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Pag« Eight Thursday, April 15, 1971 Th« Nyssa Gat« City Journal, Nyssa, Oregon (Continued From Page 1) In the afternoons and evenings the three are on the UOcampus attending classes and seminars. «-^-BY DALE WITTPHONE 372-2183 -O-» Kimmo Jaakko Kustaa Tuo- ■ ■ ■ BY DALE WITT ■ ■ ■ PHONE 372-2183 ■ ■ ■ By the end of their fourth term, maala, Vastilo, Finland, visited Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Schafer KINGMAN KOLONEY - Mr. a full calendar year, each will the past week at Adrian High. NEWELL HEIGHTS - Mr. and Mrs.,W.C. VanDewater and son and Mrs. Willis Conant andJim were Friday evening visitors of have completed work for a mas Kimmo stayed with Mr. and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Begeman. Mrs. Harry Warren of Parma Kent and Mr. and Mrs. Carl were Easter dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Schafer ter's degree in education. and Mr. and Mrs. Chuck Brady Begeman, with the Milo Con- Mrs. Hans Soloman of Ridge Mr. and Mrs. Lester Stacy and Mrs. Spickerman says the view. He is presently going visited Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. of Ontario were Easter dinner ables, were Easter dinner family in Apple Valley. year’s training has made her Kirby Kendall in Caldwell. 1 guests of Mr. and Mrs. Irvin guests at the Dale Witt home. to school, as a senior at North Mr. and Mrs. Paul Gerhke of “much more sure of myself in Salem. There he will finish Topliff and family. Mrs. Bill Webb reports the Mountain Home were home over the afternoon Mrs. Schafer and both reading and math.” Mrs. Mrs. Kendall went to Boise and Mr. and Mrs. Edward Topliff arrival of a grandson, born to his senior year and then return the weekend. Glosson and Jasper agree, and and family of Hazelton, Idaho Mr. and Mrs. Mike Hastriter to Finland to finish his senior Mr. and Mrs. Jim Phifer visited their mother, Mrs. give the credit to courses and year there. He came down were Saturday afternoon visi (Pauline) in Prov, April 9. He and Jan, Jerry Freitig of Nyssa, Lavada Lenaghen, and their bro materials developed by Dr. Carl tors in the Topliff home. has been named Eric, and here to see what Eastern Oregn and Mr. and Mrs. Marvin ther, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wallen in the teaching of read Charles and Dale were overnight weighted six pounds and eight Bowers and family were guests Lenaghen. ing and Dr. Norbert Maertens Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Scott guests. ounces. Pauline graduated from at a potluck dinner at the Chas. in teaching mathematics skills. of Eugene visited Mr. and Mrs Mrs. Rollo Fenn and Mr. and BYU; Mike is still attending Bowers home Easter Sunday. None of the children the group Mrs. Ray Simpson were Easter BYU. Mrs. Chas. Bowers had a phone Don Fox from Monday until works with at Bailey Hill has Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Fox dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Webb, Mr. call during the day from her and Mr. and Mrs. Scott were behavioral problems, but they Alfred Simpson. Mrs. Wesley and Mrs.GeorgeCartwrightand 90-year-old aunt, Mrs. Jasper Tuesday dinner guests of Mr. all agree that they are seldom Walker and children were after- Mr. and Mrs. Bill Willis at Hatch of Newton, Iowa. She and Mrs. John Thiel and family faced with severe behavioral ¡oon callers. tended the ROSE CROIS De had just returned from a four- problems in their own class in Boise. Mr. and Mrs. Farrel Jones gree at Baker Easter morning. week stay in the hospital. A rooms. UUlltO, md family of Nyssa were Eas- They had breakfast in the Ma Mr. and Mrs. Al Thompson, FOREIGN LANGUAGE However, they say a typical er dinner guests at the Eugene sonic Temple and later at Mr. and Mrs. Herschel Thomp INSTRUCTORS TO class will probably include some Pratt home and celebrated tended the Presbyterian Church son and Mrs. Marie Earp were children who were rather im Randy Jones’ 11th birthday an in Baker. On their return Easter dinner guests of Mr. MEET IN BOISE mature when they first started Foreign language instructors niversary. