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Th« Nyssa Gat« City Journal, Nyssa, Or«gon The Gate City Journal St. Bridget’s News D1R1CK NEDRY, Editor 4 Publisher RUBEN LOPEZ, Shop Foreman SUBSCRIPTION RATES ! Oregon Newspaper ___ Publishers 1^‘Sl Association NATIONAL NEWSPAPER f wWH ig MtttHfiW rm rreu 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 Published Every Thursday at Nyssa, Malheur County, Oregon 97913 Entered at the Post Office at Nyssa, Oregon, for Trans mission through the United States Mails, as a Second Class Matter under the Act of Mar<h 3, 1879. ****************************************** 3Ebi tor age, whileshecaredforandpaid Editor, The Journal: all hospital and medical bills We have lost one of our oldest for her husband, who died after citizens, and one who will long a lingering bout with cancer. He be remembered by her many had been a Federal Narcotic friends, both young and old. Tho Agent. living on a mere pittance, when Pupils from theCraneSchool, a need presented itself, she now with families of their own, never failed to share of the have visited her to this date, little she had. Outspoken, but bringing gifts and memories. honest and loyal. We are They tell us they mourn with us talking, of course, of Elizabeth now. Shaughnessy. So the final chapter closes and We feel that her sudden death the book is laid away, but never was hastened by the anxiety an forgotten. Such a rare persona anonymous phone call which lity will ever live in our hearts. she received threatening her In packing her possessions to life, and we pray the perpetrator send to her nearest relative, of this cowardly act will re we found beautiful bits of poe member this through long, try attesting to the inner beauty sleepless nights to come. of this marvelous woman. The Mrs. Shaughnessy was a pro following poem is one she fessional cook, and her last brought to us a short time ago, position was at the tax-sup with the wish that the Gate City ported Crane School that re Journal would publish it. The ceived recognition in the Sa author is unknown, but the turday Evening Post some years thoughts are those of Mrs. ago. She continued in that ca Shaughnessy. pacity until past 70 years of Sincerely, Bessie E. Long Beautitudes for Friends of the Aging Blessed are they who understand My faltering steps and palsied hand. Blessed are they who know that my cars today Must strain to catch the things they say. 1 The junior High cyo group of St. Bridget’s Church is spon soring a movie Friday night at 7:30 p.m. All Junior high students of the area are invited. A donation of .50? is being asked of those who attend. A dance will follow the film. The name of the film is “Operation Madball.” If this showing is successful the group will sponsor other comic and scary films appropriate for students of this age group. • * • Saturday evening under the joint sponsorship of the Altar Society and Men’s Group of St. Bridget’s Church a Mexican potluck will be held at 7:30p.m in the hall. Following the pot luck Chalupa will be played by all. This is a Mexican game, and not only is fun, but will acquaint many of those present with Spanish words. * * * This past Tuesday evening Rev. Leo Weckerle, chancellor of the diocese of Baker, led a discussion at St. Bridget’s on the question of birth control. The session was well attended, and the discussion enlightening and informative. Due to the interest shown it is hoped to have Father Weckerle come to St. Bridget’s again in the fu ture for a discussion on the bond of marriage. APOSTOLIC FAITH Apostolic Church of the Faith in Christ Jesus services will be held in the evenings Sunday, Wednesday, andFridayat7p.m. Sunday School services are held from 10 a.m. until noon. All are welcome, announced Pastor Mike Valverde, Jr. Thechurch is located at 612 North 9th Street in Nyssa. UNITED METHODIST CHURCH NOTES WANT TO BE A VALENTINE ? Women of the United Methodist Church are invited to attend a potluck luncheon to be held in the social hall of the church, February 4 at 12:30 p.m. It is requested that you bring food and your own table service. Baby sitter will be provided. CHRISTIAN CHURCH OBITUARIES ^ Elizabeth Shaughnessy Elizabeth Shaughnessy, 91, Nyssa died January 19 at the Nyssa hospital. She was born April 22, 1879, in Germany and came to the United States at the age of 16. She lived in the Los Angeles area until 1900 when she went to Seattle. She was married to John Shaughnessy in May of 1900. He died in 1950. In 1952 she moved to Nyssa. Graveside services were conducted January 21 at the Nyssa cemetery under the di- rection of the Lienkaemper