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J * 3 *9 V **»Ü 9 jaö5u.-3 PAGE TWO THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1969 THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL. NYSSA, OREGON OBITUARIES^ The Gate City Journal TED M. BRAMMER, Editor and Publisher NIWPAMt SUBSCRIPTION RATES PUSlISHf RS 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 ASSOCIATION NATIONAL NEWSPAPER PWtrATTW Free Preu Published Every Thursday at Nyssa, Malheur County, Oregon 97913 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. How 1,100 Rich Taxpayers Cut Their Tax Share by Using Loopholes (Figures in Millions of Dollars) Oil & Mineral Deplefion $59 fatabte $210 Personal Deductions $111 Finn losses $15 Contributions $73 Adjustments $8 Bated on 1964 returns reported in 1969 tax reform studies of the U.S. Treasury Department. FLETCHER’S CORRAL BY ROGER FLETCHER Malheur County Agent COUNTY FAIR 4-H INFORMATION On Wednesday, August 27, between 200 and 300 4-H Live- stock club members will con- verge on the fair grounds in On- tario to enter their exhibits in the 1969 Malheur county fair scheduled for August 28-31. The 4-H livestock show will again make a significant con tribution to the fair. Eighty 4-H dairy animals, 115 beef, 121 sheep and 61 hogs are an ticipated. The 4-H schedule has been revised this year to include two additions which should en hance the program. 4-H live stock members will have an opportunity to give deomonstra- tions in their project area. Demonstrations are designed to teach the art of communi cating. In addition to demon strations, the program will include a round robin showman ship contest on Saturday after noon, August 30,’ at 1 p.m. The grand champion 4-H beef, sheep, swine, dairy and horse showman will meet in the same ring with their animals. The obvious prupose of this event is to determine the most versatile showman. MINNIE TUNING Funeral services for Kelly Lewis, age two years and five months, will be conducted at 11 o’clock Friday morning at the Nyssa LDS stake house. She was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Allen Lewis of Anaheim, Calif., and a grand daughter of Mrs. Tom (Doro thea Lewis) Mitchell of Nyssa, Mr. and Mrs. John Brown of Ontario. Kelly was born March 16, 1967 and succumbed early Tuesday morning, August 19, 1969 at an Anaheim hospital, following an illness of one day. In addition to her parents and grandparents, the small girl is survived by a six-year- old brother, Rickie. Lienkaemper chapel will be in charge of the local funeral service and burial rites. Funeral services for Mrs. Minnie S. Tuning of route 3, Parma, were conducted Tues day afternoon, August 19, 1969 at Sterry Memorial Presby terian church in Roswell. Of ficiating was the Rev. John Senn of the Wilder Golden Gate Bap tist church. He was assisted by the Rev. Roy Wilson of the Sterry Memorial church. In terment was made in the Ros well cemetery. Mrs. Tuning succumbed Sat urday at Malheur Memorial hospital in Nyssa. She was born Nov. 21, 1882, at Seymour, Mo., moving to 1 Long Valley by covered wagon with her family when she was five years old. The family returned to Seymour in 1888. She and her brother Judd Stew art, returned to Idaho on March 25, 1905, to homestead outside of Parma. During this time, she worked for the Parma Mercan tile. The deceased was married to Bert E. Peck in Parma in 1907. They lived there until 1916, when they moved to Wichi ta, Kan., and then to Vallejo, Calif., in 1934. They later returned to Idaho. She married Sam Tuning on March 25, 1951, at Roswell, and they had lived there since. Mrs. Tuning was a charter member of the Roswell Baptist church. In addition to Mr. Tuning, survivors include a son, Leo nard Peck, Mill Valley, Calif., a daughter, Mrs. Hester B. Reeves, West Covina, Calif.,; three sisters, Mrs. Ruby Cast and Mrs. Zena Walter, both of Seymour, and Mrs. Dawn Gas kill, Goodland, Kan.; five grandchildren and one great grandchild. Memorials are being given to the Idaho Youth Ranch at Ru pert. GRACE BARNETT Capital Gains Exclusions $182 I KELLY LEWIS Again, the climax to the live- stock program will be the junior sale. Scheduling necessitates a Saturday sale on August 30, at 3:00 p.m. 4-H’ers who have spent their project rais ing, grooming and training their market animals will have the opportunity to sell them at a premium price through this jun ior sale. The Ontario Live stock commission will again of fer the support price. George Bain, county extension agent and acting secretary to the Jun ior Sales committee, urges that all past and prospective sup porters of the sale make a special effort to attent. A complete schedule of fair activities is printed on page one of this Journal issue. Judging changes have been made since publication of the 1969 premium book. Dairy judge is Ronald Lind, OSU graduate student; beef judge is John Lan ders. extension livestock stte- cialist at OSU; swine judge is LeRoy Pulliam of Madras and the sheep judge is Crawford Oveson of Enterprise. Services for Mrs. Grace Laura (Long) Barnett, 88, were conducted Wednesday after noon, August 20, 1969 at Lien kaemper chapel. Officiating was Bishop Reed Ray of the First Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Interment was made in the Nyssa cemetery. Mrs. Barnett, a former Nys sa resident, succumbed Mon day at Ogden, Utah. She was born in Wyoming, with birthdate unknown. On Dec. 6, 1925 the deceased was mar ried to John Barnett at Bil lings, Mont. After moving first to Wyoming, they came to Nys sa in 1938 and in 1961 moved to Montpelier. Mr. Barnett died in September that year at Nyssa. Mrs. Barnett moved to Ogden in 1964 where she resided until her death. Survivors include two sons, R. H. Long of Ovid, and Hoo ver E. Long, South Lake Tahoe, Calif.; two daughters, Mrs. El la Johnson, Meeteetse, Wyo. and Mrs. Betty Hall, Geneva, Idaho; three stepdaughters, Mrs. Lois Eire, Fulton, Kan., Mrs. Meta Pickett, Quincy, Wash, and Mrs. Norma Powell, Neosho, Mo.; 11 grandchildren, a number of great-grandchildren, and four great-great-grandchildren. NURSES GRADUATE SUNSET VALLEY-Among family members, attending the August 16 practical nurses’ commencement exercises in Ontario, were those of Don Hatch, Duane Smith, Gabriel Astoreca and Myron Show. Al so attending the rites were Mr. and Mrs. Ed Lowtrip, Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Fox, Mrs. Bill Linville^ Mrs. Patricia Keefauver, Walter Nelson, Dewayne Collins, Michael Robb and Mrs. Delphine Meier. Nelson arrived August 15 from Willow Springs, Mo. He accompanies a granddaughter, Mrs. Don Hatch, who was re turning home after taking her husband and Duane Smith to Mississippi. They went to the southern state to get some school busses. CAN BE WHEN NEEDED Among the nurse graduates are two of Nelson’s daughters, Mrs. Gabriel(Freda) Astoreca of this area; and Mrs. Delphine Meier of Owyhee Junction. An other member of the class is a granddaughter, Mrs. Duane (Norma) Smith. 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The Hershey couple came to Nyssa in September last year and will be here until the fall of 1970. They reside at 112 E. First street. Hershey will also speak at the 10:30 a. m. family wor ship service on Sunday, Aug. 24 at Faith Lutheran. Dick Nelson will conduct the liturgical portion of the Aug. 21 service; and Danny Nichols will assist during the August 24 service. Young people of Faith Luther an church of Nyssa, Grace Luth eran church at Vale and St. Paul’s church at Ontario are planning to attend an August 24 afternoon skiing party. “Finland and her people have related to the Russians. They become very much a part of commenced their migration to us and our lives” stated Presi their peninsula from the East dent Udell E. Poulsen, who re to the Balkan area northward cently returned from Finland into Russia, and then westward where he presided over the to what is now Finland. This Finnish Mission of the Church migration transpired during of Jesus Christ of Latter-day a period of many years, and soon Saints. Accompanying Presi after their arrival in their dent Poulsen and his wife Pau northland, they were subjected line and children, Stanford (11), to foreign rule by either Swe Pamela (9), Camille (5), and den or Russia for a period Dallin (9 months). of 600 years. Nevertheless, Living abroad was not a new they preserved their own tongue, experience for the Poulsen fam and it became one of the sym- ily, since they had previously bols of their independence, spent four years in Cape Town, which they finally achieved in South Africa, where Mr. Poul 1917. sen was secretary and Finan In appearance the Finns cial Manager of the subsidiary is much like other Nordic na company of Del Monte Corpora tions, having a predominance tion. Nevertheless, Finlandaf- of blond hair and blue eyes. forded new challenges, es The Lapps, however, who in pecially due to the difficult habit the portion of Finland Finnish language, which none of above the arctic circle, are the family knew upon arrival, completely different, being except Mr. Poulsen. However, shorter in stature, and dark and after a few months the children swarthy in complexion, having were speaking like native Finns a mongolian cast. They are a as a result of their constant very nomadic, reindeer-herd association with neighborhood ing people. playmates and friends at The world lauds the Finnish church. For Mrs. Poulsen Finnish people for their honesty in be was more of a challenge, due ing the only country to honor to fewer opportunities to hear and meet its war debt to the and use the language since her United States. In addition, they responsibilities as a mother have a high standard of educa confined her much more to the tion and claim a literacy rate home. Nevertheless, she lear of 99 percent. They are also ned to communicate effectively noted for the industriousness with the cook who assisted her and cleanliness. In his work in Finland Presi in the home several hours each day. She also gave frequent dent Poulsen had the respon talks in Finnish in various aux sibility to direct missionary iliary meetings and public mee work and to give guidance to the member of the Church in that tings of the church. Since they had never exper land. There were between 110 ienced winter in California nor and 155 young men and women South Africa, the children es serving as missionaries in Fin pecially enjoyed the winter