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Nyssa Gate City Journal
66th Year, 49th Issue
The Sugar City
Nyssa, Oregon
Thursday, December 7, 1972
MALHEUR COUNTY RANKS
SECOND IN AGRICULTURAL
INCOME IN OREGON
NYSSA INVITATIONAL
WRESTLING TOURNAMENT
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
The Nyssa Invitational
Wrestling Tournament, which
promises to be the largest ever
held in Nyssa and the Treasure
Valley, will be held this week
end at the Nyssa High School
gym. This will be the seventh
annual
tournament
with 25
teams expected to compete with
over 250 wrestlers.
Mel Calhoun, Nyssa wrestling
coach, is director of the tourna
ment which will start Friday
afternoon and continue through
Saturday evening. Three mats
will be used with continuous
action until the finals.
Idaho schools expec ted to par
ticipate are Boise, Borah,Capi
tal, Bishop Kelly, Nampa,( ahi
well. Meridian, Vallivue, Pay
ette, Weiser, Emmett, Middle
ton, Homedale, McCall-Don
nelly, New Plymouth, Fruitland,
Kuna, Parma, Cambridge and
Midvale.
Burns, Woodburn,
Halfway and Nyssa will repre
sent
Oregon,
and Yakima,
Washington will be present.
Tournament
champions in
past years are Parma, 1966,
Capital, 1967, Nyssa, 1968, On
tario, 1969, Caldwell, 1970. and
Nyssa won the tournament again
in 1971.
Many wrestlers who have
wrestled and placed in state
competition in Oregon and Idaho
will compete. Wrestlers wh<
won in last year’s tournament
IXyssa Police
Break Ip Party
Eight Juveniles, part of an
estimated crowd of about 40,
were arrested by Nyssa City
Police Saturday night as police
broke up a drinking party in
a loral home.
Police said ttiat the youths’
parents were not on the pre
mises al (J k - time of the in
cident and when police raided
the dwelling, most of the party
managed to elude custody.
The six juveniles
appre
hended. all under age 18 years,
have hadtheir cases turnedover
to Malheur County juvenile au
thorities.
Tliose over 18, arrested on
charges i>t tieing minors in
possession of alcoholic beve
rages, were Gilbert Flores, 18,
and Charles Grijalva, 19, both
of Nyssa.
Flores and Grijalva, appea
red before Magistrate A.C.
Sallee Monday morning plead
guilty, and were each fined$37.
A recognition dinner for Lu
ther Fitch who has been Malheur
Experiment Station Agronomist
for many years will be held
on December II.
Mr. Fitch
has accepted a position at Her
miston, Oregon in Extension.
He will begin on his new job
December 15.
Luther Fitch lias provided
continuous assistance to grow
ers in Malheur county formally
years. His farm production as
sistance has contributed much
to making this area a nation
ally recognized agricultural
producing area.
Malheur County ranks No. two
in Oregon Agricultural Income-
Malheur County’s estimated
agricultural
income of
(63,141,000 showed an increase
of 217«
over last year’s
(52,165,000, according to Ray
Novotny,
County
Extension
Agent.
Only Marion County
exceeds Malheur, with Umatilla
County third.
Crop production income in
creased from the $28.3 million
of last year to a $37.5 million
gross return. Novotny went on
to say that significant increases
were noted in almost all areas
of agricultural production. He
emphasized that the total live
stock business increased from
$23.8 million in ‘71 to $25.9
million in ‘72 or a 9r< increase.
Increases over 1971 noted by
Novotny were, grain$2.5 to$3.1
million, hay and silage $2.4 to
$3.1 million gross and legume
seed $1.53 to $1.9 million.
Onions showed a whopping $5.5
million increase over last year
or a $12 million total. Pota
toes, mint, hops and sugar beets
showed a $6.9 million business
in 1971 and $9.6 million in ‘72.
Horticultural crops
showed
slightly declining figures, No
votny states.
Processed sweet corn stood
at $1.1 million with other vege
table crops adding up to a total
$1.13 business.
