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University of Oregon Library Eugene, Ore. 97403 Nyssa Gate City Journal Volume LXV The Nyssa Gate City Journal, Nyssa, Oregon Thunderegg Capital ASC COMMITTEEMEN ELECTED FOR MALHEUR COUNTY, MEET DEC. 15 Farmers and ranchers of Malheur County have elected a total of 35 ASC community com mitteemen and alternates in a mail election conducted earlier this month, according to Blaine Girvin, Chairman of the County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation (ASC)Committee. ASC community committees assist the Couaty ASC Com mittee in administering farm programs in Malheur County, such as wheat, acreage al lotments, price support loans, farm storage facility loans, feed grain bases, sugarbeet pro portionate shares, and agricul tural conservation cost-sharing measures. They also help keep local producers inform’d of farm program provisions aril regulations. In addition, the just-elected ASC community committees have an important responsibility in the near future in filling vacancies on the County ASC Committee and determining the chairman and vice-chairman for the coming year, Girvin said. The new ASC community committeemen will convene December 15, 10:30 a.m., at the Milheur County ASCS of fice, 1252 S. W. 4th. Ave., Ontario, in a meeting open to the public. They will elect one County Committeeman to serve a three-year term and two alternates to serve one- year terms. After the vacan cies are filled, the community committeemen will determine which of the three regular mem bers of theCounty ASC Commit Senator Bob Packwood Thursday sharply rebuked fel low Congressmen for lheir “in action and unwillingness to risk an unpopular decision" by en acting emergency strik® legis lation before Congress reces ses for the Christmas holidays. Packwood said there wis a very real possibility thatCon- gress could be called into special session during the holidays to- once again legislate an ad hoc, emergency solution to a transportation strike"— this time to the longshore dis pute he added “Tiink of the hypocrisy of it all" Packwood said in a speech before the Senate. “W? spend hours and days here in this Chamber passing legis lation designed to ease the eco nomic burdens of the American public during these precarious times--legislation which in cludes reducing taxes and guard ing against continuing inflation. Do not any of my colleagues sense the hypocrisy of them stanTng idly by while millions of Americans are driven deeper and deeper into economic chaos and dislocation'.’” he charged. Packwood said he would tie the first toad nit that fashioning legislation to provide effective and equitable permanent medi an’sms for the settlement of transportation labor disputes would be a difficult oae and that it would arouse a great deal of emotional response from the public. But think of the estimated $209 nrllion losses Oregon al ready has suffered as a result of th? longshore dispute. Tuen think of those of the American public who live in the Gulf area, the East Coast and the entire Northwest. "Does not our responsibility lie with the American public to protect them from arbitrary and disastrous harm The Nyssa Junior High School Band, led >y Julie Anderson, drum majorette, is shown as they prepare to escort Santa Claus into town Saturday afternoon. Santa is shown with one of the many young people who visited with him later in th1 afternoon Ha will make an appearance in the business dis trict each of the next Saturday afternoons, visiting with and giving out candy to the children. Tax Collectors Cannot Accept Applications Now Sen. Willner Candidate For U.S. Senate “As 1 travel around the state talking to Oregonians. I find wh®n they speak of Senator Ma -k Hatfield, it is not about his views on Vietnam i or his views on military spending, but that tie doesn’t seem interested 1^, the problems of our state. He is missing key roll calls while touring arojnd the coun try keeping speaxing engage ments". said State Senator Don S Willner. D-Portland at an open meeting of the Maiheur County Democratic Central Committee in Ontario Tuesday night. Senator W.liner is a potential candidate for the Democratic nomination for U. S. Senator. Willner said, "the kind of Senator I am going to be if elected, is one who re members the people who elected me. I will read my mail, and answer it. have a listed phone number and be available to those who have something to discuss with me." Senator Willner spoke briefly and then opened th? meeting to Handel’s “Messiah” Set For Sunday Performance This Sunday, December 12 at 7:30 