Nyssa Gate City Journal, Nyssa Oregon
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Thursday, October 9. 1975
Annual City Report
Events Around Adrien
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MEMBERS OF THE NYSSA HIGH SCHOOL CLASS OF
1950 present for a reunion August 9 and 10 (picture not
available till now) were:
Front row. L-R: Marilyn Ekanger Richesin. Leo Long.
Angela Peterson Long. Charles Steffens, teacher; Audrey
Stahl Shelden. teacher; W. L. McPartland. teacher, advisor. 7
and 8th grade principal; Margaret Engstrom, teacher; Joanne
Irrigation Accounts
Sage of Nu Acres
’y
Weil, the
Bicentennial
Wagon Train has holed up in
Fort Laramie, Wyoming for
the winter and their Outrider.
Arvin Goff, and his wife
Rosie once more have their
travel trailer parked at home
on the farm in Nu Acres.
Meantime, a wagon train
from California has left a
short time ago. bound for St.
Joseph. Missouri, and a
wagon train from Texas plans
to leave In January to go
directly to Philadelphia.
Our Northwest wagon train
will resume its journey in
March, converge with the
California train at St. Joseph,
and the entouage will be
barged across Missiouri to­
gether
on the Missouri
River. Thence to Philadelphia
for July 4, 1976. Hopefully.
Neighbor Goff win be there to
bring back the story and a
little of the glory!
Visited Mrs. Alice Pulsi­
pher at the Nyssa Nursing
home. She's kind of lone­
some for more old friends to
drop in. she said. One good
thing though, once that
broken leg heals, it will be
better than it was before the
accident! Seems they took
the kink out of it. or
something.
Mrs. Pulsipher is sllowed
to go out for a ride now, she
said. Sunday her daughter,
Mrs. Gene Haggarty. took
her over to visit her son, and
family. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse
Fry in Parma.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Kenni-
soo, with Jason and Nichol,
their children, recently visi­
ted in the home of her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy
HoAard for a few days. Mrs.
Howard said “We sure had a
fun time with our grandchil­
dren. Jason went wild over
Grandpa's cows."
Speaking of cows, a white
hoistein was hit by a car on
highway 95 at Echo early this
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Matheny Peirce, reunion chairman.
Back row L-R; Donna Mundy Caputo. Ned Campbell.
Ronald Lowe, Jeanive Grottveit Folgelman. James Stephens.
C R. Kesler. Betty Bullard Boyack and Lawrence Olson.
The returning class members donated $35 to the Nyssa
High School Library as a memorial to Mrs. Harriet Brumbach.
t
morning, killed. It mashed tn
the front of the car but the
people weren't harmed. No
one has claimed the cow, vet.
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Evans
just returned from a trip to
John Day where ’hey stayed
with their daughter-in-law
and the children while their
son. the Rev. Karl Evans,
was in Portland.
A Lay Witness mission at
Sand Point, with Paul Loree
as co-ordinator, was attended
by Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Evans
and Mr. and Mrs. Raymond
Sager. Enroute home they
visited overnight at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Dan
Bingaman at St. Maries.
Mrs. Bingaman is Mrs.
Evan's daughter.
This week the Town and
Country Garden Club is
started on it’s and the Lion's
Chib's special beautification
project at the north entrance
of town and some have
prepared the ground, and.
Tuesday if it doesn't rain too
hard, we'll be planting
shrubs. In Nyssa, that ia.
Equitable Declares
Cash Dividend
The Board of Directors of
Equitable Savings declared a
third quarter cash dividend of
8c per share at their
September 23 meeting in
Yakima. Washington, accor­
ding to William E. Love,
Chairman of the Board.
This 8c per share dividend
will be paid on October 24,
1975, to stockholders of
record at the close of
business of October 7, 1975.
The dividend reaffirms the
long-established policy of
Equitable Savings to pay
cash dividends on a quarterly
basis to stockholders as
earnings are generated.
For Increased Power
Idaho Power Company of gation in recent yean is
Boise reported today that expected to continue in the
future because experience
farmers added more than
has proved that it makes
97.660 horsepower of new
electric pumps to its irriga­ more efficient use of water
and cuts irrigating labor
tion load in 1975 as they
opened more desert land to costs.
