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University of Oregon Library Eugene, Ore. 974G3 X X X X X Nyssa Gate City Journal Volum« LXV Thunderegg Capital The Nyssa Gate City Journal, Nyssa, Oregon Thursday, January 21, 1971 OREGON POTATO GROWERS 1971 Hunting Oregon Medical School Opens Child HOLD ANNUAL CONFERENCE Date9 Se( Development And Rehabilitation Center AT K FALLS THIS WEEK Joseph G. Brosmer, manager, Agricultural Labor Bureau. Fresno, California will be the featured speaker at the annual conference of Oregon Potato Growers in Klamath Falls, which started Wednesday, and will run through January 21 and 22. Brosmer will speak on “Potential Farm Labor Pro blems”. “Marketing for the Future” is the theme of the fourth annual meeting, with potato growers, shippers and others in the in dustry invited to hear an out standing group of specialist who will discuss aspects of re search, education and promotion pertaining to the Oregon potato industry. Oregon Potato Commission chairman, Roy Hirai of Nyssa, will also report on the com mission’s year of activities. Other potato experts to be heard include Don Kelly, manager, Produce Buying De partment, Safeway Stores Inc., Oakland; Dr. W.M. Iritani, As sociate Horticulturist at Wash ington State University, Pull man; Paul Hansen, Vice-Presi dent, Operations, Food Proces sing Division of J.R. Simplot Co., Caldwell; Harold Lim bright, Dow Chemical Co., San Francisco; Walter C. Sparks, Idaho Agricultural Experiment Station, Caldwell; and Von Wald, Central Regional Supervisor of the Terminal Marketingservice. At a public hearing in Port land Friday, January 15, the Oregon Game Commission set the opening dates for the 1971 hunting seasons for deer, elk, and upland game birds. The buck deer season open ing will be Saturday, October 2. The Rocky Mountain elk season was set to open October 30 while that for Roosevelt elk was set for November 13. Hun ters will have an October 16 opening for ringneck pheasants and quail. The chuckar and Hungarian partridge season will coincide with the deer season opening, October 2. The Commission’s objective in setting the opening dates early in the year is to provide ample time for Oregon hunters to plan their vacation periods to coin cide with the game seasons of their choice. Length of seasons, bag limits, and other regulations for 1971 will be established at a public hearing scheduled in earlyJune for big game animals and in early August for upland birds and waterfowl. ALFALFA SEED GROWERS HOLD ANNUAL MERING WEDNESDAY JANUARY 27 The Malheur County Alfalfa Seed Growers Association will hold its annual meeting at the Oregon Trail Hall on January 27 starting at 10:30 a.m. accord ing to Wm. H. Panike, Asso ciation president. He extends an invitation to attend to all persons interested in seed pro duction. The meeting will feature a talk on alfalfa seed pollinators by Dr. Norman Waters who con ducts research at the Univeristy of Idaho Experiment Station at Parma. Dr. Rad Roberts will report on pollinator research being carried out by Oregon State University. Latest alfalfa weed and dodder control recommendations will be covered by Luther Fitch, agronomist at the Malheur Ex periment Station. The group will be informed on develop ments in the Oregon seed cer tification program by OSU Seed Certification Specialist, George Tiger. A report on pending legisla tion effecting seed growers and CHAMBER HOLDS REGULAR MEETING Doyle Burns Joseph G. Brosmer Another highlight of the two- day program will be the ap pearance of top men from the National Potato Council. Dojie Burns, executive director in Washington, D.C., will address the Thursday evening banquet, and newly elected president, Don M. Johnston of Bakersfield, California, will present a report on the NPC. Agriculture and marketing specialist from Oregon State University who are scheduled to speak to the industry are Velma Seat, food marketing spe cialist; Walter E. Matson, agri cultural engineer, and Dr. Har old Youngberg, farm crops spe cialist, both with the OSU Co operative Extension Service; Dr. Thomas L. Jackson, soil spe cialists; George E. Carter, as sistant agronomist directing po tato reasearch at the Klamath Experiment Station; Phil Olson, research assistant; and Roland Groder, fruit and vegetable marketing specialist. Also participating in the pro gram will be Lowell Kenyon, chairman, Oregon-California Potato Committee; FrankWise- carver, potato broker, and John Navas, potato wholesaler, both from Oakland; and Oregon Po tato Commission members Ed Stastny, Malin; Dwight Macy, Culver; Fred Cholick, Sauvies Island; andJamesOttoman, Ma lin. The featured conference spea ker, Brosmer, has been active in the field of agriculture for many years, and has served on many committees and advisory board dealing with farm labor. He is vice-chairman of the Ad visory Committee, National Council of Agricultural Em ployers. Mrs. Shaugnessy Dies Suddenly Elizabeth Shaugnessy, 91, Nyssa, died Tuesday, January 19, at the Malheur Memorial Hospital in Nyssa. Services pending, Lienkaemper Funeral Home. Veterans Loans Up In Malheur Due to fund shortages during 1970, the volume of Oregon veterans’ farm and home loans was down from the record