Page Two
Thursday, October 28, 1971
The Nyssa Gate City Journal, Nyssa, Oregon
Nyssa Gate City Journal
NAZARENE
CHURCH NOTES
DIRICK NEDRY. . . .
RUBEN LOPEZ. . . .
BETTY TALBOT. . .
MARGARET NEDRY.
PATSY HICKS.............
RUTH KLINKENBERG.
/^OBITUARIES
The Sunday School is working Former Nyssan
toward “Touchdown Sunday”,
the last in a series of six weeks Mrs. Lewis Passes
of special empahsis on in
Mr. and Mrs. Dee Zink and
creased attendance under the
daughter
Maralyn Lenz re-
general theme of “Touchdown
Published €v«ry Thursday at Nytta, Oregon 97913
‘71”. The attendance goal for turned home Saturday after at
tending the funeral of his mo
this week is 150, with two teams,
the Rams and the Colts, working ther Mrs. Thomas Lewis at Van
Second Class postage paid at Nyssa, Oregon 97913,
couver, Wash. Mrs. Lewis was
to achieve this “touchdown”.
under act of Congress of March 3, 1879
Besides the regular schedule the former Mrs. Clarence Zink
of
worship at 11 a.m. and the of the Nyssa area.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Oregon
She was born June 22, 1891
evening service at 7 p.m., the
Newspaper
at Hyde Park, Utah. She passed
training course in basic Christ
Malheur
County,
Oregon,
Publishers
away October 16, 1971 at the
ian beliefs will continue in a
I and Payette and Canyon session
Association
Faith Foundation Nursing Home
which begins at 6:15
Counties, Idaho;
in Vancouver.
p.m. Again this Sunday, this
Funeral services were con
NATIONAL NEWSPAPER
class will focus on the scrip
One Year................ $5.00
ducted at the Vancouver Funeral
MUtlATiW
rwMrt 1M»
tural teaching regarding re
Six Months............... $3.00
demption . . . who is redee Chapel October 21, at 2:30p.m.
NNA SUSTAINING
Elsewhere in the U.S.A.
Interment was at Evergreen
on »MEMBER
med andfrom what, and the price
One Year.................. $6.00
Memorial Garden, Vancouver.
paid
for
redemption.
Both
Six Months................. $4.00
She grew up in Eastern Idaho.
adults and teens are sharing
In 1909 she was married to
this time of study and discus
Clarence M. Zink in Salt Lake
sion with Rev. Manely as the
City. To them were born seven
class leader.
children.
They raised their
Services are scheduled for family in the Nyssa area.
Veterans Day, 1971, sneaked up on many of us so much so, Mountain Standard time this
She left Nyssa and went to
in fact, that we failed to pay tribute as we should have in last Sunday, and the pastor has jo Portland and later was mar
kingly offered to conduct an ried to Thomas H. Lewis. They
week's issue of the Journal.
November 11, Armistice Day, has been so important a date early class for any who forget have resided in Portland since
in our lives that somehow October 25 didn’t ring a bell until to turn their clocks back an that time. She has been in ill
it was too late. So belatedly we pay tribute to all veterans hour and arrive at the church health for several years. She
of all wars, and particularly to those who have returned before the regular sessions be entered the nursing home in
from the war in Vietnam, and to those who are still a part of it. gin .. . provided they let him mid June. The nursing home
Vice President Agnew said it for all of us Monday when he know they will be there early. is operated by her daughter
placed a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arling
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Ehman.
ton Cemetery. Never has there been so many Medal of Honor
She is survived by her hus
SECOND WARD
winners, and never in any war did our American servicemen
band, Thomas H. Lewis of Port
RELIEF SOCIETY
distinguish themselves more proudly than most have done in
land. Three sons, Glen Zink
Vietnam.
of Renton, Wash., Dee Zink of
The
Second
Ward
Relief
So
Yet because of the unpopularity of the Vietnam War the
Nyssa, William T. Zink of Wil
men and women who have served our country have not only ciety will hold their visiting lows, Calif.; three daughters,
teacher
’
s
report
November
2
been given little recognition, but they have been ridiculed
Mrs. June Ehman, Vancouver,
and ignored. Servicemen in some cases have hastened to get at 9:15 a.m. The message ‘‘Pe Mrs. Opal La Bou, Clackamas,
out of uniform so as to escape the indignities they have been rsuasion in the Home” will Mrs. Lois Hurley, Parma; two
be given by Nora Larsson. This
subjected to.
