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Th« Nyssa Oat« City Journal, Nyssa, Oregon Thurtdoy, January 13, 1972 Look At The Record ... By Charles L. Gould I have no apologies to make for my country or my generation. Never before in history or in any other land has a people accomplished so much, given so much and asked so little. Four times in one lifetime we have involved ourselves in foreign wars. We have poured the flower of our manhood and the fortunes of our citi zens into these battles against agression, injustice and tyranny. In these endeavors, we have never coveted a ¿ingle acre of land nor sought to add a dollar to our natural wealth. Quite the contrary. We have used our material Strength and financial fortunes to bind the wounds Of the vanquished and we have given aid and sus tenance to the impoverished in a hundred nations around the globe. Friend and toe alike. We have battled, too, for progress and better ment on the home front. In one generation we have conquered or con trolled diptheria, small-pox, typhoid, polio, measles, tuberculosis and pneumonia No longer do these ancient scourges sweep our land leaving death and tortured limbs and minds and hearts in their wake. We have built more schools and colleges and hospitals and libraries than all other generations since the beginning of time. We have trained and graduated more scientists, doctors, surgeons, dentists, lawyers, teachers, en gineers and physicists than did our forbears for a - thousand years before. We have raised our standard of living and low- ered our hours of work. Luxuries that were beyond the dreams of princes and potentates a generation ago are now available to all our people. The automobile, the radio, the telephone, the airplane, the computer, television, antibiotics and a hundred other miracles have come to full flower in We have taxed ourselves unmercifully to bring hope and health to our sick, our indigent, our young and our aged. Each year our personal gifts to private chari ties exceed 14 billion dollars . . . more than fifteen times the cost of running the entire Federal Govern- . ment the year I was born. We have done more to bring dignity and qual ity and opportunity to all minority groups than any other generation has ever done in any nation since the dawn of history. Now, let me make it clear that I do not mini mize the need for greater effort in these areas. We have an urgent moral responsibility to move decisively in correcting injustices that have too long prevailed. At the same time, we must not minimize the • progress that has been made. A recent official report shows that since 1960 the number of Negro families earning more than $7,000 a year has increased more than 100 percent. In just four years the number of Negros hired for professional jobs had climbed 35 percent. Total Negro employment has jumped more than 20 per cent. Today the average Negro in our nation is more likely to go to college than the average citizen — white or black — in England, Germany, Belgium, • Denmark, Italy or Spain. We have more than 300 Negro millionaires in . our nation. We have more Negros sitting as judges . . . more in state legislatures . . . more in our city halls . . . and more in positions of power than all the communist nations of the world combined. Yes, don’t let anyone sell you the idea that ours is a sick society It’s far from perfect, but it is also far and away the most enlightened, most unselfish, most compassionate in the history of the world. I know what our generation has done. I’ll stand on our record. We may not have scored as high as we hoped. But we scored higher than ever before. And the end is not yet. There is still work to be done. There are still challenges to be met. There are still hopes to be realized. There are still goals to be attained. They’ll not be attained by the preachers and teachers of despair. They’ll not be attained by sniff ing flowers or staging love-ins or hate-ins. They’ll be attained by the unsung heroes of -£very generation. The workers who can dream. And ^Jhe doers who can hope. They'll be attained by the -jnen and women who believe in a better and brighter ^tomorrow and are willing to work to that end. 5 Ricks Honor Students Listed 497 honor roll students at Ricks College in Rexburg, Idaho, for the fall semester have been listed by the Office of Admis sions and Registration. To achieve the Honors List a student must have a 3.5 grade point average or above 3.O'- All B, 4.0--A11 A for the semester and must carry a minimum of 14 credit hours. Honor students include Dellas G. Frederiksen and DeeAnn Peterson from Nyssa. NEWS FROM BIG BEND BY GOLDIE ROBERTS*.......................... BIG BEND-JollyJanesClubmet Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. Edythe Prosser. Mrs. Jesse Higgins and Mrs. Darrell Eng lish assisted. There were 14 ladies attending. Mrs. Dick Davis will make this year’s yearbooks. Names were drawn and several items were dis- cussed. Next meeting to be February 2nd with Mrs. Dick Davis, Mrs. Verl Bishop and Mrs. James McGinnis assist ing. Teresa and Pat Corn have returned to Gonzaga College in Spokane. Mrs. Edythe Prosser accom panied Mrs. Ed Maurer of Wil der to Caldwell Tuesday to the funeral of Mrs. Minnie Baker. Mrs. Horace Chaney and Mrs. Ted Avery called on Mrs. Flo rence Ocamica at the Caldwell -Memorial Hospital Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Verl Bishop, Mrs. Edythe Prosser and Mrs. Har vey Bennett attended an execu tive meeting of the Presbyterian Women's Association at the home of Mrs. George DeHaven Pag« Nine in Adrian Thursday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Pete Graham and family visited Mr. and Mrs. C lyde Graham in Middleton over the weekend. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Bennett, Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Bennett and Mr. and Mrs. Dick Bennett drove to Joseph, Oregon Mon day to attend the funeral ser- vices for a close friend, Lyle Foster. The Fosters were frequent visitors to the Bennetts and were known by many here. Angela and Curtis Jensen of Nampa spent the weekend with their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Horace Chaney. Ted Avery and Bud Panike of Weiser spent Thursday and Fri day in Portland on business. Mrs. Dyre Roberts and Mrs. Edythe Prosser attended the Happy Dozen Card Club at the home of Mrs. Luit Stam in Newell Heights Friday after noon. Mrs. Prosser was a prize winner. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Howes left Wednesday to take Susan to Rexburg where she will at tend Ricks College this se mester. They returned Thurs day evening. Tops Club 496 held their 2nd. birthday Monday with a low-calorie luncheon at the home of Mrs. Horace Chaney at 1 o’clock. There were eight members attending. Each brought something that weighed the same as the amount they had lost since joining. Mrs. Ben Witty had an interesting program. Mr. and Mrs. Noel Tuppeny have returned from a three weeks vacation spent in Den ver with relatives. Mrs. Edythe Prosser and Mrs. Dyre Roberts called on Mrs. Agnes McClure in Cald- well and Mrs. Anna Hamilton near Wilder Monday evening. Alex Callahan suffered a cut lip while playing on the school ground at Adrian Elementary Tuesday. Nancy Callahan drove him to a doctor for examination. Nancy Callahan is a student at the TVCC Art Class being held Tuesday afternoons at the Adrian Cafeteria.
