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Nyssa Gate City Journal
The Sugar City
68th Y • ar 8th Issue
Nyssa, Oregon
District 7AA Wrestling Tournament
At Nyssa Friday And Saturday
Nyssa High School will be
host to th«* District 7AA
Greater
Oregon
League
Wrestling Tournament this
Friday and Saturday. Febru
ary 22 and 23
Weigh-in will be tietween
I 00 and 3 30 p m Friday,
with
the
first
session
between
4pm and 6 30
p m , and the second session
starting at 8 p m
Saturday the weigh-ins will
start at 8 a m , with the
third session starting at
II 30 am
Round 1 and 2
and semi-finals of the con­
solation round, and the semi­
finals of the championship
round will be field during
the afternoon sessions
The consolation champlon -
ships, and the championship
rounds will be in the fourth
session, which starts at 7 45
p m Saturday
Nyssa wrestling coach Mel
Calhoun,
the tournament
director, said that eight
schools
making up Die
Greater Oregon League will
tie entered in the tourney
They are Burns, Crook
County of Prineville, Grant
Union of John Day, Madras,
Milton Freewater, Wahton
ka, Vale and Nyssa. Each
school may enter two par­
ticipants m each weight
bracket
Prineville, winner of the
district tournament in 1972
and 73 will definitely tie
favored due to balance in
weight classes, Calhoun said.
He considers Vale the dark
horse of the tournament
Calhoun listed the out
standing wrestlers entered
and their schools are:
Burns, Dave Bossuel, 178,
and Tom Schillmger, heavy­
weight.
Vale, Ron Pressley, 141,
Steve Anthony 115, 1973dis­
trict champ; and Rick Men-
dive 106, 2nd in district
Prineville, Charley Bow.
man, 123, third in district
in 1973, Jim Perry, 157,
third in district, Richard
Lee, 168. 4th in district,
and Richard Olson 191, 4th
tn district.
Milton-Freewater, Chuck
Pease 178, third ui state in
1973
Nyssa, Sam Hartley, 1973
district champ and state
champ at 98 pounds, and
Manuel Perez, 1973 district
< hamp and 2nd in state at
130
John Day, Gary Hammond,
1973 district champion at
heavyweight
Madras, Elliot 191, fourth
in district in 1973, and Lane
123, third in 1973
The tournament will be
run on three mats in the
Nyssa gym, and fans will
see some of the best high
school wrestlers in the State
of Oregon.
Thursday, February 21, 1974
Treasure Valley Com­
munity College's proposed
budget has been ajiproved by
directors after only one per­
son appeared at a public hear­
ing conducted Monday.
The total budget is $1,891,-
986, an increase of appro­
ximately $100,000 over the
1973-74 budget of $1,784,-
620.
The TVCC board of di­
rectors approved the budget
after making some minor
changes mainly in the food and
housing part of the budget.
A district-wide election
on the budget has been sche­
duled March 26.
Lillian Moore Wins Betty Crocker Award
Lillian Moore has been
named Nyssa High School's
1974 Betty Crocker Family
Leader of Tomorrow Mb s
Moore won the honor by sco­
ring high in a written know­
ledge and attitude examina
tian administered to high
school seniors tie re and
throughout the country Dec.
4, She will receive a spe­
cially designed award from
General Mills, sponsor of Hie
annual Hetty Crocker Search
for Leadership in Family
Living and also remains eli­
gible for state and national
honors. She is the daughter
of Mr and Mrs. Tom Moore
LILLIAN MOOR!
From the ranks of all
school winners in the state, a
State Family Leader of To­
morrow is selected through
judging centered on test per­
formance and receives a
$1,500 college scholarship
The second-ranking student
in ttie state will receive a
$500 scholarship. Encyclo­
paedia
Britannica Educa­
tional Corporation will pre­
sent "The Annals of Ame­
rica,”
a 20-volume re-
ference work, to the state
winner's school.
Representing every state
and the District ofColumbia,
ttie 51 Hetty Crocker Family
Leaders of Tomorrow, toge­
ther with a faculty advisor,
will gather in Washington,
D.C., in April, for an ex­
pense-paid educational tour
>f the capital city and Min­
neapolis, Min>:**sota. During
the tour, personal observa­
tions and interviews are ad­
ded to state level judging
which results in the selec­
tion of ttie All-American Fa­
mily Leader of Tomorrow,
who receives a $5,000 col­
lege scholarship. Second,
third and fourth place na­
tional winners receive scho­
larships increasedto$4.000,
$3,000 and $2,000 respec­
tively.