brothers Dale Ashcraft of Nyssa
We feel that it is important that all of our servicemen and message is to develop and im and Lowell Ashcraft of Granger,
prove
the
quality
of
empathy
in
all of our nearly 28 million living veterans understand that
Wash. She has 21 grandchildren
there still exists the gratitude and respect which most of the the family.
and 32 great-grandchildren. She
The
Spriitual
Living
lesson
American people feel for their services to our country.
was preceded in death by one
And so it is appropriate, if a little late, that we pay respect ‘‘Walk with the Lord,” will be daughter Afton Griffin and two
to those who now serve in our Armed Forces, and to those presented by Vicki Mitchell at grandchildren.
10 a.m.
who have paid the full price to keep our freedom alive.
Veterans Day, 1971
¡Nazarene Pastors To Meet
Nazarene church pastors and
their wives from this community
and area will take part in the
annual preachers’ conference
of the Idaho-Oregon district to
be held at the Rodeway Inn,
Boise, Monday through Wednes
day, Now. 8-10.
Nearly all of the 50 Naza
rene churches on the district
will be represented according
to the Rev. Grady W. Cantrell,
Nampa, district superintendent.
Guest speaker will be Dr.
Raymond Dratzer, Yakima,
Wash., superintendent of the
Northwest district in the deno
mination since 1960.
Dr. Kratzer previously pa-
stored Nazarene churches at
Arlington, Ore., Moscow, Idaho
and First Qhurch in Nampa. He
was a member of the advisory
boards on both the Idaho-Oregon
and Northwest districts.
He
has served as district young
people’s president and as chair
man of the district church school
board, In January 1971 he was
elected to the General Board of
the denomination.
The conference will be a time
of fellowship and inspiration.
Pentecostal Church
Sunday School is at 10 a.m.
and church services at 11 a.m.
Sunday evening services at
8 p.m.
Wednesday evening services
and Bible study at 8 p.m.
The Pentecostal Church is
located at the Corner of 7th and
Emison, with Carl Lassiter,
Pastor.
Slate Meeting
Latin Assembly
Of God Church
Sunday, church activities be
gin with Sunday School at 10
Mrs. John Riley, wife of the
a.m. followed by the worship
president of Northwest Naza
service at 11 a.m., and Sunday
rene College will be guest
night service at 7:30 p.m.
speaker at the dinner meeting
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of the Christian Business and
Young people’s service, every
Professional Women’s Council
Tuesday night at 7:30p.m. Bible
Tuesday, November 2nd at 7:30
study every Thursday night at
at Boulevard Grange Hall near
7:30 p.m.
Cairo Junction.
A friendly church with a
A holiday display by Hatch’s friendly smile. The Rev. David
Gift Shop of West Park Plaza H. Martinez, Pastor.
will provide the special feature
for the evening.
CHRISTIAN CHURCH
Music will be by vocalist
First Christian Church, Sun
Miss Jan Worst, Ontario school
day School, 9:45 a.m. Morning
teacher.
All interested women of the worship, 11:00 a.m.
CYF - For all Jr and Sr.
Valley are invited to make
High Youths, Sunday, 7:30 p.m.
reservations by caling Mrs.
Choir practice, Wednesday at
Robert DeeO’Harraat 889-5719.
7 p.m.
IF IRONING
LEAVES YOU FLAT
IT'S TIME FOR
A FLAMELESS
ELECTRIC DRYER
TO PRESENT GOSPEL
OUT OF
FOLK SONGS
Editor and Publisher
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Christian Women
NANCY LOONEY
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shopping you can outfit the whole fam
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Idaho Power Company in co-operation with
SNAKE RIVER VALLEY
ELECTRICAL ASSOCIATION
FLAMELESS ELECTRIC LIVING FOR A NEATER, CLEANER WORLD
George W. Hankins
CALDWELL - Services for
George Washington Hankins, 80,
of 824 West Ash who died Oc
tober 18 in a Caldwell hospi
tal after an illness, were con
ducted at the Flahiff Funeral
Chapel October 22. The Rev.
