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.