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How Nyssa Got It’s Name
We have finally heard the true, authentic story of how
Nyssa got it’s name. Or at least it sounds plausible after
visiting with Harry Leuck. old time Nvssa resident and retired
Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy (see story page 1).
The name Nyssa, according to Leuck, came from a sign at
the end of the line when the railroad was being built, and long
before there was a town here. The sign read NORTH YARD
SUPPLY STATION, and later someone tacked the letter "A”
onto the initials to make the name consonant, or pleasant
sounding, and it came out NYSSA.
This story came from
Leuck’s Uncle Nicholas, who helped build the railroad, and
who saw the sign many times.
Some of you won’t agree with this version. We would welcome
hearing your story, and if there is such a thing as we could
all agree on a story, it would be well to record it for posterity.
Other versions we have heard is that it Is an Indian name; that
it Is a Biblical name; that it was somebody’s girl friend’s
name; that it came from the sign NEW YORK SALE & SHIPPING
ASSOCIATION: and others.
Only last week a tourist from Ohio stopped in our office
and asked where the name came from. It seems he had named
his daughter Nyssa, but he seemed rather vague as to the reason,
and didn’t know a town by that name existed until he neared
Oregon and spotted us on the map.
Now is a good time to get this thing settled. Can anybody
help?
CHANGE IS NOT ALWAYS PROGRESS
You arc old enough to remember the good old days
if you can remember:
When you left your front door open.
When you went to church and the preacher preached
from the Bible.
When a girl was a girl, when a boy was a boy, and you
could tell them apart.
When even the word “socialism” was a dirty word
When the poor were too proud to take charity.
When a nickel was worth five cents.
When you bragged about your hometown, your state,
and your nation.
When the flag was a sacred symbol.
When this Government stood up for Americans.
When everyone knew right from wrong.
When things were not perfect and you didn’t expect
them to be.
When people still had the capacity for indignation.
When sick meant that you were not feeling well.
When people expected less and valued what they had
more.
When everyone was not entitled to an annual wage
whether he worked or not.
When a man’s word was his bond.
When America was the land of the free and the home
of the brave. — Anon.
OUT OF
30 YEARS AGO
The Malheur Chapter has
spent $5600 on polio cases,
one this year and several from
the previous year, leaving only
$400 in the treasury for the
remainder of the year.
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Dallas Chaney had a narrow
escape while mowing hay for
his father recently. The team
ran away and Chaney fell and
the mower wheel ran over his
arm, breaking it just above the
wrist.
40 YEARS AGO
Eighty summers isn’t so old,
according to three sprightly
gentlemen, David Mac Lafferty,
82, and G.H. Wade 92, of Nyssa
and C lark Wisby, 85, of Roswell,
who frequently get together.
They have lived through three
wars, they have seen the ad­
vent of electricity, automobile
and airplane--but nothing in­
terests them quite as much as
the days of the Civil War. Then
they were young and life was
new and bright with promise
and adventure.
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A daring offender cranked Nat
Young’s car in front of the Nyssa
Pharmacy Monday night and
drove it away. Near Adrian
the car stalled and a truck tow­
ed it to Adrian.
The car,
a Chevrolet Coupe, has been
returned to its owner and
officers are on the lookout for
the alleged thief.
50 YEARS AGO
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THE PAST
The polio Incidence Is lower
10 YEARS AGO
this year than last year in the
Snake River Valley and it Is
Formal opening of Nyssa’s hoped that it will remain low.
swimming pool may not be until In contrast, polio has reached
1962, but for the local kids almost epidemic stage on the
yesterday was a highlight of coast.
their young lives when an es­
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timated 312 registered between
National Defense has even
noon and 3 o’clock. Miss Jan reached into Nyssa
Public
Rinehart was in charge of re­ School according to figures re­
gistering swimmers, there was leased this week by Henry H.
no admission charge the first Hartley, superintendent of the
day.
Nyssa Schools. Enrollment of
Pool officials include Dale students in both high and grade
Overstake and Bob Q. Smith, schools have shown a decrease
co-managers; Mrs. Jerry (Judy) of a total of 103 students, com­
Gyllenskog and Miss Terry pared to that of 1940.
