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THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL, NYSSA, OREGON PAGE TWO The Gate City Journal ROCKHOUNDS SAY THANKS’ August 7, 1969 TED M. BRAMMER, Editor and Publisher <7** NtWJFAHI SUBSCRIPTION RATES PUBLISHf as 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 er.»»NN A SUSTAINING * «•» Hurugrg __ 1ÛCQ 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. WISDOM AND CHAMPAGNE BUBBLES We recently came across an article by Bandleader Law- rence Welk in a newspaper called Christian Economics. The ___ was __ entitled ______ “Guatanteed Wage and Human Dignity” piece and presented the musician’s views on the guaranteed annual income. This is the proposal that would dole out a fixed sum of money to every family in the United States whether they work or not. Mr. Welk cited his own childhood as an example of poverty and how he learned the value and satisfaction of working for a living. He wrote: “A human being is far too valuable to be paid off in money. A human being grows and prospers through the dignity of work.” He further stated the alterna tive to the guaranteed annual income: “Rather than give a man money, simply because he exists. . . let us educate him to the glory that can be found in work . . . and then bend every effort towards helping him find and hold a job.” Unfortunately, space will not allow the reprinting of the piece at full length, but we would like to share a few para graphs with you that we believe provide good reasons for opposing a guaranteed handout. Mr. Welk wrote: “To my way of thinking this is a negative approach which does not solve the basic problem. Instead of inspiring and helping a man fulfill his potential by working to support himself and his family, it actually encourages him to sit back and do nothing, secure in the knowledge that the government will take care of him. This destroys his initiative and his will to succeed. It robs him of his natural human dignity, and even the right to direct his own life. “I am also concerned about the effect such a guaranteed wage plan would have on our children. A child raised in an atmosphere of defeat and apathy, and taught to expect that his every need will be taken care of whether he works or not, stands little chance of developing a strong character. His own natural eagerness to learn and to grow and to excel is cut off at the very beginning of his life, and he may never know the thrill of achievement on his own. A child who is en couraged early to earn extra pennies by shining shoes or sel ling newspapers or doing household tasks, stands a much bet ter cliance of achieving his goal than a child who is taught to do nothing.” Postal Promotions Come Hard About 85 per cent of all postal workers are in the lowest five levels with top annual pay of slightly above $8,000 after 21 years of service, according to the Kapple Commission report. This is the study issued last year which is inspiring current efforts in Washington for postal reforms. Eight out of ten postal workers enter and retire from the service at the same grade level, the Commission said. This promotion system which “stifles employee motivation and in centive” is a major reason why the Commission recommended removing the post office from politics and creating self- supporting postal corporation wholly owned by the federal government. Prices Up Again Inflation watchers recorded a new high in the Consumer Price Index for the last week in July. It jumped to 127.6 compared with 120.9 for the same week a year earlier, ac cording to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The index is based on 1957-59 prices equaling 100. The Chamber of Commerce Nyssa, Oregon Dear Sir: We have just returned from Nyssa, and we want to express our appreciation of the very fine reception accorded us by the Chamber of Commerce and the citizens of Nyssa and outlying communities. Everywhere we met courtesy and consideration. This isn’t always true - some times the citizens of a town “tolerate” the visitors and make it very obvious that the money they bring into a com munity is welcome but the per son is not. This is not true of Nyssa. The barbecue was excellent, and we feel you were wise in promoting corn and potatoes and beef - local products - in your barbecue. We sat at a table with local folk, and they made us feel very welcome. Mr. Moncur, Chairman of Thunderegg Days, requested that any suggestions for im provement be submitted for consideration since this is the best way of knowing how to improve future festivals. So, we have several suggestions that might or might not be of merit. We are both Red Cross First Aid Instructors and as such, very conscious of safety and first aid. No one was desig nated as a first aider on the field trips. Fortunately, none was needed and we would have volunteered had the need arose, but it does give a feeling of security to have someone de- signated. We were surprised at the number of neophyte rockhounds that attended. We did not an- ticipate so many “new- comers” to the hobby, These people have to rely on others for guidance. We feel that it would not entail too much effort on the committee’s part to sup ply a guide that would be able to furnish information about the material to be found, what tools are required, where to locate it, etc. Not one of the men leading the trips we were on knew anything about rocks and