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Nyssa Gate City Journal
68th Year 12th Issue
The Sugar City
Nyssa, Oregon
Thursday, March 21, 1974
Thunderegg Capital
15C Per Copy
Craig Named Manager of First National Bank
New manager at First Na*
t tonal Bank of Oregon, Nyssa
B yich will be George A.
(/aig, who is presently Assis
tant Manager and Commer
cial Loan Officer at the On
tario Branch, announced Ro
bert F. Wallace, President.
He replaces Rod George,
who is transferring to the
bank’s La Grande Branch as
Manager.
Craig joined First National
at the Hood River Branch in
1950. He received a, num
ber of assignments there
prior to his appointment as
Assistant Operations Officer
In 1956.
He moved to the Condon
Branch in a similar capa
city two years later, and tn
1960 was promoted to In
stallment Loan Officer at
the Cottage Grove Branch.
In 1964, he was assigned
to the Stayton Branch as
General Loan Officer and
four years later transferred
to the John Day Branch. He
was appointed Commercial
Loan Officer at the Ontario
office in 1969 and has been
Assistant Branch Manager
since 1273.
Craig is Treasurer of Exe
cutives Affiliated, a member
of the Board of Realtors and
is active in the OntarioCham-
ber of Commerce and Lions
Club.
George, a First National
employee since 1960, was na
med Assistant Operations Of
ficer
at the
La Grande
Branch In March, 1965. He
was named Operations Of
ficer at the Nyssa Branch
later that year and was assig
ned to the Bend Branch in
1967.
He
was appointed
General Loan Officer at the
Merrill Branch in 1968, and
In 1971 was promoted to
Assistant Manger of the Kla
math Falls Branch. He has
been manager of the Nyssa
Branch since 197£.
George was President of
Nyssa Chamber of Com
merce, Co-Chairman of Mal
heur County United Appeal,
and is also a member of the
Volunteer Fire Department,
the Nyssa City Council, and
is a member of F.O.E.
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Family Theme For
Malheur County Fair
GEORGE CRAIG
A "Fair for the Family"
has been the goal of the
Malheur County Fair Board
in its planning over the years,
and this year they have selec -
ted this as the theme for the
1974 Malheur County Fair,
August 14 - 17, according
to Gordon Capps, Chairman
of the Board.
use" value will receive 30%
With the motto "All In
Increase on improvements
The Family" the Board will
only.
sponsor a special "Family
Vale tracts (Code 43), in-
Exhibit." The display will
crease on land 5% and in-
be open to families of at
crease on improvements 30%.
least three members who
"By using the indexing
may exhibit a total of not
method," Bratton explained,
less than six and not more
’’if the economy should take
than 15 items. It may in
a downward trend assessed
clude baked goods, flowers,
values can also be lowered
land products, art, handi
to reflect lower property
work, and/or clothing items.
values and not have to wait
Capps said that pre-regis-
for the six year reappraisal
tration will be necessary to
cycle for adjustment."
insure adequate space, and
any family interested should
check
the premium book
which should be available in
May
An "Open ClassDogShow"
County Judge Roy Hirai
is planned again this year
with Saturday, August 17
has contacted the National
tentatively set as the date.
Guard asking for assistance
There will also be an "Open
in providing a temporary
bridge to cross the Owyhee Class Horse Show" on Sa
turday. This is a new event
River where the old bridge
for the Fair and will have
was destroyed last fall.
some 20 classes for par
Judge Hirai said that the
guard is looking for a bailey ticipants.
bridge, in fact two bridges
Special entertainment is
are needed.
He said that planned with "The Hagers"
they have found two sets in
Fresno, California txit they
have to determine if the
bridges come under the
heading of Army Defense
Supply, If so, we can't have
A Democratic candidate
them as they must be avail
for Governor in the Oregon
able in time of war.
primary was a visitor to
If the bridges come under
Nyssa last Friday. He is
the head of Army Main
Johnny Woods, well-known
tenance, there is a possi
professional
entertainer,
bility that we can use them,
and a resident of Oregon
the judge said. The National
since 1969. His mother is a
Guard survey crew will send
resident of Vale.
the results of their survey
to Col. Darrell Doering, who
is head of the Oregon Mili
tary Department, and their
information should be avail
able by the end of the week.
