University of Oregon Library Ore. 97403 x x Nyssa Gate City Journal The Sugar City 67»h Year, 16th Ittue Nyiia, Oregon Thurgday, April 19, 1973 RED CROSS BLOODMOBILE IN NYSSA WEDNESDAY, QUOTA IS ISO PINTS 'FREE COFFEE, PUNCH 4 COOKIES” after you donate a pint of blood when the Red Cross Bloodmobile visits Nyssa Wednesday, April 25at the Eag les Hall between 2 and 6 p.m. Share the joy of giving and being responsible for meeting the total blood needs of the re sidents of our area. The Boise region serves 37 counties in Idaho and Eastern Oregon and supplies the needs of 48 hospi tals, Including the Malheur Me morial. An average of 500 Units of blood per week Is needed. It is up to each Chapter to try and meet their assigned quota in order to maintain an adequate supply. Mrs. Marie Wilson, Presi dent of the Hospital Auxiliary, Ethel Lawrence and Freda Hol comb are Co-chairmen for the drawing. The Women of the Me thodist Church will be the hos tess group. Members of the Nyssa Chamber of Commerce will set up and take down the equipment. For the safety of both the donor and the recipient of the blood, the medical history of each donor Is checked by a re gistered nurse. His blood pres sure, temperature, pulse, and hemoglobin level are also de- All children up to and includ ing 8 years of age will gather at the South City Park, and children ages 9 through 12 will be at the Swimming Pool Park. Each child will be allowed a maximum of 4 eggs. At its 49th annual premium factory award banquet last week, The Amalgamated Sugar Company presented its top award to the Nyssa District for the 1972-73 sugar campaign. The event was held at the Rodeway Inn at Boise. Attend ing were 340 Nyssa employees, partners, and guests. Standing to receive the com pany's top awards were Jack Stewart, factory superinten dent, and Solon Lewis, master mechanic. The awards were presented by Sylvester Heiner and John Bishop from the com pany's general offices. Representing the company's board of directors and execu- termined by registered nurses. A physician serving on a volun teer basis, is In attendance at all times. All blood is collected by specially trained registered nurses. All other services are performed by volunteers re cruited by the chapters. Ail healthy persons between the ages 18 through 65 are eligible to give their blood. They must weigh a minimum ot 110 pounds and intervals be tween donations must be at least eight weeks. Certain conditions mean an automatic rejection or defer ment, and some of these are pregnancy and slx-months after delivery, a history of hepatitis; malaria, heart 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 SIXTH GRADE STUDENTS OF NYSSA HELD A FIELD DAY to donation, but they should last Thursday and cleaned up old corral posts and litter at avoid fatty foods. Persons en the rodeo grounds, piling the debris in two huge plies and gaged in occupations hazardous burning them At i !»ht are the presidents of the five classes of sixth to themselves or others will be deferred if they must return graders, who with the vice presidents and committee chairmen to work within 12 hours after make up the Student Council. They are, front row from left, donation. Any further questions Suzy Page, Mr. Jasper's room; and Tina Saldana, Mr. Sloan’s Back row, Eric Vanetti, Mrs. Leggett’s room, Mike please contact Mrs. Wilson, room. Johnson, Mr. Aman's room, and Colleen McGinley, Mrs. Mc- 372-2981. Partland's room Each of these presidents take turns being chairman ot the Student Council. This field day helped to carry out part of the by-laws of the school, adopted by the council, which reads as follows- Citlzens of Nyssa's Elementary School have a responsi- bilty for a Clean America. Our awareness should be on ail levels, home, school, city, county, state and nation-wide. Each Eggs stamped with a mer one’s responsibillty will be to: chant's name can be redeemed 1. Be aware of their own litter. for a cash prize at the merc 2. Pick up litter. hant's place of business. 