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Nyssa Gate City Journal
66th Year, 51»t Issue
Nyssa, Oregon
The Sugar City
Thursday, December 21, 1972
REP. DENNY JONES
REPORTS ON LEGISLATIVE
ORIENTATION CONFERENCE
Meeting was called to order
by Speaker elect Richard
Eyman. Followed by President
of the Senate elect Jason Boe.
Governor McCall then wel
comed us to the Legislature
offering his support and gave
us a summary of the main is
sues at stake.
Governor McCall was fol
lowed by R. E. Stevens, Le
gislative A dm in Istra tor, Tho
mas Clifford, Legislative Coun
sel; Floyd Gould, Legislative
Fiscal Officer, Robert Davis,
Executive Assistant to the Go
vernor, presented Governor
McCall’s tax proposal
This tax proposal is much the
same as we knew it previously
but still did not have all of
the
distribution formula
straightened out and still did
not provide for school trans
portation, capital construction
or debt service.
The
Legislative Interim
Committee on school finance
also presented ttwir proposal
which would consist of a li
net receipts tax, this is levied
on adjusted gross income. They
proposed an increase corpora
tion excise tax rate by 2.75
Ba rnes Joins
Prudential
Juirn F. Marsh. Nyaw, sale«
manager for Prudential Insu
rance Company of America, an
nounces the appointment of
James L. Barnes as a dis
trict agent for the company.
He will work out of the On
tario office covering Ontario,
Vale, Burns and John Day.
The last day consisted of
more interim committee re
ports and an education program
on the rules and workings of
the Legislature for the fresh
man. The conference was well
attended and 1 feel quite suc
cessful.
There are two father and san
combinations in the House.
There are also some real young
legislators this year and it will
be interesting to see how it
works.
Christmas
Concert
JAMES L. BARNES
Barnes was born in Nyssa
and graduated from Nyssa High
Schoo). He served in the U. S.
Navy from 1959 to 1961, and Las
been associated with Ideal Gas,
Inc., since 1967 He and his
wife Judy and daughter Leslie
live at 503 N. 4th St., Nyssa.
Marsh said that Prudential
is happy to have Jim with the
company, and he will sell the
full line of Prudential coverage
including life, health and ac
cident, retirement and educa
tional insurance.
The Nyssa PT A is again spon
soring the annual Christmas
Concert to be presented Thurs
day evening (tonight), Decern-
!» r -'1 .It 7 30 p.m in the
school cafeteria.
The High School Band under
the direction of Don Neufeld
will play standard Christmas
Carols and some novelty tunes.
The Prep Choir and Concert
Choir directed by Gary Condon
will present Christmas spiri
tuals
along with standard
Christmas carols.
CECIL
MORRISON, JR. (center) was
honored Monday evening as Mayor Larry
Bauman presented him with a placque while
Mrs. Morrison looks on. The occasion was
the annual dinner of city officials, employees
and wives at the Twilight Cafe. 43 were
present, and included were the new council-
men-elect Marion Tracy. Mel Calhoun and
w ties.
Ten Cents
CROSS BLOOD
DRAWING SET THURSDAY
DEC 28 AT EAGLES HALL
RFD
it is when you give of your
self that you truly give.” The
last Red Cross Blood Drawing
for 1972 will be held Thursday,
December 28 at the Eagle's
Hall between 2 and 6 p.m.
The Malheur Memorial Hos
pital Auxiliary is conducting
the program this year and they
»ill be trying very hardtomeet
the quota of 150 pints. The de
mand for blood doners is in
creasing during the holiday sea
son due to emergencies and
traffic accidents.
Marie Wilson, president of
the auxiliary, said that all types
of blood are needed, because
we are serving all types of
people. Further blood demand
stems
from open-heart sur
gery, of which there lias been
three this past year from the
Nyssa area. Usually about 12
pints of blood are needed for
each such operation.
percentage points. Also to eli
minate federal deductions <xi
amounts paid to Federal Go
vernment over $2,000.00.
There would also be a $5,-
000.00 exemption on th»- home
stead or dwelling home owners.
Add new corporation income
tax base (net receipts) and tax
at IT. Increase basic school
support to about 50T, with an
additional flat grant on a two
tiered basis.
This formula
would provide property tax re
lief Rep. Hansell also explained
the increase in revenue under
our present tax structure and
explained that this would pro
vide some property tax relief
by increasing our basic school
support. I think there needs to
be a lot of work done to de
termine where the burden will
fall under a new tax program.
The afternoon consisted of
seminars including the subjects
of elementary and secondary
education, local
government
planning and zoning, economic
development and planning, com
munity colleges, Federal re
venue sharing, public welfare,
human resources, correctional
programs,
higher education,
natural resources, consumer
services and protection, envi
ronmental
quality, public
health, mental health, trans
portation.
Masv of tliese seminars were
held at the same time so it
was impossible to attend all of
them. but 1 did attend as many
as possible. I felt this was
real good and gave us a wealth
of information.
