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„nlver.lty Of Oregon toreri Eugene, ore. ur«« 97U03 x x x x 1 Nyssa Gate City Journal 67th Year, 3rd Issu« Th* Sugar City Nytsa, Oregon Thursday, January 18, 1973 Thunderegg Capital MURÀ STUNZ WINNER OREGON POTATO GROWERS IN SESSION THIS WEEK AT ONTARIO OF SOROPTIMIST YOUTH CITIZENSHIP CONTEST The Soroptimist Club of On tario has chosen Laura Louise Stunz, Nyssa, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gene Stunz, for their club’s first place winner in the annual Youth Citizenship Award Contest. Second place winner is Arnold Christopher Lewis, Vale. Oregon, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Lewis. LAURA STUNZ Eleanor L. Anderson, chair man of the Youth Citizenship Awards of the localSoroptimist club said that their club is one of 900 clubs in the Sorop- tinnst FoumMfi 'ti* V>utti Citi zenship Awards program with what is estimated to be a total of 4,800 student-. ttir ougtiout ttie Federation of the Americas, Soroptimists rightfully take pride not only in the scope of this program, but also in the fact that for nine straight years the program has won tlx* George Washington Honor Medal from the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge. It is also on the approved list for Secondary Schools Projects in the United States. The winners of the club awards within a geographical area will next compete for a Regional award of $1,000.00 from the Soroptimist Founda tions. Each Regic®al winner will then compete for a fina list award of $1,500.00 from the Federation. The Awards of Me rit may be used by the re cipients in ways to best fur ther the student's aims to achieve their goals-education, etc. The Soroptimist Federation of the America, Inc., is a mem ber of tiie Soroptimist Inter national Assocation, the lar gest classified service organi zation for professional andexe- cutive business women in the world with clubs located in 43 different countries. Sorop timists encourage service to and with youth in practical ways which provide opportunities for young people to demonstrate service, dependability, leader ship and clearsenseofpurpose. This program has been ac claimed by its judges drawn from prominent public life out side of the Soroptimist or ganization as "unrestricted, unprejudiced and unbiased in scope - encouraging expres sion of jroung new ideas and thinking relating to the privi leges and obligations ot citi zenship,” Assessors lap Bratton For VP Assessors at the mid-winter conference held at Prineville, elected new Association offi cers for 1973. Elected were: President, Mac Wood, Assessor of Wasco County. Vice-pre sident Oscar Bratton, Assessor DAIRY SHORTCOURSE of Malheur County, and Secre tary-Treasurer, Joyce Berg COMING SOON strom, Assessor of Morrow County. Assessor Wood was Dairymen are urged to attend 1972 Vice-President and As an industry shortcourse Ja sessor Bergstrom was 1972 nuary 25 and 26—Weese Build Secretary-Treasury. ing - W-10, 1 30 - 4 00 p.m. Bratton said , "It is an honor to according to Ray Novotny, be selected as Vice-President County Extensa® Agent. of this outstanding group of Subjects covered are Dairy County Officers. Although I have Nutrition - Dr. H. Adams, Ex held office only eight days at tension Dairy Specialist, 06U, the time of the election, 1 am Milking Management, Dr. Lloyd well acquainted with the other Swans«®, Animal Science. O6U; Assessors due to attending con Dairy Health, Dr. Tom Gray, ferences in the past either with Vale. John Koopman or representing Novotny went <» to say that Malheur County. 1 certainly will Malheur county lias all the in do my best to work through this gredients for organization to help formulate dairy industry, but producers legislation for better assess must use all the techniques ment laws and public re available to achieve this goal. lations.” A MONEY TREE for Jim Robinson, lo cal businessman, is located in the office of Dr. Jon Heitzman and as of press time Wednesday, $126 was hanging from its limbs. The tree was started by friends of Jim to help take care of enormous expenses as a result of recent surgery. He has been in the Good Samaritan Hospital, Portland since December 31, had surgery January 5, and is expected to be hospitalized at least two more weeks before he can re turn home. Suffering from hepatitis for the past eleven years, Jim has had surgery at different times Ten Cents NEW PRESIDENT OF THE NYSSACHAMBER OF COMMERCE is Rod George, right, installed at the chamber banquet last Thursday evening at the Eagles Hall. Don Young, left, is out going president, and speaker for the evening was Norris John son, executive secretary of the Greater Boise Chamber of Com merce. The new and old presidents are both bankers, George is manager of the Nyssa branch, First National Bank of Oregon, and Young is Nyssa branch manager of U.S. National Bank of Oregon. The photo at right shows Norris Johnson speaking to the clumber members and wives present. At the head table, from the left, can be seen Clarence Leseberg, Mrs. Leseberg, Jake Fischer, Don