p.m. in the Nyssa High School Gymnasium the high school and community choirs will present Handel's “Mes siah” and other Christmas num bers. The “Messiah” is a bib lical text put to choral and solo music portraying the coming of Christ. His birth, death and second coming. The oratorio is the best known of George Handel’s works and is one of the most well-liked choral works of all time. Gary Condon, director of the musical presentation, stated "the Messiah music is so great that one never tires of singing or listening to it. There are always new ideas to be brought out.” Another feature of Sunday evening’s program will be the elementary choir of 125 voices. "These kids can really sing”, said Condon. "They not only can sing, but love to sing. The audience will be pleased to hear their music". Everyone is invited to attend the concert. Tnere is no ad mission charge, but donations toward meeting expenses will be appreciated. SEN DON WILLNER 2nd Anniversary For I .S. Bank Tne Nyssa Branch of United States National Bank of Oregon will observe its second anniver sary Wednesday, December 15. with an open house during banking hours that day, 10a.m to 5 p.m . according to Don Young, manager. Young said there will be coffee, punch and cake, plus a gift for everyone who attends. He added that this is the branch’s way of saying thank you" to Nyssa area residents who have helped the branch grow through its “diaper stage." WEATHER DATE Rehearsing for Handel’s Messiah slated December 12 at the Nyssa High gymnasium at 7 30 p.m. are (1 to r) Mrs. Melvin Ada) Ballantyne, soprano soloist; Gary Condon, director, Mardi Cole, alto soloist. Mrs. Sylvia Hunt will accompany the pro duction along with th® Nyssa High School orchestra. MAX MIN PREC 36 Dec. 2 22 -- Dec. 3 .(M 25 — — Dec. 4 -- Dec. 5 39 .59 32 Dec. 8 39 Dec. 7 20 28 — 15 Dec. 8 Owyhee Reservoir Storage 12/8/71 504,270 Acre Feet 12/8/70 534,350 Acre Feet a question ami answer period which lasted more than an hour. O.ie member of the audience said, "you have been called the consumer’s friend, what are some of th? things you have accomplished in this area?” Senator WiUner-.ui- swered. As President of the Consumer Federation >f Amer ica. I spent oa? hour and 40 minutes speaking with Presi dent Nixon in September liefore Phase II. and made four sug gestions: On®-that there better lie equality of sacrifice. Two- there should b? effective ma chinery of enforcement and with some consumer representation Three- there should 'ic i special focus on low income consumers. August 15 found prices at an all-time high and many elderly fixed incomes low Four-at tention should be paid to how we got here to our present economic situation.” When asked what he thought about Phase II. Willner said, "there has b°en more equalitv in sac rifice, but sadly no consumer Pa y representation on the Board. There has been some talk that low incom- wages would not be frozen, but so far tint has not been faced up to.” Senator Willner answered many farm policy questions and expressed a deep concern about the reduction of small familv farms in Oregon. He felt Fed eral subsidy payments were de signed for the small farmer and not the largo corporation con trolled farms. HATFIELD SPONSORS WILD HORSE BILL Senator Mirk O Hatfield slid today that Congress has given final approval to legislation which provides for the pro tection of wild, free-roam1 ng horses and burros on public lands. The measure will now go to the White House. Hatfield said the bill “will provid® the legal means neces sary to stop the senseless slauzh’er of wild horses." The measure provides for th® protection of these wild animals by p-ohibiting their capture, branding, harassment or killing. Hatfield who co-sponsored the measure w ith Senator Henry Jackson (D-Wash.), said that “passage of this measure is above all a tribute to the ef forts of hndred» of children throughout Oregon.” •■Without their interest and concern as evidenced by their letter-writing campaign, the legislation might not have been approved so quickly.” "Passage of the bill illus trates how effective the legis lative process can be when citizens and ?heir elected rep resentatives work together," Hatfield said Homeowners' Property Tax R 'lief Applications cannot be accepted by the county tax collector or the Department of Revenue, State of Oregon, until after January 1. Sheriff Robert Ingram emphasizes. A substantial number have already been received bv both administrative bodies and have been returned, the sheriff re ported. Property tax relief is now based on household income for the calendar year 1971 and in come earners cannot possibly certify to th® exact amount of income received, as the law provides, until the end of th® ‘year, the sheriff explained. Persons who paid their taxes to take advantage of th? 3 fier- cent discount are to send their applications WITH ALL QUES TIONS FILLED iN to thp De partment of Revenue liter Jan uary 1. 