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Nyssa Gate City Journal The Sugar City 69th Year, 16th Issue Nyssa, Oregon Thursday. April 77, 1975 Sugarbeet Growers Receive 3rd Payment The Amalgamated Sugar Company announced that local sugarbeet growers will be receiving another supple mental payment for their 1974 crop. Checks amounting to over SIO million were mailed April IS. reports agriculture vice president Henry Zobell. The payment, the third made for beets grown in 1974. will bring the company's total payments to growers to $74.J million. Utah growers will receive $289,000 Mini-Cassia gro wers will receive $1.9 million Twin Falls growers will receive $1 million. Wlwyhee growers will receive $497,000 And Nampa Nyssa growers will receive $6.4 million. Eight young women will present a varielv of talents during the Miss Treasure Valley Community College pageant at the Ontario High School on Saturday, April 19 Nyssa district manager Gilbert Wells said that Nyssa growers will receive $6.01 per ton on this payment. Wells said that 31.000 acres have been placed under contract in the Nyssa district this year, but that only about 20 percent have been planted so far because of the wet spring. Karron Guerri. Ontario will deliver a song in sign language. Gayle Williams. Parma, will present an original reading involving art work she ha* done; Shan Moss. Nyssa (the lone Sophomore in the group) will plav a flute solo Three girl* will be singing • Heidi Ken nington. Ontario. Patti Davis. John Day; and Georgia Meacham. Weiser Tracy Seiler, Ontario, will dance to her own original drum solo. Diane Graves. Alesandria. Virginia, will present an artistic sketch. Nikki Pierce, Coordinator for the event and Counsellor at Treasure Valley Com munity College, reports that while the girls are both "ex cited" and "nervous" they are generally feeling that nobody will really lose. Each one seem to feel that she will gain valuable experience from participating. "Most of them are going for the experience and for the scholarships," she said. Treasure Valley Community college offer* a one-year tuition waiver to the winner; and the Miss Oregon organi zation gives a $100 scho larship to each girl who appears in the competition at Seaside. Mrs. Pierce also stated that the Pageant is becoming more and more a scholarship pageant. "It is no longer a beauty pageant when you have 50 percent of the point* going for talent and also heavy »coring for intelli gence. grace and poise.” Owyhee State Park Closed Until July Opening date for Lake Owyhee Slate Park will be delaved until late June or early July due to construction operations at the park. David G. Talbot, state parks su perintendent. stated today. He explained that existing overnight camping facilities arc being expanded from the ten existing sites to a total of 40 campsites. The improve ments will include the con struction of a small utility building and improvements and expansion of the water and irrigation system. During the construction period day use. boat launch ing and overnight facilities will be closed. The public will be notified when the park reopens. Idaho-East Oregon Onion Committee The U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has ap pointed five members and their alternates to the Idaho- Eastern Oregon Onion Com mittee. which administers the federal marketing order for onions grown in Idaho and Malheur County. Oregon. The appointees were nomi nated by producers and handlers in the area. Officials of USDA's Agricultural Marketing Ser vice said the committee re commends to USDA the grade, size, and quality of onions to be shipped under the marketing order each year and determine* research and promotion projects that will benefit onion marketing The following members und their respective alter nates will serve two-year terms of office. OREGON DAIRY PRINCESS RHONDA Forsyth visits with Cindy Osborne and Cindy Conant, both of Adrian, contestants for Malheur Dairy Princess. Others vying for the title arc Virginia Collier and Diana Roland. Ontario; and Katherine Anthony. Beverly Schaffeld. Nita Millicson and Rose Hall. Vale. Cindv Osborne. 