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Th« Nyssa Gat« City Journal, Nyssa, Or«gon Paa« Two The Gate City Journal DIRICK NEDRY, Editor 4 Publisher RUBEN LOPEZ, Shop Foreman SUBSCRIPTION RATES Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association NATIONAL NEWSPAPER UiRUflte fwtert IM rn.rm.clNMA SUSTAINING ■ MEMBER 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 St. Bridget’s Altar Society met Tuesday evening and dis cussed the Mexican social supper to be held on Saturday evening January 30. A Mexican style supper will be served followed by an evening of social entertainment. The Altar So ciety, as in 1970, plan to have one major event each month during 1971. • e • Iva G. Sag«r New Years guests at the Del bert Cleaver home in addition to Mr. and Mrs. Bryon Cleaver of Corvallis, was an army buddy of Gary Cleavers, Dave Cash of La Grande. Also visiting the Cleavers New Years dav were Mr. and Mrs. Walter Can non, and Mrs. Orma Cleaver. • • • Mr. and Mrs. Alva Goodell and family were dinner guests and spent the day New Years at the Bud Sappe home. Dinner guests at the Raymond Sager home Saturday, December 19. were Mr and Mrs. Harlan Sager of Idaho Falls, Beth Ellis and her son, Larry of Boise and Mr. and Mrs. W.W. Foster. * * * Mr. and Mrs. Charles Corak of Halfway and Mr. and Mrs. Bob Giles of Payette were Christmas dinner guests at the Kenneth Reece home. Also visiting during the Christmas week at the Reece home are Mr. and Mrs. Dan Reece and family and Blair Hendricks of Indiana. Hendricks is visiting the Reeces and other relatives, he is Mrs. Reece’s brother. • * • Mr. and Mrs. Carl Linegar, their family, including exchange student Paula Rameriz, and houseguest, Charlene Morrison, are spending the Christmas holiday vacation together in Nyssa. • • Many parishioners attended the open house of the Rudy Lon goria family Sunday, January 3. * * • ' The Longorias recently moved Mr. and Mrs. Muri Lancaster into their new home, and had spent the Christmas holiday Published Every Thursday at Nyssa, Malheur County, it blessed by Father Young. Re Oregon 97913 freshments were served at the visiting at the home of their Larry Hobson open house with best wishes daughter, the family in Hagerman, Idaho. ' being extended by all who at Entered at the Post Office at Nyssa, Oregon, for Trans * * * tended. mission through the United States Mails, as a Second Carol Herberger of San Ma • • • Class Matter under the Act of March 3, 1879. teo, Calif., visited from the Registration for the Person to day before New Years until ■ Person reading tutoring pro Saturday at the Dr. and Mrs. gram will be conducted this Kenneth Kerby home. Thursday evening from 7:00 to • • * 7:30 p.m. inSt. Bridget’sChris- Attending the Christmas mor tian Education Building. Next ning brunch at the Bernard Mr. and Mrs. Harold Sisson Thursday, January 14, the stu home were Mrs. entertained their family with Dr. Emery Skinner, President to be directed in dividing the dents and tutors will be paired Eastman Treasure Valley Community community into so-called ethnic to begin their program of self Bernard Eastman, Sr. from Pa Christmas dinner December 26. groups. yette, Mr. and Mrs. George He Guests were their daughter, College improvement in reading. The Nyssa Board wishes to witt of Nampa, Mr. and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Gary Shoemaker Ontario, Oregon express its sincere apprecia Michael Eastman andtwochild- and family of Burns; their son, tion to these former migrants FIRST WARD ren of Nyssa, and Mrs. Stella Mr. and Mrs. Dean Sisson and Dear Dr. Skinner: Gardiner of Boise. family, and Sisson’s mother, me Nyssa School Board, at who have steadfastly remained RELIEF SOCIETY ♦ ♦ ♦ Mrs. Anna Mae Sisson from the a special session held on Jan loyal to the community in which Nyssa LDS 1st Ward Relief Mr. and Mrs. Mel Beck spent Nyssa Nursing Home. uary 5, 