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The Nyssa Gate City Journal, Nyssa, Oregon Thursday, January 28, 1971 NEWELL HEIGHTS ITEMS i ■ ■ ■ BY DALE WITT ■ ■ NEWELL HEIGHTS-A bridal shower was given Friday after noon at the Adrian Presbyterian Church Social Room for Mrs. George Schiemer. Hostesses were Mrs. Kenneth Price, Mrs. Carl Lee Hill, Mrs. K.I. Peter son, Mrs. Marie Moore and Mrs. Bill Looney. Mrs. Price was in charge of games and prizes were won by Mrs. Raymond Wilson, Mrs. Gladys Newbill, and Mrs. Helen Bishop. Mrs. Hill gave a reading “How a Wife Translates Their Hus band’s Language”. Mrs. Hill helped Mrs. Schiemer open her many lovely gifts and Terri Hill and Shelly Hill assisted in the showing of the gifts. Re freshments were served« Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Eason of Homedale were Sunday din ner guests of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Simpson. Mrs. Edith Fenn, Mrs. Ida Fenn and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Simpson were Thursday dinner guests of Mrs. Marie Moore. Mrs. John Downer of Taft, Calif., came by plane Wednes day to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. M.L. Judd and to help pre pare for their golden wedding anniversary reception to be held Sunday, January 31. See details on social pages. R.D. McKinley accompanied Roy Hirai to Klamath Falls Janaury 20 to attend a three- day meeting of the Oregon * State Potato Growers. Mrs. R.D. McKinley went by train January 18 to La Grande where she visited her daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Earnest and family, returning home on Sa turday. Mr. and Mrs. Monty Spell man were Sunday visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Lee Hill. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Price were also afternoon callers. Mrs. Marie Moore enter tained Coffee Klutch at her home Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Simp son visited Mr. and Mrs. Ken neth Fenn and family Sunday. Leslie York and Bill Bones of Ontario were Sunday visitors at the Alfred Simpson home. Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Topliff were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Bochlke in Nampa. Mrs. Dale Witt was a guest at the Lions Club Dinner in Adrian Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Gherke of Mountain Home visited Sun day with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rhodes. Mrs. Dave Savage and girls visited at the Gene Simpson home Friday afternoon, and Mrs. Abby Walker and children ALL-IN-ONE INSURANCE FOR MOBILE i HOMES! Let us tell you about the prime coverage we offer you. the mobile •homeowner There's no better on the market 1t's an All in One policy that gives you complete protection ,VMBOL OF SERVICE UNITED PACIFIC INSURANCE COMPANY A Member of United Pacific Insurance Group NOLAN FIELD- * -WALDO CO. INSURANCE AOINCIIS NOLAN FIELD DAVE WALDO DON KILPATRICK • 3 Offices to Serve You! Vale Ontario Phone Phone 473-3157 889-6990 Nyssa, Dave Waldo 372-3162 Ontario, 889-6990 l ■ PHONE 372-2183 ■ ■ ■ were Friday evening guests. David, Bill, Barbara and Jody Phelps and Jimmie Fenn were Sunday visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Gene Simpson and family. Mr. and Mrs. Dick Kriegh drove to the Owyhee Dam Sun day to see the water conditions there. Burdette Pratt, who attends college at La Grande, spent the week end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Pratt. Shelia, Robert and Carolyn Pratt attended the ball game at Greenleaf Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Leedy of Huntington were Tuesday lun cheon guests of Mrs. Lydia Worden. Mrs. Carl Fenn spent Wed nesday and Thursday at the Alfred Simpson home due to the high water at her home. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Andrews and two children of Portland visited Mrs. Carl Fenn Tuesday. They were on their way to Il linois where he had beentrans- fered. Mrs. Bruce Andrews is the daughter of Mrs. Donald Fenn. Mrs. L.C. McDermott and Mrs. Martha Besendorfer went to Nyssa to do their weekly shopping Thursday before the flood water would get higher under the bridges. Mrs. Gene Pratt took Mrs. Judy Kerby and Mrs. George Dilly of Caldwell to Boise Tues day to catch the plane for Den ver. They were sent to Denver by the Mercy Hospital in Nampa to attend a Seminar on Pediat ric’s Intensive Care at the Uni versity. Mrs. Edith Fenn visited Mr. and Mrs. Ray Simpson Saturday evening. Mrs. Ida Fenn visited Mrs. Edith Fenn Sunday evening. Mrs. Marie Moore was a guest Sunday at a birthday din ner in honor of K.I. Peterson at the home of his daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Mervil Hutchin son in Nyssa. I ■■ 11 ■■ 11 ■■ 11 ■■ 11 ■■ I Kingman Kolony BY DALE WITT PHONE 372-2183 KINGMAN KOLONY - Polly anna Club will hold their annual “Coffee for Heart and March of Dimes”, Thursday afternoon, February 4, at the Herschel Thompson home. Men and wo men of Kingman Kolony and other areas, are invited to at tend to give donations, and to visit their neighbors. Polly anna members will furnish cookies. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Phifer and Jan visited the Marvin Wright family in Boise Sunday. Mrs. Bill Toomb was a guest at the dinner given by the Lions Club in Adrian Sunday. She was a Sunday afternoon visitor at the Charles Bowers home. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Begeman and Mrs. Dale Witt were guests for oyster stew at the W.C. Van De Water home in Big Bend Wednesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Camp bell, Nancy and Connie went to La Grande Saturday to visit Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Slippy, re turning home Sunday evening. Mike Robb, who attends col lege in Portland, flew home to spend the week end with his pa rents, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Robb. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bailey of Ontario were Sunday after noon visitors in the Wayne Robb home. Mr. and Mrs. Charley Bowers moved out of their home Wed nesday night and stayed with Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Bowers in Adrian until Saturday morning due to the flood water near their home. Mrs. Eunice Phifer and Loye Phifer of Elko, were Monday and Tuesday overnight guests at the Charles Bowers home. Mrs. Mary Laan visited Mrs. Al Thompson Saturday after noon. Mrs. Rex Walters of Boise arrived Wednesday and is stay ing with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Al Thompson. Mrs. Thompson hasn’t been too well the past week. Don Fox entered Nyssa Hospi tal Saturday for treatment and care. Ross Mills was a Sunday afternoon visitor at the Al Thompson home. Mrs. Carl Piercy, Mrs. Bill Toomb and Mrs. Don Fox at tended the Happy Dozen Card Club meeting at the home of Mabie Piercy in Adrian, the loosers entertained the winners with a dinner. Mr. and Mrs. Lester Strawn visited their daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Carter in New Ply mouth Sunday afternoon. They also visited Mrs. Strawn’s sis ter, Mrs. A.J. Reiber. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Gherke of Mountain Home visted Mr. and Mrs. Willis Conant Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Myron Osborn visited Friday with her parents, GRANGE regular meeting of Oregon Trail Grange was called to order Thursday evening, Jan uary 21, by Master Don Somers. Grange officers were seated by stewards Mr. and Mrs. Ernie Metcalf. Master Somers welcomed ap proximately 60 members and friends who were present to hear eight Nyssa Vo-Ag stu dents compete in a public speak ing contest. Vo-Ag Instructor Deryl Leggett was introduced by Grange Lecturer Mrs. James Stephen. Leggett introduced the students and explained that their talks would be judged on sub ject matter, timing, voice, ex pression, stage manner.com- Mr. and Mrs. J.E. Cearly in Emmett. Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Osborn and Mr. and Mrs. Myron Os born were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Mike Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Begeman were Friday evening visitors at the Oscar Schafer home. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Marshall of Meridian, his mother, Mrs. Maude French of Nezperse, were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Schafer, They drove up to the Owyhee Dam to see the high water. NEWS position, and shakers ability to answer qu< st ions at the end of the talk. He stated that this year the Nyssa Chapter is having a special Freshman Chapter contest. The students who participated were; Glen Gibson who spoke on “FFA Opportunities”; Bob Holmes, “What Are They Really Doing Down On the Farm”; Carl Cleaver, “Save Our Soils”; Fred Child, “Take a Good Look”; Jack Joyce, “What the BLM Has Done for Our Eastern Oregon Range Lands”; ’Grant Richesin, “Progress Is What Makes It”. The freshman con testants were Dave Robbins, “Advantages of Pesticides”; and Kent Cleaver, “Farm Safety”. The judges were Clyde Swisher and Don Bates from the Nyssa High School and Joe Martin, First National Bank. Lurelie Robbins was the time keeper. Don Bates reported that the task of judging was difficult be cause of the excellence of each speaker. The first