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67th Year, 19th Issu«
The Sugar City
Ny>>a, Oregon Thursday, May 10, 1973
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Thundcrwgg Capital
Ten Cent»
NYSSA VOTERS APPROVE
SCHOOL BUDGET, ELECT
SIMANTEL TO BOARD
I LOCAL CONTESTANTS TO
APPEAR IN HIGH SCHOOL
1 RODEO AT JOHN DAY
Rodeo action
begins this
weekend for members of the
Oregon High School Rodeo As-
sociation with a two day rodeo
at John Day. Sponsored by the
Grant County HighSchool Rodeo
Club, competition will begin
both Saturday
and Sunday at
1 p.m. at the Grant County Fair
Grounds. Over 195 young people
from throughout the state are
expected
to
compete with
awards being presented to top
competitors through fourth po­
sition at the end of the show.
Saturday evening a dance will
be held for the young people in
the Exhibition Hail of the Fair
Grounds.
Attending
from
Malheur
County
will
be thrlty-five
youths, plus advisors.
They
Include
VALE: (9) Jeff Wlllden, John
Hammond,
Gayle
Hawkins,
Robin Ross, Bill Cummings,
Craig Hawkins, Lance Willden,
Ed Keller, Sue Olsen and Ad­
visor Gordon Hammerle.
NYSSA (8) Frank Rodriquez,
Evelyn Bailey, Jill Jackson,
Eileen Joyce, Carl and Wes
Cleaver, Don and Dean Sappe,
Wade Johnson, Randy Froerer,
and Advisors Fred Child,Clau­
dette Stelling, Jo Bailey, and
Mike Sclnclalr.
ONTARIO: (17) Randy Kelly,
Chuck
Schaffeld,
Shannon
Pierce, Gordon Rowan, John
Daily, Scott Paulson, Ted Allen,
Debbie Goodman, Becky Bones,
Julie Plaza. Mary Yturrl, Lisa
Jennings, Denise Plaza, Karen
Danielson, Jerry Rowan, Rob
Cochran, and Dick Schaffeld,
plus Advisors Mr. and Mrs. Al
McGrath and Shirley Jennings.
The youngsters will be com­
peting in all of the top rodeo
events including bull riding,
calf roping, team roping, bare-
back, steer wrestling, barrel
racing, pole bending, goat tying,
and breakaway roping.
Next Spring Rodeo for the
OHSRA will be held at Nyssa
May 26th and 27th followed
by a weekend rodeo at Vale
June 2nd and 3rd. Stock for
the second and third rodeos
NYSSA'S NEW WATER WELL is shown producing a test flow
will be furnished by Ralph Ste­ of 420 gallons per minute as City Manager Fred Koch checks
vens of Midvale, Idaho. This for sand. The well Is adjacent to two other city wells on the
is the same stock to tie used Idaho side of the Snake River, and was drilled by Max Holloway
Although the blood drawing during theState Finals at Burns,
of Ontario.
netted 86 pints it was 64 pints
July 5th through Sth.
In the photo at right Ralph Lowe, water superintendent and
from the goal.
Dean Winchester are shown installing a length of 10 inch pipe
Three-gallon pins were awar
which will connect the new well into the system with the two
ded to Bob Wilson and Mrs.
existing wells. When this job Is completed a pump house will
Mary Laan at the blood drawing
be constructed over the new well,
held April 25, 1973 and spon­
Koch said that this is the first phase of major water system
The
artist for the month
sored by the Malheur Memo­
improvements planned for Nyssa. Later a booster pump and
rial Hospital Auxiliary, accor­ of May at the Nyssa Public Li­
proposed 3,000,000 gallon storage facilities will be submitted
ding to Mrs. Bob Wilson, chair­ brary is Patricia Lewis, a pro­
for approval by Nyssa citizens.
fessional artist from North
man.
Two-gallon pins went to Carl Power, Oregon. Mrs. Lewis
Lassiter and the Rev. Robert has always had a desire to be
an artist but only recently has
Manley,
There were six first-time had the opportunity to persue a
donors Mary Ann Dorlty.Jutta serious career in art. She has
Cleaver, Mary Mausltng, Geze taught herself much of what she
Mahaleczki, Richard Cooper knows with brief instruction in
Nyssa City Councilmen heard so that this first phase of the
oils.
and Kathy Harrod.
Mrs. Lewis has been paint­ plans for a proposed Improve­ project may get underway.
Others were: the Rev. Ro­
In other business the council
bert Simard, Sylvia
Wenke, ing for 2 1/2 years and has ment In the city water system
Melvin Spitze, Rudelpho Ix>n- exhibited tn many places. Other at the regular meeting Tuesday approved the request of Roger
Earl Reynolds, re­ Baker to furnish water and se­
garia, Donald Gee, Jr., Glen interest which keep her busy evening.
