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Thursday, January 21, 1971 The Nyssa Gate City Journal, Nyssa, Oregon Page Eight First National Bank Records Best Year Ever First National Bank of Ore gon recorded higher net earnings for the eighth suc- cesiver year in 1970, it was re ported by Ralph J. Voss, presi dent of the statewide banking system. At the same time the bank president revealed that year- end deposits were also at a record high figure and loans had dropped sharply from record levels over the past twelve months. Earnings for the year totaled $14,135,367, a gain of 1.8 per cent, over the year-end 1969 figure of $13,888,819. On a per share basis, this is equivalent to $2.66 per share compared to $2.61 per share last year. Voss credited a combination of effective control of expenses, the drop in the cost of money and high coupon bond purchases with reversing a downtrend in earnings which became evident in the second and third quarters of the year. Statement of condition figures for First National revealed vear-end deposits of $1,- 713,931,144. This is an increase of $124,701,841, or 7.9 percent over the 1969 year-end figure of $1,589,229,303, and up 2.8 per cent from the 1968 total. Loans fell to $1,065,940,368, a drop of 8.5 per cent from the 1969 year-end record high of $1,165,101,249. Voss said actions of the Fe deral Reserve Board in easing the restrictive monetary poli cies pursued throughout 1969 resulted in extremely wide swings in the availability of money and related interest rates. The removal of the interest rate ceiling on large shortterm certificates of deposit in June and the expansion in the money supply brought a massive inflow of funds which were used tore- build bank liquidity, the bank president explained. This com bined with a continuing decline in loan demand due to the slow down in theeconomyandearlier efforts to curtail loans due to the then existing tight money conditions accounts for the ea sier loan situation, Voss added. Capital funds plus the reserve for loan losses increased to Valerie Turner Contest Contender Mrs. Klaas Laan, Valerie Turner, her mother, Mrs. Sher man Turner and sister, Vicki, and a friend, Marie Elfring of Willow Creek left Friday morn ing for Portland, and the Dairy Princess contest. They stayed at the Sheridan Motor Inn at the Lloyd Shopping Center in Portland. Saturday morning Mr. and Mrs. Mike Macy of Corvallis visited them and they went shop ping together. The Dairy Prin cess Contest started in the afternoon. Valerie was one contestant of 14 contestants In the contest. That evening they went to the Diner of the Rhein- landers, a German Restaurant. Sunday morning all of the girls and Mrs. Klaas Laan. their chaparone, went for a helicopter ride over the city of Portland. They met Governor McCall, and he was asked to be at the crowning of the Princess but he was unable to make it. Monday afternoon Princess Susan Gouley of Linn Bencon was crowned, after which the group drove home. WILL TRAIN 3 MEN TO SEI I MUTUAI FUNDS INSURANCE FULL OR PART TIME PHONE 459-9633 JACK D. HUNT Division Manager 215 1/2 S. Kimball C.lldvell, Idaho $137,254,901 from $130,067,582 last December. During 1970 First National established new branches in Portland’s Georgia-Pacific Building and at Mt. Angel. New branch quarters were com pleted at Oak Grove, Valley Ri ver Center in Eugene and Mid way-Division east of Portland. Extensive remodelings were completed at Astoria, Medford Main office and Woodburn. Work will be finished in early 1971 on new quarters for the Roseburg branch which was de stroyed by fire, the Union and Graham branch’s expanded of fices at Broadway and Grand Avenue in Portland, and at Gold Beach and Forest Grove. Newly established branches are under construction at Junction City and King City, and expansion and renovation of the Cedar Hills and Keizer of fices is progressing. The steel skeleton of the bank’s new 40-story head office in Portland’s financial center will be topped out in January and the building is scheduled for completion in mid-1972, Voss reported. Herb Sez... I have been giving this pol lution by detergents quite a bit of thought and I think I have the solution. I doubt that you’ll like it but it is one way out. When I was somewhat younger than I am at the present time my mother washed the clothes to get the dirt out and wasn’t too particular about them being blinding white. Then along came some soap company that coined the slogan “tattle-gray”. It may have been Rinso with that bird call deal, “Rinso White”. Any how, people became con scious of having clothes that didn’t sparkle. The c.othcs were aseptically clean but not esthetically beautiful, To get every bit of the “ring around the collar” out they had to make the washing powder stronger and stronger because no woman wanted her neighbor’s clothes to be brighter than hers. Now for my solution:-why not make Tattle-tale-gray a badge of honor? A man could proudly say, " I’m more patriotic than you. See, my shirt’s dirty. Your shirt sparkles and everyone knows that you are using pol lutants.” Then nobody will be polluting, of course their clothes won’t be as clean, but so what? It’s not likely that any substitutes for phosphates will be found in the near future because it’s most simple to find something wrong with any chemical used in the household. I can remember when my mother had a few blue balls tied up in a little cloth bag that she put in the wash to whiten the clothes, it wascalledbluing. 