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Thursday, May 6, 1971 Th« Nyssa Gat« City Journal, Nyssa, Or«gon Pag« Two jcpcpcpcpcpcpcpcpcpt The Gate City Journal DIRICK NEDRY, Editor & Publisher RUBEN LOPEZ, Shop Foreman LETTER TO THE EDITOR Juan C«niga CONSERVATIVE BAPTIST CHURCH Mary C. Powers Services for Mrs. Mary C. Recitation of the rosary for Juan Ceniga, 50, a lifelong re Powers, 100, Parma, who died SUBSCRIPTION RATES sident of Vale who died the April 29 in a Boise nursing home tditor. The Journal: morning of May 1, was held were conducted at the Parma Single Copies................. 10? Have taken the liberty towrite at 8 p.m. May 4 at High Chapel Dakan Funeral Chapel May 3by In Malheur County, Ore you and send a news item I would by Fr. David Hazen of St. Pat Yem Baldwin and George White gon, and Payette and like to have in your paper. rick's Catholic Church. Re of the Followers of Christ Canyon Counties, We lived at Adrian, Kenneth quiem Mass was ciebrated at Church. Interment was at Lower Idaho: and Ralph graduated from Ad 10 a.m. May 5 at St. Patrick’s Boise Cemetery, east of Parma. One Year.................$4.00 rian High School. Two child Mrs. Powers was born March Six Months...............$2.75 Church with Fr. Hazen as ce ren graduated from Nyssa High lebrant. Interment was at Val 6, 1871, in Kansas City, Mo., Elsewhere in the U. S. A. School with the class of 1930. ley View with military honors and moved as a youngchildwith Per Year.................$5.00 They still have friends in the by the Vale American Legion her parents to Coffeyville, Kan. Six Months............... $3.00 area that will remember them. Post No. 96. When she was nine years old, I thought it might be nice to the family moved by wagon train Mr. Ceniga was born May 27, Published Every Thursday at Nyssa, Malheur County, have an article about Pearl in to Lebanon, Oregon. She began 1920 at Vale. He attended school Oregon 97913 your paper. and was graduated from Vale teaching school at Wallowa when Mrs. (Pearl Williams) Butler High School in 1938. He served she was 15 years old. She was has just returned from Phila with the United States Army married to Francis A. Powers Entered at the Post Office at Nyssa, Oregon, for Trans delphia. She was chosen to re during World War II in the Pa and they lived in Wallowa and mission through the United States Mails, as a Second present the California School cific theater. He was very in Emmett before homesteading Class Matter under the Act of March 3, 1879. Board at their National Con active in community and civic a farm near Parma. Mr. Powers vention there. Mrs. Butler affairs and served on the Vale died March 10, 1928. spent four days at the convention She was a lifelong member City Council. He waspresident and four days in New York and of the Vale Rodeo Board for the of the Followers of Christ Washington, D.C., sight seeing Church. Two old friends of Nyssa left the scene over the weekend and isiting many places of in past 10 years. Surviving are six sons, Carl He had shown a keen interest when Union Pacific’s Portland Rose and City of Portland made terest. in all sports and had coached H. and Irvin Powers, both of their last runs. It seems a shame that these once grand and After graduating from Nyssa Parma, Alvin of Stuart, Fla., heavily loaded passenger trains have left the scene, but let’s in 1930 she attended Logan State little league baseball clubs for Ralph of Prineville, Paul of Port many years. He was a member face it, we didn’t use them. College in Utah and graduated Orchard, Wash., and Warren of Old timers remember the train as their only form of trans from there in 1934. She spent of Sports, Inc., a charter mem El Cajon, Calif.; three daugh portation other than horse and buggy, and Nyssa got her name some time working for the San ber of Ontario Elks Lodge No. 1690, a member of the American ters, Mrs. Ida Crowther of as the “Gate City” because this is where the railroad enters Francisco recreation depart Legion, Post 96, a charter