The N)N M Hoad District
started grading the old road
from Mitchell Butte to the
dam on the Oxbow trail,
They ask people to use this
road rather than the ditch
banks, as these roads can
be very dangerous.
ROD GEORGE
Indexing New Method On
Property Assessments
Malheur County Assessor,
Oscar Bratton, said today
that the word "indexing”
is becoming increasingly
important in real estate pro
perty assessments. Nearly
all of the counties in Oregon
are using this method to stay
in compliance with the ratio
standards required by the
Department of Revenue’s en
forcement of O.R.S. 308.234
(property shall be assessed
at 100% of its true cash
value).
Bratton said that the coun
ties are allowed a 10%
tolerance from the 100% tar
get before ad)ustment is re
quired. Indexing is a blan
ket adjustment of property
values by a percentage
amount to bring the area Into
compliance. The goal, Brat
ton emphasized, is to have
more equity in assessments
by Indexing properties that
have not recently been ap
praised or areas having
rapid change and growth.
This year, the Department
of Revenue and the Board
of Equalization have au
thorized the indexing of the
following areas
The residentlalsof the City
of Ontario, 4% increase to
improvements.
Vale farm property (Code
43) appraised on "market
value", will receive 30% in
crease. Properties on "farm
Nyssa Girl Elected
To Phi Beta Kappa
Ninety members of the
University of Oregon 1972-73
senior class have been elec
ted to the University chapter
of Phi Beta Kappa, national
scholastic honorary.
Since 1971, with the adop
tion of a grading system in
which grade point averages
are no longer computed. Phi
Beta Kappa has identified
eligible candidates during
the months following the June
commencement.
Qualifications for member
ship Include 168 term hours
of credit with 50 percent
or more In liberal arts cour
ses and with a cumulative
grade point average of at
least 3.50,
The new Phi Beta Kap-
pas-elect, all of whom were
graduated in June, 1973, or
earlier, include Margaret
Lorraine Wilson Maxfield,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Houston Wilson, Nyssa.
Judge Ask« For
Owyhee Bridge
<41 nd ¡date For
Governor
Nyssa Students
Accepted At TVCC
Two Nyssa students, Sil
via Serrano and Lee Ollison
have been accepted for the
Fall Term, 1974-75 at Trea
sure Valley CommunityCol-
lege.
Miss Serrano will major
in Sociology or Business,
and Ollison will major in
Law Enforcement.
of Hee Haw fame giving two
shows on Thursday, August
15, and George "Goober"
Lindsey of the old Andy Grif
fin series and current Hee
Haw program scheduled for
two performances on Fri
day, August 16. An old-time
minstrel show "Down On The
Levy" will be given Wednes
day and Saturday evenings.
This show is under the di
rection of Wayne Phillips and
Sally Seiler.
An admission charge of
$1.00 per individual, age six,
and over, will be charged
again this year. Buttons will
be sold at the gates, but
Capps stated there would
not be a Pre-Fair Button Sale
Contest this year. He said
that the button will entitle
the purchaser to attend all
entertainment
and events
sponsored by the Fair Board
throughout the four days of
the Fair.
Three Candidates
For Commissionar
County Clerk Bob Mor-
cum announced Tuesday that
a third candidate has filed
for Malheur County Com
missioner.
David R. Moffitt, 27, an
Ontario Democrat has filed
for the position currently
held by Emil Maag. He joins
Scott Gillette, Democrat,
and Bud Hammack, Repub
lican,
who had previously
filed.
Tuesday was the deadline
for filing, and Morcum said
that in addition to his own
filing as a Democrat for
County Clerk, Daisy Morrell,
Democrat from Ontario has
filed for that position.
Albert Gaschler, Republi
can, has filed for County
Surveyor, and Nita Bellows,
Ontario, has filed for re-elec
tion as Ontario Justice of the
Peace.
Two Named To
National Positions
Two Amalgamated Sugar
Company people were re
cently elected to top exe
cutive positions in the Ame
rican Society of Sugarbeet
Technologists (ASSBT).
