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University Of Oregon Library Eugene, Ore. 97U03 Nyssa Gate City Journal Th« Sugar City 67th Year, 8th Issu« Nyssa, Oregon Thursday, February IS, 1973 Thund«r«gg Capital MALHEUR COUNTY BAR OPPOSES RECALL EFFORTS AGAINST JUDGE DORROH The Malheur County Bar Association Tuesday passed a resolution advising residents not to sign a petition to re call Judge Jeff D. Dorroh Jr., circuit judge of the Ninth Ju dicial District in Oregon. Petitions for Judge Dorroh’s recall for "indiscriminate use of his judicial powers in mat ters of budget and judicial ad ministration” are being circu lated by a "Citizens Commit tee to Recall Jiidp DOTH* Mike Singleton is chairman of the committee. The committee cited two ac tions of the judge which they object to. One relates to a sa lary increase sought by the judge for his secretary and the other concerns the judge set ting aside the verdict of guilt rendered by the jury against James Brandon who had been found guilty of five charges of negligent homicide. H. Clifford Looney, presi dent of the bar association re ported late Tuesday that the association had agreed that the budgetary matter involving the salary of the secretary is now pending in court and a matter of judicial determination. They reported that Judge Dorroh will not hear the case and the de cision will be made by the courts. They also said similar suits are now pending mother judicial districts in Oregon and a final resolution will be made by the appropriate courts. Homeowner's lax Relief Are you eligible for Home owner’s Property Tax Relief? The Sheriff’s Tax Office and the Assessor’s Office believe that some taxpayers are not taking advantage of this new law, ac cording to County Assessor Oscai Rraiton. This Is the law that repla ced the Senior Citizen Tax Exemption law and went into ef fect January 1, 1972. The cri teria for qualifying is owner ship of your home and the re lation of your income to tiie real property taxes that you pay. Whether your homestead is in the country or city makes no difference. Also if you are taking the Farm Use Deferral you may still qualify for tax relief under this law. It has been estimatedttiat one out of three homeowners may be eligible for property tax relief up to $400, This relief is not automatic, though, and requires application to the State Department of Revenue prior to April 16. (This is the yellow form that was mailed with your tax statement last fall.) Some $21,000,000 lias been set aside for this relief over a two year period. Each situa tion is unique and just because your neighbor does not qualify does not mean that you will not. Usually if you are making $8,000 to $10,000 net income you will not get much or any relief. The best thing is to check it out! Call 473-3165 (Tax Office) or 473-3192 (As sessor's Office). April 16 is the last day to file. They said that the decision of Judge Dorroh that there was Insufficient evidence in the cri minal case to justify a finding of guilty is a judicial deter mination. ’’For this to be a basis of recall petition strikes at the very foundation of our judicial system,” the associa tion said. "Our judicial system and Constitution provide for separa tion of powers and the adminis tration of justice should not be the subject of popular vote or recall, if the judicial decision of a judge is made the basis of a recall petition, the judicial system would be fettered and lose its independence. ”lt is essential to judicial administration that the courts be free and unencumbered ex cept through the appellate pro cedures provided by law.” The bar association is op posed to a recall election based upon judicial decisions made by a Judge, Looney reported. ’’Every judge should have a right to conscientiously make his decision without the threat of a recall petition being filed by those who disagrees with him. “The legislature has provi ded adequate means to appeal the decisions made by a judge to the Court of Appeals or the Su preme Court of the State of Oregon where his declsionsare reviewable lor errors.” Lund I se Plan CITY OF NYSSA CALLS FOR PUBLIC HEARING ON SUPPLEMENTAL BUDGET CHILDREN OF FRENCH GLEN 4-H CLUB, all‘students of French Glen School, toured the Amalgamated Sugar Company factory Tuesday afternoon in Nyssa, with District Manager Ray Larson conducting the tour. They had seen the Oregon Produce onion processing plant in Ontario earlier in the day, and were to tour the J.R. Simplot Company potato processing plant, and the Co-operative Creamery in Caldwell before returning home. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Groah, teachers, and Mrs. Catherine BLM Employ er Receives Award Hearing Set An award for special achieve ment for his superior work in Malheur's Comprehensive completing a complex assign Land Use Plan will be reviewed ment while employed by the at a public hearing - February Vale BLM district this past 28, 7 30 p.m., Vale City Hall, summer was presented to Roger according to Dr. John Easly, W. Corrigal at a recent staff County Planning Commission meeting. District Manager Chairman. George R. Gurr made the pre Chairman Easly went on to sentation in behalf of Oregon say this hearing does not in State Director Archie Craft. Corrigal was cited for his volve use, but primarily to es work as lead man on a two-man tablish broad land use policy guidelines for final ordinance team conducting a Phase I Wa preparation. Hearing dates re tershed Erosion Study in the lating to the prcgxtsed land use Southern Resource Area. This ordinance will be announced study involved running tran soon, Easly stated. Six com sects in various vegetative sub munity area meetings have been types and digging soil pits to held and community leaders are identify the different soils at preparing their recommenda each transect site. By the end tions to present to the planning of the work season, 947,000 commission, Easly concluded. acres were inventoried by the team who lived in remote cow and a converted bus PARENT MEETINGS camps during the period.Corrigal also answered fire call and assis SCHEDULED ted with several fires during the summer as well as keeping Pre registrations are still be his regular assignment ahead of ing accepted for a series of schedule. Information gained meetings, "Parent to Child from the study was valuable in About Sex,” which will be held writing the watershed portion of in Ontario February 27, 28 and the Antelope, Star Valley, and March 1. "45” Unit Resource Analysis Gurr said an award of this Robert F raster Anderson, Oregon State University Exten type has rarely been made to sion Family Life Special 1st, will a temporary employee. conduct the series. The meet Corrigal is a 1971 graduate ings are planned to help pa of Oregon State University with rents in their job of provid a B.S. in Range Management. ing their children with adequate He lias worked for the Vale knowledge to make decisions district for the past four sum in the area of their developing mers in a temporary capacity sexuality. Meetings will beheld as range aid or technician. He from 8 00 to 10:00 p.m. at the is well versed in the livestock Administration Building at business, having grown up on a TVCC. ranch in the Westfall area. Twenty-nine students from nine Oregon high schools will present research papers Fe bruary 24 at Oregon State Uni versity during the 31st annual meeting of the Oregon Aca demy of Science. Results of their individual research projects will be re ported in the Junior Academy of Science section, headed by Lewis H. Schaad, science tea cher at Western View Junior High School, Corvallis. Sixty papers will be presen ted during the day by senior Onion (»rowers Name Office •rs The Malheur County Onion Growers Association Directors met tn Ontario February 14 and elected a slate of officers for 1973 in addition to conducting several items of business. Officers for 1973 re-elected to their posts were Kay Te- ramura of Ontario as president, Roy Hasebe of Ontario as vice- president, and Harry Fukiageof Ontario as secretary-treasurer Ten Malheur County onion growers serve as directors for the Malheur County Onion Gro wers Association. The 1973 directors are Kay Teramura and Roy Hasebe for the Ontario District. Larry Saito and Noble Monnaka for the Nyssa Dist rict; and George Hironaka and Mas Yano for the Oregon-Slope District; Kaz Yamaguchi for the Vale District and Direc- tors-at-large, Manaro Waka- sugi of Oregon - Slope, Harry Fukiage of Ontario and Joe Saito of Ontario. New mem bers to the board of directors are Mas Yano and Noble Mo- rinaka. The Board reviewed the out come of the joint onion gro wers meeting held on Feb. 8 and discussed some pre liminary plans for the 1973 meeting. Research programs to be conducted by the University of Idaho and Oregon State Uni versity were examined. Warren Henninger, Malheur Extension Agent, reviewed onion extension programs he plans to conduct in 1973. These programs in clude insect control, water management and curing prac tices. hostesses for the dinner. Miss Waibel is 19 years old, 5 ft. 8 inches tall, and a student at Mt. Hood Com munity College. She graduated from Hills boro High School, and grew up with three brothers and two sisters on her parents’ 110-acre dairy farm. Monday was the first of a five-day trip by the dairy princess, covering all parts of the State of Oregon MIN DATE MAX 31 Feb. 14 44 32 43 Feb. 15 Feb. 16 45 25 Feb. 17 44 24 Feb. 18 48 28 Feb. 19 49 23 Feb. 20 48 24 Feb. 21 24 Owyhee Reservoir Storage 2/21/73 589,200 Acre Feet 2/21/74 583,860 Acre Feet The City of Nyssa has called for a public hearing