17. is a senior at Adrian Nyssa High Spring Concert The Nyssa High School Spnng Concert featuring the high school hand and concert choir will be presented Thursday, April 24 in the multi-purpose room at 8 p.m., it was announced by Ralph Werner, band director. Period one band will present. The Gallant Seventh by John Philip Sousa; Hymn of Praise by Anton Bruckner; the Green Domino by Clare Grundman. Period two band will plav, Music For A Ceremonv by John Morrissey; The Roaring 2()’s by Paul Yoder; Festive by V. Nelhybel; The Way we Were by Hamlisch; Alla Barocco by Giovannini. Everyone should mark their calendar and plan to attend this very entertaining program. Cancer Crusade Nets >916.66 The annual residential canvass for the American Cancer Society was a success and the canvassers did a great job. covering the residential part of town, with most people happy to contri-' bute this year, according to Mr*. Pauline Church, neigh borhood captain. Mrs. Church said the volunteers collected $916.66 this year as against $714.35 last year. She would like to thank the many volunteers and donors for their generous contributions of time and money. Through your con tinued support we will truly be able to w ipe out cancer in your lifetime. Producer*: District 2-Paul Y. Saito. Weiser and Darrell Hart. Ontario. Physical Exams District 4 Joel Mitchell and Offered Workers Harold E. Dail, both of "Community Health Cli Nyssa District 6-Leo R Hart, nic». Inc. is offering complete Caldwell, and Frank T. physical examinations at no charge to all agricultural Yamamoto. Homedale. workers and their families. Handler*: These examinations arc part Representing Idaho—Jeff of a special farmworkers' Anderson. Parma and Robert health project. A. Parsons. Weiser. For more information and/ Representing the produc or an appointment, call tion area-at-large—Charles 466-7869 m Nampa. 722-5147 E. Johnson. Parma. in Parma, or 477-3189 in Thomas Iseri. Ontario. Homedale High School and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs Myron Osborn. Cindy Conant. 16. is a junior al Adrian and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Conant. Bothgirls are active in drill team, GAA. pep club, and other school activities. The Malheur Dairy Princess contest will be held Thursday. Mav 8 at the Eastside Cafe. Nyssa FFA Sweeps Shop Skills Contest Nyssa FFA Chapter mem bers placed first over-all in the Snake River District Shop Skills Contest hosted by Treasure Valley Communitv College Thursday. April 10 Nyssa was followed by Baker. Vale. Adrian and Ontario, in that order. Raymond Wiley, who com peted on Nyssa's Advanced team and placed highest in the whole contest. named Master Mechanic and awarded a full tuition waver to Treasure Valley Com munity College. Craig Froe rer of Nyssa was the second highest individual competing. Others on the advanced team garnenng high scores were Paul Kesler. Gene Bair, and David Blaylock. The shop skills which they competed in were Arc Welding, Oxyacetv- lene Welding. Blue Print Reading, and Electricity. The .‘»rm leveling part was cancelled due to rain and snow. Mike Kurtz placed second over-all in the Beginning Entertainment plans were completed at the recent Fair Board meeting. Gordon Caps. Chairman, announced that The Statler Brother* would give two shows on Thursday. August 14 and Pat Robert* and The Evergreen Drifter* would perform on Friday the 15th. Capp* said that local talent will be featured in a Bicentennial Show under the direction of Wayne Phillip* and Sally Seiler. They will give an evening performance on Wednesday, August 13 at 7:30 and a matinee on Saturday at 2;3O. will Saturday evening again feature a Gospel Concert with the Children of the Son. an Ontario group and The Kings Witnesses from the Boise area. Capps said The Statler Brothers are well known from their many television perfor mances and have a number of hit records to their credit. They also perform with Johnny Cash on a number of his shows. He noted that Pat Roberts is quite well known in the Pacific Northwest. Both groups feature a coun try-western style. He noted that Saturday's plans also include an Open Class Horse Show. a Tractor Driving contest. and the Awards Program. BLM Begins Sign-up For Fire Fighters WEATHER and was nice for the weekend, but rams the first part of this week kept farmers out ot the fields again. Shop Skills contest. Other high scoring members of the beginning team were David Cleaver. Bruce Cowgill. Lynn Kesler and Tim Mecham. In individual advanced contests. Raymond Wiley placed first in arc welding with Craig Froerer coming in third out of 25 participants. In acetylene welding Paul Kesler placed first and David Blavtock second In blueprint reading Craig Froerer placed second and Raymond Wiley third. In individual beginning contests Lynn Kesler placed second out of 25 participants in arc welding. Bruce Cowgill third in acetylene welding. Mike Kurtz second in carpentry, and David Cleaver third in tool identi fication. Also in the awards pro gram afterwards the Nvssa Chapter was awarded a sweepstakes trophy for plac ing highest in all FFA contests participated in this past year. Entertainment Set For County Fair