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University Of Oregon Library Eugene, Ore. 974.03 X X X X X Nyssa Gate City Journal Volume LXV Thunderegg Capital The Nyssa Gate City Journal, Nyssa, Oregon Thursday, December 30, 1971 NYSSA FARMER ELECTED CONSERVATIONIST RECEIVES AWARD FRITZ RENNEBAUM An outstanding performance rating and special achievement award was presented to Fritz Rennebaum, range conservatio nist in the BLM’s Vale Dist rict, at the district’s Silver Anniversary Christmas Ball Saturday evening. The award was presented by G.R. Gurr, district manager. The letter of co nmendation to Rennebaum from State Di rector Archie Craft stated, in part . . .you have displayed enthusiasm and aptitude for your work which is examplary for be ginning professional employees. Your attitude toward expendi tures and efficient utilization of BLM appropriations has been outstanding. You have made suggestions for cost reductions and carefully planned your own work to minimize expenditures. You frequently perform work outside of regular workinghours in an effort to meet deadlines or for self-improvement.” “You can be relied on to complete exceptional quantities of quality work on time in a safe, conscientious manner. Your production, work habits and attitude have significantly exceeded the requirements of the position and no doubt will continue to exceed these re quirements.” Rennebaum, a graduate of Washington State University, and a veteran of the U.S. Army serving in Germany and Viet Nam, startedhiscareerwiththe Bureau of Land Management in October, 1970 with the Vale District. with presidents of local asso ciations renamed to the Fede ration’s board of directors. Yost is president of the Mountain States Beet Growers Assn, of Montana, Weber is president of the Nebraska Non-Stock Coop erative Beet Growers Assn., and Holmes is president of the Nyssa-Nampa Beet Growers Assn. The three officers have had 30 years, 25 years and 35 years experience respectively in the sugarbeet industry. All three have been active in seeking so lutions to national and local industry problems as well as in community affairs. Re-elected officers were Ri chard W. Blake, Executive Vice President, Washington, DC., and Leland “Lee” K. Johnson, Secretary Treasurer, Greeley, Colorado. Other boardof director mem bers, presidents of state asso ciations, include: Harold Purdy, Deerfield, Kans., Ark Valley Beet Growers Assn, of Kansas; Howard Hart, Powell, Wyo., Big Horn Basin Beet Growers Assn.; Wayne Young, Lexington, Neb., Central Nebraska Beet Growers Assn.; Karl Steiner, Bruneau, Idaho, Elwyhee Beet Growers Assn. Ronald Kautz, Lyman, Neb., Goshen County Beet Growers Assn.; Clyde Greenwell, Paul, Idaho, Idaho Beet Growers Assn.; William Beck, Burley, Idaho, Lower Snake River Beet Growers Assn.’ Harold Watts, Miles City, ..iont., Montana- Wyoming Beet Growers Assn., representing members in North Dakota. Harlan Seaworth, Wellington, Colo., Mountain States Beet Growers Assn, of Colorado and Kansas; Harry Bates, Holly, Colo., Southern Colorado Beet Growers Assn.; Paul Holmgren, Bear River City, Utah, Utah Beet Growers Assn.; Merle Hornbaker, Eltopia, Wash., Washington Beet Growers Assn.; and Warren Comerer, Montrose, Colo., Western Colorado Beet Growers Assn. TVCC Lists Sixteen students earned a perfect grade point of 4.00 for the Fall Quarter, 1971 at Trea sure Valley Communitycollege They are: Virginia Cleaver, Nyssa; James A. Ferris, Wei ser, DebAnn Gillies, Fruitland; Kay Holliday, Ontario; Kenneth Lais, Canby; Mary Little, Hills dale, Michigan; Dorothy M. Lynch, Ontario; Wanda Menden hall, Ontario; John Ojala, On tario; Duane Pankratz,Ontario; Juli Recla, Ontario; Margaret Shepherd, Vale; Virginia Tuc ker, Brogan; Connie Ussing, Vale; Larry Warnick, Beaver ton; and Dennis Wasson, On tario. In addition to the above, 91 students earned a GPA of 3.25 or better while taking 14 credit hours or more. Included in this list is Luba Keele, Nyssa. The S.P. Bybee home on Columbia Avenue is beautifully decorated for Christmas, as it is each year. Only part of the detail can be seen in the daylight pictures, to really appreciate the scene it must be visited at night where the house, yard and trees are brightly lighted. The picture at right shows a close-up of the windows painted Thanksgiving by a daughter-in-law, Mrs. Gary Bybee of Scottsdale, Ari zona. In addition to the Bybee home, everyone should drive by the Ann Tensen home, also onCoumbia Avenue; and Jake Fischer home on Alberta Avenue. The Tensenhome features hundreds of lights outlining the house andallthe outbuildings. The Fischer home features the ''Old Woman in the Shoe” turning in the front