This year 703,074 stud« nts
from 14.463 schools were
enrolled in ttie program. Ap­
proximately nine million stu­
dents have taken part in the
program since its inception
in the 1954-55 school year
and, with this year's grants,
total scholarship awards will
exceed $2 million.
Hospital Budget
Board Appointed
f
J. J. CLARKE AND ERNEST SEUEI.I pose for pic
turns after Clarke, director of development of ttie Collier
Carbon and Chemical Corporation of Los Angeles, talked
to the Malheur County Farm Bureau Monday evening Seuell
was re-elected president for a third yeai
Officers elected were John Turner, vice presKient and
Joe Hobson, voting delegate to the annual state meeting
Janet Glrvm was elected women's chairman.
County representatives are Ted Avery, W W. Oxnam,
M Wakasugi, John Bishop. Emil Maag, Jack De nt el and
Keith Langley
Mrs Irene Hobson was given an award for her out­
standing contritmtion to agriculture by helping the Farm
Bureau over a period of many years.
Clarke advised members of (lie Farm Bureau that they
face shortages in fertilizers, even though the govern
ment has given priority for fuel use The energy crisis
affects natural gas supply and natural gas is the main source
of nitrogen fertilizer.
Malheur Memorial Hos­
pital board lias appointed two
new members to the Budget
Board. They are Van Ure
and Dee Garner for three-
year terms
Holdover members
are
Vernon Parker, 2-yearterm,
and Dirick Nedrv and Don
Engstrom, one-year terms.
WEATHER
DATE MAX
Feb. 13 ;
Feb. 14 39
Feb. 15 43
Feb. 16 49
Feb. 17 50
45
Feb.
Feb. 19 48
Feb. 20
II
MIN
26
28
31
33
34
31
34
31
PR EC.
.19
03
.16
Owyhee Reservoir Stoi age
2/20/74 529.020 Acre Feet
2/20/73 588,040 Acre Feet
The budget anticipates a
slight increase inenrollment
which is expected mainly as a
result of the addition of a
second year in ttie farm mana
gement and body fender cur­
riculums
Enrollment estimates for
next year project 1,060 full
time equivalent students com
pared with the estimated
1,040 attending this year
General fund require­
ments total $718,151 and an
estimated tax rate of $2 54
will be submitted to voters in
the March election. Voters
last year approved a tax rate
of $2 36
Nyssa Police Arrest
Several in Drug Raid
Fernando Rodriquez and
Robert Dudley and two ju­
veniles were arrested Fri­
day night on a petty larceny
charge They were caught
siphoning car gas at the
Sugar Bowl parking lot.
Several arrests were made
early Saturday morning as
the result of a drug raid.
Thomas Howey, 22, fromSo.
Dakota was picked up for
furnishing drugs to a minor.
He is in ttie Malheur County
Jail under $10,000 bail
VX in Awards
The Scouts will be draped with their
Eagle Ner kerchiefs at an Eagle Court of
Honor, Sunday, February 24, at the United
Methodist Church at 4 30 p m
15< Per Copy
TVCC Budget Approved
For $1.8 Million
EE A Members
HIGHLIGHTING BOY SCOUT WEEK IN
Nyssa are these new Eagle Scouts lliey
are from left, Pete lx>seberg. John Kouns,
Larry Haney, Neal Old»-meyer and John
Wahlert
Thunderegg Capital
Three Nyssa FFAChapter
members placed well in the
Snake River District Farm
Proficiency Award Contest
held February 15 at Nyssa.
First place winners were
Sam
Hartley, Beef Pro­
duction, Bruce Corn, Crop
Production;
Bruce Corn.
Sales and/or Service, and
Dwayne Ulrey, Placement in
Agriculture Production
All three will now be com-,
peting at the state level at
the annual State FFAConven-
tion to be held this March
18-21 at Ontario. In addi­
tion they will be recognized
by receiving special District
awards at the State Conven­
tion.
Also competmgat the State
Convention will be Dwayne
Ulrey’s first place Advanced
Work Experience Record
book and Kip Cindeil’s first
place Beginning Work Ex­
perience Record Book
Several Eile
For Office
County Clerk BobMorcum
announced several filings for
office Tuesday. Three can­
didates for the Board of Di­
rectors for the TVCC Edu­
cation Board filed, they are
John Easly and K. E. ' Skip'*
Thayer, Ontario and Wayne
Ball, Huntington. all incum­
bents.
Deadline for filing
is Friday, February 22.
