Thursday, March 21, 1974
The Nyssa Gate City Journal, Nyssa, Oregon
Your County Agent Says Ray Novotny
Herb’s Views
I sometimes wonder if I’m in an
alphabetical world I kept track of a
few of these terms and names for
just one day and came up with the
following
HMO, ADA, EPA, ORVAC,
DECS, NPDES, FY, OWL, F*G, NPA,
REA, DFS, ERE, SOP and BLM There
are many more but I found these in
» dtie short run of business
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Kindergarten is coming in loud and
clesr from both directions from a
comparatively few voices They are
hearing about it at th»* Education Com
mittee today--Standing room only.
There has been quite a to-do about
bike, pedestrian and horse trails in the
state
It was sent out of committee
today for printing
Somehow 1 got
listed as voting against the trail con
cept, but I’ve tieen unable to find out
where I voted against the bill.
1
thought I was in favor ail along This
bill only provides for the coordinator
at $24,200 to try to unite and coor-
dinate th«* several state, county, city
By Herb Fitz
and federal agencies. It will not build
or provide for one inch of trails
in the next year.
If and when the trail concept is in
force, it may be several years before
any of the trails will be constructed
in District 9.
We sent a rainmaker bill out for
printing This bill requires anyone
with a rainmaker machine to register
and submit plans on proposed activi
ties.
We learned that the machine
can function in very restricted areas
It may be an answer to dry forests.
It appeals that we have a surplus
of someplace between $15 and $25
million, it only depends on who you
talk to.
It seems strange that we
have such a split in the figures. The
Revenue and Taxation
Committee
came up with $23,700,000 surplus The
Governor figures it to be somewhat
less.
A surplus in funds can be wonder-
ful and should be wonderful
OUT OF
THE PAST
10 YEARS AGO
40 YEARS AGO
A Cascade Gas Corporation main
exploded on the outskirts of Ontario
Saturday at 2:15 p.m. without any per
sonal injury and little property damage.
Service to patrons in Nyssa, part
of northwest Ontario and the rural
area between was disrupted from 12
to 18 hours while crews were making
repairs and relighting furnaces and
appliances turned off following the
blast.
The single largest customer affected
was Amalgamated Sugar Company of
Nyssa. District Manager HenryZobeli
said they were very fortunate that
the campaign at the factory had ended
Friday prior to the break.
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Members of the Nyssa High School
dance tiand left this morning for Reno
where they will attend a dance land
clinic at the University of Nevada.
Students making the trip are Christy
Wyckoff, Carol Haney, Brad Maxfield,
Paul Wilson, MlkB Jwffel 1<*S, Greg
Sumner, Wayn«* Riggs, Brad Burning
ham,
Ronald Cottrell,
Mike Oft,
Judy Nedry, Marcia Wyckoff, Glenda
Hoffman and JoAnn Durfee.
20 YEARS AGO
Neighbors and friends proved them
selves friends indeed Monday when they
turned out with farm equipment to
harrow the land and plant crops at the
Fred Schilling ranch three miles north
of Nyssa.
Schilling was a recent
victim of a heart attack and was un
able to prepare the soil and plant
crops on his 160-acre farm.
Among those who turned out to do
the farm work were Robert Meislnger,
Arnold Winkler, D.L. Benedict, Joseph
Reda, Henry Murray, Wilbur Atherton,
Bill Michaelson, Clyde Bower, John
7ittercob, Tony Marostica and Norman
Hipp.
30 YEARS AGO
On Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock
a special dedication service was held
at the Adrian Free Methodist Church
with over 200 in attendance.
Work on the church was tiegun less
than two years ago and has been finished
with all the work being donated. As
a result the cost of the church has
not exceded $1400. Rev. Philip Reinman
and family arrived in Adrian last fall
to take over the pastorate and has
completed the work on the building,
begun by the Rev. Harden.
Late but obviously welcome to cer
tain parties, John Barleycorn arrived
in Nyssa Tuesday evening when the
state liquor agency opened for business
in the Nyssa Pharmacy, designated
tt>.- •t.»t»- agency here. A full line of
whiskey, rum, gin, brandy and drinks
which come by fancier names was
placed upon the shelves. Two hun
dred permits were on deck for early
Oregon customers,
100 for Idaho.
Customers were also pleased with
comparatively low prices which range
from 80 cents a pint upward.
Idaho being dry, thirsty Idahoans
find Oregon towns an oasis, as they
did during the early days of the return
of beer.
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Dr. J.J. Sarazln is driving a new
Ch»*vrolet coach. New paint and new
shrubs improve the A.H. Boydell resi
dence,
Mrs.
Bernard Frost and
daughter are visiting relatives tn Twin
Falls.
50 YEARS AGO
The Relief Society of the Latter
Day Saints celebrated the 82nd anni
versary of the founding of the church
at the J.P. Baxter home Monday. A
banquet was one of the features of
the occasion.
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Win S. Brown former Nyssaite but
now publisher of the Vale Enterprise
was a visitor here Monday.
Mr.
Brown still retains a warm spot in
his tieart for Nyssa.
60 YEARS AGO
The figures for the month of Feb
ruary submitted by Manager Smith of
the Nyssa Cheese Factory, show a
gratifying condition from a business
point of view of that popular home
institution. During the month 92,000
pounds of milk were received which
contained 3,500 pounds of butter fat
from which 10,776 pounds of cheese
which is making Nyssa famous was
manufactured.
The plant is being
operated to its full capacity both day
and night and is unable to keep up
with the demand.
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In school, business er personel life.
Call your Army Representative. He
has all the details on thia really
good deai.
See your local Army Representative
TbdartoAnny
A firtit After Scbeel Jeb
EVERGREEN PROBLEMS
Each year during the spring period
we
receive calls about evergreen
shrubs that aren’t looking as healthy
everyone becomes aware of it and all
want a piece of the financial pie. Every
one from education to highways knows
of definite reasons for an increased
budget. Most will get some and none
will get as much as they feel justi
fiably entitled to.
Page Three
irrigation.
A deep early irrigation
of the plants can help eliminate this
problem.
as they should. Part of this problem
is related to plant dir-ease and much of
it can be attributed to lack of irri
gation.
A spec tai disease called Berckmann’s
blight attacks some of our arborvitae
species. Symptoms of the disease in
clude a dying of terminal shoots and
Evergreen shrubs differ from the
ones that shed leaves in that they
take in and expire water throughout
most of the year. Therefore, they
continue to use the soil moisture dur
ing the winter period and can pull the
soil moisture down to the point that
the plants are suffering from lack of
twigs. The dead material takes on a
reddish brown coloration.
Fall ap
plied fungicide sprays are recom
mended for this problem. Some re
lief from future infection can be ob
tained by pruning out dead and dying
twigs during the spring period.
RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN
Help fight crippling
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