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Nyssa Gate City Journal 69th Year, ht. Iiiua The Sugar City Nyssa, Oregon Thursday, January 2, 1975 Open House At OSU Oregon State University will hold open house Satur day. January 25. for high •chool and community col lege students who are in terested in attending the university in years to come. Parents, teachers, and friends of the prospective Students are invited also, according tu J. Franz Haun, director of new student programs. The orientation program will focus on academic offerings and career oppor tunnies in the fields of study offered at the university. Question answer periods are Included as part of the briefings in (he Colleges of Liberal Arts and Science and the Schools of Agriculture. Business, Education. En gineering. Forestry, Health snd Physical Education. Home Economics, Oceano graphy and Pharmacy. Special sessions are plan ned also on admission requir- ments and procedures, hous ing, college costs, financial aid, honors progi ,m. and ROTC (officer training in all branches of the military service) The registration char »e is •2 25 per person. Haun said Anyone interested in join ing a group in Malheur County may contact Vol ma Koibaba, county chairman. Everyone is welcome to participate, although each group is usually kept small (8 to IS members) This slows 15C Per Copy Bond Issue For $2,354,000 Proposed To Rebuid Nyssa Schools EVERYBODY GOT INTO THE ACT Monday morning, including hospital administrator Gale Christensen (left), when an overhead fire sprinkler in the nursing home recreation room at Malheur Memorial Hospital turned on and wouldn't turn off. The sprinkler went on when a trash fire in the fireplace was- Partic ipants may pre register in advance by mail or on Open House day in the OSU < "ho urn from K 10 I.- '• M am. when the opening meeting begins. Some 3. (XX) persons are espected to attend. Great Discussion Groups Being Organized Great Decisions discussion groups arc being organized now in Malheur County. Discussion booklets will be available after Januarv I from the County Extension office, reminds Helen Con ner. Malheur County F.iten- sion agent Most of the county study groups plan to meet weekly during Penary and March These are the months when Great Decisions group in every state meet to discuss American foreign policy re garding critical international issues Thunderegg Capital opportunity for each member to take part in the discussion. Mrs. Conner said. The Great Decisions pro gram. which began in Orc gon. has been offered na tionally for more than 20 years by the Foreign Policy Association with local spon sorship and cooperati-io Iroru many organtzaMorw. Factory Completes Sugarbeet Slicing Sugar beet slicing ended at 10 a.m.. Tuesday at the Amalgamated Sugar factory completing the shortest cam paign in recent years Processing and clean up will continue another few days before the factory shuts down to prepare for a new campaign nest October TVCC Offer» (xjurse on Pest Control Area farmers are invited to enroll in a course at Treasure Valley Community College that is being taughl for the full-time students but con tains information that may be vital to row crop and seed crop growers. Pest Control II will deal with the use and effects of pesticides and will bring the student up to date in the recent developments of chemical pest control. Dr. Charles Stanger, agronomist at the Malheur Experiment Station is the instructor. He has conducted extensive re search in herbicides usage and will provide information on new materials that have been recently developed. Bill Muxphy. chawimui of the agricultural department at the college expressed grati tude in that someone of Dr. Stanger’s background and expertise is available for students at the college and adults actively engaged in (arming. The das* meet* daily from 10 a m. to II a.m. for the first six weeks of winter quarter. The first class I* on January 7 with the final das* held on February 14. The course is a two credit course and will be held in N-l. set with the damper closed. Flames shot up the front of the fireplace, activating the overhead sprinkler, and before it could be turned off the recreation room was flooded. Christensen said there would be some water damage, but nothing serious, and everything was back to normal Monday afternoon. Trailways To Continue Service On Highway 26 Public Utility Commis sioner Richard Sabin has directed Mt Hood Stages, Inc., doing business as Pacific Trailways, to continue daily service over Highway 2b between Vale and Bend. The bus line had proposed to change its daily service to Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays. Residents along Highway 2b hotly contested the pro posal during public