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THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL, NYSSA, OREGON
The Gate City Journal
FROM THIS CORNER
TED M. BRAMMER, Editor and Publisher
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Malheur County,
Entered at the Post Office it Nyssa, Oregon, for Trans
mission through the United States Mails, as a Second
Class Matter under the Act of March 3. 1879.
WHERE DO WE GO
FROM HERE?
The Reverend Martin Luther King, leader of the Non-
Violent movement, is dead, killed by an assassin’s bullet.
The lawless or (using a more kindly word) militant element
took over in many cities with rioting, burning, looting and
killing — using his death as an excuse.
Pictures and written reports show that often the looting was
done under the eyes of law enforcement officials without any
effort to stop it. This was no reflection on the law officials,
as they had orders from the mayors, or higher up officials,
not to interfere. And the Stokeleys and Browns, as acknowledged
leaders of these violent actions, say we can expect more of
the same in the days to come.
Are the victims of these outrages going to sit idly by and
see their property destroyed and their lives endangered, or
are they apt to rebel and take actions outside the law that are
just as repulsive as these acts of unresponsible negroes? No
one seems to know the answer. The peaceful leaders of the
negro organizations seem unable to sell the colored people
on a peaceful program carried out by laws. Nor do our leaders
in government know what to do other than pass laws to give
these people more civil rights and spend more money for welfare.
Most of the problems are blamed on poverty by both white
and colored leaders. King wanted massive amounts spent
immediately in an effort to bring the negro nearer the financial
standing of the white man. Immediately following his death
two negro leaders were on television (Wilkins and Young)
telling i hat must be done tomorrow by the federal, state and
local governments to keep the negroes peaceful.
Practically all programs advocated and carried out by our
National government in recent years have been “Spend, Spend,
Spend” and lift the negro out of poverty -- out of the ghettos
into decent homes and into jobs paying a decent wage. Yet
they admit they are unable to qualify for the skilled jobs industry
is crying for. It takes education and no one can give them an
education in one day.
Poverty is given as the reason for the violence, and this is
seldom questioned. But Evangelist Billy Graham flatly rejects
this claim. He points out, “There was no rioting, looting or
killing of police officers in depression days when people were
much poorer. Respect for law lies in the character of our people
rather than in their affluence. A law-abiding society is built
on character and it cannot be created or bought at will with tax
dollars.”
Government figures show most of the families classed as
poverty victims live in rural areas with the states of the south
accounting for nearly half of the total. Yet, have you read where
the rural people, black or white, have been rioting?
We believe the welfare programs started in the ‘thirties’
as necessary, and continued have caused more unrest and
rioting than poverty -- among both blacks and whites. It has
led to SFN (something for nothing) that has become a way of
life for whole generations. It is much more dangerous than
LSD and other drugs used by a minority of our people. It
destroys character.
It’s time to give serious thought to the answers. Shall we
corral and punish lawless destroyers of life and property or
shut our eyes and hope they will go away?
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AHS CALENDAR
TODAY - 2:45 p.m. National
Assembly.
TODAY’ - 4 p.m. Frosh-Soph
baseball Vale at Adrian.
TODAY - 8 p.m. Adrian PTA
APRIL 19 - 4 p.m. Varsity
baseball, Notus at Adrian.
APRIL 20 - 10 a.m. Track
meet, Boise college invitational
APRIL 23 - 3 p.m. Girls
track at Adrian.
APRIL 23-8 p.m. Varsity
Baseball at Marsing.
APRIL 24-4 p.m. Frosh-
Soph baseball at Nyssa.
Lose an hour in the morning
and you will be all day hunting it
IDAHYBRID
A Variety for
Every Purpose
Every town with any hie left
has a newspaper. It inay be a
big daily, a bl-weekly or once
a week (like ours). It may be
a real successful one (finan
cially), well-read, liked by the
readers or it may be mediocre
in all respects.
But there is no business so
widely used that is as little
understood by the users as the
newspaper. No doubt the fault
lies with those responsible for
producing it. They belabor the
merchant to advertise but use
their own media very little to
tell what they do and why the
community needs them.
With this in mind we are
“Tootin our Horn” with these
well-known reminders;
A subscriber found a spider
in his newspaper and demanded
to know the meaning of it. Editor
Mark Twain replied: “Finding
a spider in your paper is neither
good nor bad. The spider was
merely looking over the paper
to see which merchant was not
advertising so he could go after
that store, spin his web across
the door, and lead a life of
undisturbed peace ever after.”