1971, directed me to they have chosen to reside. ♦ » ♦ write this open letter to you The Board pledges to them and Society will hold a Homemaking the holidays in southern Calif., Mr. and Mrs. J.E. Brower concerning the Nyssa Opportun to all the other members of meeting January 13, at the Re visiting their two married ity Center and related matters. the community to continue to lief Society room beginning daughters, Mr. and Mrs. Clark spent Christmas visiting their (Barbara) Stringham and daugh daughters, Mr. and Mrs. John The Board commends the operate the Nyssa Schools on at 10 a.m. The meeting will be under ters in Torrence, and Mr. and Peterson and family and Mr. and TVCC Board of Directors for the basis of equal opportunity We shall cooperate the direction of Lucille Gyllen- Mrs. Craig D. (Laurel) Jones Mrs. Jarvis Mitchell and family taking its recent action in dis for all. in Othello and Basin City, Wash. charging certain personnel who with TVCC in providing a pro skog and Ruth Bunn and they in Costa Mesa. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ * were employed in the Migrant gram at the Nyssa Opportunity will present a variety of things Mr. and Mrs. Hoy Wood of Visiting at the Ernest Bunn Education programs. The Center on the same basis. to make, included in the learn Sincerely yours, Nyssa Board encourages TVCC ings will be making candle hol home the last week of the school Amarillo, Texas visited Thurs at the home of Mrs. Wood’s holiday were their grandchild- day 1 W. L. McPartland, ders and quilting. to hire replacement personnel brother, Mr. and Mrs. Emil ren, Pam and Todd Bunn of for the Nyssa Opportunity Cen Superintendent The lesson will be given by Stunz. ter after careful screening of Jean Wood entitled, “A Love Gooding. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ * * applicants so as to select per lier You”. The discussion will Mr. and Mrs. Gene Stunz and Kenneth Haroldsen of Provo sonnel who are sincerely de be on exercise, posture and stayed overnight this week at family, and Mr. and Mrs. Bill dicated to the proposition that grooming. the economic level of those Lunch will be served at noon the home of his parents, the Bowman of Boise were Christ Editor, The Journal: mas dinner guests at the Emil persons served by the center and there will be a baby sitter. Reuben Haroldsens. ♦ ♦ ♦ 1 Stunz home. Bowman is Mrs. With due respect to our Na should be improved through tion’s President, I do not agree Mr. and Mrs. Jim Griffin, Stunz’ brother. education in cooperation with * * • with his aid plan to States, THANK YOU ! their daughter and grand- established institutions and Counties and Local Government. Paul Wilson visited Thursday dauehter. Mrs. James Favoral without regard to race, culture Whose money and where will it and Zoann of Parma, recently through Saturday at the home or ancestral derivation. have to come from, other than We would like to thank all the visited at the home of Mrs. of his parents, and Stephanie The Nyssa Board is of the ours and us? It is comparable staff at Malheur Memorial Griffin’s sister, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson is spending the school opinion that the former mi to the person who borrows Hospital, Nyssa Implement Ashford Field in Notus. grants who live in Malheur holiday with her parents, the * * * money to pay debts to keep up Company employees, friends County have been well received Lloyd Wilsons. Both Paul and his credit to make more debts, and relatives for the many Mr. and Mrs. Victor Habur- Stephanie attend college in Port 1.. " 1 local communities, finally bankruptcy. cards, food, flowers and kind chak entertained Mrs. Habur- land. Considerable community effort The local government should nesses shown us during the re chak’s nephew, FredWinslowof ♦ • ♦ has and is being made to im use economy and eliminate cent death of our huaband and Seattle, during