The Nyssa Gate City Journal, Nyssa, Oregon
HALLOWEEN HINTS Farming Still An Art
Despite Rapid Changes
Halloween ia lhe perfect time
to broaden the scope of your
children s understanding of fire
THIS TRANQUIL SCENE ON THE OWYHEE
river was taken
from
the bridge on
Highway 201 between Nyssa and Adrian.
Favorite Foods
To continue with breakfast
ideas--breakfasts are important
for the welfare of the whole
family, so I’ll include more
ideas this week.
When your car runs out of
gas, you refuel and it goes
happily on its way. You need
gas in the morning for “go
power”.
Variety is the spice of life
so if your children say “not
that again", change the menu
once in a while.
Fiesta eggs are good to serve
at any meal but they are es­
pecially welcome for breakfast
for a “stick to the ribs” food.
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The trees in their autumn colors made a
pretty sight reflected in the still waters.
STREUSEL COFFEE CAKE
1/4 cup salad oil or melted
shortening
2 beaten eggs
1/2 cup milk
1 1/2 cups sifted all-purpose
flour
3/4 cup sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 recipe Topping
Combine salad oil, egg and
milk.
Sift together dry in-
gredients; add to milk mixture;
mu well. Pour into greasea
9x9x2 inch pan.
TOPPING: Combine 1/4 cup
brown sugar, 1 tablespoon flour,
I teaspoon cinnamon, 1 table­
spoon melted butter, and 1/2
cup broken nuts, sprinkle over
batter.
Bake in moderate oven (375
degrees) about 25 minutes or till
done. Serve warm.
Whenever I want an espe­
cially good dressing on a tossed
salad in a restaurant. I order
Roquefort, (It doesn't always
taste like it should but I take
a chance.)
When I make it at home I
know it will be good because
1 use the following recipe. I
hope you’ll like it.
ROQUEFORT DRESSING
3/4 cup buttermilk
2 cups mayonnaise
1 cup sour cream
2 tablespoons minced chives or
green onion tops
i tblsp. green pepper chopped
i 3 oz. package Roquefort or
Blue Cheese (more if desi­
red)
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder or
2 buds garlic, chopped
Place all ingredients in blen­
der or Electric Mixer bowl and
blend until smooth. Store in
covered jar in Refrigerator.
Serve on Salad Greens.
safety Here, from the Hartford
Insurance Group s Junior Fire
Marshal program, are some
Halloween precautions for you
to observe and teach
I No public bonfire celebra­
tions unless under the control of
the Fire Department
2. Use flashlights, not can­
dles. to light jack-o-Unterns
3. Never cover light bulbs
with paper or other flammable
material.
4 All paper and cloth used for
decorations should be fire
resistant.
5. Keep corn husk decorations
away from any fire and spray
them with fireproofing liquid.
6 Use only fire-proof paper or
cloth for costumes
To make cloth flame-resistant,
dip the fabric in a solution
consisting of 9 ounces of Borax
and 4 ounces of bone acid mixed
in a gallon of water Hang fabric
to dry after dipping Fabric
must be re-treated after
laundering
Talk about rapid changes in
agriculture has become almost
a cliche.
However, the fact remains
that how well current farmers
meet the changes now occurring
and how their adaptability af­
fects their ability and desire to
continue farming will determine
who is the farmer of tomorrow
as well as the basic character
of the agricultural industry,
points out Robert Coppedge,
Oregon State University exten­
sion agricultural economist.
Agriculture, Coppedge be­
lieves, can tie defined as the
science and art of farming.
At times, it seems like science
is taking over farming as the
farmer seems to !*■ several
scientists--agronomist, plant
ill
pathologist,
biologist--
rolled into one.
But farming has yet to give
way completely to the me-
chanistic approach and much of
the art of farming remains.
In fact, Coppedge notes that
the art” may have gained in
importance as the farmer faces
the future now rather than later
as circumstances change ra­
pidly around him and as he
adapts and continues to find
in farming both a business and
a way of life.________________
"It is that survival quality
within a farmer which makes
farming
an art," Coppedge
stresses.
Although change in agricul­
ture has long been a favorite
topic for discussion, the list
is still formidable when pul-
led together,
the economist
adds.
The 1970 census lists only
6.4 per cent of Oregon's popu­
lation still living on farms in
comparison with 15 per cent
in 1950. Among those living
on farms, for many farming is
no longer their principle occu­
pation or source of income.
The decline in farm num­
bers has been reflected in les­
sening political power and in­
creasing urban problems have
diverted much attention from
agriculture.
