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University Of Oregon Library Eugene, Ore. 97^03 X X X X X Nyssa Gate City Journal Volume LXIV Thunderegg Capital The Nyssa Gate City Journal, Nyssa, Oregon Thursday, September 24, 1970 NATIONWIDE CLEANUP LAUNCHED WEDNESDAY BY SEC. HICKEL & BURL IVES Secretary of the Interior Walter J. Hickel and entertainer Burl Ives lead a nationwide march against litter which started on the mall in Washing ton, D.C., Wednesday morning, September 23. “We’re going to work for a cleaner America and a better environment,” Secretary Hickel said. He added that the demonst ration launched the Johnny ’Horizon Countryside Clean-up, a month-long, nationwide cam paign that will involve thousands of citizens. Johnny Horizon was recently adopted as Interior’s symbol for antilitter efforts. He re presents thoughtful users of public lands and reminds people that “This Land isYourLand-- Keep it Clean!” The Secretary said, “Johnny Horizon is a do-it-yourself en vironmental program that everyone can join. This is the kind of action President Nixon was seeking in his 1970 en- ULLMAN SUPPORTS HISTORIC PROJECT Congressman Al Ullman today introduced legislation to es tablish anOregon Trail National Historic site at Vale. The bill would authorize the Secretary of Interior to desig nate not more than 10 acres at Vale to preserve the "OldStone House,’.’ an early immigrant center on the Oregon Trail, and the surrounding area. The Old Stone House was placed on the Oregon statewide inventory of historic sites and buildings last April. Plans under consideration by the National Park Service in clude construction of a visitor information center, recrea tional and parking facilities. Ullman said, ‘‘It is only fit ting that the first national site specifically commemorating the history and glory of the Old Oregon Trail should be loca ted in our state. It undoub tedly will become one of the great tourist attractions in the state and the west.” Ullman’s bill would carry for ward plans generated by local residents in Vale and approved this summer by the Vale city council. vironmental message when he called for helping hands. That’s why Burl Ives and I are going to roll up our sleeves and start a cleanup on the mall--and like the President, we’ll need plenty of helping hands.” The event started at the Lin coln Memorial. Participants will include Interior and other federal employees, and a throng of Washington area school children. Ives, who has become a leading spokesman for Johnny Horizon, will provide inspira tion as well as entertainment when he sings about the environ ment. The mouth-long campaign concluding October 18 will fea ture cleanup efforts across the nation. Included in more than 80 sites which volunteers plan to clean are Norris Reservoir, Tenn.; Wheeler Reservoir, Ala.; Red Rock Canyon near Las Vegas, Nev.; Big Lost River, Ida.; Calico Hills, Calif.; and Elberton, Ga. In Oregon, scuba divers plan on underwater cleanup at the Cavitt Creek Recreation site administered by Interior’s Bureau of Land Management. NUMBER XXXIX OCTOBER 3 DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION TO VOTE IN GENERAL ELECTION Secretary of StateClay Myers today reminded Oregon resi dents that Saturday, October 3rd is the registration dead line to vote in the November 3rd general election. Myers further urged all per sons who have changed their address since the • May pri mary election to re-register with their county clerks. "Prior to the May primary, we had over 1 million regis tered voters on the lists,” Myers said, ’ but we know that perhaps upwards of 100,000 persons have moved because their Voters’ Pamplets were returned by the post office as undeliverable. We need to get as many as possible of those This Land is YOUR people back on the election rolls.” Myers said county clerksand registrars will keep their offices open until 8:00 p.m. on October 3rd to process voter registrations of all qualified persons. "With the governorship, four congressional seats, half of the state legislature and 11 impor tant statewide measures on the ballot,” Myers said, “it is vital that every qualified Ore gonian exercise his fanchise at the polls in November.” Oregon election laws provide that a person must have been registered at least 30 days prior to an election in order to vote in it, Myers noted. Malheur ASC Co in in unity Committeemen Eleeted U S DcrARTMENT Of THt INTERIOR •UttAU O» (ANO MANAGtMfN' Farmers and ranchers of nett, Hans L. Salomon, David Malheur County have elected a S. Beebe. total of 35 ASC community com NYSSA: Thomas J. Jayo. mitteemen and alternates in a Thomas Nishitani, Jim Savage, mail election conducted earlier Lester Cleaver. Max L. Moore. this month, according to Blaine ONTARIO: Sam Mori, Louis \ Girvin, Chairman of the County M. Wettstein, R. Jack Nelson, Agricultural Stabilization and Wesley Richmond, William J. Conservation (ASC)Committee. Duyn, and ASC community committees VALE: Russell Fulleton, Dud assist the County ASC Commit ley DeLong, Douglas Fulwyler, tee in administering farm pro Raymond Anthony, Max Barlow. grams in Malheur County, such as wheat, acreage allotments, price support loans, farm stor age facility loans, feed grain Stop Oregon Litter & Vandalism, Inc. (SOLV) bases, sugarbeet proportionate to promote better outdoor manners. The shares, and agricultural con The promotion and transfer coordinated campaign will run through Oc- servation cost-sharing mea of Chadwick W. McBurney as tober 19. sures. They also help keep Chief, Divisionof