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Thursday, July 31, 1975 Nyssa Gate City Journal, Nyssa, Oregon Out Of The Past 10 YEARS AGO Mi*a Margaret Zamora, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M C. Zamora of Route 1. Ny»*a. ha* been awarded a SI50 Malheur Memorial nursing scholarship. Mia* Zamora ia a I9b5 graduate of Adrian High School and has been accepted to study at St. Alphonsus School of Nursing in Boise. • a a A family reunion and golden wedding receptam. honoring Mr. and Mrs. James Montague, will be held Saturday, August 7, 1965. in Nyssa Community Hall at Second Street and Ehrgood Avenue. 20 YEARS AGO Elder James Frank Skeen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Skeen. Nyssa, who is now serving a* a missionary in the Eastern States Missam of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has been selected to appear in the 1* 14th annual performance of America's foremost religious pageant, "America’s Wit ness for Christ." It will be presented at the Hill Cum- orah. in Palmyra. New York, on August II. 12 and 13. • • • With the bulk of their early reds still lying in the fields undug. potato grower* and shippers turned to Washing ton this week in an effort to Conservative Baptist Church News Sunday Servicaa Sunday school classes for all ages adult classes taught by larry Bauman; High School by Ralph and Patricia Werner; Doug Pfeiler, Su perintendent. Morning Worship - Spe cial music and Pastor Don Beattie speaking, II a.m. Evening Services, 7 p.m. Youth time, 9 p.m. Wednesday - Bible study and prayer. 8 p.m. Welfare Investigative Unit Reports Savings Public Welfare's Invest! B«' ive Unit reported a projec ted savings of $313,586 for May and June of 1975 due to their "estra efforts" to complete investigation*, ac cording to Nick Peet. Public Welfare Division adminis trator. Some 558 investigations were reported in the month* of May and June and tM investigations were com pleted Of those completed. 34 were referred to local District Attorneys for cri minal prosecution A savings of $285,866 is projected due to either the closing of ineligible welfare grants or a reduction in the size of grants for reasons disclosed through the in vestigation«. Another $27,- 720 in overpayments is also eapected to be recovered. "Prior to May, the Investi gations Unit had been re ceiving more requests than they could fill." said Peet "Now. even though the number of investigation re quests have continued at the same rate, the staff has been completing more investiga tion* than have been reques ted enabling them to sub stantially reduce their back log of case»," he continued. "It should be noted how few investigation* are re quired in comparison to welfare's caseload of over 150.000 Oregonians," he said. New Fall Styles Have I arrived ! secure passage of a swift national program to bolster the farmer income. The grower* and shipper* addressed Secretary of Agri culture Benson with a plea for aid, possibly under Section 32. after an impas sioned meeting of about 40 growers and shippers, held in Brownie's Cafe last Monday. 30 YEARS AGO Oliver Freel. AMMH 3/c. left last week for San Diego for further duty after spend ing a 30-day leave with hi* parent*. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Freel of Adrian. A visit of Malheur County newspaper publishers to the prisoner of war camp at Nyssa last week revealed that the prisoners are adequately fed with clean, wholesome f<xxl and have satisfactory living quarters. 40 YEARS AGO The Nyssa and Adrian troops of Bov Scouts returned Monday evening from a week's camping trip held under the pines at Warm Lake in Idaho. There werc- nine scouts from Nyssa and nine from Adrian attending the camp; the Nyssa boys being in charge of Leo Hollenberg and Adrian boys having John Holly as their scout-master. No accidents hapjx-ned to mar the pleasure of the trip and scouting leaders say that serious accident* are unlikely al Warm Lake, due to the way the camp is conducted and the location. Both the bovs and leaders are well pleased and feel that con siderable good has been accomplished during the week. • • • Two of Nyssa’s most popular young people were united in marriage on Sun Page Three day. July 19, when Thus. S. Newby and Miss Ruby Minton were made husband and wife The ceremony was performed at high noon at the Methodist parsonage in Pay ette. Rev. Hall officiating Both contracting parties have grow n from childhood in this community and have a host of friends who will wish them a pleasant voyage over the matrimonial sea. Mr. Newby has accepted a lucrative position with Mor rison-Knudson. Boise con tractors. and will be employ ed during the summer and fall near Meacham, at the summit of the Blue Moun tains on a railroad contract. HELLO WORLD! Mr and Mr*. Mike Sillonis of Adrian are happy to announce the birth of a bouncing baby boy. Young Anthony Michael, weighing in at seven-pounds and nine-ounces, arrived Thurs day, July 17, 1975 at Malheur Memorial Hospital He joins two sisters and a brother at home. Proud grandparents are Mrs. Muri Burns, Nyssa and Mr. and Mrs. Agustin Sillonis of Adrian. Mr. and Mrs. Tim Clark son of Nyssa, proudly an nounce the birth of their daughter. Sonya Kay. The young mis* arrived Friday. July 18. 1975 at Malheur Memorial Hospital in Nyssa She tipped the scales at seven-pounds and seven ounce*. She is the couple's first child. Beaming grandparents are Mr and Mrs. Carl Clarkson of Nyssa and Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Mahan of Ontario Proud great-grandparents are Mr and Mrs. W. A. Mahan of Ava. Missouri and Mrs. Nellie Odle of Baker