mem Tampa, Fla., Mrs. Esther Gah- St. Bridget’s N«ws Oregon. We have heard many stories of people riding the ment and many other places. ber of Euzkaldunak, a Basque ley of Caldwell, and Mrs. Ruby train to Weiser to see the opera; or riding to Nampa to eat While in Nyssa she worked with Penton of Moscow; a brother, St. Bridget’s Altar Society organization. at the Dewey Palace; or making the big trip to Boise to shop Mr. Maurice Judd. He was married to Alice Albert Hickman of Grants Pass; is sponsoring a card party this for the necessary items which couldn’t be purchased at the Her brother Ralph is pre Presley on August 10, 1963. a sister, Mrs. Margaret Camp Friday in the Parish Hall. general store. sently living in Boise and a bell of Grants Pass; 24 grand Games to suit all tastes will She survives. Frequently in the Gate City Journal’s columns of 50 and sister Tressa Allen is residing children; 52 great-grandchil be played starting at 8 p.m. Mr. Ceniga had worked for the 60 years ago we read of the Nyssa baseball team journeying ing in Nampa. Malheur County assessor’s dren and four great-great A dessert, coffee and punch to a neighboring city by train to play a ball game. The train Mrs. Beulah Williams, 423 grandchildren. She was pre will be served. Chatter tables was crowded when valley baseball fans traveled to Weiser 14 Ave. S., Nampa, Idaho 83651 office and had also served as a deputy sheriff for the Malheur ceded in death by a daughter, for non-players will be avail to watch Walter Johnson pitch, and even in those days of semi- able for visiting. County sheriff’s office. At one Mabie. pro he was a legendary figure. * * * Memorials may be given to a time he was manager of the Elks When our family traveled to Nyssa from Portland and back Saturday May 15 will find Lodge for several years before favorite charity. on the old “Rose,” the attention given us by the porters, the St. Bridget’s Altar Society spon he accepted employment by the stories told by the kindly brakemen and conductors, the ex soring a rummage sale from 10 Bureau of Land Management cltement of sleeping in the berth -- all adventures missed by William Kniefel a.m. to 4 p.m. on the corner where he served as shop fore today’s kids. A Gospel Music Festival will man for the warehouse and Services for William H. Knie- of Main and N 1st St. at the And the scenery! Gliding down the Columbia River Gorge with the waterfalls and mountains. Snaking through the Blue be held Saturday May 8 at the equipment supply yard until his fel, 90, Caldwell, who died in underpass. This particular sale a Caldwell hospital May 1 were will feature light weight clothing Mountains, and then our first glimpse of the Snake River at First ChristianChurch in Nyssa death. In addition to his wife, Alice, May 4 at the Sterry Memorial for use during the summer Farewell Bend, the smell of sagebrush, and by the time the at 7:30 p.m. The festival will be sponsored Vale, he is survived by his Presbyterian Church at Ros months. water tower of Nyssa showed up the excitement was unbear » ♦ ♦ able. And of course grandpa and grandma were there to by the First Christian Church, father, Dan Ceniga, Vale; three well. Officiating was the Rev. Church of the Nazarene and brothers, Julian, Vale; Frank John R. Harland of Caldwell St. Bridget’s Parish Advisory meet us at the station! Owyhee Community Church. of Bend; and Shedro of Ontario; Boone Memorial Presbyterian Board has voted to go ahead The scenery is still there, In fact more of it with the The program will feature The three sisters, Mrs. John (Mar Church. Interment was at Ros with plans for using the Christ Columbia’s huge dams and the many other changes. We drove to Portland two weeks ago, but it’s hard to see much scenery Kings Witnesses of Boise and tina) Lands, Homedale; Mrs. well under the direction of the ian Education Center during the summer months for a youth cen when you are zipping along the freeway at 75 miles per hour. Revelation Quartet of Northwest Marie McLaughlin, Vale; Mrs. Dakan