The livestock business which
represents 40T( of the total
county's estimated agricultural
business showed significant in
creases in almost all areas,
Novotnv emphasized.
who will be back include Hec
tor Cedillo, Vallivue, last
year’s winner at 115 and 4th
in the Idaho State Tournament,
Bus Baker, Capital, winner last
year at 130 and Idaho State
Champion.
Steve
Needs,
Nampa, winner at 157 last year.
Phil Wilman, Cambridge, who
was last year’s winner at 191
when he wrestled for Nyssa.
Scott Kido, Nyssa, who won last
year at 107 pounds, was in
jured at Ontario last week and
won’t compete.
Don Sappe
Nyssa, will also be out after
suffering an injury in the On
tario tournament.
Nyssa's probable line-up is
as follows: Sam Hartley 98,
Kent Cleaver 106, Tim Kane
IIS, io « S'lulling 123, Manuel
Perez 130, Bill Calhoun 136,
Kevin Adams 141, Tom Church
148, Dwight Calhoun 157, Bcott
Ableman 168, Curt Lords 178,
and Manuel Rosas 191. Coach
Calhoun said that this line-up
is subject to change as chal
lengers Vie for some of the
spots.
The tourney times and ses
sions are first session, 4 p.m.
Friday. Dec. 8. Second ses-
Bfaa, 9 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 11.
Third session, 2 p.m. Satur
day. Consolation and final ses
sion, 7 p.m. Saturday.
Prices for the tournament
are as follows Adults, ticket
for all sessions, $4.00, each
Students witt
session $1.25.
activity ticket, for all sessions
$1.50. each session, 50?
Memtiers of the Nyssa Lions
Club will assist school offi
cials with tickets and policing
the tournament, as they have
for each of the past several
years.
BLM Range
Conservationist
Dennis R. Dailey reported
for duty Monday, December 4,
as a range conservationist in
the Central Resource Area of
the Vale District. Bureau of
Land Management, George R.
Gurr, district manager, an
nounced this week.
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ORE-IDA CONTEST
Jim Kile, who was recently
assigned to First National Bank
of Oregon’s Nyssa branch as
general loan officer, has been
appointed assistant cashier, re
ported Manager Rod George.
Kile joined First National’s
PART OF THE CROWD OF 1800 who enjoyedthe free pancake
management training program feed last Friday evening, courtesy of the Nyssa Chamber of
in March 1971. He was assigned Commerce, can be seen in the large photo.
to the bank's regional staff as
In the small photos can be seen many of the workers. Upper
installment loan officer in Ja left shows Montie Burbank, Gale Christensen, Yutta Rankin,
nuary
1972 and transferred Dr. Jon Heitzman (back), Dick Butcher and Rev Bob Hutchinson
here as general loan officer on at the pancake griddle.
November 1.
He was graduated from St.
John (Wash.) High School and
received a degree in agricul-
tural economics at W ashington
State University.
TVCC Offers
Bookkeeping I!
This recognition dinner is
for those individuals in Mal
heur county and other areas to
show their appreciation to Mr.
Fitch for all the dr-voted work
he has done in behalf of this
areas agricultural production.
This will tie a no host dinner
to be held December 11 at 6 30
p.m. in the Boulevard Grange
Hal) near Cairo Junction.
If anyone desires to parti
cipate m this recognition din
ner for Mr. Fitch, they are
asked to call or contact the
Malheur Extension Office in
Ontario by Friday, December
8.
Beef cattle accounted for
$19.8 million, dairy $5.2 mil
lion, hogs $283,000, sheep and
wool $475,000 and other mis
cellaneous products added to the
grand total of $25.9 million.
The increased local agricul
tural economy will have a sig
nificant economic inmpact on
the local business sector, No
votny stated.
He went on to
say the agri-business complex
and related business area would
feel economic benefits with ge
neral optimism being felt in the
agricultural business by the
banking sector.
The figures recently released
are the estimated receipts com
piled by the County Extension
Staff, O.SU. Statistical Specia
lists, and local producers, dea
lers, and processors all adding
information to the final figures,
Novotny concluded.
