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Nyssa Gate City Journal
67th Year, 5th |stua
The Sugar City
Nyssa, Oregon
Thursday, February 1, 1973
Thunderegg Capital
PERSONAL PROPERTYMUST
BE REPORTED BY MARCH
3, ASSESSOR WARNS
Malheur County Assessor
Oacar Bratton said Tuesday
that, "Personal property tax
payers have until March 3rd,
1973 to rejxirt taxable inventory
and personal property. All pro
perty in this catagory within
Malheur County as of January
1st, LOO a.m. (unless exempt
by Oregon Law) Is to be re
ported for assessment. Pro
perty purchased or in pos
session, with the exceptions
of transient merchandise (ORS-
311.460) and transient liv»-.i • i
(ORS 311.455), after this dat»’
is not a taxable item. Failure
to receive or secure a personal
property form d»*s not relieve
a i>ui»son or business of the re-
sp»msibility of making a re
turn."
When asked if there were any
penalties for not responding
Bratton replied, ‘‘Yes, there
are very definite penalties. For
late filing it is $1 for each
$1,000 (or fraction thereof) of
the true cash value, but shall
not be less than $10 or more
than $250. ORS 308.295".
Oregon Artist
Featured at TVCC
The prints and drawings of
Corvallis artist, Wally Welt-
zln, will be displayed in a one
man show during the month of
February, upstairs in the Trea
sure Valley Community Col
lege Weese Building.
Weltsln studied two years at
Oregon State University before
going abroad to Italy where he
studied Italian and Art at the
University of Pavla. He re
turned to Oregon where he com
pleted BEA and MFA degrees
at the University of Oregon.
After graduation with his
Masters Degree, Weltzmwor
ked foratimeinEasternCanada
He is now based in Corvallis
where he teaches drawing and
painting at the Corvallis Arts
Center, in addition to working
at the University Museum and
at the Carriage Gallery.
Weitz in has had a number of
shows throughout It«' North
west, including the JewishCom-
munlty Center, Fountain Gal
lery, Maud Kerns, and theCor-
vallis Arts Center.
There will be a reception for
Mr. Weltzin from 2 to 4 p.m.
Sunday, February 4 in the lounge
of the WvMSf Building. The
public is cordially invited to
meet the artist and to view his
work.
In answer to the question of
can an extension of time be
granted in certain circum
stances, Bratton said, "Yes in
the case of a physical impossi
bility the taxpayer can ask for
an extension in writing and the
date before automatic penalties
will start can be extended."
There has been some talk of
the possibility of moving in
ventory across the state line
into Idaho in December and then
bringing it back after the Ja
nuary 1st date to avoid taxa
tion. Bratton said that "I have
heard of this possibility and dis
cussed it with the Department
of Revenue, the governing ele
ments here are the intent or
reason for the movement of the
inventory. (1) There must be a
boniflde business reason for
the movement. (2) It must be
in the regular course of the bu
siness operation. In other
words if the reason or intent
is to evade taxation it is Il
legal. Let me quote the law."
Bratton said, "ORS 308.300 Any
person, managing agent or of
ficer who, with intent to evade
taxation, refuses or neglects to
make any return required by
ORS 308.290 (personal pro
perty law) and file it with the
Assessor within the time speci
fied, or extended, shall be sub
ject to a penalty of $10 for
each day of continuance of such
refusal or neglect". Bratton
continued, "With the inventory
tax being phased out at the rate
of 10T more each year making
1979 the last year for the tax
I believe that the taxpayers
should bear with me on this
and we will soon have it all
behind us.
But in any event
in order to protect the honest
taxpayers if it appears that this
is happening the proper steps
will have to be taken."
HOUSING AUTHORITY
ELECTS OFFICERS
Ray Russell was elected pre
sident of the Housing Autho
rity of Malheur County at their
annual meeting held at the Nyssa
L,abor Camp last Wednesday.
Ray Larson was elected vice
president and Jake Fischer,
secretary.
The board of directors was
enlarged from five to seven
members. In addition to the
officers, board members are
Darrell Standage, Vale; Ro
bert Laubacher, Oregon Slope;
Vernon Parker, Adrian, and
James Williams, Nyssa.
