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The Sugar City
VOLUME LXVI
The Nyssa Gate City Journal, Nyssa, Oregon
Thursday, November 2, 1972
Thunderegg Capital
XL IV
EIGHT CANDIDATES FOR NYSSA CITY COUNCIL
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Fred E. Bennett
OWNER
TWILIGHT CAFE
I have lived and believed in
Nyssa since 1935, believe in a
rural community, and have been
in business in Nyssa most of
that time. During this time 1
have seen many changes.
I believe a firm foundation has
been built, and with a little
aggressive action and progres­
sive thoughts we can build a
better town and serve our com­
munity in a better way.
If elected I am willing to
work towards that end.
Dale G. Bishop
CHF MIST
AMALGAMATED SUGAR CO.
I am running for City Coun­
cilman because I am interested
in this community, and have a
desire to serve.
If elected, I would like to
look at other well-plannedcom-
munitles for ideas and future
planning.
1 believe we can improve
on our parks, I also see a great
need for a truck route that would
get heavy congestion off of the
main street.
As a first venture into public
service, I will accept and listen
to all ideas for betterment of
city government.
Melvin L. Calhoun
TEACHER
NYSSA HIGH SCHOOL
Basically, I am running for
City Councilman because se­
veral people have asked me to
run. I feel that everyone should
serve his community in a public
service capacity if given the
opportunity.
One of my gripes is that I
don’t think our police depart­
ment should be a training ground
for other cities, the State Pa­
trol, or other law enforcement
agencies.
When we do get a
well-trained police officer, it
seems we always lose him to
some larger force which pays
more money.
William W. Keeney
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Ward C. Lundy
Don Oldemeyer
LOAN OFFICER
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
SALESMAN
AGRONOMIST
JOHANNESEN-ADAMS MOTOR.’ AMALGAMATED SUGAR CO.
1 was appointed to the City
Council to serve out the term
of Tom Stenkamp. I have been
exposed to some of the city
problems in this brief period,
plus my years of service on the
City Planning Commission.
I am interested in running for
1 am running for re-election
the City Council
because I as a City Councilman to help
think there are some areas of do my part to serve my com­
the city that can be improved. munity.
I think there will be changes
and growth in the future, and
I will help to continue this
orderly development.
Nyssa is a good city, and I
will do my best to see that It
continues in a progressive and
orderly manner if re-elected.
The approaches to the city are
very dirty, and I think they can
be cleaned up. I also think we
can have better maintenance in
our parks.
I will also do my best to see
If elected, I will do my best
I will work to continue low that funds received from Fe­ to see that Nyssa continues as
costs in city government, and deral Revenue Sharing will be a good place to live, and per­
think improvements can be used to the best advantage of haps improvements can come
made with our present staff, our people, preferably after from people with new or dif­
and at no increase in taxes. public hearings.
ferent ideas.
Nyssa Chamber of Commerce
Nyssa, Oregon.
Dear Sirs
During my vacation last sum­
mer my family and 1 visited
Nyssa for the first time. We
■aw much evidence that your
community is progressing and
wide-awake.
We were impressed with the
manner in which your “Rock
Show” was organized and pre­
sented early in August. We
were pleased, too, with the
friendly attitude most of your
merchants displayed toward
strangers.
So, since it appears to me
that your community is ge­
nuinely interested in attracting
more business, 1 want to tell
you of my experience near
Nyssa in mid-August.
My family and 1 are Just
becoming Interested in “Rock­
hounding’ and we visited two
of the areas near your com­
munity. On the way out from
one of the locations our pick­
up decided not to run anymore.
1 had to leave my wife and dau­
ghter alone in our camper right
The Oregon State Highway
Commission today approved two
Federal-aid Secondary pro­
jects, one each in Malheur and
Union counties, at a total cost
of $350,000, of which $70,000
will be the cost to the State.
Malheur County’s request is
for a bridge over the Owyhee
River on Overstreet Road, FAS
23-125, about four miles west
of Adnan. This project includes
a reinforced concrete bridge
on new alignment, with a 32-
foot roadway and no sidewalks.
Approaches and connections
will have two 12-foot travel
lanes and four-foot shoulders.
Riprap and guardrails are in­
cluded in the contract. The
Six Eile For
Adrian Council
MAIN STREET, NYSSA, as seen from the top of the sugar storage silos of Amalgamated Sugar Company, 180 feet high.
all members of your Chamber
would be interested in knowing
of Mr. Castor for I’m sure we
are not the only strangers who
have been befriended by him.
—Very truly yours,
Harold C. Powell,
Preparation and feeding of si­
15820 S. E. 4th St.,
lage and high moisture grain
Bellevue, Wash. 98008
will be emphasized at a live­
stock nutrition meeting, No­
vember 8 according to George
Ba.n, County Extension Agent.
