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THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1968 THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL, NYSSA, OREGON Manuel Silva Wins F.F.A. Speech Title 2 1 B RODGER GARNER (on left) and JIM FARMER,NHS Seniors, have been informed by the Chief of Naval Personnel, ttiat their scores on a recently conducted Naval College Aptitude Test were sufficiently high to warrant further consideration for enrollment in the regular NROTC program. This a first major step in the selection process of the Department of the Navy to select candidates for the NROT program, which will parallel the academic route which these boys have decided to pursue. The second step in the selection process will be a medical examination and personal interview, both of which will be conducted Jan. 25 at Portland. If the boys are appointed for NRO7C training, the Navy will pay tuition, cost of books, other fees of an instructional nature, plus a subsistence allowance of $50 per month while they are attending college. Both boys plan to pursue their college training at Oregon State university in Corvallis. Rodger's parents are Dee and Jeannetta Garner. Jim is a son of the late Warren and Wllda Farmer. - Journal photo DRIVER EXAMS SLATED According to announcement received from the Oregon De- ¡wirtment of Motor vehicles a drivers license examiner will be on duty Friday, February 9, 1968 tietween the hours of 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. at the city Library. Persons wishing original li censes or permits to drive are asked to file applications well ahead of the scheduled closing hour in order to assure time for completion of the required license test. A THANK YOU CARD 300000000000000000000 We take this opportunity to thank the staff at Malheur Mem orial hospital and Dr. K. E. Kerby for their considerate care of our beloved wife and mother during her illness. An expression of thanks goes also to our friends for their many kindnesses extended to us following her death. - O. E. Coffman, the George Coff man family, Iona Greig and family, Ina Coffman. Senior FFA Members Build Garbage Cans LOSE WEIGHT Get amazing results when you take our product called SLIM ODEX. No prescript ion needed. You must lose ugly fat or your money back. SLIMODEX is a tablet and easily swallowed. No starving, no special exercise, no harmful drugs. SLIMODEX COSte $3.00 ami I oM M this GUARANTEE if not satisfied for any reason, just return the unused portion to the makers and get your full money back. SLIMODEX is sold by-- NYSSA PHARMACY - Nyssa Mail Orders Filled Members of the Nyssa chap ter of the Future Farmers of America are in the process of constructing garbage cans to be placed in the NHS parking lot. According to an FFA author ity, the senior class will be building the garbage cans from used oil drums. They will also be painted to make picking up garbage a more pleasant task. - NHS Bulldog. GO CLASSIFIED! Nyssa chapter of the Future Farmers of America held their annual Public Speech Contest January 18 at 8 p.m. Manuel Silva, one of the two senior representatives, attained first place. Manuel surpassed five other contest ants to receive the Nyssa title. The NHS winner will now tra vel to district competition. His prize-winning topis was “Con servation and It’s Importance to National Freedom”. Silva’s only comment was, “it’s too good to be truel” Second place also went to a senior, Fred Schilling. His topic was FFA and You. He covered such subjects as FF A in individual life and the many dif ferent phases of business con nected to FFA. liana Bratton, NHS freshman, seized third place. Dana talked on poultry. His speech covered care and profit. Bill Walhert, owner of Wal- hert Seed company, Don Bates, NHS speech instructor and Bar ry Fujishin, State FFA pres ident served as judges. They all agreed that it was a very close contest. Each contestant had a five- minute question time after tie had finished with his speech. Each judge asked questions per taining to the speaker’s topic. Other contestants were Dick Cooper and A I a n Cleaver, jun iors; Kenneth Spltze, sopho more. Their topics ranged from Computers on the Farm to Food Shortage. All in attendance agreed that the contest was a very inform ative one. - NHS Bulldog Staff. Student Nurses Fapped In Kites On TVCC Campus A capping ceremony for 18 students in Treasure Valley Community college’s licensed practical nurse course took place Sunday January 21 in the classroom - administration building. Speaker for the can dlelight ceremony was Dr. Doren Daniels of Ontario. This traditional feet marks the be ginning of supervised clinical experience in local hospitals. Those who received caps are: Cheryl Henley, Tomasa Herrera, and Joy Montgomery of Ontario; Susuko Hori and Jeane Hardman, Adrian; Gladys Sommers, Nyssa; Berneata Clark, Vale; Ronda Morrison and Donna Smith, Baker; Kath leen Barrett, Burns; Janice Breshears, Parma; Freida Hol brook, New Plymouth; Rosalie McCool and Lue Ann Steward, Payette, Lueva Trefethern, Fruitland; Margaret Dick, Nampa; Carol