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I ! t THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1968 THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL, NYSSA, OREGON PAGE TWO FROM THIS CORNER The Gate City Journal TED M. BRAMMER, Editor aad Publisher SUBSCRIPTION RATES Single Copies........... 1(X In Malheur County, Ore gon, and Payette and Canyon Counties, Idaho: One Year................ $4.00 Six Mooths........... $2.75 Elsewhere in the U. S. A. Per Year................ $5.00 Six Mooths............. $3.00 Published Every Thursday at Nyssa, Malheur County, Oregon Entered ai the Post Office at Nyssa, Oregon, for Trans mission through the United States Mails, as a Secood Class Matter under the Act of March 3, 1879. THE BELLYACHE VOTE Four years is a very long time; it’s a long time to wait for something, the teenager waiting for his driving-age birth day knows it, and the father struggling toward that last pay ment on his youngster’s college education knows it. Four years is a long time when you’re looking back, too. Who can believe that it was only four years ago that Yogi Berra managed the Yankees to a pennant, forced the World Series to 7 games, and lost his job for so-doing? Or, that only four years have passed since the Warren Commission released its report that “Lee Harvey Oswald alone” was responsible for the assassination of John F. Kennedy? Or, that the New York World’s Fair closed its first season but 4 years ago? If you ask the first half-dozen people you meet in the street what their plans are for the next 4 years, the chances are that you’ll get an uncertain answer. They haven’t really thought out what they hope to accomplish. Yet the law re quires that on November 5, we must go to the polls and choose a man to lead us and our country for 4 long years. It will be 208 weekly paychecks before there is a chance to fire him. We are going to have to live with our November 5 vote every day, not to mention every April 15, for 4 years that could be the longest in a lifetime. In years to come, we suspect that 1968 will be known as Some dissidents the year of the "bellyachers” campaign, are going to sit out the election; some are going to cast a "protest” vote. But it’s our experience that even the most elequent bellyachers aren’t really leaders, They attract lis- teners, but not followers. They pronounce strong-arm re medies, but seldom offer reasoned solutions. This election, after all, is not a question of whether or not we want a change in Washington. We’re going to have a change. Somebody is going to replace LBJ. The next President will have to govern our land through cooperation with state and local governments, the Courts and the Congress. It isn’t a job for a bellyacher, nor a zea- TO HAVE US WINTERIZE YOUR AIR CONDITIONER SO IT WILL BE ABLE TO SERVE YOU NEXT SUMMER! Eder Plbg. & Heating 101 N. FIRST NYSSA, OREGON PH 372-2266 By T. M. B Tuesday is general election day and interest of politicians as well as partisan voters is about to reach a peak. Four years ago with Barry Gold water running oo the Republican ticket for President, classed by the news media as a War- Monger, it appeared after the election that the party was about dead. And with the Democrats out numbering the Republicans hea vily. it did appear to many that the Democrats who had been in control since 1932, except for a brief eight years of Ei senhower’s administration, that the G.O.P. was “dead on the vine”. But with an undeclared war, costing hundreds of billions of dollars, thousands of American lives, violence in the streets of large cities and small towns, with crime rising at a faster rate than ever known in the U. S. and with inflation so high that it out-ran interest on savings--all has changed! According to news and pol lsters there is a protest vote- it appears that the people are ready for a change. Barring some sensational announcement of a peace gesture by the enemy in Vietnam at the last moment the Democrats will be ousted. But here in Malheur county a tax measure (No. 7-Limiting the amount of property taxes that can be levied to 1-1/2 percent of true cash value) has taken the spotlight away from the National scene. Last week we gave a qual ified endorsement of ‘‘NO’’ on the measure due to certain weaknesses we enumerated. We still have all the sympathy in the world for the property tax payers--while many of us pay our largest taxes on our INCOME they pay on OWN ERSHIP whether they make any profit or not. But, if they think they pay too much they should be aware that others feel the same way and VOTE against all candi- dates who have a record of supporting exhorbitant taxes, of any type, and, who think the National, State, and Local gov ernments can spend us into pro sperity through being “Every-' thing to Everybody.” THEY SHOULD BE CONSISTENT and forget party ties! (Today at the Chamber of Commerce in Nyssa the pros and cons will be debated on this measure and this article is written before hearingeither side.) We do not anticipate changing our position but ask for consistence on the part of both factions. We wish to commend the Nyssa Co-op for their cartoon type ad asking every one to vote--as it says you can take 4 minutes to vote and have 4 years to live with