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Nyssa Gate City Journal
68th Year 42nd Issue
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The Sugar City
Nyssa, Oregon Thursday, October 17, 1974
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California
Escapee Held
First National Bank President
Paints Bright Picture For Nyssa
Economy In Future
Ny»»a police officers ar
rested Sally Joanne Stone,
Friday, October 11 on an
escape warrant from Califor
nia. Mis« Stone had been
employed at a local produce
warehouke as a bookkeeper.
She was arraigned in
Nyssa Justice Court on
Tuesday and waived extradi
tion Bail was set st $62,000.
Mi«« Stone is now lodged in
the Malheur County Jail at
Vale awaiting California au
thorities.
Commissioner
Candidate Here
Scott Gillette. Democratic
candidate for County Com
missioner. and his wife Ruby
were guests of the Nyssa
Chamber of Commerce at
their regular meeting Wed
nesday at the Twilight Cafe.
Gillette will oppose W. C.
“Bud" Hamack. Republican,
in the November election for
the seat now occupied by
Emil Maag on the County
Court.
(jindy Stripers
Elect Officers
The Candy Stripers of
Malheur Memorial Hospital
held their first regular
meeting Thursday, October
10. Mr. Gale Christensen,
administrator, welcomed the
new girls and spoke on
hospital policies.
Officers for the 74-75 year
were elected: Martina De
Leon, president;
Jennie
Shimomaeda. vice president;
and Kathy Thompson, sec
retary-treasurer;
Ellen
Moore was appointed his
torian.
Martina DeLeon was pre
sented with her 200 hour pin.
The new Candy Stripers
have recieved their orien
tation and are beginning
their work
New Candy
Stripers are: Harriet Loren
sen, Adrian; Jennie Shi
momaeda. Kathy Thompson.
Donna Osborne, Ellen Moore,
Maria Patino, Rosario Cas
tellano/, Irene Soliz, Leticia
Ramirez and Georgia Alcoser
all of Nyssa.
Returning
Candy Stripers are Martina
DeLeon of Nyssa and Debbie
Fisher and Glenda Lamb of
Parma.
Colleen Brown
Portland Gradual*
Colleen Brown graduated
from Portland State Univer
sity August 8 with a BS
Degree in Psychology. Edu
cation and Social Science.
She is presently substitute
teaching in Portland and
working at Nordstrom« Shoe
Store in her spare time.
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Thunderegg Capital
HUNDREDS OF
NYSSA
residents visited the new
First National Bank all day
Monday, including, from left.
( asc Vissor, Bill Purcell.
County Judge Roy Hirai.
Dale Adams and Dirk De
Boer with loan officer Jim
Gardner.
At right is First National's
president. Robert F. Wallace
(center) visiting with Nyssa
manager George Craig (right
and Bob Kennedy, former
Nyssan and now assistant
vice president and regional
loan officer, with headquar
ters in Portland.
Nyssa PTSA
Holds Meeting
The Nyssa PTSA will Meet
Thursday, (today), October
17 at 8 p.m. in the multi
purpose room at the primary
building The mam point of
business will be to elect a
new secretary. Mrs. Kay
Fcrrenburg has been nomi
nated and further nomina
tions with the consent of the
nominee may be made at this
meeting.
All parents and students,
especially senior students
and parents that are con
cerned about college educa
tion for their children are
urged to attend.
Discussion under the direc
tion of Duane Buchtel. Nyssa
High School Guidance Coun
selor. concerning college
entrance procedures and
financial aid will be the
featured event of the evening
(k-tober is National Mem
bership month so everyone
please join tne Nyssa PTSA
this year.
SUGAR ANALYSIS TESTS are being run
in the laboratory at Amalgamated Sugar on
samples brought in from variety test plots.
Don Oldemeyer. manager of seed production
and development, is in charge of this
Legislators Ask Governor
To Withdraw VML Support
Ten Eastern Oregon Legis
lators asked Governor Tom
McCall Friday to withdraw
his support of the federal
appropriation request sought
for extension of Valley
Migrant League programs
into Eastern Oregon.
In a joint letter to the
Governor. Senator Robert
Smith. Representatives D. E.
Jones and Donald Oakes
appealed to McCall to use the
influence of his office to
direct federal Comprehensive
Education and Training Act
funds to existing organiza
tions serving migrants in
Eastern Oregon.
The appeal said. "As you
are aware Governor, the
Migrant Indian Coalition has
been servicing Eastern Ore
gon communities well for
many years. We believe the
MIC has done an outstanding
job of servicing children and
adult needs in our communi
program. Laboratory workers include, from
left. Carlcne Savage. Glenda Barnts. Linda
Sant. Oldemeyer. Lillian Roberts and Mary
Chamberlain.
ties, and should not be place
in a competitive and duplica
tive situation with VML.”