Chapel. Mr. Kniefel was born Oct. ter several times a week in the And the last time we flew from Portland to Boise it was a half- Nazarene College from Nampa. William (Frances) Pugh, Port Jr. High and High School stu land; one step daughter, Miss 6, 1880, at Deerfield, Minn. evening. It is hoped to have a hour trip, and the scenery was non-existant. We saw the first Streamliner at the Union Station in Portland dents are cordially Invited to at Suzanne Presley, at home; two He came to Termonton, Utah, pop machine, juke box, ping stepsons, Roberty Presley, at when he was 20, where he pong tables, and other games in about 1933, and later the City of Portland, one of the fine tend. There will be no admis sion charge. home and Michael Presley, Bil started farming. He married for youth of the Nyssa area. trains in the nation with dome cars, club cars, and all the ♦ » ♦ lings, Mont., and many nieces Mary O. Tallman on Dec 8, fineries. But better highways and better airplanes and more and nephews. 1903. They lived at Tremonton The official installation of frequent schedules gradually made the trains almost a thing The family suggests me until 1916, when they moved Altar Society officers will be of the past. And as patronage dropped off service became In 1917 this Sunday at the 11a.m. Mass. morials to the Cancer Society. to Mountain home. poorer, or did poorer service lead to less patronage? In any they moved to Parma. Mr. Those to be installed are Mrs. event, the passenger train is dead, at least in this country. Kniefel retired in 1943, when Larry Rose as president, Mrs. M. Frank Shuff They will come back some day. We will see new, fast trains they moved to Caldwell. Mrs. Raymond Joyce as vice presi between Portland and Seattle and San Francisco and Los Angeles, M. Frank Shuff, 52, Parma, Kniefel died in 1943. He mar- dent, Mrs. JoeCastroas secre on the order of the trains in Europe and Japan. The inter a resident here for eight years, ried Eva Aarland in 1950. They tary, and Mrs. Jesse Guerra St. Bridget ’ s Community urban will be back, such as being constructed now on the East died April 28 in the Nyssa have lived at Caldwell since as treasurer. The high school Bay and Peninsula to carry people into San Francisco, and help Card Party will be held Friday, hospital. then. He had served on the students will serve coffee and May 7, at 8 p.m. at the Social relieve the downtown bottlenecks. They are a must. He was born Sept. 10, 1918, Canyon County Draft Board, the doughnuts following the Mass In the meantime, Railpax and Amtrack will get organized Hall, 504 Locust Ave. in Nyssa. in Emmitsburg, Md., and was Parma Wool Pool, the Roswell to celebrate the occasion with Tables will be set up for and lose money, and perhaps the government will subsidize reared there. He was gra school board, the Riverside a reception for the new of bridge, pinochle, canasta, poker passenger service and provide some service to most parts of duated from Strayer College of Drainage Board, and was a ficers. and for those who wish to "chat the country. Business in Washington, D.C. charter member of the Farm Se ter. ” So this is a small, nostalgic tribute to the trains that are and began working for the John curity Board. He was elected It is time for the community gone and the days that were. We haven’t ridden the train for I. Haas Co. prior to World a Canyon County Com Missionary years, and neither have most of you. Nevertheless, we hate to get together and relax by War n. He served three and as missioner in 1928, serving for playing cards or just visiting. to see them go and somehow feel that part of our life has Baptist Church one-half years with the U.S, two years. He was a member So take Friday off and come out gone with them. Navy in the Philippines, China of the Roswell Sterry Memorial and have a good "sociable” The Women's Mission Circle Sea, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa Presbyterian Church for more time. of the First Baptist Church met campaigns, and was