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OBITUARIES^ The Gate City Journal TED M. BRAMMER, Editor and Publisher SUBSCRIPTION NATIONAL NEWSPAPER RATES Single Copies............10? In Malheur County, Ore gon, and Payette and Canyon Counties, Idaho: One Year................$4.00 Six Months............ $2.75 Elsewhere in the U. S. A. Per Year................ $5.00 Six Months............. $3.00 Published Every Thursday at Nyssa, Malheur County, Oregon Entered at the Post Office at Nyssa, Oregon, for Trans mission through the United States Mails, as a Second Class Matter under the Act of March 3, 1879. WHERE CREDIT IS DUE Members of official investigative bodies and public regula tory have not hesitated to express their “expert” opinions on how the pharmaceutical industry should be run, how physi cians should practice and how hospitals should be operated. And yet, neither drugs nor health care can be provided by agencies of government or members of Congress who are hardly qualified to operate on an inflamed appendix or com pound a precisely formulated antibiotic tablet capable of saving the life of a pneumonia victim. A recent development has demonstrated this fact once again and should be brought viv idly to the public’s attention. A new strain of the Asian flu virus has been identified and has already hit some 500,000 people in Hong Kong and Macao. The U. S. is now threatened with a major epidemic of the new Asian flu this fall and winter. Government health officials have asked major pharmaceutical companies to undertake a crash program to develop, produce and distribute in mass quantities sufficient vaccine to control an Asian flu invasion of nationwide proportions. Several drug companies are pre sently undertaking the job which is a time consuming and exacting process and involves an estimated $5 million invest ment to gear up for production. The Public Health Service has acknowledged that the drug companies face financial loss unless the new vaccine can be made available and is used in mass immunization before the flu epidemic strikes--if it does. In 1918, before the days of flu vaccine and antibiotics to combat complications of the disease, 446,000 Americans died and the epidemic killed an estimated 20 million people around the world. Such a catastrophe wil 1 not happen this winter be cause of the research, production and distribution facilities developed by the U. S. pharmaceutical industry. This should be kept in mind, in evaluating the merit and the justice of future official criticism of the industry’s practices and ac complishments. - Industrial News Review. MORE ON TELE-CABLE Fragmentary reports dribble back to constituents of the 14- community committee that has been drafting a model franchise for area cable vision. After several months study we are wondering if all of the pieces will ever get put together to sat isfy the whim and need of each community, large and small. With such a divergence of inter est, some say even now that only a miracle can bring this about. Meanwhile, it is apparent that the rights of Oregon cities in this compact are being totally neglected and bypassed. In re ports made to the Ontario city council from its own represen tatives, no reference grants waiver rights to communities bringing signals from afar which originate in their own state even when these signals conflict with signals from a neighboring state which is clos er. Malheur county commun ities particularly qualify in this ruling. PHUTOFIN ISHI NG Nyssa Pharmacy “Y our R cxall S tori " 12» M ain S trict NYSSA. ORIOON Ph. 372-3551 Rep. Al Ullman verified this fact to the Ontario city council on Nov. 3, 1967 when he stated, “A FCC procedure does exist which would permit waiver of non-duplication requirements” and he enclosed the FCC ru lings. This ruling simple means that Ontario, Vale and Nyssa communities would always find the programs on their TV dial as listed even for the Portland stations without interference from the Boise stations. The application of this ruling to the local situation has been called to the attention of the Ontario council repeatedly. No thing seems to come of it. The Ontario Jaycees conducted a survey last summer which in dicated citizens here favored local ownership of the cable company which promised full inclusion of these non-duphca- tion rights. Councilmen Turner, Echanis and Powell voted for the local applicant in one of the few open breaches of council opinion. None of these council men have ever been invited to attend the valley meetings. This omission leads one to question whether