W. C. “Bud” Hammack,
Republican, filed for Posi­
tion No. 1, County Commis­
sioner
Hammack Is a Ja­
mieson farmer and rancher.
The deadline to file for county
office is March 19
Ranchers To
Improve Hauge
Private range owners in
Malheur County have now
pooled over 16,000 acres for
range improvement prac­
tices this spring, according
to George W. Bain, Malheur
County Agent.
This improvement prac­
tice is the control of sage­
brush on adopted sites to
allow usuable forage plants
to produce more feed
Joe Nelson Martinez, 22,
Route 2, Nyssa was arres­
ted for criminal activity in
drugs. Judge E. Otis Smith
fined him $250 or ten days in
jail. He is also in the county
jail.
Robert Emmett Pratt, 18,
Route 1, Nyssa and Rick
Ordonez, 18, 316 Good Ave­
nue, Nyssa and Pete Mo­
rales, 18 were arrested for
Minor in Possession. One
juvenile was also picked up
on a MIP charge and cri­
minal activity in drugs This
will be handled through the
county juvenile court.
Entry was made into the
Fiesta Farms shedearlySa-
turday morning Apparently
only toots were taken.
Ramon Fisher 47. was ar­
rested on a public intoxica­
tion charge He was fined
$53 in Municipal Court on
Tuesday.
Sunday, Glen Vasburg was
picked up on a warrant from
Municipal Court for disor­
derly conduct. He is out on
bail.
Hearings Set
On Merger
Farmers and other inte­
rested persons are reminded
of meetings scheduled to de­
termine public sentiment on
the combination of the Mal­
heur and Adrian Soil Con­
servation Districts
Hear­
ings on the proposed mer­
ger will be held at the Vale
City Hall on February 25
and in the County - City Li­
brary in Ontario on February
26 Both meetings will start
at 8 00 p.m
The two districts will be
combined into one large dis­
trict covering all of Mal­
heur County if no substan­
tial opposition to the pro­
posal is encountered
Wyatt, Green
To Retire
Congressman Al Ullman
said here today that he
•'deeply regrets" the re­
tirement announced today by
Representatives Edith Green
and Wendell Wyatt.
In a short statement Ul­
lman said:
•'Both of them have ser­
ved Oregon with high dis­
tinction, and the state owes
each of them a great deal
for their years of dedica­
tion and public service ”
• We in the Oregon dele­
gation will miss them deeply.
They both had positions of
great responsibility on the
Appropriations Committee.
Their leaving will put an
extra burden on the rest of
the delegation to work doubly
hard to make sure there's
no letdown in Oregon’s re -
presentation in Congress.”
DERYL LEGGET, PRESIDENT OF THE
Nyssa Education Association, and Gary Jas­
per, chairman of the teacher's negotiating
committee, signed the salary agreement
with Don Engstrom, right, Nyssa School
Board chairman. The school board and
teachers arrived at an agreement and it was
effective after Monday night’s meeting.
Board, Teachers Reach Agreement
Nyssa school board and
Nyssa Education Association
negotiating teams signed an
agreement for the 1974-75
school year, February 18
Included in the negotiations
was a base salary of $7.800.
Besides salary and fringe
benefits, a written grievance
procedure, conditions of em­
ployment, school calendar,
personal leave, educational
reimbursement for on-cam-
pus, extension, or corres­
pondence courses were other
items included in the agree­
ment.
Students Earn
BSC Honors
BOISE-- A total of 835
Boise State students have
been named to the 1973 fall
semester Dean's List. This
compares with 785 named
during the 1972 fall semester
Students achieving highest
honors, a GPA of 4 00, num­
bered 242
High honors,
GPAs of 3.75 to 3 99. went
to 237 students. An additional
356 students attained honors,
GPAs of 3 50 to 3 74
The honors list reflects
the academic excellence that
exists among the 10,270stu-
dents currently enrolled at
Boise State who come from
all over Idaho, other states
and various parts of the
world.
Attaining highest honors
was SHEILA PRATT, sopho­
more in Elementary Educa­
tion from Adrian.
Nyssa students on the ho­
nors list were MELISSA Nl-
SHITANI, senior in Music
SCOTT ABLEMAN, fresh­
man in Business Manage­
ment; and MARY JOK1, so­
phomore in Elementary Edu­
cation.
Hay Growers
Hold Meeting
There will be a
meeting for all hay growers,
February 27, 8 p m at the
Nyssa N.F.O
Livestock
Collection Point
Gordon Dones, state hay
chairman for the N.F.O. in
the Willamette Valley area
will be the guest speaker
Everyone is invited.
