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University Of Oregon Library Eugene, Ore. 97UO3 X X X « X Journal Office WiU Remain Open Saturday Niyht» Nov» . . .for your convenience in paying a subscription to the credit of your favorite boy or girl before the bicycle prize cam paign comes to its final ending. New subscriptions will start present expiration date. AU subscriptions to be credited to from next week and all renewal payments will extend from the candidates must reach the Nyssa Gate City Journal office before As Campaign Nears End VOLUME LXI1 THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL, NYSSA, OREGON THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1968 Excitement and enthusiasm are running high today as the last few hours of the subscription campaign are slipping by and the deadline draws near. Saturday, Nov. 16, marks the end of the Gate C ity Journal subscription drive in which nine boys and/or girls will earn bicycles. Scores of subscribers are calling at the Journal office to get their subscriptions re newed while they can secure All persons who have prom credit for their favorite can ised their subscriptions to one didate. of the 30 boys or girls in the 1 ............... Idaho Power Pays SI65,906 Tax To County Idaho Power Company paid $165,906 to Malheur County this week as its share of 1968-69 Oregon property taxes totaling more than $1.5 million for the first time since the utility began electric service in the state. Company president Albert Carlsen, reporting that Idaho Power’s property taxes in creased in all six of the Ore gon counties it serves, said the utility’s bill was some $2,231 higher than last year in Mal heur County alone. Schools will receive about $130,928, or 78.92%, of the com pany’s payment to the county. By comparison, Idaho Pow er’s 1967-68 tax contribution to the county for the support of education was nearly $124, 768, or more than 76% of the total payment. Carlsen said the utility’s to tal 1968-69 property tax bill in Oregon, which also includes payments to Baker,Grant,Har ney, Union andWallowacoun- ties, was more than$l,571,000. “This is an increase of about $284,000 over last year and marks the first time that our property taxes bave been more than $1.5 million in Oregon,” he said. The increase resulted from Idaho Power’s expansion of ex isting service facilities and from construction of HelisCan- yon Dam and new transmission lines, according to the utility president. Thursday, November 14 marks the kick-off for Nyssa in the Malheur County United Fund drive. A 7:00 a.m. breakfast at the Twilight cafe for those participating in the drive will get things off to a start here. Marlene Michael, of Michael’s Pharmacy will serve as Nyssa’s chairman for United Fund, with assistance from: Jim Robinson, (Farmer’s Insurance), Dave Rieb, (Dave’s Mar ket), Alvin Allen (Chief of Police), Arleigh Adams, (Adams' Chevrolet), Dale Adams (Idaho Power), and Dave Perry, Bill Keeney, Bob Kennedy, (all of First National Bank). SIX GROUPS AIDED FOOTBALL BOOSTERS BANQUET PLANNED BOB WINN, SALESMAN AND SUB-DISTRIBUTOR FOROWY- hee Distributing company, is shown in front of the new wholesale warehouse at 325 South First Street in Nyssa. The company has been serving this area with wines and beers for about 15 years, but hauling from the home office in La Grande until the new home was completed in May. The build ing, owned and erected by Mr. and Mrs. Bud Sappe, is con- to be confirmed, all men wish ing to attend are asked to make reservations with the Lions Banquet committee before Tuesday, Nov. 19th, by con tacting any of the following Lion Club members: Dr. Dav id W. Sarazin, 372-3365; Glade Chadwick, 372-3509; Dick G. Tensen, 372-3546. Any person wishing to attend and who wishes to take as his guest a certain player or play ers or his own son, is asked to make his request known at the time he makes his reser vation. A short program of Foot ball films and introduction of players is planned at the ban quet. The committee hopes that there will be a good response from the Boosters in the area to attend so that each of the 86 players will have a host for the evening. crete block, arch type roof, concrete floors and cost about $20,000 for material. The owners performed most of the labor. It houses the warehouse, truck storage, office, workshop and a 16 x 24 x 14 foot cooler room. The company will be having open house this Saturday, November 16, with Winn and firm president Bob Howard as hosts. Howard is also head of the “Mother” company, La Grande Fruit company, La Grande. SCHOOL OFFICIAL GIVES DETAILS OF BAND'S TRIP