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Nyssa Gate City Journal
66th Year, 50th Issue
Nyssa, Oregon
Thursday, December 14, 1972
ROD LEWIS FIRST PLACE
WINNER IN ELKS YOUTH
LEADERSHIP CONTEST
Winners in the Elks Youth
Leadership contest were an­
nounced Thursday, December
14 at the Ontario Lodge. Rod
Lewis of Nyssa and Brenda Ro­
mans of Vale were named first
place winners in the contest
receiving checks for $150each.
Second place winners were Wil­
liam Moore, Vale, and Car-
lene Moss, New Plymouth. They
were presented checks for $75
each from the BPOE 1690,
ROD LEWIS
Other contestants received
checks for $25 each.
The top four local contes-
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Each year the Elks Lodge
conducts leadership and scho-
larship contests in the high
schools in their jurisdiction,
Hardisty said the contestants
are judged on the following
points:
Leadership - 40 points.
Citizenship appreciation -
20 points.
Preserverance, resourceful­
ness - 20 points.
Neatness of brochure - 10
points.
Compliance
with instruc­
tions - 10 points.
Other area high school se­
niors entered in the competition
included
Patricia Wilson,
Nyssa. Warren Spencer, New
Plymouth, Jim VanLith and Icta
Jensen, Payette, and Peggy Mc­
Cabe and James Jenkins, Fruit­
land.
The young people and their
parents were at the presen­
tation ceremony during lodge
services Thursday night. How­
ever. Rod Lewis and Spencer
were absent as their respec­
tive basketball teams were
meeting in competition. Both
are members of their varsity
teams.
with the non-certified staff, but
further negotiations are sche­
duled with the teaching staff.
These salary schedules must
be resolved before the rest of
the budget can be prepared, but
this and routine business oc­
cupied the remainder of the
board meeting.
KII A Donates To
(dancer Society
Nyssa's Future Homemakers
of America sold baked goods and
hot chocolate during lunch last
week to raise money for their
club.
The F. H. A. members have
decided to send the $25.00 they
raised to the American Cancer
Society in memory of Mrs.
Virginia Steffens who was their
club sponsor for many years.
City Council Grants
Garbage Rate Increase
The Nyssa CityCouncil gran­
ted the request of Clarence
Page, operator and owner of
tiie Nyssa Sanitation Service,
to increase garbage collection
rates effective January 1,1973.
Page made the request several
months ago, and the action by
the council comes after study
and comparison with collection
rates in nearby cities, accord­
ing toCity Manager Fred Koch.
Residential rates will in­
crease from $1.50 per month
for the first can to $1.75. The
2nd can will increase from 75?
at present to$ 1.00. Commercial
rates will increase about 25%,
depending on the amount of rub­
bish or the number of cans
hauled, and the frequency of
i
tints' brochures were sent
into
district
competition.
George Hardisty, local contest
chairman, said details and re­
sults on that judging are not
yet available.
Budget Committee Plans For
1972-73 School Budget
The Budget Committee of
Nyssa School District No. 26
met with the consultation com­
mittees of both the certified and
non-certified employees Mon­
day evening prior to the re­
gular monthly meeting of the
school board
Keith lamgley is chairman
of the budget committee, Joel
Mitchell is vice-chairman, and
Woodrow Seuell is secretary.
Larry Saito, Dee Garner, Rudy
Longoria and Bud Sappe make
up the rest of the budget board
members, who with the seven
school board members com­
prise the entire budget com­
mittee. School board members
are Chairman Don Engstrom,
Gene Stunz, Bill Schilling, Vic­
tor Haburchak, Ray Larson,
Mark Hartley and Van Ure.
Superintendent W. L. Mc-
Partland said that the commit­
tee had come to an agreement
Thunderegg Capital
service.
This and the study of re­
venue sharing occupied most
of tiie regular meeting Tuesday
evening.
Koch said that one
immediate use of the money
will be to add another well for
domestic water on the Idaho
side of the Snake River, and
plans are being prepared. Im­
provements in the sprinkling
systems for the city parks are
another objective, Koch said.
