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University Of Oregon Library Eugene, Ore. 97U03 X X X X x Nyssa Gate City Journal Volum« LXV Thunderegg Capital The Nyssa Gate City Journal, Nyssa, Oregon DOG LEASH 0RDINANQ PASSED, ELECTION CALLED FOR NOVEMBER 8 The Nyssa City Council adopted a dog control ordinance at its last meeting, and then agreed to refer it to the people for their vote of approval or disapproval November 8. At the same time the council called an election to obtain approval of a continuung annual special tax levy, outside the Constitutional 6% tax limitation, and not to exceed $6,500 to take care of the expenses of enforcing the dog ordinance. City Manager Fred Koch said the dog control ordinance was adopted because a petition was filed with the city council about six moths ago requesting that a dog leash law be enacted. The request for this relief was due to the expressed claims that many dogs ran at large, de stroyed shrubs, frightened children, and were generally a nuisance. As the issue of dog control is highly controversial, the cou- Rehearsals For Messiah Begin “Messiah” rehearsals begin Thursday evening (tonight) at 7:30 p.m. in the choir room, and chorus director Gary Con don invites anyone who is in terested in singing in the “Me ssiah” to attend the rehearsals. Presentation of the program will be given December 12 at the Nyssa High School gymna sium. Local soloists will be used this year, with Mrs. Ada Ballantyne the soprano soloist. Mardl Cole, high school junior, will be the alto soloist. A children’s choir consist ing of students from the ele mentary school is rehears ing for the program. They will sing “A Christmas Round”, "Sing We Noel”, and "What is This I See?’ FFA Boys Attend National Convention cil in passing the ordinance de ferred its effective date until Jan. 10, 1972 in order to pro vide the voters with the op portunity of indicating whether or not they want strict dog con trol, and if they do not, the ordinance will not take effect. Koch said the voters are urged to give serious thought to this matter, as it involves both dog control and taxation. The full text of the Dog Control Ordinance and two No tices of Special Election are published on page 8 of this issue. Nyssa Observes Veteran’s Day Most busmess and profes sional establishments will observe the National Holiday, Monday, October 25, Veterans Day. All federal, state and mu nicipal offices will be closed, as will the banks and schools. Food markets will close, but some businesses on Main Street will remain open. Monday will be a holiday for the Gate City Journal staff, so correspondents and advertisers are asked to get their copy in as early as pos sible. NHS Students Need Coupons For Kidney Machine Six of the Nyssa Junior High students met at Ontario with the Vale Junior High School. Plans were made to obtain a kidney machine for the county and all three towns have to have up to 640,000 coupons by the month of December to be able to purchase one. Will everyone please save their General Mills and Betty Crocker coupons. George R. Gurr Named Vale BLM District Head George R. Gurr, national co ordinator of the Johnny Horizon program for the past three years, will head the Bureau of Land Management’s Vale Dist rict, filling the vacancy left when Maxwell T. Lieurence transferred to BLM’s Oregon State Office in Portland. Gurr will report on November 8, ac cording to BLM State Director Archie D. Craft. Under Gurr*s leadership the symbolic Johnny Horizon, re presenting the thoughtful visi tor to the outdoors, has risen from obscurity to national pro minence as an environmental "Man of the land.” Among his many innovations, Gurr pion eered a series of environ mental concerts throughout the Thursday, October 21, 1971 country to help spread the John ny Horizon "This Land is Your Land” message. A 1958 forestry graduate from Utah State University, Gurr be gan his resource management career in BLM Districts at Craig and Canon City in Colo rado, and later worked in the Worland, Wyoming District, During his student days he worked as a conservation aid in the Bureau’s Eugene dist- rict in western Oregon. Gurr later was director of BLM’s Castle Valley Job Corps Con servation Center at Price, Utah. The 39-year-old native of New York state is a Marine Corps veteran of the Korean Conflict. He and his wife Joan have seven children who range in age from three to 18 years. David Robbins, Brent Richesin, Bill Holmes and Bob Holmes returned home after attending the National FFA Convention at Kansas City, Mo. October 13-14-15. The boys were part of a delegation of 140 FFA delegates from Oregon who with their advisors and chaperones flew to Kansas City on a chartered United Air Lines DC-8, leaving Portland Monday, Oct 11 and returning Saturday. Highlight of their flight was being allowed a visit to the flight