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PAGE EIGHT THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1968 THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL, NYSSA, OREGON Traffic Death Rate Declines In 1962 highway deaths topped the 40.000 mark. Three years later the ngure was 48,500 and in 1966 America’s highways were stained with the blood of 52,500 persons. The skyrocketing figures paused — even dropped a bit in 1967. The year-end toll stood at 52,200, according to the high way accident booklet released annually by The Travelers In surance Companies. Tragedy did not stop with the deaths, but added 3,840,000 per sons to the 1962 injured list. 4,400,000 were injured in 1966 and 4,200,000 in 1967 - a reduction of some 200,000. “The record of 1967 gives us the first appreciable im provement in this respect that has taken place in more than a decade,” according to a Trav elers spokesman. “The satis faction this gives must bequal- ifed, however, for it will re quire many more years of con sistent betterment before we can claim any genuine progress toward the conquest of a stub born and tragic problem,” he added. Adverse weather was not an important contributing factor in 1962 or 1967. Records show that last year some 80 percent of the fatal crashes occurred on clear days and dry roads. The remaining 20 percent occurred in fog, rain and snowy weather. Excessive speed continues to hold top spot in the list of accident causes, with reckless driving and drivingon the wrong side of the road taking second and third places respectively. Pedestrians were at fault in many of the fatal accidents, with crossing between intersec tions being the top killer. Youthful drivers hold the greatest responsibility on the highway death list. Almost one third of the drivers involved in fatal accidents were under 25 years of age. 1 1 ? y j 1 y ADULT NON - FICTION GEMINI! by Virgil Grissom. The first man in the world to fly twice in outer space, wrote this book for his children, so that when they were old enough to really understand they would iiscover “just what sort of wild and wonderful enterprise their father was lucky enough to have a part in filling. NYSSANS AMONG C of I GRADUATES The College of Idaho observed Commencement exercises on June 1, 1968, granting 206 degrees with 144 students par ticipating in the ceremonies. Of the total, 140 Bachelor of Arts degrees, 46 Bachelor of Science degrees, three Master of Arts in Education and 17 Master of Education degrees were granted. The figures in clude students who completed work for their degrees in August and December of 1967. Nyssa graduates are J. Golden Draper, a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics and Ilea May Hall, a BA in ele mentary education, magna cum laude. FASHION SEWING BY THE BISHOP METHOD by Edna Bryte Bishop and Marjorie Stotler Arch. The important part that sewingplays in modern living calls for a book which will meet present-day sewing needs and standards. The girl or woman who sews today has good taste, wants to choose her own pattern and fabric, insists on a style closely identified with her personality, and will settle for nothing less smart than the outfit she sees in the best shops. This book will help every girl and woman attain her individual sewing goals. Congratulations« Dairy Farmers On a Job Well Done . • • It's a Privilege to Serve You! Our Job is to Help You in Janets Your Good Management, 1 daily With Time-Saving . . . Top month Quality Farm Implements. Boost Farm Efficiency By Tooling Up For Top Results * * * Palmers Equipment n St. Ph. 372-2285 NYSSA, OREGON NYSSA STUDENTS IN EL VIN BALLOU’S eighth-grade Science classes planted vegetable gardens for a final exam while studying a unit on plants. The project resulted in approx imately 60 gardens in the community. Fert ilizer was furnished by Simplot Soilbuilders, as directed by Manager Gib Holmes. The Hauling Water To Range Stock Might Pay Off Drought years are always tough on Oregon’s beef cattle industry, not to mention the Oregon range. But 1968 is shaping up as one of the worst drought years on record. In southeastern Oregon, where the drought problem is particularly severe, many live stock waterholes that contained water last fall already are dry this spring. Cattle ranchers can fight back, however, according to W. A. Sawyer, Oregon State University range researcher and superintendent of the Squaw Butte Experiment Station near Burns. “Some ranchers in south eastern Oregon and other areas of the West haul water to their cattle on a regular basis,” Sawyer points out. “They feel the cost of hauling water is more than offset by the bene fits.” “And this year, with the drought making it difficult just to provide enough feed to main tain cattle herds, water hauling Drive a Buick Bargain and get a Bargain Buick Now. At your Buick dealer < f/ -- READ!” DICTIONARY OF INTERNA TIONAL FOOD AND COOKING TERMS by Myra Waldo. Inter national in scope, this unique volume, covers every