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Nyssa Gate City Journal THE SUGAR CITY VOLUMI I XIII THI NYSSA OAIt CITY JOURNAL, NYSSA, OIIOON DISTRICT CHAMPS GO TO STATE DISPLAYING THE DISTRICT WRESTLING trophy captured Feb. 14-15 at The Dalles are ten NHS matmen who will compete in the state meet Feb. 21-22 at Corvallis. In the front row (1 to r) are Dan Hiatt (first at 98 lbs.), Mark Hartley (second at 98 lbs.), Chipper Burningham (first at 106lbs.). The other district champs are Richard Parra (first at 123 lbs.), Dan Haney (second at 141 lbs.), Bob Church (second at 130 lbs.), Curtis Reece (first at 141 lbs.), Butch Wright (second at 136 lbs.), and Dan Mar- ostica (second at 157 lbs.). Gary Breshears (second at 168 lbs.) was not on hand when this picture was snapped by a NHS Bulldog photographer. At the Feb. 14-15 event, Burn- Smith Opposes State Action On Fluoridation Oregon House Speaker Robert F. Smith said last week he is opposed to mandatory statewide fluoridation of Oregon's domes tic water supply. Smith said his opposition was based on the philosophy that “state government should do only what citizens or commu nities are unable to do for themselves.” He noted that nearly 260,000 Oregonians presently drink fluoridated water, having approved it through a vote of the people on a local level. “This local option is avail able in every city, town and community in the state, so I see no compelling reason for prodding or poking by state government,” Smith said. He said his opposition did not stem “in total or in part from any of the myths or old wive’s tales surrounding this subject. I will not quarrel with the medical experts who con clude that proper amounts of fluoride possess certain medi cal benefits.” He said that one of the strongest arguments in behalf of statewide fluoridation is that it would greatly reduce dental costs incurred by welfare re ingham decisioned Chris Brace of Wahtonka, cipients who are unable to bear 21-2; Parra decisioned Gerry Martin of the high costs of dental treat Enterprise, 15-2; Hiatt pinned Nyssan Hart ment. ley, 1:33; and Reece decisioned Haney, also “Therefore, I would support of Nyssa, 11-5. In addition to Hartley and a proposal whereby fluoride Haney, other second-place titles were capt would be made available at state ured by Church, Wright, Marostica and expense at all state welfare Breshears. Ken Cannon gained a fourth agencies for any low income place spot at 130 pounds. The Nyssa team citizens desiring to fluoridate led the scoring with 139 points, followed their drinking water,” he said. by Burns with 118. Other participating schools In addition, he said, he would were Wahtonka, Enterprise, Sherman, support a measure to allow the Madras and Vale. The ten local district State Health Board to set uni champions will be defending the A-2 title form standards for com at Corvallis. - Barbie Tensen, NHS Bull-» munities presently using fluori dog reporter. dation, and for those which may decide to do so in the future. Action Group Formed To Aid Employment Of Poverty-Stricken The Governor’s Area 14 Manpower Coordinating Committee met last Friday in the Ontario office of The Department of Employment. The purpose of the meeting was to complete the committees organization, orient the members to their Involvement in anti-poverty employability programs, elect officers and assign sub-comittee responsibilities. FIND WORK FOR POOR The Cooperative Area Manpower Planning System (CAMPS) is an effort on the part of the Governor to bring together those persons in Government (at all levels), Business, Labor, and the Public that have a responsibility for the solution of the employability problems of the poor. The CAMPS is also designed to increase the effectiveness of each abenc/s pro gramming by reducing the duplication and overlap that has resulted as a consequence of independent action. In Oregon, the CAMPS is At the meeting Larry Rowe, comprised of the Governor’s State Manpower Coordinating Personnel Director, Ore-Ida Committee, chaired by Nick Foods, was elected Chairman; Peet, Commissioner, Depart Dale Appleton, Manager, De ment of Employment, and com partment of Employment, parable committees in each