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University of Oregon Library Eugene, Ore. 97403 Nyssa Gate City Journal VOLUME LXII THE SUGAR CITY THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL, NYSSA, OREGON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1968 THUNDEREGG CAPITAL Disadvantaged Children To Have New Classrooms On Nyssa Schoolground Nyssa will have two new classrooms for pre-school children of the culturally disadvantaged. The frame, pre-fab buildings will be located just west and north of the Primary Building for which foundation has already been placed. The buildings are being built by Northland Camps Inc., of Nampa, Idaho. The classrooms are 24’ X 46’ each and will have self-contained toilet facilities and it’s own individual heating and cooling units. The total allocation of these funds is $36,261 and this will provide the building placed on the site, with the necessary equipment. Foundation, plumbing and wiring hook up is being done by W. D. Holcomb, Eder 1 lumbing and Morrison Electric. The funds for the building two groups each, that is one and the equipment to furnish group of 20-four year olds and them will be provided under the one group of 20-five year olds Elementary-Secondary Educa will meet from nine to 12 and tion Act under the State Depart the second groups will meet ment of Education. The owner immediately after eating lunch ship of the buildings will be the and be in school from 1:00 until State Department and they are about 3:45. The program will the re-locateable type so they consist of teaching youngsters could be used in another area English, hearing stories and or another site if the need or other activities to provide the their existence here become un Vi-'#' necessary background for be necessary. ginning reading which will be This will provide housing for taught when they enter first a program of 80 four and five ljear olds. There will be a class grade as six year olds. By pro viding this program it should of 40-four year olds and 40- cut down a year of frustration five year olds, for a total of and failure for youngsters that 80 pupils. The five year old group is now in session. School are trying to learn the English One can hardly recognize this tangled mass as being an is being held at Arcadia. The language and reading at the automobile in which Daniel Olvera, 17, of Nyssa was killed same time. four year old’s program will Nothing is added to costs for Monday afternoon. The car was hit by Union Pacific’s freight begin as soon as the building the Nyssa School Dist. Salaries, is ready or about the first of insurances and utilities are fur- October. nised in the funds. The youngsters will come in Accidental Shot Injures Nyssan County Welfare Director Named A 25-year-old Nyssa man was listed in fair condition Wednes day at Holy Rosary hospital where he is undergoing treat ment for a gunshot wound in the chest. Malheur County Deputy Sher iff Dick Pounds said Manuel Juan Nuncio, 25, Nyssa labor camp, was shot when a .22 cali ber rifle discharged during a target practicing expedition. The injured man was taken to Malheur Memorial hospital but on Sunday evening was trans ferred to the Ontario hospital. i>eputy bounds said Nuncio was shot in the chest by a gun held by his brother-in-law, Guillermo Gaitan, also of Nyssa. The bullet entered his chest and came out his back. A new Malheur County Wel fare administrator was named last week at a meeting of the Malheur County Public Welfare commission, ^according to County Commission Emil Maag. Richard (Dick) Spencer of Bend received the appointment. He has been working in the Des chutes County Welfare office, is married and the father of two children. The new administrator will assume his new duties Oct. 1, and replaces Miss Caroline Craig who has resigned. James David Mosier of The Dalles, newly appointed Mal heur county juvenile counselor has begun his duties in the area, working with Robert Scott, juvenile director at Vale. Cascade Nat. Gas Adds Huntington To Towns Serviced Huntington, Ore., is the new est city to be added to Cascade Natural Gas Corporation’s growing list of communities served. Gas is being turned on this week to 50 customers there, according to Calvin Key, On tario District manager. Highway signs at the city limits declare Huntington’s population to be 634, and the entire town was invited to a party the gas company gave on September 25 in celebration of the addition of this famed old union Pacific Railroad divi sion point to its list of 70 com munities served in Oregon and Washington. Mayor Elmer Stevenson of fered the use of the City Park STUDENTS EARN PRESS AWARDS for