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Pag« Two Th« Nytsa Gat« City Journal, Nyssa, Oragon Nyssa Gate City Journal F OUT OF THE PAST OBITUARIES Vernal L. Sharp DIRICK NEDRY. . . . RUBEN LOPEZ. . . . BETTY TALBOT. . . MARGARET NEDRY. PATSY HICKS............. RUTH KLINKENBERG. Editor and Publisher . . . .Shop Foreman , . . .News Reporter . . . .News Reporter Justowriter Operator .Justowriter Operator Services for Vernal Levain Sharp. 63, of Route 1, Cald well, who died August 12 in a Caldwell hospital were con ducted August 16 at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Bishop Harold G. Spencer. Interment was at Mid dleton Cemetery under direction of Dakan Funeral Chapel. Mr. Sharp was born May 9, 1908, in Clinton, Utah, and was reared and educated there. He served with the U.S. Maritime Service during World War II, living at Richmond, Calif. His first wife, Mrs. Elsie Evelyn Sharp, died in 1944. He mar ried Kathleen Nelson Dec. 1, 1945, in Ogden. They moved to a farm near Nyssa in 1948, and had lived on a farm near Middleton since 1961. He was a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles at Nyssa. Surviving in addition to Mrs. Sharp are two sons, Dale and Du Waine Sharp, both of Mid dleton; a step-son, Richard Harms of Boise; a daughter, Mrs. Jim (Joy\Trexler of Boise; two sisters, Mrs. Golden (Ruth) Draper of Nyssa and Mrs. James V. (Iris) Adams of Sunset, Utah, and four grandchildren. — — — ■— *■ — — — —_____ 10 YEARS AGO The transfer of many of our tankers to British service has left the Eastern markets short of transportation. Now the proposal is to take the West Coast tankers to serve the more populous East Coast.” "Our touring department has been flooded by calls from motorists wondering whether they should start on trips. We have assured them that they may take their trips and be certain to purchase gasoline to return home on.’’ Michael Glenn, nine-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Marion Glenn suffered a concussion Thursday while swimming in Nyssa’s new municipal pool. Published Evary Thursday at Nyiia, Oragon 97913 Upon jumping in, he apparently hit his head on the bottom side of the pool, knocking him Second Class postage paid at Nyssa, Oregon 97913, unconscious. under act of Congress of March 3, 1879 He was rescued by Evan Weeks, son of Mr. and Mrs. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Oregon Glen Weeks, from the six-foot Newspaper depth of the pool. Artificial Malheur County, Oregon, Publishers respiration was given by Mrs. and Payette and Canyon Association Judy Gyllenskog, lifeguard on 40 YEARS AGO Counties, Idaho; duty at the time of the acci NATIONAL NEWSPAPER The nearing Nyssa Flower dent. One Year ................ $5.00 UMtufiw im The victim’s mother reports Show is the event of the year Six Months............... $3.00 that the family doctor said he in Nyssa and is expected to UNA sustaining Elsewhere in the U.S.A. believed an underwater mask draw a record breaking crowd. One Year.................. $6.00 was responsible for saving his In addition to displays from Six Months................. $4.00 life, as it provided needed air lovely Nyssa gardens, floral exhibits from all nearby rural supply. CONSERVATIVE * • * communities and Owyhee Dam BAPTIST Army Pvt. Lyle D. Anderson, are assured. Mrs. C.W. Barrett,possessor 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wil CHURCH bur Anderson, 604 N. 8th, Nyssa, of the only extensive rock gar Another opportunity for chil is participating with other per den in the countryside, has dren to attend Vacation Bible Editor, The Journal; sonnel from the 101st Airborne kindly consented to bring her School will be offered at the In trying to compose this Conservative Baptist Church Division in Exercise Swift rarest and choicest blooms, letter, I find it very hard to next week by specially trained Strike, a massive Army Air even gorgeously colored rocks, grasp the words to express young people from Oakland, Force maneuver being con to make a special display. She myself completely and ac Calif. A full