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University Of Oregon Library Eugene, Ore. 97UO3 First Section Volum« LXIV Nyssa Gate City Journal The Sugar City STATE OF OREGON TO GH SUPREME COURT OPINION ON 18- YEAR OLD VOTE Governor Tom McCall, Se cretary of State Clay Myers, and Attorney General Lee John son today issued the following statement: “We have been conferring for the past several days with the U.S. Department of Justice con cerning the probability of a timely Supreme Court decision concerning the 18-year-oldvote. A month ago we- were advised that one suit by five New Yorkers |had already been filed and several other test cases were being contemplated. Now we (have learned that the New Yor kers’ lawsuit may not settle the issues, and in all likelihood will * not be decided by the Supreme Court in sufficient time so that Oregon can prepare for elections In 1971. We also learned that other states, with one possible exception, are re luctant to initiate litigation. “In a Governor’s letter to Attorney General Mitchell ear lier this week, it was said that if Oregon’s assistance was ne cessary to obtain a speedy de- terminiation of the issue, a suit would be filed for that purpose. It now appears that such is the case. “Moreover, until this great constitutional issue >s settled, the validity of every election in Oregon held after January 1, 1971 will be jeopardized. This includes local budgetary and bonding elections that usually are held in the early part of the year--an eventuality which would impair the fiscal stabi lity ‘of local government in Ore gon. “Because of these develop ments we have concluded that, although there will be some expense to the State of Oregon, The Nyssa Gate City Journal, Nyssa, Oregon Thursday, August 6, 1970 (On* to Each Family) Thunderegg Capital NUMBER XXXII Provide Daily Guided Tours To Three Kock Areas; Gem Exhibits NYSSA WORKER LOSES LIFE AT AMALGAMATED Nyssa Boy Attends Youth Range Camp Rural or P. O. Boxholdar Nyssa Thunderegg Days In Progress it is in the best interests of the state to institute a test case so this constitutional issue can be resolved as quickly as pos sible. The Attorney General, on behalf of the Secretary of State, will file such an action in the next few days. "We have been advised by the U.S. Department of Justice that this action by Oregon will con- stitute the decisive test, nation wide, of the federal Act. The department also assures us that in this action it will defend the constitutionality of the Act vigo rously so the Federal Courts will have all relevant legal argu ments on both sides brought to its attention. “We three have consistently favored extending the privileges and responsibilities of full citi zenship to 18-year-olds. How ever, it is also our duty to protect the sanctity of the Ore gon electoral process and to try to resolve constitutional ques tions concerning the relation ship of the federal government and the states. It is in that spirit that we are initiating this test case." An industrial accident claimed the life of a well known Nyssa contractor last week. Marion Glenn, 50 year old bricklayer was crushed when an overhead crane backed into him as he worked on a brick wall within the main building of the Almaeamated Suear Company. SAMPLE COPY Rokhounds from 13 states and 2 Canadian provinces had registered by 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, for a total of 86 persons in 41 outfits. Chairman Wayne Moncur said that this is a much heavier registration at this time than in previous years and he expects a good crowd for the 5th Annual Thunderegg Days. In the top photos camping units are shown lining two First National Bank Accounts Computerized sides of South Park Tuesday evening. In the lower left photo E. D. Harris and wife, Mildred, in front, and Vinnie and Claude Saunders, both couples from Balko, Oklahoma are visiting with Jay Ray, Concord, California. Lower right shows Wayne Morr.ui registering Orville Manley of New Meadows, Idaho and Loyd L. King, Imperial, California. Growers Plan Meeting With Camp Laborers There will be a meeting of residents of the Nyssa Labor Camp Saturday evening to elect representatives to discuss with the Growers Association the needs of the camp, and the economical difficulties of ac hieving good housing at low cost on a private basis for public use. The meeting at 9 p.m. in front of the camp office is being called under the dire ction of Father Young at the request of the Growers Asso ciation to accomplish a good and direct means of communication with those in the camp through representatives of the actual residents of the camp. The First National Bank of Oregon, Nyssa Branch, mailed statements