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University of Oregon Library Eugene, Ore. 97403 X X X X X Nyssa Gate City Journal VOLUME l.XI mi SUGAR < ITT the nys .'. a lati < iiy journal , nyssa , oreoon T hursday , F ebruary zz , iwh Nyssan Takes S|M‘ech Honors; Goes To State NEO MEETING number vin HVf NHS WRfSRfRS ADVANCE TO STATE VIA DISTRICT WINS J. FAHRENBRUCH WINS TOP FARMER AWARD UN ADRIAN DISTRICT "All I did was take an average farm and make a good farm of it.“ Such is John Fahrenbruch** understatement of conservation activity that earned him the title of "Outstanding Conservation Farmer” of Adrian Soil and Water Conservation District this year. Fahrenbruch, who had operated an Irrigated farm in Montana, rlstught 80 acres near Adrian in Malheur County, Oregon in 1953. * This farm was difficult to Irrigate -- and not too productive, irrigation was a “shovel job" and he had to watch closely to make water go as far as he could. Many small fields made for short irrigation runs. One 10-acre tract was irrigated in seven different directions! But today, the former owner t rat ion and holding capacity. Crops grown on the farm in would have trouble recognizing the place -- so complete is the clude sugar beets, alfalfa hay and seed, potatoes, onions and reorganization. How did this dramatic change grain. Currently, Fahrenbruch keeps half of the farm in al come about? When Adrian SWCD was falfa all the time, but hopes to formed in 1958, John was one have his whole place in alfalfa of tiie first to sign up as a seed production in two or three cooperator. With the help of the years. His only other enterprise local USDA Soil Conservation then will be leaf cutter bees, Service technician, John was used as pollinators in alfalfa quick to develop a complete seed growing areas. He lays claim to a world re conservation plan -- a plan (hat is now completely applied cord for turnip seed production (based on the word of a fieldman to the land. Fahrenbruch began by level for Dessert Seed Company.) Sixteen acres produced 3380 ing a portion of the farm each year and reorganizing the ir pounds of seed per acre one rigation system to cut down on year. Sugar beet yields of 31 to 32 water losses and improve ir rigation efficiency. Now, the en tons per acre have placed him tire 80 acres has been leveled among the top three producers - including the lawn. The ir delivering to the local receiv rigation system also has been ing station for five years in reorganized from one end to the a row. Other crop yields are consistently high also. other. Married and father of one Some of the leveling was quite d. astic - fills as deep as nine son, Alan - with the Stanford feet and cuts as deep as seven Reasearch Institute in Calif feet. When this much soil is ornia - John is ever willing to removed, production usually help community or neighbors. He was supervisor of Adrian suffers for many years. Not so with this farm. To keep up and SWCD from 1962-66. Helping improve soil condition and fert neighbors includes such down- ility, John made a deal with a to-earth tasks as lending a local cattle feeder; A trade of hand with staking out fields for hay for manure. Each winter, he leveling, And, on a higher, hauled about 100 eight-ton broader level, it includes loads of manure and spread it traveling to Salem in 1965 to on his farm. This counteracted help get legislation to protect the effects of the drastic level seed growers. Thus, through hard work, ing. Other improvements on the good management and ad farm included. A quarter mile herence to a good conservation of concrete ditch lining on the plan, Fahrenbruch has turned upper end where gophers were an average farm into what he causing trouble in a dirt ditch. calls a ’good’ farm. Reason enough, you could well Eight hundred feet of ir rigation pipeline in place of an say, for supervisors of Adnan open delivery ditch. (John’s ir Soil and Water Conservation rigation system is organized so District to name him as the that he can make use of a "outstanding conservation neighbor’s waste water also.) farmer" in the district this Sixty acres subsoiled four year! feet deep to break up a hard pan and increase water pene- thunderegg capital Trailing after three sessions, Rudy Vendrell, 136; Dar Jen the hosting Nyssa Bulldogs sen, 148 and Fred Esplin gained 4 wins in the consola wrestling at 157 all won tion round and 4 victories in district championships in their the finals to grab the 7-A-2 respective weight classes. district wrestling title away Nyssa’s Chipper Burningham from the other 11 participating schools. In winning the district was runner-up in the 98-pound tournament held Feb. 16-17 weight class. These five Bull staged on the NHS mats, the dog wrestlers will compete in Bulldogs compiled a total of the Oregon state tournament to be held next weekend in Cor 123 points. vallis. Four Nyssa grapplers won In the consolation bracket individual championships in the Nyssa acquired four wins, with tourney. Richard Parra at 115; Butch Wright wrestling at 130, Dan Hiatt, 98; Gary Breshears, 168; and Dan Haney 141. Charles Bale lost his consolation match but was fourth in his weight division. Following the Bulldog’s 123 points was Maupin, with 119 points. Burns was third with 108. The remainder of the teams finished as follows: Vale, fourth, 72; Madras, 57; Stan field, 33; Sherman, 32; Enter prise, 