stationed than 50 years, serving as a at the home of Mrs. Scott Hiatt in Japan for several months trustee. CLASSES HEAR TALK after April 29, for a day of fellow the end of World War II He is survived by a son, ship. The members enjoyed in 1945. He received the Good Clarence Kniefel, Parma; three a potluck dinner after which they BY PAULA RAMERIZ Conduct Medal, American daughter, Mrs. Wilbur Roberts, The Owyhee Riding Club met Marie Holmes, Charley Cul repaired songbooks in the after April 30, at Oregon Trail Hall. bertson, Sue Marshall, Lynn and On Monday, April 26, Mrs. Theater Ribbon, Victory Bar, New Meadows, Mrs. Dallas Mc noon. The Circle meets every Philippines-Asiatic Ribbon with Members voted to sell a por Nora Snodgrass. Jan Wilson’s room had Miss Neil, Portland; and Mrs. Kirby 1st and 3rd Thursdays of the tion of the rodeo grounds for Providing entertainment for Paula Rameriz come to talk four battle stars. Roberts Caldwell; a half-sister, month. He returned to work with the Mary Wehner, Meamisburg, housing development. the evening was Dean Sappe, who to us. Our 6th grade is study Highlight of the evening was played two solos on his drums. ing Chile, along with the other John I. Haas Co. after the war Ohio; two stepsons, Ed Peter FIRST WARD Serving refreshments were countries in South America. and was transferred in 1947 sen, Wilder, and Lars Aarland, the presentation of pins in rec ognition of 25 years member Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Stephens We invited Mrs. Leggett’s class to Yakima, Wash., as assistant Caldwell, two stepdaughters, RELIEF SOCIETY ship in the riding club. Those and Mr. and Mrs. Jim Jamieson. to come and listen with us. vice president and manager of Mrs. Mildred Hudson, Ventura, the hop-growers firm. He mar receiving pins were: Loyd and Next regular meeting will be Paula lives in a city called Calif., and Mrs. Cecelia Smith The First Ward Relief Society Iva Adams, Adah Schweizer, held May 21, due to conflicting Arica. It is along the Pacific ried Shirley Mahre, July 1,1947, Jerome; nine grandchildren, 22 will hold their Homemaking in Yakima, and they lived there events. Ocean. Her father is a doctor. Neil and Peg Dimmick, Roy and great-grandchildren, and five Meeting Wednesday, May 12 When she gets out of high school, until 1963, when they came to step-grandchildren. beginning at 10 a.m. A baby she wants to study in college to Parma to open an office here Memorials may be given to sitter will be provided. for the company. be a doctor also. Roswell Sterry Memorial Pres Lesson will be presented by Three Nyssa resident were Flock, Mrs. J.R. Rasmussen, He was a member of Trinity byterian Church of theCaldwell Miss Rameriz told us that among the lucky winners in Pe George Tiger, Mrs. John Wal she liked the climate of Chile Lutheran Church, Parma Lions Boone Memorial Presbyterian Jean Wood entitled “Making Your Family Proud of You.” terson Furniture Company’s ton, Hollis Johnson and James because it was warm all year Club, and was active in little Church. Activities are under the direct "Give Away Days” celebrating Waddell. Other winners were around. She also told us that league baseball in Yakima and ion of Lucille Gyllenskog and their 60th Anniversary. They Jon Josephson, Fruitland; Don she liked Chile’s food better be Parma. Ma« E. Haynas Ruth Bunn. Lunch will be were Mrs. T.G. Stenkamp, Ol- Bergmark and Nathan Shephard cause it is more spicy than the Surviving in addition to his very Fuentes and Raquel Gon- Wesler; S.R. Barnes, Hunting United State’s food. Her fa Graveside services for Mae served at noon. wife are three sons, Frank zalaes. ton; Frank Walczyk and Mrs. vorite food in the U.S. is pie. Shuff Jr., and John, and David Elizabeth Haynes, 90, Route 2, Ontario winners were John Victor Behele, Payette; and We had a very interesting Shuff, all of Parma; a daughter, Parma, who died May 1 at her McDonough, Will Butler, Earl H.M. Hiatt, Vale. discussion that helped us under Cherye Shuff of Parma; his home, were conducted at 2 p.m. CHRISTIAN CHURCH mother, Mrs. M.F.Shuff ofEm- May 4 under the direction of stand the things about Chile that mitsburg; a sister, Mrs. Lumen Dakan Chapel. The Rev. Stanley we did not know before. The Christian Women’s Fel Norris of Emmitsburg, and a Banks officiated. —Clayton Webb, reporter lowship will meet Thursday May She was born May 5, 1880, grandchild. 