of Oregon
Eugene, Ore. 974C3
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Nyssa Gate City Journal
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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
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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.