of elected Vice-Chairman; Sub-Committee Chairmen: the Governor’s 14 planningdis tricts. Area 14 consists of Mal Target Population, Dick Spen heur and Harney Counties. The cer, Chairman, Administrator State Committee is charged with Malheur County Public Welfare the responsibility of adminis Commission; Training Occupa tering the CAMPS statewide. tions Selection, Earl McCollum, Chairman, Dean Vocational STRONG LOCAL VOICE Education, Treasure Valley The real work of the CAMPS Community College; Linkage will be accomplished at the and Coordination, Tom Cowan, local level. The function of the Chairman, Senior Counselor, (local) Area Committees is to Department of Vocational Re determine need, provide data, habilitation; Review and Eval and make recommendations for uation, Dr. Sam Pobanz,Chair the alleviation of these needs man; Programming and Public to the Governor’s State Man Relations Harry Sandquist, power CoordinatingCommittee. Chairman, Staff Chairman, Co In this way, and contrary to operative Extension Service. past procedures, the local MEMBERS NAMED people will have a strong voice The Area 14 Manpower Co in solving their own employ ordinating Committee member ability problems. ship is: Herschel Andrews, Business Agent Local 670 Teamsters, Food Processors, 4 Drivers; Dale Appleton, Man ager Department of Employ ment; Horace Arment, Retired, Ontario; GordonCapps,General manager, Inland Radio, Inc.; A two-day basketball tourna Tom Cowan, Senior Counselor, ment will be held Tuesday and Department of Vocational Re Thursday, Feb. 25 and 27 l . habilitation; Marie Craddock, the Nyssa high school gymna Administrator, Harney County sium. Ninth-grade tourney entries are from Nyssa, Ontario and Vale; and the Adrian sopho mores. Eighth-grade teams will MAX. MIN. PREC. be from Nyssa, Ontario,Em DATE mett and Fayette. 39 33 .13 The eighth-grade contests Feb. 12 39 27 .25 will start at 1:30 p. m. on Tues Feb. 13 •• 25 day with Nyssa playing Emmett; Feb. 14 .. .. •• Feb. 15 and at 3 o’clock Ontario wiU -- 44 .25 tangle with Payette. At 5 p. m., Feb. 16 .. 42 31 Ontario will meet Vale, with Feb. 17 — 28 Nyssa playing Adrian at 7 o’ Feb. 18 clock. RESERVOIR STORAGE Admission charges will be 328,660 Acre Feet 25$ and 50$ for students and 2/12/69 2/12/68 362,220 Acre Feet adults, respectively. Nyssa To Host 8th, 9th-Grade Hoop Tourney WEATHER TVCC Accepts Nyssa Students The following students have been accepted at Treasure Val ley Community College for the Fall Term, 1969. Miss Carolyn Mae Sell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl H. Sells, of Nyssa, Oregon. Carolyn will major in Physical Education. Miss Lona Florence Shelton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Shelton, of Nyssa, Oregon. Lona will major in Business Education. Mr. Ronald Dean Edmondson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Ed mondson, of Nyssa, Oregon. Ronald will major in Anthro pology. Mr. Steven Mark Moss, son of Mr. and Mrs. Don B. Moss, of Nyssa, Oregon. Steven will major in Business. THANK YOU ! I take this opportunity to thank everyone who helped make our Scout Week Parade a success. I would like to thank each one personally, but since this is impossible, my thanks go to: the Nyssa Pep Band, the Brownies and Girl Scouts, Cub Scouts from Ontario, Vale and Nyssa and the Nyssa BoyScouts. My special Thanks to the speakers: Dr. Kenji Yaguchi, Larry Bauman, and the Rev. Arthur Skogan. Thanks also goes to all the unseen helpers without whom this parade could never have taken place. Among them are Sonny Takami, George Hirai, the Nyssa Police Force, Wilson Bros. Dept. Store, the Gate City Journal and KSRV. Most of all, thanks to all Adult Scouters and parents who saw to it that their children parti cipated. - Ed Tyner, Cub master, Pack 450, Nyssa. Public Welfare Commission; Ken Glore, Counselor, Ontario High School; Mike Irons,Super intendent of School, District 8C; Don Kudrna, Chairman Techni cal Action Panel, Farmers Home Administration, Ontario; Earl McCollum, Dean Vocation al Education, Treasure Valley Community College; Robert Mendez, Ontario; Betty Orr, Nyssa; Robert Patterson, Di rector Migrant Education Pro gram; Dr. Sam