P. K. Wrigly (head of the gum
dynasty) riding on the train with
a friend was told that as well-
known as his product was that
he no longer needed to adver
tise, thereby saving the expense
and make that much additional
profit. He said, “This train is
going 60 miles per hour, so why
not disconnect the engine? Ad
vertising is to merchandising
what a locomotive is to a train.
It is the power which keeps it
going.” (Enuf said?)
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AT RANDOM
The Arizona Farm Bureau
Federation calls disposable in
come “take home pay”, saying
that after taxes and deductions
you cannot afford to go any
where else with it.
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A N.Y. taxpayer framed the
first dollar he earned. The
frame cost him 10 cents. Now
the frame is worth $1 and the
dollar worth 10$.
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From the Sierra Booster,
Loyalton, Calif. - “School-
teachers are considered little
more than baby-sitters by some
parents. During the recent
vacation one parent was heard
to say, “I can hardly wait for
school to take up again -- those
kids are driving me nuts”. If
parents turn children like that
loose in the schools, you’ve
got to sympathize with the
teachers.
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Supermarkets are hit for
about 40$ of all bad check
losses in the U.S., indicating
they were taken for about $240
million in 1966, the latest year
for which figures are available.
DID YOU KNOW?
The daily tax for Class I
railroads of the U.S. amounted
to more than $2,800,000 in 1966?
That there are now more
married than single women
working at paying jobs? And,
that there are twice as many
Americans working at more
than one job than there are
unemployed?
Or that the first visible
gasoline station in the U.S. was
built in Adrian, Michigan in
1915?
The Church of Jesus Christ
of letter-Day Saints (Mornuw)
was founded at Fayette. N.K.
And that the newest drina in
a New York cafe is called the
hemline cocktail. Two of them
and you’re high as a skirt?
CLOSING THOUGHT
“Kindness is a language
which the blind can see and the
deaf can hear.” -- Fred W.
Grown, The Bergen (n.j.)
Citizen.
In Mrmoriani
HOMER EARNEST
Homer Lee Earnest, a form
er resident of the Nyssa area
who had lived at Madras for
the past 25 years, succumbed
Feb. 9, 1968 at the age of 77
years. He had been ill for
some time, and was pronounced
dead-on-arrival at the Mountain
View hospital to which he was
taken from his home near Culv
er.
Services were held Tuesday,
Feb. 13 at the Friend’s church
in Metolius and burial was made
in Mt. Jefferson Memorial park.
Mr. Earnest was born May 5,
1890 in Luray, Kans. He was
married May 16, 1917 to Grace
Ivie in Lincoln, Kans.
The deceased was a rancher,
served on the Jefferson county
fair board for several years,
was a member of Mud Springs
grange for 21 years and a past
master of Jefferson county Po
mona grange. He was also a
former school teacher in
Kansas.
Mr. Earnest went to Jeff-
erson county in the early
1940’s and was active in the
construction of the irrigation
project in the Culver area. He
first came to Oregon in 1936
and lived for a time at Nyssa.
In addition to his widow of
the home, he is survived by
one son, Loren Earnest of Mad
ras; a daughter, Mrs. Art (Wan
da) Sykes of Metolius. A daught
er, Mrs. Vivian Middleton, pre
ceded him in death in 1963.
Other survivors include four
brothers, Albert of Hays, Kans.,
Clark of Garden City, Kans.,
Seth of Holcomb, Kans., and Joe
Earnest of Luray; two sisters,
Mrs. Lucinda Russom of Waldo,
Kans., and Mrs. Clara Miller
of Missouri. Six grandchildren
also survive.
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COMING EVENTS/
TODAY - 8 p.m. Apple Val
ley PTA at Roswell, ‘Spelling
Bee’
TODAY - 8:15 p.m. Adrian
PTA meet in grade school cafe
teria.
APRIL 19-8 p.m. Treasure
Valley Rock and Gem club meet
at Nyssa Christian church.
APRIL 19-8 p.m. Dance
Display in NHS cafetorium.
APRIL 20 - 9 a.m. ANKGar
den club Plant sale, Nyssa Merc
building.
APRIL 20- 8 p.m. Rebekah
pinochle party at 1OOF hall.
APRIL 21- 2 p.m. Ontario
Gun club League shoot at tar-
get grounds near Ontario air
port.
APRIL 22-2 p.m. Malheur
Memorial hospital Auxiliary in
hospital meeting room.