land at any given time, and sports of skiing, ice-skating, President Poulsen had to serve and sleighing. As a matter of as a counselor, teacher, ad fact, knowing that last winter ministrator, father, and spiri Plione would be their last in Finland, tual advisor in giving them in 473-3157 they hoped that it would be struction in the execution of their calling. This direction cold and last a long time. Finland is a beautiful land was given via means of regu of many contrasts: of green- lar individual counseling inter- wooded country-side and forest in summer, toice-landand snow in winter; a land of light during long, summer days, to a land of winter darkness. It is a land where 213 of the populace live mostly on small, parcelled EXTRA FIRM OR GENTLY FIRM farms, worked primarily by Choose the extra firmness many prefer or horse - drawn implements, and where they produce much of the the more pampering gently firm—gentled necessities to sustain life; yet, by a resilient layer of r— it is a country with beautiful Sealyfoam®*. Deeply modern cities where industry I quilted, both promise is thriving and where they are I no morning backache very much a part of the 20th Century. It is a land of topo ■ from sleeping on a too- graphical variety, from the hea | soft mattress, g vily wooded flat southland, situ | ‘urethene fosm ated around some 60,000 lakes, | Etch piece to the rolling hills of lapland that become bush land in | 80 x 80* QUEEN SIZE. 2-piace sal summer and but snow and ice | 78 i 88- KING SIZE, 3-piaco sat..........8339 85 in winter. The Finns as a people, con trary to general opinion, are not Scandinavian; nor are they I Nystw 1 Farmers’ League Just Start A Regular Savings Account And Add To On Pay Day 140 South Oregon FAITH LUTHERAN CHURCH NOTES THE UDELL POULSEN FAMILY views with each missionary, to develop physically, cultur through special conferences and ally, mentally, and spiritually. training meetings, via corres She also instituted choirs and pondence, as well as through assisted in getting music trans many printed materials pre lated into Finnish so that for conferences we had pared especially to assist them special choirs in each District of the in their labors. In his capacity of head of the Mission. Church in Finland, President The Finnish Mission was Poulsen, assisted by two lo founded just 22 years ago, but cal Finnish men, had as their in spite of many members who prime responsibility to train have moved elsewhere, there local men and women inChruch are now some 3,000 fine mem government. The Church of bers of the Church in that land. Jesus Christ of Latter-day During the last three years six Saints has no paid clergy; ra new chapels have been dedi ther each member is expected cated, bringing to a total 11 to contribute of his time and such chapels erected by the talents to assist in teaching and Church in Finland. TheChurch, in working in the Church in though young, has a good founda other positions when called to tion and bright prospects for do so. The Finnish Mission is the fjture. organized into four Districts The Poulsens were called and 24 Branches, and the lea dership for these Districts and to serve in Finland for a period Branches- was taken from among of three years as a special the local Finnish men. As men missionary call. They received have gained experience in ser no salary for this service, but ving in the Church they are or they were provided a home and dained to the Melchizedek an allowance for food during Now, with Priesthood and called to be their time there. Branch Presidents and to ac their return to the States, Mr. cept other responsible leader Poulsen will return to his regu ship positions within the lar profession of business and Church. During his time in finance. Del Monte Corpora F inland President Poulsen or tion had a position open for dained some 60 men Elders him, but he accepted the pos within the Church. Of course ition of Assistant Comptroller there is a tremendous train for the Church, and the family ing program involved in teach will now be living in Salt Lake ing these new leaders how to City. Mr. Poulsen is the son of effectively carry out their re sponsibilities. Various leader Mrs. Selma Poulsen and the late ship training seminars and lea George Poulsen, formerly of dership meetings were held to Nyssa. Mr. Poulsen gradua ted from the Nyssa High School accomplish this need. Mrs. Poulsen was called to be class of 1946, where he was a an advisor to the women’s or Class President, cheer leader, ganizations of the mission, in and active in dramatics. And being certain that our young in 1948-49-50 performed his women and ladies are afforded first mission to the land of the complete Church program F inland. 9:15 - Tuesday Evenings (FOR INFORMATION DIAL 372-3592) Ì ! | PETERSON .................... o------- ATTENTION BOWLERS (Men and Women): FREE INSTRUCTION 2 P.M. WED. AUG. 27 and 8 P.M. I I 98 S. OREGON 1 4 li J PITWOOD PANELING 4'x8' CHOICE OF 3 COLORS 0 Sheet $5eì0 4 ft. x 4ft. x 1/4 in. PRESSED BOARD . ....................... All Other League - Bowling Begins Sept. 2 Ontario Türñ/türé I 217 MAIN I I I Sheet 75 i A SPECIAL SPECIAL! 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