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University Of Oregon Library Eugene, Ore. 97403 X X X X X Nyssa Gate City Journal Volume LXV The Sugar City___________ The Ny»sa Gate City Journal, Nyssa, Oregon Governor Appoints Yraguen District TVCC DIRECTORS SLASH BUDGET BY $95,228 FOR APRIL ELECTION Treasure Valley Community College directors slashed a whopping $95,228 off the pro posal that was defeated in the March budget election, and will now ask the voters to approve $513,461 in property tax. This will call for a tax levery of $2.20 per $1,000 of true cash value. The current tax requirement on the 1970-71 operating budget is $623,337 with a levy of $2.93 per $1,000. This represents a reduction in the tax load for 1971-72 of $109,876 and a re duction in levy of 73£. The cut was made possible by anticipating $50,000 in state funds, and a cut in salaries and fringe benefits for faculty mem bers. As things stand now, the budget offeredto voters on April 21 calls for total budget re quirements of $1,730,085. Col lege income is estimated at $1,267,970 leaving the balance to be raised by taxation. Thursday, April 8, 1971 increase of $4,500 in Mainten ance of Plant to share up the foundation at the Elementary School, and they have also em barked on a program to re place some bleachers at the athletic field. Fixed Charges are up$6,192, mainly to take care of increases in Social Security, Retirement and Fire Insurance. One large item necessitating a raise in taxes is a cut in the Basic School Support of $12,000. The proposed budget was ap proved by the Budget Com mittee, and the public hearing The largest increase in the on the budget was set for April budget is for instructional sal 23. A full budget summary is aries, up $52,329 over the cur published in this and the next rent 1970-71 budget. This re issue of the Journal. presents about a 7% increase, The budget election is sche and brings Nyssa salaries in duled for Monday, May 17. The line with Vale and Ontario. budget as approved now calls Budget Committee members for a vote on $157,010 outside pointed out that there is an the 6% limitation. The first public hearing on the 1971-72 budget for the Nyssa Schools was held Tuesday eve ning, with a handful of school patrons in attendance. John Studer, chairman of the Budget Committee, presided at the meeting and Superintendent W.L. McPartland read the budget message. The proposed budget calls for a total of $986,255 in the General Fund, with $681,556 taxes to be levied. This is an increase of $71,254 above last year’s budget and calls for an increase of $92,801 in taxes. Adrian Budget Hearing Tonight Drug Education Program Planned For Teachers Easter Egg Hunt Sat. aged 8 to 11 will hunt their eggs in the North Park. There will be designated areas by age groups in each of the parks. Prizes given by Nyssa mer chants will be awarded to those children finding the lucky eggs. Father Young Elected To OEO Presidency Father Charles Young of St. Bridget’s Catholic Church was elected president of the Nyssa Area Council of the OEO at the election last Wednesday eve ning. He will replace outgoing President Stephen Fonda. Manuel DeFuentes was elected vice president, and MaryTheil, secretary. Elected to the Nyssa Oppor tunity Center Advisory Board were Rodolfo Longoria, Tony Martinez, Ruben Lopez, Wil ton Jackson, Raymond Larson, Marcelo Soliz, Dolores Gomeza and Prudencio Escobedo. A total of 1J)16 voters cast ballots in the election. The successful candidates were vi ctorious over 23 others, all nominated at a public meeting on Wednesday, March 24. Malheur County Judge Ellis A. White and Malheur County Clerk Robert Morcum super vised the election and served on the counting board. CHAMBER OPPOSES BILINGUAL BILL The Nyssa Chamber of Com merce went on record Wed nesday opposing a bill creat ing Bilingual Education in State of Oregon Schools, and copies of the resolution will b« sent to Govemonr McCall and State Senator Tony Yturri. Attorney Gene Stunz spoke on the mea sure, and said that House Bill No. 1120 allowing bilingual stu dies had passed the House, but has not been voted upon in the Senate. Visitors to the chamber meet ing, held at Brownie’s Cafe, were Earl McCollum, Director of Occupational Education at TVCC; Pauline Coleman, Home Economist at the college; and Howard Gehrls, manager of Owyhee Lake Resort. Nyssa Students Make Honor Roll A total of 1628 students made the honor roll at Oregon State University for the winter term, 344 of them making straight - A marks. Nyssa students on the honor roll were George Heider, En gineering; Brenda