Sign-ups for Snake Riser Valley firefighting crews began Monday. April 14 and will continue through June 6. "Sandy" Sanderson, tire control officer for the Vale RECORD SIZED SHOWFLAKES fell last Thursday morning, with most folks hoping that they were the dying gasp of a long winter. Sure enough, it cleared that afternoon 15' Per Copy School Board Accepts Bond Bids, Finds They Are Invalid When the checks are re ceived. contracted growers will have been paid the following amounts for each ton of beets delivered to the company last fall. Utah, $43.75. Mini-Cassia. $44 75. Twin Falls. $43.75. Elwyhee. $41.25. The average payment for the Nampa Nyssa district is $38.82. Miss TVCC Pageant Saturday Evening Thunderegg Capital Date Max. Mln. Prec. 49 trace April 9 32 .16 37 April 10 50 34 59 30 April 11 67 April 12 30 40 April 13 65 44 .03 54 April 14 38 02 53 April 15 48 .12 April 16 Owyhee Reservoir 4-16-75 611.500 Acre Feet 4 16 74 686.600 Acre Feet BIM district, announced this week. This year all applicants are required to have physical examinations before applica tions will be accepted. Sanderson said Forms to be filled out for fire physicals will be available at the Vale BLM fire control office which will be open from 8 a.nt. to 5 p.m. No applications will be accepted after June 6 from persons who have not been SRV members before. All identification cards and photographs will be new this year. People signing up for firefighting must bring pnxif of citizenship or proof of intent to become a citizen before the applications will be accepted. The Nyssa school board opened bids for construction bonds Monday night in the amount of $2.354.(MM); and when they adjourned the meeting board members thou ght they had a successful bidder. T uesday afternoon they were informed by Attorney John O'Kief that the Portland law firm of Rankin, Walsh. Ragen A Roberts, which must rule on the validity of the bids, declared that both bids were invalid. Now the Nyssa school board must readver- tisc for bids, which will be opened at a May 5 meeting The U. S. National Bank of Oregon was the apparent low bidder with a net effective interest rate of 6.7775. First National Bank of Oregon was close behind with a net effective interest rate of 6.8414 The board accepted the bid of U. S. National Bank, subject to approval of the bond attorneys. O'Kief told the board at the time that the Portland law firm might take exception to the bids, based on a technicality in the bids. U. S. National's bid listed a ma turity date of December 1, 1985 on which the school district could redeem the bonds, and the date should have read 1984. First Na tional's bid omitted the maturity date. The reason for the discre pancy. O'Kief told the board, was a difference in the inter pretation of the law relating to maturity dates. He had previously set the 1985 date, and was told by the Portland firm that it was permissable to change the date in the second publication of the bid offering to 1984. The school board met in special session Tuesday night, the Notice of Bond Sale will be readvertised in the April 17 and 24 issues of the Journal, and the bid opening will be May 5. Road to lx- closed In other action at Monday night's meeting the board agreed to close the road from the Primary Building through the campus to the corner of 9th & Bower. The road will be closed in two weeks, after due notice to the public, with signs and road barriers. The board authorized Su perintendent McPartland to commence filling and leve ling the field north of the baseball field prior to plan ting. With construction of the new buildings, much of the present turfed playground area around the high school will be covered, and the new field will be needed for P. E. activities for junior and senior high school students. Nyssa Legion Auxiliary Sponsors Girls To State Allen Named Lions Prexy The Nyssa Lions Club elected Alvin Allen president of the club for the 1975-76 year. Other officers are Gale Christensen. 1st vice presi dent; Dick Martin. 