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University of Oregon Library Eugene, Ore • ■? ZUuJ Nyssa Gate City Journal 69th Year, 48th Issue The Sugar City Nyssa, Oregon Thursday, November 27. 1975 Thunderegg Capital 15’ Per Copy Bill Hipp, 36, Reminisces Wild Horse Roundup About Early Days In Nyssa Halted By Fund Lack by Fat Savage On the fir»t day of April, 1905. William -Bilf Hipp arrived in New York from Stuttgart. Germany. Hi» fa ther had died when he wa* twelve yeari old and after helping hi* mother on their small farm for a couple of years. he decided he wai meant to do bigger and better thing* than haul water to the cow*. So he made plan* to join hi* brother Carl, who wa* working on the KSAD Ranch near Ny«*a. He ipoke no English upon hi* arrival but claimed the first word he learned wa* a cum word Hi* vocabulary grew a* did hi* knowledge of our country and our custom*. The two brother* worked about a month near Nyssa and then went to Brogan where they worked for the Logan family. Thi* wa* where young Bill learned how to buckaroo. Two month* later Bill went to work for Gu* Schweizer on the Owyhee breaking hone* and a month later he went to work on the Charlie Thomp son hay crew Later that fall the two brother* worked for Si.50 a day plus board on the Highland Oam above Boise. Here Bill met ' Doc" Mar shall from Nyssa. He remember* coming to Boise that Christmas to spend their script money. Later he found employment with the Lemp Brother* and seemed at last to have found a home because he stayed with this job for two year*. Funny thing though he was feeding cattle and farming similar to what he had done in Germany. 1908 found him back in Ny»»a where he worked on the railroad going to Home dale In reminiscing. Bill say* "I drove two hone* and a wheeler in dust that was six Ballots Mailed For ASC Election ASC committee election ballots have been mailed to all known eligible voters in Malheur County according to an announcement made by Russell Fulleton. Chairman of the Malheur County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service. This years election is somewhat changed from elections in past years. According to Fulleton. the county formerly wa* divided into seven communities with community committee* elected in each. The community committee men then met in a county convention to elect the county committeemen. Effective thi* year the county has been reduced to a single com munity with the county committeemen elected by a mail election. Present member* of the committee are Russell Fulle- ton. Vale; Elver Nielsen. Nyssa. Woodrow Seuell. Ny ssa. Member* are elected for three year terms Fulleton esplained that Seuell ha* completed a three year term and his position will be filled by this years election. Nominee* on the ballot are: J. P Bunch. Payette- Oregon Slope who ha* previously served many year* a* a committeeman; Blaine Glrvin, Vale also with many years experience as a com mitteeman; Sam Mori. On tario who has served for a number of year* a* a community committeeman and Woodrow Seuell. Nyssa the incumbent. Fulleton urges all eligible voter* to mark their ballot* and timely return them in the postage free envelope. It is also important to pay dose attention to the instructions on the ballot Any eligible voter who has not received a ballot may obtain one at the county office. Voted ballots must be post-marked or received in this office not later than December I. 1975. Participation in ASC elec tion* is open to all farmer* regardleM of race, religion, sex. color, or national origin. Results of the election will be tabulated December 4, with the newly elected com mitteeman to take office January I. 1976. A NEW BOOK DROP AT THE NYSSA PUBLIC LIBRARY wa* installed last week bv city crews City Manager Henry Schneider and Librarian Norma Urry check out the new drive-in drop It is an old mail bo* donated by Postmaster Herokl P.iok and repainted in a city yellow color. to twelve inches deep and the flies were so thick you brushed them off your face with one hand and scooped food Into your mouth a* fast a* you could with the other." 1909 found him driving four horse* and a fresno and helping to build the railroad going to Juntura. Later that year thi* young man learned about sheep when he fed them for Butler Brother* near Cairo Junction. Deciding to find out what people were doing in Mon tana drew young Bill away from Nyssa in 1910. He was eager to learn what people meant when they said "har vest.’’ So he farmed and harvested in different part* of Montana, later going to Minnesota, and later farming for eleven year* in Leeds, North Dakota Here he also met hi* bride to be. Miss lens Elizabeth Ernest. "I remember driving cook car. tending camp, harvesting and it wa* all hard work. We slept in the mounds of hay in those days." Wandering feet and the urge to move brought him and his wife and family back to Nyssa in 1928. They bought 160 acres near Adrian and later sold it. Twenty-two acre* near the Cole School in Boise became the home place, but a* Bill wa* feeding cattle in Nyssa and farming, he was never home Mr* Hipp put her foot down and announced "The girl* won't go to high school in Boise and I'm coming to Nyssa. I'm tired of living alone.” Later Bill and Herb Fisher became partners and bought 10.000 acres the other side of Westfall.This venture found the ambitious man living m a tent for two year*. Mr* Hipp refused to join her husband because "The pack rat* were so big they would carry my boot* off at night." remem ber* Bill. Anxious to have her with him. he at last built a 28' x 16’ cinder block cabin with a fire place It was nice and they enjoyed living there after he got rid of the rat* by trapping and getting a dog who just didn't like rat*. After selling the place in Westfall, the couple moved to their home on 16 Green Avenue in Nyssa on Christ mas Day. 1946. He and his lovely Lena lived together for fifty year*. She passed aw.y in 1965. "We had some hard times but they were good time, too." Bill say*. When asked what Nyssa was like when he first came here he say*. "The mud was knee keep to a tall Indian." The Hench Store (which sold everything) was located whe re the Gate City Journal office is. there was a livery stable, the old blacksmith shop wa* where Farmers Feed and Seed is, a saddle and harness shop was where Michaels Pharmacy now sta nds and the Wilson Ditch ran through town. Dr. Sarazin had his office in a little house and kept his horses and buggies in his barn where you now find the Nyssa Co-op. By the radroad tracks stood the old depot and a saloon. In 1905 or 1906 the Boydells operated a General Store in the Old Western Hotel Building. "I've been about every thing but a banker." smiles Bill. "I've been a saloon swamper and washed and filled medicine bottles in 50 degrees below zero in Minne sota. logged, traveled and learned a lot about people and place*. 1 remember sometime in the 1940'* 1 was moving cattle and my horse slipped in the mud and fell on my ankle. It hurt pretty bad but we had to finish the job so I rode all day. When I got home that night I couldn't get my boot off so 1 soaked boot and all and finally got it off. Come in to see Doc" Mauld ing and he took one look at that swollen leg and after a few choice word* and a shake of hi* head, he set my leg." Later that fall "Doc" Marshall wanted me to rule with him and hi» wife in the Legion Parade. We were bv (Continued On Page 6) Lack of funds has caused the largest and most efficient wild horse roundup since the passage of the 1971 wild horse and burro act to be halted. George R. Gurr. Vale District. BLM manager, an nounced today. 255 wild horse* out of a goal of 350 have been gathered out of the rugged Owyhee River break*. 30 miles south of Vale. Oregon, by Vale District wild horse specialist Jerry Wilcox and his twelve-man team. "Each horse we've caught in this roundup has cost about $300.00,” Gurr said WHEN THE LARGER COLT WAS ROPED during the roundup, his smaller buddy decided to join him in captivity rather than break up a great friendship Of his own free «ill. he followed his buddy for over two miles, and stayed with him when they were put into the corral. BLM Photo OSBA Elects Officers, Stunz 2nd Vice President Barbara Klein was elected today as president of the Oregon School Boards Asso ciation at the annual OSBA convention being held here Mrs. Klein becomes the second woman to hold the top position with the school boards. She served as first vice-president of OSBA last year and was second vice- president during 1973-74. A resident of Forest Grove and a nine-year member on the local school board. Mrs Klein has served on numerous local, state, school and civic committee*. Currently she is serving as chairperson of the Oregon School Study Council, i* a. member and past-president of the Greater Portland Metropolitan School Boards Association, and is chairper son of the advisory board for the Forest Grove Youth Service Center. Joining Mrs. Klein as new officer* for the 1975-76 year are first vice-president Jona than Newman and second vice-president Gene Stunz. Newman is a board