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University Of Oregon Library Eugene, Ore. 97^03 X X X X X Nyssa Gate City Journal Volum« LXIV Th« Nyssa Gat« City Journal, Nyssa, Oregon Thundaregg Capital NYSSA INVITATIONAL Thursday, D«c«mb«r 10, 1970 Nyssa High School Wrestling Team WRESTLING TOURNAMENT , FRIDAY AND SATURDAY The Nyssa Invitational Wrest ling Tournament, largest in the Pacific Northwest this early in the season, will take place this week end at the Nyssa High School gym. Staged for the fifth consecutive year, it has become one of the toughest high school tourneys prior to the district and state tournaments at the end of the wrestling season. The tournament this year is i tri-state affair, according to vrestling coaches Mel Calhoun and Glen Walker, who are sha ding duties as tournament Urectors, and 18 teams will •e entered. They will represent Borah, Joise, Capital, Nampa, Middle- on, Caldwell, Vallivue, Home- iale, Parma, Payette, Fruit- and and Weiser, all Idaho ¡ehools. Burns, LaGrande, Vale, Wah- onka (The Dalles), and Nyssa >111 be the Oregon schools en tered. Carroll High School, Yakima, Washington will be a lew school in the tournament, fohn Moawad, former Nyssa football coach, serves as ath letic director at Carroll. Tournament champions in past years are Parma, 1966; Capital (Boise), 1967; Nyssa, 1968; and Ontario, 1969. Many wrestlers who have competed and LIBRARY DISPLAYS PAINTINGS BY VIRGINIA BRANDT "The Old Kitty”, “Still Life No. 2” and “Still Life-Glass” are paintings created by Mrs. Virginia Brandt now on display at the Nyssa Public Library during the month of December. A self taught artist, Mrs. Brandt has worked with the various types of art most of ner life. Her paintings are mostly landscapes of things around the area in which she lives and the Owyhee Moun tains to the south of Nyssa. Mrs. Brandt has given help to numerous artists over the valley when they have needed ad vice. One of her several stu dents has been Carlos Parra of Nyssa, whom she worked with five and a half years. Carlos received a Ford Foundation Grant to study art in New York at the Art Students League in 1964. Mrs. Brandt is a member of the Oregon Society of Artists. In order to belong tothis group, an artist’s work must reach a certain standard and pass the board of directors of this so ciety. In 1962, the artist displayed er art work at the Oregon tate Fair in Salem. Over the ears, she has had several ictures chosen to hang in the ise Art Gallery. In 1963, e of her pictures was an ard winner. Mrs. Brandt received an in- ation to present a one man ow of her work at Meir A anks in Salem and exhibited r paintings in July, 1970. placed in state competition will be participating. Nyssa wrestlers who will compete are Scott Kido 98, Richard Beck 106, Mark Hart ley 115* Ken Schilling 123, Kirk Cleaver 130, Chris Moore 136, Kyle Lassiter 141, John Mena 148, Tom Huffman 157, Jay Gibson 168, Mark Peterson 178, Ken Church 191, andChrisWil- man, heavyweight. The tourney times and sessions are: first session, 6 p.m. Friday, Dec. 11; second session, 9 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 12; third session, 1 p.m. Sa turday; consolation and final session, 7 p.m. Saturday. Prices for the tournament are as follows; Adults, ticket for all sessions, $4.00; each session, $1.25. Students with activity ticket, for all sessions, $1.50; each session, 50Ç. REQUIREMENTS SET The 4-H and FFA Junior Sales Committee met December 2, at the Malheur County Li brary to make some basic de cisions concerning selling weights on market steers at the 1971 Junior Sale. Nineteen people representing communi ties andcounty geographic areas attended. Beginning this year, 4-H and FFA steers must weigh at least 800 pounds and no more than 1200 pounds in order to sell at the Junior sale. Nine hundred to 1100 pounds is pre ferred; 1050 is suggested as the ideal target weight. The Junior Sales Committee also re-affirmed dates the mar ket animals must be in posse ssion of the project member; no later than March 1 for steers and no later than May 15 for market hogs and lambs. The purpose of the junior marketing program is twofold: to provide a good educational experience for boys and girls in raising and finishing ani mals for market and, to pro vide a meaningful marketing experience for the participants. TVCC OFFERS SALES CLERK COURSE A one quarter curriculum en titled Sales Clerk-Cashier is planned to begin during the first week in January, accor ding to Harry Hoch, Director of Continuing Education at Treasure Valley Community College. Special classes will betaught including: Psychology of Hu man Relations; Business Ma chines; Retail Sales; and Per sonal Development. An identical curriculum taught during fall quarter, and still in