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Webb had and Mrs. Gary Thompson in on the high school and college school, dropped behind the rest Burdette Pratt of LaGrande Easter dinner with Mr. and Nyssa. levels will meet for their 22nd of the class and are having spent the weekend with his pa Mrs. Dick Stam in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Long annual Pacific Northwest Con trouble catching up. rents, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Johnny Siam’s 15th birthday were Sunday afternoon visitors They also see exceptionally Pratt. ference on Foreign Languages of Mr. and Mrs. Al Thompson. bright children who get bored which was April 10. Mr. and April 16-17 in Boise, according Mr. and Mrs. Jim Miller Mr. and Mrs. Paul Gerhke or restless, or those who may and family of Big Bend and Mrs. Luit Stam also were guests. to Prof. William E. Wallace who of Mountain Home were Easter get along fine in most subjects Mrs. Ray Simpson returned is president of the regional or Mr. and Mrs. John Timmer gray eyes and is 6’2” tall. He dinner guests of their daughter, but have a “hangup” with re man of Ontario were Easter home Sunday after an extended can speak three foreign langu Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rhodes. ganization. sulting learning difficulties in dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. visit in Washington. She visi ages and will be taught the fourth The meeting, held at the Down ted her son, Mr. and Mrs. Ray as soon as he returns to Fin Mr. and Mrs. John Pitts of towner, is being sponsored by just one area. Gerrit Timmerman. Nyssa were also dinner guests Gary Jasper says he views Mr. and Mrs. Fred Spence mond Simpson at Gresham; her land. He plans on majoring in in the Rhodes home. the College of Idaho and Wallace “motivation” as the teacher’s and daughter Missy of Boise daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Bill History. is chairman of the modern lan His favorite sports Tom Louk of Idaho Falls was major challenge. “It takes were Easter dinner guests of Holdt and family at Vancouver; are ice hockey, skiing (Since the a dinner guest Wednesday at guages department there. The a lot of one-to-one correspon her mother, Mrs. Frankie Wor a nephew, Clyde Love at Amboy, age of 3.), volley ball, and soc the home of his sister, Mr. region includes the states of dence, a lot of imagination to Washington, Oregon, Montana, den and grandmother, Mrs. Wash.; a niece, Max McCarty, cer. who came to see her at the He says that “Eastern Oregon and Mrs. Carl Piercy. Callers Idaho, Hawaii and the Canadian motivate a kid to learn. Each Lydia Worden. later in the evening were Mr. child needs praise and a lot Mrs. Lydia Worden visited Clyde Love home. is different, dusty and interest and Mrs. Monty Spellman and provinces of Alberta and Bri of small successes. Mrs. M.L. Judd attended the ing.” He also plans on coming Mrs. Tina Schiemer Tuesday tish Columbia. sons. “I knew that before, of course, Chrysanthemum Chapter meet back before he leaves for his afternoon. “Articulation--The Need for Mr. and Mrs. Earl Kygar but this year has made me really ing Saturday in Ontario. Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Ward home country, June 27. attended a family picnic at the Unity in the 70s,” is the key aware of it. We use behavior of Caldwell and Ann Rossbach Richard Russell was hostess. Owyhee Dam Sunday. Others note address to be presented modification methods to rein were Saturday dinner guests of The meeting was held at the He had just gotten out of the attending were Mr. and Mrs. Friday morning by Lynn A. force good behavior and learn the Ward’s daughter, Mr. and city library. Members decided hospital where he had spent Charley Culbertson, Mr. and Sandstedt, coordinator of for ing patterns.” eight days with tonsilitis. to have theChrysantemumshow eign languages for the Greeley, Mrs. Carl Lee Hill and family. “It’s much easier to give lots Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Fenn Mrs. Tom Duncan and family Colo, public schools. Conrad Mr. and Mrs. AlfredSlmpson in October at the Plaza this year. were Easter dinner guests of of Ontario, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry J. Schmitt, senior editor of the of individual attention in an ex Mr. and Mrs. R.D. McKinley islted Mr. and Mrs. Myron were Easter dinner guests of his mother, Mrs. Carl Fenn. Gordan and family of Caldwell, M"Graw-Hill Book Company, perimental situation like this,” ossard Saturday evening. his brother, Mr. and Mrs. Rus Afternoon callers were Mrs. Janeen Kygar, Bonita Detweiler Wai speak to the group at a adds Mrs. Spickerman. “But Mr. and Mrs. William Rei- Dave Savage and girls, Mrs. and Julene and Charles Jenkins session Saturday morning. C most of the things we’ve learned >an of Ventura, Calif., spent sell McKinley in Boise. by having time to experiment Gene Simpson and Mrs. Wesley of Westfall. Mr. and Mrs. Monty Spell ist week visiting their son, Cindy and Jerry Gordan are of I President Warren B. Knox will carry over when we get Walker. will welcome the educators at 4r. and Mrs. Leon Reiman man and son Curtis and Mr. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hale and staying with their grandparents, their general session on the back to our own schools.” nd son, who live on the former and Mrs. Carl Lee Hill, Lee Earl Kygar Mrs. Glosson also feels that family of Seattle spent the Mr. and Mrs. and Terri had Easter dinner at ,ouis Pratt place. and will attend school here. 16th. she is getting as much value Easter weekend with her mo Eastside Cafe in Ontario. Sectional meetings covering Mr. and Mrs. Milo Conable Mr. and Mrs. Myron Osborn from a long inward look at her Mr. and Mrs. Tom Lawson ther, Mrs. Tina Schiemer. Mr. of Sacramento came Friday and family had Easter dinner the topics of comparative li self as from the new teaching afternoon to visit his sisters, of Ontario were Easter dinner and Mrs. George Schiemer were with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. terature, linguistics, classics, methods she’s learned. “We foreign language education and Mrs. Dale Witt and Mr. and guests of her parents, Mr. and Easter dinner guests. Mr. and J.E. Cearley in Emmett. talk a lot about individual dif Mrs. Frank Hale will move here Mrs. W.C. VanDewater and Mrs. Herb Wenke and family. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Brant pedagogy, and the literature ferences in children,” she from Seat ’ e next week. Donna They received a phone call from son Kent. They were Friday of Salt Lake C ity spent the week of various major languages will says, “but as teachers we don’t overnight and Saturday guests their son Mike, who is in the and Anns’ <yedwith their grand end with his sister, Mrs. Alzina be conducted in the afternoons always really accept them. with professional papers being of Mrs. Witt. Sunday, Mr. and Navy stationed at San Diego. mother i id are going ‘o school Salters. “It’s easy to blame someone in Adrian. else if a kid’s not making it in school. That’s the time to start looking at yourself.” NEWELL HEIGHTS ITEMS Foreign Student Visits Adrian KINGMAN KOLONY NEWS MEASUREMENT FOR FARMS UNDERWAY VFLIÑG Garden Tools '¡cnic Tables HOES - RAKES - SHOVELS PRUNERS - TRIMMERS HAND TOOLS FOR FLOWER BEDS 6-Foot Table ........ $24.95 (With Attached Benches) 6-Ft. Redwood $31.95 (Table with 2 Benches) White Rock Cascade Soil-Aid Cascade Chunk Bark ..... Fencing Screen Doors i'/j' Split Cedar Poet* ea. 65c 5/8x8' Cedar Fencing lin f1t. 13c 4x4 6' Cedar Post* ea. $1.25 4x4 7’ Cedar Posts ea. $1.50 4x4 8’ Cedar Posts ea. $1.65 5'4’ Steel Pasts ea. $1 00 ALUMINUM COMPLETE WITH GRILL AND CLOSER ALSO IN STOCK . . Many Type* Wire Fence and Snow Fencing ONLY ... PAINT SALE OUTSIDE PAINTS Good Outside — WHITE OIL BASE $3.95 Gallon Fence and Utility Paint Better Outside — WHITE LATEX Ponderosa Stain Best $A49 Q SANDED BLOWS >/i" 4’xB’ $3.95 5/8" 4'xB’ $4.79 PAINT 3/4" 4'xB' $5.49 Reg. $9.45 ’/>" Rough $2.69 Gel. Spred — HOUSE $7.35 Value Only $5.95 Gal. Now $7.95 Gal. Craftsman • Can Be Tinted White and Colors Dripless INTERIOR LATEX White Only $3 98 Gal Can Be Tinted i Better Craftsman Interior • Exterior LATEX Dries in 30 Mln. Can be used on masonry. White. $6.95 Value Only $5 95 Gal Can Be Tinted Lumber ECONOMY IN BUNK LOTS Best Spred-Satln INTERIOR LATEX Scrubbable wall paint— Many oolors to chooee from! Reg. $8.49 Now $6.50 Gal. Linseed Oil 2x4'* 2x6’« 2x8» 2x1O’> (Bulk) $085 A BRIDGE PLANK IN STOCK STUNZ LUMBER CO. New Plymouth _____________ 278-5701 I A Plywood INTERIOR PAINTS Good $|2»5 Ontario 889-9101 Nyssa 372-2237 Fields throughout Malheur County are now being measured for producers in the 1970 set- aside farm programs who have requested measurement service from the County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS) Office. ‘‘Professional measurement, with fields staked and