deck of the huge plane while en route. While in Kansas City the boys toured the TWA jet engine TVCC To Host OCCSA Meeting Treasure Valley Community College will host the fall con vention of OCCSA, the Oregon Community College Students’ Association, October 21-24. Represented will be student lea ders from all thirteen of Ore gon’s Community College As sociation. The other sections are administrative officers, members of Boards of Educa tion, faculty members, and clas sified staff. The four days will be cram med with activities and meetings beginning as early as 8:00 a.m. and lasting until 1:00 a.m. In addition to the usual business meetings, there will be offered a series of workshops on such topics as “A Student Govern ment’s Role in its College,” YOSPRIG, Who, What, and Why on my Campus?’, and "Pro blems with a Commuter Cam pus." TVCC’s own student body president, Randy Schmidt will provide a workshop titled "Uninterest and How to Really Stimulate People.” Russ Ed wards, TVCC, is the Fall con vention director. A social highlight to ease the burden of long hours of association business will be a dance Saturday night featuring music by THE OUTER EDGE, a group from Portland. Rev. William R. Lewis and Family New pastor of Faith Lutheran Church, Nyssa and Grace Lutheran Church, Vale, is the Rev. William R. Lewis, shown with his wife Harriet and sons Jonathan, 2, and Jess, 3 1/2. Rev. Lewis grew up at Anacortes, Wn. and graduated from Pacific Lutheran Uni versity, Tacoma. He received his Bachelor of Divinity from Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota in 1967. Harriet is from Borup, Minnesota, and they met and were married in Minneapolis, where she was a registered nurse. Their first church was Bethany Lutheran in Spokane where they have served since seminary, and until receiving the call to Nyssa and Vale. Rev. and Mrs. Lewis have fojid the people very friendly here, and are most great'u! to the parishioneers who have pain’ed the parsonage inside and out. The parsonage is located at 531 Park Avenue. Church services will continue as before, 9 a.m. at Vale and 11 a.m. at Nyssa. and plane overhaul facilities, visited the Ford assembly plant, and the Allis Chalmers factory for combines. They also attended the American Royal Livestock Exposition, with Roy Rogers, Dale Evans and the Sons of the Pioneers featured. Mr. and Mrs. land, and Brent Hirada and Dan and Bill returned Norvelle Robbins drove the boys to Port and Bob returned to Nyssa with Marvin Joyce, Vale FFA members; while David home by bus. SRV Fire Fighters Paid Over One Million Dollars Snake River Valley received over a million dollars in fire fighting wages during this years fire season according to Marlyn V. Jones, Acting District Man ager for Vale’s Bureau of Land Management District. The total wages received by SRV fire fighters this year is $1,126,852.00. The following are the total wages received by each of the labor camps throughout the valley: Adrian- $59,014.00, 12th Ave nue - $97,375.00, Caldwell - $130,011.00, Franklin -$111,- 336.00, Homedale - $96,623,- 00, Marsing-$65,179.00, Nyssa -$255,612.00, Ontario - $88,- 977.00, Parma - $86,505.00, Vale - $69,478.00, Wilder - $66,742.00. SRV crews have been dispa tched to Wyoming, Idaho, Ore gon, Montana, Washington and Nevada. Some 5040 men were dispatched from the Vale fire yard including 4788 Mexican- American’s as SRV’s and 252 Liaison Officers, Jones stated. ANNUAL PTA FAMILY FUN NITE OCT. 31 Let’s do something besides watch the “boob tube” this Sa turday night. Where else but at the annual Nyssa PTA Spa ghetti dinner can you get a great meal, entertainment for the whole family and a chance to say hello to next door neighbors? All at one time and the whole family together for a change. This year the spaghetti dinner will start at 5 p.m. with serving to 8 p.m. inthecafetorium. The menu includes spaghetti, salad, garlic bread and pie. Adults $1.00, students, 75? (6-12) under six free, and the family ticket is only $4.00. Carnival tickets are 10? per game. There may be a price freeze on because of high prices but no one should be able to growl about these prices. So get in the coming holiday mood and take the whole family to the spaghetti dinner and then to the carnival. This year »here will be two different fishponds; balloon game; balloon dart game; bingo, one for adalts, and one for chil dren, separately, cake walk; fortune teller booth; food booth; B-B Shooting game; make-up booth; two different spook alleys for ages 4-8 years and one for 8 on up, and the country store run by the FHA and FFA. Jones continued by saying that in the Vale district a total of 53 fires were reported. Six of these fires were man caused, 20 were false alarms and 27 were lightning caused. A total of 17,190 acres were consumed by fire in the district this year. The latest fire was this