session Hoch said, has resulted in employmentalready for more than one-third of the 71 students enrolled. For additional information and tentative registration con tact the office of Continuing Education at the college. Nyssa High School wrestlers, victorious over Parma, John Day and Capital (Boise) are shown with their coach, Mel Calhoun. They will participate in the 5th annual Nyssa Invitational Wrestling Tournament this week-end, along with 17 other teams entered from Oregon, Idaho and Washington. POTATO DISEASE SESSION SCHEDULED A potato disease session is scheduled for tonight, Decem ber 10, at 7 p.m. for Malheur County Potato Growers, reports Warren Henninger, Malheur County Extension Agent. The session is being conducted by the Malheur County Extension Office. The session will be held in the east-west lounge of the Administration Building on the campus of the Treasure Valley Community College. Henninger said several Ex tension and research individuals from Oregon State University will be present to discuss po tato diseases of this area and other related subjects. Dr. Paul Koepsell, Oregon State University plant patholo gist, will discuss bacterial ring rot, early blight research and rhizoctonia. Dr. Harold Jen sen, Oregon State University nematologist, will discuss root knot and sugar beet nematodes. Dr. Harold Youngberg, Oregon State University Extension po tato specialist, will report on an irrigation project conducted in Umatilla County and on a potato growth curve being de veloped for Malheur County. ADAMS, SEUELL ELECTED TO BOARD Wilbur Atherton, secretary of the Nyssa Rural Fire Protection District, announced that Lloyd Adams was re-elected to a four-year term on the board, and Woodrow Seuell was elected to finish out the term of Frank Parr. The election was held Monday, December 7. Santa Visits Area Youngsters daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Geroge Menden hall, visiting with Santa. At right is Marcy Beckstead, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Don Beckstead; who with David Sparks ( in background), son of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Sparks, served as Santa's helpers. Wrestlers are. front row 1 to r, Kirk Cleaver, Ken Schilling, Mark Hartley, Richard Beck, Scott Kido and Kent Cleaver. Back row, 1 to r, Ken Church, Mark Peterson, Jay Gibson, Tom Huffman, John Mena and Chris Moore. Handel’s “Messiah” Set For Sunday Performance Dick Dalzel, Sue Dalzel, Joy Bloch and Jerry VanOrder will be featured solosits at the Nyssa presentation of Handel’s “Mes siah” Sunday, December 13 at the Nyssa LDS Church, starting at 7:30 p.m. Gary Condon, Nyssa High School Chorus director, is di rector of the oratorio. He said that he and the high school chorus, the community chorus, are doing the “Messiah” for their enjoyment and the enjoy ment of the community. The soloists have been invited to Nyssa to add to the perfor mance, and have put in many hours of practice. Opportunity to help with their expenses will be given those who attend. Dick Dalzel, bass soloist, is vocal instructor at TVCC and former vocal instructor at On tario High School. Dalzel will sing three well known arias Sun day night; “But Who May Abide the Day of His Coming”, “For Behold Darkness Shall Cover the Earth”, and "The Trumpet Shall Sound”. DRUG TREATMENT PROGRAM STARTED The Veterans Administration today launched a drug treat ment program that will even tually include 30 centers and an annual expenditure of $10 mil lion. The VA announcement said that five drug treatment centers will be opened in January of 1971, with a target goal of 30 centers by 1973. Centersplan- ned for the coming year are in Washington, D. C.J Houston, Texas; Battle Creek, Mich.; Sepulveda, Calif.; andNewYork City. In making the announcement, VA said it had reason to be lieve that drug addiction among veterans will reach its peak in 1973 and decline thereafter. VA is working with the De partment of Defense in coodi- nating treatment programs for servicemen before they are dis charged. VA said that between 75 and 80 per cent of those treated at the centers are ex pected to be cured of addiction. VA said that in 1970 VA doctors treated 1,000 narcotics addicts seeking help and an ad ditional 900 involved with lesser drugs. VA extimated that the number seekingtreatment more than doubled in the past 12 months. WEATHER Santa Claus made his triumphal entry into Nyssa Saturday afternoon, and after parading through town led by the Nyssa Junior High School band, he visited and gave candy canes to over 500 youngsters at the old gym. ; Shown above are Carol 5, and Pamela 4, POTATO BARGAINING ASSOCIATION MEMBERS HOLD ANNUAL MEETING The Malheur County Bar gaining Association member ship met Monday evening, De cember 7, at their tenth