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I University Of Oregon Library Eugene, Ore. 97^+03 Nyssa Gate City Journal 67th Year, 34th Issue The Sugar City Nyssa, Oregon Thursday, August 23, 1973 Thunderegg Capital '^LVE A LiniE BLOOD" WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29 AT EAGLES HALL Hast people never get the opportunity to save a life. Yet everyday in <xir community, ac cording to Mane Wilson, blood bank chairman, anonymous ci tizens become lifesavers. They have saved lives by offering their blood to the sick and in jured who need it to live. The use of the blood of one human being to save the life of another is one of the world's greatest medical achievements. Thousands of people are alive today because blood and blood products were available tocom- bat and cure many types of fatal diseases. About 10 units of blood are used every minute, totaling well INVESTMENTS EARN HIGH INTEREST County Treasurer Jean (Pat) Bond released her annual state ment this week for the fiscal year 1972-73, revealing that the investment program started by tier in fiscal year 19fi4- 65 has topped the $100,000 mark In interest earnings for the first time. A modest start was made the first year, with $12,227 earned by investment of the various taxing district funds not needed for immediate expenditure. The amount has grown larger eacti year, exrept for a brief set back from 1969 to 1972, and the amount for 1972-73 reached $106,758.31 interest. The General County Fund earned the most interest of the taxing districts, with a total of $24,039. Next largest was Ontario Schools, $ 19,077, TVCC $12,145. and Malheur IED, $ 11 ,- 829. Adrian Schools earned $4,135, Nyssa Schools, $3,560; and the City of Nyssa Const ruc tion Fund earned $2,143. Total receipts received by the County Treasurer for the fis cal year totaled $8,986,067.58, SCHOOL BOARD REVIEWS PREPARATIONS FOR RETURN TO SCHOOL over six million units a year. An average of 500 of those units are needed per week for (tie Boise region, which inclu des 37 counties in Idaho and Eastern Oregon, Mrs. Wilson said. 1. - "No one ever asked me to donate blood." Consider yourself invited - Your gift could mean life for a sick child, accident victim or an elderly person needing surgery. 2. "I’m scared." Nearly everyone feels that way the first time. Donating blood has become a meaningful habit with many people. 3. "I already gave this year." Many doners give up io 5 times annually. Intervals between do nations must be at least eight weeks. 4. My type isn't the right type." Every type is the right type. 5. "It’s inconvenient." We are set up for 4-hours to make donating as convenient as pos sible. We’ll make appointments, when necessary, and your en tire visit will take less than an hour. Check with your em ployers about donating this hour io us. 6. "I'm too busy." If you stop to think of all the good your donating blood can do, we .believe you might decide you aren't too busy after all. Mrs. Marie Wilson, Ethel Laurence and Freda Holcomb, representing the Malheur Me morial Hospital Auxiliary will be conducting the drawing. The Lutheran Ladies will act as the hostess group with child care included. Memtiers of the Lions Club will set up the unit, and local Scout Troops will be dis tributing leaflets during the day reminding everyone that It ts GiW • Little Blood" day. If there are any further ques tions, please contact Mrs. Wil son, 372-2981. GRAND CHAMPION RIBBON WINNERS at Malheur County Fair, Judy Mecham and Mike Parker Nyssa Youngsters Win At County Fair MIKE PARKER had the Grand Mrs. Alice Murphy, fair sec retary, said exhibits were up Champion Beef Female and also this year from past years and won an Award of Merit from the displays were set up under the Western Charloais Association. JUDY MECHAM won her top grandstand to accommodate the ribbon in the 4-H division Sheep increased number. Local youngsters, members Showmanship class. The awards assembly Satur of the 4-H Club and FFA Chap ter, entered animals In nearly day afternoon, August 18, drew every class and won numerous a large crowd and a number of awards went to youngsters from Billed as a fair with”some- awards and ribbons for their the Nyssa area. efforts. thing for everyone", jhis year’s SAM HARTLEY received a Two youngsters from Nyssa fair drew tetween 28,000 and trophy for showing the Top FFA won the coveted "Grand Clam 30,000 people, according to fair Holstein Steer. pion" ribbons officials. CRAIG FROERER was recog nized for having the outstanding alfalfa seed exhibited at the fair. DAVID ROBBINS received special recognition for ' best exhibition in farming practices, outstanding leadership and agri cultural training in Malheur August has been a grim month cal fire danger period ever County, scoring highest in tests in Oregon's fire history. As the faced