referen ced, is a valuable aid to far mers signing up for the feed grain and wheat programs. It can assure them they have the required set-aside acreage. It can help establish proof of yields, that is, per-acre production of crops. It can help prevent mistakes which could result in reductions in their farm program payments,” Blaine Girvin, Chairman of the Malheur County ASC Committee said. “We can provide acreage measurement for any program purpose,” Girvin said. “This means, if the farmer requests it, not only his set-aside acreage and corn and wheat acreage will be measured but also conserving base acreage, and acreage devoted to other crops such as oats, and bar ley. Marcums Attend Korn’s Funeral Mr. and Mrs. Murle Marcum returned home Thursday, April 8, from a second trip to Salem where they attended the funeral of Murle’s brother-in-law, Bill Korn, Wednesday April 7. Mr. and Mrs. Marcum had just spent from March 23rd to the 29th in Salem, Eugene and Portland on a combined business and pleasure trip. They visited Marcum’s pa rents, Mr. and Mrs. Olney Mar cum, and his sister, Mr. and Mrs. Korn, in Salem and helped the Korns celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary and Mar cum’s father celebrate his 86th birthday anniversary March 25. They also visited their son, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Marcum and family in Eugene, and at the home of their daughter, Mr. and Mrs. A.C. Baronti. They were in Bend and Prine ville on business and had only returned home when they learned of Korn’s heart attack and sudden death. Residents of the area of 25 years ago will remember Bill and Helen Korn as he worked at the Owyhee Dam project. THE 56TH LEGISLATURE millions of your dollars are being poured down the drain each year. This revelation was the con clusion of an exhaustive study conducted by the national ac counting firm of Touche, Ross & Co., which examined Ore gon’s caseload in the Aid-to- Dependent Children category. This prestigious accounting firm--and no one has challenged its conclusions--found that BY AVO MOELLER «DM* PHONE 372-2733 «••• fraud, ineligibility and over payment are involved in at least ARCADIA- Mrs. George Hust, 18 percent of Oregon’s ADC Mrs. Clyde Bowers and Mrs. caseload. Ted Bowers attended a meet Eighteen percent might not ing at the hotel in Boise April sound like much. But it must 2 on pattern alternations. be remembered that this is 18 Mr. and Mrs. Art Richard- percent of an estimated 100,- sen of Boise spent the week 000 persons who are receiving end with Mr. and Mrs. Ernest welfare payments under this Stepensen and Mr. and Mrs. program. Dennis C indell and Todd. The accounting firm pre Mr. and Mrs. Larry Gar sented its conservative estimate dener and family from Nampa, that this waste an<J fraud is Mr. and Mrs. Bill Hust and costing Oregon taxpayers a family from Vale, and Karen minimum of $330,000per month. Hust from Boise, were dinner This multiplies to roughly $8 guests Sunday in the home of million for the budgeting period Mr. and Mrs. George Hust and which the 1971 Legislature is family. considering. Or, in more blunt Mr. and Mrs. Tom Edmonson terms, $8 million down a rat are building a new house on hole during a time when the their farm located off of Im state is in a financial pinch perial Avenue. and when worthwhile programs Ruth Car roll left April 3 for are being cut to the budgetary Lebanon, Oregon to spend two bone. weeks in high school there as These uncontestable findings a exchange student. --reached by an impartial, non Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Jensen partisan firm—fly right in the and family from Boise, Mr. and face of the drumbeat of assu Mrs. Otis Bullard, Jim, Marla rances we have continually re- and David Dail, were dinner ceived from welfare officials guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. who claim that waste in Ore Don Bullard and family. In gon’s programs is virtually non the afternoon they all drove existent. to the Owyhee Dam. It is not easy to forget the Mr. and Mrs. Frank James wailing and moaning of wel from Pendleton spent the week fare defenders when the House end of April 3 with Mr. and Task Force on Welfare esti Mrs. Parley Feik. James is mated that fraud, ineligibility Mrs. Feik*s brother. Saturday and overpayment were involved - they visited Mr. and