At the same time, manv es­
tablished practices and con-
cepts in agriculture have be-
come the source of discussion
and controversy, Coppedge
notes. For instance, fertilizing
for bigger and better crops and
spraying for disease and in-
sect control are no longer un-
questioned practices.
The farmer himself is in-
creasmgly concerned with new
technology, new mat hu» s, hy-
PATROl MEN FOR THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER are Ro­
lando Ramos, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rosendo Ramos, 600 N.
7th Street, and Blllv McMillen, son of Mr. and Mrs. James
McMillen, 105 S. 5th Street.
The boys were honored with a trophy .nul < < rlifK .ite of Merit
for their work as junior patrolmen for the Nyssa Elementary
School.
brid plants and animals and a
rapidly growing body of agri­
cultural knowledge
The need to modernize to take
advantage of this know ledge ha>
been a contributing factor in
larger
capital investments,
growing farm mortgages, and
increasing credit problems in
the farm sector, he adds.
Mechanization has replaced
many farm laborers and those
left are organizing. Farmers
themselves are forming organi-
zed groups for various pur­
poses, mostly economic.
Farmers’ ability to adapt and
meet past challenges has been
well documented as fewer and
fewer on less and less land
are feeding a grow mg population
at prices which have not kept
up with the country's general
rate of inflation, Coppedge
stresses.
Coppedge believes that far­
mers will Continue to meet thv
callenges facing them today.
Herb Sei...
Here’s some food for thought.
FIESTA EGGS
2 tablespoons butter
Nothing, absolutely nothing
FRIENDSHIP SAUCE
2 tablespoons finely chopped
1 cup greetings, 1/2 cup either man made or produced
onion
smiles, 2 /3 cup love, 1 teas­ by nature is a permanent fix­
6 eggs
poon sympathy, 2 large hand­ ture. I have been thinking about
1/4 teaspoon salt
shakes, 2 cups of hospitality. the vanishing species and rea­
2 tablespoons light cream
Cream greetings and smiles lize there are many once fa­
I found recently that many
lz4 cup chopped fresh parsley
thoroughly.
Add handshakes, miliar sounds that we no lon­
1/2 cup grated Cheddar cheese people have not eaten broccoli. beaten separately.
Add love ger hear.
It
is
as
hard
to
raise
as
cab
­
1 cup diced cooked ham
Every fall the mountain vil­
slowly,
smiling
after
each ad­
Melt butter in skillet, add bage as it needs to be sprayed dition. Fold in sympathy and lages would hear the buzz saw
onion and saute until limp. Beat for bugs as it grows. Broccoli hospitality carefully. Saturate heralding the coming of winter
eggs with salt and cream. Pour is defined in the dictionary as your heart with this mixture as our neighbors cut their win­
into skillet andcook on low heat, “a variety of cabbage” or “a and serve generously to all ters supply of wood. The buzz
stirring frequently, until eggs dwarf cauliflower".
saw has given way to the snort­
Nutritionally broccoli rates friends and acquaintances.
are partially set. Add parsley,
ing power saw. We lost some­
higher
than
cabbage
because
of
cheese and ham; continue
thing nice to listen to.
cooking until eggs are desired it’s dark green color.
Speaking of something nice
When you combine broccoli
doneness. Makes 4 servings.
to listen to there will never be
with chicken and a few more
another sound like the steam
If you’re dieting, breakfast ingredients you have a tasty
whistle on a locomotive. Some
main
dish,
easy
to
prepare
and
is a must, It keeps you from
were better to listen to than
More than $82 million re-
getting too hungry the rest of filled with nutrients.
others.
They all had a per­
venue was derived from re-
the day and from piecing be­
sonality and the worst was bet­
the
sources
administered
by
CHICKEN-BROCCOLI
tween meals. A bit of advice,
ter than the honk of the air
Bureau of Land Management
CASSEROLE
‘‘Eat breakfast like a king,
horn on today’s diesels. Not
in Oregon and Washington du­
lunch like a prince, and dinner i pkg. frozen broccoli
so nice to listen to but a sound
i
ring
fiscal
year
1972.
This
chicken,
stewed,
boned
and
cut
like a pauper".
all of its own was the clanking
was
an
increase
of
over
$10
UP
If the family says “1 don’t
of the drive rods on engine when
have time in the morning” of­ 1 can cream of chicken soup million over fiscal year 1971. the train was stopping at
1/4
cup
mayonnaise
The
Bureau
of
Land
Manage
­
fer them Streusel Coffee Cake
station.
ment sold timber valued at
and I’ll bet they "take time’’ 1 tbsp, lemon juice
I guess what really got
$66 million; reforested 19,437
to eat. Mix the dry ingredi­ 1/4 tsp. curry
thinking about sounds was
1/2
tsp.
accent
acres
by
seeding
and
planting
ents in one bowl and the moist
memory of the natatorium at
(in addition to natural regene­
ingredients in another bowl the sharp cheese, grated.
