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Nyssa Gate City Journal
VOLUME LXIII
The Sugar City
THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL NYSSA, OREGON
THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1969
Upland bird and waterfowl
hunters will have hunting sea
sons and bag limits similar
to the liberal seasons of past
years under regulations es
tablished by the Oregon Game
Commission at the public hear
ing Saturday at the Commis
sion’s Portland headquarters.
Hopes To Aid Growers Locate Other
Markets Fo r Remainder Of Crops
(ED’S Note; A copy of the fol
lowing letter from company
Field Manager John A. Catey
was sent Aug. 15 to all com
and potato growers having con
tracts with the firm.
It is
carried in its entirety due to
the impact on local economy
and to avoid any possibility
of misunderstanding in the com
pany’s official position.
PHEASANTS UP IN MALHEUR
Reports from biologists in
dicate fair to good populations
of most species of upland birds,
although populations were down
from last year.
A drop in
pheasant numbers is noted in
Columbia Basin counties, off
set somewhat by an increase
in the Malheur area. Quail
numbers noted on the census
routes reveal only about one-
half the peak population in 1968.
Chukar populations appear
good, although dense vegetation
made an accurate census dif
ficult. The production inventory
show« fewer birds than last
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FOR NHS STUDENTS
NUMBER XXXIV
ORE-IDA FOODS, INC. INVOKES
EIRE CLAUSE I IN CONTRACTS;
CUTS CORN, SPUD PROCESSING
Upland Birds
Seasons Set;
Limits Same
BAND REHEARSALS
Thundaragg Capital
PREPARING DECORATIONS FOR A SEPTEMBER 6 STYLE
revue, sponsored annually by women of Malheur Memorial
hospital auxiliary. Mrs. Bob (Marie) Wilson is chairman
of this year’s fashion show, and is being assisted by Mrs.
L. A. (Irene) Maulding. Very appropriately, women of the
auxiliary selected residents of the hospital’s nursing home
wing to make the now popular large paper flowers to be
used as decorations for the show. The flowers are being
made by (1 to r) Miss Mertrude King, Mrs. Anna West,
Nyssa high school band stu
dents will meet for two pre
school rehearsals from 7 to 9
p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday,
August 26 and 28, it is announced
by Band Director Craig D.
Northrup.
All students who are regis
tered for marching band activit
ies, and those who plan to sign
up when school starts, should
attend the two scheduled re
The Malheur County sheriff’s
hearsal sessions, Northrup department has identified the
added.
body of a woman who was the
apparent victim of a homicide
Sunday Open House near Ontario last Saturday. Her
companion is being held by law
To Fete C. Parra;
enforcement officials and is
charged with second degree
Artists Invited
murder.
*
Malneur County Sheriff Rob
AH area artists, and other
ert Ingram identified the dead
patrons interested in art work, woman, reportedly badly beat
are invited to attend an open en, as Rosa Lynn Marie Wan-
house event honoring Carlos nassay, 28, recently of Pendle
Parra at 2 p.m. Sunday, August ton, Ore. She had been living in
24 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. the Ontario area for several
E. H. (Shorty and Virginia) weeks.
Bfeing held on a second degree
Brandt.
The Brandt residence is lo murder charge is BradiesRob
erson, 44, a transient who
cated four miles south of Nys recently moved here after hav
sa on the Adrian highway, then ing worked in the pea harvest
two miles west on Grand ave at Pendleton.
nue.
He was arraigned Saturday
Carlos, Nyssa’s young artist night before Ontario Justice of
who has been stuying art for the Peace Nita Bellows and is
nearly five years in New York being held in the Malheur Coun
ty jail in lieu of $10,000 bail.
City, arrived in Nyssa Friday, Roberson has asked for a court-
for a two-week visit with his appointed attorney and the case
parents, Mr. and Mrs. David has been continued.
Sheriff Ingram said an autop
Parra, other relatives and fri
sy
was performed Sunday and
ends.