NYSSA GIRL WINS
KILE RECEIVES
BANK PROMOTION
Recognition Dinner Set
For Malheur Agronomist
Ten Cents
Thunderegg Capital
The Business Department of
Treasure Valley Community
College will offer an evening
course in Bookkeeping II during
Winter Term.
It will meet in th«- Admini
stration Building from 7 to 9
40 p.m., Mondays and Wednes
days, beginning January 8. This
course is a continuation of
Bookkeeping 1 and will be open
to those people who have com
pleted one quarter of college
bookkeeping or to those who
have one year of high school
training and can pass an ex
amination on basic principles.
Evening classes m typing
and shorthand may also tie sche
duled If enough requests for
them are directed to the Busi
ness Department.
Cathryn Kunkel, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kunkel, won
best of show in the annual Ore-
Ida Christmas Card contest.
Cathryn is a freshman at Nyssa
High School and her prize is a
$75 savings bond, according to
Bob Divine, Ore-Ida training
director andcontest supervisor.
Upper right shows Dave Waldo, Andy Anderson and Jack Pittz
He said more than 100 draw
frying eggs.
ings were entered in this year’s
Lower
left shows
general chairman W.L. McPartland contest and seven of the entries
overseeing the serving line, with Ted Morgan, Boyd Wilson and
will go to Boise for final Ore-
Lee Dall.
Ida judging of semi-finalists
Lower right shows the big moment for the kids as Santa Claus
from Ontario, Burley and Boise.
visited with them and passed out candy canes.
The seven entries include the
best-of-show winner and first,
second and third place winners
in the senior and intermediate
divisions.
Potato Association
Holds Annual Meeting
Potato contracts were exa
mined at the annual meeting of
the Malheur Potato Bargaining
Association held Monday even
ing, December 4.
President
George Sadamori of Nyssa
chaired the evening meeting field
in the Eastside Cafe of Ontario.
Some 200 potato growers and
their wives were in attendance.
President Sadamori explained
the operation of contracts with
Ore-Ida Foods and the J R.
Siniplot Co. Starting w ith a base
price of $1.60 per hundred
weight. He showed how factors
of percent No. 1, percent 10
ounce weight potatoes, peicent
bruise free potatoes, and per
cent tare influence the final
price the grower receives for
his potatoes. In addition, Mr.
Sadamori told of the activities
of the directors and announced
that the Pacific CoastCopera
tive Bargaining and Marketing
Conference will be held in
Boise, Idaho on December 7 and
8.
The Malheur Potato Bar
gaining
Association «ill be
hosting the event.
Gary Leavitt of Ontario who
is manager for the state-fede
ral inspection office reported
on the operation of this office
in inspecting the many potatoes
consumed through the pro
cessing channels. He notedthat
bruising was again a factor.
Warren Henninger, Malheur
County Extension Agent, gave a
brief report on the operations
of a Translucent End Potato
Project.
He noted that 21
plots were involved in the ex
periment. Plots were located
from Mountain Home to Vale.
This project was initiated as a
result of some tubers having
an uneven amount of dry matter
and sugars in them, and as a
result the french fry frying
darker on one end. The study
centered around examining the
effects of moisture and ferti
lity on the processing qualities
of the potato. This project is
being conducted by the Univer
sity of Idaho with assistance
being provided by th- area
processors.
The following directors were
elected to the Malheur Potato
Bargaining Association Adrian
- Keith Tailman, re-elected;
Nvssa - S.P. Bybee, re-elec
ted; Vale - Jack Pressley, re
placing Darrell Standage, On
tario - Ken Wettstein, re-elec
ted. Harper - Laurel Amick re
placing Warren Friend and Ba
ker - Clyde Ward, re-elected.
Officers for the Association
»ill be elected at the direc
tors organizational meeting to
be held m the near future.
