Th« Nyssa Gat« City Journal, Nyssa, Or«gon
The Gate City Journal
St. Bridget’s News
D1R1CK NEDRY, Editor 4 Publisher
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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