Resource Ma local producers informed of nagement in the Prineville of FOUR COUNCILMEN farm program provusions and fice of the Bureau of Land Ma regulations. nagement was announced this TO BE ELECTED In addition, the just-elected Four councilmen will be ASC community committees week by Maxwell T. Lieurance, elected at the general election have an important responsibility Vale District Manager. McBurney, who has been ser on November 3 for the Nyssa in the near future in filling va City Council, Prospective can- cancies on the County ASC Com ving in the position of Chief, The entire uniform was pur didates have until October 2 Branch of Range Management, chased by students from the to secure their nominating pe mittee and determining the came to the Vale District in Nyssa Department stores at a titions, get the necessary signa chairman andvice-chariman for June 1964 as manager of the the coming year, Grivin said. . of $17.50 each. Southern Resource Area. In tures, and file the petition with 1 The new ASC community com November of 1968, he began Each year the band will change the city clerk. mitteemen will convene 9-22-70. the hat for variety. This year Five petitions are being cir 10:30 a. m., at the Malheur serving as manager of the Nor a gaucho hat gives the band the thern Resource Area and worked culated at this time, but have air of Spain to go along with not as yet been filed. They County ASCS Office, 1252 S.W. in the capacity until February 4th Ave., Ontario, Oregon, in a this years marching show which are for Larry Bauman, owner- meeting open tothepublic. They 1969 when he went into his features music from Spain. Next manger of Bauman Equipment will elect one County Com present position. As a result year the theme will be western, Company, who is finishing his mitteeman to serve a three- of his outstanding work in these and a cowboy hat will accent first term on the council. The three positions, he received a the uniform. The band will other incumbent councilman is year term and two alternates quality increase award last travel to Calgary, Canada in Ernie Metcalf, manager of to serve one-year terms. After year. July to represent the northwest Nyssa Co-op, who is also the vacancies are filled, the community committeemen will at the Calgary Stampede and finishing his first term. determine which of the three Exposition. This western out Others with petitions out are regular members of the County fit should be very appropriate Tom Stenkamp, manager of the ASC Committee will be chair and comfortable. First National Bank of Oregon man and vice-chairman. and president of the Nyssa Each of the seven ASC com Chamber of Commerce; Glade munity committees are made up Chadwick, manager of Oregon of three members and two al Concrete Products, who pre ternates, who serve for a one- viously served a 2-yearterm year period. The candidate in Farmers recently named to on the council; and George each ASC community who re serve as the Agricultural Sta Kauffman, service man for Idaho ceived the largest number of bilization and Conservation Power Company. votes is the committee chair (ASC) Malheur County Com Mayion Maxfield, incumbent man. Second highest is vice- mittee are: Blaine Girvin, Vale for two terms, decided against chairman; third is regular com community - Chairman; Elver running again, as did Reed Ray, mittee member; fourth and fifth McBurney came to Vale from E. Nielsen, Nyssa Community- who is finishing a 2-year term. in the number of votes recei Vice-Chairman; andJ.P. Bunch, Both men cited the press of ved are first and second al Malta, Montana BLM district and prior to that time worked Payette - Oregon Slope com business as their reasons for ternates. out of Denver on the Missouri munity - Regular member. Ef not running. Following are the newly-elec fective date of this term of The three largest vote geders ted ASC community committee- River Basin Studies. He is a will beelectedfor4-year terms, men in Malheur County, in graduate of Montana State Uni office is October 1, 1970. Mr. Girvin is serving his first and the fourth will be for a 2- Adrian, Nyssa, Ontario and versity and was reared in Mon tana. year of a three-year term, Mr. year term. Vale, listed in the order of He and his wife. Dee, and Nielsen is serving his second Holdover councilmen are chairman, vice - chairman, year of a three-year term, Mayor Cecil Morrison, Jr., member, first alternate, and three children will be moving to Prineville where he is to and Mr. Bunch is serving his Dave Rieb, and DonOldemeyer, second alternate: report for duty on October 18, third year of a three-year term. who still have two years to ADRIAN: LouisR. Stam, Ben Lieurance said. Alternates elected were Rus serve. jamin M. Witty, Richard Ben- sell Fulleton, Vale Community and Charles Farley, Payette- Oregon Slope Community. The 1971 election was held at a county convention, Septem ber 22, 1970, at the Malheur County ASCS Office, Ontario, Oregon. Electors were farmers chosen as convention delegates at recent ASC community com mittee elections throughout the county. ASC county and community farmer - committees are in cnarge of local administration of such national farm programs as the agricultural conser vation program, the feed grain program, the wheat program, acreage allotments and mar keting quotas, the national wool F -ngram the sugar program, commodity price - support 1< ans, and storage facility loans. The ASCS county office at 1252 S.W. 4th Ave., Ontario, Oregon is headquarters for the Pictured are the winners of