hearings in Canyon City and Salem during September and De cember. According to evidence re ceived during the public hearings, an average of six WEATHER Free. Dale Max. Min. Dec 24 23 32 trace Dec 25 30 21 Dec. 26 23 M Dec. 27 24 43 Dec 28 26 35 D m 16 33 17 Dec .30 32 .17 Dec 31 >1 Owvhec Reservoir Storage 12 M 74 409.550 Acre Feet 12 30 73 434.620 Acre Feet passengers per day were using the present service between Bend to Vale east bound. with seven passen gers per day traveling west bound from Vale to Bend There arc no other passenger Common earners serving this area. In addition, local business, schools, the Blue Mountain Imspital and newspaper distri butors use the daily run for daily freight deliveries from Portland and Boise. For more than ten years Mt Hood Stages had been running daily through bus operations along the John Day route connecting Port land to points east of Boise *“ Due to the fuel shortages and 55 mile an hour speed limits imposed one year ago. Mt Hwod changed its ser vice. sending the through bus over the Burns route, while adding a local bus to cover the daily run along the John Day route. "It is hoped that the demonstrated energies and resources of the civic groups, community leaders and the like will be channeled to helping retain this level of service by improving pa tronage. both passengers and express.” Sabin concluded. The Nyssa school board accepted the recommenda tion of the building commit tee Monday night, and will propose a bond issue of 52.354.000 for rebuilding the schools destroyed by fire. This is down $1.14b.000 from the estimated $3.500.000 first considered as a total package Seventeen members of the committee were present, including the school board, budget board and building committee. The other four were out of town for the holidays. In addition to the school board, members pre sent included Dick Tensen. Jcanetta Garner. Jon Dirksen Farrell Peterson. Joel Mit chell. Bob Wilson. Arleigh Adams. Don Bullard. Richard Mejia and Vai Garner. Margery Jackson. Woody Seucll. Harvey Wilmot and Cyrus Bock were absent. Board Chairman Mark Medical Staff Elects Officers Members of the medical staff of Malheur Memorial Hospital elected Dr. Thomas J. Fuson president and Chief of Staff of the hospital for the 1975 year Dr. David W. Sarazin was elected vice president, and Dr. W M Tipton. radiolo gist. was elected secretary- treasurer. Hartley presided. Superin tendent. W L. McPartland and Gene Chester, high school principal, both out lined the need for the audito rium Both stressed the fact that the auditorium had been in the plans throughout the discussion, and that it inclu ded spaces for band and chorus, public restrooms, stage, lecture type class rooms and meeting space not included anywhere else in the plans. To redesign the plans to include these spaces anywhere else would destroy the whole concept of the plans, they said, and would save but little money. Clyde Swisher, chairman of the English Department, told members of the need for the larger rooms for class meeting, health classes, dri vers ed. assemblies and team teaching programs. He said that lectures, speech and debate tournaments and com munity affa irs and meetings would be provided in this building. Chairman Hartley then asked for a statement from each of the seventeen mem bers present, and the con sensus was that the ele mentary multi-purpose room to replace the old wooden gym should be left in the program as well as the auditorium. This building was in the plans of the building committee formu lated over two years ago. CITY CREWS PICKED UP SNOW Monday morning on Main Street after the last snowstorm of 1974. Weather was clear and Hartley then adjourned the meeting for five munutes to let everyone rest and collect their thought*. He said that the time seemed now to make a decision. When the meeting recon vened it was moved by Vic Haburchak that the building committee propose to the school board the following: high school classrooms. S1.2S5.375: gym. muaic rooms and auditorium. SI.890.350: cafeteria. $276.- 300; mechanical plant. $168. 000; parking lot and lighting, $58.600; vocational building. SI06.920; elementary multi purpose room. $526.900; equipment. $150.000; and estimated architects, fees, etc., $342.555. This total came to $4.775.000. and with insurance settlement of $2.421.000 would require a bond issue of $2.354.000. The motion was seconded by Gene Stunz. and the vote of the committee was 13 yes. 4 no. After adjournment of the building commitlee. the school board met and passed the same resolution, and calling for a January 28 election. Mark Hartley ended the meeting with the thought that after seven months of study and deliberation by many people, he hoped that everyone would support the plan. It is now up to the voters. crisp over the holidays, making travel easy for tj,c manv visitors home for a visit, Babson's Business and Financial Forecast For the Year 1975 Bv Babson's Reports Inc., Wellesley Hills. Mass . De cernber 26. 