Sixty NHS Students Attain
Positions On Honor Roll
Those garnering a 4.0 were
seniors - Scott Ableman, Leann
Bair, Lois Cottreil, Dan Cru
son,
Kevin Engstrom, Rod
Lewis, Shan Moss, Nancy Ross,
Pat Ross, Sonia Salto, Launa
Schulthies, Murie Stunz, Carol
Takami and Jennifer Ure, ju
niors - Debbie Alexander, Beth
Ann Kassman, Monica Smit,
sophomores - Miriam Kunkel
and Kathy Shell.
Mastering a 3.8 included se-
nors - Bartiara Bock, Randy
D*ls,
Eileen Joyce, Scott
Kido, John Tensen, Don Sappe,
Dennis Urry and Patsy Wilson,
juniors - Thomas D. Church,
Lillian Moore and Manuel Pe
rez, sophomore, Jennie Shimo-
maeda, freshman - Dion Gar
ner.
Achieving a 3.7 were seniors
Don L. Ballou and Darr Haney;
junlor - Tom Zittercob; sopho
mores - Melodi Ferrenburg,
Lori Lewis and Kathy Ward,
freshmen - Kip Cindell and
Klrt Moore.
Capturing a 3.6 included Nico
Hopman and David Robbins, ju
niors - Scott Blaylock, Shelley
Munn, !>>an Sappe and Roger
Voeller, freshman - Danny Si-
mantel.
Those obtaining a 3.5 were
seniors, Nancy Looney, Bob
Stout, juniors - Lor a lee Bates;
sophomores - Connie Barnes,
Bruce Corn, Jim Craig, Gail
Hirai, Kathy Kurtz, Julie Pe
terson
and Wilma Staples,
freshmen - Terry Baker, Larry
Haney and Randy Savage.
Out of the total students ear
ning honor roll positions 28
were seniors, 12 juniors, 13
sophomores and 7 freshmen.
BUDGET BOARD APPROVES
NYSSA PARTICIPATION IN
GREATER OREGON LEAGUE
Perhaps the largest turnout
of school district patrons in
many years greeted the Nyssa
School Budget Committee Mon
day evening, and the meeting re
sulted in the decision that Nyssa
High School pledge its athletic
the
fortunes and future to
Greater Oregon League.
Forty persons attended the
meeting, all of them interested
in what decision wouldbe made.
The alternative would have been
to stay in the Snake River Valley
League as at present, the SRV
being made up of all Idaho
teams except for Nyssa.
NYSSA SCHOOI BUDGET COMMITTEE MF MBERS listen
attentively as Superintendent W.L. Me Partland reviews the
position of Nyssa schools in regard to the Greater Oregon
League and Snake River Valley League.
Committee members, from left, are Gene Stunz, Bill
Schilling,
Dee Garner, Joel Mitchell. Chairman Keith
Langley, McPartland, Victor Haburchak, Woodrow Seueli,
Onion Growers
Set Meeting
Treasure Valley onion gro
wers will meet early in Fe
bruary for their 13th annual
joint meeting. Kay Teramuara,
President of th»- Malheur County
Onion Growers Association said
that the joint Malheur County
and Southwest Idaho Onion Gro
wers
/ssociation
meeting
will be held February 8, at the
La Paloma Restaurant in On
tario. According to Mr. Tera
muara, the session will begin
at 9:30 tn th»- morning and con
clude- at 4 30 in the afternoon.
The Thursday morning, Fe
bruary 8 speakers will discuss
onion pink root research, weed
control and advertising and pro-
mot ion. The afternoon session
will see discussions on onion
diseases, curing practices, me
chanical harvesting and bulk
storages. Conference speakers
will be drawn from Oregon
State University, University of
Idaho and from Treasure Valley
onion growers.
Max Takasugi, an onion gro
wer from Caldwell and a South
west Idaho Onion Growers As
sociation director will be chair
man for a forty-five minute in
dustry presentation scheduled
for 3:45 p.m. He reports that
various supplies of onion ma
chinery and other products for
the growers will be part of the
industry presentation.
Legal Secretaries
To Give Scholarship
Malheur County Legal Sec re -
taries Association (Oregon) this
year is making a scholarship
available to a graduating high
school senior who plans topur-
sue a career as a legal secre
tary.
