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/ Page Two Nyssa Gat« City Journal, Nyssa. Oregon Thursday. January 8, 1976 Guest Speaker Slated Nyssa Gata City Journal Dirich Ned»»......... ................... Editor and Publisher Reae Van BRjouw. Pat Savage............. ...................Office Maaager, Newt Margaret NWry.... i a ••••••••••••••••••• eSsctolg CJrctBtaktÈa® Staff Rath Kltaàeaberi 1............................... Prodartfen LacRte Callaban.' » a a a a a a amaam*aa»aa>r<^WKWW Piada cira Published Every Thanday at Nysaa, Oregon 97913 Second class postage paid at Nyssa. Oregon 9'’913 under act of Congress of March 3. 1879 Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association NATIONAL NEWSPAPER SUBSCRIPTION RATES Malheur County. Oregon, and Payette and Canyon Counties. Idaho; One Year Two Years $ b.00 $11.00 Elaewbere In the U.S.A. One Year..................... $ 7.00 Two Years $13.00 1975 Events We hope you will enjoy reading the highlights of 1975 as presented in this week's issue of The Journal. These were by no means all of the items of importance during the past year, but recap the important items that appeared on the front Page It's revealing when doing this feature, to realize how many people get involved in the life of our community. Some tragedies, but overall many people doing many things for our progress and continued existence. It is also revealing just how fast a year goes by. Starting with January, events took place that seemed like only yesterday, and as they are recapped they form a chronological history of our small community. Take the story of our school rebuilding. The school board proposes a bond issue, later it is approved by the voters. Then we get into the plans, and later the awarding of bids on Phase I and Phase II. All of these things fit neatly into place in the planned order of things, and the only thing left out are the many meetings and countless hours put in by board members, building committee members, administrators and architects before all the pieces fit into place. Next year, in recapping these events, we will be able to report the awarding on bids on Phase III. people moving into new buildings, dedications, and the pieces of lumber, masonry and hardware all forming our new schools. And so it goes throughout our history of the year. New councilmen being seated, new chamber officials taking over, new students going to boys and girls state, new teachers being hired, and the cycle goes on. What we don’t report in this feature, and what in our mind is the most important of all. are the new babies, the engagements, the marriages, and the deaths. A community newspaper like ours is people-oriented, and in almost any issue of the Journal, a reader can find more names of people doing more things, big and small, than we would find in the metropolitan newspapers where "things" become more important than people, and especially "little people.” Speaking of names, this job was done with 1975 issues spread out on the dining room table while watching two ball games. If names like Kenny Stabler. Mean Joe Greene. Franco Harris, Roger Staubuck and Ron Jaworski slip into the column, it is only coincidental, and a symptom of "boob tube" fatigue. Now we are in the Bicentennial Year. TV programs, newspaper and magazine articles are recalling the great history of our past 200 years. What a wonderful opportunity to refresh our memory of the great history of this country, and to realize what a great country this is. Starting from scratch only a relatively few years ago, we now have 215.000.000 people in this country. All but a small few. percentage wise, are doing their jobs, raising their kids, paying their bills, and performing the tasks that make a democracy work. Perhaps our biggest job of all is to figure out how to make these “few" realize their responsibilities. Editor. The Journal: "Both Barrels" I pledge allegiance to the Declaration of Independence and to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights of the United State of America and to the freedoms for which they stand. If other alternatives fail and the need anses I then pledge myself to the forve to arms to defend my neighbor or myself that these consti tutional liberties shall not be confiscated from us by any foreign power or any colonial style police state commission government created within I do not recognize that under the Constitution and Bill of Rights of the United States of America that the Oregon legislature has any right to create or the Oregon Supreme Court any right to sustain any council of govern ments such as C.R.A.G. or a Land Conservation and De velopment Commission or any other colonial style police state government of such nature. I pledge to hold any tyrant who would create or enforce or any tory who would accept or condone such