(Editor's note: This letter
was received by Mr. and Mrs.
Cecil Evans from their son,
Karl, who was present for the
funeral rites of Dr. Martin
Luther King.
Karl, his wife and four child
ren live in Pineview,Ga., where
he serves as pastor of a
Methodist church. He is also
studying at Emory university,
a Methodist seminary, In
Atlanta).
I went to the services for
Dr. Martin Luther King today,
and 1 have an urge to put some
of this event on paper, partly
so I might try to make some
sense of the events of the day,
and also, I thought you might
be interested.
It was a strange crowd. It
wasn’t really a funeral, for the
mourning was all done on Sun
day. Well, maybe not all done,
but for the most of the crowd,
there was little emotion ex
pressed. It was somewhat a
carnival atmosphere, but no
gaity. There were some jokes,
a few clowns, but generally a
quiet, comfortable, crowd. Most
of the crowd was really too
young to know how to grieve,
even had they the urge.
The crowd was tremendous.
I calculated, loosely, about 20,-
000 standing around in front of
the church, and later, nearly
120,000 around the school. 1
think, including all those who
just stood along the line of
march, the total crowd was
around 150-160.000. I haven’t
seen official figures yet, but
I don't think I missed it much.
I stood in one spot for an hour
while the line marched past --
15-20 abreast, the lines 6-8
feet apart, going by at a good
fast walk. 1 can’t quite put my
finger on the feeling I had as
I watched this. Probably mostly
just awe at the numbers, as
well as the people who came
and marched -- Romney, Wilt
Chamberlain, Floyd Patterson,
Rockefeller, Hobby Kennedy,
Belafonte, Sammy Davis, Jr. —
all of these and more. After
the service 1 spent about two
hours shuttling pecjple back and
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Lelh in charge. Service time is
at 8:00 o’clock each evening,
through April 28, except Satur
day, with the Sunday services
scheduled at their regular
time -- 11 a.m. and 7:45 p.m.
Rev. Leih resides in Hemet,
Calif., and is in full-time evan
gelistic work in the Church of
the Nazarene. He has also
served as pastor, most recently
in Washington and California.
Special music will be pre
sented at each of the services.
Richard Stevens, ministerial
student at Northwest Nazarene
college in Nampa, will direct
the music and will be singing
during most of the services.
The church is located at 5th
EVANGELIST JOHN LEIH
St. and Good Avenue. Friends
Special services began Wed in the community are invited
nesday at Nyssa Church of the to attend these services.
Nazarene with Evangelist John
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good calf-roper. The big cowboy now raises quarter-horses
at neighboring Melba, Idaho; and is somewhat less active in A
rodeo participation. Other men in the photo are members of
the Lions club and their guests. The Journal staff will not
attempt to identify them, but most can be seen at the rear of
the room or reflected in the mirror which hangs on the south
wall in Brownie’s cafe dining room. - Journal photo.
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NYSSA ... OREGON
BIG HARRY CHARTERS, National Bulldogging Champion in
rodeo circles, was guest speaker at the Tuesday luncheon
meeting of the Nyssa Lions club, hi a humorous, drawl man
ner he told of the ’ups’ and ’downs’ of being a rodeo star. He
not only holds the championship title, but was runner-up for
several years.
According to Lynn Snodgrass, who keeps
up with all rodeo activities, Charters dogged his first steer
at the Nyssa rodeo around 1947, and is also known as a very
APRIL 23-4 p.m. Girls
track at Adnan.
NHS CALENDARP APRIL 23-4 p.m. Varsity
baseball, Vallivue here.
APRIL 23-4 p.m. Girls
tennis, Payette here.
TODAY - 8 p.m. Eighth grade
APRIL 23 - 6:45 p.m. Senior
parents night.
class to Boise college for
APRIL 19-1 p.m. Seniors Shakespeare play.
APRIL 24-4 p.m. Frosh-
visitation day at Treasure Val
Philosophy is common sense
Soph baseball, Adrian here.
ley Community college.
in
a dress suit.
APRIL 19 and 20 - State
Declamation at Eugene.
APRIL 19 through 21 - Ore
gon Youth conference at Cor
vallis.
APRIL 22 - No Class For
Men’s Adult P.E.
APRIL 22 - 3:40 p.m. GAA.
APRIL 22-4 p.m. Girls
Soft ball and track, New Ply
mouth here.
APRIL 22 - 8p.m. Dr. Robert
B. Heilman, distinguished lec
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