1 was told they were a deadly poison, but none of the kids in our town ever ate one to find out. If you really want to be pat riotic, throw the washer and dryer away, better still, don’t throw them away, just store them. There’s nothing that uses more electricity in the home than the water heater, and noth ing uses hot water like a wash er. The dryer runs up your power bill all by itself, with out using any hot water. My mother used to stoke the kit chen stove with firewood and heat the water in a big brass boiler, but this would be taboo today. The suds didn’t pollute anything because the wash water was always dumped into the back yard at a particular place where it wouldn’t drain back into the well. There were no sew ers in Placerville. Really, the only problem is population, and the government and drug manufacturers are doing their darndest to extend the life expectancy. We’re kinda nuts, ain’t we? Family Enjoys Oregon Dairy Princess Vacation Trip After a December 25 reunion with relatives here at the home of their son, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Lowtrip in Ontario, Mr. and Mrs. Gabriel Astoreca and Audrie and Carmen left Decem ber 26 for a vacation trip during the Christmas and New Years holidays. They arrived at Willow Springs, Mo., December 28 and visited at the home of Mrs. As- toreca’s father, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Nelson. New Years Eve and Day was spent at the home of an aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. L.W. Fox in West Plains. They also visited the Foxs’ daughter and family, the Robert Baileys, an aunt and uncle, the Charles Nelsons’ of West Plains. While visiting there they were reunited with a cousin they had not seen for 20 years, and a daughter of the Nelsons’, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Carson and family of Illinois. The next day found them at the home of another aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Lowe in West Plains, where they met cousins from Kansas City, and Memphis. The Astorecas and Foxs’ were overnight guests in the Lowe home. They all attended a party January 2 honoring the birthday of a cousin, Mrs. Lorin Hall. Approximately 35 guests attended. After dinner at the Fox home Sunday they visited friends, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Ferguson and family, former residents of the Nyssa, Vale and Juntura areas. Monday, accompanied by her father they visited in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Rother- mich, also former area resi dents. They left January 5 for Kim- berling, Mo., where they visited Mrs. Astorecas’ mother, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Berry. The families toured the area around Branson, Mo. January 6. An interesting point visited in cluded the campus grounds of the “School of the Ozarks”, which is a special college, it allows a student to attend by earning their own college edu cation. The Ralph Foster Museum was visited and the Williams Memorial Chapel with its beau tiful stained glass windows. The chapel has a great twenty-three hundred Pipe Skinner Organ and Hyer Bell Tower, which contains ninety six tubular bells. It is one of the largest in the United States. Both the pipe organ and bells are used for special occasions, concerts and Sun day services. They went shopping and sightseeing January 7 in Spring field, Mo., visited by telephone a brother, M. Sgt. Gene Nelson, who is presently on duty at Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo. Leaving January 8, they drove across Iowa. They were guests in Albert Lea, Minn., visited at Vern dale, Minn., with Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Snyder and daughter, Celesta and participated in a birthday celebration, which took place at the Snyder home. While visiting there they found 15 be low zero weather, and plenty of snow to provide an afternoon of snowmobiling. They left Monday for the return trip home. Traveling via Lincoln, Nebr., Rawlins, Evanston, Wyoming, and Ogden. They encountered blizzardcon ditions in Wyoming and became stalled in a snowdrift. The Astrorecas reported that the highway departments gave prompt attention to road con ditions and took care of trave lers in a most courteous way. They arrived home safely Wednesday. Mrs. Astoreca has returned to work at the Vale Nursing Home, Audrie andCar- men are back in school and Gabe is busy working on his farm. C CLUMBER AUIMAL UNAWARE that she is about to be crowned 1971 Oregon Dairy Princess is Susan Gourley. 