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Nyssa Gate City Journal
"67th Year, 31«» laaue
The Sugar City
Nyssa, Oregon
Tours, Feed a nd show Pia n ned Show
"Rockhounds are just like the
old time hobo." said Ray Reid
of Eugene,
"That's right," added his
friend, Leonard Sather of Bend.
"The real rockhound doesn't
really have a home, heliveaout
of his rig."
Parking spots are available
at South Park and rockhounds
will be able to reserve their
APPLIES TO THEM
place when they register Wed­ own, but the guides will be there
to help the newcomers."
nesday morning.
Roast beef will be the fea­
Tours of local rock beds will
be conducted during the five- tured item on the menu Thurs­
day event. Guides will be pro­ day night at the Thunderegg
vided to lead the tours out to Days Barbecue, sponsored by
the areas starting Thursday. the Nyssa Lions Club. Tickets
"Most of the rockhounds," for the barbecue will cost $2.00
according to Bernard Eastman, for adults and $1.00 for chil­
acting chairman for Thunderegg dren.
Days, "will take off on their
"We’ve prepared for 500, ba­
sed on last year's sales," said
Lauren
Wright, co-chairman
for the barbecue. "We want to
serve all the people one time and
if they want to come back, se­
conds will be available."
The menu will include, in ad­
dition to the roast beef, corn-
on-the-cob, baked potatoes, Ice
cream, salad, rolls and a choice
of drink.
"American Fine Foods do­
nated the corn," said Wright,
"and the potatoes were donated
by local produce sheds."
According to W. L. Me Part­
land, chairman of the enter­
tainment, there will be four
groups providing the music dur­
ing the dinner. The program
will be hosted by Fred Child
and will include
Vivian, Ei­
leen and David Martines, The
Sonshlners, with Joyce, Bar­
bara and Roger Haney and Ja­
net Dali. Laurie and Kathy
Wright, and the Fred Child
Group.
Saturday andSunday, the Tre-
sure Valley Rock 4 Gem Club
will direct a rock show and
tailgate sale at the Old Gym,
located next to the Nyssa grade
school at the west end of Main
Street.
Past Thunderegg Days have
drawn people from all over the
United States and Canada, ac­
cording to Eastman, and this
year is expected to be no excep­
tion.
Everyone connected with the
event is looking forward to the
weekend and they invite resi­
dents of the community and
rockhounds, to come, get ac­
quainted and enjoy Nyssa’s
Eighth Annual Thunderegg Days.
"Renters should be aware
that they too are now eligible
to apply for property tax re­
funds,” says Charles H. Mack,
director of Oregon's De­
partment <>t Revenue.
"For the first time renters
are included in a tax relief
program," Mack adds, "but
they must show receipts of
money they paid in rent during
this calendar year of 1973 when
they file applications for re­
funds after January 1, 1974."
The
tax
relief program
passed during the closing days
of the 1973 legislative session,
permits renters with an annual
income of less than $15,000 to
claim a refund of $50 to $245
depending on their income and
the amount of their rent. Home­
owners earning less than $15,-
000 will be eligible for $100
to $490 depending on the amount
of their taxes and the amount
of their income.
"We are concerned," said
Mack, “That some renters who
move during the year may have
difficulty providing the requi­
red evidence without know­
ing the need at the time of
moving. We are alerting them
now to one of their responsi­
bilities and requirements.”
Renters must attach a copy
of a rent certificate to their
tax
refund application that
shows net rent paid during 1973.
Landlords are required by the
new law to provide this form at
tenant request. The Department
of Revenue will make this form
available to landlords later this
summer.
Mack says, "If you are mov­
ing now, before these new forms
are available, or
have al­
ready moved, you should go back
Miss Oregon
to your former landlord and re­
quest a receipt or statement
school"
to prepare her for the Miss
NANCY JEAN JACKSON was in Nyssa
with the following information:
America Pageant in September.
last weekend visiting with her parents, Mr.