Rlechert, lifeguards, assisted
Teachers in the grade school
by Miss Marsha Savage.
are ; first grade, Mrs. El­
ton Benson, Mamie Bostrack
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and Mrs. Wilma Brown, second,
Mrs. DorothySmith and Theresa
A group of high school stu­ Tabor; third, Mrs. Rita Bene­
dents left Sunday morning for dict and Miss Eva Boydell;
music camp at Lake Tahoe. fourth, Mrs. Eva Chadwick and
Students included two from Vale, Bernice Martin;
fifth, Mrs.
two from Homedale and 15 from Dorothy Adkinson and LaDell
Nyssa.
Shaw;
sixth, Mrs. Beatrice
Attending
from the local Williams and Mrs. Mrs. Mar­
school are John Douglas, Jim garet Carpenter. In the seventh
McGinnis, John Wohlcke, Greg and eighth grades, Zell Tidwell
Summer, Patrick Dorlty, Craig will teach English and Girls
Burbank, Nancy Lytle, Charles P.e. LeRoy Ingram, Mathe­
Anderson, Glenda Hoffman, Ona matics and Art.
Art Smith,
Lou Winchester, Doug Patterson Science and Athletics. Princi­
and Darlene Johnson, band mem­ pal Owen Price will teach Social
bers; Linda Myrick and Judy Science. Gordon Finlay will be
Wilson, choral.
Music Supervisor for grade and
high schools.
The high school faculty will
'0 YEARS AGO
be Irwin Wider, Social Science,
Boy’s P.E., Basketball and
An all Nyssa slate of officers Track Coach; Gilbert Henry,
was elected by the Malheur Commerce; Robert Sawyer, Vo­
County Chapter of the National cational Agriculture; Wesley
Foundation for Infantile Paraly­ Sherman, English, Journalism
sis at a meeting held in the and Orientation; Fred Stark,
Ontario Clinic, Friday.
Freshman Mathematics; Flora
The new officers are Clyde Uquiri, English, Library and
Snider, chairman;
Bernard Spanish; Stella Young, English
Eastman, vice chairman; Leo­ and Girl’s Vocal Music; John
nard Hewett, treasurer, and Young Mathematics and Head
Mrs. W.W. Foster, secretary. Coach; Gordon Finlay, Music
The medical advisors will be Supervisor.
Principal Frank
appointed later.
Parr will teach Social Science.
The new Binkley bungalow,
on Third Street, was damaged
beyond repair by a fire which
broke out about 4:30 Tuesday
morning. The fire had been
burning some time before the
alarm was turned in. The fire
boys made good time after re­
ceiving the alarm, and quenched
flames in remarkable short
time after water was turned
on, but saved only the shell
of the building.
The theory
is advanced that some oily rags
left by painters ignited from
spontanious combustion during
the heat of Monday afternoon.
The loss is about $2500, fully
covered by insurance.
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The council will cut and bum
weeds in the streets and alleys
within the next ten days and
private property owners are
requested to do likewise on
their own private property on
or before August 25, after which
date the work will be done by
the city at the owner’s expense.
Let’s clean up.
60 YEARS AGO
Next Thursday, will occur
the biggest event of the year.
On that day the sixth annual
picnic of the Roswell-Parma
Picnic Association will be held
at Anderson’s Grove, about two
miles northwest of Parma, one
of the finest places in the state
for a gathering of this kind.
Everybody in the country will
be there, and it is safe to say
that this occasion will outshine
all previous ones. A band has
been procured and other amuse­
ments will be provided.
A
fine program of sports has been
arranged.
Fern M. Cramer
Stockfleth
Mrs. Fern Mildred Cramer,
46, Ontario, died August 5 in
a car accident near Vale.
She was born Oct. 22, 1924 in
Fargo, N.D. She was married
to John Cramer May 30,1948in
Nampa.
They had lived in Nampa and
moved to Middleton in 1951 and
to Parma in 1959. They came to
Ontario in 1961,
She took
nurses training in Nampa and in
Portland.
For the past four
years she has worked in the
Malheur County Migrant Health
Program.
She is survived by her hus­
band of Ontario;, her mother,
Mrs. Gertrude Weintz, Seattle;
two
sons, John M, (Mike)
Cramer, with the U.S. Navy in
Long Beach, Calif, and Martin
(Marty) Cramer, Ontario; two
daughters, Cathy and Candy
Cramer, both of Ontario; three
brothers,
Wesley
Weintz,
Seattle, andWendell and Harland
Weintz, both of Portland, and two
sisters,
Mrs. George (Eva)
Mays, Denver, and Mrs. Harry
(Zelda) Otterson, Seattle.