1972. along with :i ’Opy of their receipted tax state ment. The Department will issue rebates to those eligible for relief. Persons who have deferred payment of their taxes, which th’y can do under the new law TAXPAYER ASSISTANCE During the month of Dec ember, the Internal Revenue Service office, located at 368 S. W Fifth Avenu?, Ontario, Oregon, will be open from 8 00 to 12:00 each Monday, except for December 27 -Tod I Enveart. Designated Representative. Internal Reve nue Service. Mike Hanley Leeture At TVCC For anyone who has ever rid den a freight wagon or related piece of rolling stock, the ex perience has surely been etched into his memory. Helping bring alive th - experience for those who have never undergone it and to revive the rem1 lis-ence for others will b® Mike Hanley, a Jordan Valiev rancher who spends much of his tim? re conditioning old horse drawn vehicles. Hanley is scheduled to present a lecture entitled “Wagon R’i's" a; Treasure Vai ley Community College on Tnursdav. December 9. Han ley’s talk will be the second of an eight part series dealing with various topics of histor ical interest to res.dents of Eastern Oregon. Th® activity is mad® possible from funds allocated to the college thru the Oregon Historical Society and ihe National Endowment for H im.an.'ties. His presentation will include motion pictures of actual work with teams as well as slides on various phases of wagon operation. Hanley would lik°ly qualify as a wh®el wright by most standards of measure, and his keen interest in by-gone days led the Eastern Oregon College graduate to write a book entitled The Forgotten Corner’’, now being published by Caxtons. Everyone is invited to attend the lecture to be held in the Weese Memorial Building begin ning at 8 00 p.m. tonigh*. There will be no ; dm'ssion charged. Th* S«9ar City Number XLIX NYSSA INVITATIONAL WRESTLING TOURNAMENT FRIDAY AND SATURDAY Santa Claus Comes To Town tee will be Chairman and Vice- Chairman. Each of the seven ASC com • munity committees are made up of three members and two al ternates, who serve for a one- year period. The candidate in each ASC community who re ceived the largest number of votes is the committee chair man. Second highest is vice- chairman; third is regular com mittee m mber; fourth and fifth in the number of votes received are first and second alternates. Following are th? newlv- elected ASC comurinitv com- mitteemen in Malheur County, listed in the order ofchairman, vice-chairman, membar, first alternate, and second alternate: ADR1/.N- Benjamin M Witty, Carl L. Hill. Louis R. Siam, Richard Bennett. DavidS. Beebe JORDAN VALLEY Jack Pot ter. Walter T. Baltzor. Tnomas R. Carson, Fred R. Eiguren. George Swisher. HARPER-Val Gene Dice. Robert L. Sanders. Peter Fen ton, Frank Coleman. Glenn Evins. NYSSA- Tnomas J. Jayo, Tnomas Nishitani. Joe Dirksen. Max L. Moore, LesterCleaver. ONTARIO-Sam Mori. R Jack Nelson. Louis M. Wettstein. Wesley M Richmond. W iliam J. Duyn VALE-Douglas Fulwyler, Russell Fulleton. Dudley De- Long, Jack Pressley, Raymond Anthonv. PAYETTE-OREGON SLOPE Paul Saito. Fred H=>ad. Charles Farlev. Alvin M. Griffin. Earl J. H-eb. Sen. Packwood Rebukes Associates For Inaction Thursday, December 9, 1971 if they are eligible for relief, are to file their applications with the county tax collector after January 1. 1972 The amount of relief will be com puted lay the collector, and the taxpayer will be required to pay one-half the tax due, on or before April 15. Any delin- q lent tax dae after that date will draw interest as will the remaining quarterly pavm? its due May 15 and August 15. Taxpayers needing help in completing their applications are asked to wait until after January 1 and then contact the tax collector’s office. As the collector is a >w at the busiest time of the year pro cessing November 15 pay ments. he and Ilfs staff can do little toward helping applicants for relief. After the first of the yea.