program of Bible ducted in North andSouthCaro- will virtually transplant her own beautiful rockery at the Flower curately, but I will attempt to study, handwork, singing, con lina. Show. do so as best I can. Anderson entered the Army tests and games is scheduled. St. Bridget’s News Chairmen for the Flower Show I am speaking of the grati last November and completed Each year at this time the tude that my family and I have Melrose Baptist Church of Oak basic training at Fort Riley, in nearby communities are: Mrs. F.A. Banks, Owyhee Dam; toward the fine people we have land has sent a youth group to A committee of St. Bridget’s Kan. Mrs. C.E. Peck, Big Bend; here in Nyssa. I cannot tell churches in the area of Eastern Altar Society under the chair Mrs. Conrad Martin, Kingman you how much we appreciated Oregon and Western Idaho to manship of Mrs. Joe Madrid 20 YEARS AGO Kolony; Mrs. J.B. Smith, Ore the cards, letters, and flowers conduct these late summer served and prepared refresh that different people and or schools. The young people will ments at the blood drawing this Six traffic tickets were issued gon Trail and Owyhee; Mrs. ganizations in the community make their headquarters in past Tuesday from 2;00 to by firemen to motorists who Chas Bullard, Arcadia; Mrs. sent to us during my recent Payette and will conduct schools 6:00 p.m. drove their cars over hose at W.F. Adams, Apple Valley. » ♦ * illness. Father Young pastor of St. the Polar Cold Storage fire at Payette, Weiser, Ontario, E.M. Staggs, a blacksmith It is a comfort to me to Malheur Butte and Nyssa. Bridget’s has been appointed Saturday night. know that in this world so Firemen said the hose did not 40 years, has leased the Frank The Nyssa school will beheld Director of the Confraternity full of turmoil and strife, hateH from 9 to 11:30 each morning, of Christian Doctrine of the obstruct traffic on the highway Leuck Blacksmith Shop. He is murder, and dissension that we Monday through Friday, August Diocese of Baker by Most Rev. and persons involved were going from Yuma, Ariz., and has read about every day, that there 23-27. It is open to children Thomas J. Connolly Bishop of to the Morocco Club, located traveled from there to Los are yet people who are com of any denomination or children Baker. Father Young will be next to the former cold storage Angeles, Boulder City and Salt passionate, and have concern who do not attend church any leaving Nyssa to reside with the plant. Most of those ticketed Lake and finds Nyssa the most over their brother’s well-being. where. Registration will begin Bishop around the 1st of had been warned a few minutes promising section of all. People who during their busy at 8;45 a.m. Monday at the September. Father Robert before not to run over the hose, schedules, still have time to church door. Material used in Simard will be coming to re firemen said. 50 YEAB5 AGO think about how they can help the school will be from Scrip place Father Young. Motorists chasing the fire A group of popular young carry the burden and perhaps ture Press PublishingCompany, Father Young's new duties truck and racing with the fire lighten the load of the ill fated an interdenominational pub will consist in overseeing the truck and firemen in private married couples from Nyssa and trouble stricken neighbor lisher. religious education of the youth cars are going to be stopped. spent a pleasant day Sunday They went by and friend. and adults of the Diocese of The police will give 100 per at Big Bend. Guest speaker at the 11 a.m. I am sincerely proud to live service of the Nyssa Conserva Baker under the direct super cent support. Morotists vio auto and carried a bountiful in this community, and in some tive Baptist Church on Sunday vision of Bishop Connolly. The lating the ordinance are ham basket dinner along. Among attended were who small way perhaps I can repay will be the Rev. Charles Losie, Diocese of Baker consists of pering firemen going to fires, those part of the debt that I feel general director of theConser- all of the state of Oregon east endangering lives and