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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
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Owyhee Reservoir Storage
6/27/73 630,470 Acre F eet
6/27/72 686,730 Ai re Feet
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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
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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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