They are Hugh G. Rounds,
director of research and
technical services at the ge
neral offices in Ogden, Utah,
who was elected president,
JOHNNY WOODS
and Dr. Donald Oldemeyer,
Woods is a native of Texas,
manager of beet seed pro
and has worked with many
duction and development at
band leaders in the country,
inpani’s NjrSM plant,
including Hank Williams and
who was named to the board
Jimmy Dorsey.
He spent
of directors of the society,
three and one-half years in
representing the Intermoun
the Air Force as a captain,
tain region.
and is also a journeyman elec
Announcement of the new
trician.
assignments came during the
A new-comer to politics, organization’s 18th general
Woods believes that he can
meeting held at San Diego,
serve Oregon as governor California in late February.
because I m * has learned the
problems
of the people
through his travel in the state
playing shows in most of the
principal cities.
TWELVE NYSSA HIGH SCHOOL JUNIORS AND SENIORS
were inducted in the National Honor Society at a formal
initiation Tuesday evening, March 12.
The ceremony was under the direction of Clyde T. Swisher,
advisor, and senior members of the society. In order to be
invited to membership, students must earn a cumulative
3.5 GPA, and show positive qualities in leadership, charac
ter and services.
New initiates are shown in the top photo, and they are,
front row from left Lori Saito, Kathy Kurtz, Loralee Bates,
Jennie Shimomaeda and Pam Bock. Standing from left,
are Miriam Kunkel, Connie Barnes, Wilma Staples, Ray
mond Wiley, Kathy Shell, Lori Lewis and Kathy Ward.
At right are the senior honor society members. Seated,
from left, are Beth Ann Kassman, Manuel Perez and Debbie
Alexander, standing are Monica Smit and Dwight Calhoun.
TVCC Budget Election
Tuesday, March 26
Treasure Valley Com
munity College voters will
go to the polls March 26,
to vote on the 1974-75 ope
rating budget. Polling pla
ces will be open from 8
a. in. to 8 p.m.
Voters will also select
three memtiers to serve on
the College Board of Edu
cation. Running unopposed
Home Ec Courses
Offered By TVCC
Three
Home Economic
courses will be offered by the
Treasure Valley Community
College Office of Continuing
Education spring term.
Mexican Cookery will meet
Tuesday evenings, 7-9 p.m.,
in the Ontario Jr. HighSchool
Home Economics Room, be
ginning March 26. The in
structor will be Mrs. Gri-
malda.
Cost is $15 for
residents of the college dis
trict.
Fresh Flower Arrange
ment will be offered Mon
day evenings 7-9 p.m., in the
Natural Science Lab of the
Administration Building. The
first class meeting April 1.
Ron Palmer will instruct.
Cost is $15 for district re
sidents.
Family Meals is schedu
led Thursday evenings 6:30-
9:30 p.m., in the Ontario
Jr. High School Home Eco
nomics Room. This is a meal
planning course under the
instruction of Mrs. Pauline
Coleman.
Art Course
At Adrian
are incumbents John Easly
and Kenneth E. "Skip”Tha-
yer, both of Ontario. Incum
bent Wayne Ball of Hunt
ington is being challenged
by Mike Singleton of Jamie
son. Thayer is running for
a three-year term and the
others for four-year terms.
The proposed general fund
budget for next year will re
quire $1,891,986. Local tax
payers are being asked to
contribute $718,151 of that
amount
with the balance
coming from state funds and
student tuition.
Speaking about the college
budget,
President Emery
Skinner, urged citizen sup
port. He stated that the Bud
get Committee, composed of
local citizens, spent many
hours in meetings developing
the proposed budget. He said
he was particularly appre
ciative of the cooperative ef
forts shown by the joint
budget board-staff salary
committee in reaching agree
ment on salaries. He said
that members of the Board
of Education also had ex
pressed appreciation to the
staff for the cooperation they
demonstrated during salary
deliberations.
Chairman of the College
Board of Education, Sherman
Turner, stated,"theproposed
budget reflects the consi
dered efforts of the Budget
Committee and the staff. The
continuing impact of infla
tion is a concern to all of us.
We have done our best to
maintain a sound level of
support for the College wi
thout placing too great a
burden of increased cost on
the taxpayers."
BLM Issues (2all For
SRV Firefighters
With several fires already
in the dry southwest, the Bu
reau of Land Management at
Vale, Oregon is starting to re
cruit members for the 1974
SRV crews.
