Nyssa Gate City Journal
68th Year 11th Itiue
The Sugar City
Nyssa, Oregon Thursday, March 14, 1974
Thunderegg Capital
15C Per Copy
Nyssa Bulldogs Prepare For State Tournament
The Nyssa Bulldogs com
pleted their season on a win
ning note at Vale Saturday
evening, and the players and
Coach Gerald Talbot will
leave Monday for the State
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nament at Eugene. They plan
practice sessions Monday
Chamber Hears
About Port
Commission
County Judge Roy Hirai
told members of the Nyssa
Chamber ofCommerce about
the possibilities of organi
zing a Port Authority Com
mission in Malheur County to
attract and aid industry. The
meeting was held Wednesday
noon at the Twilight Cafewith
members of the Ontario and
Vale Chambers of C ommerce
and representatives from
agricultural organizations
present. County Commis
sioner Emil Maag also at
tended the meeting and res
ponded to questions,
Nyssa High School basket
ball coach Gerald Talbot,
assistant coach Max Britting
ham and the varsity basket
ball team members were
guests of the chamber, prior
to their departure to Eugene
and the state basketball tour
nament. Coach Talbot in
troduced his players and
expressed their appreciation
of the support given the team
by the community through
out the season.
Chamber members ex
pressed their Interest in
learning more about the Port
Commission, and Judge Hi
rai will attempt to get a
state authority to come to
Malheur County to speak to
the representatives of the
three cities.
Practical Nursing
Class Deadline
Treasure Valley Com
munity College Practical
Nursing Department Chair
man, Connie McClun, has set
a March 20 deadline for
applications for the 1974-75
class to be trained in On
tario. The deadline for the
program in Baker is April
1. Prospective Baker stu
dents should contact St. Eli
zabeth’s Hospital.
Ms. McClun said her of
fice hopes to notify appli
cants of selections by May 1.
and Tuesday in the Eugene
area in preparation for their
first game Wednesday at 3
p.m. (4 p.m. MDT) against
Nestucca. See tournament
bracket on page eight.
Wednesday noon the Bull
dogs andcoaches were fruests
of the NyssaChamtier ofCom
merce at the Twilight Cafe,
one of the many gestures nt
appreciation that they will
receive from their com
munity and school mates
prior to departure tor the
tournament. They completed
their regular season with an
overall 19-3 record, atten
ded the Greater Oregon Lea
gue campaign with a 13-1
record.
The season’s finale at Vale
ended in a resounding 57-44
victory for the Greater Ore
gon League champs, a fitting
prevue of »hat is expected
at Eugene. The game was
played before a standing
room only crowd in the Vale
gym, with a large crowd
Solid Waste Council
Favors Incineration
The Malheur County Solid
Waste Council voted twelve
to zero in favor of incine
ration as opposed to land
filling as the primary me
thod of refuse disposal In
the county. A bill was sent
to the finance subcommittee
to review methods of finan
cing the capital construc
tion costs through household
user fees. The committee
learned that this would ne
cessitate the formation of
a county service district to
administer the program. Fi
nance subcommittee chair
man, Ralph Cornmefser, set
March 20 as the meeting
date to discuss this issue.
In other business it was
reported that the Slides land
fill is closed and the rural
transfer system Is now col
lecting the refuse that had
been going into the Slides
dump. One problem with the
transfer containers has been
Three File For
School Board
Nominating petitions have
been filed by three candi
dates for school board po
sitions, according to Super
intendent W. L. McPartland.
The terms of Mark Hartley
and Van Ure expire June 30.
Petitions have been re
ceived from Mark Hartley,
Harvey Wilmot and Keith
Langley. Deadline for filing
is March 29, and the elec
tion is May 7.
The school board has also
set the School Budget ejec
tion for May 7, McPartland
said. A Public hearing on
the budget has been set for
April 8, and will be adver
tised at a later date.
encountered the committee
learned; this was that hot
burn tarrels dumped into the
containers has set the trash
on fire. There has been
little damage at this point,
and hopefully residents of
the Oregon Slope area will
be more careful in the future.
The committee also lear
ned that the Juntura and
Harper dumps either have
been or soon will be clea
ned up and blow fences con
structed.