Of the new and supple­
productive farms and conver­
mental acres put under
ted gravity systems to more
efficient high-pressure sprink­ electric pumping this year,
he noted, nearly 116,000
ling.
acres are being watered with
W. H. Hanes, general
sprinklers.
customer service manager,
Another reason for Idaho
said the fanners installed
Power's growing irrigation
1,128 new pumps throughout
load. Hanes said, is that
the company's service area,
some irrigators are conver-
thus increasing the number
ting to electric pumping from
of supplies with energy to
other fuels as they shrink in
nearly 13.000 pumps totaling
supply and rise in price.
962.885 horsepower.
This year, foe example, the
“The large increase in
6.500-acre Flying H project
irrigation pumping again this
south of Mountain Home
year was largely responsible
installed four electric pumps
for Idaho Power's summer
totaling 8.000 horsepower in
peak load reaching a new
its Snake River plant to
record of 1,815.000 kilowatts
replace pumps using natural
early in July," he said. The
record ex.-eeded the com­
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In addition, the project
pany's 1974 summer peak by
converted natural gas po-
58.000 ku
wered relift and booster
Hanes said that in 1974,
pumps to electric pumps
when area farmers installed
totaling 6,100 horsepower.
871 new pumps totaling more
Hanes, reporting on the
than 108.340 horsepower.
distribution of the additional
Idaho Power supplied its
cropland put under electric
irrigation customers with
pumping this year, said
nearly 1.4 billion kilowatt-
58.817 new and supplemental
hours of electricity for pum­
acres were located in the
ping.
company's southern division
The additional pumps in­
headquartered at Twin Falls
stalled this year, according to
and 26.872 were located ia
the company official, were
the central division head­
used to supply water from
quartered at Boise.
rivers and d<ep wells for a
Another 22,213 acres were
total of 115,041- new and
located in the eastern divi­
supplemental acres.
sion based at Pocatello and
Equal to 180 square miles
the remaining 7,146 acres
of cropland, they increased
were in the western division
the total irrigated with elec­
based at Payette.
tricity supplied by Idaho
Hanes also said that 832 of
Power to more than 1.505.600
the farms putting new and
acres.
supplemental acres under
Hanes also reorted that the
electric pumping were owned
utility already is receiving
by individuals or family cor­
applications from irrigators
porations. while 75 were
for service to new pumps
owned by corporations and
they are installing for the
the remaining 12 were
1976 crop season.
leased.
The company, which now
is supplying energy to
irrigate more than twice as
many acres as it did ten years
ago. has estimated that the
use of electricity for pumping
will increase from the nearly
1.4 billion kilowatt-hours in
1974 to some 2.3 billion
kilowatt-hours in 1989.
By 1989, according to
Idaho Power forecasts, far­
mers will put an additional
372,000 acres of new land
under electric pumping and
convert another 105.000 ac­
res from gravity irrigation to
sprinkling.
Hanes said an increasing
trend toward sprinkler irri-
ÙP1RIT OF
ADRIAN . Mr and Mrs.
Carl Ronseld of Nampa were
Sunday afternoon visitors of
their daughter. Mr. and Mrs.
Larry Stephen and family in
Adrian.
Mr. and Mrs. G. E.
Mackey went to Boise Satur­
day and were accompanied
home by her mother. Mrs.
Florence Gowey who will visit
in their home.
Mr. and Mrs. G. E.
Mackey visited Mr. and Mrs.
Oliver Free I Saturday after­
noon and their houseguests.
Mr and Mrs. Martin Kiesow
and son Jeff of Reedsport.
Mrs. Dale Witt called on
Mr and Mrs. Charles Bailey
Sunday morning.
Mrs. Mabie Piercy was a
Sunday dinner guest of her
son. Mr. and Mrs. Wayne
Piercy in Parma. In the
afternoon they all went to
Boise to see Mildred Graham
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Raynor.
Loraine Merritt and Grace
Smith all of Emmett were
Sunday dinner guests of the
former's sister. Mrs. Anna
Long.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill
Looney were also dinner
guests.
Mrs. Bill Looney and Mrs.
Anna Long visited Irene
Atherton in Ontario. Satur­
day afternoon.
Mrs. Carl Begeman and
Mrs. Dale Witt as co-hostess
had a birthday dinner Sunday
Their guests were Mr. and
Mrs. W. C. Van DeWater
and son Kent of Caldwell.
The dinner was in honor of
Bill's birthday.
Thursday evening dinner
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Carl
Begeman were Mr. and Mrs.