the occasion. When he heard that Cascade wanted everyone in town to be its guests for re freshments and souvenirs, he said: “Sounds like a wonderful idea. I don’t see how we can lose on a deal like that.” Registration Deadline Set October 5 The final date for registra tion to vote in the November general election is Saturday, October 5, according to Mal heur County Clerk Robert L. Morcom. Any person who has moved since the last election, changed their name or desires to change their party affiliation must re register by that date. Also, “Baby” voters (those who have not voted before) who will become 21 years of age between October 5, 1968 and November 5, 1968 may vote in the November 5 election by registering prior to the dead line. A list of the registrars in the county is carried in an ad elsewhere in this issue of the Journal. The office of the County Clerk will be open on the final registration day from 8:00 A.M. until 8:00 P.M., Morcom says. Krazy Days Big Success DISPLAYING TROPHIES awarded at the re cent Eastern Oregon High School Press Con ference are members of the NHS ‘Bulldog* staff. They are (seated 1 to r) Barbie Ten- sen, feature editor and Angie Labby, news Members of the Nyssa High School Bulldog staff captured trophies in two of six categories at the Sept. 29 Eastern Oregon Press Conference in Pendleton. The categories included straight news, editorial, sports, make-up, features and photo graphy. Trophies awarded to the “Bulldog” were for Barbie Tensen’s straight news story and Reid Saito's editorial. Ap proximately thirty schools par ticipated. Fifteen students from the “Bulldog" and Tupelo staffs attended the conference. Accompanying them were Dale Schraufnagel, Bulldog adviser; and NHS Principal Gene Ches- editor. Behind them are Danny McGinnis, business manager; Dale Schraufnagel, ad viser and Jim Beck, sports editor. - NHS Bulldog photo. A spot check among Nyssa merchants by Journal reporters indicate that Nyssa’s Ninth An nual Krazy Day was another success. For the first time in the entire period the weather did not co-operate for the event. There was cool misty weather the forepart of the day. A number of children who anti cipated marching in the parade did not make it as they thought it might be called off. But by the time the parade was over (near 2 P.M.) the weather changed and it was a real nice afternoon. Most merchants said their business was comparable to last year but some were open only in the A.M. said it was down and disappointing to them. (Continued On Page 8) WEATHER ter, Tupelo adviser. Also pro viding transportation was Mrs. Laverne Shell. Theme of the meeting, held at the Pendleton high school plant, was “Crea tivity in Media.” TAXING DISTRICT BUDGETS OF MALHEUR CO. SHOW $655,999 INCREASE IN '68 JET» V T >...... I train EX-826 and was carried about a mile from the cross ing. The young man’s body was found about 200-feet from the point of impact. - Gate City Journal Photo. NYSSA YOUTH KILLED IN TRAIN-AUTO MISHAP A young Nyssan was fatally injured Monday afternoon when a fast-moving Union Pacific freight train struck his auto mobile at the railroad cross ing near the Idaho Canning Company’s plant at the north edge of Nyssa. Malheur County Deputy Sher iff Terry Thompson identified the victim as Daniel Olvera, 17, of 507 North Fourth street. His parents are Mr. and Mrs. Francisco Olvera. The impact of the collision threw Olvera out of the vehicle, and his body was found about 200 >et down the track. The train carried the twisted wreckage of the car for more than a mile. Railroad crews had to pry the car from the cowcatcher on the front of the engine. The 1952 model automobile was compressed into a mass of wreckage as is indicated by the accompanying photo. The accident happened about 2:55 p. m. Monday, and was investigated by the Malheur County Sheriffs department and Nyssa City Policemen. Officers theroized that the car pulled onto the tracks near the cannery when it was hit by the westbound freight train. No other trains were standing on the sidings at the time. OCT. 12 DATE SET FOR WATER CUTOFF Budgets for 1968 submitted to Malheur County Assessor John Koopman by the 39 taxing units within the county show a whopping increase of $655,000 over the 1967 figures. This in spite of the Constitutional Amendment *7 to limit taxes on property to 1 1/2 percent of actual cash value to be voted upon in the November 5 general election. It is surmised that most of the budgets were approved before it was realized that the amendment would actually appear on the ballot. Of the 39 units submitting budgets 34 asked for increases, one was unchanged and four decreased