1) Landlord's name and ad­
Nancy has decided not to return to Sou­
and Mrs. Wilton Jackson, and family.
dress, 2) Landlord’s social se­
thern Oregon College, in Ashland, this fall,
Nancy arrived Friday and left Sunday for
curity number, 3) Duration of
instead, she will devote herself to meeting
Milton-Freewater, where she will spend
the rental period during the 1973
her duties as Miss Oregon. (Gate City
the next eight days attending a "charm
calendar year, 4) The amount
Journal photo)
of the rent, 5) The landlord’s
signature; 6) As the tenant, your
name, social security number,
and current address. The De­
partment of Revenue will accept
THURSDAY, August 2 - 7 00
this as a valid rent certificate."
a.m.
Tour to Succor Creek
Homeowners
and renters
Thunderegg beds. Leaving from
claiming a refund must file
Keith Tailman, President of
Eight Eastern Oregon coun­ Wallowa, Wheeler, Union, Lake
South Park.
a claim with the Department the Malheur Potat Bargaining ties, including Malheur, have and Harney.
Tour to Wood Area. Leaving
of Revenue between January 1, Association announced today been declared disaster areas
The governor’s request now
from South Park.
1974, and April 15, 1974.
that the J. R. Simplot Co. has because of the drought. The de­ goes to the secretary of agri­
Tour to Agate Field with Sa­
removed the $2.10 top on the claration was made by Gov. culture and the Oregon Agri­
genite and plume Leaving from
1973 potato contract.
Tom McCall as the first step culture Conservation and Sta­
South Park
in getting federal relief for the bilization Service.
7 00 p.m. Barbecue, spon­
President Tailman would like livestock producers and others
Livestock producers could
sored by the Nyssa Lions Club,
to remind all potato growers affected by the drought.
receive government supplies of
and musical entertainment.
in the area that the safety
According to Irvin Mann Jr., feed grain, mainly oats, at re­
FRIDAY 4 SATURDAY, Au­
shields
approved by Ore-Ida Oregon’s agriculture director, duced prices, if there is favo­
Old
fashioned
melodrama
re
­
gust 3 4 4 - 7:00 a.m. Tour
and the J. R. Simplot Company
to Succor Creek Thunderegg turns to Ontario when the Valley must be on all trucks for the the shortage of range and feed rable action by state authorities
beds. Leaving from South Park. Players of Treasure Valley fall delivery. If you do not have grains and from lack of stock on the disaster relief request.
Tour to Wood Area. Leaving Community College present a diagram to < hange your trucks and irrigation water are, in ad­ There is also a possibility that
"Caught In The Villians Web”.
dition to Malheur, Baker, Grant, the freight cost involved in
from South Park.
over, you can pick one up from
bringing
hay to the affected
Tour to Agate Field with The play, to be presented Au­
your fieldman, either Ore-Ida
areas will be at a reduced rate
Sagenite and Plume. Leaving gust 3 and 4 at 8 00 p.m. in the or Simplot, or from your Bar­ OLD TIME ICE
Administration Building,brings
and Farm Home Administration
from South Park.
Nurse Felicity Fair, the he­ gaining Association Director. CREAM SOCIAL
loans might be affected with
10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
borrowers receiving reductions
The Simplot contract says
Rock and Hobby exhibit in roine, to the Larkfield man­
Nyssa old Gym, under
the sion to care for Regina Lark­ that any fine . incurred while
An Old-Time Ice Cream So­ in interest rates and longer
direction of the Treasure Valley field who is pretending to be unloading the growers truck, on cial will be held at the Nyssa terms.
ill so as to force her son, Mal­ the growers
Much of the range land in
truck,
will be Elementary School grounds,
Rock 4 Gem Club.
Friday, August 3from6:30p.m. the drought-stricken area is
SUNDAY, August 5 - 10:00 vern, to marry scheming Nella passed on to the grower.
The ladder on the trucks must to 10 p.m. dunngNyssa’sThun- federal land and therefore,
a.m. Exhibit of Rocks and Hob­ Hargrave. But Malvern takes
there is a possibility that live­
bies in the Nyssa Old School one look at Felicity and falls be 16 inches wide, 7 inches of deregg Days’ celebration.
hopelessly in love
tow space and steps spaced no
Homemade ice cream, cake stock men could receive more
Gym.