window. Motor Vehicles Division M odifies Drivers Tests If you take a driving test after this week you will not have to park between parking standards (stakes) to demon strate your backing ability. Chester W. Ott, Adminis trator of the Oregon Motor Ve hicles Division, said Tuesday the driving test is being modi- SALES HIGH The State of Oregon has had another excellent month in Sav ings Bonds sales according to word received here today by County Chairman J. W. Leslie. “Sales last month of $2,883,871 made it one of the best Novembers in the past de cade, although the total was a few thousand dollars less than November a year ago,” said Leslie. “Total E and H bond sales in the State for this year now amount to $37,933,000, and almost guarantee that the State will go beyond 40 million dol lars for the full year for the first time since World War 11. Latest available figures show that Oregon is still leading the nation in the percentage it has achieved of its dollar quota for this year.” “Sales in this County last month amounted to $23,182. We have now reached 128 per cent of the sales quota assigned the County for calendar year 1971.” School Children Serenade Business District fied so that more attention can be given to an applicant’s ac tual control of a vehicle in traf fic. Accidents while parking or leaving a parked position are a relatively small part of the ac cident problem, Ott says, thus statistics do not support con tinued emphasis on this skill as part of the test. In some areas, the test actually creates a traffic hazard. DMV will continue to check drivers on their ability to con trol a vehicle while backing, but it will be done in less time-consuming ways. Stopping and starting on a hill will be dropped from the test routine. This test was probably valid at one time, Ott said, but automatic transmis sions have made it unnecessary for most applicants. In some cities it has not been a part of the test for several years be cause there were no hills in the testing area. Equipment checks prior to the start of a driving test also are being modified. Lights and windshield wipers will be chec ked only if conditions during the test would require their use. A stopwith the emergencybrake is being eliminated. Examiners will continue to check other equipment, such as horns, brake lights and directional signals, and attempt to verify that mufflers are in good work ing condition. “Modification of the driving test means we can give more time to the actual operation of a vehicle to insure that license applicants have the necessary ability to turn, change lanes, judge distances, control speed and exercise the judgment needed to drive a car safely in today’s traffic, “Ott con cluded. district with Christmas Carols to add to the festivities of the season. DATE MAX MIN PR EC Dec. 20 24 17 Dec. 21 43 21 Dec. 22 53 26 Dec. 23 33 .06 51 Dec. 24 43 29 Dec. 25 40 32 Dec. 26 41 29 Dec. 27 21 35 -- 17 Dec. 28 Owyhee Reservoir Storage 12/27/71 522,620 Acre Feet 12/27/70 577,270 Acre Feet By Babson’s Reports Inc., Wellesley Hills, Mass., Decem ber 30, 1971. A year ago our Forecast for 1971 looked hope fully toward a better business year than had prevailed in 1970. Unfortunately, the trouble spots we cited combined to frustrate the possibilities offered by the favorable forces. For example, the vexing problems of high un employment, underutilizationof industrial productive capacity, dangerous inflationary pres sures, the huge federal bud get deficit, and labor problems did indeed raise barriers to economic progress in 1971. 1971-ANOTHER CRISIS YEAR As we look back upon 1971, therefore, we can justly label it another “crisis year”., just as 1969 and 1970 had been. However, the crisis of the pre vious two years were largely of a domestic economic nature, albeit the burden of the Viet nam war was a contributing influence to the dislocations. In 1969 the main villain was the grinding credit crunch; in 1970 it was the harrowing corporate liquidity squeeze, plus two major strikes and the surprise of the foray into Cambodia. In 1971 the focal point was more the “flight from the American dollar” in the lead ing foreign exchange markets of the free world. This crisis had been building for many years, and it also had been inexorably linked with a com plex of other problems. These included cost-push inflation, a steady weakening of the U. S. foreign trade position, and the long succession of federal bud- get deficits and imbalances in our international payments po sition--which resulted from our foreign aid and military pro federal safety regulations as grams plus sizable private drivers of large commercial spending and investments a- spending and