the prizes a very difficult joD picking the winners. county committee, and serves given by the Merchants Promotion Commi It’s a good thing the store owners and ttee for the craziest dressed employees managers weren’t eligible for the contest, as the farmers' local contact for business connected with par on Crazy Days. At left is Bertha Man as they were something else, but all entered ticipation in the programs ad gin of the Merc, who won the first prize into the spirit to make the day a great ministered by the committees. of $15. Betty Talbot, center, Gate City artistic (?) success. These programs encourage con Journal employee, second prize of $10. Walt servation and increase farm re McDermed of M & W Market won $5 for Everyone connected with the 1970 version turns by means of price sup third prize. of Crazy Days said that it was the biggest ports and market supply-mana* There were so many crazy dressed em- ever, with record sales reported by several gement, as well as by payments. ployees all over town that the judges had stores. A good time was had by all. KEEP IT CLEAN! ENROLLMENT UP AT NYSSA SCHOOLS Superintendent W. L. Mc- Governor Tom McCall held a conference Partland said that in the third Wednesday in Portland to kick off the Johnny week at the Nyssa Schools en Horizon CountrysideCleanupCampaign. This rollment is up 16 students over campaign is coupled with the efforts of the same period a year ago, with a total enrollment of 1373 students. Enrollment is up 6 students in the elementary school, down 12 in the junior high, and up 22 students at high school. Most Energetic Future Farmers Of grades average a little over 100 America will be sold at the an students each, with the 2nd The Nyssa High School Band nual “Slave Sale” in the Nyssa grade much the largest with saved the tax payers of the High school cafeteria tonight, 161 students. Nyssa Public Schools $13,750 September 24, aj 7:30 p.m. this year by having individua1 Prior to the auction a chili Owyheo Riding Club feed will serve as a kick off. band members purchase their Sixty FFA members will work own uniforms. The band was in need of new uniforms this The Owyhee Riding Club will one 8-hour day. sponsor a Trail Ride, Sunday, Proceeds of this event sup year which were estimated at September 27. Members are port the Nyssa FFA Chapter about $13,750, or $125.00 each. to meet at Tower Park at Owyhee for »the year. Because of this The school budget board Dam at 12:30 and are asked to project boys are able to attend turned down a request to budget bring a sack lunch. district fairs, state fairs, and for the uniforms in this years For further information the National Convention. Roger budget. As an alternate solu please call 372-2466 or 372- Baker will be the auctioneer for tion, the band students and their 2455. the event. director, Craig Northrup, de signed an inexpensive uniform which could be purchased by the students. BLM Official Transferred FFA Holds Slave Nyssa High School Band Sale Tonight Buys Own Uniforms 1970 Crazy Days Prize Winners The adopted design incorpo rates the blue and white school colors with basic black trousers. IFYE STUDENT IN MALHEUR COUNTY Esther Bell, just back from a year in Nicaragua is reporting on her experiences as an IFYE, in Malheur County this week. Miss Bell is from Corvallis, and was accepted as an International Farm Youth Exchange (IFYE) delegate to Nicaragua. She was in the Youth Development Pro gram (YDP), which involved work as an extension agent, starting four 4-H girl’s clubs totaling 200 people. Learning to sew and grow vegetable gardens were the main project of 4-H clubs. Many of the mothers had never tasted or prepared the beets, cabba ges, carrots, lettuce, onions and radishes their children grow. Esther graduated in 1969 from Oregon State University in hu manities. She first went to San Jose, Costa Rica, for five weeks of intensive Spanish. IFYE delegates are sponsored by 4-H, the Cooperative Ex tension Service and private in dustry. Esther will be rela ting her experiences in the fol lowing schools; Juntura, Vale Middle, Brogan, Willowcreek, Annex, Adrian,Cairo, Alameda, Rockville, Arock and Jordan Valley. I I I f f I Winners of the prizes for the craziest dressed kids 7th grade and below are top, left, David Ross, $5 for first place; Kathryn Kunkel. $3 for second place; and Marla Feik, $2 for third. These prizes were gi ven by the Journal. Below is Ruth Larsson, who won the $5 merchandise prize from the Merc for being the oldest contestant. Marian Kunkle won the $5 prize from Firestone Store for being the craziest dressed female above the 7th grade, and Wayne Ulrey, $5 from Bracken’s Dept. Store for being the craziest dressed The Sugar City male above the 7th grade. At right is Larry Ulrey (in the stroller) who was the winner of the $5 merchandize prize from Wil son’s Dept. Store for being the youngest person entered in the contest. Winners of the pet care kits given by Michael’s Pharmacy for the several catego ries of pets were Lori Lane, Tonie Arm strong, Cindy Stohl and Joan Studer. These winners participated in the parade. The winner of the $5 prize in the pie eating contest sponsored by Ray’s Food Fair was Jack Sparks. Date Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. Sept. 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Max. 73 81 84 65 62 66 70 -- Min. 34 36 43 42 42 40 38 56 Prec. -- — — .27 .17 .09 — -- Owyhee Reservoir Storage 9/24/70 492,100 Acre Feet 9/24/69 445,540 Acre Feet Results Of ASC Vote Told Merchants Committeee Prize Winners