police state governments fully accoun table and reprehensible for their actions. In defense of the Consti tution and the Bill of Rights and to ensure that my constitutional freedoms shall not be forcibly taken from me, I further pledge I will not allow my firearms to be registered or confisticated from me At this time 200 years ago the cause of freedom ap peared very grim—a dedi cated people, with God's help, gave us what we had up to yesterday. Let us rededicate the year of 1976 to eliminating these cancers from our government and let freedom ring! /»/ Eldon Austin, pres. Clackamas County Rural Landowners and Home Ow ners Association Route 2. Box 369 Molalla. Oregon 97038 • • • Editor, The Journal: I wish to renew my sub- senption to the Journal for 1976. enclosed you will find my check for $7.00. 1 enjoy your paper so much. Al though I have lived here since 1961, Nyssa still seems like home to me. We lived there so long. Sincerely, Mrs. L. H. Larkin. Route 1, Box 281-A Monroe. Oregon. 97456 THANK YOU I I wish to take this opportunity to thank all my many friends for cards, flowers, visits and prayers, during the time of my illness. Boyd Wilson The Birch Log Paying for New York City by John F. McMeneu Belmont. Mateachutettf — Federal money is now flowing into New York City under new legislation This means that Americans in Kan sax. Idaho. Alabama, and elsewhere are footing the bills for New York's extravagances It seems as though there is no limit to what the American people can be forced to finance Back in October. President Ford insisted that he was "fundamentally opposed" to the use cf federal funds to bail the city out of its troubles He said that doing so would encourage the continuation of "politics as usual" in New York, that it would set a "terrible precedent” for other cities, and that the primary beneficiaries would be "New York officials who would escape re sponsibility for their past folly.” All of which makes good sense, but al) of which was forgotten when Congress passed and Mr Ford signed the landmark legislation to keep the city from de faulting New York’s Extravagances The city is in financial straits for a number of reasons For instance, the pay scale for its work ers is the highest in the nation And the pension program, permitting retirement on half pay for many workers after only twenty years of service, is eating up a huge chunk of the budget Also, welfare now consumes an enormous S3 5 billion each year Another extravagance is tuition-free education for 275,000 students at the twenty branches of the City University Comparisons have shown that it costs New York City $1,446 per capita to deliver the same services provided by Atlanta for $660, Chicago for $715, and Philadelphia for $731. Typical of the reasons for this huge difference is that New York's city-run garbage collection system costa $45 per ton of refuse, while private contractors in San Francisco. Boston, and Minneapolis do the job for half the cost While spending continues to skyrocket in New York, high taxes have forced hundreds of thousands of taxpayers to flee And the com bination of soaring taxes and rent controls has led to the actual abandonment of thousands of buildings by their owners. Reduced income for the city is only one serious consequence Still another huge chunk of New York City's fiscal nightmare is what the politicians call "debt service." Others call it interest on loans Such interest now consumes an incredible $1.8 billion annually, and the figure rises steadily each year The Bankers A key to understanding why the nation is being forced to shoulder New York City's debt is to know who holds the city’s $14 6 billion in debtedness It turns out that over fifty large national banka are heavily — and maybe vitally — dependent on keeping the city solvent Two of those banka, Chase Manhattan and Citibank (both Rockefeller-owned), hold $2 billion of this debt. A few months ago, when President Ford was sensibly saying no to federal aid for the city, his Vice President was singing a different tune In a major address. Nelson Rockefeller strongly fa vored Congressional action to rescue the city He did not. of course, stress the fact that his family’s banks would suffer terribly if the city defaulted It makes no sense for lowans. Californians, and Vermonters to help New York City overpay its employees, provide free college education to thousands, and spend $65 million per week in welfare But it does make sense for powerful men, like the Rockefellers, to bleed all Ameri cana while they continue to luxuriate, and while the federal government which they control gains additional power over America and Americans The ultimate result of employing such a means to protect fooliah cities from their own folly is first to fill the nation with foolish cities, and then to concentrate all