3. Place litter in trash receptacles. Participating stores are Wil 4. Work on litter [»trois. son's Department Store, Coast 5. Encourage others of their responsibilities by writing to Coast Store, The Merc De and publishing articles annually on bow to help keep America partment Store, Nyssa Rexall clean. Pharmacy, Bracken's Depart ment Store, Wilson’s Discount Market, M4 W Market, Ray’s Food Fair, Rleb’sClover Farm, and the Firestone Store. Ambassador To Visit TVCC Morinaka—Cutler Chosen for Girls State TERRI MORINAKA CHERYL CUTLER Terri Morinaka of Adrian High School has been selected by the Adrian American Legion Auxiliary »109 and Cherryl Cutler has been selected by the Adrian Farm Bureau to represent Adrian at the 32nd annual Girls State to be held at Willamette University In Sa lem June 10-16. The girls are chosen on lea dership, character, honesty, phy steal fitness, scholasticsand cooperativeness. Terri is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ted Morinaka of Adrian Terri Is active in school. She is a member of the Honor Society, GAA, Pep Club, Thespians and Chorus, and was in the musical "Lil Abner." She accompanied the Adrian High School Marching Band to Washington, D. C. at the Cherry Blossom Festival. She was on the hockey team and track for three years. Cherryl Cutler Is the daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Cutler of Route 1, Nyssa. Cherryl is a member of Hi-Yl, Honor Society, GAA, FHA, Pep Club and Thespians. She is also a member of track, ihorus, tumbling, and drill team. She was sophomore class treasurer and junior secretary-treasurer of the Pep Club. Urtted States Amt».: ,u ,, to Kuwait, John Patrick Walsh, will appear at a Treasure Valley Community College convocation April 24 at 11 a.m. in the Weese Building Kuwait, where Mr. Walsh was assigned in 1969, is a small but oil rich sheik- dom located on the Persian Gulf In northeast Arabia. Ambassador Walsh was born In Chicago, Illinois m 1918, and educated at the University of Illinois (BS)andCatholic Uni versity (BMA). In 1948, after wartime service as a Naval Officer, he obtained his PH.D from the University ofChicago, and also served an academic year as ai. international Fellow at Harvard University. He entered the United States Foreign Service In 1948, and has served in a variety of assign ments in the Department as well as overseas in Ireland, Norway, Canada and Iran. At the time of his appointment as Ambassador to Kuwait In No vember, 1969, he was serving as Acting Special Assistant to the Secretary of State, and Ex ecutive Secretary of the Depart ment. In 1967, he received the State Department's Superior Honor Award. He recently re turned from the Middle East for a year's assignment as Dlplo- mat-ln-Residence at Washing ton State University. Ambassador Walsh is a widower, and has three children. He speaks French and German. City Manager Fred Koch said that once again we ask for your support and vote for a $13,000.00 Five-year Special Levy, which has been in effect for the past ten years. This money is a dedicated fund to be used on street work only. It is the money that has paid for the oiling that we have done and in general the street main tenance work and also has pro vided some money toward a fund for acquiring new equip ment, It is not an additional tax. The preliminary budget for the year 1973-74 shows no In crease in the total taxes, taking CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES BEGIN Nyssa High School has been competing again this year in the Junior Varsity Quiz games seen Saturday each week on Channel 7, KTVB, Boise. Team members this year are Kathy Kunkel, Randy Savage, Neil Oldemeyer, Jimmy Shi- momaeda and John Strickland. Thus far, the team has been victorious over McCall-Don nelly, Kuna and this past week won over Middleton. With these three victories, their next op ponent will be the winner of the Parma-Fruitland game. May 5, at 5:30 p.m., Channel 7. This will be the championship game, with the winner advancing to the Grand Champion game, Mav 19. 176 undergraduate students at Eastern Oregon College, La- Grande, earned grades which placed them on the dean’s list for winter term, according to Janies R. Hathhorn, Dean of Students. Of those listed, 46 had per fect averages of 4.0: including Carolyn Ward of Adrian. Those with average from 3.5 to 3.9 include David Phelps and Joann Timmerman of Ad rian. » High school and junior high athletes were honored at this annual event, with the meal prepared by school cafeteria cooks and served by FHA girls under the direction of Mrs. lion Neufeld, lach coach presented his team members, with the records made by every team from 7th grade through varsity pro bably the best In athletic history of the