by Oregon fire fighters for the State Farmer plaque." latter days of August approach, looms ahead in the next three In addition to getting record bringing with them anniversa weeks,” according to Assis prices for their animals at the ries of the Tillamook fires, the tant State Forestei Ted Maul Friday auction, local youngsters Oxbow fir», and like ca- who will breathe a sigh of re carried away a large number of tastrophies, fire fighters brace lief when August passes. Maul ribbons, including many Cham for the worst. The mostcrlti- directs fire control activities pion and Reserve Champion on 16 million acres of forest awards. AH of those who ex lands protected by the Oregon hibited during the fair, how BIKE REGISTRATION State Department of Forestry. ever, deserve special recog At the end of July, 800 fires nition for their hard work. AVAILABLE HERE Members from the Nyssa 4-H which consumed a total of2,650 Because of a number of re acres had been fought on state- Club who showed at the fair cent missing bicycles, Alvin protected lands. Although the Sharon Barnes, Mark Goodell, Allen, Nyssa Chief of Police, acreage consumed by fire so Bruce Goodell, Jodi Grunke, would like to remind residents far this year has been below Robert King, Leslie Linegar, that the city provides a free average, the incidence of man- Neal Linegar. Toqua Linegar, registration service. caused fires is a near-record Judy Mecham, Nancy Mecham, "Last week we lost four high for the last 20 years, ac Tim Mecham, Donna Osborn, bikes, including two 10- cording to Maul. Mike Parker, Brian Piercy, speeds," said Allen. "Fire control agencies Linda Richesin and Dirk Sappe. "Two of them were lost rigtit throughout Oregon have done Members from the Nyssa FFA on Main Street." a remarkable job in keeping Chapter who showed at the fair "The only way we can identify most of the fires small in Mike Ausman, John Frietae any bikes we recover,” said acreage,” stated Maul. "But Bruce Goodell, Mike Kurtz, Allen, "is if we can get a po our biggest problem is man- Kent Cleaver, Scott Goodell, sitive description or have the caused fires, particularly those Gene Bair, David oiayiocw, registration numbers on file." resulting from failure to pro Bruce Corn, Craig Froerer, People wishing to register perly extinguish campfires." Don Orin, Sam Hartley, Paul their bikes can do so anytime Maul warned all Oregonians to Kesler, Jerry Robbins, Ray between 8 00 a.m. and 5 00 p. be careful with fire as this cri mond Wiley, Leslie Linegar, m. with the Police Department tical fire-danger period ap Mike Parker, Paul Skeen, Peter located in City Hall. proaches. Stephen and Matt Ure. By now the dust at the Mal heur Coun’v Fairgrounds has started to settle, all of those mouth-watering baked goods have long since gone stale, and the truckloads of animals have all disappeared. The 1973 edition of the Malheur County Fair has closed its gates on another successful year. Loan Assistant At U.S. Bank Critical Fire Danger Period Looms PAT SAVAGE is the newest memtier of the Gate City Journal staff, replacing Hetty Talbot, who accepted a position with Fiesta Farms after four years with the Journal. Pat will handle news and the front office. She and Iter husband Don have three children, Kirk 17, a senior, Randy 15, a sophomore, and daughter Kris 10, a fifth grader. They live at 307 S. 7th St. Pat grew up in Nyssa and her parents are Mr. and Mrs. Bill Nicholson. Very active in Boy Scouts, Pat is on the Ore-Ida Council Executive Board, who for the first time permitted women to serve in that capacity. She has been a Den Leader for several years, and has trained adult leaders. Ten Cents One week later than usual, the monthly meeting of the Dis trict Number 26 School Board was called to order by Don Engstrom, chairman, at 8:00 p.m., Monday, August 20, in the conference area of the super intendent's office. The original meeting, August 13, was canceled last week when not enough board members were present to constitute a quorum. Présentât this week’s meet ing were Bill Schilling, Vic Ha- burchak, GeraldSimantel, Mark Hartley and W. L. McPartland, superintendent. Board members not at the meeting were Gene Stunz and Van Ure. Items on the agenda tor the meeting included- paying of bills, school insurance, new teachers, custodians and a re port on summer work by Mc Partland. Board members listened while Bernice Ableman, sec retary, read through a lengthy list of bills to be paid, a few items were questioned by va rious members, but the board voted to approve the list which totaled $75,520.59 in district bills. Gene Chester, Nyssa high school principal, made a pre sentation to the board on school insurance for the coming year and suggested the board vote to continue with the company, Oregon Scholastic Activities Association (OSAA), which pro vided the insurance