McKinney, Education; Robert Okano, En gineering; Ronald Strasser, Hu manities and Social Sciences; and Barbara Tensen, Education. IPK Scholarship Winner Governor Tom McCall appointed Frank J. Yraguen as district attorney for Malheur County, effective April 1, succeeding F. La Gard Smith. State Senator Tony Yturrl, left, looks on. Yraguen, 31, a native of Vale, is a graduate and former student body president of Vale Union High School, and attended Oregon State University. During his service as a Passenger Service Ends The Union Pacific Railroad said Monday it will halt all passenger service effective May 1, the date the National Railroad Passenger Corpora tion, RAILPAX, is to assume responsibility for inter-city passenger service. Affected are daily runs of the following trains; City of Los Angeles, between Omaha and Los Angeles; City of Kansas City, between Kansas City and Los Angeles; City of Portland, between Omaha and Portland; Portland Rose, between Kan sas City and Denver, and Den ver and Portland. Also to be halted are the Butte Special, which runs three times weekly between Butte, Montana and Salt Lake City. All passenger service now provided by mixed trains, those including freight and passenger cars, will also be halted, the Union Pacific said. TRAINS 105-106 BETWEEN OMAHA AND PORTLAND - Last train 105 from Omaha Satur day May 1, 1971, leave Nyssa .1:55 a.m. May 2nd. Last train 106 from Portland Friday, April 30, 1971, leave Nyssa 12:55 a.m. May 1st. TRAINS 17-18 BETWEEN DEN VER AND PORTLAND - Last train 17 from Denver Friday, April 30, 1971, leave Nyssa 12:30 p.m. May 1st. Last train 18 from Portland Friday, April 31, 1971, leave Nyssa 5:58 p.m. April 30th. Band, Choir To Participate In Festival Appreciative smile and Union Pacific Railroad Scholarship certificate both belong to Lurelle Robbins, son of Mr. and Mrs. Norvelle Robbins, Nyssa. Lurelle was among 12 out standing vocational agriculture students, selected from Oregon counties served by the railroad, to receive $400 UP grant at State FFA convention at Bend. Robbins plans to enter college this fall to major in agricultural economics. UP, celebrating 50th consecutive year for its scholarship program, doubled its previous $200 grant, effective with current winners, *o meet hldier educational costs. Number XIV NYSSA SCHOOL BUDGET APPROVED, HEARING SET FOR APRIL 23 TVCC President Emery Skin ner said that in a hearing Fri day night a farm group asked that some of the building con struction fund be transferredto the general fund. The college attorney, William Schroeder, informed the directors that this construction fund can only be used for building. It represents $179,000, which is a combina tion of money raised from bond sales approvedpreviouslybythe voters, and the balance of the money from the estate of Dr. William Weese left to TVCC. Adrian School Superintendent Glenn Ward reminds Adrian school patrons that the budget hearing for the 1971-72 budget will be held tonight, Thursday, at 8 p.m. Ward said that the Adrian district does not have a tax base, so the entire levy must be approved by the voters. The proposed budget has total requirements of $380,411, and the taxes to be levied are The Nyssa Junior Chamber $262,074.02. Taxes levied last of Commerce will stage the year were $267,730.12. Fixed charges are up $6,000, annual Easter Egg Hunt Satur day at 1 p.m. in the South and and $10,000 has been included in the proposed budget for extra North City Parks. Alvin Allen said that all child maintenance work around the ren ages 7 and under should buildings. The base salary for go to the South Park, and those teachers has been increased aged 8 to 11 will hunt their from $6,525 to $6,700, Ward said. eggs in the Thunderegg Capital According to band director, Craig Northrup, NHS’s band and choir will be participating in the annual District III band, choir and orchestra music fes tival, April 16. The festival will be held this year at the Jewett Auditorium at the College of Idaho in Cald well. The mixed choir, under the direction of Gary Condon, will sing "Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs”, "My Bonnie Lass She Smileth” and "It is a Great Day for Joy”. The girls’ choir will perform "Oh, Magnify the Lord”, "Now Let Me Fly”, and "Turtle Dove”. Under the direction of Craig Northrup, the band will perform three numbers including "Fes- tivo”, “Overture in B Flat”, and "Red White and Blue March”. Rabies Clinic Set For May The State Rabies Clinic will be held in Nyssa again this year, sometime in May, accord ing to Police Chief Alvin Allen. Further details will be avail able later. Marine