Thunderegg Capital
ICE JAMMED AGAINST THE SNAKE RIVER BRIDGE at
Weiser shows the awesom- effect of the 35-mile jam. The
Oregon bank in the background is over-flowing, with the
small com muni tv of Annex just beyond where residents
and businesses were evacuated. Thawing conditions had
lessened flood danger by Wednesday, and the ice was start
ing to break up downstream. Authorities are hopeful that
no futher damnre will occur.
liar bara Tensen ASC County Committee
Honored At OSL
Seventy-six Oregon State
University seniors have been
initiated into Pin Kappa Ptu, na
tional scholastic honor society.
Membership in Phi Kappa Phi
is the highest scholastic reco
gnition at Oregon State. To
qualify, students must have a
grade point average of at least
3.5 with 4 points representing
straight A and 3 representing
B.
Those initiated include Bar-
bara Tensen, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Dick Tensen. Nyssa.
Members Announced
Farmers recently named to
serve as the Agricultural Sta
bilization and Conservation
(ASC) Malheur CountyCommit-
tee are: Blaine Girvin, Vale
community - Chairman, J. P.
Bunch, Payette-Oregon Slope
community - Vice-Chairman,
and Woodrow Seuell, Nyssa
community - Regular Member.
Effective date of this term of
office is January 1, 1973.
Mr. Girvin is serving his
third year of a three-year term.
Mr. Bunch is serving his se
cond year of a three-year term,
and Mr. Seuell is serving his
first year of a three-year term.
Alternates elected were Russell
Fulleton, Vale community and
dinner will be Charles Farley, Payette-Ore
A no-host
held at the Eastside in On- gon Slope commumtv
tat’o at the Lion’s Den Thurs-
December 28, at 8 00
day,
p.m. honoring Judge Ellis A.
for twelve years of
White
county service.
Directors elected to the
The n.enu will be combina Nyssa Chamber of Commerce
tion American-Chinese food and were announced at the regular
tickets will be $3.25 each. Re meeting Wednesday noon at
servations may be made until Brownie’s Cafe. They were
noon, December 26, by calling elected as the result of a ballot
Pat Bond, 473 3948 or Nancy by mail by chamber members.
Moore. 473-3183.
Elected to a three-year term
The public is invited.
were Rod George and Jake Fis
Dinner To Honor
Retiring Judge
Chamber Elects
1973 Directors
SINGING CHRISTMAS
TREE CANCELLED
Due in the inclement weather
situation the 'SmgmgChristmas
Tree’ will not be presented this
year, it was reported by Rev.
Hutchinson.
Morrison will retire from the citv council
in January after serving the city as council
man for over ten years, two years as mayor
in 1969-70, and as a volunteer fireman since
1950. Tht> inscription on the placque reads
"The Citizens of Nyssa Thank You for the
many years of service to the community as
fireman, city councilman, and as mayor.”
cher. Bernard Eastman and Don
Y’oung were elected for two-
year terms, and Henry Ander
son and Bob Wilson were elec
ted for one-year terms.
The new directors will meet
Wednesday, December 27 at
noon at the Twilight Cafe to
select a president and vice-
president from among thei.
group, and to appoint a secre
tary for the 1973 year.
The 1973 election was held at
a county convention, Decem
ber 11* 1972, at the Malheur
County ASCS Office, Ontario,
Oregon.
Electors were far
mers chosen as convention de
legates at recent ASC com
munity committee elections
throughout the county. ASC
county and community farmer
committees are in charge of
local administration of such
national farm programs as the
Rural Environmental Assis
tance Program, Feed Grain
Program, Wheat Program. Ac
reage Allotments and Marketing
Quotas, National Wool Pro
gram, Sugar Program, Com
modity Price-Support Loans,
and Storage Facility loans.
The ASCS county office, 1252
S. W. 4th. Ave., Ontari", is
headquarters for the county
committee, and serves as the
farmers’ local contact for bu
siness connected with partici
pation in the programs admnis-
tered by the committees. These
programs encourage conserva
tion and increase farm returns
by means of price supports and
market supply-management, as
well as by payments.
KEITH TALLMAN
NEW PRESIDENT
The Malheur Potato Bar-
gaining Association directors
named Keith Tailman of Adnan
as president during their exe
cutive meeting Friday. Decem
ber 15.
He replaces George
Sadam >ri of Nyssa. Max Bar-
low of Vale was named vice-
president and Ken Weitstem
of Ontario was chosen secre-
tary-treasurer.
NYSSA STUDENT
Directors at large elected
EARNS HIGH HONOR were George Sadamori. Abe
Twenty-seven Oregon State Saito, Masa Nishihara, TedMo-
University women students have rinaka and Sam L'chida.
been initiated into Omicron Nu, NYSSA GIRL WINS
national honor society in home
BSC SCHOLARSHIP
economics.
Tlie 27 junior and senior stu
Among the major scholar
dents qualified on the basis of ships is $650 from the ldah i
outstanding scholarship and Federation ol Music Clubs for
promise of professional achie Lon Schenck and Margaret Best
vement. They include Ruth Ann of Boise, Gary Kautenberg of
McGinley, senior, daugtitei >f Kenosha, Washington, Kevin
Mr. and Mrs. Harry McGinley, Kirsher, Nampa, Mark Wilson,
Nyssa.