BY DIRICK NEDRY Another Nyssa High School band trip is history, and this one ranks high on the list with previous excursions to the Seattle World’s Fair, the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade, and the halftime show for the San Diego Charger-Oakland Raider football game three years ago Senior band members had participated in the latter trip; for the rest of the crew it was a new experience, but they per formed in the best tradition of former Nyssa High School bands. The performance was a tribute to the hard work and skills of Band director Craig Northrup, but more particularly to the perseverance of 88 band members who earned their own money for the trip, and then practiced many hours to perfect their routines. Perhaps much credit should go to the many parents who chaufferred, prodded, and sacrificed time and patience that the whole thing could come off so successfully. We refer, of course, to the band trip to Corvallis and the reported adequately in the OSU-UCLA football game Nov. sports page. This story is about 9th. The game was played in the trip. bright sunshine before 41,361 The band ate an early lunch homecoming fans, with Oregon in the cafeteria Thursday, then State the winner by a 45-21 was taken by school bus across score, but this has all been the river to Idaho, where they W. T. (JACK) FROST, “MR. SNOW SURVEYOR” RETIRED NOVEMBER 1 RAYMOND F. RUSSELL, NYSSA AREA farmer (on left) presents a bronze plaque to SAM E. HARTLEY, a farmer in the Nyssa-Adrian area, for 20 years of service to the Oregon Potato Commission. Russell has now replaced Hartley on the commission and is also president of the Malheur Potato Growers’ Association. S. Hartley Earns Award From Potato Commission Sam Hartley of Nyssa has been presented with a bronze plaque ir. recognition of his 20 years of service to the Oregon Potato Commission. The pres entation was made at Ontario last month at a Malheur Po tato Grower Assocation direc tor’s dinner honoring Mr. and Mrs. Hartley. The Nyssa area farmer was one of the initial potato com missioners appointed by the Governor when the Oregon Po tato Commission was first or ganized in 1949. He served as vice chairman of the commis sion from 1962-1964, and as chairman from 1964-1966. He has been a strong leader <n the potato industry and par ticularly In Malheur county, the area he represents. In 1949, when he was appointed a com missioner, 8500 acres of pota toes were grown in the county. Last year there were 20,500 acres produced. Hartley farms a 600 acre ranch where he produces po tatoes, sugar beets, onions, al falfa seed and field corn. In addition, he runs several hun dred head of cattle through his feed lot operation. He operates his ranch to gether with his son, Brent. A- nother son, Mark farms about ten miles away and a daughter lives in Boise. NUMBER XLVI united mm own STARTS HERE TODAY; WIU AID 6 GROUPS campaign are urged to pay at once. Subscribers may either bring, send or mail their re mittance to the Journal office and have the votes credited to the candidate of their choice. Elsewhere in today’s paper is a large advertisement which gives complete details of just how the final reports and the judging will be made. All en tries and interested sub scribers are urged to acquaint themselves with just how the final count is to be made. There are only two more days, candidates . . . Don’t be sorry, when it’s too late, that you didn’t do your very best! In an effort to promote greater interest in football par ticipation in Nyssa High school and to give recognition to those boys who did participate in the 1968 NHS Football season, the Nyssa Lions Club is sponsoring a Football Boosters Banquet. This banquet will be held on Thursday evening, November 21, 1968 at the Lions Den in the East Side Cafe in Ontario at 7:00 p.m. The menu will be the famous East Side combin ation dinner at $2.00 per plate. Invitations will be mailed to about 86 NHS boys who com pleted the 1968 season. This banquet is open to all men of the Nyssa area who wish to help in the promotion of foot ball in the Ny<.sa High school. Each ii.an who wishes to at tend will 1 e asked to purchase a dinner ticket for himself and for one or more football play Hells Canyon Dam went into ers. He will pick up his guests full power production earlier at the Nyssa High school at this year, completing the T. E. 6:15 p.m. and take them to the Roach Hells Canyon Develop banquet in Ontario and deliver ment and boosting the utility’s them to their homes after the total generating capacity to dinner. nearly 1.5 million kilowatts. Since reservations will have 9 