to all customers Oregon Youth Range Camp through the July 30 business day, is now in progress according and thus ended posting to in to Robert A. Teegarden, Mal dividual accounts in the Nyssa heur County Chairman for the The accident occured about bank. American Society of R’nge All statements in the future 10:30 a.m. Thursday, July 30, Management. Four top / .ng and Glenn was pronounced dead will be on computer from the men of MalheurCounty att ling on arrival at Malheur Memorial satellite computer center in this years camp are: Pete „lor - Hospital. Three of his sons Baker. Nyssa, Ontario, Baker, gan of Nyssa, sponsored by U.S. were present at the time of tne LaGrande and Union will be the National Banks of Ontario and accident. banks under the Baker center. Vale, Rex Maag of Vale, spon At the end of the day’s bu He has been in the same line sored by Malheur County Farm of work for the past 22 years. siness all transactions are sent Bureau and Mathew Hiatt of He was a councilor in the Second by messenger from Nyssa and Vale, sponsored by U.S. Natio Ward LDS Bishoprick. Ontario to Baker. The accounts nal Bank and B & M Equip For further information, see are posted and returned to the ment of Nyssa. Scholorships the obituary in today’s Journal. branches by opening hours each are provided by these, local day. sponsors to pay the camping Rep. Ullman To Visit Jim Flaherty, conversion expenses. This years candi officer from the home office, is dates were selected by a com Nyssa Friday in Nyssa and Ontario during mittee composed of the county the conversion to computers, chairman, teachers and county Oregon Congressman Al Ul and is trainingthe staffs to work agent. Selections were made lman will be in Nyssa Friday with the new system. Two little brothers died Sa on leadershipabilityandcharac- for a breakfast meeting at Dave Perry, loan officer in turday afternoon in a fire which ter reference. 6:30 p.m. at Brownie’s Cafe. the Nyssa bank, says that bank These young men have an People are invited to come down patrons will receive their next destroyed a small frame tenant excellent opportunity to learn and visit with the Congressman. statement at a different time house on a farm six miles east of Caldwell. about natural resources and A press conference will be than in the past. After the Au The oldest boy, Kenneth Ross their environment. This week held at 11 a.m. Friday at the gust statement is received, cus Grover, about 2 1/2 was found activities should provide ideas LaPaloma Cafe in Ontario, fol tomers may expect to receive in the charred interior of the for future career opportunities. lowed by a noon luncheon. their bank statements at the house. The younger, Charles same time each month. Ray Grover, 18 months, was From now on personalized alseep in the north bedroom, and checks and deposit slips with the was found in his crib. magnetic coding should be used Charles was taken by am to go with the somputer sys bulance to Caldwell Memorial tem, and to speed up banking Hospital, where he died at 6:40 service, Perry said. p.m. Ambulance attendants ad BURNHAM NAMED ministered mouth-to-mouth re suscitation and first aid en McCALL CHAIRMAN route. Canyon County Deputy Sheriff Carl Burnham, Jr. of the law firm of Yturri, O’Kief, Rose Russell Fink said firefighters A Burnham, has been appointed were told that both youngsters Malheur County Chairman of were in the north bedroom and Governor McCall’s re-election were only able to find the one campaign. The announcement child. They broke a window to came from Robert H. Noyes, enter the house on the south Jr., state chairman for the Mc side, where the older boy was found after the smoke cleared. Call drive. Mrs. Kenneth Grover repor Born in Berkeley,California, attended the University of Ore tedly was asleep in the south gon where he earned his bedroom and awoke to find the Bachelor of Science and LLB. structure engulfed in smoke. Married to Patricia Burnham, She went to the door to get air Susan Bratton has a son Carl Burnham UI. and returnedtryingto rescue the The smoke was so Nyssa claims two contestants out of the nine girls competing Attends the Presbyterian children. dense she was forced t- leave for the title of Miss Malheur County at the Pageant to be held Church. the building. Saturday, August 15 at the Ontario High Sc ho->i a ;1-torium. Fink said Mrs. Gr ver es They are Peggy Moore, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Moore and caped the flames, but was in Susan Bratton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Bratton. shock. The Pageant is sponsored this year by the Ontario and Vale The Nampa Rural Fire Pro Jaycees. Activities got underway with a rather