the New Ye^rs Mr. and Mrs. Larry Hirai and prove the economic status of over spending, Instead of bleed id- father. week end. son of Corvallis, and Alan Hirai these citizens and the great • * • My 68-69 ing us to death, We would like to extend a of Moses Lake spent the Christ majority of the former migrants property tax was up 92%. special thanks to Josephine Ha Lynn Alder and son, Jeff of mas holiday with their parents, appreciate these efforts and are Walter Burdette, Nyssa. verfield, Margaret Evans, Bert Milad, Idaho, visited two days Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hirai, and taking advantage of the oppor Lienkaemper and Rev. J. D. during the holiday at the home brother, Bryon. tunities offered. The Migrant Crego. ♦ ' ♦ ♦ of Lynn’s sister, Mr. and Mrs. Education program sponsored --Mrs. Clarence Neeley and Richard Forbess. Douglas Skeen, student in the by TVCC is one of these com * * * family. Master’s program at BYU in munity efforts and the Nyssa Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Forbess Provo; Mr. and Mrs. Roger Eighty acres of public land Board recommends that TVCC CHRISTIAN WOMEN and daughter, Laurel spent the Skeen, Steve, Cindy and Stuart continue the sponsorship of the situated on Hansen Butte three Christmas holiday at the of Bend; Mr. and Mrs. Jim miles west of Murtaugh, Idaho program for another fiscal The Christian Women’s club year. It may be advisable in Twin Falls County will be met January 6 at the LaPaloma Richard Forbess home. While Skeen, Rickie, Jerald, Julie and here, they enjoyed skiing at Janell of Eugene spent the to reduce the program to in offered for sale by the Bureau Cafe. Bogus Basin. Christmas holiday with their clude only Malheur County pro of Land Management on Jan Musical selections were sung ♦ ♦ ♦ uary 20, 1971. The land, which parents, the Frank Skeens. The grams so that Idaho com by Lila Harper of Weiser. A Lisa Eastman was pleasantly Roger Skeens also visited at the munities can arrange respon will be sold at public auction, special feature on interior sible sponsorship of the pro is zoned for agricultural use Decorating was given by Pam surprised with a birthday party home of Mrs. Skeen’s parents, held at the home of her parents, the Gordon Williams. under Twin Falls County zoning grams in their areas. Nay of Payette. Speaker for the Mr. and Mrs. Michael Eastman. * * * Much of the publicity given ordinances. day was Rose Mary Clontz of Seven friends came to help The sale will be made under Mrs. Blanch Weeks andSerm to the recent events in Nyssa Sprague, Wash. Lisa celebrate here seventh ; _ ______ Suddhiphayak entertained family has given the impression that provisions of the Public Land birthday anniversary, January 2. and friends Christmas Day. Din- a few former employees of Sale Act of September 1964 Amity Women Meet ner guests were Mr. and Mrs: the Nyssa Opportunity Center which gives any individual the Mr. and Mrs. Don Eldredge Duane Weeks and family of Mil- and visiting OEO employees right to participate. The ap Amity club members met De from Colorado and elsewhere, praised value of the property cember 18 at the home of Mrs. and family of Camas, Wash., , waukie;’ Mr. and Mrs. John visited at the home of his i Weeks of Seneca; Mr. and Mrs. speak for and represent the is $5200. Jay Gibson with Mrs. Dean Fife parents, Mr. and Mrs. T.H. Darold Steinke and Cherry of Further information on the thinking of all of the former as co-hostess. Eldredge, for Christmas holi Vale; Glen Weeks of Parma; migrants in this area. This sale tract and bidding proce Progressive table games is not so. Actually the great dures can be obtained from the were in play for the evening days. An Eldredge family din Mrs. Virginia Rookstool and Bartholomew of majority of the former migrants Land Office Manager, Room with Mrs. Don Moss and Mrs. ner was held at the home of Mrs. Mrs. C. T. Nyssa. Denzel