Services were conducted at
10:30 a.m. August 9 at the
First Church of the Nazarene
in Ontario. Interment was at
Evergreen under the direction
of Bertelson-Lienkaemper Me­
morial Chapel.
Contributions may be made to
the Mary Kay School in Ontario.
Services
were held Wed­
nesday morning, August 11 at
Lienkaemper Chapel in Nyssa
for George Stockfleth, 81, who
died Monday morning, August
9, 1971, after a short illness.
Interment followed in Newell,
South Dakota.
Born in San Francisco on
December 19, 1889, Mr. Stock­
fleth lived in California until
he entered the service during
World War I. Upon his dis-
charge, he resided in Boise
where he married Cora Viken
The
on January 10, 1942.
couple lived in Nampa until the
fall of 1947 when they moved
to Cottage Grove. They later
lived in Newport, Oregon, mo­
ving to Fruitland, Idaho, in
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1951. They moved to Payette
James L. Hoden
in 1952 and lived there until
James Leonard Hoden, 26, 1961 when they movedtoNyssa.
Big Bend area, died Sunday at a
He was a member of the United
Nyssa hospital.
Methodist Church in Nyssa.
He was born April 30, 1945,
Mrs. Stockfleth preceded him
in Torrington, Conn. He was a in death on August 5, 1966,
student at Treasure ValleyCom- and he was also preceded in
munity College.
death by two step-sons.
He is survived by his father,
Surviving are two step-daugh­
Stanley Hoden, Ontario; his mo­ ters, Mrs. Inga Robbins of
ther, Mary Hoden, Los Angeles; Nyssa and Mrs. Marie Gardner
a step-sister, Candis Sloan, La of Sheridan, Wyoming; six step­
Grande.
sons, Howard, Fred and Delbert
Graveside services were Viken of Seattle; Floyd Viken
held August 11 atOwyheeCeme- of Eugene, and Kenneth and Ju­
tery with the Rev. Fr. Charles lius Viken of Newell.
Also
Young officiating. Arrange­ surviving are a large number
ments were under the direction of grandchildren which includes
of the LienkaemperChapel. The three grandchildren, 13 great­
recitation of the rosary was grandchildren and two great­
given Tuesday night.
great grandsons of the local
area.
Lawrence Fowers
To his great-grandchildren,
he was affectionately known as
Lawrence Dean Fowers, 43, “Great George’’.
Vale died August 5 in an au-'’
tomoblle accident near Vale.
John E. Telisak
He was born Feb. 20, 1928
John
E. Telisak, 17, former
in Hooper, Utah. He attended
schools in Weaver County, Utah, resident of Nyssa, drowned Sat­
and Weber High School.
He urday near Salt Lake City.
Graveside services will be
worked in the Seattle Shipyard
at 4 p.m. Thursday (today) at
during World War II.
He married Nola Forbes in the Nyssa cemetery with the
Ogden, April 1, 1949.
The Rev. John Worrall of the Nyssa
marriage was solemnized in the Episcopal Church officiating
Idaho Falls Temple on July 12, under the direction of Lien­
1968.
kaemper Chapel.
They resided in Moses Lake,
Helen Fisk
Wash., for three years, coming
to the Vale area in 1953. They
Mrs. Helen Fisk, 74, of On­
farmed in the Willowcreek area
tario, a longtime resident of
for several years. He was em­
Parma, died early Saturday
ployed by Vale Consumers
morning, August 7 in a Boise
Co-op for 12 years, managing
hospital.
for the past four years. He was
Mrs. Fisk was born February
a member of the Church of 7, 1897, in Bloomington, Ill.
Jesus Christ of Latter-day She came to Parma in 1915.
Saints.
She was married April JI, 1917,
He is survived by his wife,
in Parma to Harold Fisk and
Nola, of Vale; seven daughters,
Mr.
they lived in Parma.
Mrs. Clark (Vicki) Draper,Og­
Fisk died January 18, 1952.
den, Deanna Fowers, Salt Lake She moved to Ontario 10 years
City, and Sheryl, Linda, Cally, ago. She was a member of
Becky and Shawna Fowers at Kirkpatrick Memorial Presby­
home in Vale; a sister, Mrs. terian Church of Parma and
Warren (Delma) Fox, Hooper; the Parma Chapter, Order of
one granddaughter, one niece Eastern Star.
and one nephew.