past weekend when 130 acres were consumed by a fire west of Har per in the Malheur River Can yon. The blaze was believed to have been man caused. The fire was reported to Vale head quarters at 1:30 p.m. on Sat urday October 16 and controlled by 6:30 a.m. on Sunday morning. The helicopter with drop bucket and two pumper crews were needed to control the blaze Jones concluded. Halcom Named Aids Officer Treasure Valley Community College President, EmerySkin- ner, has announced the appoint ment of Gary Halcom as Fi nancial Aids Officer. Hal- come moves to his new charge from the business office, where he has served as Assistant to the Business Manager for se veral years. Nurse Care Program Set "Nursing Care Planning and Patient Interviewing” will be the Circuit Course Program for Nurses sponsored by the Ore gon Regional Medical Program to be held at Holy Rosary Hos pital, October 26, 1971 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. in the Staff Conference Room. This course is designed to present through role-playing, various techniques of interview ing. During the role-playing sessions each nurse will be pro vided with a patient interview form so that she can write down pertinent information duringthe interview. Upon completion of the interviewing sessions, all nurses will divide into small group’s at which time a care plan for the patient will be de vised, utilizing the patient in terviewing forms and the nurse’s own hospital kardex cards and/or care plans. The only special request is that each nurse attending bring 3 copies of her hospital kardex cards and/or care plans. The course will be presented by the faculty of the Oregon Re gional Medical Program con sisting of Mary Amdall, R.N., Ped-Psyci., Coordinator, UO- MS; Marion Page, R.N., Jr. Patient Care Coordinator, UOM3; Sarah Rich, R.N. Nurse Coordinator, Circuit Course Program, UOMS: andJoan Wea ver, R.N., Jr. Patient CareCo- ordinator, UOMS. Cammie O’Shaughnessy, R.N. In-service Director of Holy Ro sary Hospital is the local co ordinator to contact for further information. First National The Sugar City Number XLII FAIR BOARD SETS DATES FOR 1971 FAIR, APPOINTS NYSSA MAN CARETAKER August 16-19 have been selec ted as fair dates for the 1972 Malheur County Fair, announced Gordon Capps, Malheur County Fair Board, chairman. In a meeting last night the board presented to "Scottie” Payne, a long-time member of the board, with a plaque as appreciation of work done. Payne is stepping down to ac cept the chairmanship of the Oregon Dairy Products Com mission. Allen "Swede” Erstrom of Vale has been named by the county court to replace Payne. The board also announced the appointment of Ray Bacon as new caretaker of the fairgrounds. Bacon will begin October 15. Bacon and his wife Edna are from Nyssa; he has been active in the Masons. Bacon brings to the job a num ber of skills necessary for the maintainance of the grounds and the knowledge of the area, according to secretary, Mrs. Alice Murphy. The board selected Bacon out of several applicants Monday evening during an executive session. Most of the Wednesday evening meeting was taken up with discussion on improving ADRIAN STUDENTS HONOR EDUCATION American Education Week is just around the corner again. The nation is observing the week on October 24 through October 30. This year the theme is "Help Schools Bridge the Gap.” The Adrian Public School stu dents are busy getting ready for this important week. They are having a poster contest which will be divided up into three divisions to give more students a chance to be a winner. Each of the divisions will receive prizes. The groupings are pre-school through grade 3, grades 4 through 6, and grades 7 and 8. First place in each division will be given a three dollar gift or three dollars in cash. Rib bons will be awarded for second and third places in each cate gory. Posters will be judged on Oc tober 21 and the winning posters will be on display in the stores down town. Nyssa Students In OSU Marching Band This year’s 230-piece March ing Band at Oregon State Uni versity includes several student musicians from this area. Rated one of the top march ing bands in the West, the OSU band performs at all home football games and other special campus events during fall term. The band will go to Seattle also this fall for the OSU-Univer- sity of Washington game Octo ber 23. Members of the band include four from Nyssa. They are Lu- relle Robbins, freshman, Agri culture; Gary Sadamori, sopho more, Business & Technology, Ronald Sarazin, freshman, En gineering and Bruce Sarazin, senior, Agriculture. the fair for the coming year. Approximately 30 persons were in the audience. Members of the CountyCourt were present to discuss with the Fair Board the possibility of paving some of the ground between the Merchants’ Building and the Fairgrounds entrance, as the