governmental power in Washington Federal aid to any city is wrong and must be rejected € 1975 ThrJohn Htrch Kreturrn Paid for by E.O.M. (503) 372-3742 American Opinion Magazine on sale now at local grocery stores. At Methodist Church United Methodist Church is privileged to have, as a guest speaker this Sunday, the Rev. Carl Ma son. district superintendent of the Western District of the Oregon Idaho Conference of the United Methodist church. The Rev. Mason is a native Oregonian, graduating from Willamette University in 1940. He attended and graduated from Garrett Se minary in Evanston. Illinois, as well as obtaining a Masters Degree from North western University at the same time. Before the Rev. Mason and his wife. Loella. moved to Salem, he served THE INNER LIGHT, gospel singing group will be appearing at the Assembly of God Church in New Plymouth. Sunday. January 11. at 7 p.m. Members are from left. Dan Bright. Gwen and Doyle Snyder. Dan Hammond. Shirley Farley and Ralph Pierce. ---------- OBITUARIES^ Mildred A. Graham Larene Beckstead Services for Mildred Ann Graham. 69. Route 1. Eagle, who died Sunday. January 4, 1976, ill a Boise nursing home, were conducted Wed nesday at Relyea Chapel by the Rev. Don Campbell of the Methodist Church. Interment was at Dry Creek Cemetery. She was born January 17, 1906, in Crossville. Tenn. She moved to Buhl in 1918 and resided there until 1945. She graduated from Buhl High School. She married Reuben Graham July 17, 1926 in Twin Falls. They moved to Adrian. Oregon in 1945 and lived in that area until 1956 when they moved to Dry Creek near Eagle. She was a member of the Methodist Church and the New Hope Club. Surviving are her husband. Reuben, of Eagle; a son Gary A. Graham, of Eagle; a daughter. Mrs. Harold (Mar gie) Byard. Boise; three sisters. Mrs. Mabie Piercy. Adnan. Oregon. Mrs. Madge Harmon. Buhl, and M*s Myrtle Lee Kepner of Hono Services for Larene Beck stead. 57, Nyssa, who died Friday, January 2, 197b at the Malheur Memorial Hos pital were conducted at 2 p.m.. Monday at the Lien- kemper Chapel. Interment was at Nyssa. Larene Ure Beckstead was born November 30. 1917 at Roy. Utah. She married Clifford Beckstead m Farm ington. Utah. September 7, 1940. They lived in Ogden. Utah before moving to Nyssa in 1946 She is survived by her husband. Clifford. Nyssa; two sons. Dale and Don. both of Nyssa; one sister. Iretta Kliewer. Riverside. Calif.; two brothers, Bert and Marvin Ure. both of Ogden. Utah; four half-sisters. Ma mie Jensen and Evelyn Oxnam of Nyssa. Doris Underwood and Hazel Wolfer of California; two half-bro thers. Melvin Sidwell of Shelley. Idaho and Ira R Ure. Sr.. Mesa. Arizona, and three grandchildren. lulu. Hawaii; a brother. Woody Thurman. Carson City. Nevada; three grand sons, three granddaugh ters, four great-grandchil dren and several nieces and nephews. CARD OF THANKS Edward Peterson Edward Peterson, 58, pas sed away on Wednesday. December 31, 1975. He was a World War II veteran and had been an employee of the City of Nyssa. He was born January 13, 1917 in Nyssa, Oregon. He is survived by one brother. Bemey Peterson, of Kennewick. Washington; th ree sisters. Jessey Himrrwd of Seattle, Wash., Marcella Jones of Vancouver. Wash., Agnes Shipley, Parma. Idaho Services were Friday at the Lienkaemper Chapel in My ssa. Interment was in the Nyssa cemetery Our heartfelt thanks to all who extended I comforting sympathy and help in our recent sorrow I For the floral offerings and other kind- nesscs, we are i deeply grate- ful. A special thanks to Father Robert Simard for the beautiful service. —The Jesse Norman family Dell Norman family Robert Norman family HOURS: 9 to 12 noon 4 2 to 5 p m.-Monda* thru Friday. 10-12 Saturday. Optometnrti Dr. John East) J87 S.W. 4th Ave., Ontario. Oregon Phone «89-8017 Dr. A. N. Bonde 7 North 2nd Street. Nyssa. Oregon Phone 372-3747 TREASURE VALLEY ANIMAL HOSPITAL Phone 372 2251 Dr. B.E. Rosa Nyssa. 372-5257 Dr. Robert Derby Parma 722-6537 "Be a follower of the Christ—not an Imitation of any man.” Son Shiners To Appear The Son Shiners will appear in a concert at the Fruitland Free Methodist Church. Sunday. January 11, at 7 p.m. Refreshments will be ser ved. following the concert. FAITH LUTHERAN CHURCH NOTES Thursday, January 8 • Confirmation da»». 6:30 p.m. Saturday, January 10 - Blue Mountain Conference Convention at Zion Lutheran Church in La Grande Sunday, January il • Sunday School, 9:45 am. Worship Service 11 a.m. Wednesday, January 14 Choir Rehearsal. 6:30 p.m a » s When you plan year budget, read St. Lukes Gospel, Chapter 19. Park Avenue Baptist Church Everyone is welcome (O attend services at this Bible teaching church. Sunda* Services • Sunday school classes for all ages, 10 am. Worship Service • in the Sanctuary with the message by Pastor Dale Mitchell. 