informal DATE MAX. MIN, PR EC tection District truck was dis Pepsi party at the Carriage House in Ontario last week. A July :30 59 84 patched to the scene. Fire regular business and social meeting was held Friday evening July :31 51 90 man Bob Kiernan of the Nampa at the Women’s Club House in Ontario with contestants, mothers Aug. 1 54 94 Fire Department used a por and hostesses getting together. This meeting was designed Aug. 2 56 88 table pump in an irrigation ditch to familiarize the contestants with the Pageant. A film was Aug. 3 53 90 full of water in front of the pro shown covering the history of the Miss Am rt 1 Pageant, Aug. 4 53 95 perty, in addition to the water Aug. 5 and a style show was presented by the Carriage House. 68 in the truck’s tank. Three special guests were present at this meeting. They OWYHEE RESERVOIR The Nampa Fire Department were Miss Malheur County 1968, Linda Ballou Ady; Miss Idaho 1968, Karen Ryder and Mrs. Lovell Howard, of LaGrande, 8/5/70 601,950 ACRE FEET was notified at 5:25 p.m. The 8/5/69 564,080 ACRE FEET twin Cities Ambulance Service Field Director of the Miss Oregon Pageant. Library Shows Art Work Of Sidney Kelley ’ Habra una junta de los resi Landscape art works created dentes de Nyssa Labor Campel Savado próximo para escoger by Mr. Sidney P. Kelley are representantes para discutir now on display at the Nyssa con la Asociación de rancheros Public Library during the month las necesidades del campo, y of August. Featured are paintings of the las dificultades económicas de alcanzar casas buenas por pre Great White Throne in Zions cios bajos por un grupo privado Park, Utah, a mountain summit serviendo el publico. La junta between Oregon and California es a las 9:00 por la tarde en and Mount Saint Helens. Kelley served as president of frente de la oficina del campo. Esta junta a sido llamada bajo the Snake River Valley Art As la direcsion del Padre Youngpor sociation in 1955 and started la suplica de la Asociación de painting seriously in 1956. rancheros para alcanzar buena During the following year, he re y directa communicacion con los ceived art instructions from que viven en el campo por medio Anna Markum of Boise. Kelley has sold and given away de sus representantes. around 50 paintings whose lo cations range from Nyssa to New York. The artist has worked as a telegrapher, banker and writer. His interests also include rock hunting. was called by neighbors, and Regular library viewing hours ambulance attendants notified are on Tuesday, 2 p.m. to 8 the sheriff’s office at 5:39 p.m. p.m.; Wednesday, 12 noon to Mr. and Mrs. Grover lost 6 p.m.; Thursday, 10 a.m. to all of their possessions, in addi 6 p.m.; Friday, 12 noon to 6 tion to their only children. Only p.m.; and Saturday, 12 noon to the shell of the one-story, four 6 p.m. room dwelling remained Sa turday evening. Mrs. Grover is the former Alvina Bell of Nyssa. Grand parents of the children are Mr. A tragic head-on auto crash and Mrs. Brent Huskinson. At the time of the fire Gro ended the lives of three young Ontario people and left two ver was on a mail route. The house was located survivors in critical condition on "Sugar Factory" Road, adja Saturday night. Killed in the mishap neany cent to the Amalgamated Su gar Co. factory, one-third mile three mile north of Haley on south of U.S. Highway 20-26. U.S. Highway 93 were Michael Charles Richter, 21, and his bride, Cynthia Davis Richter, willie M c K inney 19, both of Ontario. The young WINS FREE TRIP couple had been married only 30 minutes previous to the crash TO HAWAII in a ceremony performed by Willie Mc Kinney, secretary at Blaine County Justice of U.S. National Bank of Oregon’s Peace Verda Allread at Nyssa Branch, has been awarded home in Hailey, a one-week all-expense paid trip Apparently Richter and for two to Hawaii, it has been bride were killed instantly. announced by Donald E. Young, Also killed was the groom’s branch manager. U-year old sister, Debbie, who Mrs. with two other sisters made up Young said that McKinney was awarded the a portion of the wedding party. trip in recognition of her out Diane Richter, 10, another standing performance in work sister in the fatal crash, was ing with customers and ac reported as “still in critical quainting them with the financial conditon but improving," by services of the bank. the Sun Valley hospital. She Mrs. McKinney has been with is suffering a fractured femur U.S. National Bank since 1966, (thigh bone), injured ribs, and working in the statewide finan probable head injuries. Her cial institution’s Ontario Branch doctor reported she was “con- prior to the ope ning of the Nyssa scious and speaking.” Branch this past December. Mr. and