The Nyssa Gate City Journal, Nyssa, Oregon Thursday, July 29, 1971 ♦•♦•••»»•••••»•»»•»«•»♦»»»♦♦«•»••»«»♦»a»«» Bridge Group Spends OUT OF THE PAST 10 YEARS AGO ?■ Reports from over the county indicate that cropsandpastures are suffering from a severe shortage of water. Due to the mild winter with less snow­ fall in the higher elevations, the reservoirs are much lower than normal for this time of year. Paul House, manager of North Board Control Owhyee project, reports they will deliver the four acre feet to those farmers in the gravity area while those getting water from canals sup­ plied by pumping stations will get their normal amount. * ♦ ♦ .Elmer Jaques has been named •supervisor of field operations in South-western Idaho and Eastern Oregon for the J.R. Simplot Company, with head­ quarters in Caldwell. He has Men manager of the Nyssa warehouse for seven years. ;Mr. and Mrs. Jaques and Gary will move to Caldwell. Their daughter, Sharen, will remain in Nyssa where she is employed in the J.R. Simplot CO. office. Kitter« to tfye Weekend In McCall 40 YEARS AGO Awakened by smoke and crackling flames, George Hill owner of the Idanha orchard discovered that his prune drier was ablaze at 2 o’clock Friday morning. The building was a mass of flames and the entire plant was destroyed. It is estimated that the entire loss is around $25,000. Only a small insurance policy was carried. * * ♦ Divot diggers from six towns met at Vale this morning for a tournament. Nyssa’s four­ some, consistingofC.L.McCoy, Ed Wilson, Dr. E.D. Norcott and Klaas Tensen, finished in second place with a score of 171 for nine holes. Couples BridgeClubmembers including Mr. and Mrs. Ted Morgan, Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Miner, Mr. and Mrs. DickTen- sen, Mr. and Mrs. Gene Stunz, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Larson and Mr. andMrs. Lloyd Wilson spent the weekend in McCall at the Stunz and Morgan summer homes. This has become an annual affair and the group always announce a good time playing cards and enjoying water sports. Group Plans Potluck Picnic Members of the Rebekahs and Friendship Circle and their fa­ milies will hold a pot-luck picnic at the home of Mrs. Merel Johnson, starting at 1 p.m. Sunday August 1. Each family is asked to bring 50 YEARS AGO a covered dish and either a salad or relishes, their own Jack Sheets, who formerly table service and lawn chairs. conducted the Nyssa blacksmith Ice cream and drink will be shop on Second Street has re­ furnished. turned to Nyssa and is again in business at the old stand, having bought the business and FOR ADVANCED fixtures from Cole Younger. SKILLS... Mr. Sheets is well known and HIRE THE VETERAN! is bound to do well in Nyssa. ♦ * tur M W WW Nossebro, Sweden Therefc a lots of trees around Dear Friends: here and woods behind the house. _ HiJ! As they say in Swedish. Sun rise begins at 2:30 in the I’ve made it to Sweden! Twenty morning so its never dark too of us exchange students are long. The highways are quite scattered about the country. I’m narrow compared to ours, but now learning to speak the Swe­ the cars are also small . . . dish language. It’s a funny mostly Volvos and V.W.’s. My feeling to hear them talk and family has a Mercedes and a not to understand a thing! V.W. van. Sister Ann Marie Mother and Dad Lundquist met just got a new Moped (a bike me at the train depot June 29th. with a motor) for her 15th We live 7 miles from Nossebro, birthday. Once they are 15, out in the country. Father they can ride one. If you are Sven farms and raises 300 pigs. not 18 - you cannot drive a car, Mother Ruth is a housewife and so you drive a moped and if is kept busy with her daily you aren’t 15 you ride a bicycle. chores about the home and I get to ride a bicycle—AFS garden. Brother Danny (13) ruling does not allow us to has been very helpful in teach­ drive--but it’s fun now that my ing me the language though he legs have stopped aching. speaks no English. Ann Marie Our home is very large with is 15 and a typical teenager. many rooms. One thing I’ve She works away from home 1/2 noticed is that there are no a day. Anita (20) is home on screens on doors or windows. weekends. I have a neat family! Our home is nicely furnished Only wished I could speak it. as one would see on the state Now, I know how a foreigner side. feels, but each day, I find it The food is very good!!! getting better. I’m not as Mother Ruth is a wonderful cook. homesick as I once was. Pastries, galore. I enjoy their The country is just beautiful hard bread (like a big cracker) . . .So hilly and green. They Smor (butter) and cheese. The are now harvesting their wheat. largest meal is at lunchtime. Page Three Snacks are at 9:30, 3:30 and before bed. 1 may have to join the “weight watchers’’ once I get home. Food on the whole is like American food but with a little different taste. The weather is comfortable. One day it was 83 degrees and they thought it was so hot (al­ most too hot to work) I thought they were