11 a.m. Evening Service ■ Mes sage and fellowship, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday Evening * Bi ble Study and prayer at the church with choir practice afterward. 7:30 p.m Youth meeting, 7:30 p.m I would like to thank all my friends and neighbors for the cards, flowers, visits, mes sages and many other kind nesses during my stay at the hospital. Being remembered in such a nice way means a lot more than just thank you can say. Thanks also io Dr. David Sarazin and Dr. Tom Fuson and the nursing staff at Malheur Memorial Hos pital for their eicellent care. With sincere appreciation for your thoughtfulness. Gene Chester I wish to thank the Nyssa Police Department, espe cially Pancho Rios, for quick action in locating my truck that was taken from a building site at 917 Third Street, last Saturday. Carl Lassiter THANK YOU I Physicians A Surgeons Dial 372 2241 Thursday, Januar* 8, Spe cial prayer time together. 7:30 p.m. Suaday, Morning Prayer at the Church, 7 a.m. Christian Education Clas ses. 9:45 a.m. Children's Church. II a.m. Worship Service with mes »age by Pastor Russell. 11 a.m. Choir practice. 6:45 p.m. Evening Gospel Hour. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Januar* 13, La dies Bible Study will meet with Mrs. Kay Rodríguez, 9:30 a m. Wednesday, January 14, Ladies Inspirational Fellow ship Time (L.I.F.T.) will have the first meeting this season at the home of Cleta Saunders. 10 a.m. Award Ceremony for Cara van children during the Midweek Service. 7:J0 p.m ess United Methodist Churches at Junction City Riverview. Lebanon. Sunnyside, (in Port land). Forest Grove and Springfield. His present res ponsibilities entail the spiri tual and administrative over sight for 4« United Metho- Re*. Cart Mason The Rev Mason is in Nyssa as pari of the Cabinet meetinu of the Bishop and five district superintendents for the Ore-Ida Conference You arc invited to meet with these men Saturday. 4 to 5:30 pm. at the United Metho dist Church parlor The Annual Meeting of St. Paul's Episcopal Church will take place following the 11 a m. Euchanst at which the Rev Warren Sapp will be Celebrant, and the Rev. Tish Croom. Deacon The meeting itself, which will follow a light sandwich luncheon. will include the election of new members of the Bishop's Committee, the board which is responsible for the ongoing program and oversight of the congrega lion's business affairs be tween annual meetings Sun day's plans also include the screening of the motion picture ''One in the Spirit" which features the develop ment of a team ministry. This documentary is filmed on location in Alaska, with Lowell Thomas, rating. THANK YOU I THANK YOU I Professional Directory Nazarene Church News dist Churches in Weitern Oregon, as well a« Pastoral responsibilities for 41 minis- ter» in thal »ame area. He and hi» wife are the parenls of two and grandparent» of The Malheur Memorial Hospital Auxiliary wishes to thank the following for their generous gifts to the Nursing Home Christmas Party held December 22. Mrs. Cleda Blair, the Nyssa Police Department, Raggedy Ann's Pad and the Park Avenue Baptist Church. Malheur Tattler Residents of the Malheur Memorial Nursing Home and their guests were treated to a puppet show the evening of December 29. Mrs. Karen Robinson, Occupational Ther apist of Ontario and her two charming assistants, one of which was her six year old daughter, Trudy, were the puppeteers. Everyone en joyed the show and were then served punch and cookies by the Hospital Auxiliary. IX How Io turn $1000 into $1450. All you have to do in invest a minimum of Sl.OtMi in the First Investment Certificate at First National Bank of Oregon. Anil after nix years at 7W% annual interest, you'll have earned $450 on your original $1,000 investment Invest $10.000. earn $4.500 in six years. First Investment Ortifitetes can be purchased for $1.000 on up to $100,000 - at a guaranteed 7'/i% annu ally for six years The interest on your First Investment Certificate will lie sent to you quarterly. Or we can deposit it automatically into any First National chicking or regular savings account. Whatever'» easiest for you. With a minimum $4.000 Certificate, we c an even send your interest to you monthly. Federal law does require a sulistantial interest penalty for earlier withdrawals. Hut if for some reason you need cash, your First Investment Ortificate in excellent collateral for a loan at a rate only 2% higher than the rate on your certificate. (X course, you can invest less money for shorter |>eriods of time, if you wish We have many other plans that can also earn you some very interesting interest The Mainer you invest your $1,000 in a First Investment Certificate. the sooner it will start making you that $450 So slop by the First National branc h in your neighlairhcaal fcalay, and ask alaiut First Investment Certificates X b