2nd vice president; Dan Martin, 3rd vice president; John Worrall. secretary-treasurer; Bill Pur cell, tail twister; Larry Silveira, lion tamer; George Craig and Ken Nyce. direc tors; Jim Gardner and Jim Grunke. holdover directors. The new officers will be installed in ceremonies to be held in June. Grigg Picked Top Realtor The Malheur County Board of Realtors picked L. Richard Grigg of Vale as "Realtor of the Year" for 1975. Officers of the Board of Realtors are C. C. Cun ningham. Vale, president; Richard Grigg. Vale, vice president; Benny Schlupe. Ontario, secretary-treasurer; and Tom Nishihara. Bill Yost. Paul Parker, and Wayne Mc Connell. directors, all of Ontario. Chairman of the Realtor Week Committee is Earl S. Blackaby. Ontario; Assisted by Dave Waldo. Nyssa and bud Strey. Ontario. Realtor Week is April 2 to 26. Pre-School Round Up The Pre-School Roundup will be held (today) April 17 in the multi purpose room at I p.m. Every parent who will have a first grade child next September is welcome to attend. Featured will be Gay Morinaka. from the County Health Services who will talk on immunization require ments and the Golden Rod Health Screen Gerry Olsen will talk on the family service program. There will be a general discussion on policies, pro cedures and expectations of Nyssa schools. Must Register SRV Fire Crews SRV crew members who live in Oregon must register with their local Oregon State Employment Office before signing up at the Vale BLM fire control office, Sandy Sanderson, fire control of ficer. said today. "Idaho residents are not sub|ect to this requirement." Sanderson said. "In Idaho we hire SRV crews directly through the camp manager.” SRV sign-up began Mon day with most prospective crew members picking up forms for their required phy sicals Kathryn Kunkel The Nyssa American Legion Auxiliary has selected Miss Kathryn Kunkel as Giris state Delegate and Miss Lori Miner as alternate. Both girls are outstanding juniors and were chosen on the basis of leadership, citizenship and ability. Girls State 1975 session will be held June 15 to 20 at Willamette Univer sity in Salem and is the intensive study of govern ment and politics with girls competing for city, county and state offices. Kathy is the daughter of Mr and Mrs. Paul Kunkel. She is a member of the National Honor Society. Ger man Club. Science Club. Pep Club. 4-H. Student Council. Ski Club and Nyssa High Flag Corps. Kathv plays the piano and as a band member, the flute and bassoon and is a member of the Honor Band. She likes to draw and won "Best of Show” in the Ore-Ida Christmas card con test 1973-74 and 1st Senior Division 1975. She is junior class president and received the PTA scholarship to artend a summer science camp and had a part in the "Sound of Music." Kathy has worked part time at the Nyssa Public Library and at the Amalga mated Sugar Co. research department. When she at tends college she plans to major in engineering and minor in political science. Lori is Science Club secre tary. a member of Pep Club. German Club and Honor Society. She is Sunday School organist at the Nyssa First Ward, she plays the piano and as a band member, the flute. She was a JV Cheerleader and was class president her freshman year. She worked part time at the Nyssa Public Library. Lori plans to attend college and major in Elementary Education. She is the daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Miner. She will attend the state meeting if for any reason Miss Kunkel is unable to go. BLM Advisory Board Nominations Due Nominations are being accepted until April 23 for the Vale BLM district multiple use advisory board. George R. Gurr. district manager, announced today. Groups, businesses, and individuals with interests in the national resource lands are invited to nominate persons to be advisory board members. Gurr said. "We plan to have 10 members on the board." he said, "the maximum number allowed under the law. I feel that we need the maximum allowed to get representation from the wide range of national Nyssa Police Report Shooting Nyssa Police are investi gating into the shooting of Jerry Hall. 30, of Nyssa. Hall was transferred to Malheur Memorial Hospital bv ambulance early Wednes day morning suffering from gunshot wounds in the stomach. Details are sketchy at this time and officers are continu ing their investigation. resource land uses. "After all nominations are received I will select the members based on their education, training, ex perience, and established reputation to give informed and objective advice concern ing an industry, service, or natural resource manage ment discipline." The rechartering of the board w as made necessary by the Federal Advisory Com mittee Act -f 19"'2. Gurr said. The Act caused the termination of the former board January 5. 1975. The former district advisory board which dated back to the 1934 Taylor Grazing Act. had eight livestock represen tatives and one wildlife representative. The new mul tiple use advisory board will be just that, and will repre sent the full spectrum of national resource lands uses, the district manager noted. Nominations should be mailed to the Bureau of Land Management. P.O. Box 700. Vale, Oregon, and should give a brief resume' of the nominee's qualifications, ex perience. and field of major interest. Gurr concluded.