high of 1969, moving into second place. H.C. Saalfeld, Oregon Depart ment of Veterans’ Affairs di rector, said loans went to 6,283 veterans last year in the amount of $104,625,750. This was a 12 percent drop in dollar volume and a 20 percent decrease in loan closures from 1969. In Malheur County last year, loans were granted to 71 ve terans in the amount of $1,- 545,000 compared with 67 loans in 1969 for $1,025,850. Since the loan program star ted in 1945, loans have gone to 795 veterans in this county in the amount of $8,824,400. Statewide, 79,391 loans have been granted for $851,301,174. Veterans have repaid $423 million in principal and $150 million in interest, with monthly repayments averaging over $6 million. Of the 79,391 loans, 45,794 were outstanding Decem ber 31 in the amount of $558,- 542,884. Cancer Society To Reorganize Dr. David Sarazin, Malheur County Health Officer, announced the reorganization meeting of Unit, Oregon the Malheur Cancer Society will be held Fri day, January 22 at 8 p.m. at the Moore Hotel. Anyone interested in the Cancer Society is welcome to attend. Connie Erickson, field repre sentative from Pendleton, will be present at the meeting. One of the items on the agenda will be the election of a president to replace Bob Humphreys, who has moved from the area. Heart Fund Chairmen James Leslie, Malheur County Chairman of the Oregon Heart Fund, has appointed Mrs. Wilbur Holcomb, center, as the Nyssa chairman for the Heart Fund campaign. Mrs. Desmond Jones, left, and Mrs. Kenneth Danford will act as co-chairmen for the local campaign which starts February 3 Heart Week in Nyssa is designated as February 14-21. The regular meeting of the Nyssa Chamber of Commerce met Wednesday noon at Brownie’s Cafe with Dirick Nedry presiding. Committee appointments for the 1971 year were made as fol lows; Industrial Development, Wilton Jackson; Merchant’s Promotion, BobWilsonandFred Bracken; Highway Development, Vic Haburchak; Legislative, Gene Stuz; Agri-Business, Ted Morgan and Frank Sherwood; Finance, Tom Stenkamp; By- Laws, Don Young; Thunderegg Days, Wayne Moncur; Com- mity Relations, Bernard East man; Inter-Community Re lations, Jake Fischer; Publicity, Barry Edwards; Membership, Glade Chadwick; Christmas Lighting, Dale Adams; Educa tion, W.L. McPartland and Jeff Ford; Local Government, Fred Koch. The regular meetings of the chamber are the first and third Wednesdays of each month. UNION PACIFIC NAMES ASTRO REPRESENTATIVE Fred A. Lang, Union Pacific’s traffic agent in this area, has been appointed district chair man in Nyssa for ASTRO--the comprehensive program pro posed by America’s railroads to meet the crisis in the rail industry. ASTRO, standing for Ame rica’s Sound Transportation Re view Organization, is a study group established by the Asso ciation of American Railroads to investigate railroad pro blems and recommend solutions. Lang, who works out of the UP’s traffic office in Boise, will endeavor to make community leaders, freight shippers and the public aware of the findings in the ASTRO report. His first assignment is to bring ASTRO speakers before civic groups in Nyssa. The ASTRO study group, headed by former Sen. George Smathers of Florida, reports that the nation’s railroads are drowning in problems. The strong roads are in danger of being pulled under by the weak ones. “Four railroads, including the Penn Central, are in bank ruptcy,’’ said Lang. “Earnings have dropped 50 per cent in the last 15 years. Last year, one- third of the railroads lost money after adding up all sources of income. “Railroads now haul over 40 per cent of intercity freight and are being asked to haul more. To carry this burden, the rail industry estimates it must invest #36 billion in new equip ment and facilities between now and 1980. “ASTRO says the railroad can survive and meet the de mands of transportation if go vernment gives the railroads equal treatment with other forms of transportation in regu lation, taxation and financing. The government is pouring un limited tax dollars into highway, waterways and airports and still treating railroads as if they were a monopoly.’’ SMITH VOTES FOR ADDED BENEFITS Multiple handicapped children receive special treatment in classrooms at the new Child Development and Rehabilitation Center at the University of Oregon Medical School in Portland. Instructor Sharon Guthrie rings bell to attract attention of four-year-old A new and far-reaching con cept in the care of Oregon’s handicapped children will be initiated this weekend when fe deral, state and medical officials gather at dedication ceremonies Saturday (January 23) and a public open house Sunday (January 24) unveils the $3.5 million Child Development and Rehabilitation Center on the University of Oregon Medi cal School campus in Portland. Saturday at 2:00 p.m., after Secretary of State Clay Myers and Dr. Charles N. Holman, UOMS dean, address leaders in various fields of the health, sciences, education, and go vernment, the speakers and guests will view the facility. On Sunday, between 2:00 and 4:00 p.m., the public is in vited to tour the new center, located between S.W. Veterans and Gaines Roads (behind U.S. Veterans Hospital). The multi-level structure, an