former Governor Mark Hatfield who also visited Mal heur county almost on the same date one year ago. Hatfield spoke at a noon luncheon in Vale on Wednesday, addressed students of Ontario high and TVC college in a joint assembly that afternoon, made a talk at an evening dinner at East Side cafe. Then the following morning he addressed students at Nyssa high school with all visitors welcomed. There was one similarity be tween the two meetings. Ontario Mayor Morgan Beck was chair man of both and Senator Anthony Yturri Master Of Ceremonies at both. Lad Breaks Arm SUNSET VALLEY - Steve Glenn, three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Glenn suffered a broken right arm Saturday afternoon. For awhile he will have to wear a cast, extending from his wrist to his shoulder. Ruthie Howard, wife of Gate City Cleaners owner Harvey How ard. On the right is Kay Sage, wife of LeRoy Sage, a clerk in Wilson Brothers Department store. (The Journal has so many other good pictures of these off-beat characters, so don’t be surprised if you continue seeing them in future issues of the Journal). UNITED FUND SEEKS «13,000 IN COUNTY According to Bob Dye, which have tremendous mem publicity chairman, Malheur berships here, the Red Cross county’s United Fund drive for with its bloodprocurement pro 1968 opens officially Monday, gram, life-saving, service to Oct. 9 at 8 p.m. at the Moore military families and first-aid instruction, and the Salvation hotel in Onrario. This is an organizational for Army’s year-round program of all chairmen, co-chairmen and teip to those in need. In order to con due t a suc- workers where films and other aids will be presented to help 'cessful, concentrated campaign each person to do his part it is im.erative that all those more easily and effectively. who will help attend ttie Oct. Ray Larson of Nyssa, head 9 meeting for final planning of the local UF organization, and instruction. intends to stage a quick, con centrated campaign during the Ranchers Plan month of October to realize this year’s goal of about $13,- Range Improvements 000. This is the third year for Malheur county ranchers United Fund in the county, and, depending upon results, may be plan extensive range improve- ttw> iMt. Ttie first drive wat«-ments over the next few years, quite successful, peaking at according to a survey conducted near $20,000, but last year’s this spring by George Bain, campaign fell to the $13,000 county extension agent. As indicated by the survey, mark, which has been set as Bain says ranchers show they the 1968 goal. Although not every charity or intend to reseed over 2,000 fund-raising organization be acres of range this fall or longs to United Fund in Mal next year and spray over 7,000 heur county, the following do a c r e s to control sagebrush participate: Red Cross, Boy which competes with more de and Girl Scouts, Salvation Army sirable plants for soil moisture with participation on a state and nutrients. wide basis in Oregon United By improving areas of range Appeal, another organization by these methods, ranchers in that contributes heavily to many tend to use the improved area independent, worthwhile char as management tools to improve ities throughout the state such adjoining range through im as children's homes, nurseries, proved use management prac the Council on Crime and De tices. Some operators intend to use linquency, all YMC A and YWCA activities, USO for servicemen reseeded areas for yearling pasture and others for breed and others. Other major organizations ing pastures, in an effort to have been invited to join United get a more uniform calf crop Fund, but have preferred to dropped in a shorter period conduct their own campaigns during the calving season, Bain so far, which might explain the says. omission of someone’s favor ite charity. Although UF does not encom Relative Succumbs pass all needy causes, the re sults of its efforts in Malheur Mr. and Mrs. Harry Miner county are very apparent in the work of the Boy and Girl and Mrs. Freda Miner went Scout organizations, both of to Lebanon, Ore., Sept. 27 to attend funeral services for Fred Schaefer. LIONS POSTPONE The deceased’s widow is a daughter of Mrs. Freda Miner SALE TO OCT. 28 and Harry’s sister. Nyssa Man Wins Life Sales Award John F. Marsh, 525 North 2nd street, Nyssa, has qualified for the 1967 National Sales Ac hie vement award of the National Association < of Life Underwriters. Marsh is an agent for the Boise district agency of the Prudential Insurance company. The award is presented to highly successful life insurance agents, who, during the cal endar year, sell a substantial amount of life insurance to a large number of people. The National Association of Life Underwriters is a trade a ssoc iation of over 100,000 career life insurance agents, general agents and managers. CHARTER DAY SET AT OSI1 Oregon State university’s two biggest events of the fall term, Charter Day and Homecoming, will fall on the same week-end this year, according to a OSU news release. Charter Day, "birthday” of the university is Oct. 27, with Homecoming activities slated to begin that day and continue through Saturday, Oct. 28. As the state’s oldest public- supported institution of higher learning, OSU dates back to Oct. 27, 1868, with the centen nial year observance to be held next year. Reunions of the classes of 1957 and 1962 are planned dur ing homecoming, and the featured football game '.vill be with Washington State uni versity. Mortgage Burned Mrs. Dorothy Russell and Mrs. Ellen Jones were among area residents attending the dedication ceremony held Sept. 24 at Ontario Heights grange hall. State Master Allen P. Wheeler officiated at the burn ing of the mortgage rites. Approximately 150 guests at tended the potludk dinner and ceremony. Dale Adams, chairman of the Nyssa Lions club auction which was originally slated on Sat urday, Oct. 7, has asked the Journal to announce that the sale has been postponed until Saturday, Oct. 