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of Oregon Eugene, Ore. 974C3 * X X X X Nyssa Gate City Journal I Volume LXVI The Nyssa Gate City Journal, Nyssa, Oregon Thunderegg Capital Thursday, January 13, 1972 SCOn ENGSTROM NAMED BOY'S WINNER IN ELKS LEADERSHIP COMPETITION A Nyssa High School senior boy and a Payette High School senior girl were named first place winners in the Ontario Elks Lodge 1690 annual Youth Leadership Contest when the 13 local entries were honored Thursday night. Awards amounting to more than $700 were presented to the 13 students. Scott Engstrom, son of Mr. and Mrs. Don Engstrom of Nyssa, was named to first place in the boy’s division. James White, son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert White of Payette placed second in boy’s leadership. SCOTT ENGSTROM Miss Susan Hanigan, Payette, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Hanigan, was chosen first-place girl in the contest. In second place was Miss Janice Hayashi, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mas Hayashi of Ontario. Other Treasure Valley stu dents entered in the contest were Eileen Snavely and Wal ter Wells, Fruitland; Laurie and Ronald Kuwahara, Vale; Shar- mon J. Sadamori, Nyssa; De borah Barker and Roy Sorenson, New Plymouth; PatrickEchanis, Ontario; and Sheila Pratt, Adrian. Brochures of the local win ners were entered in compe tition with those from seven other lodges in Oregon South east and were judged in dis trict competition Tuesday night. In that competition, Scott Engstrom was first place winner for boys. Lannette Tem ple of Lakeview was first place winner for girls. Miss Hanigan was second for girls and Glenn Rodriquez of Madras was in second place for boys. Brochures from the two dis trict winners have now been mailed to the state chairman of the Elks Youth Activities at Eugene. State winners will be announced and presented at 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 22, in the Ocean Lake Lodge #1886 at Ocean Lake. First-place boy and girl win ners in each district will be at the meeting for the state pre sentation of awards. They will be accompanied by their par ents and members of their lodge. The first-place winners re ceive $750 each in the state con test. Second-place winners will get $600 each, third-place boy and girl get $325 and fourth place youngsters get$250. Fifth through seven-place boys and girls get $200 each. Brochures prepared by the students are judged on the fol lowing basis: Leadership - 40 points. Citizenship Appreciation -20 points. Perserverance, Resourceful ness, and Sense of Honor -20 points. Neatness and Arrangement of Brochure - 10 points. Compliance with Instiuctions - 10 points. George Hardisty, Ontario chairman of the Oregon South east contest, and Larry Kelley of Payette is iocal contest chair man. Historical Society The Malheur County Histori cal Society organized Tuesday evening with Mike Hanley of Jordan Valley elected president. Charles Swan, Vale, was named vice president, Mrs. Kenneth Goul, Ontario, secratery; and John Gaskill, Ontario, treasu rer. The Board of Directors is composed of Bernard Eastman, Nyssa; Joe Beach, Vale; Bur rell Lovell, Vale; and Horace Arment, Ontario. Meetings will be the second Thursday of each month start ing in February, with places to be announced later. Dues were set at $2. per per son, and charter membership will remain open through Feb ruary. Membership was paid by 62 persons at the Tues day meeting, with 17 also pay ing membership in the Oregon Historical Society. Dairy Exhibit On Display At U.S. Bank A special informational ex hibit showing the importance of dairying to Malheur County’s economy and the nutritional benefits of dairy products is now on display at the Nyssa branch of the U. S. National Bank, according to Joe S. “Scot ty” Payne, Vale dairyman who serves as chairman of the Ore gon Dairy Products Commis sion. The exhibit consists of three lighted panels showing dairy products in full color, one panel explaining the economic im pact of dairying in the county and eleven other panels showing the versatility and nutritional benefits of dairy products. Malheur County was chosen as the starting point for the 22- month tour in which the exhibit will be on display in bank lob bies all over Oregon. It is scheduled to remain at the local U. S. Bank lobby through Jan uary 21 then it will be moved to Prineville. Payne pointed out that Mal- heur County ranks second in Oregon milk production with 105,000,000 pounds, the equi valent of 48,800,000 quart car tons, produced each year. The milk has a cash value of about $5,120,000 at the farm gate and represents about 10% of the total crop income in Malheur County. Harry Sandquist, Malheur County extension service, esti mates there are about 11,700 milk cows on 350 dairy farms in the county. 