des Messers, and Mmes. Charles Crawford and children; Harry 1 owe this community by help vative Baptist Association of of the Cascade Mountains. troying property. ♦ ♦ ♦ Goshert; Albert Cook and child ing someone else when they Oregon. Rev. Losie is visiting are in need. An article pertaining to the ren; Artie Robinson; Prettyman; the Nyssa church to present a activities of the Malheur Home O.G. Bauer; Elmer Stradley; Sincerely second Builder’s Club check to Barney Wilson; Telephone Company at Nyssa McKenzie; the church to help pay for the Jim Robinson and Ontario appeared in the Jul] new building. He was invited to issue of The Monitor, whicl also deliver the morning is published at Denver for em sermon. ployes of the Mountain State! The Builder’s Club is a vo Telephone and TelegraphCom- luntary organization of in pany. dividual Conservative Baptist When three letters receive« I Church members who agree to Even though the economy was i contribute at least $1.00a month up tight this summer, the Em- within a period of slightly ovei to help establish and build new ployment Division reported here two weeks, commending opera tors of the Malheur Telephon« churches. Each month the total that the Annual Summer Jobs The atmosphere weighs five amount of the donations forthat for Youth program, sponsored Company at Nyssa and Ontario for doing a topnotch telephon« and a half quadrillion tons month is given out to a church by the Division and the Go- about a millionth of the weight job, it would appear that thing! that has applied and qualified vernor’s Commission on Youth of the earth as a whole. At sea are well in hand in those ad for help. produced some good results. level, it presses on every square joining communities. During May, June and July, the inch of space with a weight equal to 14.7 pounds! Division said, Employment Di vision personnel made 7,141 30 YEARS AGO ZC-rVALlY /VMPG The world's longest underwater placements of young people 16 coral formation is Australia's OP PFAP TI55VÊ / through 21 years of age, in non- great Barrier Reef, which agricultural jobs.“Interestingly ADRIAN - The Adrian FF A stretches for 1,250 miles! This enough,” said Ross Morgan, returned the first of the week great reef is now threatened by the crown-of-thorns starfish Employment Division admini from the Wallowa Mts. where which destroys the coral in the strator, "this total was 1,343 they had spent seven days on pursuit of its prey. placements up compared with a camping trip. the same period in 1970.” Because of the acute labor situation several could not go Morgan said that non-agri- who would have otherwise made cultural placements of young the trip. people peaked in July for the Transportation was furnished three-month period when 2,887 placements were made com by Howard Hatch and his school pared with 1,571 in May and bus. Those who made the trip 2,683 in June. Agricultural were; Harold Miller, Russel Willard Curtis, placements of young people du McKague, ring the May-July period to Donald Dazey, Ray Rumiser, taled 19,035, for a three-month Joe Cram, Billy Hamilton, Dick total, agricultural and non-agri- Ashcraft, Ronald Lane, Glen Kenneth Buck, cultural placements, of 26,176, Strickland, Robert Glass, Melvin Parker, Morgan said. Dwain Hatch and Johnny John son, Instructor, D.W. Patch, “We were thankful again to principal, Harry Russel, Elbert have young student workers, Hatch and Donnie Hatch accom Neighborhood Youth Corps per panied the group as guests. sonnel, and some Work Study students, working with us this “Testimony of Acting Petro summer to help develop youth leum Coordinator Ralph Davies jobs. Apparently, they along with before a Senate investigation our regular youth employment committee that gasoline ration representatives and staff, and ing is imminent for the Pacific the cooperation of employers Coast comes as a great sur and householders around the prise to organized motorists.” state, have made the Summer Jobs for Youth campaign suc ■Cl “The shortage which we face cessful again. And we still is not in the gasoline itself have