22; Wahtonka, 18; Elgin, 11; Wallowa, 2, and Culver, 1. - Reid Saito, NHS Bulldog staff. Thieves Hit Thirteen Rural Nyssa Families; Take Meat, Motors, Wire THE FIVE NYSSA WRESTLERS who are to compete at state this weekend are shown displaying the squad’s district 7-A-2 trophy. The matmen are (1 to r) Rudy Vendrell; (136); Darr Jensen, (148), Chipper Burningham, (98), and Richard Parra, (115). They will attempt to bring a state trophy home for the Bull dogs. - NHS Bulldog Photo. Five Percent Penalty For Late Assessements Taxpayers can get in a "mess” if they have ignored the warnings of Malheur County Assessor John Koopman. They have become accustomed over the years of having the assessor, or one of his deputies coming by, filling out the personal assessment forms and paying what the law calls to be paid. But this has all changed! The load work, he says, will not permit this and property owners must fill out their own forms and send them in to the office. PERSONAL PROPERTY DEFINED To be reported under the classification of personal property is: Inventories, furniture and fixtures, and movable machinery. These may change materially from year-to-year and should take into considerations additions as well as sales of, no-longer- used equipment, furniture and fixutres. (Normally, fixutres that are attached to the building and cannot be easily detached are considered a part of the building and come under the real ••Ute. ______________________ erable number of people were unobservant of the law or had become soaccustomed to having the former service of having an officer of the assessor’s office take care of the matter, that they were unobservant. BETTER TAKE CARE OF THIS NOW! FIVE PERCENT PENALTY Koopman stressed that if the forms are not filed by March 2 there is a provision for a five (5) percent penalty of the total tax for lat. filing. (Thus, if taxes on the above definitions of personal property would normally be $1,000, if not filed by March 2, would make the taxes $1,050.) His recent statement that of 2,500 statements mailed re turns had been received from only 800, indicate thataconsid- Jim Rudd, Ontario farmer, will be principal speaker at a National Farmers Organization (NFO) meet at Oregon Trail Hall Wednesday February 28. Time is 2 P.M. and all inter Manuel Silva, a member of ested persons are urged to at the Nyssa chapter of Future tend. This is one of a series Farmers of America, was first of meetings being held in Mal place winner in the public heur and adjoining counties in speaking contest during the an effort to get farmers to band Snake River and Eastern Oregon together to secure better prices district competition staged last The 1968-69 budget message for their products. weekend in Baker. for the Adrian School district will be presented Feb. 23 at 8 p.m. in the school cafetorium, Supt. Glenn E. Ward reported Friday. The school board of directors has approved a new salary schedule for the coming year. Ward said the increase is not Jim Houston, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Houston, Route comparable to the scale adopted 1, Ontario was injured slightly in some school districts this Sunday in a Communist raid on year and he predicted difficul ties in obtaining the necessary a Saigon airport. The young navy man had fin teachers to fill anticipated va ished his tour of duty and along cancies. The new base salary for with many others was awaiting teachers with bachelor degrees a plane back to the U.S. when the raid came. One man was will be $6,000, up $700 from the killed and 21 others were in base salary of $5,300 allowed jured during the attack on the last year. He noted that the $100 yearly increment for each year airbase. Houston was able to be flown of experience is lower than in to the States the following day other districts. Teachers with masters degrees will start at and is in a navy hospital in $6,400 with a high of $7,600. MANUEL SILVA San Francisco where he will There are also additional cate His topic was “Save Our remain for the removal of gories on the salary scale, he Soils’’, and he is now eligible shrapnel in his neck. noted. to compete in the state pub The school board accepted the ON TELEVISION lic speaking contest to be held resignation of Mary Lou Den March 13-18 atCorvallis. man, music teacher, who plans Houston appeared on Walter Second and third place honors to resign at the end of the school Cronkite ’ s news broadcast over went to youths from Baker and year. channel two Monday afternoon Wallowa. and the station called his mother Silva recently won two plaques and a $15 cash award in time for her to watch the in contests sponsored by the program. The young man operated a Oregon Association of Soil and MAX. MIN. PR EC. Water Conservation Districts. patrol boat on the Mekong Delta DATE The Enterprise FFA chapter for the past year and was in 41 21 .25 took first place in the parli- jured once prior to Sunday. Feb. 14 -- Feb. 15 36 28 mentary procedure contest at 43 32 Feb. 16 .03 the Baker meet, with Halfway Feb. 17 40 34 taking second place honors and CANDIDATES FILE 42 Feb. 18 35 .25 Nyssa placing third. Bob Morcom, Malheur county Feb. 19 .27 50 36 Taking first place in the FFA 61 40 .17 Creed contest for Greenhands clerk reports the filing for Feb. 20 -- 43 .28 was Charles Chambers of county treasurer by Republican Feb. 21 ****** Baker, with Nyssan Glen Gibson