The meeting will be held in
the West Wing of the Adminis­
tration building on the Trea­
sure Valley Community Col­
lege campus starting at 1 30
p.m. says Bain.
During the afternoon session
Joh Dahman, superintendent of
the University of Idaho Experi­
ment Station in Caldwell will
discuss
research
findings
working with silage at the sta­
tion. His talk will be followed
by a panel discussion on pre­
paration and feeding of silage
materials including
Sudan grass silage by Oran
Raburn of Jordan Valley, hay
silage by John Turner of Ore­
gon Slope; Corn silage forwea-
ner calves by John Pugh of Bro­
gan, and beet (op silage by Mark
Hartley of Nyssa. Lorin Munn
of Nyssa will discuss his hand­
ling of high moisture grain and
his evaluation of it as a con­
centrate in his beef fattening
ration.
The panel discussion will be
followed by a talk covering
Livestock Feeding Subject
Of November 8 Meeting
WEATHER
HOMECOMING
ACTIVITIES
FRIDAY
afternoon Included a parade downtown by the
entire student body, led by the band, as seen
In the top photo, and a pep rally at Thunder-
OWNER
OLYMPIC CLUB
I feel that we have a good
little town, and a few changes
can be made to make it better.
I would like to see a little
more business development,
and more encouragement for
more new enterprise, and more
new housing. 1 would like to
see zoning for mobile homes
in specific areas.
If elected I will work hard
for what I feel is the best
interests of Nyssa.
Highway Department
Approves Owyhee Bridge
Appreciate Hospitality
in the middle of the narrow
dirt road where it stopped and
made my way to the nearest help
which happened to be at the
Owyhee
Lake
Junction on
Hwy. 201.
Having had a bad experience
In another state, where the fee
would almost
have bought
the tow truck, I thought I’d ask
someone for the name of a
reputable garage. 1 went to the
Owyhee Rock Shop (although 1
knew no one there) and asked
Harold Castor if he could re­
commend a good garage or
mechanic. Mr. Castor offered
to drop what he was doing and
at least tow me into his shop,
thus saving me some ten miles
or so of commercial towing
charges. I accepted and on the
way in, my pickup started again.
Please understand that we had
been absolutely at the mercy of
any unscrupulous person who
may have wanted to take ad­
vantage
of our
situation.
Instead, the first person we con­
tacted was willing to go far out
of his way to help us even
though we were perfect stran­
gers!
You should know that, while
we enjoyed the other aspects
of our visit to Nyssa, what will
keep us coming back (and,
of course, doing business with
your merchants) is integrity and
friendliness of people like Ha­
rold Castor. 1 would think that
SERVICE MAN­
CASCADE NATURAL GAS
I am interested in seeing that
the city offers a better appea­
rance, and that we can do every­
thing possible to make Nyssa
If elected I will continue to a better place to live.
I am interested in good city
see that the city will provide
adequate services to the ci­ government, and will work for
tizens, holding taxes to a mini­ what I think is best for the City
of Nyssa.
mum.
Nyssa Visitors
(Editor’s Note) This is the
kind of a letter, recently re­
ceived by the Nyssa Chamber,
that is a pleasure to print. We
hope that all our visitors re­
ceive this kind of considerate
treatment, andean speak so well
of our community.
Marion R. Tracy
•>gg Mail, led by Nyssa High School cheer­
leaders Leann Bair, Trish Wahlert and
Lillian Moore. Not shown are pani Stephens
and Rex Schilling.
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Nov. 1
Owyhee Reservoir Storage
10/30/72 448,000 Acre Feet
10/30/71 472,980 Acre Feet
Treasure Valley feedlot di-
seases conducted by a valley
veterinarian.
All interested persons are
invited to attend
Bain says.
There is no cost or pre-re-
gistratlon required.
PARADE OF HOMES
The second annual “Parade
of Homes” will be held Sa­
turday, November 18, accord­
ing to Mrs. Bob Wilson. This
fund raising event is sponsored
by the Malheur Memorial Hos­
pital Auxiliary.
This year, homes listed on
the tour are Wilton Jackson,
Rod Holcomb; Jim Grunke and
Houston W ilson.
Refreshments will be ser­
ved at the Houston Wilson home.
Further details will appear
in next weeks paper.
Historical Society
To Meet Nov. 9
The Malheur Country His­
torical Society will hold a din­
ner meeting Thursday, Novem­
ber 9 at the Eastside Cafe,
beginning at 7 p.m.
Speaker will be Keith Clark,
co-author of the book “Terrible
Trail,”
an account of the
Meeker expedition. It is also
possible that his partner and
co-author, Lowell Tiller, will
be present and will show slides.
An election will also be held
that night for the coming year.
Nominated are president, John
Gaskill, vice president,Charles
Swan, secretary, Marilyn Goul,
treasurer, Charles Bernard,
board of directors, Joe Beach,
Burrell Lovell, Tracy Mefford
and outgoing president Mike
Hanley.