Chapel in Nyssa. Howard E. Hatch Howard Elbert Hatch, 68, Fruitland, died at his home January 19. He was born August 25, 1902, in the Big Bend Community. He was the oldest son of Harvey and Myrtle Hatch. He was reared in Big Bend and attended Wade and Parma schools as well as a mechanical school in Portland and an electrical school in Salt Lake City. He was a co-owner of the first garage in Adrian. He married Fern Wymer in 1922. He owned and operated the school bus from Big Bend to Nyssa from 1931 to 1939 and to Adrian until 1950. He worked as a mechanic until 1960 when he moved to Gayway Junction where he owned and operated Hatch’s Trading Post until 1968. He was operating Hatch’s Trailer Court at the time of his death. He marriedCarlynSilerWas- son, November 14, 1962. He was an active member of the Lions Club in Adrian and Fruitland and hid served as president of both clubs. He also was active in community affairs and was an honorary Boy Scout. He is survived by his wife; three sons, Elbert, Fruitland, Dwaine, Enterprise, and Donald Hatch, Adrian; a daughter, Mrs. Donald (Barbara) Hatt, Ontario; two stepsons, Carl Wasson, Sla ter, Mo., and Don Wasson, Ball win, Mo.; three brothers, Homer Hatch, Mountain Home and Henry and Paul Hatch, Joseph, Oregon; three sisters, Miss Helen Hatch, Ontario, Mrs. Tom (Hazel) Ferguson, Parma, and Mrs. James (Pauline) McGinnis, Adrian; 13 grandchildren, i great-grandchild and seven step-grandchildren. Services were conducted Jan uary 22 at the Lienkaemper Chapel in Nyssa by Elder Dan Knauft of the Seventh-day Ad ventist Church of Parma. In terment was at Roswell under the direction of the Bertelson- Lienkaemper Memorial Chapel. i Hallie Grigg Services for Hallie Gardner Grigg, 90, Vale, who died Jan. 23 at an Ontario hospital were conducted Jan. 27 at the Vale Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Bishop Neil Hiatt. Interment was at Valley View under di rection of High Chapel. Mrs. Grigg was born Nov. 24, 1880 at Richfield, Utah. She was named Thankful Halsey Gardner but has been called Hallie all of her life. She at tended grade and high school at Richfield and later attended the University of Utah. She taught school for three years until her marriage on July 2, 1902, to Parley Mormon Grigg, Jr. in the LDS temple at Manti, Utah. The couple later moved to Cove, Ore., where the first five of their children were born. They moved to Nampa and had eight more children. The couple also lived at Prairie, Idaho for two years before moving to Vale in 1934. They engaged in farming until their retire ment in 1957 when they moved to Ontario. Last fall the couple moved to Vale to live with a daughter, Mrs. Lloyd Dyas. Mrs. Grigg was considered a talented poetess and had five of her poems set to music and published. Five volumes of verse have also been published and other poems have been published in magazine and news papers. Survivors include nine sons, Parley and Lamar, both of Port land/ Eugene of Melba; Wells of Idaho City,1 Golden of Weidman, Mich.,* Nephi of Ontario, ser ving currently as president of Scottish Mission in Edinburg, Scotland,* Heber of Parma; James and Richard, both of Vale; three daughters, Mrs. Lloyd (Leah) Dyas, Vale; Mrs. Otis (Katherine) Williams, and Mrs. Kenneth (June) Carey, both of Burley; 66 granchildren, 125 great-grandchildren, 3 great great grandchildren; nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband Parley M. Grigg (October, 1970) and an infant daughter, 6 grandchildren, 2 great-granchildren, 6 brothers and 7 sisters. DOG LICENSE DUE No Later Than March 1,1971 On All Dogs In The City Of Nyssa Over 8 Months Of Age. LICENSE FEES — Males, Spayed Females $2.00 Unspayed Females . . . $3.00 ICTUS o- After above date, any unlicensed dogs will be impounded and own ers are subject to a misdemeanor penalty. Dogs MUST wear the li cense tags. NYSSA CITY RECORDER NYSSA CITY HALL building needs CARLS BUILDING CENTER 425 N. MAIN ST. 372-3303 J 60 YEARS AGO 10 YEARS AGO 30 YEARS AGO Announcement has been made through their ads, that Eddie and Bertha Taylor are closing their super market following the end of business January 28. They came to Nyssa in 1958. Eddie managed the Associated Service Station at Third and Main for two years while Ber tha served as office manager for the C.C. Anderson Store in Ontario. * * ♦ Area farmers met at Nyssa little theater High School Monday evening to organize a Nyssa Farm Bureau Center. Norbert Sarazin was named chairman of the new organi- zation. Other officers named were Tom Nishitani, vice chairman; Mark Hartley, voting delegate; Mrs. Ted Bowers, women’s