annual meeting. Malheur County Ex tension agent Warren Henninger said approximately 250 mem bers and their wives participa ted in the dinner and in the eve ning's program which was held at the East Side Cafe in On tario. Secretary Abe Saito presented the financial report for the past year. Chub Wood from the Inspection Service in Idaho and Gary Leavitt from the Inspec tion Service in Ontario, reported on their inspection finds for the 1970 crop. Gary indicated that yield was down. The Norgold crop was small. The White Rose harvest was delayed be cause of size. For the Russet crop, less bruising was appa rent this season and less net necrosis (leaf roll virus) deve loped in the crop. President George Sadamori gave recognition to the follow ing directors that are still ac tive and that were active when the Association first organized in 1960. They are: Clyde Ward 1971 JUNIOR SALE PREC MIN .06 29 .19 30 28 29 33 33 .12 36 .29 33 .13 37 Owyhee Reservoir Storage 12/9/70 539,480 Acre Feet 12/9/69 452,020 Acre Feet DATE Dec. 2 Dec. 3 Dec. 4 Dec. 5 Dec. 6 Dec. 7 Dec. 8 Dec. 9 MAX 41 47 44 39 50 48 44 Sue Dalzel, wife of Dick Dal zel, will sing "I Know That My Redeemer Liveth”. Joy Boch, alto, is a senior at College of Idaho, and studies voice under highly regarded Charley Ross. Joy will sing “O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings to Zion’’, and “He Was Despised*’. Jerry VanOrder, tenor, is band and choir director at Kuna High School. He will sing the two opening numbers; “Com fort Ye’*, and “Every Valley’’. Mrs. Jack Hunt of Caldwell will play the organ. Mrs. Hunt is active in several music groups in Caldwell. Music for the Messiah will be an ensemble directed by Craig Northrup, Nyssa High School Band Director. A reception for the combined choir and the community will be held at the LDS Church Cul tural Hall immediately follow ing the concert. Members of the various churches in the Nyssa area willserve the re freshments in appreciation for the presentation of the "Messiah’*. AUXILIARY PLANS CHRISTMAS PARTY The Malheur Memorial Hospital Auxiliary women will sponsor the annual Christmas party for the residents of the Nursing Home. The party win be held at the hospital, Monday, December 21. Individuals or groups wishing to donate gifts are asked to call Mrs. Royce Cole, Acti vities Director, at the hospital. Mrs. Cole has a list of the residents and would be able to help with suggestions as to what is needed. The public is cordially in vited and volunteers are needed to help with the party. JAYCEES TO SELL ORANGES TONIGHT Post Office Open Saturdays The Nyssa Post Office will be open for business the next LUCY HUNT NAMED two Saturdays, December 12 and 19, according to Lee Dail, VICE-CHAIRMAN OF postmaster. Office hours will be the same as weekdays, 8:30 CHICANO AFFAIRS a.m. to 5 p.m. Lucy Hunt, Nyssa, has been The Post Office requests that elected vice-chairman of Go all patrons mail as early in vernor Tom McCall’s Advisory the day as possible. The first Committee on Chicano Affairs. dispatch of mail is at 5 p.m. Mrs. Hunt is director of the to Boise, which is the bulk of OEO Opportunity Center in our mail, Dail said. Later Nyssa. dispatch of mail is made by Rafael Pablo C iddio y Abeyta, small vehicle to Ontario, where an employee of the Valley Mi it is pfHccd up later and 'rent grant League in Woodburn, was to Boise. elected chairman. He is known Parcels that are mailedearly in Nyssa, having spent some in the day are dispatched out time here last summer. of Boise sooner than those that Abeyta and Mrs. Hunt spent are sent to Ontario. part of the day reviewing the governor’s budget for 1971-73. They note that the $25,000 re quest to establish a permanent staff was turned down by the governor. of Baker; Abe Salto, Oregon Slope; Sam Uchida, Ontario; Masa Nishihara, Adrain and Darrell Standage of Vale. Ted Morninaka, Adrian, the origi nal fieldman for the Associa tion still serves in this capa city. President Sadamori re ported to the group that ten years ago 50% of the potato acreage in Malheur County was proces sed and that processors are now utilizing 95% of the crop. He noted that in ten years, mechani zation has improve substantially with the development of costly and sophisticated equipment. The following directors were elected to the Malheur County Bargaining Association. They were Shay Bybee for Nyssa; Keith Tailman, Adrian; Dick Wettstein, Ontario; Darrell Standage, Vale and Abe Saito for Oregon Slope. Both Darrell Standage and Abe Saito were re-elected to these positions. New officers were not elected Monday evening for the As sociation. A new slate of of ficers will be elected next week when the new board of direc tors meets. The officers cur rently are George Sadamori of Nyssa, president; Farrell