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rii vt-f’s; Librai* & y of Oregon . 77403 Nyssa Gate City Journal 67th Year 50th Istue Nyssa, Oregon à Thursday, December 13, 1973 Thunderegg Capital Nyssa City Council Opens Construction Bids First National Rank of Ore of $177,475; and Lynnbrook gon submitted the low bid for Construction Inc. of Lynn the purchase of $425,000 in wood, Washington submitted City of Nyssa Water Bonds a bld of $191,100 at the regular meeting of the Bids for the steel water Nyssa City Council Tuesday tank were then opened with evening. Pittsburgh Des Moines Steel The effective interest rate Company, Provo, Utah the for the successful bid is apparent low bidder at $261,- 5 0960 per cent. Other bids 650. Chicago Bridge andiron. submitted were those of the Salt Lake City, submitted a United States National Bank bid of $268,000 of Oregon, 5.2192 per cent; All bids were taken under and Blyth, Eastman, Dillon advisement, and the consul and Company of Portland, ting engineers will study with an interest rate of the construction bids. 5.3705 per cent. A special meeting of the Mayor Bauman then asked City Council will be held for the opening of bids on Friday, December 14 at 1 construction of the water p.m. in the council chambers, system improvement pro and at that time the award ject. Roy Taylor and Mr. ing of blds will be made on Johnson of the firm of Cor the bonds and construction!! nell, Howland, Hayes and everything is in order. Merryfield and 11:11 Of Boise City Manager Fred Koch consulting engineers for the said that it appeared the project, were present for total construction bids of the opening. $394,650 plus engineering, Apparent low bidder was site aquisition, and other Van Dergrift, Inc., of Boise expenses will be slightly with a bid of $133,040. Paul over the estimated $425,000 E. HughesConstructionCom- estimated for the project, pany of Tri-Cities, Wa but well within reasonable shington was next with a bld limits. School Board Renews McPartland’s Contract MAI.HEUR POTATO BARGAINING ASSOCIATION PRE- sident Keith Tailman, Adrian, presided at the annual meet ing of the Association held at the East Side Cafe Monday evening. Dick Tensen, Nyssa, accountant for the associa tion is shown giving the income and expenditures state ment to the large crowd, and seated to his left at the head table are Max Barlow, Vale, vice president and Mrs. Barlow, and Ken Wettstein, Ontario, secretary-treasurer, Christmas Concert Slated The Nyssa PTA is again sponsoring the annualChnst- mas Concert to be presented Thursday evening, Decem ber 20 at 8 p.m. in the school cafeteria. Everyone is in vited to attend and get into the spirit of the holiday sea son. There will be no ad- mission charge. The seasonal music will be standard Christmas ca- rols and other familiar Christmas songs and band numbers. The musical groups participating are the High School Bands and the High School Choirs under the direction of Ralph Wer ner, band director and Jeff Samtierg, choir director. Dates Set For Bull Sale A TRUCKLOAD OF BEET TAILINGS took to the ditch early Monday morning and overturned in order to avoid a head-on collision in the fog. The accident occurred south of Nyssa near Enterprise Avenue, and the truck be longed to Townley Livestock of Vale. Nursing Home Programs Prepared ByTVCC Group Treasure Valley Com munity College’s Social Science department is pre senting a Christmas gift this year to residents of the area nursing homes in th* form of a program entitled, "The In spiration of Christmas.” Mrs. Betty Derig, writer and instructor of western civili zation at the college, has arranged a slide show of mas terpieces of art inspired by th* nativity, with appr<g>riate Christmas stories of cus toms, legends, and symbols. The presentation of the Social Science department is offered under the Office Adrian Fire Dept. Officers New officers were elected to tiie Adrian Rural Fire Department for 1974. They are as follows: Chief - Don Hatch Assist. Chief - Bob Webb President - Dick Davis Vice Pres. - Bill Van De Water Secretary - Stan Mills Treasurer - Glenn Ward of Continuing Education as a community service. Mrs. Derig will appear at the Mal heur Memorial in Nyssa at 3 30 p.m., December 14, at the Malheur Nursing Home in Vale at 2 00 p.m , Decem ber 20, at the Presbyterian Nursing Home in Ontario, 10:00 a.m., December 21, at the Casa Loma Nursing Home in Payette, 7 00 p.m., De cember 21, and at the Wei ser Convalescent Center at a time yet to be