- maximum assistance will be available. The Nyssa Invitational Wres tling Tournament, one of the largest in the Northwest for high schools, will be held his weekend at th? Nyssa High This will lie the School gym sixth annual tournament here, and a good early season test for the 19 team» ’ntered M ?1 Calhoun and Glen Walker, wrestling coaches, are direc tors of the tournament which starts Friday afternoon ant ends Saturday evening. Three mats w ill see continuous action from the 209 boys entered. Idaho schools participating are Borah. Boise, Capital, Bishop Kelly. Nampa. Nampa Christian. Middleton. Caldwell. Vallivue. Homedale. Parma, Payette. Fruitland. Weiser, and New Plymouth. Oregon will lie represented by Buns. LaGr- ande, Vale and Nyssa. Tournament champions in the past years are Parma, 1966; Capital. 1967; Nyssa, 1968, Ontario, 1969; and Caldwell, 1970 Many wrestlers who have competed and placed in state competition in Oregon and Idaho will be participating. Nyssa wrestlers who will compete are Kent Cleaver, 98 pounds; Scott Kido, 106; Rex Schilling. 115; Steve Ballou, 123; Ken Schilling, 130; Manuel Perez. 136; Chris Moore, 141; Charles Nevins, 148; Jav Gibson. 157; Don Sappe, 168 Curt Lords. 178; Phil Wilman, 191; and Manuel Rosas, heavy weight. Coach Mel Calhoun said Wed nesday that this lineup could change due to injuries and chal lenge match’s, particularly in the 148. 157 amt 168 weights. DON HATCH NAMED Participants who are challeng ADRIAN FIRE CHIEF ing at these weights are Darr The Adrian Rural Fire De Haney and Dwight Calhoun. The tourney times and ses partment held an election Mon day afternoon, for directors sions are: first session,4p.m. with Robert Webb re-elected Friday, December 10. second to a three-year term on the session. 9 a.m. Saturday. Dec board, and Vern McCiiin was ember 11; third session. 1p.m. Saturday; consolation and final elected secretai y. Monday evening th? depart session, 7 p.m. Saturdiy. Prices for the tmirnam ’lit are ment elected officers, and Don Hatch was elected fire chief. as follows: Adults, ticket for Bib Webb was named assistant all sessions,$4.00; each session. Students with activity chief; Phil Webb, president; $1.25. Chuck Walker, vice president; ticket, for all sessions $1.50; Marvin Bowers, secretary and each session. 50V. Stanley Mills, treasurer. Blood Drawing The fire department was called out at 3a.m. Tuesdavtoa Set For Dec. 21 fire at the Emery Cameron The DecemN'r blood drawing place. Two small stacks of will take place Do'-ember 21 alfalfa seed chaff were on fire caused by contact with an at the Eagles Hall. Everyone is urged to attend electric fence. One stack was and give blood this hi ¡nth. saved, the other lost. David Nishitani Photos Shown PTA Sponsors Annual Christmas Concert Nyssa's PTA will sponsor thp annual Christmas Concert pre sented by the Nvssa High School Music Department December 16 .it 8 p.m ‘n th’ multi-pur pose room of tip Primary School. Featured will be traditional Christmas music by the con cert band, ninth and tenth grade Prep Choir, and eleventh and twelfth grade Concert Choir conducted by Nvssa band dir ector Craig Northrup andChoir director Gary Condon. There has always been a good turn out for this concert and the PTA hopes evervon? will come and enjoy th® Christmas music this year. 16 DAYS ) until y Christmas 9 Featured at the Nyssa Public Library for the month of De°- eml;er is the photograptiy of David Nishitani. David is a senior at Oregon State University with a Bachelor’s degree in General Science. When he enters school in January he will b® majoring in Elementary Edu cation. David’s interest in photo graphy began when a friend of his brought him a cam ra from Japan. His interest increased when h? became a photograph -r for th“ Oregon State University yearbook. In the past tw o years he has taken pictures of sports, entertainment, clubs an 1 honor- aries and off-campus life. Most of his work can be seen in the 1971 OSU yearbook. He also displayed some of his work at the Oregon State University Photo Salon last spring. David recently returned from Fort Ord where he spent four months in basic training for the National Guards. He is now working for the Seed Certifi cation on the Oregon State cam pus in Corvallis. Besides the knowledge he gained from fellow photo graphers, Divid is self-taught in th® field of photography. David does all of his own black and white film develop ment aii<l picture development at the school facilities. Just a few of the pictures now on display at th? library include those taken >f Neil Diamond, Gordin Lightfoot and OSU sports activities. Chamber Feeds Large Crowd Chamber of Commerce members Don Young, Dave Waldo, Boyd Wilson and others are shown dispensing hotcakes, eggs and sausage last Friday evening in the school cafeteria. The chamber fed over 1,200 people despite a stormy evening in what was considered a very successful feed.