place award went to Bob Holmes; second place to Fred Child; thirdplace Jack Joyce, and fourth place to David Robbins. Kent Cleaver placed first in the contest for Page Three Freshmen. The freshmen and chapter winners will receive the awards at the parent and son banquet this spring. oriacDT c caaitlj to cover welfare costs The winner of the chapter con- “T KOorRi r. SMITH for the next biennium. test will compete in the Snake , This is by far the largest River District contest whicliOregon House Speakerincrease in either dollars or contest which includes spea percentage for any service pro The Oregon Legislature is vided by state government. kers from Baker, Adrian, Vale, And, welfare administrators Ontario and Nyssa. This con facing its moment of truth on test will be held at Vale on the question of financing public tell us that the end is nowhere January 28 at 10:00 a.m. The welfare programs, and I am insight. Thealarmingincrease Oregon State Grange provides determined that we must not in caseloads is expected to con an FFA belt and buckle for the avoid our responsibility to tinue indefinitely. In my opinion, Oregonians District winner and an FFA tie devise alternatives to the pre need not worry about proving bar for second place. The first sent system. Our problem can be simply their generosity andcompassion and second place winners will defined. Oregon’s welfare case for the less fortunate members advance to a sectional contest They have in which they will compete loads during the past year have of our society. against the first and second grown at a faster rate than the demonstrated their concern place winners from the Eastern caseloads in 48 other states. time and again. Only New Jersey has ex- No one will take exception to Oregon District. The Oregon State Grange pro perienced a faster rate of the statement that there are those in our society--particu- vides a trophy for the sectional growth. At the present time, there are larly the aged, blind, disabled, winner and miniature plaques for the second, third and fourth more than 100,000 Oregonians and very young--who are re place winners. The first place receiving welfare. This can be ceivingpublic assistance through compared to a work force of no fault of their own. winner from the sectional con slightly more than 900,000per The vast majority of these test competes next at the annual sons. persons are reluctant re Oregon FFA State Convention. Welfare costs have been cipients, and they desire only The FFA Foundation awards growing several times faster the opportunity to live in se- $100.00 to the state winner. than state revenues, and they curity and dignity. At this contest the Oregon State are outstripping our ability to We must, however, face the Grange provides an individual pay. Gov. Tom McCall has bitter fact that welfare has plaque to the first place winner, recommended an increase of failed miserably. It has done rotating plaque and FFA ban more than $100 million in the little or nothing to eliminate ner with emblem to the winner’s dependency, Rather, it has chapter and state award medals ing. The next regular grange created an institution of po to all participants. meeting will be held February Pot luck dinner was served 4, 8 p.m. All grange members verty, and many of those on the public dole are third and prior to the meeting with cake are urged to attend. fourth generation welfare fa- and coffee following the meet- THE 56TH LEGISLATURE milies. At the same time, welfare programs have spread them- selves so thin that in spite of their extravagance and bureau cratic overhead many of those whose need is greatest are pro vided a minimum subsistence. Some have suggested that we solve this problem by increas ing taxes. This would be an easy way out--for everyone, that is, but the taxpayer, who is already paying 37-cents out of each dollar earned to pay the costs of government. The special House Task Force on Welfare which I created a month ago has already held several public hearings in va rious parts of the state, and will soon be prepared to submit its recommendations to the full Legislature. I am optimistic that the Task Force will present suggestions which will result in an elimina tion of waste and a redirection of programs at the state level. Above all, I am hopeful that we can propose some measures which will eliminate the open- handed approach presently being followed, and provide the oppor tunity for recipients to get off the welfare rolls and onto the payrolls. There is no greater challenge facing Oregon or the nation. Why shouldn’t Oregon take the first step? In my opinion, we cannot afford not to.