28. Ar> a residents having any items to donate for the sale are asked to contact Adams by dialing 372-3583. Proceeds from the event will be used to pay for the ‘dog house’ building on the NHS athletic field. DATE Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 MAX. 85 86 85 68 66 54 68 .. MIN. PR EC. 48 46 47 54 46 42 44 39 — ... — .13 .14 .07 .32 ... RESERVOIR STORAGE 10-4-67 - 328,300 Acre Feet 10-4-66 - 266,840 Acre Feet AN OUTSTANDING FEATURE of the Automotive Parts sales program at Treasure Valley Community college is the class room set-up with catalogues, complete and current, at the fingertips of each student. Among those completing at least two of the three terms of study are Jerry McCain of Adrian and Bruce Spelman of Nyssa. The 500-600 man crew used in the plant and at receiving stations will generate a pay roll of approximately $2 million, tending to keep retail business at a high level dur in the five-month operation. Plant Manager Dick For- bess says the use of more migrant laborers was started last year and about the same number will be used again this year, with many of them the same men used last year. Ap proximately 100 were on the payroll at the peak period last year. Policy of hiring is based on seniority, in that all who fin ished the camjiaign last year have first chance at jobs this season. Nationality, For be ss said, has no bearing on hiring. The migrants who work throughout the period ending about March 1, will be on hand for early spring work which usually begins in April. Growers will again be paid on their tonnage and sugar con tent, on an individual basis, and not on an average, such as used prior to last year. Hunting Season Opens Saturday The deer s e a s o n definitely opens Saturday, after being delayed one week, due to extremely dangerous fire con ditions. Phil Schneider, state game director, said Friday of last week that the weather picture looks very encouraging. And, since that time, in Eastern Oregon, there has been consid erable rainfall to alleviate fire conditions. This moisture has been a help to the nimrods after the bucks, but has slowed down chances for those after chuk- ars and partridges, as they will not have to leave their feed ing ground for water. Accident Claims Life Of Bank Employee Her tragic death early Mon day morning brought sadness to many friends of Jimmie Ann Hatch, who will long be remem bered by many for her mis- chievious, sparkling eyes, her grand sense of humor and musical laughter. The 29-year-old Nyssan was riding in a small foreign-made car which struck a horse about one-half mile from Nyssa on the Adrian highway. The automobile was driven by Oscar William (Butch) Conklin of the Big Bend community near Adrian. He suffered injuries and was taken to Malheur Memorial hospital where he remained un til released Tuesday. It was reported by Oregon State police officers that the animal went through the wind shield, shearing off the top of the vehicle. The horse sustained only minor injuries. JIMMIE ANN HATCH Tuesday evening at Lienkaemp- MEMORIAL SERVICES HELD er chapel by members of the Nyssa Eagles auxiliary. In A memorial service for Jim charge of the rites were Elaine mie Ann was held Monday even Olsen, past madam president; ing at the Sugar Bowl in Nyssa. and Isal Reece, acting chaplain. The auxiliary charter was Conducting the service was Eris Bertram, Nyssa Woman’s also draped in memory of the Bowling association president. deceased auxiliary official who The charter was draped by in 1963-64 served as president. A complete obituary appears Betty Marostica, first vice president of the association, on page 2 of this issue of the and it will remain draped for Journal. 30 days. Following remarks made by Mrs. Bertram about the good Oct. 13 Date Set sportsmanship ever displayed by the deceased bowler, the For Water Cut-Off Lord’s Prayer was repeated in unison, led by Mabie Fangen, At the regular meeting of an association director. the board of directors of the Another service in memory North Board ofControl, of Jimmie Ann, was conducted Owyhee project, Tuesday even ing, the date of Oct. 13 was McGinnis Enrolls set to turn off the water for the season. At AIFT, Phoenix Adam Focht, manager of the Timothy McGinnis is now en rolled in the 1967-68 class of North Board, said that it is The American Institute for estimated that there will be Foreign Trade at Phoenix, around 316,000 acre feet in the reservoir at time of cut Ariz. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. off. In comparison, there were Glenn McGinnis of Nyssa, and 255,000 acre feet on the Oct. a graduate of Portland State 15 cutoff date last year. He college where he majored in said the officials feel that the amount of carry-over is very business. According to an AIFT news favorable. release, the institute is an af filiate of the American Manage ment association and is the Literature Study only school in the United States devoted exclusively to train Slated For Adults ing students in all phases of international business. Clyde Swisher, head of the Over the years, "tudents have English department at Nyssa enrolled for postgraduate work high school, has asked the from every state and 34 foreign Journal publishers to announce countries. Graduates have that those interested in an adult entered the school from 800 discussion group on literature colleges and universities in the -re urged to be present at US, and another 161 institutions a meeting scheduled at 7:30 abroad. p.m. Tuesday, October 10 in Since its founding in 1946, room 4 of the high school AIFT has graduated 4,000 stu building. dents, of which 1,800 are or have been serving overseas in Area adults, interested in 85 countries. Another 1,500 are this discussion series but are in domestic phases of inter unable to attend the Tuesday national commerce or are com evening meeting, are asked to pleting company training before contact Swisher, either by phone assignment abroad. or in person.