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Thursday, October 18, 1973 Speaking To i&a OUTOF 1____ THE PAST 10 YEARS AGO Preparing noon meals each school day for 900 Nyssa stu dents are Mrs. Amy Stradley, Mrs. Percy (Myrtle) Capper, Mrs. Dick (Sadie) Butcher, Mrs. Ewen (Jessie)Chard, Mrs. Fred (Vera) Schilling and Mrs. Bob (Leah) Meisinger. Given the title of homecoming queen is Miss Sally Holmes. Her escort is Syd Lancaster. Members of the queen's royal court are Lynda Cundal and Tony Mitchell, Trudy Olsen and Daniel Carullo, Virginia Lewis and Brent Schulthies, 20 YEARS AGO Mrs. Don Tennant, who has been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Penrod for the past several weeks, left Satur day morning for Berkshire, England where she will join her husband. S/Sgt. Tennant is ser ving in the Air Corps and is stationed near that city. • • • Two Nyssa boys, Richard Wilson and Gene Huffman ac cidently met in a movie in Sabo last week, according to word received here by Huff man's parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Huffman. Huffman re cently was sent to Korea from Ft. Ord, Calif., with the divi sion of the old Oklahoma national guard. Wilson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harney Wilson, has been stationed in Korea for several months t The Consumer I • THE INSECTS AROUND US siphons, control works at Tunnes Canyon, Mitchell Butte tunnel and diversion structures on tiie Owyhee project. Under the public works set up, laborers will be permitted to work 40 hours per week with unskilled labor to be paid 50 cents an hour, skilled labor at a higher rate. 50 YEARS AGO The llth annual convention of District No. 25 convened In the K)0P hall at Nyssa on Octo ber 6 at 130 p.m., with Sis ter Edith Kelly, president of the Rebekah assembly of Ore gon, in attendance The fol lowing lodges were represented Beatrice No. 2 of Ontario and Yellow Rose No. 202 of Nyssa. • • • Does Nyssa and community want a cheese factory? It can be secured ^coopera tion between the farmers and business men of the town. That it would be greatly to the bene fit of both classes is beyond question. Better get together and talk it over, for a cheese factory would be a big stabiliser of business. 60 YEARS AGO Contractor Phelps is making quick time with the earthwork and laying of pipes for the city water system. Nearly all the trenches hav» been dug and 4000 feet of pipe laid. It is 30 YEARS AGO believed that Saturday night will Another 140 Mexican na- see the last of the entire tlonals arrived tn the Nyssa- 8000 feet of pipe laid Several Nampa district this week to workmen were laid off this work in the beet harvest, ac morning owing to the near com cording to R.G. Larson of Nyssa, pletion of that part of ttie con district manager of the Amal tract. The construction of the foun gamated Sugar Company. Despite the arrival of ad- dation for the tower and tank ditiiAal Mexicans, more work will be taken up next and Mr. ers are needed. Many high Phelps hopes to have it com school boys and girls of Nyssa pleted and ready to turn over and Adrian are working in the to the city by the middle of Mr. Phelps lost fields and packing sheds as a next week. result of a vacation called by no time in getting the work under way and far toward completion school officials. • • • and the job is giving entire School children throughout satisfaction to the citizens. It Malheur County will be enrolled is the universal opinion that -in a thrift campaign this year he knows his business. Members of the council state as part of a scbools-at-war program conducted by the that It will pr'>bably be a month Oregon war finance committee. before the tower and tank are To help win the war. child completed and water turned in ren should be thrifty and the to the mains. war stamp savings programs is designed to fix this idea Benefit Card Party firmly in youngsters* minds during the war. Very Successful 40 YEARS AGO The Malheur Memorial Hos pital Auxiliary held their annual There is no time like the Benefit Card Party, October present to build sidewalks, ac 13, at the Eagles Hall. This was cording to City Clerk J.R. Hun also their annual membership ter, who advises that sidewalks event. will be built without charge for all property owners who will Winners for the afternoon supply the material. He wishes were Mmes. Jan Barton, Lu them to get in touch with him cille Wilson, Jo Ann Siman- at once. tel, Myrtle Sasser, Audrey Wil This week the relief crew son, Matel Piercy and Mavis is digging drains along city McConathy. "There were streets. sixteen tables of cards being • • • played," reported Mrs. Marie Following the opening of bids on Owyhee project gravel work W'ilson, Auxiliary President, at Dunaway October 16, and the "and the proceeds will purchase opening of blds on 25 miles of a wheel chair for the nursing canal October 25, bids will tie home, the second one provided received on November 7 for two by the card parties.” The many millers that you have seen around the past few weeks are the adults of some of the army worm, cut