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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.
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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.