minerals. Also, before starting out, a conclave could be called with at least one person from each auto, to instruct them in the ways of rock hound field trips. Each person is responsible for the car behind him, so if they become lost, the whole group eventually knows it. What about a card file with the registration? Containing the license number, name, home address, etc. of each vehicle. When you go out on a trip, sign in and when you return, go to the stand and sign in again. Someone should check and make sure everyone has returned. We were concerned when one couple had not returned by evening because she had a heart con- FURNACE CLEANING EXPERT ■ On Coal, Gas ■ ■ and Oil Units GET GREATER VALUE from YOUR HEATING DOLLARS'! A clean, soot-free chimney plus a clean. smooth-running furnace — helps cut heat ing costs down to rock bottom. CALL US FOR PROMPT SERVICE! Eder Plumbins — & Heating PHONE 372-2266 OR 372-2154 (Aber Hours) NYSSA OREGON In Memoriain dition, and they were the last ones out on Haystack Butte ar EDITH C. ELGAN riving just as the rest of us were leaving. We had no way Funeral services for Mrs. of checking on them. For Edith C. Elgan were conducted tunately, nothing had happened. Tuesday afternoon, August 26, , They came in about midnight, 1969 at Lienkaemper chapel. . and apparently nothing was Officiating was the Rev. J. D. . wrong. C rego of Nyssa United Metho Another suggestion is that dist church. Interment was ; concerning showers, Kock made at Salt Lake City. hounding is a dirty job. Usual Mrs. Elgan succumbed Sun ly you come in dusty. Spitz day in an Ontario hospital. She 1 baths are fine for a day or two, was born Dec. 2, 1892 in Salt : but after that!! Most of us are Lake City, a daughter of Wil willing to pay a fee for a bath, liam and Jenny Brashear. but several had to pay a rather The deceased spent her early large fee to a motel just to use life in Cortez, Nev., Salt Lake a bath. Some of the motels City, Utah and Mackay, Idaho. charged only a few dollars, and She was a graduate of Mackay that is fine. Maybe a listing high school, toook business could be compiled of the names training at Idaho Technical in of motels, addresses, and stitute and the University of charges for using the shower Washington. She was a school 1 facilities. teacher at St. Anthony, Idaho Maybe the high school gym and in South Dakota. nasium showers could be made Her first husband, William available. Certain hours, since P. Fulk preceeded her in death someone of the committee would Mrs. Elgan owned and operated have to be there, of course. Edith’s Dress Shop in Mackay Well, these are just a few of for many years. On Dec. 1, the suggestions. And I hope I 1945, she was married toJesse have not made them sound cri Elgan at Dillon, Mont. Theythen tical. They are not intended to farmed at Stevensville, Mont, be. and near Nyssa. Mrs. Elgan We have been active in civic died Jan. 3, 1968 at Nyssa. affairs for years. We are aware Mrs. Elgan was a member of of the number of problems and Nyssa Methodist church; a the very hard work that goes in member and past matron of to something like this. Just Harmony Chapter No. 44, Or the arranging to have the gar der of Eastern Star at Mackay bage picked up every day, for and a past grand officer of Ida example, and the toilet paper ho Eastern Star. supplied to the rest rooms, The deceased is survived by and other instances of that sort two step-sons, Jesse H. Elgan requires time and effort. We of Mesa, Ariz., Grover Elgan, appreciated the morning paper - Brigham City, Utah; and one and all the other courtesies step-daughter, Nellie Wight of shown us. Brigham City, Utah. Thank you, again, for a won derful experience. We picked a bucket of choke cherries in FAITH LUTHERAN Succor Creek Canyon, and 1 made up a batch of jelly - a CHURCH NOTES wonderful reminder of our trip. We have very nice material we The family worship service gathered. We have a fine sun at Faith Lutheran church will tan. ( Couldn’t you arrange be held at 8 o’clock this even for cooler weather!) We gather ing, August 28, with Bob Ure ed up two dozen gunny sacks - speaking. He will be a junior hard to come by in Sacramento, at Oregon State university, this by picking them up along side fall and is a layman of Faith the road where they’d blown Lutheran. He will also speak off - so had them to pack rocks during the 10:30 a.m. service in. Lots of little extras. Even Sunday, August 31. getting Kool-aid for 3? a pkg. Lauren Wright will conduct at one of the markets was the liturgical part of this even fun! Haven’t seen it less than ing’s service, with Danny 5? for a long time. Nichols assisting during the Yours truly, Mr. and Mrs. Sunday service. Carl J. Schultze, Members of the Sacramento Diggers Min Some folks practice what they eral Society, 1516 42 nd St., preach, others practice preach Sacramento, Calif. ing. 9 ♦ » ♦ New Eyes For The Needy “These glasses were my grammy’s, maybe someone else’s grammy can use them.” The note was written in a childish hand, wrapped around a pair of eyeglasses and mailed to “New Eyes For The Needy,” a Short Hills, N.J. volunteer organization staffed mostly by housewives. Some 883,835 pairs of glasses were sent to “New Eyes” last year. They didn’t all come with touching notes, but they came from every state and from people of all ages. And they came for the same reason — a desire on the part of the sender to assist ‘ New Eyes” in bringing the gift of better sight to people who have no one else to help them. The “New Eyes” volunteers have been on the job for 36 get these glasses. I will thank years, and donated reusable Jesus tonight for having such glasses have always been the nice people like you.” mainstay of the operation. When The “New Eyes” people in the organization was incorpor vite individuals and organiza ated in 1947, the treasury con tions to help them continue sisted of 47 cents. the job of bringing better sight Despite this, “New Eyes” to those who need it most. has never solicited money. Be Discarded glasses, broken sides glasses, virtually the only jewelry, and precious metal other assistance the 300 volun scrap are needed. Address teers who make up the organ them to New Eyes For The ization accept is precious metal Needy, Short Hills, N.J. 07078 scrap, silverware, antique and costume jewelry. These are Howard Foster, son of Mr. melted down and the money from the reclamation, and from the and Mrs. W. W. Foster was an sale of usabie jewelry and sib overnight guest Aug. 21 in the verware donors sometimes Foster home. Howard was en send, is used to supply iunus route to his home in Clausa, established in 106 hospitals all Calif. He had been in Lewis over the country, Canada and town, Mont, where he has an Puerto Rico. They pay for new other bee business. The W. W. prescription glasses, or if Fosters left Aug. 26 for Denver, Colo, where they will visit her needed, artificial eyes. While the emphasis is on sister, Mrs. O. L. Dever. helping as many people as pos sible, as quickly as possible, “New Eyes” volunteers don’t close their eyes to individual requests for aid. In 1968 for instance, “New Eyes”: . Answered the request of a Peace Corp volunteer and sent glasses to the natives of a tiny Pacific island. , Provided glasses for a Viet nam civilian whose poor sight was the subject of a letter from that country written by a U.S. Army private. . Started a fund to aid a mid western clinic created by medi cal students and their instruc tors to assist poor people not eligible for public assistance because of the limited period of their residence. One <J the happiest aspects of providing assistance is the thank you letters which come in from grateful recipients. Wrote one ten-year-old Mis souri girl, “I thank you for making it possible for me to THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1969 HOW DEEP ? BY GEORGE HAGEDORN Chief Economist, National Association of Manufacturers do so might mean that we would ultimately have an even worse setback to face as the result of a renewed and accelerated inflation. QUOTES from Th® Press Regular readers will know that this column believes that some sort of an economic slowdown -- at least a replacement “The railroads dominate in of the present boom by less ebullient conditions — is neces sary *f the inflation is to be ended. Furthermore, we be- long haul volume transportation Heve ’hat such a slowdown will in fact occur at some time in because they can haul almost anything, anywhere, anytime- the reasonable near future. The time has come when perhaps we should go beyond these and they can do it for one-fifth conclusions and speculate -- it can’t be more than specula- the cost of trucking and one- tion — on the nature and duration of the coming slowdown. ninteenth the cost of air freight. “Their $27 billion in physical There are reallj two questions: First, how severe does the economic setback need to be, and how long does it need to last, assets are assets to thenation- effectively to end the inflation and break the inflationary and the railroads are helping to psychology which is now its chief motive power? Second, how use those assets, as in urban deep and how proi inged will the slowdown in fact be, given the renewal and development pro jects, to improve the quality likely political reaction to it? To us oldsters any consider quired at present. This will of the national life. And rail ation of a slowdown naturally be remembered as a period roads are improving their ser raises the spectre of 1929 and of some ecomonic sluggishness vices and evolving into still its aftermath — a decade of although not of serious depres more efficient, customer-or continuous depression. Let us sion. We had a moderately ientated transportation rule out at the start of any severe recession inl958,anin- * systems.”-Modern Railroads repetition of that sad history. complete recovery in 1959, and “Future growth of the popula Certainly a setback of that sev a very short and mild reces erity and duration is not needed sion starting in mid-1960. This tion will help the railroads. as a corrective to the present did succeed in breaking the in More people means more inflation. And it is inconceiv flation which had been gathering freight. Railroads should have able that the nation’s monetary strength in the 1955-57 period. an inside track on their chief system would again be so badly It set the stage for the re competitors in landing a bigger mismanaged as topermitaone- latively inflation-free economic share of this market. To be- third reduction in the available growth of the earlier 1960’s." 8in witb> railroads have the money supply, which was the Just to give a picture of the inherent advantage of offering case between 1929 and 1933. 