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THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1969 THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL, NYSSA, OREGON SUNSET VALLEY ACTIVITIES ------BY MARTHA LORENSEN - PHONE 372 - 2186 - ----- SUNSET VALLEY — Mr. and Mrs. Jim McGinnis and children of Joseph, Ore., were recent weekend visitors at the Ira Price home. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Price and family, Mr. and Mrs. Or ville Groves and family of Par ma, Miss Shagay Share and Gary Moss, had a July 20 picnic din ner at the Ira Price home. Mr. and Mrs. Ira Price and guests, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Mc Ginnis and family attended the July 16 Stampede. Mrs. Frank Holub was a July 14 afternoon visitor of Mrs. James Stephen. Mrs. Frank Holub and Mrs. M. Atagi and Sandra, attended the July 19 Obon festival at Ontario. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schil ling and Fred Jr. were July 20 guests for homemade ice cream at the Charles Chapin home. Mrs. Marvin Wright and girls of Boise, visited on July 20 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Chapin and family. Mrs. Wright is a sister of Mrs. Chapin. Miss Annett left on July 15 for Logan Valley, where she will attend 4-H camp. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cha pin attended the July 19 funeral service for Bob Burney at the Bible Missionary church in On tario. Mr. and Mrs. Gabriel As toreca, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Robb attended the July 16 Nampa Stampede. Mrs. CharlesChapinattended the July 19 evening wedding of Lorraine Cartwright and Don Barbee which was solemnized at the Presbyterian church in Adrian. Miss Cindy Chapin was maid of honor. A 2 p.m. July 16bridal shower was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Chapin. The occasion was in honor of Miss Lorraine Cartwright. The hos tesses were Cynthia Chapin and Eleanor English. Fourteen guests attended. Misses Lynn and Stacy Glenn spent a recent week at the home of their grandmother, Mrs. Theda Boren at Durkee, Ore. Mrs. Effie Nielsen of Nu- Acres, Mr. and Mrs. Clifton Nielsen of Moses Lake, were July 20 afternoon visitors at the Elver Nielsen home. Mr. and Mrs. Pete Wilson, Mrs. James Robb, Scot and Jan were July 14 afternoon callers at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Elver Nielsen. Mr. and Mrs. Ewen Chard of Nyssa and Mrs. Elver Niel sen went to Emmett on the eve ning of July 17 to visit Mrs. Homer Whitman, who has been hospitalized for a short time at the Walter Knox hospital Mrs. Whitman is a sister of Mrs. Nielsen. Mr. and Mrs. Emerson Bingaman, Mr. and Mrs. Elver Nielsen attended a July 19 eve ning dinner at the East Side cafe in Ontario. Janet Kimball spent a recent week at McCall, where she at tended the Nazarene junior high camp. Janet is a granddaughter of Mrs. E. J. Hobson. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Langley hosted a recent barbecue supper in honor of the birthday of her ^hies Hearing Aids CONSULTATION FREE FACTORY REPRESENTATIVE WILL DO CLEANING AND ADJUSTING OF YOUR PRESENT HEARING AID FREE HEARING TESTS 10 A. M. to 5 P. M. Friday, August 1, 1969 For Home Service Call 372-3347 Pharmacy FHOHt 172-3347 202 MAIN NYSSA. OM. mother, Mrs. E. J. Hobson. Those attending were: Mr. and Mrs. Roy Wild and Mrs. Ed Wild of Nyssa, Mrs. Emory Rathburn of La Plante, Colo., Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hobson and family of Ontario. Dr. and Mrs. Rex Langley and family, Mr. and Mrs. Homer Brewer, Mr. and Mrs. Keith Langley and sons, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Kimball and family of Oakland, Calif. Mrs. E. J. Hobson and Miss Janet Kimball of Oakland, Calif, were July 20 dinner guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Fitz simmons in Nyssa. Mr. Ora Newgen was a patient at the Caldwell Memorial hos pital July 10-14 when he under went surgery. Newgen is con valescing at his home. He is reportedly recovering satisfac torily. July 13 visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ora Newgen were Mr. and Mrs. Richard Ellison of Wilder, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Ellison and family of Myrtle Point, Ore. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Moore and children of Nyssa were July 20 visitors at the home of Ora Newgen. George Wilson has been visi ting his daughter, at La Grande for the past two weeks. He returned home July 14. Mrs. Dolly Couchman of Kim, Colo, is visiting at the home of her brothers, Henry and Denton Mitchell. Carmen and Audrie Astoreca were among those who went on a recent weekend camp trip to McCall. They returned home on July 20. Mr. and Mrs. Pete Wilson, Mrs. James Robb, Scott and Jan of Moses Lake, Wash., were re cent visitors. They are former residents of this area. They were overnight guests at the Jim Langley home during their stay. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Glenn received the word of the death of an uncle, Alex Katzdorn. Funeral services was held in California on July 15 and an other service followed July 17 in Colorado, his former home. Miss Mary Denman of On tario, was a recent visitor at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ken Lorensen and girls. Mrs. Ned Denman arrived July 18 and Mary returned home with her. Mrs. Walter Eklund of Wapa to, Wash., visited July 13-15 at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ken Lorensen. Mrs. Harriet Turner of Owy hee junction, grandmother of Mrs. Eklund, was an overnight visitor at the Lorensen home during her stay. She also visi ted her uncle and aunt, the W.L. Chapins. Mr. and Mrs. Ken Loresnen, Harriet, Gloria and Mary Den man attended the July 17 Nampa Stampede. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Mitchell were July 20 dinner guests at the home of Henry and Denton Mitchell. Mrs. Paul Knottingham and children of Medford, Ore., are visiting at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Jones of Middleton, and also at the home of Knottingham’s mother, Mrs. Lois Counsil. ANNOUNCEMENT! O-OOOOOOOOO- loyalty during our four years there. 2nd - We invite you to try our food and service in our new business. BIG BEND — Jolly Janes met No man will ever convince a woman that food is a bargain. July 16 in the home of Mrs. It may or may not be a bargain, but women intuitively feel that Darrell English, with Mrs. food prices are too high at any given time or place. Horace Chaney as assistant The current lament over the price of beef is a case in hostess. Mrs. Ray Cartwright point. The Oregon Beef Council admits that the price of ham received the hostess gift. Next burger has gone up 15 percent during the past 18 years. But meeting will be an August pic it also points out that during this same period wages have nic at the Horace Chaney home. increased 94 percent, transporation costs have risen 48 percent, Charles Witty and Mrs. Verl and medical care has sky-rocketed 98 percent. Bishop attended a recent mee For those who remember when a loaf of bread cost a nickel, ting in Caldwell where they a quart of milk 10 cents, and sirloin steak was 59 cents a pound, planned a gathering of the local it may seem strange to call today’s food one of our best values. Presbyterian church patrons. But, adds the Agri-Business Council, our wage increases have They will meet with members of f ir ij -passed the increases in food costs. Today, we spend only the Rev. Harold Kurtz family about 17 percent of the family budget for food. This percentage who are in the States from has dropped nearly 10 percent in the past twenty years. Ethiopia. WAGES BUY MORE Mr. and Mrs. FloydWoodand who else would try to live on family, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard 1951 prices? To make things Wood of Marsing and Merlin An hour’s wage for a factory tougher on the beef producer, Means of Arena Valley were worker today will buy far more he has been trying to squeak July 20 guests of Mr. and Mrs. steak, bread, orange juice, and out a living for the past 15 Elmer Wood and Roger. what-have-you than it did in years on depressed prices. And Steve Bishop was a July 20 the “good old days.’’ That despite the fact that his price guest of John Stam in Adrian. hour of work would bring home has finally reached the level of Walter Abbott of Roswell took less than a pound of bacon in 1951, the cost of operating his his children, Ricky and Bobbi 1914, 2 pounds in 1939, and cattle ranch has increased 110 on a July 20 outing near Cam more than 3 1/2 pounds today. per cent during this 18 year The Agri-Business Council span of time. bridge. Mrs. Dallas Chaney andchil- also notes that one-fifth of most Housewives have developed dren visited July 20 with Mr. people’s grocery bill isn’t gro a concept which suggests that and Mrs. LeonardCarpenter at ceries at all. It’s something they have an inherent right to Owyhee reservoir. They also to wear, read, listen to or clean buy food at better-than-bargain called on Mrs. Russell Kauff with. For every 80 cents worth prices so that the money saved man at the Bill Webb home in of groceries we load into the on food can be spent for cos Newell Heights. The women are shopping cart, we add 20 cents metics, liquor, frills on cars, former classmates at Adrian for laundry soap, potted plants, and a wide assortment of other socks, records, even encyclo items which are more profit high school. Mr. and Mrs. James Mc pedias. able to produce and sell. About half our hairspray, as Ginnis Jr. and family of Joseph, Certainly food is important Ore., arrived July 17 to visit pirin and toothpaste is rung up to all American families, and their parents, the Ira Prices on a supermarket register. And food prices are a subject of of Sunset Valley, Mr. and Mrs. we spend more for beer, daily concern to most people. cigarettes and pet food than we But this does not mean that the James McGinnis. Mrs. Varner Hopkins enter do for fresh beef. basic objective of the food in Housewives are keenly alert dustry has to try to keep pro tained July 19 for three former Bib Bend residents, Mrs. Pearl to changes in food prices, be fits so low that everyone in the Parker Voget of Tigard, Ore., cause these prices are variable industry suffers. Mrs. Lois Enos Harshberger and food is bought frequently. This notion, although it has of Woodburn, Ore., Mrs. Vera Yet, food expenditures are not prevailed for many years, is Sparks Collins of Boise. Other always built rigidly into the sheer folly. Many other guests were Pauline McGinnis, family budget. Georgia Parker, Goldie Roberts commitments are — housing, and Helen Bishop. All were cars, furniture, appliances, etc. new neighbors about 30 years These outlays are budgeted and often paid by check. If we ago. Mrs. Marion Seuell left July replace them, it is difficult — BY GLENDA BARNES price Phone No. 372-2345 16 for her home in Connell, to compare the new Wash. Mrs. Lloyd Seuell and against the old. COW HOLLOW — Mr. and Food is generally paid for daughter of Connell and Mrs. Mrs. Marvin Niccum of Idaho Vera Buskirk of Parma visited with cash, perhaps often what Falls arrived recently at the on the evening of July 15 in the is left over after other expendi home of his parents, Mr. and tures. If the cash left over is Ernest Seuell home. Mrs. Elza Niccum. Upon ar- Mrs. Edythe Prosser, Mrs. short, a tendancy is to blame rival, they were notified of the Delno Brock, Mr. and Mrs. Otis it on higher food prices. tragic death of his sister’s Swigert attended July 17 funeral brother-in-law, Jack Teague. FARMERS' PART SMALL services for Stefan Pollard in The Idaho couple remained for Nampa. He was a great-nephew July 28 funeral rites in Nyssa. When a specific commodity, of Mrs. Prosser and Swigert. Mr. and Mrs. Russell Howell Mr. and Mrs. Darrell Eng such as beef, increases in price visited July 27 with their daugh lish and Eleanor visited July at the supermarket, there is ter, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mc 18 with a cousin, Mrs. Fern also the tendancy to point the Coy at Ironside. They all at- Urban of Long Beach, Calif. finger at the farmer, saying, - tended afternoon church ser She was a guest in the Marion “Wow, this guy is getting rich vices there. English home at Nampa. at our expense.” Yet, facts do not bear this out. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Bennett Dee Garner, Irvin Durfee and and Brenda Wood returned For example, the laborer who Van Schulthies recently took home July 20 from a week’s unloads a carload of pears often some youths to Boy Scout camp vacation at Fish Lake. gets more money for unloading at Billy Rice near Warm Lake. Mr. and Mrs. C. K. Smith them than the farmer gets for visited Sunday evening, July 20 growing the pears. The cello Mr. and Mrs. Vern Widmer with a sister, Mrs. Lucille ,phane wrapper on a bunch of attended the Owyhee LDS ward’s Olson of Grants Pass at the'carrots costs more than the recent 24th celebration at Owy Bob Kinz home in Meridian. farmer gets for growing the hee reservoir. The event Mrs. Larry Bauman of Nys carrots. The laundry charges honored the first pioneers going sa and Boyce Van Dewater spent more for washing a shirt than to Salt Lake City and founding a recent weekend in Deary, the farmer gets for growing the of the church there. Idaho visiting Mrs. Alice Rist. cotton that it’s made of. The Mrs. Van Dewater returned farmer gets 2 1/2 cents for home with them. the wheat in a 35 cent loaf of Mr. and Mrs. Tok Nishimura, bread. Mrs. Edythe Prosser and Mrs. And the beef producer is get Dyre Roberts attended the July ting the same price today that he 19 Obon festival in Ontario. received 18 years ago. Now, Fair Prices Quality Food Good Service Paul And Sue Moffis ment of Agriculture will issue and will make effective for this coming year, the following Uni- tations on the shipment of po tatoes out of Malheur County, Oregon and various designated counties of Idaho which con stitute the potato production area of this state: All varieties must meet a minimum quality requirement of U. S. #2 or better grade. Round, red varieties must meet a minimum size of 1 and 7/8 inches diameter and all other varieties a 2 inch minimum diameter or 4 ounces mini mum weight. Kennebec variety can not be more than “slightly dirty” while all other varie ties must be “generally, fairly clean.” As far as minimum maturity requirements, the White Rose variety may be no more than “moderately skin ned” and all other varieties not more than “slightly skin ned. PERSONALS Mr. and Mrs. Wyatt Smith, their daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Art Hawkins and Judy went to Canada recently. They visited Vancouver and Vancouver Is land, while there they did some sightseeing. Judy Hawkins plans to enter Patricia Stevens Girls school in Vancouver this fall. * * * Mr. and Mrs. Howard My- rick and Shelly were July 20 guests of Mrs. James Farmer at the Hillcrest County club. July 24-27 guests in the My- rick home were Mr. and Mrs. George Condos and Angela of Salt Lake City. The Myricks and their houseguests spent July 25-26 at McCall. WELCOME ROCKHOUNDS! WE HAVE REPAIR PARTS FOR MOST ALL YOUR VEHICLES. LET US HELP YOU, AND ASK YOUR REPAIRMAN TO USE . . N.A.P.A. 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Mal heur County’s potato acreage summary indicates a slight de crease in production from 15,- 525 acres in 1968 to 15,187 acres for 1969. Southwestern Idaho’s potato acreage sum mary consisting of 10 Southwest Idaho Counties indicates an in crease in production from 28,- 590 acres in 1968 to 30,124 acres In 1969. The acreage summary for both Southwes tern Idaho and Malheur County, Oregon shows a slight in crease in potato production from 44,115 acres in 1968 to 45,311 acres for 1969. The state of Washington reports an increase in production for 1969. An increase of 2-3 percent Is anticipated for Northern Cali fornia and Southern Oregon. It was announced that fees for the Committee to administer Federal Marketing Order Num ber 945 are presently assessed at the rate of 2 mills per 100 pounds. These fees come from the fresh pack that is shipped. Last year the amount of fresh pack shipped through this Po tato Committee was 11 mil lion bushels compared to 16 million bushels a year ago. Due to the decrease in the ship ment of fresh potatoes resul ting in less revenue collected, an assessment of 2.6 mills/ 100 pounds will be needed. Upon the recommendation of the Idaho and Eastern Oregon Potato Commission at this mee ting, the United States Depart- -oooooooooo- COW HOLLOW (We ar* not strangers to this typo business wo both have had several years experience.) For Super Market Purchases —-BY GOLDIE ROBERTS Station and purchased the DOLLAR 1st - We wish to thank our patrons at the station for their business and Potalo Committee Meets Food Shares Unjust Blame BIG BEND We have sold the Beeline Service DINER PAGE THIRTEEN 99c because doors and windows are kept closed AND IT IMPROVES DISPOSITIONS, PERKS UP APPETITES, BROADENS HOSPITALITY. SI.49 WHY MELT THIS SUMMER? BUY AN AIR CONDITIONER TODAY!! FIRESTONE DEALER STORE 417 MAIN NYSSA PH. 372-2124 101 N. FIRST PH. 372-2266