This is his first visit
other evidence in the case has
to this area since going to New been taken to the Oregon state
York.
crime laboratory in Portland.
Mrs. Brandt, a local artist, No official statement has been
was Parra’s very first art in made regarding what caused
the death of the woman.
structor.
Man Charged
With Slaying
At Ontario
Mrs. Anna Mae Sisson and Mrs. Connie Bumpas. The work
is being done under direction of Mrs. Royce Cole who is
in charge of craft instruction at the nursing home. Re
flected in a mirror, above the piano, is Robert Vinson-
haler who was visiting with a fellow resident in the dining
area of the spacious recreating-dining room. The 1969
fall style revue, with a Mexican theme, will be staged in
the multi-purpose room of the Nyssa primary school build
ing. - Journal photo.
FEDERAL AGENCY GIVES
ONTARIO $326,000 FOR
WATER, SEWER PROGRAM
The city of Ontario has been awarded a $326,900 federal
grant which will enable the city to go ahead with its compre
hensive water and sewer improvement program.
Confirmation of approval of the federal grant from the
Department of Housing and Urban Development came Thurs
day to city superintendent C. Lloyd Castner and was received
from the office of U. S. Senator Robert Packwood in Washing
ton, D. C.
Cost of the entire project has mented.
been set at $773,000. Citizens . During the current tax year
of Ontario passed a $446,100 Ontario
budgeted a total of
bond issue last October and $296,000 for all city services.
the $326,900 federal grant will
provide the rest of the neces
sary financing.
An over-all water study was
presented at the time of appli-.
cation andthecity’s water needs
to 1990 were projected. “We
are in excellent shape finan
cially now,” Castner said.
The grant will also permit
Ernest King, administrator
acceleration of the water dis of M M Hospital, gave a brief
tribution system. “It will per report on operations of the firm
mit Ontario to provide ample Wednesday. He gave a few sta
water to everyone and to meet tistics, outlined the services
our annexation commitments,” available, and told what indi
Castner commented.
viduals could do to help offset
The city superintendent also the rising costs.
predicted that improvements in
A total of 81 employees, with
the water system will probably a monthly payroll of $25,000
affect the fire insurance classi operate the 70 bed institution.
fication. Ontario is currently Of the latter 32 are in the
in a class six and he hopes general hospital and 38 are in
that this will be lowered to the extended care facilities.
class five which would provide
Since February, King said,
citizens with an estimated 10 the hospital had only a 30.82
per cent savings in their fire percent occupancy and the ex
insurance costs.
tended care facilities 90 per
In June the city of Ontario cent. With $15,000 expenses,
also received a $130,000 grant other than payroll, he said it
from the Department of the In did not take a mathematician
terior for improvements to On to figure that a greater oc
tario’s sewer system. “The cupancy was needed in the hos
combination of the two grants pital part. This could be ac
puts Ontario sewer and water complished by a greater use
facilities in excellent posi by local people when it was
tion for the future,” he com- necessary to be in a hospital.
M M Hospital
Head Reports
On Operations
Malheur County Fuir
Schedule Of Events
HEADING THE AUGUST 28 RED CROSS BLOOD DRAWING
committee are Mrs. David (J 1y) Peery (on left) and Mrs.
Craig (Anne) Burbank, members of the sponsoring Nyssa
Jay-C-Ettes. Quota for the Thursday drawing is 150 pints
of the life-saving fluid.
A local physician will be on duty
during the mobile unit’s visit from 2 to 6 p.m. at the Nyssa
Eagles’ hall, located at North Third street and Bower avenue.
Women of Nyssa First Christian church will be in charge of
the canteen, with members of Girl Scout troop 99 providing
babysitting services. The Jay-C-Ette chairmen remind mem
bers of area organizations that the traveling trophy is still
being awarded.