A new site will
soon be selected for both the
Ironside and Jordan Valley
landfills.
The committee viewed se
veral slides of different
transfer system.- and an in
cineration in Ogden, Utah.
The next regular meeting of
the Solid Waste Council will
be held March 21.
4-H Ix*ad< *rship
Forum Planned
•’Leaders arc Teachers,
Too” Is the theme of the
1974 - 4-H Leaders Forum.
This forum will be Saturday,
March 30, in La Grande,
from 9:30 until 3 30 p.m.
All Malheur County 4-H
Leaders are encouraged to
attend this one-day session.
Transportation will be pro
vided from Ontario, leaving
the City Hall at 8:00 a.m.
Cost for Forum is $3.00
which will Include lunch.
Workshops are included
within the day’s activities on
a variety of topics - such as
-records and awards,teach
ing skills, and eye to eye
teaching. Any 4-H Leader
who would like to attend,
please contact the Malheur
County Extension Office by
March 25.
I
from Nyssa present.
Friday night at Burns the
Nyssa team suffered its only
league loss, losing to the
Highlanders by a 53-52 score.
A completely
cold third
period, when the Bulldogs
could seemingly not do any
thing right, was their undoing.
They fought track from a
10-point deficit in the fourth
quarter, and came within
one basket of a perfect re
cord. Box scores on page
ten.
Soloists To Be
Featured at
March 14, PTA
First chair section lea
ders of the 6th grade band
will be featured soloists at
the Nyssa PTA meeting on
March 14 at 8 p.m. in the
cafeteria. Soloists include:
Natalie Mower, flute; Va
lerie
Messick, clarinet,
Tonya Atagi, saxaphone, Bob
Bass, trumpet, and NealLl-
negar, trombone.
The sixth grade band will
present four numtiers. Also
participating will be the sixth
grade Flute Trio, including
Natalie Mower, Kayleen Rob
bins
and Maggie Soliz;
and the sixth grade Trumpet
Quartet, with Bob Bass, Mike
Blaylock, Rodger Haney and
Mike Stan.
Following,the eighth grade
saxaphone trio, consisting of
Donna Oldemeyer, Brian
Piercy and Jim Wilson, will
present a number.
Concluding the program
will be the Sophomore Wood
wind Quartet playing Rondo
by J. S. Bach. Members are
Lori Miner, Shelley Myrick,
Tammi Fredericksen, Kathy
Kunkel and Kathy Shell.
Hospital Board
Election Set
Three directors terms of
office of the Malheur Me
morial
Hospital District
board expire July 1 of this
year, and they are Paul Kun
kel, Jim Robinson andCyrus
Bock.
Kunkel and Robinson have
indicated that they will file
for re-election, and Bock
has indicated he will not
run again. Deadline for fil
ing is April 7, and nomi
nating petitions may be ob
tained from Gale Christen
sen, hospital administrator.
They must be signed by 25
registered voters of the dis
trict.
The election will be held
May 7, the date of the pri
mary election.
Friday Is Coffee Day
To Help Handicapped
Jim Kile will be serving as
chairman of the fifth annual
Coffee Day in Oregon, to be
held inNyssa, Friday, March
15.
BUCK-A-CUP to BRACE-
A-CH1I.D is an Easter Seal
sponsored project carried
out by your local restaurants
and for $1.00 you can buy a
BAC buttonwhichentitlesyou
to drink free coffee from any
participating restaurant on
Coffee Day. Those restau
rants in Nyssa taking part
are Twilight Cafe, Michael's
Pharmacy
Fountain and
Brownie's Cafe.
BAC Coffee Day is one of
the Annual Easter Seal events
which makes it possible for a
handicapped child to spend
ten days at a summer camp.
We appreciate and need
your support.
April 1 Deadline For
Veterans Exemptions
Malheur County Assessor.
Oscar Bratton, today re
minded veterans who are 40^
or more disabled and wi
dows of war veterans that
April 1st is the deadline for
making application for this
property tax exemption. Ve
terans or widows that have
secured an exemption last
year and do not make appli
cation by April 1st will be
notified by
mail and if
they still qualify may make
application not later than
May 1st accompanied by a
late-filing fee of $10.