Weeks and Mr. have refused to engage in the 380 Federal Building, 550 West Edison Child winning prizes. Glenn Eldredge January 3. * « * and Mrs. Plais Johnson and militant efforts of these few Fort Street, Boise, Idaho. The After lunch was served, Journal Classifieds sale will take place at that family of Parma were visitors people whose approach seemed members exchanged gifts. office. Christmas day at Mrs. Weeks’s Bring Results! home. They also spent Saturday evening bowling together. Open Letter To TVCC President And Board LETTER TO EDITOR BLM To Sell Public Land Mrs. Blanch Weeks, Serm Suddhiphayak, Mr. and Mrs. John Weeks and family and Mr. and Mrs. Duane Weeks and family spent Christmas Eve at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Plais Johnson and family in Parma. darkness comes before work * done Your NIGHTGUARD is on the ¡oh! • FIXTURE • INSTALLATION • ELECTRICITY •MAINTENANCE For early Installation, call your local Idaho Power office. (It you prater direct purchase. see your «tectrlcal contractor.) • * Mr. and Mrs. Jim Baldwin of Mesa, Arizona are visiting during the holiday season with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gene Stunz. • You can stretch daylight hours with Night guard’s help See what you are doing Protect against mistakes and accidents. Have welcome light available for late night or early morning chores. Every farm needs automatic dusk-to-dawn Nightguard light protection. IDAHO POWER COMPANY FLAMELESS ELECTRIC LIVING FOR A NEATER, CLEANER WORLD • • Mr. and Mrs. Earl Sager of Mt. Vernon, Wash., arrived Tuesday and will stay at the home of Mrs. Sager’s sister, Mrs. G. Klinkenberg, and the The Raymond I Sager home. came to attend the Sagers funeral 1 of his mother, Mrs. Iva Sager. • • • Mr. and Mrs. Roger Bergam of Salinas,California spent Dec. 19 thru Jan. 3, visiting with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Bergam in Nyssa and Mr. and Mrs. Grant Lewis in Caldwell • 30 YEARS AGO 10 YEARS AGO Services for Mrs. Iva G. Sager, 83 formerly of Middle ton, who died the evening of January 2 in a Nampa hospi tal after an illness, were con ducted at the Flahiff Funeral Chapel at 2 p.m. January 6 by the Rev. Eugene E. Blosser of the Nampa Mennonite Church and the Rev. Menno H. Kliewer of Boise, a retired Mennoite minister. Interment was at Kohlerlawn Cemetery in Nampa. Mrs. Sager was born Aug. 31, 1887, in York, Neb., a daughter of John and Catherine Hathaway McClatchey. She was reared in the York area. She was married June 27, 1908, in Holy oke, Colo., to Thomas Elza Sager. They moved to Nampa in 1909 and farmed in the Lone Star and Lone Tree Communi ties before moving to a farm near Middleton in 1948. They retired in 1954. Mr. Sager died Dec. 21, 1956, in Middleton. She was a member of the Caldwell Mennonite Church. Surviving are five sons, Ray mond T. Sager, Nyssa, Harley E. Sager, Parma, the Rev. Chester A. Sager, Rupert, C. Earl Sager, Mount Vernon, Wash., and Bela C. Sager, Mid dleton; two daughters, Mrs. Blaine (Mildred) Brown, Nampa, and Mrs. D.W. (Marjorie) Har ris, Prairie City, Ore.; four brothers, J.C. McClatchey, North Platte, Neb., Chester McClat chey, San Diego; Alfred Mc Clatchey, Lincoln, Neb., and Gifford McClatchey, Modesto, Calif.; two sisters, Mrs. Fern Creech, York, and Mrs. Rudy (Virgie) Shane, seian, Wash., 29 grandchildren, and 29 great grandchildren. She was pre ceded in death by a daughter, two brothers, and two sisters. Memorials may be given to the Idaho Youth Ranch at Rupert. Work was started last Fri day on Nyssa’s new Union Pa- cific Depot which will cost ap proximately $24,000. The depot proper wiU be a building 26 by 121 feet, will be of brick construction and of the latest streamlined architecture. Even the colors will be the same as the railroad company's famous streamliner--stream- line gray and yellow. Up to about three feet from the build ing will be of the gray and that above will be of yellow brick. In addition to the depot, there will be 1600 feet of passen ger and loading platform, which will be of hard oiled paving. Twyla Snyder, 10 pounds, 3 ounces was the first baby born 1 at Malheur Memorial Hospital is 1961. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clair Snyder at Parma, residing in the Big Bend area where her father is a farmer. » * « Lloyd Lewis, Nyssa Post- master since 1944 and Glenn- wood Pounds, Adrian’s Post master since 1941 say they may via for the title of the largest and smallest Postmasters in Oregon. Lewis is 6-ft. 1-in. and his wife accuses him of weighing 300 lbs. Pounds is 5-ft. 2-in. and weighs 120 lbs. 20 YEARS AGO 40 YEARS AGO , Pvt. Melvin Rookstool, one of 21 soldiers who survived out of 89 involved in the Suchon rail road tunnel massacre in Korea, was awarded the purple heart by General Edgar E. Hume during the first part of Decem ber in r uruka, Japan. Rookstool is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Dale Rookstool of Nyssa. ♦ • ♦ Mr. and Mrs. Gerald E. Baker of Rt. 1, Ontario, are the pa rents of the first child born at Malheur Memorial Hospital in 1951. The new arrival, a boy, weighed 8 pounds, 5 ounces and was born January Z at 2 a.m. • • * Possiblility of restriction in the use of the Owyhee Reser voir for security reasons was discussed in Nyssa this week. The discussion was prompted by a directive, issued two weeks ago by Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman to heads of all bureaus, because of the exi stence of a national emerxency declared by President Truman. During World War II no one was allowed to go, without special authorization, to within one mile of the dam, either from upstream or downstream. NO JANUARY PAPERS ON FILE FOR 1931. 50 YEARS AGO A delightful fudge party was given by Jack and Ruth Barrett at their apartment on January 1. Miss Barrett and Miss Maxwell acted as hostesses. The honor of cutting the fudge was given to Tressie Lackey and Jack Barrett. A delightful time was had by all those present until Jim Kakebecke injured his tooth by a nut shell and Ruth Barrett received a severe burn while beating fudge. Those present were: Charley Newbill and Geneva Vaughn, Tressie Lackey and Jack Bar rett, Lillian Hunt and Jim Kake becke, Paulyn Maxwell and John Hambliton, and Ruth Barrett and Dick Kiem. Mrs. F.A. Gallegly acted as chaperone. ♦ ♦ * The home of John Kester, who lives on Bridge Island, was en tered Monday morning during the absence of the family and thoroughly ransacked. Nothing of value was taken, but the in truder, evidently a hobo, partook of a good square meal. Mrs. Kester met the man as he was leaving the premises but didn’t know that he had been in the house and paid no attention to him. NO JAN. 1911 ISSUE Parade Time For Pioneer Federal Savers federal savings SAVINGS • ♦ • I OUTOFTH e I’AST F I*-»****.** In Memoriam Hometown News St. Bridgofs News Thursday, January 7, 1971 • in earnings to be distributed! The people who "Look ahead with Savings” have established a financial program here that pays them big dividends. Not just the dollar dividends being posted to their savings accounts, but the tangible rewards that come to them through the ultimate use of these savings. You can be a beneficiary of such a program by opening a savings account with us. Benefits like a new car, education for the children, a comfortable retirement. These are the true re wards of saving, the values that make the effort worthwhile 5% 51/4 % Regular P—book Saving« On 90-Day Saving* A ooount 5l/4% 6% 2'2 Year Time Certificate Deposits By Jan. 8th Earn From Jan. 1st At P.F.S • Mr. and Mrs. Art Bosse Iman ind familv. Mr. and Mrs. John Studer and famuy and Mr. and Mrs. Darrell Sawyer and family celebrated Mrs. Sawyer's birth day anniversary by having Sun day dinner at the EastSideCafe in Ontario. Pioneer Federal f