last year. In addition, Chester suggested that the board vote to seek assistance from local insurance agents in picking next year’s school insurance. The board, with Hartley and Simantel voting against, adop ted Chester’s suggestions. Hartley and Simantel expressed dissatisfaction with the rate structure set down by the O6AA. Superintendent McPartland reported to the board that one teaching position, auto mecha nics, is still open, but that the Reid Saito UO Graduate JANICE HOOD A graduating class of some 1,342 candidates for baccalau reate and advanced degrees was presented at the University of Oregon’s 1973 Summer Gradua tion Convocation Saturday, Au gust 11. University President Robert D. Clark conferred the degrees at services held in the outdoor amphitheatre of the Music School. Memtiers of the graduating class, who will receive de grees if all requirements were completed by the close of the 1973 Summer Session, included OREGON RECEIVES 643 candidates for baccalau reate degrees. 517 candidates PUBLIC LAND FUNDS for masters degrees, and 182 candidates for doctoral degrees. Included among candidates The State of Oregon will get $321,168 from Uncle Sam as for graduation was Reid Saito, its share of the money collec Nyssa, with a BA in English. ted from the management of the national resource lands by the Bureau of Land Management. This is in addition to the more (han $47 million recently dis tributed to Oregon's 18 wes tern counties from sale of (MC timber. According to Archie D.Craft, Bl.M state director, the ad ditional money is the state’s share of revenue from mineral leasing, grazing leases, and THE LETTER,however,went sale of national resource lands on to note that a new grading during the first six months of system will tie in operation lie- 1973. fore the proposed improve ments could tie made and the tiu- reau could not make the above Adrian Pre-School statement without qualification. Manager Don Young of the U. S. National Bank, Nyssa, announced the appointment of Janice Hood to the position of Genral Loan Assistant at the Nyssa branch. Miss Hood came to Nyssa from Baker where she had ser ved that branch the past ten months, and had previously been in The Dalles branch of U. S. National for five years. She grew up in Dufur where her pa rents, Mr. and Mrs. George Hood, still reside. rest of the district's vacan cies are filled. Also, McPartland told the board that he had hired two cus todians: Virgil Krause and Dora Rodriquez. Board members asked Mc Partland about summer work projects and were told that con struction work in the district was on schedule, with the ex ception of the installation of showers in the boys locker room at the high school. McPartland, however, assu red the board that shower fa cilities would be available for the opening of school. Prior to adjourning, Eng strom suggested that the board should take a position on a referendum action being direc ted against Oregon H.B. 2263-- a law which allows collective bargaining by all public em ployees. Board members indicated they were unfamiliar with the details of the referendum, but voted in favor of the idea of putting the question to the vo ters. Engstrom adjourned the meeting at 9-30 p.m.--a fairly early adjournment time, noted the pleased board members. Adrian Schools Start Monday Adrian schools are making fi nal preparations for the start of school, Monday, August 27, according to Superintendent Glenn Ward of School District No. 61. Registration has been in progress the first part of this week, and late-comers may register on the first day. Buses will run their regu lar routes Monday morning, but school will be only one-half day Monday, and buses will re turn the students to their homes at noon on that day. Full sche dules and school lunches will start on Tuesday Ward lists four new faculty members on the staff. They are Dorothy Phelps, English; Nora Akers, Commercial; and Priscilla Young, Mathmatics in the high school. Raymond May nard will teach 7th A 8th grade math in the elementary school. Holdover teachers in the high school are Jim Johnson, Music; Larry Cain.SocialStudies, Ruth Steinhaus, Home Economics and English HI, Carol Schultz, Girls PE; Eugene Dockter, Science & PE. and Joe Witty, Agriculture. Elementary teachers are Ja mes Holton, principal, Diane Sakamoto, kindergarten, Vir ginia Baker and LorenaComer, 1st grade. Amy Hayashida and Betty Kalmbach, 2nd grade, Mary Joyce and Alan Yamasaki, 3rd grade, Pauline Hibbs, 4th grade. Virginia Timmerman, 5th grade. James Phelps, 6th grade, Viki Nakroshis, Carolyn Witty, Jean Thompson. 