The city manager wants to
emphasize that regulations re­
garding the use of federal re­
venue sharing funds will not
affect a great deal of tax re-
lief. The money must be spent
on new improvements not pos­
sible in the regular budget.
TWISTED RAILS and freigtit
cars held up main line Union
Pacific traffic Friday, Dec. 8.
the result of a 17-car derail­
ment
three miles north of
Nyssa.
A wheel flange caused the
accident, according to officials,
and the 17 cars were hurtled
every which way. They were
midway in an 80-car train, and
ears and engines on either end
of the wreckage were brought
either to Nyssa or Ontario, de­
pending on which side of the
derailment they remained.
Crews of Morrison-Knudsen
worked in sub-zero tempera­
tures to remove the wrecked
cars and restoreover 300 yards
of rail. The wreck occurred
about 1:30 p.m. Friday and traf­
fic was restoredearlySaturday,
with debris from the wreck to
be cleared later.
Fire Destroys
Ontario Firms
A landmark hotel in down­
town Ontario with two busmess
firms on the first floor was
destroyed by fire Monday.
The Jewel Box jewelry store
and W anda’s Closet were on the
first floor. The second and
third floor of the Carter Hotel,
once known as the Carter House,
had been unoccupied for se­
veral months.
Vern Hancock and his wife
Wanda operated Wanda’s Clo­
set. Hancock is president of
the Nyssa Eagles and works for
Dessert Seed.
The fire, first discovered
when an explosion blew out the
windows of the businesses on
tiie first floor of the structure,
is. i-'finiati-d by Fire Chief
Bob Prahl to have caused some
$100,000 damage.
FHA OFFERS FREE
Those Eligible For Veterans
Loans May Apply Immediately
Persons made eligible for
Oregon veterans'
farm and
home loans as the result of
passage of Measure 6 in the
November 7 election can apply
immediately, the Department
of Veterans' Affairs said to­
day.
H.C. Saalfeld, Veterans' Af­
fairs director, said that al­
though the measure does not be­
come effective until December
7, the department will accept
and start processing loan ap­
plications immediately from
those affected, so there will be
no delay in loan closing after
the official date of the act.
Newly entitled are wives of
Oregon servicemen who have
STRAY DOGS ARE
BEING IMPOUNDED
been prisoners of war or
missing in action,
and un­
remarried widows of Oregon
servicemen who died on active
duty--whether service was in
World War n, Korea or the
Vietnam War.
Measure 6 also:
--Extends the post-war resi­
dence of World War II veterans
for loan
entitlement from
December 31, 1950, to Decem­
ber 31, 1952 (with two years’
residence required prior to that
date).
--Extends the end of the
Korean War service date for
loan entitlement from January
31, 1955, to January 31, I960.
This means
that
persons
serving in this five-yearpenod
need only 90 days of service
instead of the prior 210 days.
These veterans also gain post­
war residence entitlement.
--Extends the post-war resi­
dence of Korean veterans for
loan entitlement from Decem­
ber 31, 1960, to December 31,
1965 (with two years' Oregon
residence required before that
date).
Post-Korean veterans--that
is, those who served after
January 31, 1960--still need
210 days of service, and they
must have entered service as
Oregon residents to qualify.
Measure 6 was approved by
the
voters with a landslide
majority of 85 percent.
An
estimated 8,350 veterans and
spouses gamed loan eligibility.
Police Chief Alvin Allen said
BABYSITTING
that the Police Department has
received numerous complaints
Mothers, are you tired of this past week regarding dogs.
Dog owners are cautioned
dragging your children around
trying to Christmas shop? The that they will be cited for al­
Nyssa chapter of F.H.A. has lowing their dogs to run at
large, In addition dogs will be
come to your rescue!
Members
will be holding picked up and held in the dog
“Free'’ babysitting December pound, Those not reclaimed
16, ‘in the Nyssa Methodist within five days will either
Church basement, from 2:00 be destroyed or sold.
Owners having their dogs pic­
to 4 00 p.m. and 6 00 to 9:00
p.m. Mothers must provide ked up must obtain a release
transportation for their chil­ slip at the Police department
dren. No food will be provided. prior to reclaiming their dog
The members want to encourage at the pound.