Tuesday, March 6 to discuss a proposed Supplemental Budget, with ex penditures totaling $62,274.00 in Federal Revenue Sharing funds. Mayor Larry Bauman and City Manager Fred Koch ex plained that these extra funds, received by the city in two in stallments and now in time de posits earning interest, must be expended in this fashion and cannot by law be used to offset property taxes. The Revenue Sharing Act was passed by Congress in 1972 and is funded fora five-year period. The city officials estimate that Nyssa will receive somewhat over $320,000 in these five years. Three factors determine the amount of money to be re ceived, and they are based on population, the local tax effort, and relative income factor. Un der the formula, local taxes in cluding special levies such as the special street levy and the dog control levy, must be main tained. The supplemental budget is published elsewhere in this issue of the Journal, and is the result of much discussion with groups in the community, Mayor Fine, Mrs. Judy Barnes, Fred Witzel and Red Dunbar, 4-H leaders accompanied the group. Warren Henninger, County Agent; Rav Novotney, County Extension Agent, and Ron Mobley, 4-H Agent arranged the tour and accompanied the youngsters through the various valley plants. Larson told the group that the factory will close sometime Sunday afternoon after processsing over two million 100-pound bags of sugar. Nyssa High School Science Students To Report Studies \\ E ATI! ER OREGON DAIRY PRODUCTS Commission Secretary Ray Kozak receives a toast from two beauties, Oregon Dairy Princess Janice Walbel of Hillsboro, left, and Terrllynn Chamberlain, Malheur County Dairy Prin cess from Adrian. The toast was made with milk, of course, at the dinner held Monday evening at the Starlight Cafe in Vale. Mrs. Klaas l£an, Nyssa, is presi dent of the Malheur County Dairy Wives, Ten Cents scientists in anthropology, bio logy, chemistry, geography, geology and mathematics-phy sics. The 29 junior scientist pa pers represent a wide range of topics, including computer analysis, fuel cell performance, concentrations of six major ions in seawater, fresh water eco systems, soil micro-organisms water quality, pollution pro blems, and an analysis of sa liva with emphasis on its hea ling properties. Students selected to present papers at the scientific con ference from Nyssa are: Susan Davis, Rod Lewis, Ma nuel Perez, Sonia Saito, Max Elguezabal Jr., Laura Stunz, Debbie Alexander, Curtis M. Lords, and Roberta Morrow. JC President To Be In Nyssa New Officer Jo ins Police Carl Zellars, 22, is the newest member to join the Nyssa Police Department, join ing the force February 1. He is a former resident of Athena, Oregon and a graduate of Mc Ewen High School in Athena. Seed Growers Elect Officers CARL ZELLARS He was a ranch foreman be fore entering police work. Zel lars has one more quarter at TVCC to get his degree in law enforcement. He and his wife Ted Long, in the employment Connie, are living at Fischer’s division of the Nyssa Human Re Trailer Court, west of town. sources Center, spoke to the Nyssa Lions Club at their re gular meeting Tuesday noon at the Twilight Cafe. Long told “ J Lions about efforts being made to train migrant and non-Eng- City Manager Fred Koch re- lish speaking people, so that ported that the City of Nyssa they can become productive recently received $48,924 from members of society. the State of Oregon for sewage Six members of the Ontario treatment facilities. Club were visitors. Dave Ni Koch said that this is a grant cholson, County Red Cross from the state out of the state Chairman, told the group that bond issue for sewage treat participation by Nyssa in the ment. The money will go into Red Cross program is virtually the fund for bond repayment. non-existent, and asked the Lions help to find a person willing to serve as local chair man. Lions Hear Two Speakers City Receives Sewage Money Water Supply JIM Forecast Good “Near average spring and summer water supplies are forecast for Malheur County water uses depending on di rect diversion. Those users with access to stored water will leave excellent supplies’’, said S. Duane Town, District Con servationist for USDA Soil Con servation Service at Vale. The mountain snow pack varies from 85 percent on Jordan Creek to 115 percent on the Owyhee. Winter precipitaton for the No vember through January period is 14 percent above normal. ’’Soil moisture is near average which will enhance spring run off”. Town said. Eldorado Pass had 114 inches of snow with 2.4 inches of water. This is one inch less than average. Stinking Wa ter had 8 inches of snow with 1.9 inches of water. The ave rage water is 2.6 inches. Reservoir storage is 50 per cent above average in the area. The Owyhee inflow was 140per cent of average during January. Tom