the amount necessary for the present year. The unitsshowingadecrease, $2,900 and Jordan Valley $1,800 together with the amount areas - $431.00. follows: Beulah School District SPECIAL DISTRICTS #li - $16.45; Juntura School Dist. #51 - $17,068.41; Union Special districts showing to High School #3 - $15,202.27; (with Juntura Road Dist. #4 tals with increases are as fol remaining unchanged at lows: Nyssa Road Dist. #2 - $70,000 - $4,000; Ontario Road $9,040.00.) Malheur County budget is up District #3 $121,000 - $4,000; $35,000 (previously carried as Nyssa Fire District $4,500 - a page 1 story in the Journal) $253.00; Ontario Fire Dist. the Intermediate Elementary $4,800 - $269.00; Adrian Fire Dist. isup$66,000andTreasure Dist. $8,300 - $300.00: Owyhee Valley Community College is up Cemetery $2,000 - $1,800; Jor dan Valley Cemetery $7,300 - $34,000. Other school districts in the $2,900 Valley View Cemetery central part of the county are $15,500 - $3,800 and Fairview asking for the following Cemetery $3,000 - $877.00. By far the greatest part of amounts, with the amount of increase shown after each; On the money necessary to oper tario #8c - $1,173,000 - $105,- ate these districts come from 000; Vale #15 - $287,000 - property taxes. Some get state $96,000; Nyssa #26 -$589,000- and federal funds that are de $101,000; Adrian #61 -$33,000; rived from other sources but Union High «1 - $52,000 - the same taxpayers supply the $33,000; Union High #1-H - funds through other type taxes. It should be noted that the $1,900 - $267.00. assessor or tax collector are CITY CHANGES not responsible for the amounts but the taxpayers themselves The figures for the incorpo who want additional services, or rated towns are; Ontario at least the same, on which cost $276,000 - $19,000; Nyssa have arised each year for the $91,000 - $2,700; Vale $52,000- past two and one half decades. NHS Students Named Merit Scholarship Semifinalists Adam Focht, manager of the North Board of Control, an nounced Wednesday that Sat urday, Oct. 12 is date set for the Owyhee project water cut off. "The actual acre-foot stor age figure will not be known until that date, when another successful irrigation season will end,” Focht added. Adrian Legionnaires To Host Fiftieth Anniversary Event Legionnaires of Adrian Post No. 109 will be hosts to a district meeting honoring state Legion officers Saturday even ing. The session is also a celebration of the Legion’s 50th anniversary. Serving of a no-host dinner will begin at 8 o’clock at East Side cafe in Ontario, to be fol lowed by a business session, according to Chairman Ted Morinaka. Expected to attend the meet ing are Legionnaires and their wives from District 10 which includes all posts in Malheur County and those at Burns and John Day. Morinaka said that the State officers have just returned from the National Legion Convention in New Orleans, and will speak on new information made avail able at the meeting. The chairman urges those planning to attend the banquet to make reservations with their own post commanders or call him for tickets and reserva tions by dialing Parma 208- 724-5205. ANGELA LABBY GEORGE HEIDER TICKETS ON SALE Nyssa High School Principal Gene Chester announces that George F. Heider and Angela J. Labby have been named semi finalists in the 1968-69 National Merit Scholarship Program. The 15,000 appointed semi finalists are among the nation’s most intellectually able high school seniors and will com pete for some three-thousand merit scholarships to be awarded in 1969. The students semifinalists were the highest scorers in their states on the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, given nationwide last Feb ruary in 17,500 schools. They constitute less than one per cent of the graduating secondary school seniors in the United States. The semifinalists show high promise for leadership in their adult careers, accordingto John M. Stalnaker, president of the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. “They have al ready demonstrated both high intellectual capacity and a readiness to develop their abil ities,” he said. “These students deserve credit and honor. They bring honor to their families, who also deserve much credit, as do their teachers and their com munities. Their future success, however, will depend, in creasingly, upon their ability to become productive at the high Tickets are on sale now at Keith O’Brien and Estano’s in Ontario: GAB Realty, Vale; Peterson Furniture, Nyssa; Greif’s music, Payette; and Alexanders in Weiser. Pobanz emphasizes that this presen tation is a tremendous under taking financially for a college and town the size of