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.
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$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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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