Pobanz, Ontario; John Rhodes, Field Represen tative, Division of Apprentice ship and Training; Larry Rowe, Personnel Director, Ore-Ida Foods; Harry Sandquist, Staff Chairman Cooperative Exten sion Service; Richard Spencer, Administrator, Malheur County Public Welfare Commission; Eliis White, Malheur County Judge. THURSDAY, HRRUARY 30. I«*« GIFTS FOR THE NURSING HOME WING AT MALHEUR Memorial Hospital. “On Feb. 10, 1969, Mrs. Jan Wil son’s sixth-grade students started bringing money so that the class could get some things for the Malheur Hospital Nursing Home on Valentine’s Day. When the day came, we elected Tim Kane, Betty Lassiter and Karla to go down to Wilson Brothers too buy five pillows and a small waste basket. Then we elected Tammy Bartron, Craig Froerer and Howard Lowe to take these things to the Nursing Home. - Howard Lowe, reporter.’’ And the latter three students are those in the photo (1 to r) with Mrs. Margaret Bennett, director of nurses at the hospital, and their teacher Mrs. Wilson. The colorful pillows blend in perfectly with the decor of the dining-recreation room in the new nursing home wing. Also in the photo can be seen a picture painted by the late Dr. J. J. Sarazin, Nyssa area pioneer physician. It was given to the hospital by members of his family and hangs above the fireplace in the spacious room. - Staff Photo. Petitions Out For Enlarging STUDY PROBLEMS Adrian SWC AT ONTARIO MEET Narcotics Education Progrm Scheduled Ernest King, Seward, Alaska began his duties as administra tor of Malheur Memorial hos pital Thursday of last week. He replaced Nyssa business man Don Engstrom who had been hired to fill thegapcaused by the resignation of Pheral Dodson. The new hospital head, who is a registered anesthetist and nurse, is a native of Mass, where he received the major portion of his education and training. He served as head of White Mountain hospital, Springerville, A r i z, for two years and for two and one half years in a similar capacity with Seward Gen. hospital in Seward, Alaska. His family consists of two girls and one boy. The oldest girl, 19 and the boy, 18, are in school in Seward and the younger girl, 9, is in school near Seattle, They expect to join King here at the end of the current school year. King said he is on the Alaska Nurse Board of Examiners and had been quite active in the hos pital association. His hobbies are boating, flying, hunting and fishing. Among his comments to a Journal reporter yesterday were: “The hospital has a won derful plant for a town this size and I hope in a relative NU»III VIII U OF 0 DEAN FORECASTS 'MORE OF THE SAME' FOR OREGON AND NATION Petitions have been circu lated in the north-east corner of Malheur county calling for the addition of that area to the Adrian Soil and Water Conser vation district, according to Leeds Bailey, County Extension Agent. The proposed annexa Miss Sandra Charlene Ward, tion covers a strip 10 miles daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John wide bordering Snake river on R. Ward of Nyssa, Oregon. the east and having King avenue Sandra will major in Business as its southern boundry. The Education. ^axea extends north from King Miss Carolyn Sue Winches avenue to the northern boundry ter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. of the county. It includes the Harold D. Winchester, of Nyssa, Cairo, Ontario, Annex and Oregon. Carolyn will major in Oregon Slope communities. Business. Bailey said that all of the Mr. Daniel Earl Greig, son rest of the county is presently of Mrs. Iona M. Greig, of Nyssa, in either the Malheur or Ad Oregon. Daniel will major in rian Soil and Water Conserva Liberal Arts. tion districts. The area involved in the proposed annexation is less than 10% of the county’s land area. Farmers signing the petitions said that they were interested in becoming a part of the Ad rian Soil and Water Conserva tion district in order to jain various District Services. These include engineering work, farm plans and soil sur veys. A hearing on the proposed annexation will be held at the Moore hotel in Ontario at 1:30 P.M. on February 25. All inter ested persons are invited attend. ERNEST KING ... Hospital Administrator THUNDEREGG