6 at 2 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Services were conducted at at Odebolt, Iowa. She grew up Elvin Ballou. Following the Trinity Lutheran Church at 2 in Iowa and was married to meeting refreshments will be p.m. May 1 by the Rev. Victor William S. Haynes, Oct. 12, served. A. Schulze, pastor. Interment 1898 at Orange City, Iowa. They lived in Southern Iowa for a short was at Parma under direction time, then they moved to South of Dakan Funeral Chapel. Memorials may be given to Dakota, then to Michigan, mo ving back to Iowa in 1902. The Trinity Lutheran Church. couple came to Parma in 1926. Surviving are a daughter, Bes Latin Assembly With Lub«, sie M. Haynes; a son William Of God Church E. Haynes and a nephew, James Oil Chang« A Filter Sunday, church activities be F. Watson all of Parma. The Portland Rose Is Gone Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Riggs Mrs. Angie Cook visited with her son and family, Mr. and attended Mom’s Weekend at Mrs. Jim Cook at Sweet Home, Oregon State University. * • • Oregon from April 22 to May 1. * • * Grover Lytle took Elmer Mr. and Mrs. W.W. Foster, Grunke of Malheur Nursing hosted a dinner party Sunday Home for a ride in the country May 2. It was in honor of Saturday afternoon. « * * their 59th wedding anniversary which was May 1. Guests were Mrs. Victor Marshall and Dr. and Mrs. John Long, Mrs. Mrs. Charles Beatie of Ontario Inga Buckley and Mrs. Zora enjoyed dinner at Farewell Bend Osborne. last Sunday. A significant part of the Mo ther’s Day service Sunday mor ning at the Conservative Baptist Church will be the baptism of four young people. This will be the first time the church has been able to have candidates baptized in its own building. Those prepared to be baptized include Marley Robinson, Mi chael and Angie Stam and Ker rick Bauman. Special recognition will be given to all mothers who attend both the morning service at 11 a.m. and the Sunday School hour at 9=45 a.m. Mothers of the community are urged to attend church on this special day of recognition and a special wel come will await them in these services. Tomorrow (Friday) night the high school youth will travel to Caldwell to participate in the Idaho State Conservative Bap tist Youth Association rally at the First Baptist Church. They will leave Nyssa at 6:30 p.m. accompanied by Christine Meyer who has recently re turned from her second year at Prairie Bible Institute. ♦ * * • Enjoying dinner Sunday May 2 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. T.H. Eldredge were Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Bolt and Mrs. Myrtle Brubaker of Emmett; Mr. and Mrs. Bill Carpenter and Charles and Mr. and Mrs. Ed Mordhorst of Payette. All are relatives of the Eldredges. • • • Mrs. Michael Eastman under went emergency appendectomy surgery at Malheur Memorial Hospital, Saturday May 1. * * « Mrs. Bernard Eastman, Sr., of Payette spent April 29 visi ting at the home of her son, Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Eastman. * * ’• Among mother’s attending Mom’s Day at OSU last weekend were Mmes. W.A. Wilt, Glen Brown, George Sadamorl, Howard Myrick, Roy Hirai and Keiji Okano, Ted Morgan, Gene Stunz, John Olsen and Bob Mc Kinney. * * * Weekend and Sunday dinner guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Reece were Mr. and Mrs. Chuck Corak andTori of Halfway, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Reece and family of Mt. Ver non, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Giles and family of Payette and Kirk Cleaver. ♦ * ♦ ♦ B.A. Stunz of Lake Tahoe, Mrs. Mel Beck and Mrs. Nevada visited at the home of George Hirai attended the PTA his brother Mr. and Mrs. Emil State Convention April 19 to Stunz April 29 and 30. 