investments a- trucks on the highways. There was also the Last spring Ullman called the broad. proposed driver regulations aggravation of the long and costly strikes during 1971; but both enereus and unworkable in the final analysis, the real and said the proposed changes havoc was wrought by the dol would result in eliminating a lar’s troubles. major labor pool for the far mer-young men under 21 who STABILIZATION OR TRAUMA? drive trucks on the farm. In a counteroffensive tocom- Under the changed rules, set bat the dollar’s woes, to bridle to go into effect Jan. 1, drivers the inflationary spiral, and to operating lightweight farm revitalize the nation’s economy, trucks are totally exempt from the Nixon Administration took driver qualification rules. everyone by surprise by dra Custom harvesting crew dri matically reversing its econo vers are alsoexemptedfrom the mic approach. In the first regulations, Ullman said. phase of the new program, Most trips bv farm equip President Nixon imposed a 90- ment are short, Ulman said day emergency freeze upon and it is unnecessary to re prices, wages, and rents. In quire the type of qualification addition, he asked Congress to used on commercial truckers move to an earlier date the driving long distances at high planned revision of the federal speeds. income tax structure so as to increase consumer disposable income, and to grant a tax credit for certain business Bank Debits for the eight capital expenditures. He also reporting banks including Har imposed a 10*% surcharge on ney and Malheur counties were certain imports of foreign goods up in November, 1971, com Initially, public reaction was pared to November, 1970, the favorable. The program was University of Oregon Bureau of regarded as a positive step in Business and Economic Re coming to grips with the vital search has reported. problems afflicting the economy However, the piecemeal fashion Deadline For S.S. in which the second phase of the program was unveiled left Medical Bills consumers, businessmen, and Social Security Medicare investors in an uncertain frame Doubts mounted as Enrollees who have not sub of mind. lukewarm labor ac mitted their medical bills are early facing a deadline. Any bill ceptance of the program turned for medical care, supplies, or to antagonism, and as indus covered services Incurred in trial activity, consumer spend the period October 1, 1969 th ing, and unemployment failed to rough September 30, 1970 must respond as quickly as had been be submitted no later *han anticipated. December 31, 1971, Allan VESTIGES OF HOPE Rainsberry, Ontario Resident On the surface, the disap Representative for Social Se pointing economic results of curity announced today. Rainsberry stated that he 1971 would seem to point to A would answer questions and as a year of inept failures. sist people In filing their deeper analysis reveals grou claims. Telephone service is nds for a contrary view. Even suggested as this will often though business and employ eliminate the inconvenience of ment did not respond as the an unneeded trip to the office. Nixon Administration had an Office hours are Monday and ticipated, there were extenua circumstances which Tuesday, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. ting The phone number is 889-5005 critics of the new economic and the location is 514 S. W. game plan have been remiss in considering. 4th Street in Ontario. Ullman Says Restrictions Dropped On Farm Vehicles Congressman Al Ullman, who co-sponsored legislation last May toexempt farm vehicle dri vers from new federal operating restrictions, said Wedneday that he was extremely pleased m ist of the new regulations have been dropped. The restrictions, proposed by the Department of Transpor tation, would have required most drivers of vehicles on farms to be 21 years or older, and be made subject to the same HISTORY LECTURE AT TVCC THURSDAY The fourth lecture in Trea sure Valley Community Col lege’s eight part series to be held on Thursday, December 30 beginning at 8:00 p.m. will be an account of what it was like to grow up with a foot in each stirrup. Rankin Crow, long time resident of Eastern Ore gon’s cattle country, will be the featured speaker in "A Glance Into the Past”, a popular lec ture program dealing with his tory and happenings of the early west. Rankin Crow is author of a book, RANKIN CROW AND THE OREGON COUNTRY. For many years he supplied stock for rodeos. Prior to that he trailed cattle with his own outfit. His early childhood days were spent literally in the saddle as he went with his father on cattle drives trailing the animals to rail heads and markets. The public is invited to at tend the session in