Boyce Van DeWater, her
brother and his wife. Mr and
Mrs. Archie DeGroff of
Lewiston, and his sister.
Kathryn Armstrong of Van­
couver British Columbia.
Mrs. Dale Witt visited
Mrs. Gladys Ihoms Saturday
afternoon.
charge similiar to rent for use
of equipment <m a quarterly
basis. This "rental charge"
is then used to pay for
maintenance and
new
equipment which is budgeted
Under this plan the City
has already purchased the
following equipment: back­
hoe, sweeper, park tractor,
police car, 16 ton pickup
truck, drill press and a
mosquito fogger.
Purchased equipment in­
cluded a rolotape measuring
wheel. 2S-foot surveyor's
rod. The City also purchased
a 50'xl00' storage lot adja­
cent to the City shop and then
funded a six foot protective
fence around it.
Sewer Plant
The plant operator was
sent to an Operators school
for an Idaho State Operators
Certification. An agreement
was then worked out so that
an Oregon State Class 111
certification was obtained by
reciprocity.
The three sludge drying
beds were cleaned, deepened
and enlarged while the
unused holding pit was filled
in to reclaim more useable
land.
Obtained CETA II funds to
hire, train and pay for an
assistant operator for a
15-month period at no cost to
the City.
The plant laboratory was
improved to the extent the
City now provides tests for
several other cities which is
now a source of additional
revenue.
This Is the third of a four
part annual City Report
submitted to the City Council
on progress dunng fiscal year
1974-1975
Significant of the City's
effort to keep up with rising
costs was an indepth review
of the City's franchises. A
study of franchise fees
charged by other Oregon
cities was a prelude to
Council's selection of a new
fee rate. The City raised its*
franchise rate to 3% on
telephone, electric utility and
natural gas in as much as the
City had not increased it's
revenue on these items since
1956
Equipment ■ Shop
During this period the City
set up a rental-purchase plan
to insure that money would
be available to purchase
replacement vehicles when
needed. Under this plan each
vehicle was assigned an
estimated life expectancy
with rental charges made to
coincide with the expected
life. Departments pay this
October 3, Mr and Mrs
Gene Asmussen. Fruitland, a
boy.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Baker.
Payette, a boy.
Mr and Mrs. Eric Hutchin'
son. New Plymouth, a girl.
October 3, Mr. and Mrs.
John Moore. Nyssa, a boy.
Mr and Mrs. Dan Gross.
Payette, a boy.
Mr. and Mrs. Herman
Brewer. Ontario, a boy.
October 6, Mr. and Mrs
Neil Goodfellow. Payette, a
girl.
October 7, Mr. and Mrs
Brace Throne. Ontario, a
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Recreation
Council voted to name the
park complex at the Swim­
ming Pool “Lion's Park" and
approved 100x100 foot tot
park area at northeast corner
of Lion's Park.
An overall inspection of the
pool found great deteriora­
tion of both the buiding and
the pool surfacing.
The heater and boiler units
were torn down, cleaned and
repaired to enable the sea­
sonal use with minimum
interruptions. Numerous tiles
were also replaced along lip
of overflow gutter.
Tennis court re-fenced
with 8* chainltnk fence at
South Park and the band
stand was re-roofed and all
playground equipment was
painted bright colors.
Basketball standards were
moved to new location and
new door added to the
equipment shed to increase
use potential.
Horseshoe pits completed
and second annual tourna­
ment conducted with two
leagues competing for tro­
phies.
Constructed baseball back­
stop in north park, completed
sprinkler system, and pain­
ted playground equipment
there as part of park
renovation projects
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Realigned existing west
road and continued to haul
fill dirt to raise east corner
Southeastern plot of ceme­
tery underground spnnkler
system was completed as
programmed and Veteran's
Organization poured cement
to align gravestones as a
project.
Chai ul ink fence installed
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Pistol Range
Donated labor used to level
approximately 100' x 120'
plot below cemetery to be
used for weapon's training.
Used tires and old telephone
poles are being utilised to
raise and hold embankment.
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PARKER LUMBER & HARDWARE
new gate poets having a brick
facade approximately five
feet tall and installed walk-in
gate.
Excavated irrigation hold­
ing pond to increase sire by
150% and installed wooden
headgate and realigned Irri­
gation piping to Improve
appearance of cemetery.
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Ontario
Now Plymouth