Bids Asked On
Highway Signs
The Oregon State Highway
Commission has called forbids
installing the new symbol-type
signs indicating “Wrong Way"
and "Do Not Enter”, along the
Columbia River and Old Oregon
Trail Highways (Interstate BON)
from Portland to theIdahoState
Line.
There will be intermittent
work areas along the approxi
mate 369-mile stretch of high
way, with completion time of
150 calendar days. Blds will
be received Thursday, Decem
ber 21.
Record Snowfall
Hits Nyssa Area
A near record snowfall for
Nyssa at this time of year
was recorded Wednesday, and
at press time about 14 inches
had fallen. According to Dr.
John E. Long, a Nyssa resi
dent since the turn of the cen
tury, this was the most snow
he had ever seen in one snow
fall.
DENNIS R. DAILEY
Dailey is a veteran of eight
years service with the U.S.
Air Force and served six years
at Randolph Air Force Base
at San Antonio, Texas, and two
years at Fairchild Air Force
Base, Spokane, Washington,
While in miliatry service tie
instructed in Aviation Phy
siology and Parachuting.
He is a graduate of Wagner
Public High School, Wagner,
South Dakota, and Washington
State University where he re
ceived his B.S. in Conserva
tion with special areas of study
Fire District
in Range and Wildlife Manage
ment.
Elects Officers
Dailey, who fills the vacancy
left by the resignation of Lynn
Directors of the Nyssa Ru Todd last September, servedin
ral Fire Board were elected th«- same capacity with the St.
at an election held December Joe National Forest in Potlatch,
4. Elected was James Ather Idaho prior to coming to Vale.
ton for the unexpired term of He and his wife, Linda Rae,
Wilbur Atherton and Woodrow their daughter Lesley, and sons
Seuell was elected for a four- David and Michael, are making
year term.
their home in Vale.
School, Community
(«hoirs Join In “Messiah”
Sunday evening, December 10, the direction of Gary Condon.
the Nyssa High School Music Soloists will be Alice Nishi-
Department and
the Nyssa tani and Mardi Cole.
Community Choir will present
The second half of the pro
the third annual Community gram will feature the fifty voice
Vesper Service at 7 30 p.m. at elementary school chorus and
the freshmen-sophomore chorus
the LDS Stake House.
The first half of th«- program in Christmas carols, joined by
will
be
a presentation of the two main groups and the
Handel’s - Messiah” with the audience.
Nyssa High School Concert
This will be the third per
Choir and the community choir formance of the "Messiah’’
combining their efforts in this which has played to a full house
portion of the program, under each of the two previous years.
GWEN HALL ART
SHOWN AT LIBRARY
Paintings by Gwen B. Hall
of Bates, Oregon will be on
exhibit at the Nyssa Public Li
brary through the month of
Decemtier.
This will be the
second show at the library for
Mrs. Hall.
Painting in four different me
diums will be shown. Among
those that will be shown are:
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"After the Rain”, and “Alvies
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Nov. 30
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Dec. 1
Mrs. Hall has studied at the
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Dec. 2
Ballinger and Hamlett studios
.25 in La Guana Beach, California.
Dec. 3
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During the last two years she
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has had several one woman
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Dec. 6
shows in Huntington Beach and
Ow yhee Reservoir Storage
Los Angeles, California. Also
12/4/72 474,980 Acre Feet in Lincoln City and Coos Bay,
12/4/71 501,460 Acre Feet Oregon.
WEATHER
PACKAGING COOKIES FOR VETERANS in
the Veterans Hospital, Boise, are these
members of the American Legion Auxiliary.
From left, they are Mrs. Ina Coffman, Nora
Graham, Hazel Herrman, Verna
Tobler,
Louise Heldt, Veryle Smith, Mien Richard-
son and Myrl Towne.
The cookies are all home baked, and the
worn‘ii will package over 150 bags for the
hospitalized veterans, as they have each year
since World War II.
COMMUNITY SINGERS REHb ARSE under
the direction of Gary Condon for the third
annual performance of the “Messiah" to be
given Sunday evening, December 10 at the
Nyssa LDS Church at 7:30 p.m.