Young, Mrs. Young, and Mrs. Rod George. High School Science Symposium January 20 Nyssa High School Science Club is sponsoring a Science Symposium entitled "Under standing Our Environment” on Saturday, January 20, 1973 in the Multipurpose Room of the Primary Building. The pro gram will begin at 9:30 a.m. with a presentation by Mrs. Donna Parsons, Director of the Snake River Regional Studies Center at the College of Idaho. She will explain the purpose and activities of the center and present a slide-show en titled “The Big Squeeze”. Slides depict the need of plan ning for future land use. Mrs. Parson’s presentation will be followed by a question and an swer period and then presen tations by NHS students who are working special projects. The afternoon schedule be gins at 1:00 p.m. with a pre sentation by Dr. H. K. Frit- chman, Professor of Biology at Boise State College. His pre sentation will include a slide show ended "Biology and Some Poetic Insights." There- in the past. This most recent surgery involved 14 people, 8 hours for the opera tion, required transplanting a vein going into the liver, and reportedly is one of the most difficult of surgeries to do. Re ports back from the hospital indicate that 27 pints of blood have been used, the opera tion was a success, but there are still complications. Jiin would welcome cards or letters. He is in Room 394-1, Good Samaritan Hos pital, Portland, Oregon 97210. And anyone wishing to help out in this community-wide effort can hang a bill on the money tree in Dr. Heitzman’s office. mainder of the afternoon will be taken by a small group discussion and more student presentations followed by an awards assembly at 3 30 p.m. The public is cordially in vited to attend all or part of the symposium preceedings and to become informed on environ mental problems as well as see students inaction. Projects con ducted by other interested stu dents will also be on display. Winners of the symposium will be encouraged to present their papers at the Junior Aca- demly of Science to be held in February in Portland. Coulter Given I* no moti on Nyssa Rodeo Board Delays Plans For This Year The Nyssa Rodeo Board vo ted Tuesday evening to tem porarily dissolve the Rodeo Board until they receive a com ment of support from the com munity and the Civic Clubs of which this board is made up. The Clubs represented are: The Lions, The Chamber of Commerce, The Owyhee Riding Club, The Oregon Trail Grange, The Nyssa High School Rodeo Club, The Eagles, The Malheur County Sheriffs Posse, or any individual interested. Rodeo Board Members of the past year announced at this meeting that they personally feel great pride in the accom plishments in the rodeo sport in this community last year. They also received a report from their treasurer, that the net receipts from the past year are about $1500.00. This com mittee started from assets of $300.00. The Major concern of this Rodeo Board are: H. Scott Coulter was appoin ted Assistant State Highway En gineer. it was announced today by George M. Baldwin, admini strator of highways. Coulter moves from his position of Metropolitan Engineer in Port land. where he has served since January 1, 1972. As the High way Division’s chief engineer in the Portland area, he has been responsible for supervision of the Fremont Bridge complex and planning of the proposed Mt. Hood Freeway. He is a veteran of 24 years of service with the Highway Di vision. He was born in St. Louis Missouri, on June 10, 1926. He attended Willamette University and graduated from the Univer sity of Washington with a de gree in electrical engineering in June, 1946. Prior to coming to Portland, Coulter served as Region Engineer at La Grande. He has been an instructor in mathematics and engineer ing at Eastern Oregon College in La Grande and an instruc tor in mathematics at (tie Uni versity of Idaho. He is married to the former Martha Browne of Nyssa, and they have two sons and a daughter. Of the dogs impounded only 97 were claimed by the original owner. A total of 1062 animals were disposed of during the ENROLLMENT open Police Officer FOR NURSING To l^eave Nyssa Senior girls who are consi dering enrolling in the Trea sure Valley Communitycollege Practical Nursing program after graduation should con tact the college before the end of March. Accepted candidates will begin their studies in the 1973 summer session instead of fall. This change in schedul ing makes earlier application necessary. Only twenty-two candidates may be enrolled in the 1974 class because of limited hos pital space for on-the-job training. All applicants will be interviewed by the nursing staff and take qualifying examina tions m the spring. All of this must be completed so that the class may begin study in June Address inquiries and applica tion requests to Connie Mc- Clun, Chairman of the Prac tical Nursing Department, or call 889-6493, ext. 45. (1) The present statis of ow nership of the Rodeo Grounds. (2) The City Council to ab sorb the management of the financial part of this operation placing these moneys under pu blic