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THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1968 !■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■} NEWELL HEIGHTS ITEMS ■ ■ ■ BY DALE WITT ■ ■ ■ PHONE 372-2183 ■ ■ ■ NEWELL HEIGHTS - Mr. and ler who became 14 years old Mrs; Donald Fenn and family that day. Cake and ice cream of Mesa, Ariz., were recent were served. On August 24, evening dinner and overnight Mr. and Mrs. Luit Stam at guests of cousins, Mr. and Mrs. tended a birthday party for Alfred Simpson. their four-year-old grandson, Mrs. Leon Chamberlain, Patrick Stam. Mrs. Dale Witt accompanied Cherrylee, Terrilyn and Jed left August 23 for Bountiful, Utah Mr. and Mrs. Carl Begeman to visit her father, Rolland to a Van deWater family re Stringham and other relatives. union on August 25 at the Ray Mrs. Dale Witt was an Aug Bowen home in Nampa. The ust 20 dinner guest at the W. dinner was in honor of Mrs. C. Van deWater home in Big Leah Van deWater, Mrs. Walter Bend. Other guests were Mr. Titus, Mr. and Mrs. Warren and Mrs. Warren Van deWater Van deWater and Patty of Mar ion, Ind. They left early this and Patty of Marion, Ind. Mmes. Grace Day, Lydia week for their homes. Among other guests were Mr. Worden and Dale Witt were Aug ust 23 luncheon guests of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Fogleman and Eilene, Mr. and Mrs. Elvin and Mrs. M. L. Kurtz. Mr. and Mrs. Rollo Fenn Fogleman and family of Nampa; visited on the afternoon of Aug Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Fogleman ust 23 with Mrs. Mary Mc and son of Lewiston; Mr. and Connell and her brother, Bill Mrs. Dick Reed and daught ers of Boise; Mr. and Mrs. Snyder in Nyssa. Mr. and Mrs. John Downer Stanley Gilbert and sons of and family left on the evening Portland; Mr. and Mrs. Larry of August 21 for their home in Bauman and sons of Nyssa; Mr. Taft, Calif., after spending more and Mrs. Boyce Van deWater, than two weeks with her par Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Van de ents, Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Judd Water and Kent of Big Bend. and her brother, Mr. and Mrs. Also present were Mr. and Mrs. Steven Lyda of Hayward, Calif. M. O. Judd and sons. Mrs. L. C. McDermott re He is a nephew of Ray Bowen, turned August 18 from a three- and the couple was on their week vacation trip. She flew honeymoon trip. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Webb left from Boise to Springfield, Mo., and then took a bus to Hardy, August 13 to go salmon fishing Ark., where she visited her off the coast of Chinook, Wash. youngest sister, Hazel Grace Also at the same camp were Lykins. She also attendeda Mr. and Mrs. Bob Webster, Jones family reunion. All five Mr. and Mrs. Bill Willis of children were there, as well as Adrian. They report that Bill Mrs. Lykins’ son and family. Webb caught one salmon. Mr. Two of those attending came and Mrs. Russell Coffman of from Colorado and one from Milwaukie, Ore., visited the Oklahoma. On her return trip, Webbs at their camp. The area Mrs. McDermott visited a sis couple returned home via De- ter, Pearl Vaitbarlosovsky in poe Bay where they spent one Oklahoma. From there she went night and they also stayed for to Colorado. At Cheyenne Wells one night at Bend, arriving she visited a brother, Avery home the following Wednesday. Jones, She attended a family On Friday, a ‘fish luck’ party gathering there. A sister, Jes was held at the Bill Webb home. sie Gilbert of Snyder, Colo., Among those present were Mr. ... returned to her home, accomp and Mrs. Dick Stam and family, anied by Mrs. McDermott. They the Bob Webb family, Mr. and then went to Denver to visit Mrs. Mike Hastriter of Home Mrs. Gilbert’s two daughters dale. and Mrs. McDermott then boarded a plane for Boise. Mrs. Ralph Blanch and the McDer mott daughters helped in the ♦ McDermott home. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Pratt visited on the evening of Aug- From Extended Trip ■ * ust 24 with Mr. and Mrs. Luth er Perkins in Nampa. They also Mr. and Mrs. Parley Feik visited with their daughter, Mr. left July 26 for Salt Lake City and Mrs. Dan Perkins, Danny, where they joined the ‘James’ Jana and Susie of Twin Falls. tour which left the following They were visiting in the par day with 38 passengers aboard ental home. The children re- two buses. . turned home with their grand They made stops in Cheyenne, parents, the Louis Pratts for Wyo., Omaha Neb., Burlington, a brief visit. Iowa and Nauvoo, Ill., and spent Mrs. Frankie Worden and a day seeing all the Mormon daughter, Mrs. Fred Spence memorials. took Mrs. Lydia Worden to the Upon arriving in Chicago, it East Side cafe Saturday even was their first opportunity to ing in observance of her birth see skyscrapers. The next day day anniversary. the took a boat trip on Lake Mr. and Mrs. Duane Fenn Michigan, making it possible of Ontario were August 25 din to see the tall buildings at an ner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Gene entirely different angle. Simpson. The next stop was at Niagara Members of the Happy Dozen Falls, then Rochester, N. Y., card club met August 23 in the where they spent the evening ? home of Minnie Stam. Guest viewing the Hill Cu mor ah players were Mary Jarvis, Rose