To be eligible, an organization must have
ten or more members and the award is given on a percentage
basis of members donating blood at any one drawing, interes
ted members of the various Adrian - Nyssa area groups are
urged to contact Mrs. Peery or Mrs. Burbank who will supply
additional information and register names of organizations.
The women also pointed out that there is a desperate need of
blood in this immediate area.
REMEMBER DONORS: The
BLOOD DRAWING IS THURSDAY, AUGUST 28 - 2 to 6 P.M.,
at the NYSSA FOE HALL. —Journal Photo.
Wednesday, August 27, 10 a.m. - 8 p.m. - All livestock
entered.
Thursday, August 28, 8:30 a.m. - Meeting of 4-H exhibitors
and leaders in Girvin hall; 9 a.m. - Judge 4-H sheep, Girvin
hall; 4-H Horse judging, track; 9:30 a.m. - Judge 4-H swin,
swin arena; FFA dairy, FFA arena; 1 p.m. - Judge exhibits
in Armory, Judge Agricultural exhibits; 1:30 p.m. - Judge
FFA Beef, FFA arena; Open class dairy, Girvin hall; 7 p.m. -
KSRV Talent show.
Friday, August 29, 8:30 a.m. - 4-H livestock exhibitors
and leacters, Girvin hall; 9 a.m. - 4-H Dairy, Girvin hall;
4-H beef, north lot; FFA service, swin arena; 1:30 p.m.-
FFA sheep, swin area; 3:30 p.m. - Open class beef, north lot;
7 p.m. - Jimmy Wakely, Garray 4 Tomino and Dwight Moore’s
Mongrel Reveue.
Saturday, August 30, 8:30 a.m. - 4-H Livestock exhibitors
and leaders, Girvin hall; 9 a.m. - 4-H beef showmanship,
north lot; 10 a.m. - 4-H Poultry and rabbits. Poultry Pens;
2:30 p.m. - Junior fat-stock auction, Girvin hail; 7 p.m. -
Jimmy Wakely, Garray A Tomino and Dwight Moore’s Mongrel
Revenue.
Sunday, August 31: 10 a.m. - Non-Denominational worship
service, Girvin hall; 2 p.m. - Awards program, Girvin hall;
6:30 p.m. - Nampa city band concert, Lions’ park. 7:30 p.m. -
Jimmy Wakely, Garray 4 Tomino 4 Moore’s Mongrel Reveue.
8:45 p.m. - Pageant, “THE MELTING POT”. Locally pro
duced, featuring a local cast, with a patriotic overtone and an out
standing final for the 1969 Malheur County Fair.
FULLY ACCREDITED
King said the hospital was
accredited by the national as
sociation checking agency as
well as by Social Security ag
encies.
The latter, he said,
was much tougher to comply
with as the federal government
had elected to offer the pub
lic much better medical care
than they could afford to buy.
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Sen. Packwood
Makes One-Day
Tour Of County
Oregon's Junior Senator Ro
bert Packwood made a whirl
wind tour of Malheur county
Monday, toured two agricultural
processing plants, held two
press conferences and met with
three groups of people inter
ested in some phase of agri
culture.
The day’s activities started
for the senator when he ar
rived at the Boise airport and
held his first press conference
about 7:30 a. m. at the air
terminal.
He was met there by Malheur
County Judge Ellis A. White,
State Senator Tony Yturri, Max
Lieurance, administrator of the
Vale district of the BLM; and
Glenn McGinnis, representative
of the North Board of Control.
They were flown in an Ontario
Flight Service plane, piloted
by Casey Jones.
Leaving the Boise airport
about 8:30 a. m., they flew,
via Silver City to the south
part of the county over pro
spective dam sites on Jordan
Creek and the Owyhee river.
Then over the lava flows and
BLM land to the Malheur res
ervoir, the irrigated farm land
along Snake river and to the
Ontario airport.