23. It was held at the Sheraton ♦ » ♦ Hotel in Portland. Mrs. Beck Mr. and Mrs. Frell Blair re and Mrs. Hirai traveled via turned home May 1 after visit-' passenger train. ing for two weeks at the home ♦ ♦ ♦ of Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Blair Mrs. Orma Cleaver was a and family in Kansas City, Mis Sunday dinner guest at the home souri. They went to see their of Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Cleaver. new grandson Garren, born ♦ * * April 17. Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Frost * * « spent April 29 and 30 at the of Chuck Brady, grandson _ Owyhee Reservoir. They did Mrs. J.I. Brady suffered a se some fishing and worked around rious break of his left foot last their cabin. Hazel reports the week. Chuck in employed as fishing was good. shop foreman at Cable’s in On * * tario. The break was so se Wayne Haroldson of Seattle rious that it required a pin to visited at the home of his pa- hold it in place. Chuck is now rents Mr. and Mrs. Reuben at home, but will be confined Haroldson for several days. for some time. Chuck was mar * ♦ * ried last fall to Tresla, daughter Dr. and Mrs. K.E. Kerby went of the Irvin Topliff’s of rural to Wallowa Lake Thursday April Nyssa. 27 to open their cabin, they ♦ » ♦ returned May 3. In between, Mr. and Mrs. Hiro Kido and Dr. Kerby made a hurried family entertained at dinner trip back to Nyssa to deliver Monday evening in their home a baby and also performed sur in honor of Wayne and Keith gery while here. Overstake and Keith’s fiancee, * • ♦ Kathy of North Bend. Other Mr. and Mrs. Muri Lancaster dinner guests were Mr. and visited their daughter and son- Mrs. Walt Looney and family in-law Mr. and Mrs. Larry Hob and Mrs. Kido’s mother. The son at Hagerman, Idaho last Harry McGinley family also weekend. visited at the Kido home. ♦ ♦ ♦ Gospel Music Festival May 8 * St. Bridget’s Card Party May 7 Mr. and Mrs. S.C. McCon nell accompanied by their daughter Mr. and Mrs. Forest Moore of Nampa traveled to Scappoose,Oregon. There they visited their great-granddaugh ter Mr. and Mrs. Charles Po well from April 22 to 26. Mrs. Powell is the daughter of the Forest Moores. ♦ • * Saturday evening guests at the home of Mrs. Irma Myers were Mrs. Ola Lee and daughter Mr. and Mrs. Lester Allen from Parma. Owyhee Club Members Receive 25 Year Pins ♦ ♦ * Mrs. Harry McGinley who underwent surgery at Holy Ro sary Hospital April 26, is now at home recuperating and doing fine. r BLANCHE WEEKS’ BIRTHDAY HONORED The families and friends of Mrs. Blanche Weeks honored her with a birthday party Sun day. Traditional ice cream and a very special cake were ser ved. Those attending were Mr. and Mrs. John VanZelf and family; Mr. and Mrs. Larry Fife and family of Vale; Mr. and Mrs. Earl Bartron and son; Mr. and Mrs. John Weeks of Seneca; Mr. and Mrs. Plias Johnson and family of Parma; Mrs. Lois Steinke, Sherry and Curt of Vale; Glen Weeks and daughter, Marcia and her friend, Brian McCormick of Parma and Ser m Suddhinhavak. MOTHERS DAY! Nyssa Winners At Peterson's UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT FREE Car Wash Brak««—Shocks Ivan Milburn Mufflers—Tiros Nyssa Shell Service I shil 101 N. Main Ph. 372-9986 gin with Sunday School at 10 a.m. followed by the worship service at 11 a.m. and Sunday night service at 7:30 p.m. * « • Young people’s service, every Tuesday night at 7:30 p.m. Bible study every Thursday night at 7:30 p.m. A friendly church with a friendly smile. The Rev. David H. Martinet, Pastor. New Photo Invitations APOSTOLIC FAITH Apostolic Church of the Faith in Christ Jesus services will be held in the evenings Sunday, W ednesday, and Friday at 7 p.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 Family Album Jewelry Reception Scrolls Personalized Napkins Thank You Notes LDS A Sacred Designs Gat« City Journal » By Anson ¡ PauluA. jeuebuf j Jj27 Main NYSSA 372-29161