Earlier, the Deputy Direc
tor of the Department of
Human Resources, Cornelius
Bateson had told the legisla
tors that the Governor had
taken an official position in
favor of VML.
Bateson's
comment came following a
meeting at the Capitol
between the Department of
Human Resources official
and five Eastern Oregon
legislators.
At that time
Bateson said the Department
of Human Resources had not
taken a stance on the matter.
Local Coed
On Field Trip
Fifty four Oregon State
University juniors and se
niors will spend October 17
and 18 in the Portland area
on a field trip sponsored
annually by the School of
Home Economics.
The trip, designed by a
faculty committee to give the
students an experience that
will broaden their concept of
their place as citizens in the
community, will take them to
business and industrial cen
ters and social and civic
agencies.
Included on the schedule
arc a senior citizens' center,
the University of Oregon
Medical School Child De
velopment
Rehabilitation
Center, the Portland Develop
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Date
as growers complete their first week of
harvest.
Christensen
Heads Hospital
Association
School Needs
Beet Dirt
conference room, mezzanine
level, larger safe deposit
facilities and night deposi
tory. We're better equipped
to serve you, and that is what
this banking business is all
about—service.
The growth of loans and
deposits in Nyssa, parti
cularly in the last four years,
clearly indicates your com
munity's prosperity and ri
sing demand for increased
financial services.
Nyssa high in Oregon
Deposits increased more
than 58 per cent from 1970 to
1973. This compares with
slightly less than 37 percent
growth over the same period
for Oregon as a whole.
Moreover, deposit and
loan growth here from
mid-1973 to mid-1974 has
substantially surpassed that
of the state and of Malheur
County.
Another very good indica
tor of Nyssa's state of
economy is the "per capita”
bank deposits which, be
tween 1970 and 1973. in
creased about S3 per cent in
Nyssa compared with 45
percent in Malheur County
and only 29 percent in
Oregon. In dollars, this
translates into “per capita”
bank deposits in Nyssa of
$6,628 at year-end 1973,
more than double that of
Malhedr County and two-
and-one-half times that of
Oregon.
Since we are just begin
ning the fourth quarter of
1974. I would be remiss if I
did not offer some thoughts
on the economic outlook for
Nyssa and Malheur County in
the months ahead.
Fortunately, we have a
new growth element in the
Oregon economy, one that is
at the same time. Oregon’s
oldest. It is. of course, agri
culture.
Agriculture bright spot
Agriculture represents the
brightest spot on our eco
nomic scene. As you know,
food prices rose very sharply
last year because of world
wide food shortages and
increased costs of production
processing and marketing.
Poor weather for two years
running stunted the world
agricultural output, and this
alone would have caused
excessive demands on the
American agricultural in
dustry. By then, we also have
had the ripple effects of two
devaluations of the American
dollar. The result was simply
that foreign currencies could
buy much more of our output
than ever before. American
produce became a great bar
gain abroad and the resulting
increase in demand forced
prices up to record highs in
many cases.
The effects are very
noticeable here because agri
culture and Malheur County
are virtually synonymous,
with nearly one-third of the
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Public Hearing Set
For Septic Tank Rules
The Department of En
vironmental Quality has sche
duled a public hearing on
rule changes for septic tanks
October 25 in Ontario.
The hearing
will be
promptly at 10:30 in the
Yellow Room of Ontario's
Moore hotel.
At issue is a proposed per-
SUGAR BEET PILES arc growing at the
rate of 500 tons a day at the Nyssa factory
Robert F. Wallace, presi branch managers and espe
dent of First National Bank of cially talking to the people we
Oregon, told a Nyssa au do business with. I'm glad to
dience that agriculture rep be here and particularly
resents the brightest spot on pleased that you could join us
the Oregon economic scene.
today in celebrating the
Wallace was in Nyssa Mon opening of our new Nyssa
day for the opening of the branch building.
new Nyssa branch, and spoke
First National and Oregon
before 115 businessmen and
have been working together
farmers at breakfast at the for a long, long time. Our
Twilight Cafe.
bank received its charter in
He painted a bright picture
1865. and as such, was the
for Nyssa's economy, and the first nationally chartered
increased
demand for bank on the Pacific Coast.
financial services. He said
We first opened our doors for
that deposits increased more
business in Portland on May
than 58 percent from 1970 to 7. 1866, more than 108 years
1973. compared to about 37 ago.
percent growth for Oregon as
Branch established in 1935
a whole.
Wallace said that another
In 1933. when the Federal
very
good
indicator of
Glass-Steagall
Act and the
Nyssa's state of economy is
the “per capita” bank Oregon Branch Banking Act
passed
permitting
deposits which, between were
national banks to establish
1970 and 1973. increased
First National
about 53 percent in Nyssa branches.
promptly opened offices in
compared with 45 percent in
Malheur County, and only 29 eight other Oregon com
percent in Oregon.