18, brown-eyed brunette from Brownsville. Holding crown is retiring Dairy Princess Mary Anne Cantrall of Jacksonville. The new princess was selected from a group of 14 dairy princesses repre senting 18 counties in the state. Miss Gourley represented Linn and Benton counties in competition. Ceremonies were held Monday at Portland’s Sheraton Motor Inn and highlighted three-dav dairy industry meeting. MALHEUR COUNTY POTATO GROWERS HOLD MEETING The Boulevard Grange Hall was the site for the Malheur County Potato Growers As sociation Annual Meeting held Friday, January 15. 150 potato growers from Malheur County attended the one day session and heard presentations on a list of diversified sub jects. President Joel Mitchell of Nyssacalledthe Annual meet ing to order at 9.-50 a.m. Jim Nakano of Ontario re ported to the group on the ad vertising programs that the As sociation conductedduring 1970. His report indicated potato ad vertising was performed by the following methods; fruit and vegetable newspaper, calen dars, exhibits and contributions to the Frozen Potato Products Institute Promotion Program. George Sadamori, president of the Malheur County Potato Bargaining Association, told the group about activities of the Association and commented about the Simplot and Ore-Ida Potato contracts. He stressed the importance of membership participation and support in activities of any Association in order for it to function ef- fectively. Luther Fitch, Malheur Ex periment Station Agronomist, told the group about the latest thinking on potato fertility re commendations. He has been active for a number of years in assisting in potato fertility research work. After the lunch served by the Boulevard Grange Ladies and enjoyed by all, Roy Hirai of Nyssa spoke to the potato growers about the potato re search and promotion bill which has been signed by President Nixon. Roy also reported on other activities of the National Potato Council. Mr. Hirai then spoke on the current labor si tuation in Oregon and across the country. He informed the group of action needed to minimize any serious labor problem. Jim Olson of the Statistical Reporting Service in Boise made a presentation on the Objective Potato Measure ment Survey that has been conducted in Idaho for the past six years. He indicated that accurate potato production data has been derived from this survey and that this data has proven to be effective in pre season potato contract negotia tions. Dr. B.J. Landis, USDA En tomologist, Yakima, Washing ton, presented an interesting report on the green peach aphid work he has conducted in the Columbia Basin of Washington. He indicated the importance of controlling the aphid in order to obtain quality potatoes. This pest is a problem in Malheur County and for the past two years a green peach aphid re porting survey has been con ducted to assist growers in controlling this aphid. Warren Henninger, Malheur County Potato Extension Spe cialist, reviewed the program he conducted during the 1970 calendar year. His problems included, a greenpeach aphid and potato fertility survey. He also conducted potato variety and insect control trials. n n SPECIAL SERVICE AN ITT5UB5IPIARV PBOMPES FORA k-'INPERGARTEM IM NORAAV ’ STIC, OSLO, PROVIDES CABLE THAT IS U5EP IM SCHOOL FLOOR HEATING IN A NORWEGIAN KlNPtRcARlUJ programs in research, edu cation, patient care and com munity service aimed at pre vention and treatment of birth defects, according to Mrs. Austin. Here in Oregon the voluntary health agency main tains Birth Defects Centers at (Sacred Heart General Hospi tal in Eugene) University of Ore gon Medical School in Port land) They are part of a na tionwide network of more than 100 centers. “I urge my fellow residents of Malheur County to put their stamp of approval on the March of Dimes return envelope,” she asked. 3 217 Main—Nyssa gulate the funneling of out- of-state contributions to candi dates and contests involving measures. The law would re quire campaign treasurers to refuse such contributions unless accompanied by a list of con tributors providing $25 or more of the total. On the local level, itemizing contributors would be a little easier. The amounts of camr paign contributions that must-be attributed to individual donors would rise from $5 to $25; and pre-election statements would permit lump sum expendi ture reporting. The Secretary of State would preside over this reporting ser vice, assisted where feasible by duly authorized county of ficials. A third bill, prepared by the League of Women Voters, would update and expand material that must be submitted by candidates for publication in the Voters’ Pamphlet. It calls for a photo graph -- not more than three years old, and the requirement that the candidate’s statement shall include age, present oc cupation, education, business or professional experience and prior government experience. Throughout meetings and hearings by the interim sub committee were references to recent cases involving alleged election irregularities. Most frequent references were to the 1968 contest between Robt. Y. Thornton and Lee Johnson fo^ Attorney General. SB 20 likely would prevent a defeated in cumbent from remaining in of fice by more discretion in such cases to presiding judges. Much time was