Corps officer, he saw combat duty in Vietnam. Following his discharge from military service, Yraguen attended Willamette Law School, receiving his degree in 1970. Until last week, when he returned to Vale, he had been serving as deputy district attorney for Douglas County. Yraguen is married to the former Patricia Allison of Lebanon. They have two children. Candidate List Complete For School Elections Twenty-three persons have filed for election to the various Malheur County School Dist rict boards of directors and ithe inifjj. Treasure Valley Commune, College Board of Directors. An election to fill vacan cies on the boards will be May 3 from 8 a.m. - 8 p.m. in each district, Superintendent of Schools Leroy J. Paulsen re ported. Persons filing are: Brogan, Arthur Allen; Rockville, Andrew Cunningham, Jr.; Jordan Valley, Mrs. Jeff Anderson; Ontario 8C, Robert Peterson and Robert Cruickshank; Juntura, Bill D. Williams; Vale Elementary School, Bob White; Nyssa, Gene Stunz and Woodrow Seuell; An nex, Paul Saito and Denzil Head; Willowcreek, Robert O. Maag; Adrian, Emery Cameron; Harper, Tom Mooney; Jordan Special Good Friday Service The Nyssa Ministerial As sociation is sponsoring an_ in terdenominational Good Friday Service. The Rev. J.D. Crego and the United Methodist Church are hosts for the service which is scheduled for 8 p.m. this Fri day evening. The Rev. Roy Kilby will bring the message with other mini sters participating in the ser vice. The offering received at the service will go toward the Min isterial Associations transient help fund. All people of the Nyssa - Adrian area are in vited to worship together at this service. Valley High School, William E. 50SS;„ Yal.e. P?ion. Scho°l> Pete Schaffeld and Robert Mor- ®om- Those filing for directors on the Intermediate Education District are William G. Ross, Tak Kuwahara and Bob Skin- ner. Each is unopposed. Sherman Turner and E.M. Seuell have filed for vacancies on the TVCC Board of Directors. Terms for the IED board are three years in length and terms for local district boards are five years in length. The terms for the community college board are four years long. Lucy Hunt To Join Chavez Mrs. Lucy Pena Hunt has an nounced her resignation as di rector of the Nyssa Opportunity Center effective May 1. Her reason for leaving is reportedly to free herself to work in farm worker organization efforts this year. Mrs. Hunt said she plans to enter a two week training session with the United Farm Worker’s organization under direct leadership of Cesar Chavez. Upon her return here she plans to take an active part in farm labor organization ef forts this coming summer. CANCER DRIVE IN BUSINESS DISTRICT Mrs. Lucille Myrick is chair man of the Cancer Drive for the Nyssa business district. She and her helpers will call on the business places during the month of April. Women working on this soli citation are Mmes. Ann Studer, Amy Williams, Lucille Wilson, TVCC Registration Judy Grunke, Marlene Michael, Vera Paulus and Lois Miner. Th rough Friday These workers say that "Your Late registrational Treasure thoughtful gift can help your Valley Community College will family, your friends, your neigh continue through Friday, April 9 bors . . . and you.” for the college’s spring quarter, according to Dick DeBisschop, March Traffic Toll registrar. Registration maybe completed by interested stu For Oregon Down dents at the Weese Memorial Oregon’s traffic toll for 1971 Building. is continuing to show a reduc tion, according to the Motor Vehicles Division. The tentative March toll of 38 brought the state’s first quarter — ... _ — - — traffic death toll to 130,25 fewer . MAX MIN PREC deaths than reported for the date same period last year. Mar 31 53 31 In March last year, 49people April 1 23 60 were killed. This year’s March April 2 38 62 April 3 37 toll was the lowest toll for that 58 April 4 28 month since 1966 when 38 people 64 April 5 27 also died. 72 .12 April 6 37 The Division noted that the 71 Owyhee Reservoir Storage state had 10 death free days 4/7/71 698,650 Acre Feet during March and only two Acre Feet multiple-death accidents. 