the Weese Memorial Building as Rankin Crow shares his reminiscences, FERTILIZER CLASS STARTS AT TVCC The 4th, 5th and 6th graders of the Nyssa Elementary School are shown on Main Street last Thursday. They serenaded the business Number LII BABSON'S FINANCIAL AND BUSINESS FORKAST FOR 1972 AS NATIONAL SUGARBEAT GROWERS FEDERATION Newly elected officers of the National Sugarbeet Growers Fe deration represent more than 90 years experience in the rai sing of sugarbeets. They come from Montana, Nebraska and Oregon. Elected to head the organi zation during the Federation’s recent 26th annual meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah, were Ish mael “Bab?" Yost of Billings, Mont., President; Harry Weber, Mitchel, Neb., First Vice Pre sident; and Robert C. Holmes, Nyssa, Second Vice President. Yost replaces Robert Y. Sakata, Brighton, Colo., as President. Ten western states were re presented at the recent meeting u The Sugar City A class, Soil Fertilization and Fertilizers, will be offered at Treasure Valley Community College beginning January 6, 1972 in room N-l of the Tech- Lab Building. The class will meet Thursday evenings from 7:00 p.m. to 10 p.m. for the duration of the term. The con tent of the course will include technical knowledge of fertil izers and study of plant phy siology and plant response to fertilizers. Bank Debits For example, there was the protracted tie-up of WestCoast ports, and subsequently a vir tual paralysis of East Coast and many Gulf Coast ports, which exacted a toll on the economy. In addition, there were the coal and copper mi ners’ strikes, and the inesca pable liquidation of strike hedge steel inventory stockpiles These retardant factors would have exertedadverse influences even if the Administration had not opted for "controls”. Furthermore, the fainthear ted miracle seekers and the opportunistic politicians maybe premature in labeling the Nixon economic game plan an exer cise in futility. There has not been enough time to gauge the results of this program. After all, Congress has been agoni zingly slow in acting on those facets of the program which are bevond the jurisdiction of the President. 1972-YEAR OF SOLID PROGRESS AT THIS OUTSET OF THE NEW YEAR, THEREFORE, THE STAFF OF BABSON’S RE PORTS VIEWS CONSTRUC TIVELY THE PROSPECT OF WHAT LIES IN STORE FOR THE ECONOMY. We are hope ful that the Administration’s economic game plan will jell sufficiently to encourage bu sinessmen and consumers to sluff off their cocoons of cau tiousness and assume a more optimistic perspective. Such an improvement in public con fidence, after the long siege of uncertainity of the past three years, should produce a defi nite pattern of business im provement. It would be well not to ex pect an immediate return of boom conditions for the eco nomy as a whole. The fight against inflation will require continuing vigilance and therapy and with the large reservoir of idle productive capacity in American industry the task of paring unemployment will re quire patience. The Nixon Ad ministration’s economic pro ram was not set forth as one which would produce deflation, but rather one which would re strain inflationary pressures sufficiently to create produc tivity gains and make for solid progress in the economy, as opposed to the illusory gains of recent years when price in flation accounted for much of the advance. So, to the ex tent that inflation is curtailed, Babson's Reports forecasts that 1972 will emerge as a period of genuine achievement. LESS WORRISOME CLIMATE The primary characteristic which the staff of Babson’s Re ports expects will mark 1972 and enable the economy to re gain its forward thrust in the next twelve months is an an ticipated easing in certain troublesome areas. The major labor groups are tied to multi year contracts, and the next “go around" is not scheduled until 1973. Hence, on the labor front, it will be a year of re lative quiet on the part of the major unions, whose walkouts can be quite debilitating to the economy. To further brighten the background picture for the coming year, we anticipate no real money and credit worries for the better part of 1972. Even as demand for money and credit increases in pace with the projected Improvement in economic activity, the mone tary authorities are well situa ted to pump in additional credit to meet legitimate business needs, thus obviating the likeli hood of another restrictive credit crunch. Corporate li quidity in general has been bol stered quite significantly dur ing the past two years; thus, except for the marginal com panies which have trouble se curing credit under most cir cumstances, the threat no lon- (Continued On Page 10)