1974. At the time of our 1974 forecast a year ago. the American economy was beset by a critical shortage of fuel and energy, with its multitude of threaten ing implications. ■ Fortu nately. despite widespread anxiety in the business world and the inconvenience of queueing up at gasoline stations, there were no massive disruption* of com mercial and industrial ac tivity. There were, however, a number of warning* in our last year's annual forecast that have been only too dearly borne out These included predictions of an impending change in our life style, a letdown in economic activity, continuation of the excruciating squeeze of infla lion, a further slump in homebuilding, and a down turn in interest rates. 1975—Year of Realignment As we move across the threshold into 1975. serious economic dislocations are being widely prophesied for the upcoming twelve months. As 1974 drew to a close, serious setbacks were al ready cvidcr' in general activity, aggravated bv the United Mine Workers' strike in the coal industry and the deepening inertia in the housing field Inflation con tinued to exact a heavy toll upon the purchasing power of consumer*, businc**, and all division* of government. Little wonder, then, that we enter 1975 with the convic tion that it will be no bed of roses. Rather, most of the year will be characterized by an atmosphere of realignment, correcting a number of excesses in order to place the economy on a healthier foundation from which re newed growth may come. Among the needed correc tions are the reduction of burdensome consumer credit^ the trimming of bloated governmental spending bud gets. and a shrinking of business inventories un wisely accumulated in late 1473 and early 1074 as a hedge against possible shor tages and or upspiraling prices. The truth is that swollen business inventories plus heavy business capital spending have been respon sible for at least a fair part of today's monstrous inflation having been. ironically enough, caused bv tear of that verv inflation's earlier stages. If strong economic growth is to be revived, correction of such maladjust- ments is unavoidable and in the process both inflation and money rates must be brought down to more tolerable levels. Recession. Yes— Depression, No When President Ford made his first economic policy proposals to Congress, the problem of inflation was foremost in the thinking of the public. At that time, many political aspirants and incumbents anxious to re main in office—with biennial elections looming just ahead- criticized the Administration for apparently giving more attention to warding off or coping with the recession than to battling inflation But the staff of Babson's Reports took a contrary view, pointing out that, without playing down the seriousness of inflation. President Ford's speech may have read the economic climate more cor rectly—that before too long fear of recession might outpace fear of inflation. There is no doubt that concern over recession has assumed grave proportions. Inflation, unfortunately, is no less acute, but the freshet of layoff announcements in the last weeks of 1974 not only increased apprehension over the recession but brought talk of the possibility of a full fledged depression. In the light of political, inter national. and economic up heavals which have sapped public confidence for more than a year, this radical shift in thinking comes as no great surprise. It is. however, the contention of the staff of Babson's Reports that a depression on the order of that seen in the 1930s is not in the cards for 1975. Recessionary conditions will prevail for most of the new year, reflecting extension of the weakening that began in the fall of 1973 when the Arab oil embargo gave inflation its first brisk fillip. The label of recession was affixed when the statistical result* for the first two quaners of 1974 became available meeting the text book definition of recession, with two consecutive quar terly declines in the nation's real Gross National Product il'NI’ m |95H dollars ex inflation). Cushions Against A Depression Comparing the present lime with some years ago, we arc aware of a great many changes of an adverse nature. From the end of World War II through the better part of the 19nt)s. there existed a period of high growth when both domestic and international economies were busily attempting to fulfill pent-up demand and the burgeoning needs of exploding populations Then, credit was plentiful and cheap, as were vital