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à Thursday, December 6, 1973 The Nyssa Gat* City Journal, Nyssa, Oregon Pag* Three * OUT OF THE PAST Mr. and Mrs Frank l<euck, residents here for many years. He is a gra duate of Nyssa High School in 1927 and is employed at the Powell Service Station. The bride is a trained nurse at the Holy Rosary Hospital in Ontario and for present will continue on the staff. 50 YEARS AGO 10 YEARS AGO Four Nyssa High School students recently qualified to become members of the SRV honor band, according to an announcement by Frank Turner, NHS tiand director. New members and instruments they play are Terry Obenchain, trombone, Brad Maxfield, alto saxophone, Judy Nedry, trombone, and David Nishi- tani, clarinet. Greg Sumner has transferred from French horn to trumpet and is con tinuing as a member of the musical group. Other Nyssa musicians In the honor band are Ona Winchester, alto flute, Glenda Hoffman, drums, Sandra Weeks, contra-base clarinet, and John Wohicke, clarinet. • * • Mr. and Mrs. Jesus Lopez recently received a letter from their son. Pri vate First Class Eden Lopez, stating that he had arrived at Ft.Hood, Texas from Germany. He made the trip from Germany to Austin, Texas, in ten hours by jet airplane 20 YEARS AGO Bernard Eastman, Nyssa Real Es tate dealer and insurance agent, was on the move again this week, and this time back to his old location on Main Street but Into a spanking new office building. Tiie move marked the second one for Eastman in his nearly 15 years in the insurance business here. Tlie first move was into temporary quarters in tiie old telephone buildup at South Second and Good Avenue in September, when construction of the new quarters was begun on his Main Street property. ♦ • • Contributions totaling $1421.81 dur ing the past ten days swelled tiie Louie Vendrell Benefit Fund to $4753, according to Wayne Chesnut and Tony Richter, co-chairmen of the Nyssacom- mittee to raise money to defray medi cal and hospital expenses for Louie Vendrell, Nyssa High Sch<x>l freshman who was injured in mld-October during a football game. 30 YEARS AGO Earl W. Jennings, A.M. 2nd class of the Navy is home visiting after ser ving overseas for 15 months. • • ♦ Aviation Cadet Dwight Wyckoff of Nyssa has been transferred to the U. S. Navy pre-flight school at Iowa City Iowa. • • • Pfc. L. B. Flndling, who is sta tioned in the South Pacific area, has written his uncle, Bernard Frost, stat ing that he read in the Nyssa paper where the war bond drive is going strong at home. • • • Robert Kurtz of Pine Camp, New York, boarded a train Saturday morning for his return trip to camp after a furlough spent at home. Gerrit Stain was proudly displaying two ribbons to admiring friends this week which he had received as prizes on exhibits at the Pacific International Livestock Exposition at Portland. The blue ribbon was received for the best 100 ears of corn, for which he re ceived $20 in cash. For the best ten ears of corn he received the yellow ribbon and $2.00 in cash. • * • The boys are testing the ice on the various ponds in the vicinity of Nyssa, anxiously awaiting the time when it will be safe to don their skates and enjoy the delights of gliding swiftly over the ice. Some in their eagerness have received an involuntary bath by breaking through 60 YEARS AGO The dancing party given at the Pa rish House Thanksgiving Night by Dal ias Lkincan and Blainy Boydell was one of the most successful affairs of the season. About 25 couples were in at tendance and trifiped the light fan tastic until the wee small hours ♦ ♦ ♦ The high school now has the grea test regular attendance that it has had in its history, the recent regis tration of Dora Hon bringing the to tal up to 27. DIANA DIAZ Is combining her work in psychology class with lab chemistry by doing a research project on juvenile deliquency. Helping as counselors are authorities In the Juvenile Department in theCountyCourt- house BUY-SEU-RMT-HIRE. PATTY SEUELL IS WORKING on the ef fects of magnetic fields on plants and animals. PETE LESEBERG’S PROJECT involves the separation of fluorescent pigments in va rious types of flowers using chromatographic techniques. 40 YEARS AGO Ahead of schedule, D. R. DeGross, new settler on the Owyhee Project, has water on his land. However, it is not irrigation water but a sub stantial flow of pure, soft water at a depth of 600 feet of sufficient force to raise ttie water to within 170 feet of the surface. Steve Readon Is another new settler who is preparing a tract of Owyhee land, west of Nyssa, for the coming of water. ♦ • • Surprising friends, Charles Leuckof Nyssa and Miss Eva Ketler of On tario were quietly married on Tuesday evening at the Baptist Church in On tario by the Rev. Hovda. The ring ceremony was used. Leuck is a well-known young man of this community, being the third son of SUDDENLY you’re living better There's MORE BUDGE in your budget, more food on your table . . . because yoti shopped at RAY’S FOOD FAIR. That’s the magic of our STOREWIDE LOW PRICES, quality foods, and SUPER SAVER SPECIALS in every department. Shop RAY'S FOOD FAIR, where SAVINGS BEGIN— and ENDS MEET! EFFECTIVE DATES: Dec 6, 7, 8 USDA CHOICE » BONELESS ROUND STEAK V CHEDDAR CHEESE $1.29 $1.09 $1.19 98t OYSTERS 57c RUMP ROAST Lean Meaty Boneless INJURY COMPENSATION COSTS PRO DUCING NEW CONTROVERSY A little-publicized storm is brewing among employers of the state's working men and women. In the eye of the storm is the more widely publicized liberal nature of government in Oregon. And though until recently considered only a mild disturbance, it suddenly has the makings of a gale-force contro versy. As