Fredruksen.
Merrill Call, besides painting Include her presentlug the engineering firm wer
service
for
a pro­
Mary Staples, Melvin Felk, Ru- four children, gardening, year of Cornell, Howland, Hayes and posed trailer court to be con­
lon Staples, John Siam, Don round in a greenhouse, horse­ Merryfield of Boise, discussed structed on Locust Avenue be­
Oldemeyer, Dorothy Sanders, back riding and travel and walk­ the proposed improvements.
tween 9th street and the high­
Oregon property owners, dis­
City Manager Fred Koch said way. The owner must pay all
Dirk DeBoer, Anthony Frost, ing to view nature first hand.
satisfied with assessed value
Gerald Simantel, I.eRoy Me- All of her paintings which are that Reynolds approved the re­ costs of constructingthe.se ser­ of their property as determined
cham, Bill Morrison, Ruby Os­ on display are originals and port previously submitted by vices, with water service not to by their county assessor, may
borne, Harold Kassman, Jerry portray local subject matter Koch with findings on the needed commence prior to August 15 file appeals with their county
Huntley, Donna Webb, Evertt near North Powder or within storage facilities and pressure of this year.
board of equalization beginning
booster facilities.
Heldt, John Mantle, Lisa Sykes, Oregon.
City manager Koch reported May 14, when the boards be­
Some paintings which can be
Dick Tensen, Alvin Allen. Ray
on the status of North Park. gin their annual meetings.
Reynolds suggested that the
Antique
jug with
Larsen, James Wight, Ruby seen are:
He told the council that new
Forms for filing appeals with
work could be done in two
Wight, Gladys Spitze, Jay Dra­ Daisies (oil), February Land­
underground lines for the sprin­ the county boards can be ob­
stages, one a study of the hy­
per, Orville Needs, Dan Mar­ scape (oil), and Summertime
kler system have been comp­ tained in the office of the county
draulic system, and the other
tin, Dave Waldo, Yvonne Fan­ Crasher (acrylic).
leted, but an addltonal trans­ assessor or the county clerk.
structural design and construc­
ning,Duane Buchtel, Cecil Mor­
former to be erected next week Appeals must be filed with the
tion plans and specifications.
is required before the pumping county clerk on or before May
ri-- ■ ii. Ruth Larssen, George
Koch noted that funds in the system is operable.
Fanning, ErnestZlnle, Fae Gee,
21, 1973, in order for the board
MAY 13
Revenue Sharing Budget for fis­
He said that after fertilizer to consider any change in asses­
Bart>ara
Fitzsimmons, Bill
cal year 1973-74 were such that is applied and the seed beds
Fitzsimmons, Donald Gee, Ma­
sed value for the 1973 assess­
tills first phase can be paid are prepared that the park will
rlon Tyner, Elvy Madrid, Jon
ment year.
for
prior
to
any
bond
issue.
be seeded back into grass in
Heitzman, Merlldean Robbins,
The county boards are requi­
After discussion the council in­ September.
A new back stop red to determine the correct
Mark Moncur, Nona Fischer,
structed Mr. Reynolds to pre­ for the ball field will also be
Donald Hart, Lucille Wilson,
estimate of the value of the
pare the hydraulic system study constructed at that time.
Allen Hart, John Price, Dee
property in question. They re­
Garner, John Beckham, Dave
view the facts and decide whe­
Ballantyne,
Florence Lewis,
ther the valuation should be in­
Peggy
Vander Oord, Tom
creased,
decreased, or re­
Church, Art Cartwright, Jim
main as set by tne assessor.
Kile, J. B. Lewis, Don Perdue,
A taxpayer making an appeal
Ralph Lawrence, Gene Ches­
should bear in mind that he must
ter, Dr. David Sarazln, Wil­
Dr. Charles Stanger, 43, an he entered Utah State Univer­ produce solid evidence that his
ton Jackson, Robert Webb, Wil-
agronomist, has joined the staff sity. After graduation, he wor­ property has been incorrectly
Ham Baker, Jeannette Garner,
of the Malheur Experiment Sta­ ked In sugar beet production for assessed. He should not appeal
The American Legion re­ tion, part of Oregon State Uni­ the Amalgamated Sugar Com­
Marie Wilson, Virginia Clea­
merely on the grounds that his
ver, Edward Cordova, and Ri­ cently received two awards. versity's Oregon Agricultural pany at Burley until he en­ taxes are high.
One was a National Citation for Experiment Station.
chard Thompson.
tered graduate school at OSU.