raw materials. These conditions no longer exist on that unrestricted scale, and the roles of the international powers of centuries' standing have been undergoing fun damental reshufflings. Un derdeveloped and emerging nations, singly or in blocs, are wresting a place for themselves in the world family as well as a powerful leverage in determining mar kets and prices for their valuable and much-needed natural resources. The American economy, however, is not without recourse The recession itself can do much to instill a measure of reason into what has become a bluster of nationalistic and cartel po licies on the part of nations controlling key raw materials needed by the highly indus trialized countries. The latter arc re-evaluating their re quirement*. instituting con servation measures, hasten ing development of their own resources, and making use of the technological expertise at their disposal to fashion substitute materials and more efficient facilities. This country also has such depression defenses as the structure of transfer pay ments and the placement of a large portion of its workers in the relative security of scrvice oriented employ mem In industrial activities, multi-year labor pacts assure boosts in purchasing power. It should also be kept in mind that U.S. agriculture—al ready a mighty force in our economy—is in a position to prosper in an enviable way from the world's shortfall of food. Capital equipment lines still have a full complement of backlogs in many instances, and addi tional business is waiting in the wings for less costly financing. Inflation: No End In Sight. But Some Relief 1975 should see a return in single-digit inflation. During 1974 there seemed no pros pect of any letdown in the intolerable rate of inflation. Though a diminution of the pace may seem farfetched, we may actually have seen the worst of inflation for a while. In recent months, one after another of the primary industrial commodities which are highly sensitive to chan ges in the economic climate have crested over, and now that industrial and commer cial activities are on the defensive it will be difficult for double-digit inflation to persist without the help of demand pull influences. The staff of Babson's Reports, however, warns that while the most acute fires of inflation can be somewhat dampened in 1975. a return to “zero" inflation is surely not in sight. It could only be brought about by way of complete pnee-w age-profits controls, and even this would be but a temporary palliative followed by fresh spurts of inflation when decontrols ultimately became effective. So. in spite of the numerous catch-up price increases seen in 1974, there must inevi tably work their way into higher prices such factors as fresh wage hikes, the lower level of productivity caused by the recession, and impac ted costs... albeit at a les sening rate as the year progresses. The nature of inflation during 1975 will, tn fact, shift from demand-pull to cost-push. Mixed Influence« From 1974 As indicated earlier in this 1975 forecast, there was a spurt in business inventory busing as well as consumer purchasing in the forepart of 19'4. reflecting fear of shortages and higher prices. This sustained business at a higher level for a longer period than had earlier seemed possible. As shor tages disappeared in one sector after another—some vers rapidly—it was painfully evident that inventones were excessive, particularly when consumer demand turned sticky. 19'4 midyear predic tions favored a business deceleration to permit trim ming inventories to more normal levels. But inflation bit harder into consumer budgets, auto sales fell dramatically, and a wave of layoffs made consumers still tighter with spending plans. Businessmen intensi f i e d their inventory reduction and cost cutting. So the 1974 final-quarter fall-off in bu siness was far steeper than expected, with the strike in the coal mines adding its bit. While this slump was oppressive in terms of business and consumer senti ment. there was implicit within it a ray of hope for 1975 beyond the initial months During the balance of the winter similar cut backs will doubtless prevail, guaranteeing a continued business softening. While some additional slippage may be seen thereafter, it appears likely that the spring, sum mer. and at least part of the fall season will witness a bottoming-out process in preparation for a revival late in the year \brupt. Strong Recovers Not Likely For 1975 we must repeat a caution made in the 1974 forecast: High prices, wea kened confidence, and debt burdens will prevent con sumers from wielding their usual power in revitalizing the economy, as was the case in other post World War II recessions. Moreover, with Continued on Page 10