school. DATE MAX MIN PR EC April 11 72 35 April 12 74 38 April 13 67 39 April 14 61 35 April 15 63 35 April 16 51 33 April 17 52 42 .15 April 18 31 .02 I iwytiee Reservoir Storage .’13,38(1 Acre Feet 1 18 73 4/18/72 704,210 Acre Feet tive committee was Edwin R. Niehaus, Jr., senior vice presi dent. In addressing the group, he said Many will remember the 1972-73 season because it gave us the worst weather extremes we’ve had in the last quarter century. However, when this memory begins to fade, this campaign will go on being re membered for the remarkable effort and sacrifice all of you made in helping to avoid a real tragedy with our beets this year.’’ These coveted awards, which were initiatedin 1923, are based on how well a district performs according to a series of opera ting standards, which include slicing performance, sugar ex traction, sugar quality, fuel con sumption, labor expenditures, and the cost of operating sup New Treasure Valley Com plies over the entire sugar munity College Student Body campaign. Association officers for 1973- This year, Nyssa operated 74 were selected in a campus for 139 consecutive days in election April 3. processing the sugarbeets from Elected president was Den- local growers. nis DeBord, son of Mr. and Mrs. The Nyssa district won its Don DeBord of Payette. Dennis first award in 1941 and has is a 22-year old Criminology now won nine of the bronze major. Pat Lau of Aiea, Hawaii plaques, which are displayed in was chosen vice-president. He the reception area of the Nyssa is the 18-year old son of Mr. factory offices. and Mrs. Frederick Lau and a The company's Nampa and Forestry major at Treasure Twin Falls districts have also Valley Community College. won nine of these awards. Teri Barton of Ontario was selected for the secretary post. 4-H LEADERS TO She is the 18-year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Red Barton. MEET NEXT WEEK She is a business major. Trea A meeting for ail 4-H Lea surer will be Billie Matthews. ders and Community Coor She is a 20-year old home eco dinators will be held Tuesday, nomics major from Hood River April 24, at 8:00 p.m. at Trea and is the daughter of the Les sure Valley Community Col ter Matthews of that community. lege, Administration Building, Candie LeFebvre of Woodburn Room C-7. will be the publicity director. All leaders are encouraged She is a 19-year old art major to attend, as the business in and the daughter of the Lavern cludes election of Leader Asso LeFebvres. ciation Officers, committee re The new officers will take ports and discussion of the office in the summer term. Association structure. TVCC Student Body Officers City Election Monday On Special Street Levy EOC List« BOR GIBB, right, was principal speaker at the annual athletic banquet sponsored by the Nyssa Lions Club last Thursday evening. With Gibb is Gene Chester, center, president of the Nyssa Lions and high school prim Ipal, and Harry McGinley, left, retiring high school football coach and friend of Gibb since their early days of coaching back in Nebraska. Ten Cents NYSSA DISTRICT RECEIVES TOP PERFORMANCE AWARD FOR AMALGAMATED SUGAR Chamber Sponsors Easter Egg Hunt Saturday The Nyssa Chamber of Com merce will sponsor an Easter Egg Hunt for area children Saturday, April 21. starting at 1 p.m. Thunderegg Capital this $13,000.00 levy into con- sideration. Koch said that maintain ing this tax effort we will main tain the same level of Revenue Sharing Monies for the next four years as we have been receiv ing so far. As las been pub licized previously the Council intends to dedicate the bulk of these Revenue Sharing Funds, somewhat over $200,000.00, to ward the construction of the Wa ter System Improvements which are needed. At another place in this issue of the Gate City journal you will find the official notice of the election, which is to be held next Monday, April 23, at the Meeting Room of the City Li brary from 8:00 A.M. to 8.00 NYSSA PTA Nyssa PTA will present a "Parents Round-Up" at the Primary School at 7:15 tonight, Thursday April 19. The kindergarten, first and second grades will present a short program in the multi purpose room. Following the program, your child will want to show you his classroom and some of his work. The PTA Science program that was announced last week is postponed for the May meet ing. First National Earnings Up First National- Bank