Kendall, Prarie City, and Genevieve Bakkensen, Sweet Home. SEED GRAIH CERTIFIED and UNCERTIFIED STOCK ★ ALFALFA ★ PASTURE GRASS ★ ★ WHEAT BARLEY ★ CLOVER ★ OATS ★ FIELD SEED . . . Mixed io Order ★ GARDEN SEED ★ FLOWER SEED Get Yor Orders In Early! FARMERS FEED and SEED Co Nyssa . . . Oregon RED SOX STAR OUTFIELDER TO SI’EAK AT SCOUT DINNER Boston Red Sox Star Out fielder Carl Yastrzemski will be featured speaker at the first annual banquet of the new Ore- Ida Boy Scout council to tie held at 7.30 P.M. Saturday, Feb. 10 in the Boise college student union building. Yastrzemski, voted Asso ciated Press’s “Male Athlete of the Year for 1967”, led the underdog Red Sox to the Ameri can League pennant. He had the top flatting average, .326, the top runs batted in, 121, and tied with Minnesota’s Harmon Killebrew for most home runs, 44. The annual Scout recognition banquet is the first for the new Ore-Ida Scout district, formed last year by a merger of the old Ore-Ida and Mountain View districts. It encompasses six Scout districts, 344 units and 8,900 boys. The Rev. Doctor Herbert E. Richards, of Boise’s Cathedral of tiie Rockies, will be master of ceremonies at the dinner. Six Silver Beaver awards will be presented to adult Scout leaders. The award is the highest which can be presented on a council level. About 1,000 Scout workers are expected to attend the din ner. Other guests will include former Pittsburg Pirates Pitcher Vern law, Philadelphia Phillies Pitcher larry Jackson, Minnesota Twins slugger Harmon Killebrew, Governor Don Samuelson and Department of Commerce Development Secretary Louise Shadduck. The Ore-Ida Council is com posed of Boy Scouts from Ada, Adar.is, Boise, Canyon, Elmore, Gem, Owyhee, Payette, Valley and Washington counties in Idaho; Harney and Malheur counties in Oregon. PAGE THREE Tijuana Graz« Golf Tapped A D IlOStS II « For Annual Ball T GA.l. The Tijuana Grass, a pop ular dance combo comprised of local youths Dick Groves, Gary Lackey, Dave Parker, Larry and ‘Skip’ Bicknese, will play Saturday night for the On tario Women’s Golf association dance. The annual ’golf bail* is scheduled from 9 p.m. to 1 a. m. at the Merchants' build ing on the Malheur County fair grounds at Ontario. The musical group has been running an extremely busy cir cuit of engagements. They re cently completed a two-night stand for the Elks lodge at Hood River, and have been voted as “Area Combo Of The Year” by the Boise Junior League. The ’Grass’ features well- done reproductions of music played by Herb Alpert's famed 'Tijuana Brass*. A six-pound, 14-ounce son was born Monday evening, Jan. 22, 1968 to Dennis and Diane (Talbot) McCrady of Provo, Utah. The March of Dimes, fighting The infant has been named birth defects, says that a new Cary Scott, and joins a brother, German measles vaccine should Mark, four and one-half years be available by 1970, preventing old. epidemics such as that in Grandparents are Nyssans 1964-65 which caused severe Sylvan Talbot, Mr. and Mrs. defects in an estimated 20,000 E. L. McCrady. infants born of mothers who JAN. 22 - To Mr. and Mrs. had caught the virus disease Mike Stam of Nyssa a six- in early pregnancy. * * * pound, seven-ounce girl. |> • 1 TOjeCtS, One—Third Goal Reached The name of T.A.P. rings through the halls as the Bull dog staff calls for support for the Teens Against Polio.Cam- paign. During the past two weeks a raffle of Sidney, the Koala Bear, cake sales and raffles, and slave auctions have been conducted. NHS Bulldog staff T.A.P. campaign has realized over one third of it’s $600 goal. Over $200 was collected from the profit of the various projects. Rodger Garner was the win ner of Sidney, the T.A.P. bear. Sidney brought in $48.64 profit. Varsity cheerleaders, JV cheerleaders, student body of ficers, and other officers of organizations were sold as slaves last week. Mr. Clyde Swisher contributed a dinner, which was sold to Sallee Mor gan and Linda Ballou for $8.75. The freshmen are leading in the race of class competition. Their candidates for T.A.P. Queen and King of the March of Dimes are Nancy Wilson and Remjio Sifuentes. Sopho more candidates, Janice Okano and Larry Miner are following. Junior class candidates, Wendy Bair and Dan Marostica, and the Senior candidates, Stephanie Wilson and Jim Farmer com plete the state of contestants. • NHS Bulldog. Inter-Agency Group Elects New Officers At a recent meeting of the Malheur County Inter-Agency council the following new offi cers were elected for 1968: Chairman, Betty Marquina, Child Welfare Worker with the Malheur County Public Wel fare Commission; Vice Chair man, Dr. Sam Pobanz, Direc tor of Health Services at TVCC; Secretary 4 Treasurer, Jose phine Rigney, Director, Special Education, Nyssa Schools. The Council is composed of representatives from all the public agencies in Malheur county that do counselling re lated to family problems. The primary purpose of the Council is to promote inter-agency co operation and understanding. Currently, a committee is working on a pamphlet which will clearly define the services of the various agencies.
