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I University of Oregon Library Eugene, Ore. 97U03 I Nyssa Gate City Journal 67th Year, 26th Issue Th* Sugar City Botulism Kills Nyssa Resident BY RICHARD SEPT Sometime last Friday after noon,a bolt of lightning slashed down out of the overcast sky and crashed into the ground. The lightning set fire to nearby dry grass and brush; a higti afternoon wind started to swirl the flames through the tinder dry brush of the Succor Creek area south of Adrian. The first report on the fire was turned in to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) fire yard in Vale at 4:15 p.m., Fri- day, June 22. And when fire crews from Vale arrived in the area, they found a nKjor prai rie-fire sweeping through the rough, rocky country. Because ot higti winds, the terrain and the coming of night, the crews were unable to re main on the firelines, so they withdrew to their base camp, located about two miles up the Succor Creek Park road. Fri&y night, the glow and flames of the fire could be seen clearly from the Nyssa rodeo grounds, where a crowd was gathered watching the Nyssa Nite Rodeo. Bill Coleman of Nyssa had some horses pastured out south of Adrian and late Friday night the owner of the pasture called to warn him that the fire was moving in that direction. ‘‘As I drove along the main highway south of Adrian,’’ said Coleman, "I could feel the heat from the fire and the smoke was coming in through the vents on the truck.’’ Coleman found his stock safe, but he moved them into a near by corral as a precaution. No livestock was caught inthefire. Saito Receives NYSSA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PRESIDENT Rod George, right, presents Ray (arson with a desk clock engraved with a suitable inscription in appreciation of his many years of service to the Nyssa Community. Mrs. Sfardi larson, left, and Mrs. Tom Seppich are in the foreground. The photo at right shows Tom Seppich, master of cere monies, at the podium wi U i Mardl and Ray lars.nat the table. Seppich is a former Nyssa businessman and company employee, and is now in the purchasing office of the home office in Ogden. He kept the crowd in stitches with his remarks about old timers present that lie knew in the past, and kept the ¡arson’s going- away party in a light and friendly occasion. About 125 turned out for the dinner at the Eagle's Hall Monday to honor Lrrson on his promotion to Assistant Agriculturist for Amalgamated Sugar Company, after nine years as district manager in Nyssa, and many more years prior to that as fieldman in the Nyssa district. He will assume his new duties July 1. In addition to the gift from the Nyssa Chamber of Commerce, Superintendent W.L. Me II rt la nd presented ¡.arson with an engraved plaque In recognition of his 12 years on the Nyssa School Board. Mayor Larrv Bauman, factory superintendent Jack Stewart, and Bob Holmes, president of the Nate nal Fe deration of Sugar Beet Growers each paid tribute to the ser vices of Ray larson during his 23 years with the company in No.‘.a. Mrs. Irene larson, Ray’s mother, was also honored, and re cognition was given to the service of the late R.G. larson, Sr., first Nyssa district manager. Chemical Treatment of Tussock Moth (Continues PAM SAITO Pam was among 372 graduates, 123 who belong to the WRAIN program (Walter Reed Army Institute of Nursing), in cluding Pam. She was gradua ted from the Nyssa High School in 1969. Under the WRAIN program, she attended the Uni versity of Oregon for two years and also two years at Walter Reed Hospital. She received her commission June 2 as First Lt. at Walter Reed Medical Center at Washington, D.C. She will receive six weeks basic military training starting July 10 at Ft. Sam Houston, near San Antonio, Texas. Her first assignment after com pleting basic training will be at Madigan Hospital at Ft. Lewis, Tacoma, Washington. T*n Cants SRV CREWS CONTAIN RANGE FIRE ON UM LAND SOUTH OF ADRIAN Anselmo Sifuentes, 69, of ■iyssa, the victim of botulism 'poisoninc, died Sunday, June 24, at St. Aiphonsus Hospital in Boise, Idaho. Sifuentes and his daughter, Raquel Goniales, 32, also of Nyssa, were hospitalised early last week suffering from food poisoning. On Wednesday, June 20, Mrs. Gonsales gave birth pre maturely to a baby boy. The child, the first known infant born to a victim of botulism poisoning, is being treated in the neo-natal unit at St. Luke's Hospital. Both mother and child are listed in critical condition. The source of the botulism, which earlier had been thought to be home-canned peppers, is unknown and employes of area health agencies will be attempt ing to retrace the food consump tion of the pair prior to the onset of the botulism poisoning. Pam Saito of Nyssa graduated June 1 with academic honors from the School of Nursing at the University of Maryland in Baltimore The commence ment took place at the Balti more Civic Center. She also belongs to Sigma Theta Tau, National Nursing Honor Society. Thund*r*gg Capital Nyssa, Oregon Thursday, Jun* 28, 1973 Over one-half of the first Zectran application on tussock moths on l.aGrande area test sites is complete, according to J. E. Schroeder,State Forester, Oregon State Department of Fo restry. The second application on the 35,000 test acres, only a small portion of the total in fested area, should begin by early next week If spraying goes according to schedule. The largest treatment area is being sprayedwithZectran whlh smaller test plots are receiving applications of Dylox, Sevin and Pyrethroid. One of the chemi cals being used has been proven effective against