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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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