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Thursday, October 17, 1974 98th Birthday Anniversary Pago Three Nyssa Goto City Journal, Nyssa, Oregon Nyssa PTSA To Hold Dinner CARD of THANKS A sincere thank you to all the wonderful friends and neighbors for your many beautiful cards and flowers, hospital and home visits, your prayers and all the other many expressions of kind- nets during my recent surgery. An extra special thank you to the doctors Thomas Fuson and Kenneth Danford and an especially warm thank you to the excellent nursing staff of Malheur Memorial Hospital Mrs. Jesus Lopez The Nyssa PTSA will hold their annual spaghetti feed. Friday. October 25, with serving starting at 3 p.m. until 8 p.m. in the Nyssa LDS church. The change in serving time will allow the sugar factory workers on swing shift an opportunity to eat. The menu will consist of Italian spaghetti and sauce. gre?n salad, olives, garlic bread, apple pudding and punch. Family tickets may be purchased for $7.50. adults $2. students $1.50, and children under six years of age free. The Nyssa fifth and sixth graders are selling the tickets and the classroom with the highest ticket sale will be presented $10 by the PTSA. Tickets will be on sale starting Monday. October 14. Tickets may also be purchased at the door but the PTSA would prefer that they be bought from the students. Everyone is urged and invited to attend this fund raising event and enjoy the delicious food. City Librarian EMBLEM CLUB ACTIVITIES Ontario Emblem Club #192 met at BPOE Lodge Hall recently. Ruby Pfost. presi dent. reported on the Na tional (onvention of Emblem Clubs held in Chicago. September 23—28 Highlights of the convent- tion was the drill team contest and the announce ment that Sally Fields, junior past president of the Ontario club, was named Supreme Press Correspondent. Emblem Club will be selling dress pins to raise money to help pay expenses for the 1974—76 President of Oregon Emblem Clubs. Lu cille Johnson. Pins may be purchased from Arlene Uhl- man or any club member. Plans and reservations are being made for the quarterly work shop. November 8—10 in Brookings. Oregon. The club will serve the family style Father and Son banquet. Monday. October 14 at the BPOE. hall as well as the Chuck Wagon dinner dance October 19. Quarterly bltxxl drawing will be October 22 at the BPOE from 12 noon to 5:30 p.m.. by appointment. Hospitalized Mrs. Max (Norma) Urry, Nyssa City Librarian, has been hospitalized for the past two weeks suffering from phlebitis, or a blood clot in her leg. She is being treated at St. Luke's Hospital in Boise, but hopefully will be able to return home Thursday (today). She may have visitors and hopes to return to the library soon. SAMUEL GILBERT TUNING CELEBRATED HIS 9« th birthday anniversary Saturday, October 12. He is a resident of Malheur Memorial Nursing Home. A birthday cake, presented by Mr. Tuning s family was served to the honoree and residents at the nursing home at lunchtime. Mr. Tuning was born, October 12. 1876, at Highland County. McDowell, Virginia. He has three living children. Orville Tuning of Parma. Dorothy (Mrs. W W.) French of Boise, and Mildred (Mrs. Bartoni De Loach of Sacramento, California; nine grand children and 12 great-grandchildren. OUT OF THE PAST 10 YEARS AGO Thomas Jones was pre sented with a past pre sident's plaque by Nyssa Lions Club President Art Colby. The bronze plaque, on walnut base, contains these words. "A Testimonial of Sincere Appreciation Pre sented to Thomas Jones, in Honor and with Deep Ap preciation of the Distin guished and Unselfish Ser vice Given to the Club While Serving With Outstanding Leadership. Vision and Abi lity as President of the Lions Club of Nyssa. Oregon—196.1 1964.” 