Cyril Bothingwell, the foulest more than 12 inches apart. and punch will be served while favorable terms and increased
of all villians, acting as the
Ail growers delivering pota­ "The Waymark Singers" of usage of the lands, Mann has
Payroll Savings Plan
family lawyer is hoping to gain toes to the J. R. Simplot Com­ Boise provide a musical back­ indicated. There is a possibility
the Larkfield wealth. His un­ pany must have a driver in tlie ground entertainment.
that grazing will be permitted
Salls Savings Bonds
scrupulous plans go into action trucks at all times, while un­
All age groups enjoy this on land kept out of production
and all seems dark for Feli­ loading, at all unloading sta­ event hosted by the Nyssa Uni­ under a federal crop subsidy
program.
U. S. Savings Bonds sales city and Malvern. But, fate tions.
ted Methodist Church.
figures released by the U.S. steps in and all of Cyril's
Treasury Department today, re­ schemes are thwarted.
Tickets for the play are now
veal that Oregonians purchased
$3,765,783 worth of bonds in available by calling 889-6493.
Potato Group
St resses Safety
FRANK and PEARL HALDEMAN of TombstorH*, Ar linn a arrived early for Thunder**ry iJav«
UO, OSl Announce Deferred Tuition
Payment Plan To Start This Fall
Payne Reelected
Dairy Chairman
Vale dairyman Joe S. Payne
has been reelected to a one-
year term as chairman of the
Oregon Dairy Products Com­
mission.
Other officers reelected to
one-year terms at the commis­
sion's meeting in Portland are
George Gilman of Medford, vice
chairman and Harvey Skov of
Portland, secretary-treasurer.
The board alsonamedGilman
and commission member Earl
Meier of Boring asthetwoOre-
gon board members to the joint
advertising group comprising
dairymen in California, Oregon
and Washington. Alternate re­
presentatives to the tri-state
board are Payne and Donald
Scott of Forest Grove.
"With reduced federal assis­
tance available for students, and
higtier tuitionandfees, deferred
tuition payment may be of criti­
cal importance to a sizable
proportion of our student body,"
points out UO Dean of Students
Rob Bowlin.
The payment method has been
available at such institutions
as the Unlverstty of Colorado,
Massachusetts Institute of Te­
chnology, Stanford University,
and the University of Iowa for
a number of years.
ANYONE WHO REGISTERS
lasses at ttw V of
will
be eligible to use the plan, as
long as he or she does not have
delinquent indebtedness to the
University.
Students will be able to ar­
range for the installment plan
in just one stop during the re­
gistration process. A preprin­
ted form will serve as both
application and record of ap­
proval.
One-third of the tuition fee
will be due registration day,
with the second payment for fall
term due October 15, and the
third and final one November
15.
Students
will tie billed
monthly.
If a student fails to make a
tuition payment, his or tier re­
gistration for the current term
will not be cancelled, but tie
or she will not be able to re •
gister for tlie following term if
the account is still delinquent.
THE STATE BOARD OF Hi­
gtier Education authorized the
use of deferred tuition pay­
ments on an experimental basis
u. January, 1972. TheChancel-
lor of the State System recently
gave approval to the U of O to
institute the payment method
this fall.
OREGON STATE UNIVER-
sity students will be able to pay
their tuition-fees in three equal
installments during each term
starting ttii1 fall.
The deferred payment plan
was developed to help students
and families better meet the
rising costs of higher educa­
tion, university officials said.
Students who wish to use the
deferred payment plan--rather
than the usual lump sum pay­
ment at the start of each term--
will pay one-third of their tui­
tion-fees at registration, ano­
ther one-third three weeks la­
ter. and lite final third a month
after that.
FALL TERM DEFERRED
payment dates, for example,
will be September 26, October
15 and November 15.
There will be a $3 charge
for deferred payment students
to meet the extra costs of ca­
shiering, accounting, etc. invol­
ved each term, according to
Hugh F. Jeffrey, director of
business affairs.
The university-wide $25 de­
posit required to cover brea­
kage, losses, etc., must still
be paid at the start of fall
term. Jeffrey emphasized. So
must parking permit charges,
student health insurance, etc.
Sen. Pack wood
To Visit Area
THE NYSSA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE has installed per­
manent signs on each of the entrance signs to Nyssa, designa­
ting our city as the "Home of 1973 Miss Oregon". The signs
are to honor Nancy Jackson, Nyssa's Miss Oregon.