New Plymouth, and Lissa Nishi-
tani, Nyssa.
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( )w yhee Reservoir Storage
12/18/72 483,560 Acre Feet
12/18/71 514,500 Acre Feet
BLM Requests
Fencing Bids
Fence construction for the
needed improvement of wild
life habitat, watershed condi
tions and seeding protection is
planned for early spring by the
Vale District, Bureau of Land
Management, George R. Gurr,
district manager, announced
this week.
Gurr said three barbed wire
fences totaling nearly 20 miles
will be built in the McDermitt
area. Buckskin fence, located
about 60 miles northwest of
McDermitt near the W hitehorse
Ranch will be 11.8 miles long
and is planned to protect a new
crested wheatgrass seeding.
Three mile long Payne Creek
fence, to be constructed ap
proximately 20 miles west of
M< Dermitt, Will help alleviate
critical watershed conditions
by allowing the area to improve
through restoration of the ve
getative cover. Trout Creek
fence, five miles in length,
will be built to improve needed
wildlife habitat.
Bids for the fence construc
tion are being requested. They
may be bid separately or in
their entirety. Actual construc
tion dates are dependent upon
weather conditions.
Bids will be opened in the
BLM's Portland Service Cen
ter at 100 p.m., December 26.
1972.
Drivers License
Examination Dates
Drivers license examinations
will be given at the Citv Li
brary Meeting Room n Nyssa
between the hours of 9 a.m. and
4 p.tn. on January 5, February
2 and March 2 and 30, 1973.
ELWIN (RFD) McCRADY
An example of how blood do
nated by local citizens is used,
Mrs. Wilson said, was in the
case of open heart surgery for
Elwin (Red) McCrady. He had
surgery July 3, 1972 at St.
Luke’s Hospital in Boise in
which 12 pints of blood was used.
The
surgery involves by
passing the heart with veins
removed from the leg.
McCrady said that he appre
ciated what others had done for
him, and most of the blood
used in his surgery has been
replaced.
Mrs. Wilson. Ethel Lawrence
and Freda Holcomb, represent
the auxiliary, are co-chairmen
for the drawing. The women
of the Owyhee Ward of the
LDS Church will be the hos
tess group. Members of the
Lions Club and BoyScout Troop
419 will set up and take down
the equipment.
All healthy persons between
the ages 18 through 65 are
eligible to give their blood.
They must weigh a minimum of
110 pounds and intervals be
tween donations must be at least
eight weeks.
The final decision on the
eligibility of donors must be
made by the physician in at-
tendance at the blood drawings,
and a complete medical history
of the donor is made prior to
the drawing in addition to a
routine check of.temperature,
pulse, blood pressure and hemo
globin.
Certain conditions mean an
automatic rejection or defer
ment, and some of these are;
pregnancy and 6 months after
delivery; a history of hepatitis;
malaria, tieart disease, dia
betes, infectious mononucleo
sis; a period of time is re
quired after most immuniza
tions, and some allergies rule
out a prospective donor.
Donors are advised to eat at
their regular mealtime prior to
donation, but they should avoid
fatty foods. Persons engaged
in occupations hazardous to
themselves or others will be
deferred if they must return to
work within 12 hours after do
nation, Mrs. Wilson said.
Onion Growers Make
Plans For Joint Meeting
Malheur County and South
west Idaho Onion Growers As
sociation Directors met Tues
day evening, December 12, at
the Palomino Cafe in Ontario to
honor the winners in the lar
gest onion contest and to make
plans for their 13th annual joint
growers’ meeting.
Kay Teramura of Ontario was
chairman for the meeting.
Those present to receive their
prizes were. First place, Paul
Halverson of Caldwell receiv
ing $60.00 for the largest onion
weighing 3 lbs. and 11 3/4 oz.;
Second place, Carl Hunter of
Ontario receiving $25.00, Third
place, Maye Wakasugi of the
Oregon Slope area receiv
ing $10.00 and being accepted
by
Mamaro Wakasugi, and
Fourth place, Hedge-. Bros, of
Parma receiving $5.00. This
contest was to prove that this
area does grow large onions.
Another full day program
schedule was planned for the
annual joint growers' meetings.
This meeting draws onion in
dustry people from throughout
the Treasure Valley. Last year
some 311 people attended the
meeting. The meeting will be
held February 8, 1973 in the
La Paloma Restaurant in On
tario. Topics to be included on
this year’s program are pink
root research, weed control,
advertising and promotion,
onion disease discussion, me
chanical harvesting, bulk sto
rage and an onion curing prac
tices discussion.
Research people from Ore
gon State University and the
University of Idaho, as well
as onion growers themselves,
will be making the presenta-
taions.
Both Mas Kido of Parma and
Kay Teramura will act as chair
men for the February 8, 1973
joint onion growers' meeting.
4 DAYS
until
Christmas
RllDOl.PH, Till RED NtKE D RE INDEER
decorated the front yard of the Art Bossel-
man home at 117 N. 5th Street. Flood-
lighted at night, Rudolph makes an attractive
Christmas scene.