it! CLOSING THOUGHT Some wait for their SHIP TO COME IN--others go OUT TO MEET IT! ABOUT POLITICIANS IT DOESN’T PAY After an election in Leslie County, Ky., a candidate for county judge summed up his campaign problems: “Lost three months and twenty days canvassing the county. Lost 1,- 360 hours of sleep studying about the election. Lost six acres of corn and a lot of sweet ’taters. Lost two front teeth and a lot of hair in a personal encounter with an op ponent. “Gave 4,000fanstochurches; one bull, eight shoats, seven head of sheep to barbecues. Kissed 150 babies, kindled 25 fires, carried 75 buckets of water, shook hands9,000times, told 500 lies, talked enough to make 10,000 volumes, was bap tized seven times by immersion and twice by some other wav. “Knocked on 2,000 doors, got bit 39 times by dogs - AND THEN GOT DEFEATED.” THEY’D WIN IN A BREEZE! Hurricanes get named for gals, With no express ambitions. More fitting it would be to name. Big winds for politicians! (These items taken from the scrapbook of Alta Stunz- origin unknown.) LETTERS TO THE EDITOR At 7 o'clock Sunday evening, Nov. 3 Faith Lutheran church members will have an oppor tunity to see the “Martin Luther” film at their monthly family night meeting, Coffee Dear Editor: and popcorn will be served Here’s the record, 1900 after the film showing. All residents of the Nyssa through 1968 - President, 33 years, Republican, 36 years. area are invited to see this Democrat; Balanced Budget, 21 motion picture. years. Republican, 6years. Democrat; Deficits, 12 years, Republican, 30 years, Demo The man who has begun to crat; Total Deficits, $22 1/2 live more seriously within, be Billion, Republican, $314 1/2 gins to live more simply with Billion, Democrat; Tax Re out. - Phillip Brooks. duced, 6 times, Republican, 4 times, Democrat; Tax In creased, ONCE, Republican, 13 who have been occupationally times. Democrat; Wars begun, tax free. So the undersigned NONE, Republican, 4 times, petitioners without further de lay we petition the Legislature Democrat. Can we afford to wake up to of the State of Oregon, that a Humphrey victory? Imagine all government employees be the headlines! taxed on an equal basis as people “Humphrey Thanks Voters established in a private enter for Mandate of Approval of prise type of business.” - A. D. Great Society. Promises Bigger Moses, Rte. 1, Nyssa. and Better Programs for a Greater Great Society.” Oct. 28, 1968 Remember “Politics is the Art of the Possible.” Don’t Waste your vote. We must have Dear Editor: a change. Vote Republican. - Sincerely, Mrs. John J. Turner. Today while I was just stand ing on the street corner, 1 ob served three people in a bitter TAXES vindictive argument. Hate FOR PIE IN THE SKY showed on all three faces, and it struck me as a bit of ‘hell’ Dear Editor, ' here on earth. Later on I saw a mother Well our taxes and your taxes with two little children and a were boosted again because of pup dog making their way pie in the sky Socialism but across the street. She was so the most of us private enter careful and gentle with the prisers do not get any of the children and the little pup. pie, we get a slap in the face As she gently helped them in higher taxes. This system into the car, love and affection of taxing one man to subsi shone on all of their faces. dize another must be stopped. The little pup was in his‘heaven’ We must petition for a State and one could see by his actions Tax Law that makes it man that it was just a bit of‘heaven’ datory that all of the people on earth. are taxpayers as set forth in Yes, we hear the politicians the following petition to be giving us all kinds of solutions backed by all of the dissatis for what ails our society, but fied taxpayers in the State of to my thinking what we need Oregon. is more unselfishness, a sym pathetic understanding of human PETITION TO HAVE ALL needs going into action. Sin THE PEOPLE PAY TAXES cerely, - Adolph E. Schroeder. “Whereas we have many thousands of people who are not paving their fair share of tax Great speeches require grea^ ation, we the under signed pe- hearers, great music requires’» tition the State Legislature of Oregon to enact a law making great listeners, great art re it mandatory that all people quires great admirers, great books require great readers. who are employed by the Fed ♦ • ♦ eral Government, State Govern ment, County Government and Habit is memory in action. the Local Districts to pay taxes for the use of their offices, office equipment and the repair lot. The vote you cast on November 5 is not a “yes” or “no” and up keep of same. And in referendum. It is, rather, a choice of alternatives; an en the case of Government work dorsement and affirmation of support. shops, foundries, ship building We are not selecting a philosopher, a king, a negotiator, repair yards, reclamation, pub a dictator, nor a master of ceremonies. We are selecting a lic power, labor maintenance Chief Executive. The tiellyaching stops at the voting booth this year. There and highway construction and is nothing to vote against this time. There’s really no such « maintenance. Also Army, Naw, Airforce, State, County andCity thing as a “protest” vote on November 5. (U.S. Press As Police, the employees of the sociation.) School