Boise. Kids laughing and shout­
Cook broccoli. Place in bot­ ration); leased 14 million acres ing in that covered pool sounded
evening before
and combine
tom
of
an
8x8
casserole.
Cover
for
livestock
grazing,
plus
pro
­
them in the morning. The top­
different than they do today in
ping can also be made ahead with chicken. Mix next 5 ingre­ viding forage for more than a the open pools we now have.
of time. I used to set the au­ dients and pour over chicken. quarter of a million big game It must have been certain echos
tomatic timer on the oven when Cover with cheese and buttered animals, and provided recrea­ off the water. 1 don’t know just
the family was growing up. bread crumbs. Sprinkle with tional opportunities for nearly what it was but I sort of like
■Where there’s a will, there’s paprika. Bake at 350 degrees 10.5 million visitors to BLM to remember the happy yelling
lands.
for 35 minutes. Serves 6.
a way.”
and splashing of many little
Timber sales payments to boys and girls. Of course one
western Oregon’s 1« O i C thing you cculdn’t hear but has
counties for fiscal year 1972 long gone is the ridiculous batn-
total $37.7 million.
ing suit we used to wear. The
These statistics and more cloth in one of those suits could
are contained in a 22-page provide material for 2 dozen
booklet called BLM FACTS, of todays swimming apparel.
just published by the Oregon
When we came out of the hills
State office of the Bureau of to Boise we stayed at the Bris­
Land Management.
tol Hotel. This hotel was just
The Bureau of Land Manage­ a block from the depot and had
ment resurveyed 337 miles of lots of traffic. Every morning
federal land lines, issued 46 you were awakened by the flop­
right of way permits, built 354 ping of horses hoofs hauling
miles and maintained 4,301 beer and other delightful items
miles of permanent roads, and down to the train. That’s just
exchanged 18,488 acres of land another sound gone by the way­
for 17,599 acres to improve side.
land ownership patterns and
Why all this blather about old
facilitate management.
sounds? If we had considered
State
Director Archie D. sounds in the category of
Craft said that publication of vanishing
species a lot of
BLM FACTS is one means em­ changes would have never been
ployed by the Bureau of Land made.
This may or may not
Management to inform the pub­ have been for the good but I
lic
about
management of doubt if our grandchildren would
resources on 16 million acres really find much pleasure in
of BLM land in Oregon and
listening to a buzz saw.
Washington.
BLM Eacts
Published
VOTf FOR IX
OSCAR B.BRATTON
“THERE’S NO SUBSTITUTE
FOR EXPERIENCE*
MALHEUR
What Cascade is doing about gas supply
WE AKE DISTRIBUTORS OF NATURAL (JAS that is pnxluced
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and transmitted to this area by others. We have no pari in exploration
for or the transmission of the fuel from its sources. Then what can
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Cascade do alxiut the supply situation? Several things —and we arc
doing them. For example, within the past year we have spent over one
million dollars for the installation of a computerized telemetering sys-
tem that enables us to buy gas from our supplier under what the in-
dustry calls a combined-billing plan, instead of taking delivery at some
50 separate gate stations, as we did previously. This means money
saved for consumers and. happily, it also results in an increased allot-
COUNTY
ment of gas available to us. In addition we are researching with neigh-
ASSESSOR
bor gas companies the feasibility of a joint-venture liquefied natural
« Oscar Bratton believe in equity in taxation regard­
less of your community,
status
financial or political
* Has 8 1/2 years experience in assessment evaluation,
2 1/2 years as Chief Appraiser for Malheur County.
Certified by the State of Oregon in Rural and Urban
Appraising.
27 college credits in appraisal and real estate.
« Holder of an Oregon Appraisal Brokers License.
• Resident of Malheur County for 36 years.
YOUR VOTE
WOULD BE APPRECIATED
Paid For By Oscar B. Bratton
Route 1, Box 363, Ontario, Oregon 97914
SPAGHETTI DINNER
AND
CARNIVAL
gas plant. And for immediate use in one of our larger Districts (Yak-
ima) we are spending almost another million dollars on a propane-air
plant to supplement the natural gas supply in that area.
SPONSORED BY
NYSSA PTA
OCTOBER 28, 1972
DINNER -5-8 P.M.
CARNIVAL 6-9 P.M.
Adults - $1.00 - Ages
Family Ticket - $4.00
Under 6 FREE
J
O. Marshall Jonen, President
G cu. Conpofiaiiotb
Distributors of Naturalgasatisfaction
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