The Nyssa Gate City Journal, Nyssa, Oregon
Thursday, July 29, 1971
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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.
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.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.
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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.
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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
<gre “King and Queen’’ of the side track capacity is pretty
Nyssa Pioneer Celebration, held well congested.
Upre last Thursday.
Only about a dozen men have
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been engaged upon the task of
-2The new$25,000 Union Pacific unloading the cars as yet, but
DCpot, construction of which the Short Line expects to have
began January 3,1911 is rapidly a crew of fifty men on the
nearing completion and will be job within the next two weeks.
i®ady for occupancy about Aug-
Unloading and hauling away
q^t 15, according to C.M. Jor the fluming is a light task,
dan, supervising engineer for the but it is different with the big
Udlon Pacific.
bridge timbers, taking the en
* Jhe new streamline depot is
tire crew at work at present all
(instructed of steel and a spe day to unload one car.
cially made brick of the famous
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U.P. streamline colors of gray,
yellow and red.
It will be
Sherm Tharp established a
equipped with the latest of tele moving picture show in Nyssa
graph equipment and outside last week, at the Nyssa Opera
lighting.
The building will House and has been doing a
aieomodate passengers, ex land office business ever since.
press, and freight. A plot of
He now gives shows on Sat
ground just north and west of urday nights only, and it is
tM depot will be landscaped. evident from the attendance that
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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
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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
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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
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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
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