August and September to but the transportation facilities report,’’ Morgan said. to bring it to Northwest market«. rami LETTER TO EDITOR IGCE3 Wil« ’ Summer Jobs For Youth Successful • • • PS 71 Ford clearance is on! Gentry Ford Sales, Inc 1802 S.W. 4th Avenu« Ontario, Oregon PLUMBING AND HEATING Authorized Lennox Dealer 13 N. 2ND ST. Thursday, August 19, 1971 PHONE 372-3911 Nyssa, Oregon Dwight Smith. After their re turn they were guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Barney Wilson, where supper was served on the lawn. All report a fine time. ♦ • ♦ J.R. Hunter, the popular local agent for McConnon’s house hold necessities, has fixed up a poultry wagon and now ex changes his wares for poultry during his trips to the farming districts. Mr. Hunter states that a more hopeful feel is evi dent among the farmers and a spirit of optimism prevails. B r » N * /■A. 60 YEARS AGO The Idaho-Oregon Light and Power Company, whichhasheld a franchise in this city for several months, and for which several car-loads of poleshave been here for some time, sent a crew of surveyors to Nyssa this morning, surveyed out the lines and employed a crew of men to begin setting the poles. The construction work will continue till connection is made with lines at Ontario, and light and power transmitted to this city, which will require but a few weeks, unless something unforeseen should happen to delay the work of construction. ♦ ♦ ♦ A letter from Arthur Cook, who accompanied by his wife, is spending the summer months in Greenhorn mountains near Baker City, states that he caught a basket of 134 trout the day previous, and has been living on young sage hens ever since he landed. Arthur expects to re turn home soon on account of the rush of work in the shop here. MILESTONES Mildred Lorraine Holmes of Nyssa received her 1 . _ '1__2 practical nursing certificate from Treasure Valley Community College Monday August 9 at an award banquet in Ontario.____________ - TVCC Practical Nurses Receive Certificates The 1971 Treasure Valley Community College class of practical nurses received their certificates August 9 at an award banquet heldat the Eastside Cafe in Ontario. Although the girls went through the spring gradua tion, an additional summer ses sion is required to meet state requirements. Certified Monday evening were Shirley Kay Nelson, On tario; Cheryl Susan Bumpus, Baker; Jessie Jean Weeks, Ma dras; Lois Kay Abrell, Lebanon; Barbara A. Mefford, Ontario; Julley Ann Manser, New Ply mouth; Mildred Lorraine Holmes, Nyssa; Holly Jeanne Stout, Ontario; Patsy Paterson, Ontario; Tanya Rae Mitchell, Union; Susan Gail Gould, On tario; Anthonette Marie Bevan, Boise; Mary Ellen Kochsmeier, Vale; Sharon Louise Servatius, Weiser; Alice F. May, Burns; Edwardeen Lavender, Vale; Emma M. Lobato, Fruitland; Dorothy R. Shaw, Nyssa; Sister Martin Wasinger, Ontario; Mary Elizabeth Norton, Mitchell. Other awards for the evening went to Sister Martin Wasinger who , had the best academic standing in the class; Millie Holmes who was named Best Nurse; and Julie Manser whose classmates voted Miss Con geniality. The girls presented each of their instructors Elaine Balder- son, Jean Joyce, and Kathy Ti ger with an engraved silver dish. The date August 9, 1973 and the place - the Eastside Cafe were selected for a reunion before the banquet ended. NORTHRUPS TOHOLD OES Clearance Sal« BARBECUE FORBAND Slated For Aug. 28 ^HE FIRST PHYSIC! AH WHOSE •\JAME ¡5 EEÜ0PPED IM HI4TOey WAG AU EGYPTIAN, SEKHET'EHANCH ZjOOO ?■£.). HE "HEAUEP THE KING'S <MO5TKILS''AUP WAS KIWABPEP WITH A STATUÉ. BEAKlNGTHt>?fC0«Z> OF THE. C.ASE.. Members of the Nyssa High School Band who went to Cal gary will meet at the Craig Northrup’s home at 7 p. m. Thursday, August 26 for a bar becue. Bring your pictures and slides taken at Calgary. Stardusters of the Order of the Eastern Star will hold a fall clearance sale at the side of Rieb’s Market, August 28 from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Every thing from nuts to bolts to fancy dishes and clothes will be on sale. Come and see for your self.