Per munities from Astoria to
Pendleton and south to
capita bank deposits in Nyssa
Salem. In 1935. the bank
of $6,628 at year-end 1973
are more than double that of established the Nyssa office.
First National's only office in
Malheur County and two-
and-one-half times that of Malheur County until the
Ontario branch was opened
Oregon.
Accompanying
Wallace in 1954.
By 1959, when Oregon
were Joseph A. Moore,
senior vice president respon celebrated its centennial year
sible for the administration of of statehood. First National
recorded an important mile
the bank's statewide offices;
Grant W. Perry, senior vice stone when resources briefly
president in charge of 26 touched the $1 billion dollar
Eastern Oregon branches mark, another first for
banking in Oregon.
An
including the Nyssa branch,
indication of the bank's
and assistant vice president
Robert Kennedy, fbnnerly of accelerating growth is the
Nyssa and now regional fact that it took 80 years to
reach the half-billion mark
credit administrator of 13
Malheur Memorial Hos
but only 14 more to reach the
Eastern Oregon branches.
pital Administrator Gale M.
billion-dollar figure.
Christensen was installed as Two former Nyssa managers.
The period since 1960 has
Rod
George.
La
Grande,
and
president of the Oregon
brought record employment,
Tom Stenkamp, Prineville,
Association of Hospitals Wed*
peak consumer income and
and their wives were present
nesday at their 40th annual
widespread consumer de
for the dedication.
meeting at Otter Crest on the
mand. In that period, our
Oregon Coast. He has served
resources have more than
The full text of Wallace's
as president-elect for the past
doubled to $2.6 billion and
speech is as follows:
year.
the number of statewide
offices has risen from 83 to
Whenever First National
138. First National also is
opens a new branch office or
part owner of a Hong Kong
we
undertake a major
Merchant Bank and main
expansion of an existing
tains two representative of
office. I’ve always enjoyed
fices in Singapore. Hong
participating in the opening
Kong.
of the new facility. 1 look
forward to visiting the 82
Why a new Nyaaa branch?
communities served by the
bank, meeting with our 137
Why did the bank con
struct a new $310,000 Nyssa
branch office? This new
building was one we had to
have because your need for
banking service has been
expanding so rapidly.
As
Nyssa schools need beet your community grows, we at
dirt!
First National want to grow
Superintendent W. L. Mc- with you. And this new office
GALF M. CHRISTENSEN
Partland is requesting that indicates the confidence we
farmers who need a place to share with you in the future
Christensen came to Nyssa
dump their beet dirt can do of the Nyssa economy.
two years ago after many
so in the field directly north
years as administrator of the
I'm sure you'll be pleased
of
the Ag Shop. This field with the improved service
hospital at Stayton.
needs to be built up before now that construction is
seeding to playgrounds, and nearly complete. We now
nient Commission, a weaving
any beet dirt received will be have a bank building with
mill, and a merchandizer's
distribution center. Students welcome.
over 6.000 square feet of floor
McPartland said that ope space.
also will have a dinner
nings have been made in the
meeting with the Portland
This building is equipped
chapter of Home Economists fence on both sides of the with a new drive-in banking
field to make it easy for window, longer tellers' row.
in Business.
Students making the trip truckers to dump their load. expanded officers’ platform.
include Mardi Tensen, dau
ghter of Mr. and Mrs. Dick
Tensen. Nyssa.
Max
Mln
Prec
Oct. 9
29
55
Oct. 10
60
46
.21
Oct. 11
68
45
Oct. 12
68
36
Oct. 13
70
36
Oct. 14
38
70
Oct. 15
68
33
Oct. 16
34
Owyhee Reservoir Storage
10 16-74 366.860 Acre Feet
10-16-73 381.640 Acre Feet
manent rule to honor valid
written approvals for septic
tanks, regardless of how long
ago they were issued, until
July I. 1975. The holder of
the permit would then have
one year to construct his
septic tank.
The proposed rule is
identical with one adopted on
a temporary basis June 21.
1974 and already in effect.
Also under consideration
for permanent adoption is a
standard specification for
homogeneous perforated bitu
minized fiber pipe for septic
tank disposal fields.
Copies of the proposed
rules may be obtained at any
DEQ office.
All interested persons may
present testimony in person
at the hearing or submit
written material to
DEQ
headquarters, 1234 S. W.
Morrison St.. Portland.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF OREGON
President Robert F. Wallace speaks to 115
Nyssa businessmen and farmers Monday
mornin t at a breakfast at the Twilight Cafe,
hosted by First National as part of their
opening of the new Nyssa branch building.
At the head table, from left, are Grant W.
Perry, senior vice president; George Craig,
Nyssa manager; Joseph A. Moore, senior
vice president; Rod George. LaGrandc
manager; and Tom Stenkamp, Prineville
manager. The latter two officers preceded
Craig as managers at the Nyssa branch.
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