If he is dissatisfied with the
Mrs. Wilson would like to meritorious service In carrying
He will work with E. N. Hoff­
Stanger earned master’s and decision of the board, there are
thank everyone who took the forward the national program. man, superintendent of the sta­ doctorate degrees in weed con­
time to come and donate a The second was a certificate tion.
trol science. He received the Rignay
pint of blood and also those who of recognition in appreciation
Since receiving a doctor’s de­ Phi Sigma Society Award as
worked on the different com­ for their participation In reach­ gree from OSU in 1971,Stanger outstanding graduate In biolo­ Granddaughter
mittees during the Bloodmo- ing membership goal by January has been a research agronomist gical science at OSU In 1971.
biles’s visit to Nyssa. The la­ 31, 1972.
for Spreckels Sugar Company at Earlier, at Utah State, he re­ Outstanding Junior
State president Mary Larson Chandler, Arizona.
dies of the Methodist W.S.C.S.
ceived the American Society
were In charge of the canteen will be here May 22 fora meet­
He grew
up on a Burley, of Agronomy Leadership Award.
Laila
Josephine
Ayyoub,
‘and the Chamber of Commerce ing, more details to be given Idaho farm and farmed after
granddaughter of Jesse W. Rig­
later.
helped with the setting-up
Navy service until 1957 when NYSSA ARTIST
ney of Nyssa has been selec­
ted as the outstanding Junior
FEATURED AT TVCC girl of Davis HighSchool, Ya­
A selection of the works of kima, Washington, by the Upper
Masonic
Education
local artist, Carlos Parra, is Yakima
on display upstairs in the Trea­ Council F. and A. M.
Selection was made from five
sure Valley Communitycollege
finalists on the basis of scho­
Weese Building.
Carlos Parra is from Nyssa. lastic achievement, school and
Treasure Valley Community community activities, and an
The Yakima Masonic
College artist, Pete Stark say s, essay.
"1 first heard of Carlos about Education Council honored Ju­
eight years ago. At the tune he nior students from each Ya­
was a young student with a lot kima area high school at an
program
on
of promise. He later went to annual awards
New York to study. From what I April 26, 1973. Winners re­
can gather from various sour­ ceived trophies and their names
ces and remembrances, he wor­ were engraved on a school per­
ked there for several lean manent trophy.
years, sponsored partially by
some people in Nyssa.”
"The show should be very in­
structive to students of painting
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Hall.
Melvin Mur.n, left, president of the
done since he has returned to May 8
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sented to Lynn Snodgrass, second from left,
Horse Activities, Inc and Buster Talbot,
Nyssa. It would be nice to see May 9
and Ron Rookstool, past presidents of the
Owyhee Reservoir Storage
right, new president of the Nyssa Nite Rodeo
these developed into paintings
Feet
Nyssa Nite Rodeo at a potluck dinner last
since people seem to be his ma­ 5/9/73 713,850 Acre
look on.
Feet
Wednesday evening at the Oregon Trial
5/9/72 713,340 Acre
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Malheur County School Dist­
ricts all approved their school
budgets, with the exception of
Vale Flementary School, when
they went to the polls Monday
in the annual School Election.
County voters also approved
the
Intermediate
Education
District (IED) budget.
Nyssa voters approved the
school budget by a vote of 274
YES to 256 NO, and approved
the IED budget by an almost
identical vote, 274 YES and 257
NO. Gerald Simantel defeated
Ed Wade for school director by
a vote of 348 to 149.
Roy
Idaho Eastern Oregon Onion
Committee Members
The U. S. Department of Agri­
culture (USDA) has appointed
five members and their alter­
nates of the Idaho-Eastern Ore­
gon Onion committee, which
administers the federal mar­
keting order for onions grown
in Idaho and Malheur County,
Oregon. The appointees were
nominated by producers and
handlers in the area.
Officials of USDA's Agri­
cultural Marketing Service said
the principal functions of the
committee are to recommend
the grade, size, and quality re­
quirements to apply to onion
shipments each year and to
determine those research and
promotion projects that will
benefit the marketing of onions.
The following members and
their respective alternates will
serve two-year terms begin­
ning June 1:
PRODUCERS:
District 2--Paul Saito, Wei­
ser, and Darrell Hart, Ontario.
District 4--Joel Mitchell and
Harold E. Dail, both of Nyssa.
District 6--George Kubosumi
and Frank Yamamoto, both of
Homedale.
Blood Drawing
Nets 86 Pints
North Powder
Artist Featured
Council Starts Plans For
Water System Improvement
Board Of Equalization
Begins Annual Meetings
Agronomist Appointed
To Experiment Station
LEGION NEWS
Holmes received 492 votes for
IED director from Zone 2, as
he was unopposed, and George
Pressley received 450 votes for
director at large, also un­
opposed.
Adrian voters approved their
school budget by a vote of 80
YES, 68 NO. They elected El­
ver Nielsen to the school board
by a vote of 94 to 55 over
Kiyomora Hiro in zone 3, and
Dick Bennett narrowly defeated
Dick Davis by a vote of 78
to 75 for the zone 2 position.