imposing new addition to the School’s Crippled Children’s Division, will provide one of the nation’s few university-af filiated demonstration and training centers for all the health professionals whose skills can aid in the diagnosis and treatment of all forms of retardation affecting children. A striking example of func tional architecture, the 122,510 square foot building is actually three distinct units joined by enclosed passways. Sloping exterior walls of wood-toned BLM SELLS TWO PARCELS OF LAND Two parcels of public land approximately eight miles west of Hermiston, Oregon, adjacent to Highway 30, were sold January 12 at a public auction held by the Bureau of Land Management in Portland. Successfu' bidders were Mrs. Jane K. Smith of Longview, Washington, who bid$12,650for a 115.62-acre tract, and John King, West Linn, Oregon, who bid $4,150 for the second parcel containing 57.89 acres. WEATHER PR EC MAX MIN DATE 25 36 Jan. 13 .06 24 43 Jan. 14 .07 33 44 Jan. 15 .17 43 35 Jan. 16 .22 37 42 Jan. 17 .65 36 44 Jan. IK .05 37 43 Jan. II .04 37 Jan. M Owyhee Reservoir Storage 1/20/71 698,650 Acre Feet 1/20/70 492,530 Acre Feet Suzette, a cerebral palsied child with hearing and visual impairments. Physical therapist Pat Taol helps the small patient keep her balance. The new Center is part of the state-wide Crippled Children’s Division. Willamette brick and soaring »expanses of glass fan out from oentral spines where students and staff members may observe both indoor and outdoor activi ties of the children. The east unit contains six spacious class rooms, a model apartment for vocational training of retarded adolescents, interview, exami nation, testing and treatment rooms, occupational therapy units, medical genetics and nu trition labs, student carrels and offices. The central unit includes a reception area, in terview and conference rooms, a kitchen and cafeteria, child ren’s TV room, parents’ wait ing room, offices and storage space. On the third floor roof of the central unit, living quarters are provided for eight visiting scientists or short course trainees. In the north unit 12 hospital rooms, a nursing station and 12 dormitory beds will provide housing for out-of-town child ren. Three one-bedroom apart ments are designed to accom modate parents and, through one-way mirrors, enable the health professionals to study parent-child interrelationships in a home-like environment. “Training the whole team to treat the whole child--this is our concept,” said Assistant Dean Dr. Richard Sleeter, director of the CCD state-wide services. “All handicaps, whether physi cal-motor or mental, are forms of retardation and many of our patients are multiply retarded. Please remember,” the pedia trician urged, “the connotation usually attached to retardation is erroneous--to retard means simply to hinder or delay. If a child is physically retarded we try to correct the problem. But if this is not possible, for example the child with cerebral palsy, or an irreparable hearing loss, then we must help him reach his maximum capabilities within the limits of his handi cap.’’ “The same approach will be used for the child who is men tally handicapped,” he con tinued. “But in his case we must first take care of all correctable physical retarda- Casting For Oliver Started This Week Gary Condon, chorus director, announces that the musical “Oliver” will be presented by the Nyssa High School Music Department this .spring. Casting started January 18. Oliver is a musical based on the Charles Dicken’s story of Oliver Twist. tion before we can determine the extent of his mental deficien cies with any degree of vali dity. All too often a small youngster has been labelled mentally retarded by conven tional intelligence tests when he had a speech, or vision, or hearing loss, or was suffering from a painful physical ail ment.” The physician pointed a warning finger at reporters previewing the Center, “How would you like to take an IQ test when you had an agonizing tooth ache, or couldn’t hear the quest ions asked?” “There is another long range aspect to the ‘whole team for the whole child* concept,” Dr. Sleeter added. “All the young physicians, nurses, dentists, au diologists, speech pathologists, therapists, social workers, spe cial educators who train here will one day be working out in their own communities, helping alleviate the shortage of health professionals. And they will carry with them the knowledge that whatever forms a child’s retardation takes, physical motor or mental, or both, that child can usually be helped ap preciably by the whole team ap proach. He can learn to reach levels of achievement--within the confines of his disabilities --that will give him a far better chance to escape a lifetime as a dependent invalid, or a ward of the state. And that,” he smiled, “is pretty important to the child, to the family, and to the state.” As the administrative hub of the statewideCrippleChildren’s Division, the new facility will offer expanded diagnostic, evaluation, and schooling pro grams for several hundred men tally and/or physically handi capped Oregon children, as well as providing a training center under one umbrella of coordi nated biological and behavioral sciences for 11 