pageant, with an estimated 15,- Willis, Edna DeHaven and Laura 000 in attendance. ,Brock. Prize winners were Dorothy Fox, Mabie Piercy, In New York City, they visit Mary Jarvis and Bernice ed Radio City music hall where Toomb. they saw the ‘Rockettes’. A Mr. and Mrs. Luit Stam, Mr. guided tour of the city took them and Mrs. Gerrit Timmerman to the Empire State building, the and family, Mr. and Mrs. Dick United Nations and many other Stam attended an August 20 places of interest. One evening birthday party for Danny Mil- the group took a three-hour boat trip around Manhattan Island where they saw the 18 bridges and approaches to several of the 16 tunnels which go under the river. One of these tunnels was traveled through when the group approached New York City. James Lee Roy Phelps, an They also stopped at Phila instructor of Spanish language delphia to visit Independence in the Adrian elementary school concluded an eight-weekspecial Hall, saw the Liberty Bell and Spanish-teaching course at the home of Betsy Ross. In Washington, D. C., a full California Lutheran College on August 9 according to Mrs. Gaby day was spent visiting the US von Breyman, CLC’s French mint, many memorialsand Arl department chairman and ington cemetery. A tour was director of the National Defense made of the capital building Education Act. The NDEA spon and four rooms of the White sored summer program is now House. They found that Wash ington D. C. appears to be a in its third year at the Cali very clean city. fornia college. Phelps was one of 65 parti Enroute back west, the trav- cipants selected from many qualified applicants to the elc s stopped at Springfield, Institute in Spanish, which is Ill., to see Lincoln’s home, the sponsored by a $110,000 NDEA museum and tomb; and In Topeka, Kans., they visited Lib grant. In addition to a comprehen- erty jail where Joseph Smith C curriculum to teach was held as a prisoner. The ish, the Institute program last night of the tour was spent is enriched by use of modern in Denver where a tour fare biectronic equipment (language well dinner was served. laboratory and closed circuit instant play-back television) and by lectures and special on-campus activities. ■ Native Spanish speakers, field trips, musical and drama tic events, art exhibits and Special guest performances all Contribute to the participants’ thorough involvement in Spanish language and culture. THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL, NYSSA, OREGON News About SERVICEMEN FRED A. SPENCE Army Private First Class Fred Spence, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd F. Spence of route 2, Emmett, was assign ed on July 24 as a rifleman to the Fourth Infantry Division in Vietnam. His wife, the former Mary Worden, is now residing with her mother, Frankie Worden FRANK A. WALKER in the Newell Heights area on route 1, Nyssa. RONALD J. GLAZE Private Ronald J. Glaze, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack E. Glaze, Route 1, Nyssa, com pleted a helicopter repair course July 25 at the Army Transportation School, Ft. Eustis, Va. During the 11-week course, he was instructed in the main tenance ofthe single-rotor, tur bine-powered UH-1D utility helicopter. Frank A. Walker success fully completed ten weeks of training at Officer Candidates’ School on August 16 as a mem ber of the Platoon Leaders’ Class (PLC) program at the Marine Corps center, Quantico, Va. The PLC program, designed especially for college students, leads to a second lieutenant commission in the Marine Corps reserve upon completion of two six-weekoroneten-week combined training period at Quantico and graduation from college. PAGE THREE Candidate Walker, a senior at Brigham Young university in Provo, Utah, will return to Quantico after commissioning for a 21-week basic officer course prior to assignment to one of many posts and stations which the Marine Corps main tains both at home and abroad. During his ten weeks at Quan tico, candidate Walker received intensive physical, academic and leadership training in preparation for the time when he will become a Marine officer. Some PLCs will eventually be accepted for flight training which will win them the gold wings of a Naval aviator. Frank is a son of Nyssans Mr. and Mrs. Don Walker. STEVEN J. HANEY Fireman Apprentice Haney is serving aboard the U.S. Navy's Seventh Fleet attack aircraft carrier, the USS Constellation, in the Western Pacific. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin C. Haney of 415 E. Bower Ave., Nyssa. After 26 days of conducting strike operations off the coast of North Vietnam, in the Tonkin Gulf, Constellation recently spent an eight-day rest and re laxation period at Subic Bay, Republic of the Philippines. The aircraft carrier started its fourth combat tour on Yankee Station in the Gulf of Tonkin in late June. During the 26- day operating periodConstella- tion pilots attacked more than 40 assorted artillery and anti- alrcraft sites, destroyed or damaged 70 trucks and left nearly 60 barges sunk or damaged. The only areas outside the nation’s 50 states and the Dis trict of Columbia where Medi care is in effect include Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands and American Samoa. 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