20 YEARS AGO Future Farmers of America Chapter of Nyssa High School gained 21 new mem bers Tuesday evening to make a total enrollment of 60 it was announced by Dwight W vekoff. Vocational Ag teacher and FFA leader. New members arc : Stan ley Bishop. Monty Burbank. Leonard Cutler. Raymond Draper. Gary Chesnut, John Marsh. Stanley Sisson. Jerry Matsunaga. Charles Rich, Dahl Olsen. Danny Tucker. Dean Holmes. Charles Klin- kenberg. Tommy Lewis. Ge rald Talbot. Larry Hickman, Lester Rataezyk. Bill Scrog gens. Larry Larrson. Arnold Whipple and Dennis Savage. Joretta Moeller, high school senior, was chosen by 51 members attending the initiation meeting, as the FFA chapter sweetheart. .30 YEARS AGO From the wild jungles of the Nyssa hinterland comes this thrilling tale of an im promptu and amateur rodeo conducted by five young Nyssa boys. After playing in their so-called jungles northeast of town. James McDonald. Leo Toombs. Royce Chadwick and Dick and Glenn Schirc- man, started home across a corrugated field. As they neared a billy goat, the boys thought. ‘A billy goat is as gentlemanly as he looks' but he showed signs of fight and chased the boys into a haystack. James' troubles began when he slipped off the stack. Not desiring any further experience with the goat. James started to run across the rough field to the nearest fence, but he soon fell and the goat landed on him with all four feet. Grabbing the goat's horns in bulldogging style. James prevented the animal from goring him. but took a lot of punishment from those sharp hoofs. Realizing the danger to their chum, the boys scram bled off the haystack and went to the rescue. Toombs, the nearest to the "arena” took the goat by the horns and Glenn Schircman ad ministered a football shoul der block that put the goat down in 23 seconds. Then one of the boys took a rope off Glenn's bicycle and sent the crowd into uproarous applause with a roping demonstration that left the goat agast and tied up. 40 YEARS AGO Do the taxpayers of Mai heur County desire a one-half mill tax. to be levied by the county court, for the purpose of creating a fund for a 3 cent bounty on Jackrabbits? If they desire such a tax or oppose it. they are requested to send in their vote on the proposition, together with their address to County Judge David Graham. To state that he is against a 3 cent bounty, Commissioner I II Hrumback of Big Bend contends that a bounty of I-cent, the amount paid at present, is sufficient for the work involved. He stated that farmers should be suffi ciently interested in rabbit control to eradicate them for the I-cent bounty. H0LEzwr/Ki 50 YEARS AGO Owyhee— Miss Marian Lowe and Mr. Carl Quack enbush were married at the Episcopal rectory in Lewis ton, Idaho on October 4. 1924 Miss Lowe, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. M Lowe, is well esteemed here. She was a graduate from Whitman College in 1923. where she was a member of the Delta Gamma Sorority and of the national Phi Beta Kappa. She is teaching in the high school at Waitsburg Mr. Quackenbush, who participated in naval activi ties during the war, is a graduate of the Minnesota University and is principal of the Waitsburg school, and is now taking a law course. Friends here unite in wishing the young couple a long, prosperous and happy mar ried life together. family size TIDE 10 lb. II oz. BOX YOUNG TENDER HOME DAIRIES 2 lb. COTTAGE CHEESE 60 YEARS AGO It will be a pleasure for the many friends of uncle Dan F.hrg<x*d to learn that he is reported much improved at the hospital in Boise. • • * William Peutz, the pros perous Owyhee Dutchman, shipped a carload of fine hogs to Portland market this week. Mr. Peutz went along with them to make sure he tops the market with the Malheur “cornfeds." W/COUPON FOLGER'S W/O COUPON S3.19 EXPIRES 10-19-74 GOLD STRIKE STAMPS FOR EXTRA SAVINGS SENIOR CITIZEN ACTIVITIES The Senior Citizens met at their club house on Bower Avenue. Wednesday. Octo ber 9. 1974. President Erma Sparks was ill so Ann Marostica. vice-president pre sided over the meeting. The meeting was opened with the flag salute. Twenty persons answered roll call, but 28 persons enjoyed the pot luck dinner. The trea surer's report was read and bills approved. Committee reports were given on the Bi centennial Kickoff in 1976. This project is mostly a do- it-yourself project but pos sibly there will be some federal funding available. Each senior citizen group is asked to participate in some way. A Ways and Means Committee was chosen with May Bretz and Anna Maros tica chosen as represen tatives. The County Health Nurse read blood pressures and gave flu shots. The blixxl pressure readings are free but the flu shots cost $1.50. An article was read by May Bretz called "The Generation Gap.” It was decided to remember Lucille Runcorn and Mr. W. W. Foster, who arc in the hospital, with a card. Wyatt Smith closed the meeting with prayer. A delicious potluck dinner fol lowed the meeting. FRESH DOZEN FRESH BANANA SQUASH auo WRAP CARROTS < — ^RAYS FOOD FAIR I NYSSA