Mrs. Bruce in 15-to-20 percent of the wel Evertton and family who had just fare caseload. moved into their newly built These advocates of a “hands- home. off” policy on welfare screamed Mr. and Mrs. George Moel bloody murder. They accused ler and Mr. and Mrs. Tom the Task Force of overstating Pettet were dinner guests Eas the case. They claimed that the ter at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Task Force was “playing po- Fred Norman in Lincoln Heights, jjtics” with welfare They also celebrated Scott Nor Now, however, the claims of man’s 12th birthday anniver these critics have been shot sary. down in flames. Dale Lakey of Boise called This accounting study has Thursday at the Otis Bullard proven once again that the sy and Theo Matherly homes. stem of welfare which has Dinner guests Easter Sun evolved during the past 30 day in the home of Mr. and years is nothing more than a Mrs. Edmonson were their costly and tragic failure. daughter, Mrs. Steve Smith and It has become hopelessly bog children from Boise, Mrs. Ed ged down in bureaucracy, it is monson’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. bound by unnecessary and un George Hatt from Boise, and realistic red tape, and it is Mr. and Mrs. Tom Edmonson corrupted by legal loopholes and son from Ontario. which encourage abuses which Mr. and Mrs. C.R. Kesler, erode public confidence. Jr. and family visited Sunday And still, we find those who evening in the C. R. Kesler are satisfied with these pro home. grams, and who are content with Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Carroll rubber-stamping the mistakes and family from Weiser were of the past by pumping ever' dinner guests Sunday with Mr. more of the taxpayer' dollars and Mrs. Henry Carroll. down a bottomless pit. Johnny Carroll and family from This system often fails to Weiser were afternoon callers. deliver timely assistance to Karma Kesler, who attends those whose need is genuine, BYU spent the weekend of April while at the same time wasting 3 with her parents Mr. and Mrs. public money on those whose C.R. Kesler. She returned to greed far exceeds their need. Provo April 6. It encourages a dependency Dinner guests Easter Sunday cycle, which is demonst rated by with Mr. and Mrs. Neil Petter the fact that we see third and son were Mr. and Mrs. C.R. fourth generation welfare Kesler and Sally. Mr. and famies who know no other way, Mrs. Mike Petterson and fa of life. mily, and Mr. and Mrs. Brig The result of this is that our Olson and granddaughter. programs are actually under-i mining rather than strengthen i*W*789oia**»*78*o/»4j*: ing the dignity and self-respect of the individual, and discoura ging the desire and initiative to I work, to achieve self-suf ficiency and independence. á It seems that our direction is clear. We must stop encourag A 200-lb earthman would ing a larger and larger segment weigh 220 lb. on Saturn, 76 lb. of our society to seek a per on Mars, 56 lb. on Mercury, manent dependence on govern 170 lb. on Venus, 180 lb. on ment. Uranus, and 520 lb. on Jupiter! We must stop the failure to assume individual responsi The winged yam plant pro bility or to develop a pride in duces yams that are 8 ft. in self and community. length and weigh 100 pounds. This is not the only uncommon We must attempt to continue type of yam plant that is to meet the basic needs of those known. There are about 200 of who are unable to meet their them, mostly natives of the own needs, but we must also tropics! encourage the young and able- bodied to achieve the educa It ii impossible to get anything tion, skills, motivation and de colder than minus 459.6 degrees Fahrenheit! This tem termination that will make it perature is called absolute zero, possible for them to become and is the temperature at citizens who can contribute to which all molecular motion and share in the responsibility stops completely. Since heat is for their families and our so molecular motion, objects at this temperature are heatless. ciety. By Robert F. Smith, Speaker of the House and Sen. Anthony Yturri A shocking waste of taxpayer dollars in the operation of Ore gon’s public welfare programs was exposed last week with the release of a report which de monstrated conclusively that ARCADIA ZIMMERMAN HUMBING AND HEATING Authorized Lennox Dealer 13 N. 2ND ST. PHONE 372-3911 Ny$$a, Oregon *