mem ber from the Portland Public School District ^peeing in that capacity for nine year*. He was chairman of the Portland board in 1971 and 1974 Newman was second vice- president of OSBA last year and was the 1973-74 presi- Salesman Joins Mel Beck Firm dent of the Greater Portland Metropolitan School Board* Association. A partner in the law firm of Hardy. Buttler. McEwen. Weis* and Newman, he co authored and edited "Liberty and the Law," a textbook of case studies on the Bill of Rights. The book is used in Oregon high schools and was a joint project of the Oregon State Bar and the Portland Public Schools. Stunz is from Nyssa, where he has been on the local school board for 15 year*. A director of OSBA last year, he is an attorney in Nyssa. Stunz was board chairman in 1964-65 and servgd a* chairman of the negotiating team for the board in 1973-74. Elected to directors' posi tions for 1975-76 were Leslie Carlsen, board member. Redmond School District; Clayton W. Hannon, board member. Lynch School Dis trict. Kirtland; Waiter Hoff- buhr. board member. Ashland School District; Ric hard Kingsley, board mem ber. Crowfoot School District, and Kenneth N. Knutson, board member. Sheridan School District and Yamhill County Intermediate Educa tion District. Re-elected to the position of director were Donald J. Rice, board member. Doug las County Intermediate Edu cation District: and Carol Williams, board member. Tillamook School District. Conant Faces Grand Jury Claude Leon Conant. J9. Nyssa, has been ordered held for the Malheur County Grand Jury on a charge of first-degree manslaughter. Conant appeared last Tues day before Judge E. Otis Smith in Nyssa Justice Court for a preliminary hearing on the charge and hi* bail of $25.000 was continued. Conant is accused in the October 29 death of hi* wife, Peggy Ann. Internal injuries which the woman allegedly received in a beating at the couple's home near Nyssa were revealed in an autopsy as the cause of her death. County Assessor Provides Booklet Malheur County Assessor Oscar Bratton say* that a new booklet, now available in his office, will help the public better understand his res ponsibilities. Bratton says the 12-page booklet summarizes the pri- nicipal duties of the Assessor as prescribed by law and how these duties fit into the picture of local property taxation tn Oregon. The most important of these duties is estimating the market and special assessed value* of all taxable property and calcula ting the taxes to be paid by each property owner "This publication should clear up some misunder standings about the Asses sor's job," Bratton said, "and I encourage people to pick one up when they are in the area of my office." A long-time Nyssa resident has joined the Mel Beck Real Estate firm as a salesman, and will handle listings on commercial, farm, ranch and home properties. Melvin B Ballantyne came to Nyssa with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Ballan tyne. in 1943. He graduated from Nyssa High School in 1955. served on a mission with the LDS Church in Colorado and New Mexico, and then attended Brigham young University where he graduated in 1962. He married the former Ada Chandler of Weiser and the couple have nine children, and live on Route I. Nyssa. Mel has been farming with his brother David, and has been in the real estate business for the last year, working for Grigg Brothers A Butler of Ontario, before joining Mel Beck. Blood Drawing The Red Cross Blood Drawing held at the Eagle* Hall In Nysaa I* scheduled for Monday, December 1 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Lunch will he served. WEATHER DATE MAX MIN November 19 48 19 November 20 39 21 November 21 43 23 November 22 40 21 November 23 42 32 November 24 45 33 November 25 29 Owyhee Reservoir Storage 11-24 75 536.690 Acre Feet 11-24-74 388.100 Acre Feet Town We take so many things for granted these day* and in our fast changing way of life, nothing seem* impossible to obtain. If you can’t produce the real thing, a synthetic is manufactured. But a person cannot live without blood. It takes real blood to replace real blood. You *ay "h's always available at the hospital or blood bank and beside* they don't need any of mine. " Blood isn't always avadable and the blood bank need* many different types of Mood. Stop, take time and give a pint of blood at the Eagles Hall. Maaday, December 1 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Let's gtve in the spirit of giving, what we so plenti fully have to those who need our help that they may live also. ¥ * * ¥ Honored