Inge Koyama, scholar
ship chairman, advised that this
scholarship will be awarded on
th»- basis of merit, ability and
need.
Inquiries
liave been
mailed to the Girls Counselor
of the high schools in Ontario,
Vale and Nyssa to secure names
of deserving seniors. The win
ner of the scholarship will be
announced in May and will be
a guest of the Malheur County
Legal Secretaries at a dinner
meeting that month. Mrs. Ko
yama
said the scholarship
award was prompted by the
great need for capable legal
secretaries in this area and
throughout the United States.
Bair, Scott Ableman, (second row) Pat Ross,
Sonia Saito, Carol Takami. (third row) Kathy
Shell, Dan Cruson, Launa Schulthies, Debra
Alexander and Beth Ann Kassman.
Ray Larson, Mark Hartley, Don Engstrom and Larry Saito.
Members not present were Bud Sappe, Rudy Longoria and
Van Ure.
The committee recommended that Nyssa become a full
athletic participant in the Greater Oregon League, and m-
eluded $4,700 in the proposed budget for athletic team travel
expense.
SRV Fire Fighting Crews
To Be Organized Early
Preparation for the 1973 fire
season is already underway,
including organization of fire
crews, George R. Gurr, mana
ger of the Vale BLM District,
said this week.
Gurr said that requirements
for fire crew membership es
tablished last year will con
tinue this year. Included in
these requirements is passing
Lions Install
New Members
Larry Silveira and the Rev.
Bill Lewis were initiated into
the Nyssa Lions CluD at their
regular meeting Tuesday noon
at the Twilight Cafe. The Rev.
John Worrall was the installing
officer.
Melvin Munn and Steve Glau
ner of the Nyssa Elementary
School presented the program,
telling the Lions about the
school’s educational plans.
MOBILE HOME
OFFICERS ELECTED
Malheur County Mobile Home
Park Association met Thurs
day at the West Gate Mobile
Home Park in Ontario.
Jake Fischer, Nyssa, was
elected president; Earl Wine-
ger, Ontario, vice president and
Mrs. Douglas Phippen, Ontario,
was elected secretary.
4-H LEADERS
ATTEND CONFERENCE
Three Malheur County 4-H
leaders met with more than
200 other Oregon leaders at th«’
38th annual Oregon 4-H Lea
ders Conference in Salem, Ja
nuary 28-30.
The leaders who attended the
Conference were - Midge Te-
ramura, Ontario, Geology lea
der, Lori Lewis, Nyssa and Kim
Farley, Ontario, Home Eco
nomics leaders.
Ron Mobley, Malheur County
4-H Youth Agent, stated that
the leaders participated in va
rious workshops and activities
while in Salem. These sessions
included urban projects, Com
munity Pride, Outdoor Recrea
tion, Nuti itioii, Lhibliclty and
programs for the mentally and
physically handicapped. The
leaders also toured the 4-H
Center and joined the 4-H Youth
Conference delegation in co
hosting an appreciation dinner
for Oregon Legislators.
The leaders plus th»' Malheur
County delegates for the Ore
gon 4-H Conference, Barbara
Anthony, Debbie Bradfield and
Vickie Schaffeld, all of Vale,
returned horn«' late Tuesday
evening January 30.
\\ LA HIER
Some of the Nyssa High Sch»x>l students
capturing a 4.0 G.PA. for the first se
mester are: (first row) Jennifer Ure, Leann
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Owyhee Reservoir Storage
1-31-73
565,340 Acre Feet
598,080 Acre Feet
1-31-72
a physical examination by a
qualified physician. This exa
mination, in addition to veri
fication of U. S. citizenship,
will qualify applicants for photo
identification and plastic pay
roll cards. Those people who
had a fire card for 1972 will be
issued a card for 1973. Persons
new to the SRV program will be
required to pass a physical and
give proof of citizenship before
they will be issued cards. Me
dical forms can be obtained at
the BLM office in Vale after
March 15.
Those crew members who al
ready naveaflrecardare asked
to bring both the plastic payroll
and identification cards to the
district fire office starting in
April through June 30 to re
ceive a card for 1973. Any new
crew applicant should have
these preliminary requirements
completed by June 1 in order
to attend crew training in early
June.