various me dical, dental and allied health professions. Admission policies give priorities to children who would benefit most from CDRC ser vices and to those with retarda tion problems which best meet the teaching (demonstration) re quirements of the programs. The only other restrictions are those imposed by classroom or clinic space limitations and the number of instructors avail able under present budgetary ceilings. Financial considera tions have no bearing on ad mission policy and charges are based on families’ ability to pay all, or part, or none of the cost. (Continued On Page 7) 4 Number III The Sugar City Oregon House Speaker Robert F. Smith Monday supported an extension of the benefit period of compensation for unemployed Oregonians for an additional 13 weeks. In voting for the measure, Smith said it will extend the benefit period of compensation by an additional 13 weeks for unemployed workers who have exhausted their 26 weeks of compensation eligibility. Smith said, “There is a demonstrated need for im mediate action to provide ad ditional benefits for the 5,500 Oregonians who have exhausted their unemployment compen sation to date, and the additio nal 2,500 Oregonians who will exhaust their benefits each month for the next several months.” JOHN DEERE FARM PROGRAM SAT. B & M Equipment Company will hold its annual John Deere farm program Saturday, Jan uary 23 starting at 11 a.m., with lunch served at noon. “Farming Frontiers ‘71” features films which show the latest ideas in farming. Les Burbank, manager, said that a chain saw will be given as a door prize. TVCC Offers Pharmacology Study A pharmacology course, de signed for practical nursing students at Treasure Valley Community College, isalsoopen to anyone interested. In the past nurses actively working have taken the course as a “brush-up.” A prerequisite of successful completion of ma thematics (4.200) is required of all enrollees. More information may be re ceived at the Office of Con tinuing Education at the col- lege. other farmers will be presented by Joe Hobson, Malheur County Farm Bureau Legislative chairman and a director of the SGA. Malheur County Agent Leeds Bailey will review a cost of alfalfa seed production study made by local growers and members of the Farm Manage ment Department of OSU. An election of directors will be held to replace terms that have expired in the Adrian, Ridgeview, Big Bend, Owyhee, Buena Vista and north end dis tricts. A no host luncheon will be served by ladies of the Oregon Trail Hall Association. Elliot Tire Helps Promote Oregon Beef Mr. Don Ostensoe, Executive Secretary of the Oregon Beef Council, announced that the Bob Elliott Tire Centers of Nyssa and Vale in cooperation with the Les Schwab Tire Centers and the Oregon Beef Council, are again sponsoring their an nual Free Beef Tire Promotion Sale. Due to the tremendous re sponse and volume of tires sold over the past years they will be giving a Free $5.00 Beef Certificate with the purchase of EVERY two new passenger or pickup tires until the end of February. This will mean even more dollars in Beef Certifi cates and Beef sales. The Beef Certificate can be used toward the purchase of beef at any business house in the meat business. The purpose of this promotion is two fold. The Free Beef Tire Promotion Sale promotes and publicizes the sale of beef, one of the Northwest’s larger industries, and promotes ad ditional tire sales during the winter months for the tire firm. The promotion will run through February. BLM Schedules Sale Of Land Two seperate tracks of pub lic land will be sold by the Bureau of Land Management starting at 2:30p.m. Wednesday, January 27, in Boise. The first parcel consists of 40 acres located three miles south and four miles west of the Boise Municipal Airport. The land has been zoned under Ada County General zoning or dinances. The appraised value of the land is $10,000. The second parcel of land comprises 160 acres located six miles north of Caldwell inCan yon County and is appraised at $8,000. Zoning permits agri cultural use. Both sales will be made under provisions of the Public Land Sale Act of September 1964 which does not recognize pre ference rights thereby allowing any individual the right to participate in the sale. Information on the sale of these tracts can be obtained by contacting the Land Officer Manager, Bureau of Land Mana gement, Room 380, 550 West Fort Street, Boise, Idaho. Ken Perkins And Family Shown above are the Ken Perkins family, newcomers to Nyssa. They are Danny 9, Ken and and Susan, David 11, and in front, Debby 3, Ken Perkins is the new manager of the Bob Elliott Tire Center in Nyssa, coming here from the Vale store where he was assistant manager. Bob Elliott, owner, will alternate between the two stores. Tom Harrod is manager in Vale. Both Ken and his wife, Susan are long-time residents of Vale, Susan’s parents are Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Kessler, Vale; and Ken is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Everett Perkins, who are now re tired and live in Silverton, Oregon. The Perkins are at home now at 17N. 6th Street, and have found Nyssa folks very cordial and friendly in the short time they have been here. K r 4