Ten Cents
THAT TAX REFUND
Schedule
Students attending the Uni­
versity of Oregon and Oregon
State University will be able
to spread their tuition payments
out under a new plan, accord­
ing to school officials.
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
students may pay for their edu­
cation on an installment plan
this fall, for the first time in
the University's history.
A deferred tuition plan will
enable students to pay tuition
fees in three equal installments
each term.
Thunderegg Capital
RENTERS ALERTED
Nyssa Throws Bash For Rock Group
Rockhounds
in
campers,
pickups and old busses star­
ted arrivinf in Nyssa as early
as Monday, July 30, for the
Eighth Annual Th unde re gg Deys.
Tuesday mornins their ris* al­
ready were perked eround
Nysse’s South Park end the
rockhounds were moving around
making new friends and renew­
ing old friendships.
Thursday, August 2, 197 3
Senator
Bob
Packwood,
(R-Ore.) will tiegin a 17-county
listening tour of Oregon August
6. He will be travelingthrough-
out the state until August 25
when he will join his family in
Portland for a week. Packwood
will return to Washington for
the reconvening of Congress on
September 5.
Eastern Oregon visits include
Wallowa County on August 16,
Union and Malheur Counties,
Friday, August 17 and Baker
County, Saturday, August 18.
He will attend the Malheur
County Fair, Friday afternoon
and the East-West Shrine foot­
ball game in Baker Saturday
evening.
Governor Declares Eight
Counties Disaster Areas
Melodrama Al
TV CC Aug. 3 - 4
the month of June. This is a
startling increase of $500,000
worth of sales over the record­
setting sales of June 1972.
Bruce Ward, the volunteer
TAKE STOCK IN AMERICA
Chairman for Oregon, said,
"We are pleasantly surprised
with the June results as we
felt we had done a 'whale of a
job’ last June.
I feel that
this windfall must be attributed
to the magnificent support af­
forded by Oregon industries
which are making the Payroll
Savings Plan available to their
employees. We have a record
number of companies which
have given the program then-
support this year and their ef­
forts are bearing fruit."
The June sales boost Ore­
gon’s purchases year-to-date
to $27,130,000 which is 55',
of tlie state’s annual goal. Ore­
gonians now own in excess of
$500 million worth of U. S.
Savings Bonds.
Nationally, the sales figures
are showing an increase of 9ri
over the record-breaking year
of 1972.
June sales of $556
million boosted sales for the
first six months to $3,523 mil­
lion,
Twenty-three
million
American families now own
more than $59 billion in Sav­
ings Bonds earning them more
than $2 1/2 billion dollars in
interest annually.
Rep. I liman To
Visit August 10
Oregon’s
Second District
Congressman, Al Ullman has
scheduled an apjiearance in On­
tario, Friday, August 10. Rep­
resentative Ullman, the ranking
member of tlie House Ways and
Means Committee, will be tour­
ing his congressional district,
one of the largest in the United
States during the summer re­
cess of Congress.
A dinner on August 10 at the
Eastside Cafe in Ontario honor­
ing Representative Ullman is in
the planning stage now, with fi­
nal details to be announced
within 3 few days.
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98
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July 26
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100
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July 28
100
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July 29
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July 30
59
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July 31
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Owyhee Reservoir Storage
8/1/73 526,480 Acre Feet
8/1/72 583,510 Acre Feet
SENATOR MARK HATFIELD is shown with
Rod Lewis, Nyssa, (right) and George Samp­
son of McMinnville who represented the State
of Oregon at the National YouthScienceCamp
at Bartow, West Virginia.
One hundred top science students, two
from each state, attended the camp repre­
senting their respective states. The camp
delegates are selected by their state’s go­
vernor, and are hosted by the State of West
Virginia in a unique three-week program of
concentrated science studies,
One of the functions of the camp is a visit
to Washington, D.C., where the delegateshad
a chance to talk with their Congressmen
and to dine with their Senators. Other in­
camp activities included lectures by famous
scientists and professional men, overnight
trips into the surrounding Monongahela Na­
tional Forest, an introduction to nature photo­
graphy and darkroom work, computer pro­
gramming, and a tour of the nearby National
Radio Astronomy Observatory.