chairman; Mrs. Fred Schilling, women’s vice chairman; and J.O. (Brig) Olsen, secretary treasurer. One step towards the bridge We have a mile of road im passable on Alberta Ave. The across the Snake River has been school bus driver, Cywren made and the result is satis Ensminger became stuck in it fying to all interested. The Friday evening and it was ne County Court has appropriated cessary to obtain a team to haul $10,000 towards the con the bus to the gravel. On Co struction for the bridge provix lumbia Ave. the school bus can ding that it be a steel structure hardly get through and the road from shore to shore and that it will be in every respect an up- is unsafe. * * * to-date bridge. It is also under George Jensen and Malcolm stood by the County Court that C rawford (red tarn and all) the city of Nyssa is to main- hereby and herewith challenge tain it for ten years after it is Art Norcott and Harry Miner completed. to a bicycle race from Main The next thing that looms dp and the highway to Main and before the committee of the First any day they feel lucky. Commercial Club is the drafting * ♦ » of two bills, one for the Oregon Pete Tensen andC.M. Tensen and one for the Idaho Legis turned over once and a half latures. The people within the down a grade about a mile from trading limits of Nyssa on the Harper Tuesday on their way east side of the river are to Drewsy. C.M. Tensen lost working enthusiastically for the control of his car when it struck bridge and are going to see a a boulder near the edge of the bridge spanning the Snake River road. After turning over, a at this point before they give boulder stopped them on the up now. A bridge means to way down. Neither of the two them not only the saving of the were hurt but the car was badly ferry fee but also the time that is necessarily lost in wait- damaged. ing for the ferry. Time to them as well as to the rest of us at 50 YEARS AGO the busy season of the year is A wedding of more than usual a valuable asset. interest occured on Wednesday noon of this week at the home NYSSA RELATIVES of Mrs. Scott when Miss Martha CRASH Overstreet was married to DIE IN Maurice Leroy Judd. The cere Dr. and Mrs. John Long o( mony began promptly at 12 Nyssa received word Sunday of o’clock. Miss Overstreet was the deaths of two relatives in very attractively dressed in brown georgette crepe and was an airplane crash southeast of attended by Miss Florence King- Oakridge Friday. Doug Wilson, county editor1 man while Robert Overstreet of the Eugene Register-Guard, accompanied the groom. Mr. Shields was the officiating and Arbie MacDonald, Spring-; minister and the bride’s father field, were killed as wa§ Charles Rimpley, Eugene, the; gave her away. The two young men The house was beautifully pilot. were married to sisters, nieces decorated with flowers and lighted only by softly shaded of Mrs. Long. Another man, Terry Tit- candles. The only guests present other schwager, Eugene, was injured than the immediate families but walked out to get help, of the participants were Miss Kingman, Mr. Roberts and Re- Newgen Returns verand and Mrs. Shields. Mr. and Mrs. Judd left during the To Nyssa Hospital afternoon for Boise. Their L.E. Newgen, who has beep home will be about three miles east of Parma, where Mr. Judd a patient in Nyssa for four, weeks, was transferred to a is engaged in farming. ♦ ♦ ♦ Caldwell hospital to undergo Friday evening Arthur Boydell surgery. After spending 10 of the Nyssa Trading Company days there he returned to the walked down town in an Nyssa Malheur Memorial Hos agitated manner. His friends pital Sunday and is recovering observed his strange actions, nicely. He is now able to re-, inquired the reason. Art ex ceive company. plained that a fine nine pound Mrs. Newgen accompanied, boy had just arrived at his home her husband to Caldwell and to take charge of affairs, and he was a guest in the home of didn’t know what to do about it. their friends, Mr. and Mr$,‘, Friends advised him to becalm Ernie Morris. Mrs. Morris* and let it go at that, after which will be rememberd as Mildred he seemed quite relieved, and Terra of the Sunset Valley passed around the cigars. area. 20 YEARS AGO Nyssa women started today conducting a house-to-house canvass for the registration of men and women and some child ren who are interested in co operation in the civil defense program, according to Defense Director, J.L. Herriman. “The thing we want to impress on you is that our principle pro blem is the complacency of people”, Mr. Herriman said. ‘•The nation is susceptible to attack and the attackers can cause a lot of