Gurr explained that crews
must be organized early to pre
pare for fire activity which
could start in May. Eleven SRV
fire fighting crews were dis
patched to Arizona in early May
1972 to assist in controlling an
8,000 acre timber fire.
Adrian Honor
Roll Students
Superintendent Glenn E. Ward
announced the Honor Roll for
Adrian High School for the First
Semester.
Those with an "A” for the
semester are: Freshmen - Har
riet Lorensen and Robin Shenk.
Sophomores - Angela Conant
and Kathleen Deffer. Juniors -
Cherryl Cutler, Julie Ishida and
Toni Shenk. Seniors - Carol
Burroughs, Sandy Davis, Monte
Fujishin, Vickie Lane, Mary
Looney and Kathy Salomon.
Students receiving "B" for
the semester are: Freshmen -
Debbie Bowers, Deanna Chaney,
Marchelle Davis, Shannon Lin
ville, Tom Oka 1. Brenden Pratt,
Cherie Phelps, Sherrie Price,
Julie Shenk, Chuck Sykes, Ta
mara Webb and Beth Zueger.
Sophomores - Carmen Asto-
rica, Tonya Bennett, May Hon,
Elaire MacKenzie, Beulah Teter
and B.J. Wenke.
Juniors - Dennis Beebe,Steve
Bishop, Margo Case, Russell
Grau, Kathy Hardman, Tern
Morinaka, Carolyn Pratt and
Kelly Shenk.
Seniors - Linda Austin, Dick
Cameron, Connie Campbell,
Pennie Freel, Wanda Gregg,
Mark MacKenzie, Vicki Nelson
and Nancy Timmerman.
NYSSA NITE RODEO
BOARD TO MEET
Progressing
Friends of Jim Robinson will
be interested to know that he un
derwent a second surgery at St.
Vincent's Hospital m Portland
Saturday morning. He is still
under intensive care, and re
ports received Wednesday mor
ning indicate that he is getting
along satisfactorily.
Over $400 has been given by
friends to the money tree
located in Dr. Heitzman’s of
fice, and this money has been
sent to Judy Robinson to help
with some of the expenses.
The Nyssa Nite Rodeo Board
will have
an organizational
meeting tonight (Thursday), Fe
bruary 1, at 7:30 p.ni. in the
Library meeting room.
All of those interested in
seeing the rodeo continued in
Nyssa are invited to come and
voice your support. The board
is open for suggestions from
all interested jiarties.
Chairman
Keith
Langley
opened the meeting, and asked
that Superintendent W.L. Mc
Partland review the situation
which led up to the need for
a decision, which he did
He
pointed out that Nyssa has been
a member of the SRV for over
25 years, and also participated
in Oregon play on a sub-dis
trict basis. The past year Nyssa
has not played football and bas
ketball in the Greater Oregon
League because of a re
quirement that all members
must play a full round-robin
schedule.
Now, the superin
tendent said, it appeared that
the GOL would require that
member schools play a full
schedule in all sports, or not
be eligible in any. At the pre
sent time Nyssa is eligible for
state competition in wrestling,
track and baseball.
McPartland said that the
Nyssa
board has always
favored going back to sub-dist
rict.
In order to gam first
hand knowledge of the problems
facing other GOL schools, and
also to present our views, the
superintendent, boardchairman
Don Engstrom and board mem
bers Gene Stunz and Bill Schill
ing traveled to John Day, Ma
dras, Wahtonka and Milton-
Freewater.
They also made
plans to visit the two other
schools, Burns and Prineville,
but were turned down.
Chairman Don Engstrom said
that they were given a good re
ception at each school visited,
they found out for sqre that these
schools would not consider
going back to sub-district be
cause of scheduling problems,
and that they did want Nyssa
back in the league.
High school principal Gene
Chester told the board the ap
proximate travel costs for each
sport, using charter buses on
the longer trips, and including
meals and lodging, wouldbeap
proximately $6200 as near as
he could estimate, He said this
compares closely with $6,500
budgeted by Vale, Gene Stunz
said that Mac-Hi told them
that the costs were similar.