Pd- terson of Nyssa, vice-presi dent and Abe Saito of the Oregon Slope, secretary. GRANGE OPPOSES RELEASE OF WATER The Oregon Trail Grange No. 687 went on record December 3 opposing the release of an ad ditional 5,000 cubic feet per second of water below Hell’s Canyon Dam. They state that the benefits of downstream re creation will be small compared to the hazards it would incur to the greater areas of Idaho and Oregon along the Snake River for irrigation and power. The action by the grange followed that taken by cities and chamber of commerce in Nyssa, Vale, Ontario and throughout the Treasure Valley. Rusty Talbot Meeds Our Help Cast Selected For Oklahoma The production of Oklahoma is now under way at Treasure Valley Community College with the selection of the cast last evening. The directors would like to thank all those who took part in the try-outs. It was the largest group to turn out for a casting. Those selected to play the roles in Oklahoma are; Dora- thy Hansen from Rifle, Colo rado, will do Aunt Eller; Curly will be played by Clint Bel lows of Ontario; Faith Forsman of Ontario and formly of Weiser, will play Laurey; Ike Skidmore will play Fred; Slim will be done by Jerry Bunker of Eagle Point, Oregon; Wayne Sheldon of On tario will play Will Parker; Jud Fry will be portrayed by Ken Eden of Ontario; Wendy Ken nington of Ontario, will por tray Ado Annie; Ali Hakim will be played by Don Boyll of On tario; Janet Shafer from Hawaii will do Gertie Cummings; while John Greif of Payette will play Andrew Carnes. Christmas Tr«e To Highlight Main St. Three Nyssa Jaycees and their wives went to the moun tains near Unity Sunday and returned with a large 40 foot Christmas tree which they will erect at the Y at the end of Main Street. The tree will be lighted by members of the city street department. The Jaycees also brought back a smaller tree which was given to the Malheur Memorial CIVIL AIR PATROL Nursing Home to be erected Nyssa Squadron of the Civil in the recreation room. Air Patrol will continue its Those making the trip were present program of Advanced Mr. and Mrs. Dave Peery, Mr. First Aid and Communications and Mrs. Monte Burbank, and skills each Tuesday evening Mr. and Mrs. Dave Pfeiler. at the high school at 8 p.m., through the middle of January. Anyone interested in partici pating, even though not a mem ber of CAP, is cordially in vited to attend. Due to the Increased proficiency of the Nyssa Squadron there is a need for more members to help fill the requirements of more ex tended Search and Rescue com mitments. Members of the Nyssa Ju nior Chamber of Commerce will be knocking on doors this even ing selling oranges. This is an annual event by the JayCees to raise money for their scholarship fund. This fund enables some deserving students to go further in their pursuit of an education. NUMBER L The Sugar City By Ruth McGinley “Rusty” Talbot visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Buster Talbot, and his best girl, “Lu Lu”, Thanksgiving day and was delighted to see other friends and relatives. That visit, in itself, meant a lot to Rusty. By Christmas Day, it will have been three months since Rusty was very seriously injured in a car accident. To many, three months fly by, but to Rusty, who has been in the Mercy Hospital in Nampa, and then transferred to The Elks Rehabili tation Center in Boise, those three months have passed very slowly. Rusty is doing a great job with his therapy or he would never have been able to be home, Thanksgiving. He still has a long way to go and will be in the Center for quite some time. The Owyhee Riding Club is sponsoring a dance to be held tonight, Dec. 10 at Oregon Trail Hall with the musicians donating their talents. Food to be served at the dance is being furnished by people, some who don’t even know Rusty. Many have bought tickets to the dance that have never danced a step in their life and don’t intend to, but want to help Rusty. What better time than during the Christmas season is there to show one’s love for one’s fellow man? He graduated from Adrian High School last May, and was to have been married, October 1st. With no insurance, huge hospital bills, and facing more months of rehabilitation, he needs our help. Let’s show Rusty we care. If you can, go see him. If you can’t visit him, send a Christmas card, and if you care to donate money, be assured that it will take many dollars to help this spunky kid over the hump. The Elks Rehabilitation Center, Room 20, 204 Fort St., Boise, Idaho 83700 is his address. Any organization, church group, or individuals who care to do a job such as the Owyhee Riding Club is doing tonight will be blessed many times over. Is it possible that we can set the spark that will help Rusty Talbot back on his feet again? Let’s try!