arranged In addition to the Christ mas program, the Social Science department at Trea sure Valley Community has provided student volunteers to some area nursing homes. These students in the Ge neral Sociology course com bine community service with practical experience in so cial work. Students who have been involved include San dra Allen, Barbara Beck, Rita Hubbell, Molly McCoy, Harold Ward, Tony Andrews, and Terry Erlebach. Accord ing to Mrs. Launne Wrenn, Department chairman, the program will continue and possibly be expanded as the Nursing Home Ombuds man program is extended. Sale dates of February 22 and 23 were confirmed at a meeting of the Eastern Oregon Hereford Breeders Association late last week, according to George W. Bain, County Extension Agent. New officers elected were- President Jack Trail, Vice President Kenneth Shaw, Se cretary John Trail and Trea surer Jesse Mills. The Association will have 75 bulls for the sale in On tario. These bulls will be checked by a Veterinarian and graded for quality at 1:00 p.m. on February 22. The sale will be conducted at LOO p.m. February 23 in the heated sale arena at the Malheur County Fairgounds. This sale sponsored and conducted by local bonafide Hereford Breeders, has al ways been a popular event for beef cattle producers, says Bam Christmas Party For Nursing Home The annual Christmas party for the patients in the Malheur Memorial Nursing Home will be held in the hospital’s recreation room on Wednesday, December 19, at 2:30 p.m. Santa Claus will come to visit and will give each per son a personal Christmas gift. The Nyssa Swing Choir under the direction of Mr. Sandberg, will sing seasonal music. This party is sponsored by the Hospital Auxiliary and the gifts weregatheredanddona- ted by women’s groups of churches and clubs in the area. 1 ! I I I I I I NYSSA CO-OP SUPPLY WILL UNVEIL it’s new and modern building at a Grand Open ing Friday and Saturday. Ernie Metcalf, manager, invites everyone in the Nyssa 15C Per Copy ■ area to come in and visit their new faci lity, a welcome addition to the Nyssa bu siness district. and Mrs. Wettstein. Area representatives were elected during the meeting, and they are Don Brewer, Adrian, Mel Ballantyne, Nyssa, Max Barlow, Vale; and Hiro Harold Trenkel, Ontario; They and the holdover direc - Kanyama, Oregon Slope, tors will meet later this week to elect officers for the coming year. Oregon’s Anti-Litter Tops In Nation Oregon’s continuing fight to rid its highways of road side litter was further re cognized by a first place award in a nationwide coo- test sponsored by Keep Ame rica Beautiful, Inc. In announcing the award, KAB said that the Oregon State Highway Division, with Texas and Michigan as run ners-up, had been judged “most successful” in meet ing the litter-prevention cri teria developed during the past 20 years by the or ganization. KAB said the three high way departments had em phasized citizen education, proper equipment and law enforcement as major deter rents to littering. This is the first time this compe tition has been sponsored by the U. S. Department of Transportation and KAB. The award presentations are to be made by a De partment of Transportation official during KAB's 20th annual meeting in New York City, December 6. Expected to receive the award for Ore gon is Edgar Grimes, Har- nsburg, who has long been active in Oregon's anti-lit ter program and Miss Becky De Vries, a 15-year old stu dent at McNary High School in Salem, who lives at 4075 Rivercrest Drive North, Sa lem. They are at the ban quet to receive other awards presented to Oregon youth groups by KAB. "Selected by an independ ent panel of judges, the win ning highway department pro- Farm Bureau Elects New Officers For 1974 Waldron Johnson, a grain and livestock farmer from Yamhill, was elected Pre sident of the Oregon Farm Bureau Federation at the clo sing session of their 1973 House of Delegates meeting in Salem. Other new Federation of ficers are, Frank Setniker, McMinnville, 1st Vice Pre sident, Richard Renken, The Dalles, 2nd Vice Presi dent; and Floyd Hawkins of Vale, 3rd Vice President. Mary Petzel of Salem was re elected as chairman of the Utah Grower Succeeds Holmes As President A sugarbeet grower from northern Utah has been na med president of the na tion’s largest sugarbeet gro wer organization. S. Paul Holmgren of Bear RiverCity was elected today to succeed Robert Holmes of Nyssa. Holmgren was chosen by fel low beet organization lea ders meeting at the Scotts bluff