Ontario is being fairly and impartially represented in these sessions? If so, why are such important things being overlooked in the projected franchise? Being the larger community in the county, Ontario will in evitably drag Vale, Nyssa and other Malheur county commun ities down this hole at the same time. So the lot of these com munities beign thrown into this valley pot can result only in an inferior and less effective cable system for Oregonians. The franchise provisions which the 14-community com mittee is designing has such INSURANCE || FOR ALL YOUR NEEDS ||| 1 *Llfo ’Liability ’Auto 'I •Piro Disability full Protection . . . at Low Cost NOLAN FIILD INSURANCK AGENCIES CLARENCE L ELLIOT Editor Gate City Journal Nyssa, Oregon Ted M. Brammer Gate City Journal Nyssa, Ore. TO THE EDITOR: May I express to those who supported me for election as second District Congressman my sincere word of thanks. The experience of being a can didate for public offic has been very satisfying. At the risk of leaving many people out, I would like to thank particularly Mr. and Mrs. Louis Wettstein, Paul Parker, Dr. and Mrs. A. M. Tanaka, Ed and Margaret Dilley, Don Oakers, Paul Van Petten, Mr. and Mrs. Mamaro Wakasugi, Bob Dye and Senator Anthony Yturri. I would also like to thank the Gate City Journal for the con tinued coverage of my campaign in order to bring a more in formed choice to the people of Malheur County. Again, thank you all very much. - Sincerely, Marv Root. Dear Sir: Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks “Memorial Day” service will be held on Sunday, December 1st at 7:30 p.m. in the Ontario Lodge No. 1690. The first Sunday in December of each year is dedicated as a day on which shall be com memorated by every lodge of elks in sacred session the mem ories of departed brothers. The program will be per formed by the lodge officers, Exalted Ruler George Hardisty presiding. Dr. Emery Skinner, Presi- ent of Treasure Valley Com munity college will deliver the keynote address. Music will be provided by Mr. Ed Bradshaw, organist and tenor. The public is cordially invited to attend the service. Yours truly, - Roger D. Graves, chair man. You pay (high) for Trading Stamps. Also, to prove that they are used to gyp, an On tario store offered 50 trading bonus stamps FREE with pur chase of one pound of cran berries at 39 cents. A Nyssa store sold the brand, one pound for 23 cents. “Something for nothing" is usually a gyp. - Walter Burdette, Nyssa. Gate City Journal 112 Main nyssa, Oregon 97913 Gate City Journal 112 Main Nyssa, Oregon 97913 Letter to the Editor: Saturday, November 9, 1 at tended the Oregon State-UCLA game in Corvallis and saw a marvelous show put on by the Nyssa High School Band. Many people around me re marked about the large size of the band as well as their ex- cellent sound and execution. Nyssa residents can be proud of their school music program and its director. - Very truly yours, Howard H. Hudson, 117- 48 S. W. Summercrest Pl., Ti gard, Oregon 97223. Vaio Nyssa Subscription department Nyssa Gate City Journal Thank you for the very im pressive coverage of school highlights presented in the Gate City Journal during National Education Week. Your thoughtful work cer tainly kept education in the news. Sincerely yours, - Christine McPike, chairman NEA week, Nyssa Elementary School. gargantuan complexity that even the Boise Broadcasters who figured prominently in this pic ture earlier have given up the whole thing according to re liable reports. Only factory bids and one or two big, big com panies from out of state will be able to bid. No provision is being made for smaller com panies to bid specific segments of area such as the Oregon section. We are being led around by the Idaho Municipal League as if we had a ring in our nose. Why should specific area bids be ruled out? They might be lower per unit. Is there to be anything lost from such a pro vision? Or does this 14-com munity committee want to rule out all local enterprise? Reliable information already indicates that smaller commun ities will have to wait four or five years for cable vision. The plan would centralize this op eration in the larger city so that we are literally being sold up the river in this case. Local independence a control which highlights other independent Nov. 11, 1968 Dear Mr. and Mrs. Brammer: 9* íes Agency Hearing Aids CONSUlTAriON FACTORY REPRESENTATIVE WILL DO FREE CLEANING AND ADJUSTING OF YOUR PRESENT HEARING AID FREE HEARING TESTS 10 A. M. to 5 P. M. FRIDAY, DEC. 6 For Homo Service Coll 372-3347 __________ ______________________ ~f Pharmacy Ontario 1O1 «A»* Lloyd Phone Phone — ,----- Bone ---- ------------- ! 