incumbent Jean (Pat) Bond. RESERVOIR STORAGE placing second. Also filing, as Justice of the 2/19/68 388,010 Acre Feet Future Farmers of America 353,240 Acre Feet are, from Feb. 17-24, observing Peace for the Ontario district, 2/19/67 is Jay A. Phillips. their ‘National Week’. Police Department Seeks Reserve Men Police Chief Alvin Allen an nounces he is accepting applica tions for reserve police officers. Anyone interested may attend an informational meeting to be held at 7:30p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 27 in the council chambers at Nyssa city hall. Applications are obtainable at the office of the Nyssa police department. DETAILS LACKING ON D. HAILE DEATH No further details were avail able on the death of Staff. Sgt. Donald Haile at press time yes terday. He was killed Friday, February 9, while serving with the army in Vietnam. A telegram to the army re questing the body be sent to a funeral home in Caldwell was acknowledged Monday in a reply to his father, Sheriff Dale Haile of Caldwell. The Journal plans to carry a complete obituary at a later date. Sugar Company Announces Chicago Sales Position The Amalgamated Sugar Company announced today that David B. Handy, a 27-year veteran with the company, is establishing the big beet sugar processor’s first Chicago area sales office. As midwestern sales manager, Handy assumes responsibility for marketing activities in Amalgamated’s largest single sales territory. Company president A. E. Benning said Amalgamated’s new look in the Chicago market is similar to one it has developed in several other areas, where experienced company personnel assist the efforts of broker organizations. "We think we can do a better job of serving customers if we have our own representative on the scene to work with the broker,” Benning said. “Customer requirements are in creasingly diversified in the industrial sugar business, and Mr. Handy’s presence in Chicago is intended to insure that each Amalgamated customer receives all the service and consultation he requires.” Handy, 48, joined Amalga mated in 1941. He was a sales representative for White Satin sugar in Pendleton, Ore. from 1953 to 1955 and, in the latter year, was transferredtoSeattle as Washington state sales man ager. He returned to Ogden a The City of Nyssa has re year ago to understudy sales ceived final approval of a fed manager Walker Low, as assis eral grant to be used in a park tant sales manager. improvement project on the Snake River,City Manager Fred Amalgamated employs two Koch said Wednesday. broker organizations in the A total of $2,400 has been Pacific Northwest, another im received from the Land and portant company market, and Water Conservation Fund of also coordinates sales and cus the Bureau of Outdoor Recrea tomer service with its own per tion and will be matched with sonnel. Harry Moss Jr. is local funds to improve River Northwest sales manager for Park. the company in Portland. Harry The city manager said work Gassner, also Portland, is Ore will start in the next few weeks gon sales representative and and will include rip-rapping Mike Sivulich, Seattle, occupies the shoreline and construction a similar position in the Ever of a concrete stairway to the green state. boat ramp. At its regular session last In the midwest, the company week the City Council read for has been represented for some the second time an ordinance time by sales representatives adopting the uniform building A. L. Matthes (Kansas, Mis code for the City of Nyssa. souri, Iowa and Nebraska) and Koch said the council also W. E. Ellingson (Minnesota and discussed the purchase of a Wisconsin). W. A. Durand, in new fire truck for the city. Minneapolis, provides technical The present fire truck was pur services for White Satin cus chased in 1948, he noted. tomers throughout the midwest Nyssa Police Chief Alvin and is responsible for opera Allen submitted a proposal to tions and quality control at three the council for the formation Amalgamated liquid sugar of a reserve police group.If a facilities. These are at Min volunteer group is formed they neapolis, Des Moines and will serve during periods of Kansas City, and convert dry heavy traffic such as parades, bulk sugar into various liquid rodeos, etc. and will under products for industrial cus go a 22-hour training program. tomers. with the damage caused to the buildings by ripping out walls and ceilings. He stated that they might have gotten $15 in the items taken and done $200 damage to the premises. Car penter work and wiring jobs would need to be done over in A series of 14 thefts in the Nyssa area has been reported most houses he said. to the Sheriff’s office since Friday of last week, according The Sheriffs office is con to Deputy Dick Pounds. tinuing investigating the thefts. The thieves seem to be partial to copper wire, no doubt due to the high price of the metal since the long-continuing strike in the larger copper producing firms. However they also have a taste for motors and even livestock. Most all have occurred in tenant houses that are vacant and not checked regularly. Pounds says they have probably occurred over a two-three weeks period and were discovered Malheur County health of after the word spread about the first losses. The first losses were at the Delbert Cleaver farm on Route 1 ficials state that they announce where all electrical wire and copper