o’clock Saturday night Nov 16 Nyssa Gate City Journal Thirty Candidates Excited • Until 9 O9cloek County Court News November 6, 1968 The Rev. Richard Scott of Vale has been appointed as new Malheur County Civil Defense Director. He had previous ex perience in Montana. Louis Pratt resigned as County Housing Authority mem ber, effective December 6. The Courst hasn’t appointed anyone to take his place at this date. The Christmas party for county employees and their families is to be held December 20 in Nyssa. Jim Vermaas and Ted Han- berg of Blacker’s toldtheCourt that the monies for the county wide communications system should be available by the end of this year. Wilfrid T. (Jack) Frost - "Mr. Snow Surveyor” to many Oregonians retired November 1 after more than 35 years of Federal government service. Word of his retirement comes from A. J. Webber, State Conservationist in Oregon for the U. S. Department of Ag riculture Soil Conservation Service. He has been with SCS for 26 years, 15 of that in Portland as state snow survey supervisor. Announcement of his successor is expected soon. Jack Frost’s career with the USDA agency began during the Christmas season of 1942 as an assistant hydraulic en gineer at Medford. His duties included establishment of snow survey courses, making arrangements for snow surveys and collecting and compiling data on snow melt and runoff. Snow surveys are a Federal- state-local inter-agency pro snowmelt and runoff also aid gram in which private industry in flood control activities. also cooperates to measure the Frost and the snow survey mountain snowpack which is the office were transferred to Port source of most water supplies land in 1953 and he has served in the West—water for agri culture, industry and domestic as Oregon snow survey super use. The winter and spring visor since that time. Frost received an award in surveys are the basis of cal 1958 for devising a new format culating how much water will for the snow survey and water be available in the following supply forecast report in Ore seasons. The estimates of gon, making It possible to sup ply information monthly to7,000 water users in the state. Pre viously, only 600 users were served by the monthly report. ■*♦*■•*■ Frost received his bachelor of arts degree from the Uni DATE MAX. MIN. PREC. versity of California in 1933 and worked for the Forest Ser Nov. I 48 25 vice and National Park Ser Nov. 7 47 32 .20 vice for nine years before going Nov. 8 44 .09 to work for SCS in 1942. 33 Nov. 9 57 39 Jack and Mrs. Frost, recently .62 -- retired as audio-visual librar Nov. 10 46 28 Nov. 11 45 37 .08 ian for the Methodist Confer Nov. 12 49 38 .29 ence, plan to |)urchase a trailer -- — and travel throughout the United 33 Nov. 13 States. Both are recognized am RESERVOIR STORAGE ateur photographers. The Frosts live at 1133 N. E. 11/13/67 319,340 Acre Feet 11/13/68 137,290 Acre Feet 39th Avenue, Portland. WEATHER boarded two new Boise-Winn emucca buses for the charter trip. One of the drivers was Benny Fields, who formerly worked for Nyssa Co-op, and is well acquainted locally. Rest stops were made at La Grande and The Dalles, and at Hood River we made a very short stop while Mr. and Mrs. Heter Harada, uncle and aunt ofShar- mon and Gary Sadamorl, visited briefly with us and gave us a box of beautiful Hood River delicious apples for each bus. We arrived at Milwaukee High school about 7 p.m. and were met by Bob Smith, former Nyssa band director, and Chuck Swan, former Ontario band director. They are now assistant prin cipal and band director, re spectively, at Milwaukee. They paired us up with our Mil waukee hosts and the kids were off in all directions to spend the evening. F rom all the tales heard the next morning every one had a good time, and we were all grateful for the hos pitality of the Milwaukee people. Early Friday morning the band went to the Lloyd Center in Portland for a visit to this huge shopping center, then through downtown Portland and into the West Hills for a stop at the Portland Zoo. Here the kids dispersed in all directions to see the wonders of the Ore gon Museum of Science and In dustry (OMSI); and to throw pea nuts to the bears and to look at the penguins, elephants and other animals at this beautiful new zoo. The fact that it was raining very hard didn’t seem to dampen the enthusiasm of our tourists. After a short lunch we were on our way to Salem. We arrived at the State Cap itol at 1:30 p.m. and were met by a very nice lady who gave us a tour of the capitol, which included a short history of the construction of this beautiful building. It is relatively new, the