Clare Willcuts of the Home
dale Friends Church officiated.
Interment was at Wilder ceme
tery.
Mr. Hankins was born April
24, 1891, in Lawrence County,
Mo., a son of John W. and Ellen
Elizabeth Cameron Hankins, he
was educated and reared in La
wrence County, and married
Effie M. Berry July 2, 1911,
in Mount Vernon, Mo. They
lived there three years, and
moved to North Platte Valley,
Neb. , where he was a teamster
and farmed at Scottsbluff, he
was a heavy equipment opera-
tor on the Gering-Fort Lara-
mie Irrigation District from
1930 to 1936. He farmed un
til 1958 when they moved to
Caldwell. The couple obser
ved their 60th wedding anniver
sary last July. He was a me
mber of the Pleasant Ridge
Grange and a former member
of Stateline Grange.
Surviving in addition to Mrs.
Hankins are a son, George E.
Hankins of Caldwell; three dau
ghters, Mrs. Grace Carlson
of Scottsbluff, Mrs. Gwen Fin
ger of Nyssa, and Mrs. Elaine
Dowty of Eugene; a brother,
Clarence Hankins of Halltown,
Mo.; two sisters, Mrs. Mary
Gardner and Mrs. Ida Garrin-
ger, both of Mount Vernon; 17
grandchildren, and 24 great
grandchildren.
He was pre
ceded in death by a sister.
Louise M. Benedict
Nancy Looney will present a
group of gospel folk songs in the
Sunday evening service at the
Church of the Nazarene this
week.
She will be assisted
instrumentally by Vicki Coat,
Marlene Jamieson, and Gary
Condon.
Nancy is very active in mu
sic work and activities. She is
a member of the high school
choir, a member of the All
State Choir this year, and is
assistant to Gary Condon for
the children’s section of mu
sic for the community Christ
mas Vespers being prepared for
December presentation. "Her
music this Sunday evening will
demonstrate the personal ap
plications and insight of some of
the newer gospel music mini
stry fo this day,” said Rev.
Robert Manley, “andthis music
is presented very ably by
Nancy Looney.”
Friends in the community are
invited to share this service
which begins at 7 p.m.
APOSTOLIC FAITH
Apolistic 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, announced Pastor
Mike Valverde, Jr. TheChurch
is located at 612 North 9th.
LETTER
TO
THE EDITOR
NAMPA - Services for Louise
Editor, The Journal:
M. Benedict, 59, 544B Fairview
The Nyssa PTA wishes to
Avenue, Nampa, who died of na
thank all those who helped make
tural causes October 20 in a
: the dinner and carnival a big
Boise hospital, were conducted success.
October 22 at Relyea Mortuary
Special thanks to Mrs. Don
by the Rev. Robert Manley, as
Savage, dinner chairman, and
sisted by James Daugherty.
committees; Mrs. Lloyd Wood,
Interment was at Morris Hill
carnival chairman and commi
Field of Honor.
ttees; Melvin Munn, ticket chair
She was born Sept. 5, 1912,
man; parents and merchants
at Salt Lake City. She atten
that contributed food and gifts.
ded schools in Pocatello and
A & W Rootbeer, Rieb’s Clo
graduated from high school ver Farm, Ray's Food Fair,
there with honors in 1929. She
M& W Market, Wilson’s Super
worked in Pocatello for the
market, Paulus Jewelry, Rexall
Union Pacific Railroad as com
Drug, Michael’s Pharmacy,
ptroller for six years. She
Bracken’s Dept. Store, Eddy’s
was office manager for Piggly
Bread, for the balloons and
Wiggly Food Stores in Pocatel
the Gate City Journal for pu-
lo, Blackfoot and Idaho Falls blicity.
until 1940.