Adrian voters turned down the
IED budget.
still other avenues of appeal. He
may take his grievance to the
Department of Revenue or to the
Small Claims Division of the
Oregon Tax Court in certain
circumstances.
The Small Claims Division
may be used, in the case of real
property, only if the true cash
value as determined by the
board does not exceed $25,000,
or in the case of personal pro-
erty, if the true cash value
is not in «CMS of $10,000.
However, the decision of the
Small Claims Division is final
and no further appeal may be
made.
If a property owner who takes
his case to the Department of
Revenue is still not satisfied,
he may appeal to the Regular
Division of the Tax Court and
then if he remains unsatisfied
with that decision, to the Ore­
gon Supreme Court.
The May 17 issue of the
Journal will be the Annual
Mystery Days edition spon­
sored by the Merchant's
Committee of the Nyssa
Chamber of Commerce.
This is cne of the big sales
events of the year.
News and ads are needed
as early as possible next
week because of the size of
the edition. As in the past,
the Nyssa trade area will
be
blanketed with over
4,000 copies.
HANDLERS:
Representing Idaho--Jeff An­
derson, Parma, and Robert A.
Parsons, Weiser.
Representing the production
area-at-large--Charles E. Jo­
hnson,
Parma, and Thomas
Iseri, Ontario.
The following members and
alternates, previously appoin­
ted, will serve through May
31, 1974
PRODUCERS
District 1--Howard Albano,
Weiser, and George Matsura,
Fruitland.
District 3--Joe Y. Saito, and
Kay Teramura, both of Ontario.
District 5--Lyle Andrew and
James Yamada, both of Parma.
HANDLERS
Representing
Oregon--Joe
Komoto, Ontario, and Maylin
Maxfield, Nyssa.
Representing the production
area-at-large--Jon Josephson,
Payette, and ShigHironaka,On­
tario.
Pictures taken of Mrs. Lu­
cille Cary's Special Education
Class which appeared in th<
Gate City Journal in the Feb­
ruary 1 issue received national
The popular lecture series recognition this month.
The pictures showed mem­
conducted jointly by the Mal­
heur Country Historical So­ bers of the class decorating
ciety andTreasure Valley Com­ rocks into animal faces and
munity College will call upon forms, and were featured in
Earl Blackaby for its final lec­ the May issue of the National
ture in an eight part program. School Arts Magazine, which is
"Merchandising in Malheur an art education magazine for
Country" is the topic of a teachers.
lecture scheduled to begin at
8:00 p.m. tonight, May 10, in tob1
the Weese Memorial Buildingat
the College. This lecture had
been postponed earlier due to
illness.
Malheur County’s first "TOP
As a life-long resident of
OP" TOUR - May 19 - not
Malheur County, Blackaby will
only will highlight a few of the
talk about some of his reminis­
county’s TOP agricultural pro­
cences of early-day business
ducers, but a number of spe­
in this part of Oregon. His
cial guests are planning on at­
father owned and operated a
tending according to Ray No­
store in Jordan Valley and he
votny, County Extension Agent.
was called upon to help with
Special guests attending the
the work there. When a college
event include Robert MacVicar,
student, Blackaby served as
President of Oregon State Uni­
bank president in Brogan dur­
versity, Denny Jones, State Le­
ing a summer vacation. His
gislature, WilburCooney, Dean,
early training in business and
School of Agriculture, OSU,'Joe
bookkeeping procedures enab­
Cox, Director, Oregon Exten­
led him to conduct the bank bu­
sion Service, plus a number of
siness commendably. Blackby
farm magazine writers. No­
recalls that this was still quite
votny went on to say that re­
a task for a teenager.
presentatives of the Federal
Land Bank, Spokane, U.S. and
GARY ROSS TO
First National Bank and a nu­
mber of other visitors are ex­
RECEIVE BA DEGREE pected.
The tour starts at 9:30 a.m.
Gary Alan Ross, son of Dr.
and Mrs. Bert Ross, Nyssa, at the Malheur Experiment Sta­
will receive a Bachelor of Arts tion. Anyone desiring further
degree from Willamette Uni­ information should contact the
versity during commencement Malheur County Extension of­
fice in Ontario.
exercises May 13.
Merchandising
History Topic
Top Op*" Tour
Attracts Guests
WEATHER
THE NEW HOME built by the Building
Trades Class of Nyssa High School is rapidly
nearing completion and Is now ready to be
sold.
Built by the boys under the supervision
of Bill Hood, this three bedroom two bath
house with double garage will be an ex­
ceptionally fine home for some lucky family.
Superintendent Me Partland said that it can
be purchased now while the buyer can select
his own paint, floor covering and kitchen
cabinets; and he can either finish the home
himself or have it finished by a contractor.
Anyone interested should contact either
Superintendent Me Partland or Bernardi ast-
inan for details.