Ontario, and he urges community and area support to insure its success. Nyssa students who wish to attend may purchase tickets through the music dept., according to Supt. W. L. Mc- Partland, and they will be ex cused from classes the balance of the afternoon. Possibly a school bus will be used for transportation. intellectual levels of which they are capable.” Semifinalists must advance to a finalist standing to be con sidered for Merit Scholarships, since all winners will be se lected from the finalist group. Semifinalists become finalists by receiving endorsement of their schools, submitting scores from a second examina tion, and providing information about their achievements and interests. Every semifinalist who be comes a finalist will be con sidered for one of one-thousand National Merit $1000 scholar ships, allocated by state. Many will also be considered for four-year Merit Scholarships provided by some 400 corpora tions, foundations.colleges, unions, trusts, professional associations, ot he r organiza tions and individuals. Winners of four-year merit scholarships may receive up to $1,500 a year for four college years, depending on their indivi dual needs. Winners of the $1,000 National merit scholar ships will receive one-time stipends in that amount upon enrollment in college. High school grades, accom plishments, leadership qualities, extracurricular acti vities and school citizenship of the finalists are evaluated, along with test scores in se lecting Merit Scholarship win ners. Names of the winners in the 1968-69 merit program will be announced in early May 1969. Some 18,700 students have re ceived merit scholarships in the thirteen annual programs to date. Nearly $60 million in fi nancial assistance to merit scholars and their colleges has been expended or committed to date through the merit program. UTAH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA TO MAKE TWO APPEARANCES IN ONTARIO OCTOBER 14 Treasure Valley Community College Associated Student Body President, Kris Pobanz, announced this week that the college is sponsoring the 85 piece UTAH SYMPHONY OR CHESTRA this fall for two con certs in Ontario’s High School Gym. Pobanz stated that the famed Symphony, directed by Maurice Abravanel, will present a special matinee for grade, junior high and high school students at 2:00 P.M. Monday, October 14. Tickets for this special school program will be sold through the schools at only 50Ç per student. Tickets for the evening con cert are scaled at $3.00 for adults “preferred” seating and $2.00 for general seating. There are no special children’s prices for the evening performance, but Treasure ValleyCommunity College students can buy spe cially priced tickets through the college bookstore for only $1.00. 'Creative Journalism’ and new techniques in newspapers, in cluding intriguing ads. DATE MAX. MIN. During the afternoon session, the students attended classes on Sept. 18 81 51 sports writing, straight news Sept. 19 66 41 stories, page make-up, and Sept. 20 57 47 After arriving in Pendleton, photography. Sept. 21 58 45 students registered in the cafe- 62 36 Those participating from the Sept. 22 torium, then attended a general 70 37 meeting. They were welcomed “Bulldog" staff included Barbie Sept. 23 75 40 by Mrs. Annamae Livermore, Tensen, Jim Beck, Angie Labby, Sept. 24 -- 40 conference chairman.Guest Dan McGinnis, Susan Kouns, Sept. 25 .02 Precepitation was re- speakers were Anthony Leah Henlgson, Dee Ann Peter Habelach of La Grande and son, and David Shell. Attending ported on September 21, 1968. .03 Precepitation was re Carl Taylor from the Oregonian from the Tupelo staff were AMONG TOP 12 Carolyn Winchester, Brenda ported on September 22, 1968. staff. RESERVOIR STORAGE During the luncheon, Fea McKinney, Marty Somers, The UTAH SYMPHONY is 142,770 Acre Feet tured Speaker Lee Norton of Lissa Nishitani, Dennis Orr, 9/25/68 9/25/67 342,480 Acre Feet rated among the top twelve Gonzaga university spoke on Janet and Janis Takami. 4 NUMBER XXXIX symphony orchestras in the en tire United States, according to Fortune Magazine. It is in its 22nd year and has appeared in most of the major cities of the world. The orchestra is unique in the respect that it is the only orchestra in America ser ving a combined land area of more than a quarter million square miles, including all of Utah, parts of Idaho, Nevada, Wyoming, and Colorado. This season’s itinerary includes 160 performances in Idaho, Oregon, Montana, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas besides accompanying the Utah Civic Ballet for 30 performances and the University of Utah Civic Opera for 8 performances.