473-3157 Ph. 372-3162 889-6990 ||| < Dear Editor Brammer: It was my good fortune to observe Nyssa High School’s marching band on two occa sions this year; once during a Treasure Valley Community college football game and again at the Oregon State University - UCLA game. Their finest mom ent was at Corvallis when play ing before 41,000 spectators. I was more than proud for many of the band members I recognized were those I knew as grade schoolers. Congratulations to Craig Northrup and the young men and women of whom Nyssa residents may feel justifiably proud. Sincerely - Jeff Ford, Assis tant Dean of Instruction, Trea sure ValleyCommunity college. Gentlemen: I am a Freshman at Wil lamette University in Salem, Ore., and have as my room mate a resident of your town-- Gary Ross. The next time he mumbles “our team won” I want to know “who.” Therefore, I am asking that you send to me a subscription to the Nyssa Gate City Journal. 1 don’t know what it will cost but just bill me here and I’ll send back a check. The sub scription may run for the stan dard year or however you work it. I can always have the address changed if necessary. Respect fully yours, - Donald K. Olsen. THREE OFFICES TO SERVE VOU! 4 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 19«8 THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL, NYSSA, OREGON PACE TWO 4 «8V1*A OOC Funeral rites for Clarence E. Elliot were conducted Mon day morning, Nov. 25, 1968 at Lienkaemper chapel, with the Rev. Arthur Skogan officiating. Interment was made in the cem etery at Roswell. Mr. Elliot, 68, succumbed Friday at a Caldwell hospital, following an extended illness. He was born Nov. 11, 1900 in Illinois, and had been a con struction worker prior to his retirement. He is survived by two sons, Kenneth of Prosser, Wash.,and Donald Elliot of Stanfield, Ore. Also surviving are ten grand children; three brothers, Loyd and Floyd of Nyssa and Ray Elliot of Olympia, Wash.; one sister, Mrs. Gladys Lutes of Natchez, Wash. THOMAS JOHNSON Funeral services for Thomas Charles Johnson were conduct ed Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 27, 1968 at Lienkaemper chapel. Officiating was the Rev. Wallace Prowell of the Nyssa Christian church. Mr. Johnson succumbed Mon day at Malheur Memorial hos pital, following an extended ill ness. He was born Nov. 25, 1894 at Ironside, Ore., the fourth child of Thomas J. and Avo (Joslin) Johnson. While still a child, the Johnson family moved to the Ontario area where the de ceased attended a rural school. Mr. Johnson served in the armed forces during World War I, most of the time in France. On July 4, 1920 he was mar ried to Merle B. Leuck at On tario. After their marriage they moved to a farm near Nyssa and later homesteaded a farm west of Nyssa where they re sided until 1943. Mr. Johnson worked for the Owyhee Irrig ation project until his retire ment in 1957. The deceased was an active member of Nyssa Christian church and of IOOF Gate City Lodge No. 202. He was fond of farm life and caring for his livestock. In later life, his favorite hobbies were reading and fishing. In addition to his widow of Nyssa, Mr. Johnson is sur vived bv two daughters, Mrs. OWYHEE COMMUNITY CHURCH Pat (Jean) Sweaney of rural Caldwell and Mrs. Ray (Anna) Graham of Quincy, Wash. Also surviving are five grandchildren, two great grandchildren; and a sister, Mrs. Clifford (Emma) Wallace of Spokane. He was preceded in death by his parents, four brothers and one grandson. Interment was made in the Nyssa cemetery under direction of Lienkaemper chapel. Serving as active pallbearers were Ewen Chard, Don Perdue.Cecil Richards, John Strickland, Glen Pederson and Dean Sisson. Honorary pallbearers includ ed Ralph Curry, Owen Gann, William Gruber, Ross Mills, Frank Sherwood, Al Thompson, Audrey Ward and Theron Wheeler. Memorial gifts may be given ‘Thomas Johnson Memorial Fund of the Nyssa Christian Church’ or to the Cancer Society. Dec. 3 Meeting Set For CBPWC Next meeting of theChristian Business and Professional Wo men’s Council will be held at 7:30 p. m., Tuesday, Dec. 3 at the La Paloma cafe in On tario. Speaker will be Mrs. Vivian Kimbro, a Boise mother, home maker and office worker. Music will be provided by Mrs. Phyllis Talbot of Nyssa. A special feature will be group participation in telling about special Christmas gifts or decorations which will be taken to the meeting. Reservations may be made by dialing 889-6289. TVCWC Meeting Slated Dec. 4 The December 4 luncheon