worm, and cabbage loopers that were feeding on (he crops in the area during the past summer, As you can see, agricultural chemicals were not 100% effec tive In killing them. One rea son for this is that most in sects have a fantastic ability to reproduce themselves. A couple of examples of this are: <me aphid and its' offspring, if none were killed, could pro duce 1,560,000,000,000,000,- 000,000,000 Individuals in one season and one pair of house flies starting in April can theoretically produce enough flies by August to cover the earth to a depth of 47 feet. Any time that agricultural crops are concentrated in an area, certain Insects, such as those we are now seeing, will multi ply faster than normal. It is for this reason that some type of control is a MUST if we are going to continue to feed the people of the U.S. and the world. This all costs money and some estimates have placed the value of lost crops and keeping insects just checked, not controlled, at between 6 and 10 billion dollars a year in the U.S. HARVESTING OF ALFALFA A visit to the alfalfa seed producing areas of Malheur County is Interesting this time of the year as harvest is under way and combines dot the area like prehistoric monsters in their business of extracting the seed crop from the plants. They are best viewed in the afternoon as seed threshes rather poor ly during the morning hours when there is dew on the plants 0* (tie humidity is high. The harvesting period will last into October. The highest concen tration of alfalfa acreage is found in the Sunset Valley and Adrian Bench communities. Malheur County growers will produce about 8,700 acres of alfalfa seed this year. This makes Malheur the leading al falfa seed producing county in Oregon. In fact, it puts out more than half of the state’s total production. Several factors make this area one of the best seed pro ducing districts in the north west. Usually we tiave hot, dry weather during the seed setting period lasting from the middle of June through the mid dle of August. This is favor able for the pollination and de velopment of the seed crop. Hot, dry weather is ideal for the leafcutter and alkali bee activity. These are special pollinators used in alfalfa seed production. The little bees don’t do an effective job of setting the seed crop under cool, rainy or windy weather conditions. Seed growers who didn’t con tract their seed early are sharing In the general advance in prices of agricultural prices that has taken place the past year. Present prices being offered for seed are about double that of a year ago. A cutback in seed production in California and high hay prices are among the factors contri buting to a scarcity of alfalfa seed this fall. SAVE YOUR SOIL! 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The additional cash prize will be given to the candidate ob taining the most points for new subscriptions between Saturday morning, October 20, and Wed nesday night, October 24. Here is an <>pportunity for an ambitious boy or girl to earn a cash award in addition to one of the original prizes for just four days of competition. See the large ad in this issue of the Journal for full details. The prizes in this contest are well worth the effort of the whole family. Parents are urged to get behind their entry, help her or him with actual work and advice to the end that their favorite candidate will re ceive one of the major awards. YOUR MONEY'S WORTH by Sidney Journal Classified« Bring Results! News About SERVICEMEN (immunity Concert M/Sgf. Engelhardt Master Sergeant August En gelhardt recently re-enlisted for ten more years in the U.S. Air Force, after completing twenty years of service. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Engelhardt of Apple Valley. Engelhardt left for England last week for a five-year stint. His wife Pam is from England, so she will be reunited with her family. They have three children. Lt. Norris Niccum Oak Harbor, Wash - Navy Lieutenant Commander Norris J. Niccum, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elza F. Niccum of Route 2, Nyssa, returned from two weeks of active duty training at the Naval Air Station Barbers Point, Hawaii. During the 15-day cruise, he participated inexer cise RIMPAC 73 with naval forces from the U. S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand. He is a member of Patrol Squad ron 69 homeported at the Naval Air Station Whidbey Island here. He joined the Navy in March 1963. The first Community Concert of the season will feature Joyce Jones, noted organist. She will appear at the High School Auditorium in Ontario, Sunday, October 21 at 3 p.m. Joyce Jones has performed throughout the United States and Europe and has impressed the critics everywhere with her technical brilliance and sensitive musicianship. New residents may still obtain membership by calling Mrs. Jack Throop at 889-6246. Other guest artists throughout the series will be William Hall Chorde, vocal ensemble, Monday, February 11; Eglevsky Ballet Company, Wednesday, February 23; Angus Godwin Folk Singer-Guitarist, Saturday, April 27.