He also said that Madras pur
chased a used commercial type
bus for $13,000, and John Day
paid $28,000fora78-passenger
school bus that was also used
to transport students.
Questions from the audience
revealed that gate receipts at
games take care of officials and
equipment expense, and gate re
ceipts for 1971 were $6,115.
Bill Schilling said that some
of the schools would consider
Saturday football games if re
quested, which would help with
loss of school time, and allow
parents and fans to attend the
games.
Junior high principal Dan
Martin told the board that Mid
dleton and Homedale are seek
ing entry into the SRV, and the
handwriting is on the wall for
Nyssa’s future in the SRV.
It was also revealed that any
decision made now would not
affect football in 1973 as sche
dules are already made up in
both leagues, and that most of
the basketball schedules for
1973-74 are made up.
Mark Hartley told the au
dience that every group to
appear before the budget com
mittee this far in their deli
berations wants more money,
and this includes teachers, cus
todians, cafeteria help; and the
committee hasn’t had an op
portunity yet to come to grips
with the budget, He said also
that I he is very interested in
athletes go to state
see in Aour
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and that some place
play-ol
there must be a priority.
Glenn Marcum told the bud
get committee that a Sports
Boosters Club is being organi
zed to help support athletics at
every level, and they would help
all they can. Tom Church told
the committee that as an ex
athlete who had attended state
competition he felt that our
athletes today deserved this
right when able, He made the
point that in spite of location
Nyssa is an Oregon school.
After two hours of full dis
cussion, in which most com
mittee members and many indi
viduals from the audience parti
cipated, two things seemed tu
become evident.
(1) Nyssa’s years in the SRV
arc* limited, they are i nly ac
comodating
us now, and of
course we have no participation
in Idaho school play-offs.
(2) After a GOL vote on Feb.
6 it is most likely that Nyssa
must either participate fully in
that league or we will not be
eligible for play-offs at the
state level in any sports.
It was then moved and passed
that an additional $3,700 be in
cluded in the budget now being
prepared for athletic travel.
This is in addition to $1,000
that has previously been bud
geted for this use.
It was
pointed out that the total amount
of $4,700 is less than the esti
mated cost of $6,200 because
football could not be included
next fall.
The budget committee then
voted that Nyssa become a
member of the Greater Ore
gon League, an action that as
yet is unofficial because this
action must be taken by the
school board, but it was an
action that sent 40 athletic fans
home in a happy mood.
Adrian Class
Plans Trip
The Adrian eighth grad 'ass
is planning a week-long educa
tional and si e'il’ trip through
Oregon in early May. They arc
now studying Oregon Histor.
and the trip will enable them
to see what they have d'idi >d.
Some of th»’ places they w.ll
visit are the State Capitol, va
museums,
historical
rious
sights, and industries.
The students are planning
many fund raising activities
for the trip. The cost of the
trip will be approximately
$1,500.00. Some of the fund
raising activities will be din
ners, car washes, sidling of
goods, and a slave auction.
The first fund raising pro
ject will be a chicken-turkey
dinner Saturday, February 3,
1973, at the Adrian School Ca-
fetorium from 5 30 to 8 30 p.
m. There will be a cake raffle
and door prizes will be given.
Tickets will be sold at the door
or are available from the stu
dents. Cost of the tickets are,
$2.00 for adults, $1.50 for chil
dren 6 through 11 years, chil
dren 5 and under are free,
a family ticket for $6.50.
LUCAS MARTINS GAIARSA, an exchange
student from San Paulo, Brazil arrived Sun
day to spend six months with the Paul Kunkel
family in Nyssa. Standing behind Lucas and
their parents are John, Kathryn and Miriam
Kunkel.
Lucas arrived in Boise Sunday, Jan 28
after stops in Miami, Florida and Los
Angeles en route from Brazil. He has four
brothers, his father is a medical doctor,
and his mother is a high school biology
teacher. He has had two years of English
in school and speaks the language quite well.
He is a senior in high school and plans to
be an Electronics Engineer.
He is in the United States under the auspices
of the Youth For Understanding program.
Miriam
Kunkel will go to Germany this
year
for
three months under the same
program and stay with a German family.
Lucas is signed up for Math, Chemistry,
Physics, Music and Literature for the r> >t
of the school year.