THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL, NYSSA, OREGON
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ROCKHOUNDS SAY THANKS’
August 7, 1969
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WISDOM AND CHAMPAGNE BUBBLES
We recently came across an article by Bandleader Law-
rence Welk in a newspaper called Christian Economics. The
___ was
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______ “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-
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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.
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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.
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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
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by government -- although not
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of course indefinitely.
Well, we have ruled out an
other 1929 and another 1967.
What, in between these two
extremes, is likely to occur?
Our guess is that something
like the three-year period 1958
Starts Oct. 22 - Ends March 31
through 1960 will be needed to
do the anti-inflationary job re-
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