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Thursday, July 6, 1972 Th» Nyssa Gota -City Journal, Nyssa, Or»gon Speaking of Books ‘sX OUT OF I THE PAST 10 YEARS AGO Mrs. William Peutz received her U.S. citizenship papers in Vale last week. She was mar ried to William Peutz at her home town in West Germany. » » ♦ Opening date will be around July 20 for the new Kerby- Danford Clinic located at Third Street and Good Avenue, it was announced by Drs. K.E.Kerby and K.A.Danford. Contractors Holcomb and Main have told the physicians that the new $75,000 clinic should be com pleted and ready for occupancy at that time. 20 YEARS AGO A new business in Nyssa is Schoen’s Portraits, a photo graphic studio located a half block south of the City Hall on Third Street. RonaldSchoen, manager, will specialize in por trait and commercial photo graphy. * * * Local residents and the town blossomed out Tuesday in full Rodeo regalia to call attention to the 6th Nyssa Nite Rodeo which opens next Thursday for a three night show. * * * Ken Renstrom of Nyssa was ’ elected state treasurer of the £agles Lodge last week at the state convention held in Albany. 50 YEARS AGO Within a short time the county will open a new road from Little Valley to Harper and shorten the distance from Vale to Harper from five to six miles, according to a decision reached by the county court at Vale last week. Harper and Vale people have been contending for this short cut for a long time and are well pleased with the court’s decision. Some of the worst road from Harper to the county seat will be cut out by the new route and it will be a comparatively short drive be tween the two cities when the road in completed. * * * Approximately 40 persons were killed and 250 injured in the country’s Fourth of July celebration, according to re ports to the United Press. ♦ * * Three young ladies won prizes in the ticket selling contest put on by the Chau tauqua Association, in an effort to raise the amount guaranteed Ellison-White fora 5-dayChau- tauqua. Winners are Miss Thelma Thompson, first prize, a beauti ful wrist watch $25; Miss Edna Dennis, second prize, a wrist watch worth $20; and Miss Jaunita Biglow, third re ceived a lavalliere worth $5. 30 YEARS AGO The story of how one mother and four children, a family at the local labor camp, made $95 BY AVO MUELLER in one week, was told here PHONE 372-2733 today by Clair Barrett, manager. ARCADIA — Mr. and Mrs. The family made $95 finishing the thinning of a field of beets Jim Clark and daughter Sharon and hoeing. At the present from Souix City, Iowa and Mrs. time, there are 84 workers out Clark’s mother, Mrs. Ruth of 160 persons in the camp, Meyers from Portland were overnight guests June 29 in including children. * * * the home of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Prospects indicate that the Houston. They were enroute to Malheur County Fair, scheduled Portland taking Mrs. Meyers for September will be cancelled. home after a visit with the The fair will be cancelled be Clarks. Mrs. Meyers is an cause of war conservation aunt of Mrs. Houston. Sgt. Ray Carroll from Mc pressure. Cord Air Base at Tacoma, Washington arrived June 30, 40 YEARS AGO for the long weekend with his The San Diego Fruit and Pro parents Mr. and Mrs. Henry duce Company shipped twenty- Carroll. two carloads of peas to mar Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Houston ket last week, making a total and Mr. and Mrs. Chet Shaw of 72 cars to date. Warm from Nyssa visited Mr. and July weather is maturing the Mrs. Roy Shaw at Fruitland crop rapidly. Several hundred Sunday afternoon. pickers and packers are now employed in order that the peas Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Houston may be shipped when they are attended the 25th Anniversary tn their prime. party for Mr. and Mrs. Tom It is estimated that the pea Farley June 29 at *heir home in fields near Nyssa, Apple Valley Ontario. and Parma will crop 85 car Mark and Travis Smith from loads this season. • * * Boise are visitlag their grand Two and one makes three, parents this week, Mr. and Mrs. and a two-cent stamp and a Evertt Edmonson. one-cent stamp will surfice for Mr. and Mrs. George Moeller ode first class letter under the new postal rate requirement Mrs. FredNormanandScott and ■which goes into effect July 6, Lance visited Mr. and Mrs. Ro according to Dean Smith, post bert Frost and family at Pioneer master here. The present on the Oregon Slope Sunday af one and two cent stamps will ternoon. Mrs. E. J. Marqvardt and be as good as the new three- oent stamps which will be issued children left June 29 for their tiy the postoffice department. home in Everett, Washington after a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Carroll. CHRISTIAN WOMEN Mrs. Don Bullard, Steven and SCHEDULE MEETING Kristi went to Meridian Monday where they will stay in the home FOR JULY 12 of Mr. and Mrs. George Bayack, ' The Christian Women’s Club so Mrs. Bullard can visit her have re-scheduled their meet father E. L. McCrady who had ing for Wednesday, July 12, due open heart surgery on Monday to the July 4th holiday. The in Boise. Mr. and Mrs. Otis Bullard and buffet luncheon meeting will lie held at 1 p.m. at the La Alan Bullard left Sunday for Paloma Cafe in Ontario. Theme McCall, where they will spend df the meeting will be “Keep a week at their summer home there. Your Flag A Flying”. Amy Stradley visited Mrs. ; Xassel Youngberg, home maker from Boise will be guest Frone Stradley Sunday, July 2, speaker. There will be spe in Fruitland. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Saun cial music by Judy Nielson, ders and Larry camped at vocalist from Nyssa. ' ’ A free nursery will be pro Brownlee Dam over the 4th. Richard McLauchlin from vided at the First Baptist Church in Ontario. All inter Condon, Oregon visited over the ested women are cordially in 4th with John Seburn, and Goldie vited to attend and should call Roper and Mr. and Mrs. Dick Corn and Bruce. ¿89-6656 for reservations. This week for your summer recreational reading, may I suggest and recommend two books dealing with the occult. Most of you readers are aware that the United States is in the midst of adventure with the occult--witchcraft, satanism, etc. If you feel that this is a “way out” statement, then I suggest that you recall some of the leading movies of this past school year that have dealt with witchcraft, satanism, exor cism, ghosts, and ghost-hunting. The first book that I would like to suggest for your readnig is THE OTHER by Thomas Tryon. The reader of THE OTHER is swept up in the life of a Connecticut country town in the 30’s and in the fearful mysteries that slowly darken and over- whelm it. Two brilliant figures stand at the center of the narrative: the handsome young twin sons of an old and respected family-- Niles and Holland Perry, complicated, secretive boys, bound together in the intense fidelity of twinship. In their strangely imaginative games, for which the ancient barn and dungeon- G ra phoanalysis By ELLEN JONES It doesn’t matter which hand or foot you use in writing. Your personality picture will be the same, even if you write by holding a brush or pen in your teeth. Illustration #1 was written by a naturally left-handed per son in the usual manner from left to right and using the right hand. Illustration #2, the mirror writing, waswrittenby the same person using the left hand and writing from right to left. Both show rhythm, explora tory thinking, practical goals, organizational ability, attention to detail, generosity and many other traits. By using a mirror to view #2 it is possible to compare the similarity of strokes in “t” crossings indicating goals, the balanced “f” showing organi zational ability, careful dotting of "i”, indicating attention to detail. ARCADIA WELCOME RODEO FANS I Banquets, parties, Family Night Feted By TVCBP Women The Treasure Valley Busi ness and Professional Womens Council will hold their annual Family Night July 11, at the Boulevard Grange, Cairo Junc tion, near Ontario. There will be a buffet dinner at 7:30 p.m. Reservations must be made no later than July 9, by contacting Mrs. Shirley Mat thews, 889-5907. There will be a charge of $2.00 p>r plate. The special feature this month will be presented by Mr. Gary Sant of Nyssa. Sant builds and flies model airplanes and will display some of his planes and explain some of the many in- teresting facts about this ra pidly growing hobby. The dinner speaker will be Boise homemaker Mrs. Cassel Youngberg and music will be by the Haney trio of Nyssa. The public is cordially in vited to attend. in our dining room. BUY-SEMBFHIRL Brownie's Cafe 113 Main St. Nyssa like apple cellar serve as temple and stage, the dark-natured Holland dominates. Yet it is Niles, gentle and loving, who is gifted in the strangest game, an almost mystic game of em pathy with all living creatures, which their adored grandmother, Ada, learned as a girl and has taught them. So far from this description, the novel sounds very tame and domestic, but little by little as the games of boyhood are played, and the usual rumors, conflicts, and attachments of large families in small towns occupy and distract the Perry household, as the twins’ elegant and fragile mother almost imperceptibly recedes into her private world of lending library romance, as the grandmother labors to nurture and guide her loved ones, a cloud gathers and descends over them all, until suddenly the family, the whole town, is shaken and bewildered by the advent of a horrifying series of inexplicable deaths and disasters. I would be very foolish to tell you more about the story for in doing so I would ruin the suspense and the psychological horror story. Suffice it to say, that Mr. Tryon has written a psychological story with lyric skill and spiritual strength which will impress the reader and hold him as much as its central revelation of evil will appall him. The novel in many ways reminded me of a 19th century classic story of evil written by Henry James: THE TURN OF THE SCREW. Many of you will recall the motion picture version which was shown on television last year. The other book that 1 would like briefly to mention is titled THE EXORCIST by William Peter Blatty. This novel too deals with terror, terror in a different sort of way from that which is narrated in THE OTHER. In the case of THE EXORCIST the story deals with a young ster who is possessed with the spirit of evil in terms of transmigration of souls. The novel reads rapidly and I found myself gripped by the narration and yet repelled by the story and the use of vulgarities. Nevertheless, if you are interested in a fast-paced exciting and terrifying story, may I suggest Hundreds of people have obviously enjoyed the EXORCIST. THE EXORCIST because there are more than 200,000 copies in hardback; the paperback is just out which will attract many more readers and it is soon to become a major motion picture. At this time the book is a little more than a year old and has remained on the top ten best seller list.