audit. (3) The forming of an incor poration to protect the indivi dual appointed or elected to the Board. According to President Ron Rookstool, the Board feels that Rodeo is a valuable sport ful filling the needs of the many individuals in our community that train, ride for pleasure or have anything to do with horses. One ot the most important needs satisfied by a rodeo or ganization, is helping our youth and our HighSchool RodeoClub. At the present time, all stock producers except two have al ready been committed, so there is an urgent need to make a jud gement deciding whether or not this community will have a Rodeo this year. 1731 Dogs Impounded During Past Year Atherton Kennels, who act as the dog pound for the cities of Nyssa, Vale, and Ontario and also Malheur County, re leased their annual report re vealing that 1731 dogs were impounded in the kennels five miles north of Nyssa during 1972. A total of 498 dogs were impounded from Nyssa, 615 from Ontario and 256 from Vale and 225 from Malheur County. year, and of the new homes found for stray or unclaimed dogs, over 42c< were out of the county and state. City Manager Fred Koch said that city officials praised the humane manner and good faci lities that the Atherton's pro vide in taking care of the dogs committed to their charge. The 498 dogs picked up in Nyssa, most of them stray or unwanted helped to relieve a burdensome condition in the city, Koch said. Oregon's potato growers ga thered in Ontario Wednesday for their sixth annual meeting which will last through Friday noon. Proceedings of the con ference are being held at the Ontario Armory, with luncheons and this evening’s (Thursday) banquet being held at the East side Cafe. Sister Mary Thomas More, Order of St. Francis, nationally known disciple ot unity among farm organizations, will be the mam banquet speaker Thursday evening. She is head of the de partment of social sciences at Silver Lake College of the Holy Family in Manitowoc, Wiscon sin. Dr. Dennis Fisher of Oregon State University spoke Thurs day morning on the topic, “The Reasons Behind the Relatively High Workmen’s Compensation Rates Paid by Oregon Far mers.” Fisher is attempting to determine why Oregon’s rates for this mandatory insurance are higher than those in sur rounding states. Another prominent National Potato Council figure was re presented Thursday morning when its president, Merle An derson of Climax, Minnesota, spoke on "Your National Po tato Council.” Anderson has been active on the Council since 1962, serving as treasurer in 1964-65, secretary m 1971, and vice-president in 1972. Farm labor comes to the fore Friday morning with an address by Leslie V. "Les” Hubbard, executive assistant public relations of the Western Growers Association in Los Angeles. Hubbard is now pre sident of the Free Marketing Council in addition to his re gular duties with Western Gro wers. Another speaker Friday mor ning will be Robert G. Cowan, the new president of Lamb- Weston, Inc., in Portland. His speech title is, "What Business Are You In?” Cowan has been with Lamb-Weston more than SISTER MARY MORE 11 years, serving as assistant controller, administrative as sistant to the president, wes tern sales manager, marketing manager, vice-president, mar keting and sales, and executive vice-president. The final two speeches of the conference before the noon ad journment will be Why You Receive the Price for Potatoes You Do,” by Lowell Kenyon, chairman of the potato division of United Fresh Fruit & Vege tables. James E. Wiles, ad ministrator of the accident pre prevention division of the Oregon Workmen’s Compen sation Board, will climax the conference with a talk title, "The Oregon Plan for an Oc cupational Safetys, Health Act.” MERLE ANDERSON LES HUBBARD BOB COWAN Shorthorn Group Accepts Nyssan DR. DENNIS FISHER Wayne Robb, Nyssa, has been accepted into the membership of the American Shorthorn Asso ciation, accordmgtoC. D. Swaf- far, Executive Secretary. The American Shorthorn Associa tion, with national offices in Omaha, Nebraska, registers, transfers and promotes Short horn and Polled Shorthorn beef cattle. This year the A. S. A. is ob serving its 100th anniversary. Phillip G. Sweet, a police of ficer for the City of Nyssa for the past six years, submitted his resignation to the City Council last week. He requested that his resignation be effective January 31. Sweet said that he is resign ing in order to accept an offer of employment with the City of La Grande Police Department. WfeK. WK WBBK. warn WEATHER 17 Jan. 10 ,05 32 Jan. 11 32 23 .10 Jan. 12 35 25 .41 38 Jan. 13 32 32 Jan. 14 36 Jan. 15 38 29 .16 Jan. 16 49 29 .08 Jan. 17 30 .19 Owyhee Reservoir Storage 1-17-73 534,680 Acre Eeet 1-17-72 540,480 Acre Feet OREGON TRAIL GRANGE officers for the new year were installed last Thursday evening at joint installation services in Vale. Seated from left are Mrs. Don Somers, lady assistant steward; and Mrs. Marguerite Moss, lecturer. Standing from left are Don Somers, assis tant steward, Tom Drydale, executive com mittee, and Ernest Metcalf, master.