Negotiations were carried
out under the new Collective
Bargaining Law passed by the
1973 legislature
Budget board members
stated that they appreciated
the positive and cooperative
manner ofthe teacher's team
in arriving at an early and
fair settlement.
The final package was
reached after a total of some
eight meetings which began
last November 19.
Members of the local
education association in­
cluded Barbara Bullock, Max
Brittingham, Steve Glauner,
Gary Jasper. Roberta John­
son, and Dale Schraufnagel.
School district *26’s ne­
gotiating team consisted of
Dee Garner, Mark Hartley,
Joel Mitchell, Farrell Peter­
son, Gene Stunz and W.L.
McPartland, resource mem­
ber
City Council Adopts
Bargaining Agent Resolution
The Nyssa City Council
met in special session Mon­
day noon at Brownie’s Cafe,
and approved Resolution No.
288 which recognizes the Em­
ployees Association as the
sole bargaining agent for
the employees.
The resolution calls for
the employees to appoint four
of their members, and the
Mayor and City Council will
appoint twocouncil members,
the city manager and a 4th
person a taxpayer resid­
ing within the city.
The council
appointed
Ernie Metcalf and George
Coffman, councilmen, Henry
Schneider, manager and Ce­
cil Morrison, taxpayer to
Boy Scout
Drive Starts
This month marks the of­
ficial kick-off of the Boy
Scout's 1974 Sustaining Mem­
bership Enrollment cam­
paign.
The Seven Rivers
District’s goal is$14,550.00.
Due to inflationary problems
the cost to keep each boy in
Scouting in the Ore-IdaCoun­
cil has risen to a minimum
of $17.80 a year We will
need everyone’s help to raise
more in “74”.
The SME Campaign will
start this week inNyssa,ac­
cording to chairmen, Dick
Butcher and Danny McGin­
nis. People will be contac­
ted both in the uptown area
and the residential area. Boy
Scouts will help with the
campaign
the committee. The emplo­
yees had previously named
Ralph Lowe, Joe Rodríguez,
Gene Orr and Frank Law­
rence to the committee.
Resolution No. 288 sets
out provision for mediation
in case of an impasse, with
a panel composed of ten na­
mes mutally agreed upon In
event they need the media­
tors, they will draw by lot
seven names, then each side
will eliminate two by pre-
emptory challenge, leaving
three names as the media­
tion board. They in turn
will hear both sides of the
case, and a decision is bind­
ing on both parties.
In other action the coun­
cil approved a PlanningCom-
mission recommendation
that Fiesta Farms be per­
mitted to bring in a modu­
lar building, set on a per­
manent foundation, with a
septic tank system on their
property.
In the event a
sewer is later constructed
in the area, they may be
required to connect.
The council approved a
request of Joe Madrid to
use an old school bus for
storage purposes on his lot
on Elm Street.
The bus
must not be lived in, and
must meet several pro­
visions before it can be
used.
In final action, the coun­
cil shelved for further study
the request of Emil Stunz to
rezone Lots 13 through 18
in Bl x'k 1, Voellers Replat,
iron. Multiple Zone to Com­
mercial Zone.
Veterans Affairs Loans
Highest Year on Record
The Department of Vete­
rans' Affairs granted 11,340
loans last year in the amount
of $225,986,537 for the hi­
ghest year on record, H.C.
Saalfeld, director, repor­
ted today. The number of
loans was 42 percent above
the previous record set in
1971, and the dollar volume
was 56 percent above the
1972 high
In Malheur County last
year, loans went to 72 ve
terans in the amount of
$1,545,92?, compared with
53
loans
in 1972
for
$1,361,730
Saalfeld said loan appli­
cations last year set a new
record also, totaling 13,434
or 40 percent above the pre­
vious high set in 1969
The average loan was hi­
gher in 1973, going to $19,-
928 from ttie 1972 average of
$18,226
Loans last year
averaged 945 per month for
$18 8 million, up from 660
loans and $12 million per
month for 1972
Net earnings from the loan
program last year amoun­
ted to $1,837,271, bringing
over-all net earnings since
1945 to $27,067.230
A POWER TRANSFORMER FADED
Thursday, leaving Main Street and about
half of Nyssa out of j>ower fol 45 minutes
last Thursday.
Bill Fitzsimmons, Idaho Power Com­
pany electrician, is connecting a spare
transformer to restore power as district
Manager Dale Adams looks on