Mrs. Anton Richter She and her husband, Robert, of Ontario are the parents of are the parents of twochildren: Michael, Debbie and Diane.Cy Brenda, 19, a freshman at Ore nthia Davis Richter's parents gon State University; and Tim, were listed as Fred Davis of 8. The family resides at 827 Ontario and Mrs. Ted Landers Adrian Boulevard ir. Nyssa. of Boise. The Nyssa Jaycees are again Nyssa’s Fifth Annual Thunderegg Days started Wed sponsoring a barbecue to be held nesday with registration, and got in the South Park tonight at underway this morning at 7 6:30 p.m. Steve Fonda ischair- with guided tours to three rock man, and the meal will feature barbecued beef, expertly pre areas. Visitors had a choice of pared by Bill Wahlert. Corn going after Thundereggs in the on the cob, baked potatoes, rolls Succor Creek area south of and milk and coffee complete Nyssa, to hunt Plume Agates the menue. Nyssa merchants at Graveyard Point near Home have tickets or they may be dale, or to search for Petrified purchased at the dinner. Prices Wood in the Bully Creek area are $1.50 for adults, 75? for near Vale. Guided tours will children 6 to 12, and children also leave the park area Fri under 6 are free. Rock and gem displays can be day and Satu^lav mornings at seen in the old gym at the "Y” the same timw Chairman Wayne Moncur, and on Main Street each day from committee members Bernard 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., and on Sun Eastman, W.L. Me Partland, Ray day from noon to 5 p.m. Tail-gating (the buying and Huffman, E.H. Brandt, Bill Marostica, Jack Pitz and Dale selling of rocks) will again be Adams had everything in readi permitted, with these rigs in ness for the visitors, which are the lot in front of the gym. expected to arrive in record This will enable visitors to ac cumulate rocks from areas numbers. Parking is again around the where they might not be able South Park, with spaces assig to secure otherwise. There is no admission charge ned to each party. Visitors are assigned stakes with their for any of these events, and all names on them when they re- visitors and townspeople are gister, which are used to re- urged to come out and see some serve their spaces while out of these valuable collections. rock hunting. The event is widely advertised in the Lapidary Journal, Gems and Minerals and the Canadian Rockhounds. Each reaches a wide segment of rock-hunting enthusiasts. As the event grows Don Young, manager of the in popularity we find that many rockhounds hear about Nyssa Nyssa Branch, U.S. National from visiting with other rock Bank of Oregon announced this week that the new bank reached hounds. the $1,000,000 mark on July 15. This is seven months to the day since the bank opened Decem ber 15, 1969. Young said that he is very pleased, and so is the manage ment in the home office in Port land with the progress to date. Police Chief Alvin Allen said They had tentatively set their that the auto smasher will again goal to reach the million mark by be in Nyssa, Thursday through the end of the first year’s opera Monday. tion, and are very pleased to Allen said that all those who have reached their goal so early. have car bodies to dispose of They wish to thank the may take them to the old city community for the generous dump on North 3rd Street, and support given them. they may be left with nocharge. Visiting rockhounds are invi While here the men in charge ted by U.S. National employees will smash and bale those old to visit the bank and see the in car bodies that still remain teresting thunderegg sculpture at the dump site. mounted in the lobby of the bank. U. S. National Reaches Goal Of $1,000,000 Car Smasher WUi Again Visit Nyssa Students To Study Electronics Grandchildren of Local Couple Die In Fi re TWO NYSSA GIRLS SEEK MISS MALHEUR CROWN WEATHER Wedding Ends In Tragedy Several area young men will enter the United Electronics Institute in Phoenix, Arizona this October. They ar“ Charley (Rusty) Talbot, son of Mr. and Mrs. Buster Talbot; Gerald B. Condra, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Condra; Mark Pratt, son of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Pratt; all graduates of Adrian High School; and Robert B. Ward, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Ward, a recent graduate of Nyssa High School. The boys will receive 1,900 hours of classroom instruction and will be taught all phases of electronics, from radio to computers. They will train in the laboratory under a “work and learn by doing" process. Before graduation from the school students receive many interviews and job offers by such companies as RCA, IBM, GE, Western Electric, NASA, and many others in the electronics field.