th»' moth, DDT, which can no longer be used in tin (MM Stat. 1 ft,. e|j chemical known to control the moth’s p»f>ulation. Researchers with crews of La Grande area students have been visiting each spray site be fore the applications to de termine the infestation on test trees and to set out paper and metal cards which will show Drivers' License how effectively the brightly-co lored chemicals applied by heli Exams Scheduled copter cover the test trees. These teams have found that The Oregon Motor Vehicles well over one-half of the eggs Division will be conductingdri deposited last year have already vers* license examinations in developed intoone-eigtith to one- this area on the following dates: quarter inch hairy caterpillars. Nyssa: City Library from The hatched larvae have begun 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., July 25: Aug. consuming the young green 22, and Sept. 19. growth on Douglas-firs and true Applicants are advised to file firs and will soon tiegin des their applications at least 45 troying entire trees. Workers minutes in advance of sche have noted that the young lar duled closing hours if they wish vae are being spread even fur to complete the examination on ther throughout the LaGrande the same day. area as the wind picks up the web- like strands the insect pro duces. Groups working in control areas not being sprayed are studying the progress of a na tural virus which they hope will begin to stem the infestation that already has wiped out 200,- 000 acres of forest land. EXCHANGE STUDENT TO RETURN HOME Christian Rodríguez, foreign exchange student from Colom bia, will leave Saturday after one year in Nyssa with the Dorothy Wilson family. CHRISTIAN RODRÍGUEZ His friends gathered at the W ilson home Tuesday evening for a going away party prior to his departure. Christian arrived late last summer and attended Nyssa Higti School, graduating with the 1973 class. He plans to be an attorney when he resumes his studies in Colombia. Following the death of a Nyssa man last week as a result of suspected food poisoning, many people have fears about the sa fety of their home canned food products, as well as questions about botulism. Helen Conner, Malheur County Extension Home Economist, says that botulism is the deadliest and rarest kind of food poisoning. About 65% of those who are known to have this form of food poisoning die. Inadequately pre served home canned foods con tinue to present the greatest <Xnger of botulism and is sus pected in the Nyssa case. Botulinius organisms are spore forming bacteria living in the soil and water in our lo cal area. Mrs. Conner explains. However, the spores are not harmful, in fact, we eat many on raw fruits and vegetables. Under favorable conditions the spores produce a dangerous toxin. Eating food in which the bacterta has grown and pro- due«! toxin causes botulism food poisoning. Clostridium botulinum or ganisms live in the absence of air and will grow and spoil food in sealed containers. Bo tulinum can be present in food that shows no signs of spoilage. It grows in low acid foods such as vegetables and meats and is not a problem in home canned fruits or frozen foods. Mrs Conner offers these sug gestions for the home canner: 1. All vegetables (except to matoes), all comtnnation foods as . lull, meats and fish should be processed in a pres sure cooker with an accurate gauge. Higher tempera! provided by pressure cooking are needed to kill spores. It is also recommended that 2 teaspoons to 1 tablespoon of lemon juice or vinegar be ad ded to each quart of tomatoes before processing. This in creases the acid In tomatoes that because of variety or grow. Ing conditions might be bor derline in acidity. Precise processing times for canning all fruits and vege tables are included in the free leaflet "Home Canning of Er nits MIN 45 52 58 58 5? i I 14 60 June 25 63 June 26 64 June 27 Owyhee Reservoir Storage 6/27/73 630,470 Acre F eet 6/27/72 686,730 Ai re Feet DATE June 20 June 21 June 22 June 23 tine of the three will be picked as Malheur Dairy Princess at tire animal dinner to be held Friday evening, June 29 at the East Side Cafe. for the nearby crews, Boydston jerked the ship off the ground into the air and started to circle around the edge of the fire. Below the helicopter, a blan ket of orange flames rolled ’ip the steep hiUsides. Bushes ahead of the reaching flames exploded at first touch into smokeless balls of orange. The wind, sweeping up out ot the valleys, pressed the flames close to the ground and swir led them up the steep terrain. Firefighters in front of the advancing waves of fire were tearing their shovels into the cement- hard ground and throw, ing what little dirt they could dig up onto the approaching flames. From above in the helicopter, the efforts of these men seemed useless; however, it was lar gely through their efforts that the BLM was able to declare the fire contained by 10:00 p. m. Saturday- - contained meaning that a circle had been closed and maintained around the fire. By Sunday evening at 8.00 the fire was declared by the BLM to be controlled- - meaning that nothing remained but to put the fire out. W ith the exception of small trouble-shooting crews, the BLM was de manning and re turning to oormal. On Monday afternoon, the BLM in Vale said that the fire, which it was calling the "Board Corral” fire, had blac kened 23,040 acres. No one was seriously injured during the fire and no farms or homes were damaged. Also, the BLM said, no state park lands were thought to be in the burn area. HOME ECONOMIST TELLS DANGER OF BOTULISM, HOME CANNING TIPS \\ EATIIER MALHEUR COUNTY CANDIDATES FOR Dairy Princess were guests of the Nyssa Chambet of Commerce last Wednesday. They are, from left, Diane Thomas, Adrian; and Deanna Chamberlain and Terri Jansen, Vale, according to BLM spokes men, but many ranchers did move stock to avoid the dan ger. Vtanpower and equipment at the fire reached its peak on Saturday, June 23. Vale dis- triet personnel were joined by Snake River Valley(SRV)crews, including ones from Nyssa and Adrian, and firefighters from Boise, Idaho--for a total of about 350 men. Two airplanes from Boise made about nine passes over the fire, dropping 24,900 gallons of liquidconren- trate on the flames. Also, two helicopters circled overhead making re-supply runs to crews on the fire and re moving injured firefighters. “It’s pretty rough down there,’’ said Gary Boydston, a helicopter pilot flying for the U. S. Forest Service out of Burns. "But, so far our only injuries have been minor: blis ters, cuts, bruises and scra pes.’’ Boydston was flying a few hun dred feet above the charred and smoldering terrain. Hewheeled and w tupped the 4- man helicop ter along the ridgetops, looking for an SRV crew that had ra dioed it was out of water. Spot ting a group of firefighters working on a hillside below, Boydston put the ship into a tight circle and came in on the downside of the hill just be low the crest. "The big thing about landing in this type of country," he said over the whine of the en gine, ’’is keeping your tail rotor out of the sagebrush." After leaving three plas tic bags of water on the ground MAX 91 98 99 82 86 92 93 and Vegetables" available at the Mhlheur County Extension Office. 2. Boil all home canned low acid vegetables and meats for 15 minutes after opening and before tasting. A lesser time will not destroy possible poi sons. Never use or taste any food you suspect is spoiled for example a bulging cap or lid; leaking can or jar; rancid or putrified odor; jar or can that foatns or spurts on open ing. 3. Use only fresh, firmfruits and vegetables. W ash, clean and can as soon as possible after picking. 4. Outdated practices such as oven canning and hot water me thod of processing low acid ve getables and meats do not des troy the spores and the toxin accumulates as the organism grows during storage. Don’t use these dangerous methods. People with further questions regaring home food preser vation are urged to attend one Of ttie free special interest meetings being held in Vale, Nyssa and Ontario starting this week. Details are available by calling the Extension office.- 889- 9129. Mrs. Conner also reminds homemakers that a limited num ber of kits for making Mara- chino Cherries are still avai lable at the Extension Office in Ontario City Hall. The Journal Staff wishes to remind all the corres pondents, businesses and anyone with news or ads to be sure and have them extra early this week as will go to press Tuesday rather than Wednesday be cause of the Fourth of July- holiday. Thank you. Day (¿re Group Receives Grunt The Migrant and Indian Coa lition, which operates day-care centers in Nyssa and other Oregon cities, has received a $416,244 Head Start grant from the Federal Government. The grant in» ludes approximately $13,000 in special funds for handicapped children. Notification of the grant ap proval was received by the group Wednesday, June20, from U. S. Senator Robert Pack wood’s office. Last year, 103,397 days of child-care were provided and the figure is expected to total 145,000 this year. Funding for the program comes from various federal, state, county and private sources. Adrian Shooting Suspect Remanded to Juvenile Court Malh eur Caffl • men Plan Picnic in Vale The annual Malheur County Livestock Association’s beef Israel Rendon Carrillo, 17, with assault in the first degree barbecue picnic will be held a resident of the Adrian labor Sunday, June 24, after a shooting in the Vale City Park, August camp, wasarrestedandcharged incident at the labor camp which 12, announced Skip Thayer, left one man wounded. Association President. Carrillo appeared before The annual affair gives ope RESIDENCE BUILDERS Nyssa Justice of the Peace Otis rators from all over the county Smith, Monday and was reman MUST REGISTER a chance to visit with other ded to Juvenile Court. stockmen to discuss range con The State Builders Board has The victim of the shooting, ditions, sale contracts and ot contracted with special investi gators to contact builders Sandiago Rodríguez, 36, also her matters pertinent to the live of the Adrian camp was listed stock industry. Theprogram for throughout the state to de termine compliance with the in critical condition at St. Al- the fall annual meeting is al provisions of the Homebuilders phonsus Hospital in Boise, Idaho. ways determined during the pic nic, Thayer added. Law which was effective July The Association will again I, 1972. The law provides that furnish the barecued beef, cof all those who bid or perform fee and cold drinks. The balance work in connection with resi dential structures must t1 re of the picnic lunch is pot luck. All cattlemen and their fami gistered w ith the Builders Board lies in the county are invited to protect their right to court suit to collect compensation to attend the event starting at 11:00 a.m. August 12, Thayer tor that work and to avoid pe says. nalty for violation of the law. Information relative to nearly 8000 registered builders is available from local taiilding of ficials, Department of Com merce district offices and from the Builders Board office in Salem. 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