Qualifying veterans and wi-
Reid Saito
l () Graduate
The University of Oregon's
Winter Graduation Convoca
tion was held Friday. March
8, for a class of 777 can
didates for baccalaureate and
advanced degrees.
Giving the address for the
convocation was
Linfield
College’s President Gordon
C. Bjork. His address was
titled "1974 1984 TheChal
lenge of Change.”
Reid Saito, Nyssa, was
among the 539candidates foi
baccalaureate degrees with
a B.A, in English.
WEATHER
TWO OWYHEE RIVER CROSSINGS are in
the news this week. The top photo shows the
new bridge (Hi the Overstreet Road which
was bullt by the State of Oregon and accep
ted by the Malheur County Court last week.
It is completed except for filling and paving
the approaches, and should lie ready for
use by the end of March.
The bottom photo shows the temporary
crossing and culvert at the base of one
of the approaches to the old bridge near
Sniveley's which was destroyed in an ac
cident last fall. Court suits are pending
before settlement of damages can be made.
In the meantime, Adam Focht, manager
of the North Board of Control, said that
the North Board plans to start releasing
water from the reservoir Friday or Sa
turday, depending on the inflow of water.
Foehl said that high waler will wash out
this crossing, and depending on the spring
run-off, could put it out of use fol a long
time. He advises those |>eop|e who need
to get things from their cabins to do so
before the Weekend.
DATE
MAX.
MIN .
PR EC
Mar. 6
42
37
32
38
Mar. 7
29
Mar. 8
47
Mai. 9
45
18
19
Mar. 10
51
28
Mar. 11
50
.13
65
38
Mar. 12
36
Mar. 13
Owyhee Reservoir Storage
3/13/74 590.360 Acre Feet
3/13/73 641,440 Acre Feet
Journal Photo
UNITED STATES CAPITOL
dows will receive a$7,500 re
duction in assessedproperty
value. In the case that the
real estate value is less
than $7,500 and taxable per
sonal property is owned the
balance is applied to this
assessment.
Assessor Bratton said,
"Last year, veteran’s exemp
tions amounted to $1,648,-
869.00 of value.”
Beef Cattle
Field Day
Cattlemen will want tore-
serve March 26 in their sche
dule to attend the annual Beef
Cattle Field Dav at the Squaw
Butte Experiment Station in
Burns according to George
Bain, County Extension Agent.
The program starts at
10:00 a.m. PDT at the Poi
son Creek Grange Hall two
miles west of Burns with a
discussion of research pro
jects and findings in the
fields of range forage pro
duction, feed requirements
for fall and spring calving
cows, beef production with
irrigated pasture, and al
tering the male calf for in
creased efficiency.
Lunch will be served by
the Grange ladies.
The afternoon will be spent
viewing actual research pro
jects in progress at the base
operation of the station known
as Section 5. Visitors will
see work in supplements for
weaner calves, digestive stu
dies. straw feeding, liquid
replacement, Buiret as a pro
tein supplement, and algro-
implant studies.
Research at Squaw Butte
is of a very practical na
ture. Bain says their fin
dings can directly affect the
management procedures on
many MalheurCountyranches
Sugar Company Reports
Results of Campaign
The Amalgamated Sugar
Company started its final
phase of the 1973 sugarbeet
processing season this week
when all four of its facto
ries completed beet slicing
operations and two factories
immediately initiated their
juice processing efforts.
Completing their entire
factory operations were the
Mini-Cassia and Nyssa fac
tories after 121 and 129 days
of continuous operation, res
pectively.
The Nampa andTwinFalls
factories have also comple
ted their slicing operations
and are now processing the
sugar juice that is annually
stored on site during the re
gular sugar campaign. This
final factory operation will
be completed in late March
at Twin Falls and early June
at Nampa.
An estimated 7,600,000
bags of sugar (hundredweight)
will be produced from the
1973 crop, reports Henry
Jenkins, assistant to the vice
president of operations for
the company.
Agriculture vice president
Henry Zobell has also an
nounced that 134,000 acres
of beets were harvested and
stored last fall for the com
pany’s four sugar factories.