Ramada Inn. The elec tion concluded business ses sions of the twenty-eighth annual convention which be gan December 3. Ron Kautz a Torrington, Wyoming producer was elec ted first vice president and Henry "Hank"Schaffer from Sterling, Colorado was na- med to the second vice pre sidency. Richard Blake was re-elected executive vice- president and Loe Johnson was re-elected secretary treasurer. Holmgren, his wife Eliza beth, farm 700 acres of ir rigated land in the rich Bear River Valley which lies along the Wasatch Mountains. They have five children, two boys and three girls. Holmt,Tenis working the land i. ne- steaded by his paternal grand father who was a contempo rary of the “Golden Spike” saga celebiating the join ing of the continental rail road. That historical event happened near the Holmgren place. ASC Community Committee Election Results Results of the December 3rd election of ASC com munity committeemen for 1974 were announced today by Blaine Girvin, chairman of the Malheur County Ag ricultural Stabilization and Conservation (ASC)Commit- tee. Farmers elected to the committees were: ADRIAN COMMUNITY - Richard Bennett. Chairman, Bill Shenk, Vice-Chairman, Kenneth Thomas, Regular Member; Bill Reiman, 1st. Alternate, LeRoy Sprague, 2nd. Alternate. HARPER COMMUNITY - Glenn Evins, Chairman, Ro bert Sanders, Vice-Chalr- DATE MAX Dec. 5 43 Dec. 6 45 Dec. 7 49 Dec. 8 45 Dec. 9 34 Dec. 10 32 Dec. 11 37 Dec. 12 MIN 27 38 35 28 23 25 24 30 PR EC. .25 Owyhee Reservoir Storage 12/10/73 418,000 Acre Feet 12/10/72 478,790 Acre Feet grains recognized that litter ing is a human behavioral problem that can be corrected only by changing individual attitudes and habits,” Roger Powers, executive vice pre sident of KAB, said in making the awards announcement. To bring about those changes sue cessfully, he added, requires a continuing education pro gram as well as the proper hardware and strict enforce ment of anti-littering laws. man, Bob Knudson, Regular Member, Waldo Bertalotto, 1st. Alternate, Tom Mooney, 2nd. Alternate JORDAN VALLEY COM MUNITY Walter Baltzor,Chairman. Oran Raburn, Vice-Chairman; Fred R. Eiguren, Regular Member; T. R. Carson, 1st. Alternate, Charles Elwood, 2nd. Alternate NYSSA COMMUNITY - Tom Jayo,Chairman; Tom Nishitani, Vice-Chairman, Keith Langley, Regulai Mem ber, Joe Dirksen, 1st. Al ternate, David Pfeiler, 2nd. Alternate. ONTARIO COMMUNITY - Sam Mori, Chairman; Ted Hollopeter, Vice-Chairman; Yasu Teramura, Regular Member, Louis M. Wettstein 1st. Alternate, R. Jack Nel son, 2nd. Alternate. PAYETTE—ORE. SLOPE COMMUNITY - Fred Head,Chairman, Paul Saito, Vice-Chairman,Char les Farley, Regular Member; Dick Lee, 1st. Alternate, Alvin Griffin,2nd. Alternate. VALE COMMUNITY - Russell Fulleton, Chair man, Dudley DeLong, Vice- Chairman, Bob White, Re gular Member, Jack Pres sley, 1st. Alternate; Clif ford Hawkes, 2nd. Alternate. Oregon Farm Bureau women. In other action, the dele gates approved Gov. Tom Mc Call’s suggestion to the fe deral government that a 55 miles per hour blanket speed limit be set for cars, tru cks and buses. They oppo sed the federal government’s proposal of a 50 MPH limit for passenger cars and 55 MPH for trucks and buses. Farm Bureau also suppor ted legislation providing for the return of capital punish ment to Oregon. They said they would support a law similar to that recentlypas- sed in California, applying to certain specified crimes. In further action on reso lutions, delegates: Requested top priority in the allocation of fuel and energy for the production, harvesting, processing and distribution of food. Urged that the use of DDT be allowed in emergency ca ses, as in the case of the Tussock moth. Supported supervised use of chemical toxicants in the control of predators and re quested research to find new methods of control. The Nyssa School Board met in regular session Mon day evening, and in the main order of business renewed the contract of Superinten dent W. L. Me Partland for an additional three years. McPartland came to Nyssa in 1943 as Elementary Prin cipal, and has been District No. 26 Superintendent since 1958. Board members discussed ways to keep as many pro grams going as possible af ter notification of a 10% cut in the December gasoline allot ment. No definite program restrictions have been de cided ipon at this time. A resolution was passed for the use of Title I and Title I-M federal funds in the amount of $143, 252 for the 1973-74 school year, and the board authorized pur chase of new sew ing