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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.
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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
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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.
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