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you to take advantage of this
Holiday Shoppers are cau­
free service.
tioned to lock their cars to LORI LEWIS WINS
prevent theft of newly purcha­
sed Christmas gifts.
VETERANS CONTEST
Officers will be
Reserve
The four preliminary win­
working in the store and park- ners in the Voice of Demo­
ing lots from now through cracy contest sponsored by the
Christmas to help curb thefts Veterans of Foreign Wars were
from autos and would-be shop­ named Thursday, December 7.
lifters.
Judging was conducted at Radio
KYET.
According to Jack Ogilvie,
contest chairman, the foui win­
ners are Lori Lewis, Nyssa,
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PR EC Judy Scott, Ontario; Forrest
Griggs,
Adnan, and Susan
Jones, Vale,
cleaning mountains of snow off of Nyssa
sidewalks last Thursday, tin' aftermath of a
14-meh snowfall Wednesday, Dec. 6.
NEBRASKA GROWER NAMED
PRESIDENT OF SUGARBEET
FEDERATION, HOLMES VP
Harry Weber, a 50-year-old
Nebraska grower active in
American sugar affairs was
named president of the National
Sugarbeet Growers Federation
at closing sessions of the fe­
deration’s 27th annual meeting
in Billings.
Robert C. Holmes, a Nyssa,
Oregon grower was namedfirst
vice president of the organi­
zation. Harry Bates, Jr., of
Holly, Colorado is second vice
president.
Weber and his wife Florence
farm near Mitchell, Nebraska.
The Weber property totals some
500 acres of irrigated land.
Weber includes 125 acres of
sugarbeets in his three-year
rotation along with beans, corn,
grain and alfalfa. Sugarbeets
are the primarycashcrop while
corn, hay and beet tops are the
mainstays in the farm's feeding
program. Some 700 head of
cattle are fattened on the place.
Weber has farmed his present
location since 1948. He started
farming on his own in 1943 on
his parents farm located near
Bayard, Nebraska. Weber at­
tended business school in Den­
ver, Colorado and at one time
worked in a bank.
Farming rates top marks as
a way of life, Weber says but
he sees a need for farmers to
improve their marketing me­
thods. “Agriculture has rea­
ched a point that demands we
control our products as they
move to consumers. This can
be done through our commodity
group associations," he ad­
vises. Weber has been active
in his area backing efforts to
organize the Great WesternCo-
op. The cooperative is nego­
tiating the purchase of the Great
Western Sugar Company. He is
active in grower affairs on
state and national levels and
just completed a term as pre­
sident of the Nebraska Non­
stock Cooperative Beet Gro­
wers Association.
Tiie nation's sugarbeet crop
this year is expected to pro­
duce some 3,600,000 tons of
sugar. The crop harvested is an
all time record.
States represented by the fe­
deration
include Colorado,
Wyoming, Montana. Nebraska,
Washington,
Oregon, Idaho,
Utah, Kansas and western North
Dakota.
County ASC Members Elect
Community Committeemen
According to the Board
Control, 15 inches of snow was
recorded in Nyssa Wednesday,
December 6.
A FAMILIAR SIGHT THROUGHOUT the
valley, young Jamie Slippy, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Vernon Slippy, and Andy Nelson are
Ten Cents
Owyhee Reservoir Storage
12/11/72 479,420 Acre Feet
12/11/71 508,940 Acre Feet
(flinty, City
Receive Funds
Countv Treasurer Jean (Pat)
Bond announced Monday that
the county has received a check
from the federal government for
$139,646 from the revenue
sharing program. She said that
the county will receive a like
amount in January, and then
will receive quarterly payments
starting in March.
Mrs. Bond said that the
County Court has not decided
what to do with the money, but
they will make the decision
soon. She hopes to invest the
money to bear interest until it
is spent.
City Manager Fred Koch said
that the city has received
$31,779 as its share of revenue
sharing. He said that further
plans will be announced for its
use, in the meantime the money
will be placed in time deposits.
TVCC WILL OFFER
JAPANESE COURSE
Treasure Valley Community
College will offer first-year
Japanese, winter tern,.