All persons wishing to be
come a member of an SRV
(Snake River Valleyi fire
fighting crew may pick up
physical examination forms
at the Vale BLM fire con
trol office beginning March
26. The fire office will be
open to process SRV crew
applications between8 00a.m.
and 5:00 p.m. every Monday
and Wetkiesday after March
25.
Rod Coleman. SRV coor
dinator at Vale, said only
those crew members who did
not have physicals last year,
or new members, must have
physical examinations this
year. Those persons needing
physicals must get the phy
sical form, be examined by
4-H Livestock
Judging Postponed
The 4-H Livestock Jud
ging Training Schedule for
March 23 In Jordan Valley
has been postponed until
April. The rain, snow and
mud is the reason for the
postponement.
Malheur County 4-H Youth
Agent Ron Mobley says that
this training will be resche
duled sometime In April.
their own doctor, and return
it to the Vale BLM fire of
fice before they can apply
to be a SRV crew member.
New members are remin
ded to bring proof of citizen
ship with them when apply
ing. Pictures of SRV crew
members
from previous
years will be accepted it
the crew members will bring
them and their plastic pay
roll cards to the fire con
trol office.
The BLM will cooperat«
fully again this year with
the U.S Immigration Ser
vice in citizenship matters,
Coleman emphasized.
International Food
Training Friday
An
International Foods
Training event for any in
terested adults and youth,
has been scheduled during
Spring Vacation on Friday,
March 22 at 130 p.m. This
informative session will be
at St.
Paul’s Lutheran
Church in Ontario.
The event, sponsored by
the Malheur County Exten
sion Office, is open to all in
the 7th grade and above whe
ther enrolled in 4-H or
not. Highlights will include
Mexican and Japanese coo
kery. If you wish to attend,
please call the Extension Of
fice - 889-9129 to pre-re
gister.
The
Treasure Valley
Community College Office
of Continuing Education will
offer a Painting Class in
Adrian spring quarter.
The course, taught by Mike
McGuire, will meet Tues
days, beginning March 26,
from 2-5 p.m., in the grade
school.
Above Average Water
Supply Foreeast
WEATHER
• ••••••••••
DATE
BASKETBAL1 COACH GERALD TALBOT AND COUNTY
Judge Roy Hirai shared the podium at the Nyssa Chamber
of Commerce luncheon last Weitiesday at the TwilightCafe.
Talbot introduced his basketball players, guests of the
chamber, who are now in Eugene for the state basketball
tournament.
Judge Hirai talked to chamber memtiers
about the possibility of forming a Port Commission.
MAX.
MIN. PR EC.
36
Mar. 13 53
34
trace
Mar. 14 42
.13
34
Mar. 15 49
Mar. 16 54
39
Mar. 17 62
trace
44
35
Mar. II 56
28
Mar. 19 53
18
Mar. 20
Owyhee Reservoir Storage
3/20/74 693,490 Acre Feet
3/20/73 658,620 Acre Feet
With the exception of Bully
Creek watershed, above ave
rage water supplies are fore
cast for water users in Mal
heur County. Despite low Feb
ruary precipitation, reser
voir storage and soil mois
ture remain high and excel
lent to good spring and sum
mer stream flows are ex
pected.
"What happened to the
snowpack on the Bully Creek
watershed? Apparently the
rain and snowmelt in late
January took it off and II
didn’t get replaced," sowent
the conversation on the snow
marker flight on March 8,
that Adam Focht, manager
of Owyhee North Board of
Control, S. Duane Town, Dis
trict Conservationist for Soil
Conservation Service at Vale,
Oregon andpilotCasey Jones
of Ontario Flight Service
made.
Four and one-half
hours of fairly low altitude
(especially by the marker)
flying and observation of 23
snow markers gives one a
good idea of future run off.
THIS ACCIDENT WAS THE RESULT of
an apparent fatal heart attack Thursday
morning, resulting in the death of Jose
Rodríguez, Sr., 66, Nyssa.
Nyssa police speculate that Rodríguez
suffered a heart attack just as he en-
tered the uitersection at 2nd and Main
Street.
H(s car jumped the sidewalk
on the southeast corner of the inter
section,
and struck the parked car of
Rusty Talbot.
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