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Thursday, December 6, 1973
The Nyssa Gat* City Journal, Nyssa, Oregon
Pag* Three
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Aviation Cadet Dwight Wyckoff of
Nyssa has been transferred to the U.
S. Navy pre-flight school at Iowa City
Iowa.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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