Districts and Colleges and all people who receive gov ernment checks or any form of monetary benifit." ’ The thousands of govern IF YOU BELIEVE IT’S TIME FOR ment employees are not entitled to a tax free occupational ex A CHANGE ON THE LOCAL LEVEL istance any more than the people engaged in private enterprise such as Business men. Law yers. Doc tors, Contractors, Mechanics, Builders and Far mers. There may be millions of these Government employees ELECT HENRY ESPLIN REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE for MALHEUR COUNTY COMMISSIONER A FEW SUPPORTERS ARE W. J. McNulty * Ontario Ard «th Huffakar - Val« Ed Oak«s - Ontario John Stringar - Nyssa G. Y. Chester - Val« Tad Morgan - Nyssa Ira R. (Van) Ur«, Jr. - Nyssa Bob Dy« - Ontario Fr«d Trinkt« - Ontario Mr. and Mrs. Harold TrinkI« - Ontario Louis J. Wettstein - Ontario Bob Thompson - Oregon Slop« awl Van Petten * Ontario N«il Venturacci - Ontario M«lvin J«ns«n - Nyssa We Are Among The Many* Oregon Farmers And Businessmen Who NEED Wayne Morse eee Gib Masterson - Ontario L«st«r Hammack - Jamieson BOB ELK IRS Praaidant. Ora*on- Waahlngton Fanners Union. Salo* Al. YIN REED Preaident. Rood's Fuel Company. Sprtngtioid RAYMOND R. RITTER Rotor Trull Company. Medlord CLARENCE ROSEWALL Mayor and Farmer. PAUL YOUNOMAN Loren Munn - Sunset Valley Harry Burkhart - Ontario Rod McKay - Harper Bert Hawkins - Ontario Harold E. Kurtz Dr. K«n Pfaff John Ward Nyssa Ontario Nyssa FAITH LUTHERAN CHURCH NOTES McMtnnvtDo JERRY PARKS President. Ptxlo Kitchens. Lincoln City OWYHEE COMMUNITY CHURCH NAZARENE CHURCH NOTES The Rev. Gene Lewin of Don nelly will be guest speaker Sun day, Nov. 3 at Owyhee Com munity church. Morning services begin with Sunday school at 10 o’clock, followed by 11 o’clock worship. The speaker last Sunday was Rodney Frost of Meridian. I REV. WESLEY HOECKLE . . . Visiting Evangelist Special services will begin Friday evening at Nyssa Church of the Nazarene. The Rev. Wesley Hoeckle, evangelist from Corpus Christi, Texas, will be speaking at each ser vice , with music under direc tion of Terry Martin. The Rev. Hoeckle is a full- time evangelist for theNaz arene church and is active at revival meetings, home-mis sion campaigns and youth work in much of the Western United States. Terry Martin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Martin of Nu Acres, is a student at North west Nazarene college in Nam pa. Beginning with the Sunday services, he will direct the con gregational singing and special vocal music. On Friday night only the m - ic of the Galileans, a men’s gospel trio from Boise, will be featured. They have sung in many churches and to youth organizations in the Boise Val ley. They are Tom Calvin, Cave Williams and Don Fee. Mrs. Tom Calvin, the former Karen Saunders of Apple Val- Members of the Missionary circle met recently at the home of Mrs. James Phelps. Election of officers was not held since many of the women were un able to attend the meeting. Plans for the fall banquet were discussed. This is an annual affair sponsored by the young people of the church, with the Missionary women as sisting. Tentative time and date set is at 7:30 p. m. on Nov. 14. ■BKVKISKVdBMV.dBm ADRIAN COMMUNITY CHURCH The women’s Bible Study group of Adrian Community church met Oct. 23 in the home of Mrs. Lydia Worden. The lesson, “Law of the Kingdom,” was taken from Matthew, chap ter 4. Next meeting will be Nov. 20 at the home of Mrs. Marie Moore. St. Bridget's Group Sets Nov. 5 Meeting There will be a meeting of i St. Bridgets’ Altar society at 8 p.m. Tuesday Nov. 5 in the parish hall. ley, is their pianist. Beginning at 7:30 p.m., the trio will be presenting a brief concert of gospel music, followed by the »/• sermon by the Rev. Hoeckle. Friends in the community are invited to share these special services. Recent action of church officials has set the time for all evening meetings at7:30 rather than the previous 8 o’ clock time. Sunday morning services are to begin at 11 o’clock. r| THE FARM PROBLEM i ¡•< « ■* I i YOU CAN HELP EASE IT. Last year the American Farmer lost almost two bil lion dollars. Over one hun dred thousand farms closed down. How can you help stop this trend? Elect Richard Nixon President. Here are some of the things he wants to do: 1. Appoint a Secretary of Agriculture who will ex plain the farmers’ prob lems to the President, in stead of the Secretary explaining the President’s policies to the farmer, as is now the case. 2. Increase exports of American agricultural products, which are a prin cipal factor in our trade surplus. 3. Establish a special task force to develop and implement a program to increase dairy products. 4. Increase the research effort by the Department of Agriculture to find bet ter and more diverse ways to utilize our enormous volume of farm produce. FOR A GROWING TOMORROW . . . Re-Elect U.S. SENATOR Wayne Morse Paid for by the ISM Ro Elect Wayne More Committee. Dan Dlmick. Chairman, MS SW Waehinrton, Portland .Ore- t V Í t * r*» THIS TIME, VOTE LIKE YOUR WHOLE WORLD DEPENDED ON IT. *» . ■* « At ul' (Pol. Adv. Paid For By Malheur County United Citliens For Nixon-Agnew) (Treasurer - Dellin Erickson, 401 Main Street, Nyssa, Oregon) (Pol. 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