Following completion of the
flight about 10 a. m., he was
escorted by Nyssa Mayor Cecil
Morrison, Jr. and a Nyssa area
farmer, Tad Shigeno, to Ameri
can Fine Foods Company’s
sweet corn plant in Nyssa. Fol
lowing a tour of the plant, they
stopped briefly at the Nyssa
labor camp.
It was here that he said he
was “rather horrified” at the
facilities available for migrant
laborers, and that "the argu
ment that agriculture can’t af
ford better facilities isn’t one
that 1 can always buy.”
Checking later with Gene
Stunz, a Journal reporter was
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Dear Grower:
Since our initial report to you
of last week, the situation with
respect to our ability to hand
le our contracted corn and po
tato crops has become more
clear. Based on the informa
tion now available, our position
with respect to these crops is
as follows:
CORN — In my letter of
Aug. 6, 1969, I said that we
would make every effort to take
all corn we have under contract,
either as silage or for proces
sing. As you will recall, this po
sition depended on two unknowns
that we had hoped would work
out favorably: 1) Qur ability
to operate at 80 percent of nor
mal capacity, and 2) the fact
that other processors In the
area would be able to handle'a
portion of the tonnage we could
not take.
Unfortunately,
neither of
these has worked out as anti
cipated. It now appears that our
production will be closer to SO
percent of our normal capacity.
In addition, we have been unable
to dispose of any material
amount of corn to other pro
cessors.
We must,
therefore, in
voke the fire clause of the con
tract to the extent of 50 per
cent of the acreage covered by
each corn grower’s contract.
Thus, a 40-acre grower is re
leased as to 20 acres. The re
maining acreage will be taken
either for processing at the con
tract price or, if passed, will
be paid for as silage at the
rate of $10 per ton.
With respect to the released
acreage. Ore-’da will pay $7 per
ton for the1 ■ ilage. In addition,
Ore-Ida Will release the grower
from his obligation to pay for
the seed planted on the re
leased acres from which no
corn is harvested for proces
sing.
In spite of the foregoing, we
are still hopeful that our pro
cessing capacity will Improve
over the next few weeks. At
the same time, you have our
issurance that we will continue
our efforts to dispose of addi
tional corn to other processors
as the
season progresses.
Because of these possibilities
we suggest that you do not aban
don any released acreage and
that you do not chop or disc your
released acreage until it has
clearly passed maturity or until
you have contacted us concer
ning the possibility of our hand
ling a greater amount of com.
Any corn taken for pro-esslng
at released acreage will be
paid for at the contract price.
The requirements with res
pect to all silage, whether from
passed or released acreage, is
the same as outlined in my ear
lier letter. It must be delivered
to Johns, Smith & Beamer in
Ontario, and must contain at
least 30 percent dry matter.
Any silage containing between
25 and 29 percent dryet
25 and 29 percent dry mat
ter will be $4.50 per ton; if the
silage contains less than 25
percent dry matter, the pay
ment will be $2
per ton.
POTATOES —As youknow,
the major impact of the fire
was to the potato processing
area. It is still too early to
determine
when we will be
able to produce at full capacity,
although the Feb. 1, 1970 date
referred to in some news re
leases still seems attainable.
It therefore appears that
with the exception of a limited
by-product and fresh pack op
eration scheduled to begin in
mid - September, over
50
percent of our annual potato
processing capacity at Ontario
will be lost for the current pro
cessing year.
In light of this, we will be
unable to take all of the pota
toes we have under contract. We
therefore must invoke the fire
clause of the potato contract and
release our growers as to 33
percent of all "late Russet”
acreage. Your contract will
Indicate whether your crop falls
within the "late Russet” cate
gory.
Every effort has been madeto
minimize the amount of this re
duction. A fresh pack operation
is scheduled to begin in mid
September. We will continue to
move potatoes to our Burley
factory to the extent that It is
economically feasible and to
the extent that so doing does
not conflict with deliveries al
ready scheduled from potatoes
contracted for Burley.