machines for the Home Economics De partment. The Budgetcommittee has commenced negotiations with the Consultationcommittees of the faculty and non-certi- fied help. Salary schedules must be resolved before the rest of the budget can be prepared. Dee Gamer is chairman of the budget committee, Ge rald Simantel is vice chair man and Larry Saito, secre tary. Other members of the committee are Joel Mit chell, Rudy Longoria, Keith Langley, Farrel Peterson and Don Bullard. They join the school board members in making up the entire com mittee, which includes Board chairman Don Engstrom, Gene stunz. Bill Schilling, Victor Haburchak, Mark Hartley, Van Ure and Si- mantel. Great Decisions 1974 Program Offered At TVCC Great Decisions 1974, a program developed by the Fo reign Policy Association, will be offered by Treasure Val ley Community College win ter term. Interested parties w ill have the option of taking the course for transfer col lege credit or as a non transcript adult program. Those wishing credit will register for PS205 Interna tional Relations, pay stan dard tuition, and do the extra reading and course work re quired by the instructor. Non-transcnpt students will pay $1.50 fees and will be responsible for only the weekly discussion topics. Great Decisions text mate rials cost $3.00. Great Decisions 1974 to pics are: 1) Western Europe and the UJ.: What future for the Atlantic Community? 2) President vs. Congress: Diane Thomas Competes for Title Diane Thomas of Adrian will compete Jan. 19-20 in Portland for the title of Ore gon Dairy Princess. Preliminary plans for the coronation were announced this week by Ray Kozak, exe cutive secretary of the Ore gon Dairy Products Com mission which has sponsored the princess contest for 15 years. Miss Thomas will compete with 10 other contestants from across the state for the title and awards which in clude a $400 education con tinuance scholarship from First National Bank of Ore gon and a career training scholarship from the Bassist Finishing and Modeling School The state title holder be comes a part-timeemployee of the Oregon Dairy Products Commission receiving a salary and travel expenses to cover promotional activi ties during the year of her reign. Diane Thomas wascrown- Malheur County Dairy Prin cess last June at the close of the local month long pro motion of dairy products. The event is managed locally by the Malheur Dairy Wives. U.S. SENATOR BOB PACKWOOD, right, talks with State Representative Denny Jones and ex-Senator Tony Yturri after a dinner meeting Wednesday evening at the East Side Cafe. Yturri, who is now a member of the State Highway Commission, was mas- How should foreign policy po wers be shared? 3) Soviet-American De tente: Where do we go from here? 4) Cuba and the Panama Canal Zone: Time for a Change in U. S. Policies? 5) The Energy Crisis: What What Solutions? Impact? 6) Israel and the Middle East Conflict: Will Peace Ever Prevail? 7) The People’s Repub- lie of ChinaiToward a New Society? 8) People! People!: How Many Can the Earth Support? Students will take up a new topic weekly. The inten ded result of this activity is that students will learn more about critical foreign policy issues facing the country, arrive at their own decisions about these issues, and con vey their views to the na tions decision makers. The class will meet Mon days from 7:30 p.m. to 9:45 p.m., in room C-23 of the Administration Building. The first class meeting will be the evening of January 7. Further information is avai lable from the instructor, Larry Austin, at 889-6493. Bank Debits Up In October Bank debits for the eight reporting banks including Harney A Malheur counties were up in October, 1973, compared to October 1972, the University of Oregon Bu reau of Business Research has reported. Debits for October 1973, totaled $76,946,000. For Sep tember, 1973, the total was $65,002,000 and for October 1972, the total was$65,543,- 000. Oregon with 426 banks re porting, had a percentage increase of 18.3 in October 1973, as compared withSep- tember 1973, and a 45.4 percentage increase in Oc tober 1973, compared with October 1972. Total bank debits for Oc tober 1973, came to$9,780,- 826,000. For September 1973, the total was $8,270,- 880,000 and for October 1972, the total was$6,729,142,000. ter of ceremonies for the event, attended by over 200 people. Packwood visited the Nyssa and Vale schools that morning, had lunch at the Mal heur Memorial Hospital Nursing Home, and visited Ontario High School in the afternoon.