kidding. When they think its nice and fair I almost have to wear a coat and mittens (not really). I told them how hot it gets in Nyssa-they didn’t believe me. All in all the Swedish people are very friendly. They’re blonde and nice looking. I have a wonderful family here. The kids look much younger than the kids our age at home. The fest (dances)islotsoffun. They are very crowded like our armory dances. Everyone enjoys dancing here. The fast dances are the same but they also dance the waltzes and polkas. I find it hard to follow the guys as I’m not used to it (it gets embarrassing after stepping on their toes about six times). The music is mostly English plus Elvis Presley and Simon-Garfunkle numbers. Sunday, we went to Maistrand, on the west coast to see the AFS’ers (one year studentsnow about to go back to the US). Also met YFU (Youth for Understand­ ing) summer student there. She asked me where 1 was from. When I mentioned Eastern Ore- gon she asked me if lever heard of Nyssa. WOW! I told her I lived there. It turned out her grandparents are the LeRoy Hermans of Nyssa. What a coin­ cidence! I also met another ex­ change student from Ashland, Oregon. The one-year students speak the language fluently all the time. They told me they have trouble translating into English. They say they think and even dream in Swedish. It was very interesting to talk and listen to them. After we talked and ate we went to an amusement park in Goteborg. 1 met some students from Japan who started to speak to me in Japanese. All I could say was “Talar in Enlelska” which means can you speak English. I managed to converse and ex- plain I was from America. So many foreigners from various countries are on a work pro­ gram. Oh yes, there I had my first hamburger--not at all like ours we get at the A and W. Ice cream and chocolates are great —so you can tell what I have been eating. Everyone plays soccer like we play baseball in Nyssa (how’s our team doing?). Ann-Marie and the girls play and they have a very strong team. Last week I received a phone call from my chaperone. She called to see if every thing was all right. The AFS is a neat program and even more so now piping have been shunted into the Nyssa yards within the past week for construction on the -;Mr. and Mrs. W.W. Smith Nyssa-Buhl extension, and the . T Olympia Brewing Company MEADOW GOLD Note celebrating 75 yMT5 in the same location, Tumwater, Washington. *Oly ** Bag of IS 21b. 3oz. ▲ gal I Strike Stampali FRESH PRODUCE J Wells wook coupon I K CAKE MIXES Select Young Porkers Morrells < 9:00 P. M. Oregon Trail Hall Use Your 8F his venture will be a success. ___________ HIRE THE VETERAN AND YOU HIRE EXPERIENCE! 4 30 YEARS AGO •z Editor, The Journal: Our 1971 Japan Nite Obon Festival has come and gone, It was indeed a success again this year. We of the Idaho- Oregon Buddhist Temple, Rev­ erend T. Hirota, and the com­ mittees that worked on the pro­ ject, wish to thank you for your part in the success of the an­ nual event. As long as the pub­ lic enjoys the event, we shaU try to make each one better than the last. With your help it will be possible. Thanks again, your coopera­ tion and support is sincerely appreciated. Yours very truly, Japan Nite Obon Festival George Iseri, Publicity Chairman * Mrs. Frank Hall gave a fare­ 20 YEARS AGO well party recently for Dirick Nedry, son of Mr. and Mrs. Genevieve Eachus, Nyssa E.B. Nedry. A fine time was High School student, has re­ enjoyed in playing games on the turned home from California lawn, by the little ones and Mr. with Nyssa’s first “seeingeye” Hall furnished them no little dog. Miss Eachus was awarded amusement by stealing some of her Dalmatian guide dog“ Thun­ their refreshments and getting der” at the graduation exercises himself locked in the garage. of Guide Dogs for the Blind,Inc., A fine dinner was served to at its training school in San the small guests, and all were Rafael July 21. In this 35th given favors as souvenirs. class were six blind men and Those attending were Darlene women, given guide dogs at no Dunaway, Betty Tensen, Tina cost to them, after four weeks Tensen, HarrietSarazin,Calvin of rigorous training. Wilson, Charlena andClaudina ♦ ♦ ♦ Crawford, Lillian Gibson, Donna The Nyssa LDS Stake cele­ Cook, Ivan Burnes and Dirick brated Pioneer Day, July 24, Nedrey. with an all day outing at the Vale Park and a dance in the 60 YEARS AGO Evening at the Nyssa Stake Heuse. July 24 marks the ar- Thirty-seven carloads of tfval of the Morman pioneers bridge timbers, ties, posts, tathe Salt Lake Valley. stays and galvanized iron flume S tnat I see how they run every­ thing. All I can say, it’s a wonderful program. In a few short weeks I have learned to understand the friendship among the people of the world. To Mr. Fonda, AFS members and all the Nyssans who helped make this trip possible I thank you. It’s really GREAT and the AFS is COOL! Thank you, Jan Saito *F GI\ t GOLD STRIKE STrt .iFS Home of QualiU and Service •NYSSA ‘ONTARIO ‘VALE ®25w 22 oz. 65«