Brown, Oregon State President of the Junior Cham ber of Commerce, will be in Nyssa next Wednesday, Feb ruary 28 to help reorganize the Nyssa Junior Chamber ofCom- merce. Brown will be accompanied by members of the Ontario JC’s, and they will meet with pros pective members at 7;30 p.m. in the Eagles Hall basement. All young men between the ages of 21 and 35 are asked to attend. Directors of the Malheur County Alfalfa Seed Growers Association met in Adrian, Fe bruary 13 and elected officers for the coming year. They also summarized pollinator research projects needed to insure continued high alfalfa seed yields. Officers elected for 1973 in clude Wm. (Bud) Panike, pre sident, David Hill, vice-presi dent, and Ted Avery, secretary. The new treasurer for the or ganization is John Fahrenbruch. Directors pin pointed the principle alfalfa seed growing problem to be the decline of leafcutter bee numbers. These little bees are the chief pol linators of the areas alfalfa seed crop. For some undeter mined reason an unusually high mortality rate of the larval state of the bee has occurred during the past several years. A request for research on the problem will be presented at a meeting of the Deans of the Schools of Agriculture from the states of Oregon, Idaho, Washington and Nevada, at Boise on February 16. Bauman said. The city council and budget board feels that they have budgeted the money to pur chase needed equipment and ex penditures which have been put off in the past because of the tight budget of the last several years. The major proposed expen diture in the budget will be $21,000 for the water depart ment. This includes a new well on the Idaho side, in addition to the two wells already in ope ration there. This will give Nyssa the added water needed to alleviate a water shortage problem each summer. Im provements will also be made on the site, including fencing around the three wells. The balance of the water re venues will go for land, survey, and preliminary engineering for a proposed new three million gallon water storage tank. This has been under study for many years, and after studies have been completed, the city will ask the voters of Nyssa to ap prove the project. Preliminary cost figures are in the area of $375,000 and the council would like to use approximately $200,- 000 of future revenue sharing funds to help retire this debt. Mayor Bauman said that this storage would increase pres sure, and would give added as surance that Nyssa will have adequate water to meet the needs in the foreseeable future. It would also provide a much improved fire protection situa tion, with a possiblity of re- evaluation of fire insurance rates. Future revenue sharing plans call for replacement of a back hoe and street sweeper, both of which are getting old. The mayor said that the city council will again ask the voters of Nyssa to approve the special levy of $13,000 per year for street improvements. This levy has been approved twice in the past ten years, each for a five year period. He said that it is important that this levy be con tinued to maintain the tax effort necessary so that revenue shar ing is not cut in the future. City Manager Koch added that several other areas in the city will be improved by expendi tures from the proposed supple mental budget. $19,000 is pro posed for parks and cemetery, including adequate mowing equipment to take care of all the parks. SUGAR CAMPAIGN CLOSES SUNDAY The AmalgamatedSugar Fac tory’s 1972-73 campaign will come to a close Sunday after noon, February 25 after a 139- day campaign. This compares to a 116-day run last year. In a conversation with Ray Larson, Tuesday, he reported that approximately 830,000 tons of beets were sliced with ap proximately 2,150,000 - 100 - pound bags of sugar processed during the campaign. There was some loss this year of stored beets and the sugar content was down some what from last year. ROBINSON B£MERT Ik 2 P.M SUtftiy AFTERHOM B FEB 25 ¡B TALENT SHOW IB DRYING EOR i fcIKl ANO COLOR TV FREE ■ ■ WITH 8EWEEIT TICKET y/.r *'» a ** ;e •* ) TICKETS TICKETS FOR OR 6 A COLOR TV SET AND 10-SPEED BIKE will be given as door prizes at the Jim Ro binson Benefit Sunday afternoon at the high school cafetorium. Pictured are Mike Anderson, left and Dr. Jon Heitzman, two of the committee who have worked hard to make the program a success Proceeds will go to Jim Robin son to help with expenses incurred in two critical operations recently. Robinson re- turned home last weekend after almost two months in Portland hospitals. The TV set was donated by Parma Fur niture, and the bicycle was given by the Nyssa Merc and the Nyssa Lions Club. Dr. Heitxman, Anderson and other mem bers of the committee ask all citizens to join in helping this family who has suf fered financial distress through prolonged illness.