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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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In Subscription Drive
A
new
prize has been
announced for boys and girls
enrolled in the subscription
campaign of the Gate City Jour
nal which started last Saturday.
By the time reports are in
for Wednesday, October 24,one
of the boys or girls in the con
test will be $10 richer in ad
dition to being a bicycle winner
or earning a commission check.
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.
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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.