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Thursday, April 5, 1973 H nhs students earn BUSINESS AWARDS THE PAST 10 YEARS AGO 40 YEARS AGO The Miss Malheur beauty pa geant will be held SaturtMy April 27, at the Ontario High School auditorium, according to Ontario Jaycees, sponsoring organisation. Eight entries have been re ceived from young ladies in Vale, Ontario, and Nyssa. Nyssa contestants are Dee Ann Adams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Adams and Judi Hingham, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Bingham. e • • Miss Rosa Alvarez, exchange student from Chile, will be speaker at a Chilean Festival to be held at 7 30 this evening in the school cafetorium. Miss ,Alvarez will speak to Nyssans about her native country. 20 YEARS AGO Beer will be sold in the Koty Cafe and in the Rosebud and Olympic Club pool rooms when it becomes legal at the stroke of midnight (tonight) if the first supply, which is hard to get, will fill tli>- demand. Just what the price will be is yet a question as the local re tailers know little about ihe coat. In Portland, where the h- cense is $20 a year for a retailer, the first price an nounced is 10 cents a glass for I'» .<1 beer, 15 cents for a 12- ounce bottle and 25 rents for a 12-ounce bottle of eastern beer. ♦ • Before Nyssa sheepmen and their many herders make their annual trek into the hills, they trek into the doctor's office for the U.S. vaccine which makes them immune to spotted fever. The middle of March to about the first of June lurks the most danger for all of those who travel along the brush covered trails where sheep have passed. Only the infected tick carries the spotted fever germ but they seem to be far too numerous. Malheur County's high hills and deep canyons brought ex pressions of apprehension from Hollanders, accustomed to be low sea level plains, when they arrived here last Wednesday on their first visit to America from Holland. Mr. and Mrs. Peetom expect to spend the ensuing six months at the home of their daughter, Mrs. Klaas Laan of the Ne 50 YEARS AGO well Heights community. They Garrett Stam suffered a se- immediately commented that they had no idea the hills were vere loss Wednesday when his so high, but Mrs. laan stated hog pen caught fire and was consumed, together that before their visit is com entirely pleted they will be taken to with a herd of ten very fine Owyhee Dam, Succor Creek thoroughbred white hogs. The Canyon and other areas that fire originated from sparks fly make the near by "mountain ing from weeds which were ous areas" look like a flat being burned on the Owyhee ditch bank. plain. • 0 9 Gene Gnasty, Nyssa manager of Malheur Home Telephone Company, today announced that Friday, May I at midnight has been set as the time for the company's change to dial ope ration. Postmistress Thompson has received instructions from postal authorities to close the postoffice at 6 30 p.m. begin ning Monday, March 26. CRADLE ROLL 30 YEARS AGO The Van Petten interests are razing one of Nyssa's rather old landmarks, the former Mc Connell resldMC* located be tween the Eder HardwareCom- pany store and the Idaho Po wer Company office. The house was built by Mrs. McConnell In 1908 on the site of the first residence west of the railroad tracks. The Eder Hardware Company will use the space for a park ing lot. Driveways will be constructed in the front and rear of the company. • • • A service flag honoring for mer Nyssa HigtiSchool students who are now serving In the armed forces was presented to the high school student body by the Girl's league at an assembly held in the school building last Friday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Chuck (Carol) Corak of Halfway are parents of a baby boy bom March 21, 1973 in the Grande Ronde Hos pital In la Grande. He tipped the scales at 7 pounds and 10 ounces. The parents have cho sen the name Brandt Jay for their new son. Brandt joins a sister Tori, two years old. Maternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Reece of Nyssa and paternal grand parents are Mr. and Mrs. Ma rion Corak of Caldwell. HOLY ROSARY HOSPITAL March 28 • Mr. and Mrs. Walter Scott, Vale, boy. March 30 - Mr. and Mrs. A. Lynn Barton, Nyssa, boy. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Funk, Ontario, girl. April 3 - Mr. and Mrs. Ciyo Chavez, Ontario, girl. April 4 - Mr. and Mrs. Russell Pye, Ontario, boy. ADRIAN BUSINESS DIRECTORY LOONEY’S SHOPPING CENTER Bill 4 Ruth Looney Grocery Dept. - Sundries Irrigator Boots Everyday Wear - -Hand Tools Magazines-Flshing Tackle- Parma 724-6135 Nyssa 372-2722 c . g "BROWN'S" Real Estate Agency FOR SALE ARMS ¿¿«I JEA'S BEAUTY BAR Bea Grossnickle I f l Y. I ■■ permanents$12.50 PHONE 372-2882 Phone 372-2653 ADRIAN MERCANTILE George & Lois Cartwright Groceries - Dry Goods Housewares Gifts 4 Glft Wrapping 1 Gold Strike Stamps Nyssa 372-2727 Parma 724-6131 ADRIAN OIL COMPANY Clay Webb Gas-Oil-Lube Propane "Weed Burners” Phone 372-2877 724-6130 PARKER LUMBER A HARDWARE Vern & Georgia Parker Complete line "Dutchboy” paint. Wji Irrigation supplies—dams, W' boots, shovels. Garden tools. Phone 372-2433 or Phone 724-6174 CALLAHAN & HOLLY, , k Bob Member of O.M.C. 24 Hr. WRECKER; 724-6476 Pag* Three The Nyssa Gate City Journal, Nyssa, Oregon General Repairs r WRfXPIRTS SERVICE 372-3213 724-5207 DRIAN SUPPLY & REPAIR Gayle Martin See us for "Truckbeds" and "Hoists" Special Farm Equipment Phone 372-2354 Nyssa High School business students and typing students earned three awards in the Business Skills Contest at Eas tern Oregon College in La- Grande March 31. Approxima tely 12 schools participated in the third annual event. Felipa Soliz placed second and Launa Schulthies third in bookkeeping. Competing agai nst some 50 students Merle Saunders placed second in the Typing I division. Other participants included Karla Beck, Delores Elgueza- bal and Lori Salto, typing, Shel ley Munn, spelling, Jennifer Ure and Patsy Wilson, ten-key adding machines, and Dan Cru- CAMPFIRE SESSIONS are a favorite activity at Camp Easter son and Pat Ross, bookkeeping. Seal on the Oregon coast, where nearly 200 physically handi Office Occupation Instructor capped children and young adults from throughout the state Dale Schraufnagel accompanied enjoyed a camping experience each summer. The camp is the group of students. specially designed for persons in wheelchairs, on crutches or hampered by leg braces. !\ew Appraiser leaves County Malheur County Assessor, Oscar Bratton announced today the resignation of Butch Gehley, appraiser for the Assessors* office. Mr. Gehley was hired in February to fill a vacancy in the appraisal department. Geh ley resigned to accept a large increase in salary as an apprai ser for Union County Assessor, Dick Hartsock. Bratton said, "1 would liked to have kept Mr. Gehley as he had the education and back ground for an outstanding ap praiser. In tile short time that he was on our staff his work was of high quality." Bratton said, "I think it U a sad situation that we cannot pay our county employees a high enough salary to retain them and that our sons and daughters con tinue to seek employment out side the county for a better stan dard of living. Apparently Mal heur County will continue its roll as a training ground for other city, county and state offices.” History Lecture On Sk inner Toll Road The building and operation of the Skinner Toll Road, a major transportation line Important in the development of the south eastern part of Oregon and the mining area around SilverCity, Idaho will be discussed on Thursday, April 12, when S. K. "Klrt” Skinner will present the seventh lecture of the cur rent series dealing with his tory of the Malheur Country. The program, beginning at 8 p.m., is part of an eight lec ture program conducted by the Malheur Country Historical So ciety and Treasure Valley Com munity College. The lecture will take place in the Weese Memorial Building. ^ARCADIA^ BY AVO MOELLER •••• PHONE 372-2733 •••• ARCADIA - Mrs. Otis Bul lard and Mrs. Don Bullard vi sited Mrs. Richard Baker and new son Monday, April 2 in Nampa. Mr. and Mrs. George Moeller attended services Sunday morn ing at the College Church of the Nazarene in Nampa where Dr. John Wesley White, associate evangelist with the Billy Gra ham Evangelistic Association was guest speaker. They vi sited Mr. andMrs. Terry Priest and Mr. and Mrs. Lester Hen- dricksen in Boise in the after noon. Mr. and Mrs. Otis Bullard and Nancy Bayack were dinner guests Sunday in the Donald Bul lard home. Mrs. George Bayack from Meridian was an afternoon visitor, and to get Nancy Bayack who spent from Thursday to Sunday in the Bullard home. Mrs. Gladys Falk from Payette visited one day last week with her niece, Mrs. Or ville Needs. Mr. and Mrs. Leweilyn Rob bins and family from Baker visited Sunday afternoon in the L.E. Robbins home. Mrs. Lois Henderson who is recuperating in the Nyssa Nur sing home from a broken hip visited Sunday evening in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Mernl- dean Robbins. Mr. and Mrs. Orville Needs left Boise March 22 by plane for Olympic, Wash., for a visit with their daughter Mr. and Mrs. Gene Chamtiers and fa mily and to get acquainted with their new granddaughter Lynda Marlene who arrived February 2. They returned home Sun day March 25. Mr. and Mrs. E.J. Marquardt and Henry and Lori from Eve rett, Wash., arrived Saturday, March 31 for a weeks visit with her parents, Mr and Mrs. Henry Carroll Sunday visi tors in the Carroll home were Mr. and Mrs. Orville Carroll and baby from Ontario and Mrs, Jim Carroll and girls from Adrian. «ce FIRE CALLS! Adrian Volunteer firemen an swered several calls recently reports Don Hatch, fire chief. Monday, March 19, they were called to the John Farenbrunch farm, a small shed burned caus ing $800 damage. They an swered a call to the Eddy Nel son ranch south of Adrian the same day. A grass fire is re- ported with some damage to the corrals. March 17, they Saturday, were called to the Chuck Morris residence in Adrian where they extinguished a grass fire, no damage reported. Wednesday, March 21, they were called to an auto wreck to stand by tor possible fire, there was no fire damage. Monday, March 26, the fire men answered a call to the Don Fox farm. A tractor caught fire, there very little fire