old capitol building having burned down in 1935, and cer tainly one of the most modern and finest in our 50 states. The kids were impressed as we vis ited the House of Representa tives, the Senate, and the gov ernor’s office. Then on down the valley to Corvallis in a driving rain storm, where we were met by Harvey Brooks, high school band director and formerly of The United Fund has com pletely reorganized this year; and one new charitable group has been added to the list of participants: the Treasure Val ley association for handicapped and mentally retarded children. This increases the number of agencies in United Fund to six, the other organizations being: Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Red Cross, Salvation Army, and Oregon United Appeal. The goal for Malheur County is $27,500., a figure determined by budgets submitted by the member organizations. The drive began in Ontario in the latter part of October, and to date, over $4,000 has been contributed. The officers are optimistic about reaching the goal. If every family in Malheur County gave its “fair share’’, the goal would be ex ceeded. A “fair share” is one hour’s pay a month. Officials say they will promote payroll deduction plans for employees and wiU ask for contributions from the businesses in each town. BOARD NAMED Board members include: James Morley, president, On tario; Dave Garner, general chairman, Ontario; Tom Sten- kamp, treasurer, Nyssa; Ben Tsukamaki, Ontario; Bob But ler, Vale; Leroy Paulsen, Vale; Kenji Yaguchi, Ontario; Helen Dealy, Ontario; Mel Walter, On tario. Robert Oswald, district Boy Scout executive, is acting as Garner’s administrative as sistant. An office in Ontario is being maintained, along with a full- time secretary, in order to assist those participating in the drive. The location is in the KYET Hospitality house, across from the Post office. The rural drive, coveringthe greatest share of Malheur County is now under way,under the direction of Helen Dealy. O 17 Of TO J IP A 1\JG PUOPlQir UOJLJLVu/VlTO V-ill V JUoIL PfAQI7Or17 fp HVrOlLll. I QByfirpU I H oivl* MAJORITY SPEAKER House Majority Leader Robert F. Smith of Burns was named by Republican caucus Friday to succeed F. F. (Monte) Mont gomery as Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives. Republicans will control the House 38-22. Smith, the first man in Oregon history to serve two terms as House Majority Leader, must be elected by the full House membership during the opening session January 13. Smith said that the 1969 legislature “will be wrestling with problems more complex and more confusing than anyone would have dared imagine a short decade ago.” The legislature, he said, ■'will be facing tremendous Oregon will start an exciting problems and pitfalls. We will new decade on the right foot. He said “I am confident that be facing great challenges. But these challenges can be trans the new legislature will place formed into unmatched oppor progress above partisanship tunities through imaginative and and cooperation above compe innovative action by the legis tition to work with a unity of lative branch of government.” purpose for the common goals Smith described the 1969 leg important to all Oregonians.” Smith, a cattle rancher in islature as “the springboard into the seventies. How we do Burns, was first elected to the our jobs will determine, in House in 1960. He was re- large measure, whether or not (Continued On Page 9) (Continued On Page 9) NYSSANS EARN TRIP Mr. and Mrs. Les Burbank, Mr. and Mrs. Monty Burbank returned Monday night from a week’s trip to Bermuda. They were guests of John Deere com pany and the trip was a bonus for exceeding their sales quota at B A M Equipment company. They drove to Portland Tues day, flew to Syracuse, N. Y. where other dealers and wives joined them for a direct flight to the island. They report 174 on the same flight with them from N. Y. and back with ap proximately 500 company guests there at the same time. TAKING HONORS AS SCHOOL PATROLMEN FOR THE month of October are Nyssa sixth-grade students, BRENDA ARMSTRONG and GILBERT YBANEZ. Brenda is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Armstrong, is a student in Mary Hatt’s classroom and was named Patrol Captain of the Month by faculty members and the Nyssa Police Department. Gilbert’s parents are Mr. and Mrs. Domingo Ybanez, he is a pupil in Janice Wilson’s room and was given Patrolman of the Month honors. The sixth-graders are on duty in all kinds of weather. Their traveling trophies, which they dis play in this picture, are given by the Police Department. - Gate City Journal Photo.