As has been the case with
corn, U is difficult to predict
Walters Named
U.S. Marshal
Boisean Rex N. Walters, a
former Nyssan, has been ap
pointed by President Richard
M. Nixon as United States mar
shal for the state of Idaho,
it was announced late last week
by White House officials.
He had been serving as deputy
U. S.
marshal, having been
named to that post by the late
Former President Dwight D.
Eisenhower.
Congressional sources said
30 Idaho residents applied for
the position. President Nixon
made the appointment at his
summer White House in San
Clemente, Calif.
The new U. S. marshal is a
son of Mrs. Ida Walters of Nys
sa and the late Ellis Walters.
His wife, Verna, is a daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Al Thompson
of the Kingman Kolony area
near Adrian.
accurately just what our capa
bilities will be in potato pro
cessing. The availability of
machinery, equipment delivery
dates and many other factors
beyond our control can mater
ially affect the tentative start
up date of Feb. 1, 1970. In
spite of these uncertainties, we
feel we must give you this notice
to provide you with the maxi
mum opportunity to dispose of
the released portion of your
crop elsewhere.
Hopefully, we will be able to
use more potatoes than now
appears possible. If this hap
pens, any additional quanti
ties of potatoes we may
require will be purchased from
the growers affected by this
announcement The price paid
for any additional purchases
will be the contract price or the
current market price, which
ever is higher.
We hope this commitment
will dispell any concern that
this action is being taken in an
effort to avoid our contracts
in the hope of purchasing open
potatoes later in the year at a
price
lower than that pro
vided in the contract.
We regret that our factory
fire forces us to take this
action and hope that by out
lining our position now you
will be better able to profi
tably dispose of the released
portion of the crop. If you have
any questions or if we can
assist you, please feel free to
call on me or any of our field
men.
Sincerely yours,
John A. Catey
Field Manager.
MALHEUR PIONEERS
SET AUG. 29 PICNIC
The 55th annual picnic and
meeting of the Malheur County
Pioneers’ association will be
held August 29 at the Vale city
park.
Serving of the dinner will
begin at 12 noon, followed by
entertainment and a business
session. A dance at the Vale
Grange hall will conclude the
day’s activities.
New officers for the assoc
iation have been selected, it
was announced recently.
Harold Mallett of Ontario was
elected president, succeeding
Carroll Locey of Ironside. Dr.
John E. Long of Nyssa was
named vice president, with Mrs.
Benny Maag of Jamieson elect
ed secretary. Glenn High was
re-elected treasurer of the as
sociation.
Adrian Schools
Slat« Registration
Adrian high school registra
tion is scheduled for August
27-28 from 4 to 8 p.m.
Elementary and junior high
students will register Septem
ber 2, the first day of school,
according to Supt. Glenn A.
Ward.
Safety Course Set
A hunters’ safety course,
sponsored
by the
Malheur
county sheriff s department will
begin
Sept. 8 and continue
through Sept. 11.
The classes, for children
from age seven and up, are
scheduled at 7 p.m. in the
courthouse basement.
Applications for enrollment
and additional information may
be obtained from the sheriff’s
department at the court house in
Vale, phone 473-3125.
A SCENE AT THE AMERICAN FINE FOODS
corn-canning plant (formerly Idaho Canning
company) in Nyssa during a Monday morning
tour by government officials and local pa
trons.
This Journal photo was snapped
in the cutting room at the local cannery.
Men in the foreground are (1 to r) Gene
Stunz, chairman of the tour; Bob Moss,
company president, Ray Larson, Amalga
mated Sugar company’s district manager;
Tad Shigeno, area farmer; E. H. 'Shorty’
Brandt, at whose home the group picnicked
following the tour; Paul Vandermyde, an of
ficial of the National Security Administra
tion, Washington, D.C.; and Oregon’s U.S.
Senator Robert Packwood. In the background
are two unidentified plant employees. The
picnic luncheon at the Brandt residence was
catered by women of St. Paul’s Episcopal
church.
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