Surviving are a son, Robert
Services were conducted Au­ R. Fisk of Twin Falls, and one
gust 9 at the Vale LDS Church grandchild. In addition to her
by Bishop Neil Hyatt. Interment husband, she was preceded in
was at- Valley View under the death by a son, Bill Fisk, in
direction of the High Funeral January, 1943.
Chapel.
Service were conducted at
Kirkpatrick Memorial Presby­
terian Church at 10a.m. August
10 by the Rev. Stanley Banks
of Parma.
Interment was at
Parma.
Memorials may be given to
the Arthritis Foundation.
H SEEDS FROM
VTHE SOWER
■ By Micheel A. Guido, Matter, Geor{/
Georgia
Yesterday my niece said,
"Uncle Michael, I know there
is a God. But who made
Him?” “Nobody,” I an­
swered. "When did He begin
to live?” she asked. “He al­
ways was,” I replied. “Will
He ever stop living?" she
wondered. “No.” 1 answered.
“He always will be.” "But,”
she admitted, "I don’t under­
stand." "Neither do I,” came
my confession. The finite
cannot comprehend the in­
finite.
Every one. if he is en­
dowed with a normal mind,
finds questions about God
arising in his mind very early
in life. This is convincing
proof that there is a com­
passionate Creator, a living
Lord, whom men endeavor to
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know.
One who came to know
Him said in Psalm 93 :1 and 2,
“The Lord reigns. Thy throne
is established of old: Thou art
from everlasting.”
In this day of crime,
immorality,
rebellion and
trouble, it is comforting to
the soul to look up and say
with assurance and admira­
tion, “The Lord reigns!”
One morning a mother ex­
perienced
a heartbreaking
trial, and she cried. Putting
his hand into hers, the young­
est child asked, “Mother, is
the Lord dead?” Taking him
into her arms, she said, “No,
my son. Thank you for the
question. The Lord reigns,
and He will help us.”
Pauline Judd
Pauline June (Susie) Judd,
36, Burley, died August 6 in a
car accident near Ironside.
She was born June 13, 1935,
in Lyman, Nebraska.
She is survived by her hus­
band, Lawrence Judd, Burley,
a son, Rodney Lee Schlupe and
a daughter, Darla Dee Schulpe,
both of Apache Junction, Ariz.;
her mother and step-father, Mr.
and Mrs. Don Jeffers, Nyssa; a
sister, Darlene Herder,Casper,
Wyoming; two brothers, Dave
Rieb, Nyssa and Charles Reib,
Bend; a step-brother, Edward
Jeffers, Nyssaandastep-sister,
Nancy Jeffers, Nyssa; and a
maternal grandfather, Henry
Flack.
Her father preceded
her in death.
Services were conducted at
10:30 a.m. August 9 at the
Ltenkaemper Chapel in Nyssa
by the Rev. Dean Wigstrom,
of the St. Paul Lutheran Church
of Ontario. Interment was at
Nyssa.
The Oregon State Highway
Division is cooperating in the
St. Bridget’s News
nationwide effort to provide
summertime employment for
the country’s youth by em­
Tuesday
and Wednesday
ploying them in the 16-20 age
bracket under two seperate pro­ August 17 and 18 will find
St. Bridget’s Religious Edu­
grams.
The Division launched the cation teachers and helpers in­
Youth Litter Program on July vited to two one and a half
1 by employing 72 boys to pick hour sessions of preparation for
up litter along the highways of the coming year. There will
the state. The young men are be a session in the morning
assigned to 18 four-man crews at 10:00 a.m. and one in the
scattered about the state. This evening at 8:00 p.m. The morn­
program is financed with funds ing and evening sessions will
received from the sale of cus­ be identical allowing those par­
tomized license plates. The ticipating to choose a time most
Tuesday will be
members of this group are convenient.
pretty much on their own, with dedicated to the setting up of
a crew chief being selected the coming year’s program and
from the crew members of each Wednesday to the material to
group, although their work is be taught and the manner of
monitored by a Highway Di­ teaching it.
vision foreman.
Again this year grades 4,
The program is successful.