1080B-16 -• This rest area at Weatherby is seven miles north of Lime on the Bubbs Ranch-Weatherby Section of the Old Oregon Trail (I-8ON). At bottom is Old US30, while freeway lies along Burnt River near foothills in distance. (Oregon State Highway Division photo) Polling Places Announced For January 18 Election Former Parman Displays Art Malheur County Clerk Robert Morcom says the polling places for the coming special election, January 18, in the Nyssa area are as follows: PRECINCT POLLING PLACE Nyssa 1 Nyssa Library Nyssa 2 Eagles Hall Nyssa 3 Park Avenue Baptist Church Base ment, 404 N. 3rd. Street Arcadia Arcadia School Sunset & Owyhee Oregon Trail Hall Adrian & Big Bend Adrian Legion Hall Ridgeview votes absentee. Malheur County Alfalfa Seed Growers Meet Friday Final plans for the annual educational meeting of the Mal heur County Alfalfa Seed Growers Association to be held at the Oregon Trail Hall on January 14 have been completed according to Association presi dent, William H. (Bud) Panike. The meeting will start at 10:00 a.m., break at noon for a no host luncheon to be served by the ladies of the Oregon Trail Hall Association and conclude in the afternoon. Malheur County Extension Agent, Leeds Bailey, reports that an outstanding program has been lined up for the meeting. Following is a list of the speak ers. W. P. Stephen, Oregon State University Entomologist, will discuss pollinator management and observations made on al falfa seed production the past year during his stay in Chile. Ed Hardin, Head of the Oregon Cooperative Seed Testing La boratory, will explain the work ings of the lab and show seed growers how to make a quick germination test on their al falfa seed. David Pettersen, District Planner for the Oregon Government Relations Division, will speak on Agricultural Zon ing and related topics. Howard Fujii of the Oregon Farm Bu- reau Federation will cover Tax and Labor legislation effecting Oregon residents. Luther Fitch, agronomist at the Milheur Ex periment Station, will discuss weed and dodder control in the alfalfa seed crop. Don Brewer, Head of the Oregon State Uni versity Certification Depart ment, will inform the group of changes in the certification pro gram. Bailey says that all interested persons are invited to attend the meeting. POTATO GROWERS MEETING JAN. 17 January 17, is the date set for the Malheur County Potato Growers Annual Meeting. It will be held at the Boulevard Grange Hall which is located between Cairo Junction and On tario. Joel Mitchell who is president of the Malheur County Potato Growers Association urges all potato growers to attend this one day meeting, with regis tration beginning at 9 a.m. and the program beginning at 9:30 a.m. The days activities will conclude at 4:15 p.m. On the program will be a discussion of potato diseases and their control. Talks on this subject will be made by two potato research individuals from the Aberdeen Experiment Station in Aberdeen, Idaho. Also on the program will be a pre sentation by Luther Fitch, ag ronomist at the Malheur Ex periment Station. Several addi tional presentations geared to the potato industry of this area will be heard. For more information on this Malheur County PotatoGrowers meeting, contact-County Exten sion Agent, Warren A. Hen ninger at the Extension office in Ontario. WEATHER \ Number || IDAHO POWER COMPANY TO INVEST $59 MILLION IN NEW FACILITIES Currently on display at the Nyssa Public Library for the month of January is the art work of Ailleen Jensen. A few of the paintings being shown include “Cys Store”, “Maine Win ter Ebb Tide”, “Get Along Little Dogie”, ' Death Valley", and “New Hampshire Street Storm”. Mrs. Jensen has taken one course at the School of Design in Washington D.C. and has also studied with Edward J. Ray of Boston, Massachusetts and Laconia, New Hampshire. For two terms, Mrs. Jensen was president of the Laconia Art Group and she was also the first vice-president of the New Hampshire Humane Society. Her first painting sold was to Henry Morgan, stage and television star. A Parma, Idaho high school graduate, Mrs. Jensen has lived in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and currently resides in Laconia, New Hampshire with her husband, Victor Jensen. They are now spending the winter with Mrs. Jensen’s mother, Mrs. William Dickerson of Parma. The Jensen’s have one son, Sigurd, who teaches drama and set design