spent discus sing a “name” for the revised election statutes. Because the term “corrupt practice” occurs repeatedly in present law, Ore gon’s election regulations have been dubbed the Corrupt Practices Act. No direct action on an official new name. But the references to "corruption” have been modified by new lan guage and a consensus favored a more positive nickname — such as Fair Elections Law. Circumventing new election regulations may be no more dif ficult than at present for the really corrupt. But a more positive nickname does seem in order -- if only in recogni tion of interim Legislators who toiled diligently at lily-guilding Oregon’s election statutes to keep them among the best and most progressive in the land. Malheur County Realtors Name Committee Heads _ Birth Defects Helped By March Of Dimes Hope and help for children with birth defects can be sent through the mail, reports Mrs. Ed Austin, 1971 March of Dimes campaign director for Malheur County. “Our mail appeals will be making their traditional appea rance in homes here this month,” she said. “Every per son who sits down and writes a check for this cause should realize that that check can help create a whole new life for one of the nearly 250,000 children born with birth defects every year.” Money received by the March of Dimes supports continuing Oregon’s so-called “Corrupt Practices Act” has been in the news again and the election law will receive even more attention during the 56th session of the State Legislature. Three bills--already sche duled for introduction when law makers convened Monday, could result in the most sweeping overhaul of Oregon election procedures since 1908. Present election law was substantially revised in 1957 but subsequent Legislatures have approved only technical amendments. Upcoming potential changes are largely the result of be tween-sessions deliberations by the Elections Subcommittee of the Joint Interim Committee on Rules and Resolutions. Most of the changes are designed to streamline and modernize cam paign regulations in view of cur rent conditions and in response to charges and counter-charges following recent elections. Oregon’s reputation for “clean politics” often has been attributed to what many have called a model election law. But this reputation failed to deter interim committee members from “improving” the statute. Exerting particular influence on drafters of the proposed re visions were Portland Attorney John Faust, representatives of news media and Secretary of State Clay Myers. Vast bulk of the changes are included in Senate Bill 20. It revamps 82 sections of the present law, repealing 21 regu lations and amending 51 more. Most significant changes in volve appointment of a single political treasurer, through whom all contributions are re ceived and expenditures made, and the reporting of campaign contributions and expenditures both before and after voters go to the polls. Appointment of a single cam paign treasurer--anditcouldbe a self-appointment by the can^- date’ himself, is aimed at better control and record-keeping of funds received and expended. During the pre-election report an estimate must be filed de tailing the amounts expected to be received and spent during the remaining days before the elec tion. Exceeding this amount by more than a specified per centage would constitute a vio lation. The latter provision is designed to control and possibly limit excessive last-minute spending. SB 20 also attempts to re 1 A k The Malheur County Board of Realtors met for their regular monthly meeting at lunch at the La Paloma on 1-12-71, with President Ruth M. Cunningham, Vale, Oregon, conducting the meeting. It was announced that C.C. C unningham had been appointed to the Executive Committee of the Oregon Association of Real tors and that Ruth Cunningham had been appointed to the Pro fessional Standards Committee of the Oregon Association of Realtors. F.M. Christiansen and Nell Christiansen were granted an “Honorary Membership” for two years in the Malheur County Board of Realtors, while they were away on a Mission. Guests of the club were Ross E. Butler and Gary Goodfellow. The following committees were appointed by President Ruth Cunningham: Membership, Merle Cum mings; Legislative and Taxa tion, Jay Phillips; Publicity, Eleanor L. Hartwell; Program, Glenna Kinney and EmilyStrey; Professional Standards, Chair man Jack Vincent (3 Year), Bud Strey (2 Year), Paul Parker (1 Year); Public Relations, Bill Yost; Reception and Education, Jay Phillips and Paul Parker; Public Affairs & Resolutions, C.C. Cunningham; Realtor of the year committee, A.O. Eu banks, Paul Parker and Bud Strey; Audit and Finance, Tom Nishihara and Frank Barber; By Laws Committee, C.C.Cun ningham; Industrialcommittee, Glenna Kinney. EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD READ Naked Cap»*0'1*' r león Nyssa Rexall Pharmacy We Deliver Anywhere! Liberal Terms We Carry Our Own Contracts / urn/fare • Match Tom Dollar Sale . - On Any Item in Stock Priced Over $39.95, We Will Match Your Down Payment Up to 25%. ■i A A fl LaJn^owrrsexXeci)