The youths are enthusiastic and 5, 6, 7, 8 will be on Monday
are willing workers. Following and 1, 2, 3 on Tuesday from
a sweep by one of these groups, 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. The high
the highways are left clean, school program will again con­
thus providing the setting for a sist of three semesters of three
most enjoyable ride. Expres­ courses each semester with the
sions from Highway Division student allowed a choice of
personnel have ranged from courses, and requested to attend
“Excellent day’s work” to “Ex­ two out of the three semesters.
Two men or a couple will be
tremely clean job.”
Following the third week of asked to teach the eight classes
the program, reports indicate of each course.
that this group has combed
The Youth Center in the Re­
1,850 miles of highway,
In ligious Education Building of
this stretch, the youths have St. Bridget’s is open on Tues­
picked up 9,600 bags of litter. day evenings for high school
They are averaging seven miles students and on Thursday even­
per day per team and picking ings for junior high students.
up five bags of litter per mile,
or 35 bags of litter per crew
ticipating in this program are
per day.
The litter is placed in plastic hired by the U.S. Department of
bags alongside the highway, Labor and are paid by that
where it is picked up by re­ agency although they work under
gular Highway Division trucks. the supervision of Highway Di-
Following a sweep by these vison personnel. This is also
crews, the right-of-way is ex­ a statewide program.
Under the program, 94 youths
ceptionally neat and clean.
Highway Division officials ex­ have been employed by the High­
press the hope that cleanliness way Division. They are utili­
will breed cleanliness and that zed in equipment shops and
on
landscape
motorists observing the absence storerooms,
of litter along the highway would crews, in rest areas, on brush
be inclined to leave it in that cutting crews, sign crews, jani­
condition. At this time it is not torial crews, and yard crews.
known when the litter teams will Girls are utilized in Region and
be back to make another com­ District offices, where they do
plete sweep. The program will clerical and secretarial work.
be limited to Saturdays only These youths work alongside
once school starts.
regular Highway Division em­
The second project, the ployees.
Neighborhood YouthCorps Pro­
gram, was started on July 15
TRAIN THE VETERAN
and is designed to provide jobs
ON-THE-JOB WITH
for disadvantaged youths, both
61 BILL OR MOTA
boys and girls. Youths par-
APOSTOLIC FAITH
Apostolic Church of the Faith
in Christ Jesus services will
be held in the evenings Sunday,
Wednesday, and Friday at 7 p.m.
Sunday School services are held
from 10 a.m. until noon. All
are welcome, accounced Pastor
Mike Valverde, Jr. The church
is located at 612 North 9th.
Latin Assembly
Of God Church
Sunday, church activities be­
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.
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Young people’s service, every
Tuesday night at 7:30p.m. Bible
study every Thursday night at
7:30 p.m.
A friendly church with a
friendly smile. The Rev. David
H. Martinez, Pastor.
CHRISTIAN CHURCH
First Christian Church, Sun­
day School, 9:45 and morning
worship, 11:00.
CYF - Thursday, 7:30 p.m,.
For all Jr and Sr. High Youth's.
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Park Avenue ?
Baptist Church
Park Avenue Southern Baptist
Church Sunday School, 10:00
a.m.; Worship, 11 a.m.; Even­
ing 8 p.m.
Tuesday, youth meets, 8 p.m.
Wednesday, Bible study, 8
p.m.
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Pastor, Roy Kilby, call 372-
2929.
1he Oldrltin&i
“One good place to study
ancient history is in the doc­
tor's waiting room.“
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This *l Booster Button
is your way into the
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62nd Annual
Malheur County Fair
Good for admission all 4 days, to "All"
exhibits & Wenatchee Youth Circus
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PLAN TO ATTEND DAILY:
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• 4-H end FFA Exhibits
• Livestock Shows
• Lilac City Amusement Show (from Spokane)
There’ll Also Be Home Economic, Land Produce, Commercial, Art and
Photography Exhibita and Food Concession«
(2 P.M.) Sat. Only. 4-H Cr FFA Market Stock Sale
HIGHLIGHTING
yr HIGH
SCHOOL
THIS YEAR'S FAIR
(the 19th edition)
of
Performers
Wenatchee
From Wenatchee
Youth Circus
Wash. High
(3 performances)
will entertain you
and your family
with
%
Friday
2:30 ond 7:30
"Big Top
Performances
Saturday
7:30 only
TRAPEZE
ACROBATS
CLOWNS
HIGH WIRE . .
And
Much
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