atConnecticut State College in New Haven, Connecticut. Police Chief Lions Speaker Nyssa Police Chief Alvin Allen spoke to the Nyssa Lions Club Tuesday, and discussed his police department annual re port. Allen said that five of the six officers hold Associate of Science degrees from TVCC, and he feels that the depart ment is the best qualified of any Nyssa has had. The addi tion of the sixth officer has made it possible to increase patrol during the day and eve ning hours, with a resultant increase in citations and ar rests. There were no traffic fatalities in 1971, and traffic accidents were down. The chief also discussed the new Criminal Code, and also commended his auxiliary po lice. These seven men and two women give considerable help during the year, and carry on a regular training program. Drug use among young people is pro bably the greatest immediate concern to the department now, Allen said. He feels that there must be some way to make pa rents more aware and more con cerned with this problem. Volunteer Firemen Klaas Laan, Nyssa dairyman and Margie Durfee, Nyssa's candidate for Dairy Prin cess ar shown with the dairy exhibit now on display in the lobby of the U.S. National The Sugar City Bank. The exhibit will be in Nyssa through January 21, and will then be moved to Prine ville. Elect Officers The Nyssa Volunteer Fire DATE MAX MIN PREC men met in regular session Jan. 5 28 15 .01 Monday, January 3 in the Jan. 6 30 21 Firemen’s Club room. Jan. 7 36 21 There was an election of new Jan. 8 39 16 .06 officers, they are Delbert Mal Jan. 9 49 28 loy, re-elected Fire Chief; Rod Jan. 10 43 34 Holcomb, re-elected as Assis Jan. 11 52 32 tant Fire Chief; Harold Kass- Jan. 12 33 .01 mari, President; Lyle Miner, Owyhee Reservoir Storage Vice-President; Mike Ander 1/10/72 535,020 Acre Feet son, re-elected as Secretary- 1/10/71 590,010 Acre Feet Treasurer. NEW POSTAL RATES EFFECTIVE JAN. 24 New rates on third class mailing will become effective January 24, 1972, according to Lee Dail, Postmaster. Bulk mailer« will be in creased from 4? to 5$ per piece, or 28? per pound for circulars. Books and catalogs will be charged 5? per piece minimum or 21? per pound. General public third class mailing will be a minimum of 8? for the first two ounces, in creasing up to 45? for 15 ounces or more, not including 16 ounces. Articles weighing 16 ounces are classed as fourth class parcel post. Idaho Power Company re ported Wednesday that it will invest $59 million this year in new service facilities needed to supply growing customer re quirements that set a new re cord in 1971. President Albert Carlsen noted in announcing the 1972 budget that it is more than double the utility’s investment last year and is the highest since 1958 when Idaho Power spent som° $61 million at the peak of construction on Brownlee and Oxbow dams. “Increasing electric use, a record number of new cus tomers and growing emphasis on municipal and industrial pol lution control require us to con tinue building additional facili ties for the greater capacity and maximum service reliability that are essential to area pro gress," he said. Use of electricity by the com pany’s general business cus tomers ciimbed to a new high of more than 6.2 billion ki lowatt-hours (kwhr) in 1971- an increase of about 261.5 mil lion kwhr over the previous year. Average domestic-customer use also established a new Idaho Power record, rising to 10,615 kwhr from 9,995 kwhr at the end of 1970. The company connected more than 7,900 new customers in the 12 months ending in December, a greater number than in any similar period. Carlsen, describing electric energy as an “indispensable and necessary requirement” in en vironmental improvement, said millions of additional kilowatt- hours are needed to operate new sewage systems, water treatment plants and other pro cesses for cleaning up the air, water and land. “During 1970,” he pointed out, “nearly 300 anti-pollution devices were patented and every single one of them is operated by electricity." The utility president said this year’s budget earmarks some $43.2 million for the 1.5 mil lion-kilowatt Jim Bridger steam generatingcomplex being built jointly by Idaho Power and Pacific Power & Light Company. An estimated $36 million of the outlay will be used to con tinue construction of the new complex’s coal-fired plant near Rock Springs, Wyoming, where the first 500,000-kilowatt unit is scheduled to begin production in 1974 to supply Idaho Power customers. The remaining $7.2 million will be spent to start construc tion of the first of three 345,000 volt transmission lines that will carry electricity