7th A 8th grades, Hazel Davis, Spe cial Education; and Helen Co nant, Librarian. Council Proposes System Improvements Fred Koch, Nyssa's city "It is obvious that this sto manager, will retire in De rage is wholly inadequate," said cember and leave the lieadaches Koch In tils August report. of city government up to some "Considering the present younger man. Before he leaves needs and anticipating future Nyssa, however. Korh has one growth, we must increase our final project he would like to water supply and storage ca see (lie city go ahead on: a pacity." water system improvement TO ACHIEVE tiie above, Kwh program. made (lie following recommen LAST WEEK, the Nyssa City dations to (lie council Council took the first step in 1) Construct one additional moving the city toward mak well on tiie Idaho side--a well ing the improvements Koch con that has since been construc siders necessary. Council ted and is now in operation, members voted to seek voter 2) Construct a storage faci approval at a $425,000 bond is lity of three million gallonsand sue to finance the improvements Install a booster pumping sta in a special election on Monday, tion to increase tlw> pressure in the city distribution system. September 10. The problem with the pre It is this second item which sent system, according to Koch, voters will have to decide on is "low pressure and lack during tiie coming election. It should tie noted, however, that of storage." IN AUGUST 1972, Koch made Koch is not the only supporter a study of the city's water dis of the water system improve tribution system and submit- ments. |gd a report of his findings to IN DECEMBER 1972, the city we City Council. received a letter from tiieState "The existing storage facili Health Division of the Human ties," said Koch's report "are Resources Department regard a 100,000 gallon tank built in ing the Nyssa water system. 1948 and a 50,000 gallon tank “If would seem that addi built in 1913. The latter has tional reservoir capacity is the outlived its useful life and is most ui gently needed improve deteriorating to a point where ment in this water system,’’ repairs are not feasible." said the department's letter. z 1913 WATER TANK "Normally, we recommend a storage volume equal to three days average use or one peak day’s use." "We note that during peak day use of water in Nyssa the small existing reservoir was empty by noon," added the let ter. "This very likely resul ted in lower system pressures in some parts of the city in the afternoon.” DURING SUMMER, accord ing to Koch, the water level in the existing reservoir starts dropping at 1100 a.m. and the tank is considered empty by 5 00 p.m. This situation would present a serious problem for the city if any major fire occured during those "low” hours. Along these lines, in March 1973 Koch received a letter from the Fire Rating Bureau which commented directly on the proposed water system im provements. “From the information pro vided and making a few assump tions,” said the Bureau's let ter "we reach the conclusions that had these facilities been in operation at the time of our 1971 inspection, the grading would have improved to ('lass 6. Testing Slated In May 1973, a Boise firm, Cornell, Howland, Hayes & Merryfield, was retained by the Testing of pre-school city to review the preliminary sters at Adrian School engineering report prepared by held from August 27 Koch, to establish hydraulic and Testing will run from control requirements for the to 3 30 p.m. system and to prepare an up Please call 372-2337 dated construction cost esti appointment. mate. young will be to 31. 9 a.m. for an A preliminary draft of the firm’s engineering study was received earlier this month by the city. The firm supported DATE MAX MIN PREC making the water system im provements and submitted a Aug. 15 96 55 cost estimate for the project. Aug. 15 55 96 95 55 Aug. 16 LAST WEEK, the City Council 56 85 Aug. 17 added its support to the pro 85 57 Aug. 18 ject and voted to submit the 90 49 Aug. 19 matter to the voters of Nyssa 61 95 Aug. 20 93 59 Fred Koch has his fingers Aug. 21 59 crossed, because when he re Aug. 22 tires in December hewouldlike to know that Nyssa’s future Owyhee Reservoir■ Storage water system will be a credit 8/22/73 464,060 Acre feet 8/22/72 522,510 Acre feet to the community. W LATHER 1 SENATOR BOB PACKWOOD visited the Malheur County Fair last Friday afternoon, and is pictured during a press con ference with newspaper, radio and television reporters. Packwood told newsmen that after touring the fire area near l.aGrande that morning that he is reversing his position, and is now recommending that DDT be used to fight the tussock moth. The moths have killed thousands of acres of forests in northeast Oregon, which a<k)ed to tiie fires spreading so rapidly. Sen. Packwood also acknowledged that most of his recent mail is in opposition to further Watergate hearings, and that people seem more interested now in getting on with the work of Congress. He said also that there is no chance that the freeze on beef can 1« lifted before the expiration date Sept 12.