BLM Advisory
r
Board Elected
Two new members were elec­
ted and another re-elected for
three year terms to the ad­
visory board of the Vale Dis­
trict, Bureau of Land Manage­
ment, in district-wide elections
held recently. George R. Gurr,
district manager, said Domingo
Urquiaga, Arock, and Thomas
Dowell, Princeton, were elec­
ted to represent the Central
and Southern Resource Areas,
respectively, and Richard Rus­
sell, Vale, was returned to re­
present the Northern Resource
Area.
Dr. Robert Keveren,
Vale, was re-appointedtoaone-
year term as district wildlife
representative.
Gurr said that with the in­
creasing demand by the public
for use of public lands, func­
tions of the advisory board are
becoming
additionally
im­
portant. Duties include provid­
ing
recommendations
and
advice relating to grazing ad­
ministration and associated
matters, as well as multiple
use management programs con­
cerning Bl.M’s 4.6 million
acres of public lands in the Vale
District.
SAM HARTLEY
CHAMBER SPEAKER
Sam Hartley, Republican can­
didate for County Commis­
sioner, was the speaker at the
regular meeting of the Nyssa
Chamber of Commerce Wed­
nesday noon at Brownie’s Cafe.
Hartley is running for the po­
sition being vacated by Henry
Esplin.
Plans were discussed for the
annual feed to be put on by the
chamber for area residents.
W. L. Me Partland is chairman
of the event, with plans to be
announced more fully next week.
Six candidates for Adrian
City Council will be on the ballot
at the November 7 election for
three positions.
In addition to Incumbents
Glenn Ward, Vernon E. Parker
and W.W. Looney, who are run­
ning for re-election, are the
names of James Johnson, My­
ron Gossard and Clarence E.
"Clay“ Webb.
State will make the survey and
provide the plans.
The request by Union County
involves a structure, grading
and surfacing of the Grande
Rcnde River (Stanley Lane)
Bridge Section of Federal-aid
Secondary route, FAS 31-114,
about five miles east of Alicel.
Project plans call for a rein­
forced ebnerete bridge with a
32-foot roadway and guardrail.
The county will remove the
existing bridge, construct ap­
proaches, place
riprap, and
provide detour routes.
Administrator
Assumes Duties
Gale M. Christensen assumed
the post of administrator of
Malheur
Memorial Hospital
Wednesday, November 1, after
serving in the same capacity
at Santiam Memorial Hospital
in Stayton since January 1,
1961.
He is taking the place
of Ernest King, who resigned
September 11.
County Receives
Highway Funds
The Oregon State Highway
Commission today announced
distribution of $7,005,038.84 in
highway-user tax funds to the
36 counties of the state.
The allocation is based on
the statutory 20 percent for the
period of July 1 through Sep­
tember 30, 1972.
The funds
come
from the following
sources:
motor vehicle re­
gistration and operators’ li­
cense fees, gasoline tax, use
fuel tax, motor carrier fees,
and fines and penalties collec­
ted for violation of the size
and weight statutes wherecom-
plaints are made by the High­
way Division weighmasters.
The allocation to each county
is based on the number of ve­
hicles registered in it. The al­
location for Malheur County is
$89,158.38 based on 20,831 ve­
hicles.
GALE M. CHRISTENSEN
Christensen has been secre­
tary-treasurer of the Oregon
Association of Hospitals, and
is now serving as that associa­
tion’s vice president.
Born and educated in Neb­
raska, Christensen came to
Oregon in 1948.
He and his
wife Joyce are now living at
506 N. 4th Street. Their two
sons are grown.
Tony, the
elder, is with Boise Cascade
Corporation, in Michigan, and
Tim is with the Stayton Can­
ning Company.
Area Sugarbeet Growers
Receive 1971 Settlement
The Treasure Valley Region
of Idaho and Oregon is getting
a $2,800,000 boost to its farm
economy this week. Sugarbeet
growers are receiving that
amount in checks mailed from
The Amalgamated Sugar Com­
pany, producer of White Satin
sugar, for final payment on 1.5
million ton 1971 beetcrop grown
in Treasure Valley.
According to Vice President
of Agriculture, H. D. Zobell,
glowers received an average of
$15.58 per ton for their sugar­
beets delivered last (all in the
Nyssa-Nampa Factory area.
With
the conditional pay­
ment from the Government
under the provisions of the
Sugar Act, this brings the years
total average payment for Trea­
sure Valley sugarbeet growers
to $17.77 per ton. The per ton
payment varied with the sugar
content of the beets delivered
by each grower.
This week’s payment brings
Amalgamated's total payout for
the Treasure Valley crop to
$23.3 million. Growers had re­
ceived an initial payment In
November during the harvest
operations, and an Interim pay­
ment in April. This completes
the Company’s crop settlement
to its Treasure Valley growers.