A total of 3,000,000 tons
of beets were rece ived, which
produced an average vieldof
22 tons per acre, essentially
the same average produced
last year by the company’s
districts in Utah, Idaho, and
Oregon.
City Council Approves
Salary Negotiations
The Nyssa City Council
approved negotiation with
city employees on wagesand
benefits for the 1974-75 year
at the regular meeting of the
council Tuesday evening in
the city hall. The council
authorized the city attorney
Powder Puff
Mechanics Course
Powder Puff Mechanics
will be offered spring term
at Treasure Valley Com
munity College. There will
be an organizational meeting
Wednesday, March 27 at7:00
p.m., in the Tech-Lab Build
ing.
The class is especially de
signed
for women.
The
course content includes auto
components, tools, safety,
starting, carp of tires, belts
and radiator, the oil and
electrical
systems,
and
trouble-shooting.
Upon completion of the
course, those women whopar-
ticipate will have sufficient
knowledge of their automo
biles to correct minor prob
lems that may arise when they
are driving alone and to
avoid costly repairs through
intelligent maintenance.
to prepare a formal con
tract, and disclosure of its
contents will be made public
when the contract is signed,
according to City Manager
Henry Schneider.
Sgt. Joe Rodríguez is pre
sident of the employees asso
ciation, and he, Ralph Lowe,
Gene Orr and Frank Law
rence represented the em
ployees in the negotiations.
Cecil Morrison, Councilmen
George Coffman and Ernie
Metcalf and Schneider re
presented the city council.
Schneider said the negotia
tions were conducted
amiably, and agreement was
made after three meetings.
The council had final rea
ding and passed Ordinance
No. 441, which gives city
officials guidelines for re
tention and destruction of
city documents.
County Treasurer Pat
Bond talked to council mem
bers about the investment
program which she conducts
for public funds. The City
of Nyssa has profited by
this program, and currently
has over $400,000 in bond
money invested earning ma
ximum interest.
THE ADRIAN HIGHSCHOOL MARCHING
BAND, shown above, and the stage band
are leaving March 14 for Reno, where they
will play in the University of Nevada, Reno
Jazz Band Festival.
This is one of the
largest festivals of this type in the nation,
with approximately 100 bands taking partin
four classes.
They will proceed to Los Angeles where
Real Estate
Courses Set
Real Estate Principles,
the first in a series of three
professional
classes for
which a new film and lec
ture form has been deve
loped under the direction of
the Oregon Real Estate Com
missioner’s Office, will be
presented by the Treasure
Valley Community College
Office of Continuing Educa
tion next term.
Registration and the first
class meeting are scheduled
Wednesday evening, March
27 at 7:00 p.m. in room C-7
of the Admunstration Build
ing.
This class and Real Es
tate Law and Real Estate
Finance, which will follow
later, are all approved by
the Commissioner to meet
the educational requirements
for relicensing in Oregon.
Enrollment is open to all
Oregon and Idaho licensees
as well as those wishing to
enter the real estate field.
For further information,
contact the Treasure Val
ley Community College Of
fice of Continuing Educa
tion at 889-6493.
Rock Show
At Emmett
The Squaw Butte Rock
hounds eleventh annual Rock
Show is scheduled for March
16 and March 17 in the Ar
mory Building at the Gem
County Fairgrounds at Em
mett.
A special feature of the
show will be Idaho Star Gar
nets displayed by Stewarts
Gem Shop of Boise. This dis
play has been shown from
coast to coast.
Dealers from Alaska, Ca
lifornia, Oregon, Colorado,
and Emmett will be dealing
in gems, rocks, jewelry, and
accessories
Aviation Safety
Clinic at TVCC
Treasure Valley Com
munity College will sponsor
a general aviation safety
clinic Thursday, March 14
at 7:30 p.m. in the East-
West Lounge of the Adminis
tration Building.
the band will march at Disneyland in a spe
cial St. Patrick’s Day parade on Saturday,
and will march at Magic Mountain on Sun
day, The balance of the week will be spent
sightseeing in the Los Angeles area, and
points of interest on the way home.
Jim Johnson, band director, will lead
the group of 57 students and eight chaperones
and they plan to be gone eight to ten days.