tubing was ripped from with pleasure that Mrs. Col the walls of a tenant house, and, the theft of an adding machine leen Wilks, registered nurse, was hired Feb. 1 as the de from Parma Seed Co. at Adrian. Wire was also taken from tenant houses belonging to Tom partment’s migrant project Okai, Don and Homer Brewer and Willis Bertram. Pumps nurse. She is the wife of Bud Wilks, Ontario jeweler, and is were also stolen from the Okai and Brewer houses. well known through the county. at Amalgamated Sugar com Hogs Stolen Mrs. Wilks is a graduate of pany, according to Plant St. Elizabeth hospital’s school Four hogs belonging to Wil Manager Dick Forbess. of nursing, Baker, and has had liam Peutz, also Route 1, Nyssa Carl Simpson reported the wide and varied nursing ex were stolen. These were re loss of an eight-inch power saw, perience, having practiced her covered with two being found saw blades and two bee boards profession in Illinois, Portland, at the Standley residence on from his ranch and Ken Boise, as well as locally. North Third Street of Nyssa Laurence the loss of copper She has worked in many pos and two at the Dall Poston farm wiring from one of his buildings. itions as a nurse, including residence on Route 1. Both re- Then just before press time considerable supervision and ported they were purchased Wednesday Deputy Pounds said some instruction. from men they had never seen he had received notice that Mrs. Wilks was Malheur before or since. Willis Bertram had discovered county's first migrant nurse. Three slabs of bacon, three a pump was missing from his She was instrumental in set chickens and 40 pounds of premises. ting up migrant nursing service hamburger were reported taken at the time the present camps from a deep freeze in the Mike Buildings Damaged were established. She also did Zamora home near Adrian. Deputy Pounds said the value nursing for the prisoner of Two small motors were of the copper and electrical war camps during World War stolen from a storage building wiring was minor compared □. Colleen Wilks Named Migrant Project Nurse SCOUT LEADERS EARN TOP COUNCIL AWARDS BUDGET BOARD RAISES BASE FOR TEACHERS Nyssa Man Hurt In Saigon Raid Flown To U.S. WEATHER Funds Approved For Nyssa Park THOMAS NISHITANI Two area Boy Scout leaders have received ‘Silver Beaver’ awards, the highest leadership honors given on a council level. The citations were presented at the Feb. 10 annual Ore-Ida Council recognition banquet. In the above photos, the tiny silver beavers can be seen hanging from ribbons around the necks of the honored men. Message on the citations reads "This witnesses that Thomas Nishitani - D. A. Erick son, upon the nomination of the Ore-Ida Council and it’s appre ciation by the executive board of the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America is hereby awarded the Silver Beaver for distinguished service to boy hood in the territory under jurisdiction of said council. ‘‘In testimony whereof the National Council of Boy Scouts of America has caused these presents to be signed by it’s officers and it’s corporate seal to be hereto affixed.” The docu ments are dated Feb. 10, 1968 and signed bv National execu tive officers. The following paragraphs give a resume of the men's Boy Scout work, as well as other church and community leadership activities. OELLIN A. ERICKSON Thomas Nishitani has re ceived the Silver Beaver award for an outstanding record of service in the Boy Scouts of America organization. He served two years as assis tant Scoutmaster and over 12 years as a Scoutmaster within his district and in the Council. Nishitani has taken his troop to Scout camp for the past three years. He has helped both in the District and the Council and has been a five- star leader for the past three years of an outstanding troop. He is a member of the Metho dist church, past commander of an American Legion post. Boy Scout district chairman in the American Legion and vice president of the Snake River chapter of the Japanese-Ameri can Citizens’ league. He has also served on the United Funds committee of the rural district. He is the father of David Nishitani, an Eagle Scout. "His leadership and example of distinguished service to boy hood in the Ore-Ida Council gives pride in recognizing Thomas Nishitani as a Silver Beaver Scouter. Evidence of Dellin A. Erick son’s community standing in the service to boyhood is the reason he received his Scouter citation. He has served as institutional representative, executive board member, vice president of the council, on the finance commit tee and in many other Scouting positions. He lias three sons, all Eagle scouts; and he has done an outstanding job on sus taining membership. He is Stake President in the L.D.S. church; past president of both the Nyssa Chamber of Commerce and the Knife and Fork club; and he is active in the United Funds and many other community organizations. To some degree, Erickson is father of the consolidation and merger of the Mountain View and Ore-Ida councils into one new council, having put this for ward after visiting the Philmont Scout Ranch. He has approxi mately 900 youths between 8 and 18 years of age under his direction as a Stake president in the LDS church. "For his leadership and dedi cation of distinguished service to boyhood beyond the call of duty causes the Ore-Ida Council to proudly recognize this Silver Beaver Scouter.”