county’s Abun- dent Food Program uses this area quite heavily. Because no plans this year had been made for any paving, Capps agreed to form a com mittee with himself and board member Frank McLean, to work with the county on the paving of this area. Capps told the court that all money received this year was scheduled for improvement of the big red barn. Many people showing animals were required to keep their animals at the fair until 8:30 p.m. this year, resulting in many persons getting home at the early morning hours, it was brought out. By allowing the persons to leave early, these persons could load cattle in the daylight. The board will decide on the closing time later, when more information is available. Another request from mem bers of the audience was to have times for entries stan dardized to eliminate confusion about when entries should be in. Parked vehicles by the loading ramps when loading was under way was another topic of dis cussion. Although nothing was decided, the possibility of clearing the area of all vehicles was men tioned. FLIGHT SEMINAR OFFERED TONIGHT Treasure Valley Community College and the Federal Avia tion Agency will offer the se cond in its series of seminars tonight, Oct. 21 at 7:30 p.m. in the East Lounge of the Ad ministration Building. The first session covered instrument flight procedures. Pilots in attendance were very interested in the vertigo ma chine used in the program. The Weather Bureau and Flight Ser vice Station of Boise will conduct the Thursday meeting dealing with services and support avail able to the pilot. A January program will feature an FAA medical team from Oklahoma City. CONSUMER ED CLASSES IN NYSSA Treasure Valley Community College is sponsoring a Con sumer Education Workshop for Nyssa area residents. This is the first in a series of work shops to be held in the area in forming the public on new Ore gon consumer protection laws, home maintainence, insurance costs, credit and buying. The meetings will be held every Tuesday in Room 6, Nyssa Junior High School, at 8 p.m. Steve Fonda, Nyssa lawyer, discussed the Oregon consumer laws at the first session Tues day evening. ;• Harry Peterson Honored Tops 2 Billion , Halcom will phase into his new work with the assistance of Donald Ridener, who has undertaken different and quite demanding duties. In addition he will assume responsibilites in college admissions. Hal com took his BS degree at Portland State College and us been with TVCC since 1965. WEATHER The women of the PTA who DATE PR EC MAX MIN are giving of their time and ef Oct. 13 38 75 fort have put a lot of work in Oct. 1 I 40 59 preparing this fun night where Oct. 15 29 56 the whole family is welcome. Oct. 16 28 54 Although there are too many Oct. 11 38 59 28 names to mention them all let’s Oct. 18 57 .01 all turn ojt and make this one of Oct. 19 45 51 .. the best PTA Fun Nights yet: Ort. 20 44 .20 As usual the proceeds go to Owyhee Reservoir Storage help on scholarships for local 10/19/71 466,150 Acre Feet 10/19/70 475.190 Acre Feet students. First National Bank of Ore gon became the first $2 billion bank in the state and the 10th in the Western United States, reporting total resources of $2,036,895,822 Sept. 30. Income before securities transactions for the nine months ended Sept. 30 increased by three per cent to $10,755,464 or $2.02 per share, according to Ralph J. Voss, president. This compated with$10,392,- 236 or $1.96 per share for the same period last year. First National’s net income for the nine months amounted to $10,752,564 or $2.02 per share. This compares with $10,402,551 or $1.96 per share a year ago, Voss said. Deposits rearhed$l,754,018,- 951 compared with S1,637,134,- 469 on Sept. 30 of last year, and loans totaled $1,111,664,- 903 compared with$l,039,532,- 296 recorded on Sept. 30, 1970. The Nvssa branch reported deposits of $9,079,171 andloans of $9,037,320 as of Sept. 30. Comparable totals for the branch a year ago were$9,519,- 684 in deposits and $8,233,090. Harry Peterson, left, was honored by the Treasure Valley Chambers of Commerce Monday night for his long service to the area. He is shown with his son, Bill Peterson, who now manages the Peterson Furniture Stores of Ontario and Nyssa. A tribute was read by Jim Leslie, tracing Harry Peterson’s contributions to his community and the entire area for the past 60 years. Peterson responded by saying that he thought more people should do more things on their own, rather than asking the goverment to do them. Over 109 persons attended the meeting at Weiser presided over by Bill Lovell, Emmett, president of the Treasure Valley Charnlier. He presented Peterson with an ingraved letter holder in recognition of his many years of service. Dirick Nedry, president, and Jake Fischer, secretary of the Nyssa Chamber of Commerce and their wives attended the dinner meeting.