at OSU Melvin Ballantine shipped to Burns where there are facilities to hold and manage them until they are distributed under the private maintenance program "The costs of the private main tenance program are fixed." Gurr commented. "and currently comprise 20 per cent of the $300 00 cost incurred in the gathering." "We are requesting addi tional funds to enable us to continue with the roundup" Gurr concluded, "the money for the present operation has come directly from our regular range management program and if we do not receive some type of relief, there is no way that we will be able to continue ope rations." Plans have been approved in Washington. D.C. for the Vale District to capture 50 more horse* in the Owyhee break* and 150 in the Jackies Butte area southwest of Jordan Valley Foster homes are being sought for the horses, espe cially older ones. The Burns office BLM has outstanding requests for colts that are a year old but are badly in need of homes for older mares and studs. Anyone interested in providing a home for a wild horse should write the District Manager BLM Burn* Oregon, for information. Crier Local Students A total of 295 Oregon State University juniors have been honored for scholastic accom plishments. The juniors were recog nized for naiing outstanding grades during their first two years at the university. The Junior Accolades program is sponsored by Phi Kappa Phi. national scholastic honor society Juniors honored include Robert and Sylvia Clark, Route 2. Nyssa. Agriculture and Science Majors, respec tively. "which is about as efficient a* possible where we must use mounted rider* to driv the horse* into the trap The horses have bZm CITY CREWS INSTALL NEW LIGHTS for Christmas on Main Street. New lights and decorations were purchased by lhe Nyssa Chamber of Commerce, with chamber members working one evening last week to install the light sockets onto the new wires. Steve Marez and Gene Orr are stringing lights. Rav Page is driving the lift truck, and Dean Winchester is shown directing the operation. Christmas Window Display Contest Set A Christmas window dis play contest will be held in Nyssa this year, with Betty Rieb in charge of the committee. All businesses are encouraged to decorate a Christmas window, and many have committed themselves, according to Mrs Rieb. Prizes will be given to the four best windows, with John Messick in charge of the judging. First prize will be $30. second prize $20. third $15 and fourth prize $5. Judging will take place on December 4. Business firms committed to the window display* are Tom Moore Company, Rag gedy Ann's Pad and Knit Knacks. Merc Department Store. Paulus Jewelry. Rexall Drug. Bracken's Department Store and First National Bank of Oregon Rieb's Foodland. Farmers Insurance. Nolan Field In surance. Owyhee Beauty Shop. Twilight Cafe. Idaho Power Company. Michael's Pharmacy. Coast to Coast Store. Wilson Brothers De partment Store. Nyssa Co-op Supply. Zimmerman Plum bing and Heating. Gambles, and Nyssa Insurance. Bass "76" Server, Jo- hannesen-Adams Motors. M & W Market. U. S. National Bank. Firestone Store. Eastman Insurance. Kassman Chevron, Beauty Nook. Kerby. Danford A Fuson Clinic. Fangen Floral, BAM Equipment Co., Nyssa Auto Parts. Spic A Span Cleaners. Stout Appliance. Olympic. Stunz Lumber. Ideal Gas, and Ron's Shell Service. Well Phase 11 is about underway. Sounds dramatic doesn't it* I'm talking about the construction of gymna sium and auditorium in the rebuilding of the scl^iol If you haven't seen what has been constructed already, drive by and see for yourself. Great things are happening. The new school will indeed be a real blessing. ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ Speaking of blessings, why don't we all count our blessings on this Thanksgiv ing Day. I say bless our Nyssa High School Band and Drill Team and Flag Corps, for the beautiful marching, music and performance they gave at the Fairy Land Parade in Boise Saturday. Bless the Honor Band and Honor Choir for giving good performances at the Honor Band and Choir Contest in Kuna Friday and Saturday. Bless our basket ball team* and wrestling teams as they start their seasons Realize there are many, many bless ings to be thankful for but I think our young people are the most precious of bless ings we. as a town, have. Bless us adults with the courage, and knowledge, and wisdom and the humility to be better examples for them to follow and light their way with the bright lights of success rather than the dark pit of failure. Do Have a “Happy Thanksgiving."