of Ore gon reported first quarter earn ings rose 16.8 per cent to $4,000,818, or 75 cents per share, from $3,425,091, or 65 cents per share, a year before. Income after calculating gains and losses on security transactions amounted to $4,- 001,197 for the 1973 first quar ter compared with $3,470,358 for the 1972 quarter Deposits increased 13.6 per cent from the 1972 first quarter recording of $1,842,018,818 to a record first quarter high of $2,091,658,453. First National’s 130 state wide offices reported loans out standing of $1,323,826,008, up 15.5 per cent from the $1,146,599,954 at the end of the first quarter last year. Re sources were $2,443,374,495, up 14.2 per cent from last year’s three-month total of $2,139,180,914. The Nyssa branch reported deposits of $11,526,686 and loans of $4,993,576 as of March 31. Comparable totals for the branch a year ago were $9,- 656,670 in deposits and$4,450,- 221 in loans. ADRIAN PT A The Adrian PTA will hold their monthly meeting Thurs day, April 19, in the grade school cafeteria. Mr. Phelps and his sixth grade class will present a play. PARENTS WEEKEND Election of officers for the next school year were held at AT U of O the last meeting. The new Pre Parents of all University of sident is Mrs. Virginia Baker; Oregon students are invited to Vice-President, Carl Lovltt; the campus for the special Pa Secretary, Karen Wiggins; rents' Weekend on April 27 and Treasurer, Barbara Asumendi. 28. Focus of the weekend will be on the University four-year Centennial Celebration, com memorating the legislative charter of 1872 which created the University and the opening of its doors to students in 1876. A special weekend has been planned that will highlight ac tivities to acquaint parents with different aspects of the Univer sity, both past and present, ac cording to RickCoursey of Dun dee, president of the Junior Class, which sponsors the weekend. Ny ssa Legion Auxiliary Sponsors Girls To State BETH ANN KASSMAN The Nyssa American Legion Auxiliary is proud to announce their choice of Beth Ann Kass man to attend Girls State and Shelly Munn as alternate. Both girls have outstanding qualities of leadership, rank high scholastically and are ta lented in many categories. Girls State is a one-week program for 200 girls at Wil lamette University June 10 to 16. It is a study of politics and government with girls com peting for city, county and state offices. The girl elected go vernor will attend Girls Nation in Washington, D. C. While there they will present bills to thier legislature and holdcourt trials in the capitol. Our governor, some legislators and judges are on hand to assist and ex plain. On the last night, an impressive candle-light cere mony is held. Not only do the SHELLEY MUNN girls learn but the legislators learn what the young people find important. Beth Ann is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Kassman. Beth is junior class treasurer. She is a member of the Honor Society, German club, concert choir and drill team. She has been on the honor roll for three years. Beth helps her dad at the service station. Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Munn are the parents of Shelly. Shelly likes to ride horses, sew and cook. She was on the Junior Varsity show. She is on the Tupelo staff and plans to be co-editor of the Bulldog next year. She is class secretary, reporter for FHA and prom committee secretary She is a member of Job’s Daughters. Upon completion of highschool, Shelly plans to major in foreign languages and become an air line stewardess. Adrian Letterman To Hold Slav« Auction The Adrian Letterman’sClub will be holding a Slave Auction, Monday, April 23 in the high school gym at 8 p.m. This is an annual affair to raise money for the support of their club. Everyone who is interested in having some work done is in vited to attend this auction. SOME OF THF 60 NYSSA STUDENTS who walked to Ontario Saturday are seen along the highway as two National Guardsmen offer drinks. They were part of a total ot 172 students participating In the first Walk- a-Thon for the March of Dimes. Mrs. John Stubstad, MalheurCountychair- man of the drive, said that the county’s goal this year is $5,000. It will not be known for some time how near this goal is reached, but the enthusiasm of the marchers and all who helped to make the walk a success was appreciated. *.