A 5
credit hour course, it will em­
phasize conversation, reading
and writing. Lecture, text, and
audio tapes will be employed.
Instructor for the class will
be Mary Sue Rightmire. Miss
Rightmire has spent 4 1/2
years in Japan including one
year of study at the Interna­
tional Christian University in
Tokyo. She has a Master of
Arts in Asian Studies from the
University of Oregon.
Information regarding meet­
ing days and times will be an­
nounced later.
Farmers and ranchers of
Malheur County have elected a
total of 35 ASC communitycom -
mitteemen and alternates in a
mail election conducted earlier
this month, according to Blaine
Girvin, Chairman of the County
Agricultural Stabilization(ASC)
Committee.
ASC community committees
assist the County ASCCommit­
tee in administering farm pro­
grams in Malheur County, such
as wheat, acreage allotments,
price support loans, farm sto­
rage facility loans, feed grain
bases, sugarbeet proportionate
share, and rural environmental
assistance cost-sharing mea­
sures. They also help keep local
producers informed of farm
program provisions and regu­
lations.
In addition, the just-elected
ASC community committees
have an important respon­
sibility in the near future in
filling vacancies on the County
ASC Committee and deter­
mining the chairman and vice-
chairman for the coming year,
Girvin said.
Each of the seven ASC com-
munity committees are made
up to three members and two
alternates, who serve for a
one-year period. The candidate
in each ASC community who
received the largest number of
votes is the committee chair­
man. Second highest is vice-
chairman, third is regular com­
mittee member, fourth andfifth
m the number of votes received
are first and second alternates.
are the newly-
Following
elected ASC commumty com-
mitteemen in Malheur County,
listed in the order of chair-
man, vice-chairman, member,
first alternate, and second al­
ternate:
rit asi
ADRIAN - Dick Bennett. Bill
Shenk, Carl Lee Hill, David
Beebe, Stanley Mills.
JORDAN VALLEY - FredR.
Eiguren, Oran Raburn, Walter
T. Baltzor, Thomas R. Carson,
George Swisher.
HARPER - Frank Coleman,
Laurel Amick, Albert Ferrarin,
Glenn Evins, W. H. Bertalotto.
NYSSA - Thomas J. Jayo,
Woodrow Seuell, Joe M. Dirk­
sen, Thomas Nishitam, Bill
Richesin.
ONTARIO - Sam Mori, Yasu
Teramura, R. Jack Nelson, Luis
M Wettstein, William G. Ox-
nam.
VALE — Russell
Fulleton,
Douglas Fulwyier, Dudley De-
Long, Bob White, Jack Press-
ley.
PAYETTE-OREGON SLOPE-
Charles I. Farley, Fred Head,
Paul Saito, Tom Murata, Dick
Lee.
Skiing Added To
TVCC Schedule
Skiing has been added to the
Treasure Valley Community
College Continuing Education
winter schedule. Classes will
run for ten Tuesdays, between
January 9 and March 13, at
Bogus Basin. Classes will be
conducted by the Bogus Basin
Ski School from 1 00-3 00 p.m.;
although beginners may take
their lessons at 11:00 a.m. De­
parture is at 3:00 p.m.
A bus will leave the Admini­
stration Building parking lot at
8 a.m. and will arrive at the
ski area around 10:30. Any­
one desirous of skiing at this
time must pay the full day col­
lege class rate of $4.00 (re­
gularly $6.00). The half day
rates of $3.00 is available at
noon.
Ski rental rates are $3.50
per day ($5.00 regularly). Rope
tow rates are $1.50. Anyone
wishing to ski without lessons
will be charged $6.00. These
rates are all on a daily basis
to be paid at the ski area.
Students must pay the college
tuition and a $15.00 transpor­
tation fee (1.50 per day.)
For further information call
Mr. Lewis or the Office of
Continuing Education.
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11 DAYS
until
Christmas
NATIONAL SUGARBEET GROWERS FE-
1>I RA I ION officers t le< ted at Billings, Mon­
tana last week are (1 to r) RobertC. Holmes,
Nyssa, first vice president, Harry Weber,
Mitchell, Nebraska, president, and Harry
Bates, Jr., Holly, Colorado, second vice
president.