For a time she
Thanks to the students who
was requisition officer for the
sold tickets and helped in many
US. Navel Gun Relining Plant
other ways and all that attended.
at Pocatello. She joined the
Also the room-mothers, teac
Women’s Army Corp in 1942 hers, janitors, cooks, parents,
and served as a lieutenant in students and merchants, many
Austrailia by special request
thanks to you all.
of the Chiefs of Staff in Wash
Yours truly, Mrs. Mel Beck,
ington, D.C. After her release Nyssa PTA President.
from the service she lived in
Reno for a time before com
ing to Treasure Valley in 1955.
She had been engaged in the real
estate business in Nampa, Cald
well and Boise and was secre
Figures received here to
tary of the Nampa Board of day by Malheur County Savings
Realtors.
Bonds Chairman Jim Leslie in
Her father, JackH. Marshall,
dicate that September sales of
died in 1958.
$31,804,601 account for 99per
Survivors include a daughter, cent of Oregon’s 1971 quota of
Sherry L. Martell, Nyssa; her $32,200,000.
mother, Mrs. Florence R. Der
‘‘The fast pace of bond buying
rick, Chico, Calif; two sisters, that Oregonians set at the be
Mrs. Marjorie Cushman, Pitt ginning of the year has con
man N.Y., and Mrs. Shirley tinued, with September sales
Avis, Church Falls, Va.; a bro 31 percent higher than a year
ther, John R. Marshall, Fal ago,” stated chairman Leslie.
lon, Nev.; and two grandchil “Sales last month in Oregon
dren.
were $2,888,681 compared to
The family suggest contri $2,205,515 a year ago,” he said.
butions to the Mountain States
"United States Savings Bonds
Tumor Institute in care of st. sales on a nation-wide basis,
Luke’s Hospital.
at the end of September, were
$4,174,000,000 or 19 percent
FAITH LUTHERAN
above 1970, achieving a new
CHURCH NOTES
all-time peak for E and H Bonds
The Faith Lutheran Church and Freedom Shares of $54.2
located at 531 Park Avenue billion,” he concluded.
Malheur County has pur
has Sunday School at 9:45 a.m.
and Church Service at 11 a.m. chased $200,896 in bonds
each Sunday. The new minister through September. The goal
for the year was $190,000.
is Rev. William Lewis.
Savings Bonds
Over Quota
THE PAST
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10 YEARS AGO
Nine representatives of or
ganizations from Nyssa com
munity met Oct. 5 at the City
Hall when a ••Community Bet
terment Committee” was or
ganized.
The group originated from
a recent community develop
ment survey sponsored by
Nyssa Jaycees.
Temporary officers elected
were Robert Chatelain, Chair
man and Harley Sager, Jr.,
secretary.
Other representatives and
their respective organizations
were Mrs. Gerrit Stam, Garden
Clubs and Oregon Trail Grange;
Kenneth Pond, City Council;
Judge Don M. Graham, Ameri
can Legion; Leonard Hewett and
Bernard Eastman, Chamber of
Commerce; Warren Farmer and
Art Colby, Lions.
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40 year ' s agocon * t
pit at Dunaway that supplies all
the gravel for the world’s lar
gest dam at Owyhee.
Adventurers Saturday were
Fred Spencer, Lon Parkinson,
Roy Nadeau, Jacob Groot and
Bruce Fahrney.
4
50 YEARS AGO
The home of C.C. Hunt, just
completed last spring on his
ranch three-fourths of a mile
from Nyssa was totally destroy
ed by fire Tuesday morning.
Isham Anderson discovered the
fire and called the operator at
Nyssa.
Numbers of citizens
of Nyssa in cars responded, but
with the lack of fire fighting
facilities were unable to do
more than save the furniture
in the front part of the house.
The chemical cart of the Nyssa
Fire Department
Volunteer
arrived in time to save the
bunk house which was already
smoking.