meeting of the Treasure Val ley Christian Women’s club will be held at 1 p. m. at the La Paloma cafe in Ontario. ADRIAN COMMUNITY CHURCH Rodney Frost was speaker on Sunday, Nov. 24 at Owyhee Members of the women’s as Community church. He will also speak this com sociation of Adrian Community church met on the afternoon ing Sunday, Dec. 1. of Nov. 14 in the home of Mrs. Prayer meeting was held Nov. Leroy Bennett in Big Bend. Fourteen women answered 20 in the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Phelps. Nine local res roll call by reporting on the idents attended, as well as Rod number of friendshipcalls made ney Frost. Next prayer session during the month. A letter, from the Eastern will be held Dec. 4 at the Boyd Oregon hospital at Pendleton, Haney home in Nyssa. was read. It requested gifts for Among those attending an all Christmas for nearly 900 day American Sunday School patients. The group voted to allow $39 workers’ conference held Nov. 23 at the First Baptist church to pay the shipping charges in Caldwell were Mr. and Mrs. for clothing to be sent over Harold Dail, Janet and Sharon, seas by the Church World Ser Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Haney, vice. Mrs. K. I. Peterson took Roger, Joyce and Barbara, Mr. a box of sheets to be mended t and Mrs. Kenneth Lorensen, for Malheur Memorial hospital Harriet and Gloria, Mrs. Clara in Nyssa, and each one present Corfield, Mrs. Dorothy Pattee, took some of them home. Plans were made to serve Miss Sandra Ward, Mrs. Gary Nielsen and children, Mrs. Bill dinner at the Presbytery meet Nielsen and children. The Haney ing to be held Dec. 10 in Adrian. children sang a special number The women also voted to serve lunch at the Nov. 27 Larry De during the program. Haven farm sale. It was announced that there will be a box for Christmas St. Bridget’s News gifts for Eastern Oregon hos pital placed in the vestibule. Women of St. Bridget’sCath- The container was placed olic Altar Society will meet there on Nov. 24 and will re at 12 noon for a potluck lunch main there through Dec. 1. eon on Tuesday, Dec. 3 at the Gifts should not be wrapped. parish hall. A brief business There is also a box at Looney’s meeting will follow the lunch store and one at the Adrian eon. Merc. The gifts must be in Pendleton before Dec. 10. On the evening of Nov. 23, Patrons who desire to sub a chili feed and card party mit their names, as donors, were held in the recreation should enclose slips containing hall of the church. Mrs. John their names and addresses. Dority served as chairman for Those wishing to give money the event. should make their checks out to E. I. Silk, M. D., Box A, Speaker for the afternoon will Pendleton, Ore., 97801. On the suggested gift list be Lorraine Tillman of Boise. Vocalist Ed Bradshaw will pro are toiletries of various kinds, vide the musical portion of the remnants of material, embroid ery thread and yarn, sheet mus program. A special feature of the Wed ic and records, musical instru nesday afternoon meeting will ments (any kind), books (West be ‘Holiday Hair Fashions’pre ern preferred), table games, sented by Mary Rich of the shirts, bathrobes, new clothing, cakes, cookie or pudding mixes, Payette Beauty School. Reservations may be made by handkerchiefs, stationery, contacting Betty Lewis at 889- socks, pipes, tobaccos, candy, 6538. A nursery will be avail nuts, soap, combs, brushes, able at the Ontario Church of electric razors, cuddly toys, and new puzzles. the Nazarene. cable companies is to be for feited along with many rights. Is this what the people want? We pose these questions to the cit izens of Malheur communities now, before it is too late and many months of pointless con ference with the 14-community committee delays for another year or so thg arrival of cable television in this valley. - /s/ Lee Smith, President, Treasure Valley Cable Vision. Professional Directory Physicians and Surgeons K. E. KERBY, M. D. K. A. DANFORD, M. D. Physicians and Surgeons Dial 372-2241 HOURS: 9 to 12 noon & 2 to 5 P.M. - Monday through Frldav. 10 to 12 Saturday. MAULDING CLINIC L. A. Maulding, M. D. Physician and Surgeon Dial 372-2216 HOURS: 9 to 12 noon and 2 to 5 p. m., - Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 9 to 12 noon, Sat urday. Weight labs "By appointment only” - Wed nesday DAVID W.SARAZIN, M.D. Physician and Surgeon ’ HOURS: 10 to 12 noon I | 2 to 5p.m. - Monday, Tues- ' day, Wednesday, Friday. 10 to 12 Thursday 4 Saturday. Phones; Office 372-3360 Residence 372-3173 DR. 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