1958-60 period we are recal the most economic land trans At the other extreme, the ling, gross national product port available. “Also, the trucker is finding mildest and briefest economic continued to grow in every one setback we can think of is the of these years, although at a increasingly congested slowdown which occurred in the slower rate than in boom per highways and shrinking first part of 1967. It didn’t iods. Business expenditures distances between metropolitan even qualify for inclusion in for plant and equipment fell areas working against him. the official list of recessions. slightly from previous peaks in Barges, which already provide Industrial production dropped 1958 and 1959, but were back by far the slowest service, will only 2-1/2% from the peak le close to those records in 1960. eventually have to pay some vels of the end of 1966. By Unemployment averaged about thing for the use of waterways mid-1967 production was on its 6% in the three years, and on which they have a free ride. “The airlines are running way up again and by year end that is, of course, the polit into such high costs for equip it had gone above the previous ically sticky point. ment that they will find it in peak. The unemployment rate Whether the nation will be creasingly difficult to keep their showed scarcely any effect of the slowdown, and the curve of willing to accept similiar con rates down to a competitive This will lead more total personal income continued ditions for three years as a level. up with no visible hesitation. way of ending inflation remains traffic to the rails.” - Missouri Can we, this time, possibly to be seen. Unwillingness to Pacific News get away with anything as mild and as brief as the 1967 slow down? It doesn’t seem likely. In the first place, the 1967 slowdown did not do the job of ending the inflation which had begun to grip the economy in Loopholes in the federal in TOTAL INCOME $658,000,- 1965 and 1966. ~ The quick and complete recovery meant come tax laws allowed 1,100 000; EXCLUSIONS BECAUSE that inflation had no time to rich people to exclude half of OF LOOPHOLES: Excluded lose any of its momentum. It their $658 million in income capital gains $182,000,000. Ex was able to go on to the big- from taxation, according to a cess percentage depletion$59,- ger and more spectacular in- U. S. Treasury Department 000,000. Farm losses $15,000,- study cited by the National Com 000. Contributions$73,000,000. flation we have had since. Total Loophole Exclusions At the end of 1966 we had mittee on Tax Justice. The study involved 1,100 tax $329,000,000; Other personal an inflation raising prices at a rate of about 3% a year, and it returns for 1964 of persons deductions $111,000,000; TO had lasted two years. If the with adjusted gross incomes of TAL DEDUCTIONS $440,000,- 1967 slowdown was unable to $200,000 or more. By using 000; Unused adjustments $8,- stop that trend, it is hard to tax loopholes, the rich people 000,000; TAXABLE INCOME believe that any slowdown of whose returns were studied $210,000,000. comparable magnitude could were able to cut their taxes to suppress the present inflation 15 percent of their income, the which is of four years dura same proportion paid by most tion and now moving at about taxpayers in the $5,000 to $20,- 000 a year bracket. 7% a year. CWO Dirick Nedry returned This was made possible by Sunday from two weeks training Of course, to say that some thing more severe will neces the tax shelters available un in the navy. He was stationed sarily occur. Perhaps our der present law to the wealthy. at the Naval Construction Cen leaders might grow concerned These loopholes are: (1) ter at Port Hueneme, Califor when the slowdown persisted the capital gains preference nia. and reverse existing policy de which allows an exclusion of 50 cisions, thus restoring the in percent of one’s capital gains Mr. and Mrs. Ted Brammer flation. That is what happened income and limits the tax to in 1967. Let’s hope they wil! 25 percent of the total; (2) returned Friday evening from have more determination this the oil and mineral depletion al Arco, Idaho where they were time. The country has had lowance; (3) exploitation of farm overnight guests of the Gale two more years to see how bad losses by persons in high in Brammer family. They were inflation can get if you don’t come brackets; (4) unlimited accompanied to Arco on Thurs day by Brammer’s mother, deal with it firmly and per- charitable deductions. sistently. The preferential treatment Mrs. Lydia Emmett, who had Besides, we are not at all of capital gains was the largest spent several weeks in Nyssa. sure that, even if government tax shelter available. Capital She was met at Arco by another was willing to accept resumed gains constituted 55 percent of son, George Brammer and fam inflation as the price for get the income received. ily who took her to their home ting out of the coming slowdown, The following details are sup in Townsend, Mont., where she they could necessarily do so at plied by the Treasury Depart will remain for an indefinite stay. will. After four years of ac ment: celerating inflation, t h e econ omy has excesses to work off. A downturn may have gained enough momentum to keep go \ d ing even after policy reversals 1 * by government -- although not H /J of course indefinitely. Well, we have ruled out an other 1929 and another 1967. What, in between these two extremes, is likely to occur? 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