with any storm, tiie issues be hind the problem have been around for a long time. But it's only been during the last couple of years that those issue have « ombined to produce power sufficient for a full-blown tempest. Tiie subject involves types and amounts of compensation paid to wor kers injured in job-related accidents-- coupled with the rates employers must pay for insurance to provide injured worker compensation. Statutorily, injured workers are compensated depending upon the se verity of the injury and its lasting effect on the worker’s ability to re main gainfully employed. This is called workmen's compen sation and the system evolved in Eu rope apace with the industrial revo lution. It was embraced by the Uni ted States government in 1911 and administration of Workmen's Compen sation Insurance programs is handled by the individual states. In Oregon a three-member board administers a system by which em ployers must provide insurance pur chased from the state, from private insurance companies or a system of self-insurance. Employers are requi red to purchase so much insurance per $100 of payroll and the amounts, or rates, vary across more than 500 different job classifications. Historically, rates charged are de pendent upon tiie amount of payroll an employer generates, tiie hazardous na ture of his enterprise as far as worker safety is concerned and his experience rating--the frequency of accidents in job classifications within his business. Rates generally are established by the National Council on Compensation Insurance and deviations from NCC1 recommendations may be enacted by the various state legislatures. As a rule, a workman sustaining a slight injury that produces minimal time-loss from his job and who re turns promptly following treatment re ceives MO- medical compensation only. A worker with a time-loss Injury is declared TTD--temporarily totally di sabled. He receives medical com pensation and also a percentage of tils wage while off the job. A worker who becomes partially di sabled as a result of Ins accident, may be declared PPDand receive a lump sum compensation for that disability in addition to medical payments and a percentage of his wage until able to resume employment Tiie employe who is judged incapable of resuming his job as a result of injury is classified PTD--permanently totally disabled. He is compensated for the rest of his life and compen- satlon continues for surviving spouse and children. The rates employers pay for this insurance becomes a cost of doing business, the same as any other over head expense. Rates in Oregon today range from a low of 21-cents per $100 of payroll for telephone exchange ope rators to a high of $79.46 per $100 of payroll for building wreckers. Because they are a cost of doing business, these rates constantly are scrutinized by employers. And the cur rent controversy arises from the fact employers of agricultural workers be gan to wonder why their rates were approaching those paid by employers of workers in what they considered much more hazardous occupations. There resulted several studies--die most recent of which was conducted by Dennis U. Fisher of the Depart ment of Agricultural Economics at Ore - gon State University. His report indicates Oregon em ployers of nearly all types of workers are paying rates much higher than those paid in other states. It further shows those high rates have evolved from the amounts of compensation paid injured workers judged permanently partially and totally disabled-- PPD and PTD. Twin reasons were discovered for the compensation in question--that in turn causes the relatively high rates. The reasons are the types of statutes enacted by die Oregon Legislature and the interpretation of those sta tutes by the courts. Fisher was not charged with finding solutions to the problem And the prob lem to a large degree affects an Ore gon employer’s ability to compete in the marketplace with employers in lower-cost states. A philosophical question also ari ses, involving the extent to which an employer is responsible for the PPD and PTD case. Many workers in both categories are relatively unskilled, over-aged and under-educated. While their disability might not equally im pair the working ability of a younger, better educated or more highly skilled workman, die liberality of their com pensation is reflected in die rates all employers must pay. One school of thought believes this particular burden should be at least partially borne by society in general. On the other hand, there are those— and these include a liberal legislature and our courts- who have shown they be lieve the employer must carry the whole load. Present court decisions emphasize this position and only by legislative action can the trend be «hanged. If it does not change, employers have few alternatives. They must accept this relatively high cost situation and look for other solutions. The most obvious is through Oregon’s Safe Employment Act, this state’s sta tute complying with the Federal Occu pational Safety Health Act. Exten sive efforts are being made in this direction now. But other alternatives will be sought. And the brewing storm will achieve greater intensity as rival forces clash— most likely in the next regular session of the Oregon Legislature. STEW MEAT Challenge Bulk Cut I lb. lb. lb. lb. tin 2 lb. Pkg. 89< CHOCOLATE CHIPS Western Shores 200 ct. lb l|09 FACIAL TISSUE 4 Nestles 2 lb. QUIK Vets 25 lb. Bag DOG FOOD Nugget Pasco 12 oz. J Alpine */i gallon KE CREAM Simplot 1 lb. • 5,..89< c 89c 79c $3.89 ORANGE JUICE SOUP •or HASH BROWNS tin bag •FJrOZXW FOODS 2 ur 69< 79< A pkgs. 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