conceiv able culinary and gastronomical subject. The entries range from dictionary-length definitions to articles several pages long. Also included are the every day family favorites of each country and the "hautecuisine” of the great restaurants. THOMAS WOLFE by Andrew Turnbull Emerging in all his vitality and complexity in this biography, the towering figure of Thomas Wolfe is brought to life. The narrative, filled with stories of Wolfe’s outrageous and often comic behavior, closes with a precise, moving account of the illness at Seattle and the death at Johns Hopkins which is a superlative piece of biographical writing. REFLECTIONS ON BIG SCIENCE by Alvin M. Wein berg. The reflections gathered here represent many years of essaying answers to fundamen tal questions about the changes QUEEN OF THE MONTH Helping Hie To Produce More—With Less Effort! all you can WE’RE SALUTING THE . The best way to acquire self confidence is to do exactly what you are afraid to do. DAIRY Farmer " be NYSSA PUBLIC LIBRARY in science - changes not in content alone but in scale and scope, in method and purpose. OPEN HEART by Nikolai M. Amosoff. A moving, sensitive, emotional autobiographical account of a great surgeon’s feelings as he moves from crisis to crisis, always bur dened by the agonizing, ever present responsibility for a human life. For Amosoff, the patient remains a human being, not merely a case. His look is that rarest of combinations: scientific fact and deep human concern. KENNEDY & JOHNSON by Evelyn Lincoln. An account on the relationship between John F. Kennedy and his vice-presi dent, Lyndon B. Johnson, writ ten by Kennedy’s personal secretary. JAMES JOYCE AND HIS WORLD by Chester G. Ander son. The author has made an exhaustive, scholarly study of Joyce as one of the greatest modern writers and also has explored the details of his life, from his childhood to his self- imposed exile. PAINTING PATTERNS by Ruth Wyeth Spears. Whether you want to decorate a hand some tray, gold-stencil chairs or tinware, make decorated lamp bases, or hand paint sheets, this book tells you how - from start to finish. garden plot in the upper photo belongs to Ken Schilling and in the lower photo is one belonging to Jay Gibson. Other NJHS garden ers in the photos are Debbie Adams, Pam McPartland, Norma Rodriguez, Buddy Stites and Linda Williams. merits even more serious con sideration.” At the Squaw Butte Experi ment Station, water has been hauled to cattle for nearly 25 years. Three years ago, the last permanent waterholes on the station were fenced off. All water is now hauled by truck to the station research cattle herd. Permanent waterholes are used only when heavy rains make range roads impassable, or if water-hauling equipment breaks down. "We have found,” Sawyer re veals, “that water hauling has made the equivalent of about one third more range area available to livestock. In addi tion, water hauling has almost eliminated over-grazed areas, which once composed nearly a quarter of the Station range.” “Even in good years,” the OSU researcher continues, "when waterholes fill and all the springs run, much of south eastern Oregon is too poorly watered to obtain uniform grazing.” "More than 25 per cent of the region’s total range area is estimated as lightly grazed or not grazed at all due to lack of water. Another 25 per cent or more is grazed too heavily, due in part to the location of permanent water holes in the more favored sites.” “This means only half or less of the southeastern Oregon range is used properly in nor mal years. In a drought year, even less of the range is used to best advantage.” Sawyer also notes that in a drought, grasses which were lightly grazed or not grazed during the previous year are definitely the best forage pro ducers. “In fact,” he points out, "the lightly used areas of range could easily produce up to 75 per cent of southeastern Oregon’s total r?nge forage this year.” Estimates of water hauling costs range from $1 per AUM (animal unit month) to more than $3 per AUM, depending on length of haul and condition of equip ment, range roads and other items. Many miles of range roads have been made at the Squaw Butte Experiment Station with a simpl "A” frame reailroad- LOOKING FOR OILS GREASE? rail drag pulled by a typical farm wheel tractor. “Gen erally,” Sawyer says, “a road can be made through the sage brush with this equipment on any terrain a wheel tractor can travel.” The cost of making such truck-trail roads, Sawyer reports, varies from $10 to $30 per mile, depending on the number of trips required to clean off brush and rocks. The roads can be maintained with the same drag and tractor. Whoever you are, there is some younger person who thinks you are perfect. There is some work that will never be done if you don’t do it. There is some one who would miss you if you were gone. There is a good reason for becoming better than you are. There is a place that you alone can fill. 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