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THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1969
THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL. NYSSA, OREGON
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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
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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.
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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 Thursday evening fam
ily worship service at Faith
Lutheran church will be held
at 8 o’clock this evening with
Dale Hershey, Nyssa migrant
worker, as guest speaker.
His home is in Pennsylvan
ia, and he is in Nyssa with his
wife, Dorothy, working in the
city to bring about better rel
ations between the Mexicans
and whites.
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
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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
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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
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modern cities where industry I quilted, both promise
is thriving and where they are
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very much a part of the 20th
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The Finns as a people, con
trary to general opinion, are
not Scandinavian; nor are they
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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.
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