CAPITAL The Parma Jay-C-Ettes are sponsoring a Narcotics Educ ation Program to be held Feb. 24 at 8:00 p. m. at the Parma Jr. Hi. Auditorium. The speaker will be Mr. Rob ert (Buzz) Goertzen, an invest igator for the Bureau of Drug Control of the Idaho Board of Pharmacy. He will speak on narcotics abuse and show a film on marijuana. The film is narrated by Sonny of Sonny and Cher fame. There will also be a question and answer period fol lowing the program. Everyone is invited, espec ially teenagers and their par ents. There is no admission charge. MAIL RULE CHANGES As of Dec. 20, 1968 the Post Office Dept, put an em bargo on the receipt of over seas surface mail service. It was lifted as of February 17, 1969. Anyone desiring may now send parcels to destinations in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and the Carribean area, including the Puerto Rico area and the Virgin Islands. The embargo was the result of a New York Ixxig Shore men’s strike, which has been settled. COUNTY STOCKMEN An information meeting for all Malheur County Stockmen is being held at the Malheur County Fairgrounds Commer cial building, Friday, February 21 starting at 1:30 P.M. accor ding to D. W. Terry, president of the Malheur County Livestock Association. Information presented will be a discussion of legislative and administrative actions effecting the livestock producers of the state by D. E. Jones, president of the Oregon Cattlemen’s Association. Jones will also have results of court action on the proposed grazing fee in crease on public lands. William F. Schroeder, Vale attorney will discuss public lands; their condition and trends. Since a large percentage of the land in Malheur county is publicly owned and adminis tered, this topic will be of inter est to stockmen and other users of public lands, Terry feels. He urges all interested people to attend and hear Schroeder’s presentation. Terry has scheduled the meeting to start at 1:30 p.m. and conclude by 4:30 p.m. for the convenience of those who have a long way to travel. He urges all stockmen to at tend and express their views on the various topics discussed. MALHEUR SWC ANNUAL MEET The Malheur Soil and Water Conservation district will hold its annual meeting Monday eve ning, February 24, accordingto Leeds Bailey, County Extension Agent. The meeting will beheld at the Starlite cafe in Vale and will start at 7:30 p.m. with a no host dinner. Reports of the district’s ac tivities for the past year will be given by members of the board of supervisors. Ray Bel- nap will present the district’s annual report and Jim Black burn will give the treasurer’s report. An election of super visor’s will be held to fill positions held by Dudley Wil- liams and Gary Williams. Entertainment will be fur nished by Jim Wilcox. He will show his movie of wildlife scenes taken in Eastern Oregon. Master of Ceremonies for the occasion will be Lew Johnson. All persons interested in Soil and Water Conservation are in vited to attend the meeting. NEO Meeting Slated short time to organize it in A National Farm Organiza a way to be beneficial to the tion (NFO) meeting will be held entire area. I hope to improve at 8 o’clock Friday evening, the financial situation. I am sure Feb. 21 at Oregon Trail hall. we will enjoy this land of Sun A film will be shown, and all shine after the cold of Alaska interested area residents are with its long days and nights.” invited to attend. “Interest rates are apt to increase, inflation is increasing and so is the demand for money, food prices will raise less in 1969 than in 1968. “Agriculture will get a decreasing per centage of wage earner dollars and there will be about twice as many workers in 5-10 years than now.” These were among the forecasts made Friday by Dr. Richard W. Lindholm, Dean of the School of Business Administration at the U of O. He is also a noted economist and has been a consultant for the First Natl. Bank of Oregon since 1961. About 300 guests of the Nyssa and Ontario branches of the bank heard Lindholm at a noon luncheon in the Lions Den of the East Side Cafe. __________________________ agriculture and tourism). He U. S. TAXES NOT HIGHEST did say that it was going to be