Jim Elkins, who resides with
his wife, Mary, at 311 North
Sixth Street, retired Oct. 15,
It seems hard to believe that
1961 as manager of Nyssa we have a dastardly incendiary
Elevator.
in the community, but the fact
that Mr. Hunt lost another home
20 YEARS AGO
two years before, almost to the
Nyssa’s only ‘ ham” radio day and hour, in the same
operator, JoeCarter, has offer unaccountable manner lends
ed to local residents an oppor color to the theory that the
tunity to communicate with happenings are more than coin
Mrs. Hunt who was
members of the 190th air squad cidence.
in
Boulder,
Colo., attending a
ron at Moody Air Force Base
in Georgia, or servicemen in funeral was notified by wire.
other places. Carter, who be
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lieves that several members of
Ma Kennedy and “What-a-
the 190th are from this area
said “We are on the air every Man” Hudson aren’t the only
night and it’s lots of fun”, newlyweds to have the dis
Carter, who works in the tinction of being wed at Boul
Union Pacific ticket office, has der Dam with a blast of dy
joined an amateur radio traffic namite to salute them. Nyssa
net. He can handle traffic to and Big Bend friends have re
boys anywhere in the world and ceived word that Miss Vivain
incites local residents to avail Looney of Big Bend and Carl
themselves of the opportunity Wood, electrician for the Big
Six Companies, were married
of sending messages.
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on the lower suspension bridge,
Malheur County will dig a near the Nevada end, at Boul
record 10,000,000 certified der Dam last week. Former
Marshall strawberry
plants Nyssa and Vale
residents Mr.
next spring, states Leeds Bailey and Mrs. D.O.
Taggart were
county extension agent. Accord the attendants.
ing to Bailey Malheur County
produced about one-third of 60 YEARS AGO
Oregon’s certified berry plants
this year.
Birt Piearson has returned
from the Hot Lake, after having
spent a week at that health re
30 YEARS AGO
sort. He is looking much better,
Shortage of farm labor is the and says the rheumatism from
only obstacle in the way of which he has been suffering has
Oregon meeting it’s goal in almost disappeared, after a
the food-for-defense program, thorough sweating out at the
in the opinion of county USDA lakes. He also states that they
Agricultural defense boards, hit the pocket book about as
which have held meetings in
hard as they do the disease.
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all of Oregonn’s 36 counties.
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Dr. Geoltz and family leave
Dr. K.E. Kerby left Sunday today for Emmett, where they
night for Fort Lewis, for his will make their future home,
tour of duty in the Army Medi the doctor having been employed
cal Corps, as a first lieutenant. by the Idaho Northern Railway
Kerby has been associated with Company as physician for the»
Dr. J.J. Sarazin and the Sara- railroad and also to have charge
zin Clinic since 1939.
of the medical work of const
Dr. Zanly C. Edelson, who ruction from EmmetttoSmith’s
has just completed a tour of Ferry.
duty in the Medical Corps as
As president of the Com
a first lieutenant will replace
mercial
Club for the past two
Kerby as Dr. Sarazin’s Asso-
years, Dr. Geoltz has been one
ciate.
of the leaders in everything
that tended to advance the in-
40 YEARS AGO
terests of Nyssa, and his de-
parture is regretted by all.
All that remains of once proud
old Fort Boise, on the Snake
River a few miles south of
Nyssa, is the ruins of a rock
foundation of a large building,
Traces of a ferry landing, a
part of a log house, a cellar
and home made of bricks tell
a silent story of days of old.
It is all ruins, and little of
them, but the Fort was again
the scene of adventure, of safety
from Indians, for a party of
Boy Scouts who hiked to Fort
Boise Saturday.
Nearby in a vastly different
scene, the dragline of the
General Construction Company
is nt work in the huge gravel
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Adrian Awards Prizes At PT A
Tonight, Oct. 28
American Education Week is
almost over for another year.
Have you visited school yet?
The Adrian schools are hoping
you will come if you haven’t
already.
Tonight, Thursday,
October 28 is our PTA open
house. Follow mg a short meet
ing in the cafeteria the school
will be open for visiting. We
hope you will all be able to
come and see where your child
ren work and play.
Our poster contest adverti
sing American Education has
been judged. The winners will
receive their prizes this eve
ning during the PTA meeting.
Our judge* for the contest in
cluded Mr. Holton, Miss Nel
son. Mrs. Roy. Mr. Yamasaki,
Mrs. Conant, and Mrs. Ward.
We would like to thank our
judffe> for taking time out of
their busy day to help us judge
the many fine posters.
If you have not visited our
schools yet remember we would
like to see you there tomor
row. Although visiting schools
is one of the objects of Ameri
can Education Week please feel
free to come any time during
the year. It is the best way to
find out what your schools are
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