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Thursday. August 21, 1975 Nyssa Gate City Journal, Nyssa, Oregon this past week. The price as of Wednesday was a net of 90» to the grower for packout potatoes after removal of culls and No. 2 grade of white rose. 1 10 YEARS AGO Bishop Howard Bair pre formed a double ring cere mony uniting Miss Sue Olsen and Jim Tracy the evening of Friday. July 16, 1965, at the Nyssa LDS stake house. Parents of the newlyweds are Mr. and Mrs J. O. (Brig) Olsen of Route 2, Nyssa and Mr and Mrs. Manon Tracy of 302 North Fifth Street. • • • Over SOO guests were present for the August 7, 1965 ceremony uniting Miss Bonnie Lucille Steiner and Ralph Leavitt. Parents of the newlyweds are Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Steiner of Adnan and Mr and Mrs. Elmen Leavitt of Nyssa. 20 YEARS AGO .30 YEARS AGO Mrs. Hazel Lane and Mrs Helen Gonyer returned from Monmouth. Oregon, Wednes day evening. They had attended a leadership con ference on the college cam pus under the leadership of the Oregon Education Asso ciation on August 7 to 9. Outward demonstration ol the celehrative spirit promp ted hv the surrender of Japan developed slowly in Nyssa Tuesday afternoon, but rea ched a crescendo of yelling and screaming and horn tooting by 9 p.m. When the news of the surrender was received over the radio early in the • • • Truckloads of spuds com ing into market were crowd ing the highways toward Nyssa this past week. Fi gures indicate a total of 42B refrigerated carloads of spuds shipped out of Nyssa I^Hometown News _ Call 372-2233 Mr. and Mrs. Lester Oden returned August II from a salmon fishing trip to New port and Winchester Bay. They visited at the home of their son Laurence and his family in Albany 0 0 0 Merle Johnson accompa nied by her cousins. Katha rine Vetsch of Boise and Mr and Mrs Norville Leuck of Santa Barbara. Calif went to visit Charles Leuck at Canyon City last week They visited Mr. and Mrs. John Leuck of Germantown, Tennessee, who were guests at the Charles Leuck home. • • • Mr and Mrs. Earl Sullivan of Rolla. Kansas brought Mrs Bertha Busier of Her miston to Nyssa for two days last week to visit at the home «if her brother and sister-in law. Mr. and Mrs. Owen Gann. Owen is Mr. Sullivan's uncle. On Tues- day, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Fernlund of Medford brought Mrs. Bessie Fernlund to visit with the Ganns for three days while the other Femlunds visited in Caldwell. Bessie and her husband. Carl Fern lund, were neighbors of the Ganns when they all lived in Kansas. Mr. and Mrs. Walt Looney and boys hosted a dinner Monday evening for Mr and Mrs Hiro Kido, Sharlene, Scott and Clark and Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Michaelson. • • • Mrs. Iona Flinders and Mrs. Carolvn Blaylock took their Sunday School classes on an outing to Meridian Tuesday afternoon to the Lorin Saunders home. They enjoyed swimming, playing on the trampolene and playing pool before eating a very large picnic lunch. • • • Judy Nedry arrived Satur day and is spending one week visiting her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Dirick Nedry Judy was here for the wedding of her cousin. Mardi Tensen to Dick Butcher. August 16. Mr. and Mrs. David Hartwig, nee Janet Nedry. and their little foster child. Tommy, of Waco, Texas, arrived Tuesday and will be vacationing for ten days at the home of the Dinck Nedrys. Picnic Slated ¡REMINDER For Owyhee Park Re-Chrome Your Onion Harvester Topper Rolls Treasure Valley PLATING (OWYHEE STEEL; OWYHEE JCT. NYSSA 372 2100 The Park above Owyhee Dam will be the site of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church's Service and picnic this Sunday, August 24. Mem bers of the congregation, together with Holy Trinity Church in Vale,will gather at 12 noon for worship. A picnic dinner will follow. Cars will gather at the church shortly before 11:30 Sunday to offer rides to all who need them. There will be a brief Communion service at the church at the regular 11:00 o'clock hour. Watch for a special an nouncement of the service schedule for the Labor Day Weekend. Adrian Business Directory Fire Department—Phone 503-372-2220 Oregon Highway Patrol—Phene 5O3-M9-O4M ADRIAN MERCANTILE George A lois Cartwright GIFTS A GIFT WRAPPING GROCERIES—DRY GOODS—HOUSEWARES SOUVENIERS , Nyaaa— 372-2727 or Parma ■ 724 *131 PARKER LUMBER & HARDWARE Vent A Georgia Parker LUMBER—PAINT-REPAIRS HUNTING A FISHING SUPPLIES IRRIGATION SUPPLIES— DRY GOODS Phone 732-2433 or 724 *174 ADRIAN SUPPLY A REPAIR Gayle Martin A Keith Baldwin SPECIAL FARM EQUIPMENT MACHINE WORK-WELDING “TRUCKBEDS A HOISTS" Phone 372-2354 MARTIN'S MARKET Jody A Gayle Martin GROCERIES—SUNDRYS-DRY GOODS NEWSPAPERS—MAGAZINES— POSTED SPECIALS WEEKLY Phone 372-2722 or Parma 724-AI3S afternoon, a few motorists began sounding their car horns and then the noise decreased. Later in the evening a group of men organized for a street dance, which was continued until about 12:30 a m. Wednesday. Various men. using a truck as a platform, furnished music for the occasion. Among them were the Sanders brothers. Bert Lienkaemper. Jerry Crandall, Dave Hawkins and Robert McDonald. Businessmen had made no previous arrangements for closing of stores, so they closed their stores Wednes day Although all federal buildings were closed be cause of a two-day holiday called by President Truman, most of the business houses in Nyssa were open today as usual. 40 YEARS AGO Girl Scouts of Nyssa and Kingman Kolonv returned Sunday evening from a very enjoyable week spent camp ing at the Kiwanis Camp on Silvan Beach. Payette Lukes. Mrs. Dick Tensen was chaperone for the Nyssa girls, who were Bettv Cook, Ethel Helen Page Three Boydell Mary Lee Emmott. I va Lynch. Marion Harris. Phyliss Poage. Barbara Br own. Clarissa Tillman. La- vena Phillips. Tiena, Betty and Louise Tensen. The Kingman girls were in charge of Mrs. Ralph Ha worth. who also had her little daughter Phyliss with her Kingman girls who spent the week in camp were Helen and Maybelle Pond. Ethelyn and Eleanor Haworth. Flora Prosser. Ellen McConnell. Emily Otis. Joyce and Donna Ashcraft. Lyla Day. Mrs. Floyd Zesiger. Dorothy and Margaret Winters. Lucille Thresher and Pearl Williams 50 YEARS AGO Christian Church A farewell party was given Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stubbs Monday evening at the Odd Fellows Hall by the people of the community. A large crowd was in attendance and a most enjoyable time was had. Many eipressions of regret were heard over the loss to the community of Mr. and Mrs. Stubbs. We will especially feel the loss of Mrs Stubbs' helpful efforts in arranging musical pro grams. An enjoyable feature of the evening was a big feed, in preparing which Nyssa ladies excel. Sunday • Sunday School classes for all ages. 9:45 a m Morning Worship, 11 a m. Wednesday • Choir prac lice, 7 p.m. Young people meeting. 7:30 p.m. Bible study for adults. 7:30