from the plant to connections with Idaho Po wer’s system in eastern Idaho. Carlsen said work also is ex- Charles McConnel On OSU Honor Roll Charles McConnel, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben McConnel, Nyssa, was among those na med to the fall term honor roll at Oregon State University. Charles is a senior in En gineering. pected to start this year on new substations--Borah near American Falls .and Kinport near Pocatello--where two of the lines will terminate. The third line will end at the exist ing Goshen substation near Idaho Falls. The Jim Bridger complex is being built at an estimated total cost of $300 million, including more than $35 million for air and water cleaning equipment. Among the equipment will be electrostatic precipitators de signed to remove more than 99rc of the particulate matter from the plant’s stack emis sions. Three other major transmis sion line projects are included in the company’s 1972 construc tion plans, according toCarlsen. Under two of the projects, Idaho Power will continue build ing similar transmission “loops” in Boise and Pocatello. Consisting of additional heavy- duty lines, the loops are de signed to provide supplemen tary capacity and service re liability for the utility’s cus tomers in the two cities. The third project calls for construction of a new line ex tending 42 miles between Brown lee Dam and McCall, where new residential and commercial de velopments are steadily in creasing the load of Idaho Power’s system. Carlsen also reported that new equipment to increase ca pacity will be installed at se veral existing substations-- among them the Boise Bench and Hunt transmission substa tions--and a new distribution substation will be built near Wendell. The new distribution substa tion is required to help supply additional demands for ser vice in the surrounding area, including the all-electric plant being built by Tupperware to produce plastic housewares, Carlsen said. Blood Donors Receive Pins Thirteen pins for donors were awarded during the Red Cross Bood drawing held at the Eagle’s Hall in Nyssa, De cember 21, 1971, at which 107 persons donated blood and four were rejected. Those receiving one-gallon pins were Merrill Call and Yvonne Fanning, two-gallon pins--Bill Morrison, Katura Dickson, Jeanetta Garner and Ray Strickland; three-gallon pins--Gene Chester, Elvin Bal lou, Dee J. Garner, and Don Perdue; four-gallon pins--Wil ton Jackson and Jake Fischer; and a six-gallon pin was re ceived by Everett Heldt. Thanks to the Nyssa LDS Second Ward, for canteen ser vice; Girl Scouts for baby sitting; Lion’s and Chamber of Commerce, for set-up and take-down; Eagle’s for coffee. Thanks to Doctors K. E. Kerby, Charles Vanetti, F. J. Sykes, David Sarazin and all others who donated their time. Also, thanks to the Gate City Journal, KSRV and KYET for publicity. Newcomers To Nyssa Area PT A To Feature Grades 6—12 Do you have a child in any grade 6th to 12th? If so, the next Nyssa PT A meeting is for You. The meeting will be held Thursday, Jan. 20 in the cafe teria at 8 p.m. Following a short business meeting, there will be an informative program, under the direction of Gene Chester, high school principal and Dan Martin, junior high principal. They will try to give the parents a better insight of the new curriculum in junior and senior high schools. It is really worthwhile to find out just what your children are learning in these new classes and the many different choices they have. Following the program the Jr. and Sr. High Schools will hold an open house so parents can visit the classrooms and teac hers. The teachers are really put ting in a lot cf extra time for the program, so come and show you appreciate their efforts. Newcomers to the Nyssa area afe Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Shodeen, new owners of the Anderson Corners Store. Originally from eastern Nebraska, the Shodeen family has lived in Carmichael, California, a suburb of Sacramento, for the past 14 years. Carroll worked for the Sacramento Municipal Utility District in the electrical division, and Mrs. Shodeen (Delores) worked for the Pacific Telephone Company. They have two sons, Ron 16 and Jim 15, who now attend Par In a High School. Their main hobbies are camping, fishing, and exploring the outdoors, and as such have vacationed and fallen in love with Idaho and our less-crowded way of life. Now Mr. and Mrs. Steve Anderson have purchased the Shodeen home inCarmichael and are near their three daughters in Sacramento, and the Shodeens are starting a new way of life far from the crowded city and freeways of California.