damage. The civil defense program is based on self-preservation. We have to help ourselves and be in a position to help others. “The housing of evacuees will be important. If the west coast is evacuated, we will have to make sacrifices”. The women will work under the supervision of the Nyssa Civic Club, representedby Mrs. Henry Hartley and Mrs. George Vaughn, area wardens. ♦ * * Private First Class Kenneth D. Rookstool, was awarded the bronze star medal for heroism in action against the enemy in Korea. Pfc. Rookstool, a com munications man of the first cavalry division, received the A generation ago only about decoration for exposing him half of each mature tree har self to enemy artillery and vested found its way into wood mortar and small arms fire to products. Today, says Georgia- keep communications open be Pacific Corp., industrial tree tween friendly companies during He is the son of farmers can utilize virtually all an attack. of the tree for finished products Mrs. Cora P. Rookstool ofR#2, Nyssa. used by everyone. Christian Church members and visitors will meet for a potluck dinner after the ser Blessed are they who seem to know cs vices Sunday, January 31, at the That my eyes are dim and my wits are slow. Christian Church. This is the Blessed are they who looked away fifth Sunday Debt Lifting Day. Under good timber manage There will be a program and When coffee spilled at the table today. ment, three to five times the a film showing in the afternoon. normal number of timber crops * ♦ ♦ Blessed are they with a cheery smile can be grown. Christian Women’s Fellow Who stop to chat for a little while. NHS CALENDAR ship will meet Thursday after -»i Blessed are they who never say, noon February 4, at 2 p.m. at JAN. 28 - Wrestling at Nyssa, “You’ve told that story twice today.” the home of Mrs. Merle John Weiser and Nampa. son. Teachers Credit Union, East Blessed are they who know the ways Mrs. Ralph Curry will be in side Cafe, Ontario, 7 p.m. To bring back memories of yesterdays. charge of devotions. FFA Public Speaking Contest Blessed are they who make it known at Vale, 10 a.m. Soroptimists Tell JAN. 29 - Basketball, Valli- That I'm loved, respected, and not alone. vue, there. Award Winners JAN. 30 - Basketball, John Blessed are they who know I’m at a loss Eleanor L. Hartwell, Chair Day, here 8 p.m. To find the strength to carry the cross. man of the “Youth Citizenship FEB. 3 - FFA, State Farmer Blessed are they who ease the days Awards” for the Soroptiinist Interviews, Ontario. Club of Ontario, has announced On my journey Home in loving ways. FEB. 4-Wrestling, Bishop the judges decision of the win Kelley, here ners as Dorinne Kay Kondo, Ontario, as first place winner SHEEP SHEARING and Steve Wesley Henwood, On DRUG COUNCIL HOLDS MEETING tario, as second place winner. SCHOOL SCHEDULED First place winner receives a A two day sheep shearing Malheur County Council on film entitled, “DW Phoemx $75.00 UnitedStates Saving Bond school will be held in Ontario, Alcohol and Drugs will hold Program”, showing a planned and second place winner March 30 and 31 according to a community program in the program for people who have receives a $50.00 Bond, from the George Bain, Malheur County Yellow Room, Moore Hotel, On alcohol problems (in this case local club. Extension Agent. tario, tonight January 28, at drinking-driving). He will dis Winners of the club awards, Dr. John Landers, Animal 7:30 p.m. cuss the local scene and an w ithin a geographical area, Science specialist from Oregon swer questions. will next compete for a Regional State University, will be the Sgt. Duane Pankratz of the Refresments will be served Award of $1,000.00 from the instructor. Oregon State Police will show a following the program. Soroptimist Foundations. A Dr. Landers will furnish the total of 17 Regional Awards of equipment and will teach the $1,000.00 will be announced dur basic fundamentals of sheep ing the second week of April. shearing. Each Regional winner will then Since hecanadequatelyhandle compete for a finalist award of a limited number of students, $1,500.00 In all, it isestimated it is necessary for those in that a total of $75,000.00 will terested to fill out an appli be awarded to approximately cation for enrollment. These 1,500 high school seniors. forms are available at the These Awards of Merit may be Extension Office inOntarioCitv used by the recipients in ways Hall, Bam says. to best further the students’ Anyone interested should con aims to achieve their goals - tact George Bain as soon as education, etc. possible. À I I 1 OUT OF THE PAST Journal Classifieds Bring Results!