increasingly more important Total taxes paid for federal, for agriculture to develop an state and local governments export market to stay in are 27.3 percent of the gross business. national product (GNP) in the U. S. Next lowest of the five WAGES UP principal industrial nations of the world is United Kingdom Wages, he said had increased (28.6%), followed by Germany more rapidly than the produc 34.4%) and at the top is France tivity of workers, and that our leaders had found no way to with 38.5. stop the movement. It was LOWEST INTEREST RATE usually started by strong unions and then spread. Interest rates in the U. S., Capital spending increased while gradually increasing from 8 percent in the latter half 3.75 percent in 1961 to 5.65 of 1968 over the first half in 1968, are also the lowest of year. This was partly due to the five industrial countries. higher wages and a lack of Germany tops the list with 6.63 skilled laborers on the market. percent. The basic reason given to The lecturer dwelt largely on retain the 10 percent surtax is the national level and had little to try to slow down capital to say about the three largest spending with its attending in Oregon industries (lumber, flation. State Board Of Health Says Children Diseases Lower By Immunization Increased immunization ac tivity caused a decline in com municable diseases commonly associated with childhood dur ing 1968, the Oregon State Board of Health said recently. The largest decrease was no ted in regular (hard) measles, object of an intensive, state wide vaccination campaign since 1966. The 1968 measles toll dropped to 594 cases, an all-time low and 66 percent less than the previous low of 1,725 cases in 1967. Prior to widespread use of measles vaccine Oregon had up to 15,000 cases during epidemic years. Vaccine also kept a check on polio, once the most dreaded of childhood diseases. There were no reported cases in 1968, the third consecutive year the state has been free of the crippling illness. Oregon also had no diphther ia, compared to three cases in 1967. One adult contracted tet anus but was treated success fully. There was only one case of tetanus in 1967, but it was fatal to a five-year old girl. The 1968 mumps total was 1.025, but incidence of thisdls- ease can be expected to de crease in the future because an effective vaccine is now avail able through private physicians. Although German measles cases dropped to 625 in 1968, compared to 986 in 1967, epi demiologists expect the disease to occur in epidemic propor tions over the country in 1970 or 1971. However, a German measles vaccine is expected to be ready this spring to head off the disease, which is rel atively harmless to children but causes serious congenital birth defects when contracted by mothers in their first three months of pregnancy. Studies are now being made nationally and locally to deter mine which age groups will re ceive the vaccine first. Since the German measles vaccine, and the disease itself, some times produce short-term arth ritic symptoms in female adults, tentative plans call for initial immunization of young children to protect mothers from exposure. Meanwhile, the Board of Health’s Immunization Pro gram continues to stress that communicable childhood dis eases, particularly regular measles and polio, will recur in large numbers if immuni zation is not started at infancy and followed by necessary boos ters. During 1968, the state pro gram distributed about 67,000 doses of oral polio vaccine and 24,000 doses of measles vaccine to private physicians (Continued On Page Three) TAKING HONORS AS SCHOOL PATROLMEN FOR THE month of January, 1969 are Nyssa sixth-grade students, BILL CALHOUN (on left) and STEVE BOSSELMAN. Bill is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Mel Calhoun, is a student in Mrs. Mary Hatt’s classroom and was named Patrol Captain-of-the- Month by faculty members and the Nyssa Police Department. Steve’s parents are Mr. and Mrs. Art Bosselman, he is a pupil in Miss Christine Me Pike’s room and was given honors as Patrolman-of-the-Month. They display traveling trophies which are given by the police department, together with individual certificates. - Journal Photo