4/7/70 701,680 Jackson Named Center Head Wilton Jackson, Nyssa busi nessman, was elected chairman of the advisory board of the Nyssa Opportunity Center at a meeting held Saturday morning. Members of the advisory board were elected at a public vote last Wednesday. Rodolfo Longoria and Ruben Lopez were named by the ad visory board to serve on the Treasure Valley Migrant Edu cation Board, and Marcelo Soliz was picked as an alternate dele gate in the absence of either of the principals. Opportunity Center Advisory Boards throughout the Valley each nametwoof the|r members to serve on the Migrant Edu cation Board. BUSINESS COURSES OFFERED AT TVCC Business courses being of fered during the evening hours throughout spring quarter at Treasure Valley Community College are still open for en rollment. They are: beginning and advanced typing; beginning and advanced shorthand; and Principles of Advertising. The typing courses are taught each Tuesday and Thursday evening while the shorthand classes meet on Mondays and Wednes day. The advertising class is held on Thursday night only. For more informtation contact Norm Millikin, Chairman of the Business Department at the col lege, or for enrolling in any of the classes contact personnel in the Student Affairs office. The Drug Education Program for Oregon Teachers (DEPOT) local workshop has been con firmed for Malheur and Harney Counties. The workshop is one of fifteen scheduled in Oregon and is being sponsored and directed by Governor McCall, Alcohol and Drug Section of the Oregon State Mental Health Division and the Oregon Board of Education. TheDEPOTlocal coordinator is Leroy Paulsen, IED Superintendent. The forty hour workshop is scheduled April 12 through April 16, in the Administration Building on the Treasure Valley Community College campus in Ontario, Oregon. The purpose of the workshop Is to inform selected teachers from each school district as the inter relationship of drugs, society’s use and abuse of drugs, and the reasons for individual use and abuse. The teachers will have explained the proper method of implementing the State’s new handbooks which are planned for use next school year. These teachers are expected to return to their respective districts to inform and motivate their col leagues about the drug curri culum. Some speakers appearing on the program either by video tape or in person are: Joel Fort, M.D, Samuel Irwin, M.D., Richard G. Schlaadt, Ed. D., Vern Flock, Alcohol and Drug Section, Paul Blachly, M.D., and John Storch, Malheir County Family Service Director. A visit to the Narcotics Squad Division of the Boise, Police Department has been arranged through the courtesy of Sargeant Charles Palmer of that organi zation. Easter Seal Campaign Ends The annual seal sale of the Easter Seal Society tor Crip pled Children and Adults of Oregon will come to a close Easter Sunday, but Robert Tar rant ofCorvallis, society presi dent, has expressed hope that persons who failed to receive seals in the mail will respond by mailing their contributions to Easter Seals, care of their local Postmaster. "The people of Oregon have been most generous in their support of the Easter Seal so ciety’s programs during past years and we are confident they will be no less generous this year,” Tarrant said. "It is our sincere hope that those who haven’t responded to date will do so in the near future.” Tarrant pointed out that the sale of Easter Seals is the principal source of revenue for AIRCRAFT OWNERS the society’s various projects, including Children’s Hospital MUST REGISTER School in Eugene; Camp Easter The State Board of Aero Seal on the Oregon coast; 5 nautics reminds all aircraft mobile therapy clinics that tra owners that under Oregon Laws vel the entire state bringing all aircraft based in Oregon and physical therapy to those in not registered with the State need, an equipment loan pool Board of Aeronautics prior to that provides wheelchairs, April 30, 1971, may be sub crutches, and walkers, hy ject to both local personal pro draulic lifts and other special perty taxes and the annual re equipment to the needed physi gistration fee of $15.00 cally handicapped. Registration blanks may be "Our goal, the society presi obtained from Flying Service dent stated, "is to meet the Operators or the State Board unmet needs of Oregon’s Physi of Aeronautics, 3040 25th St., cally handicapped children and S.E., Salem, Oregon 97310. adults.” Amalgamated Plans Custom Thinning WEATHER Amalgamated Sugar Company took delivery of six John Deere tractors and electronic thinners last week at Nyssa. Shown are Ray Larson, left, district manager of Amal gamated; and Ralph Hollingsworth, owner of Hollingsworth’s, Inc. of Ontario. Each of the outfits cost $16,000 and are part of a lease-purchase arrangement between Amal- gamated Sugar Company and John Deere Tractor Company in Portland. Larson said that the company will do custom thinning this year as part of Amal gamated's Farm Service program; andeven- tually plans a complete service of planting, cultivating and thinning for their growers as the need arises.