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Page Four Thursday, August 12, 1976 Nyssa Gate City Journal, Nyssa, Oregon Engagement Announced Summertime Card Party * The Malheur Memorial Hospital Auxiliary is spon soring a "Summertime Card Party" to be held at the St. Paul's Episcopal Church so cial hall. 50$ Bower Ave., on Saturday. August 14 at 1:30 p.m. Bridge and pinochle will be in play and there will be a charge of SI.25 per person. This is an informal card party and everyone is wel come to attend. A dessert salad will be served. No special contact is needed. Everyone is invited to come join in the fun. If further information is needed please call Eleanor Browne at 2-3696 or Marie Wilson at 2-2981. Happy Birthday THE ENGAGEMENT OF CAMMEN LOERA to Felipe Martinez has been anounced by her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Jose Y. Loera of Nampa. The bridegroom elect is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jose Ines Martinez of Nyssa. Miss Loera is a graduate of Nampa High School and Boise State University. She is employed at the State of Idaho Law Enforcement Planning Commission. Her fiance was graduated from Nyssa High School and Boise State University. He is employed at the Idaho Department of Employment. The couple is planning an August 28. 1976 wedding at St. Paul's Catholic Church in Nampa. Eagles Aux. Plans Luau The ladies of the Eagles Auxiliary met for a regular meeting at the Eagles Hall on During the business meet ing it was announced the Aerie will hold a Lauau on Saturday. August 28. Mem bers voted to furnish salads for the dinner. There will be a dance following the dinner. The next regular meeting will be held on Tuesday, August 17 at the Eagles Hall at 7:30 p.m. Following the meeting there will be a special program presented by the Order of the Arrow" Indian dancers from Boise. Idaho. Members also voted to sponsor a teenage dance on Friday, August 20. Journal Classified« Bring Results! August 12 - Joanne Hop per. Beth Ann Kassman and Irene Soliz August 13 • Vai Garner. Marcel Bishop, Tammi Fre- deriksen and Kathy Bass August 14 - Ke Abe. Min nie Abe. Gloria Valencia. Virgil Kruse. Kerry Cheney and George Sallee. August IS • Steve Ross. Kirk Savage, Ronnie Gon zalez. Skip Nakashima. Ira Ure, Jr., Ceaser Castro. Mary Sallee. August 16 * Raymond Wi ley. Betty Wilson. Gary Ward and Leann Bair. August 17 ■ Caroline Ven- drell and Grace Munoz. August 18 ■ Steven Rod- riguez. Janet Reece. Willard Draper and Yaeko Shimo- maeda. FIRE CALLS! Nyssa volunteer firemen answered two calls last week. The first was a stubble field burning at American Fine Foods on Thursday night which was quickly controlled. The second was on Friday at the Tony Richter home on North Third. They put out a small accidental fire in the bathroom. The damage was minor. Wer nick Awarded Knight of York Cross Clarence Andrew Wernick of Nyssa has been awarded the designation of Knight of the York Cross of Honour, it was reported today. This honorary degree, highest tn the York Rite of Free masonry. is conferred only on those who have held the highest office in each of the four bodies of the rite. Mr. Wernick becomes one of the comparative handful of about 400 of the over four and a quarter million Freemasons in North America, the Philip pines and Australia to qualify this year. Mr. Wernick served as Master of Golden Rule Lodge of Masons in 1962; High Priest of Zodoc Chapter. Royal Arch Masons in 1963; Master of Baker Council. Royal and Select Masters in 1973; Commander of Baker Commandery. Knight Tem plar. in 1971. He was elected to membership in Oregon Priory and his election confirmed by Convent Ge neral of the Order on August 5. A certificate of member ship has been mailed to him. There are sixty-eight Prio ries of the Order with a present membership of 10.000. ,4nniver»aries August 12 • Mr. and Mrs. Duane Drydale and Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Durfee Aagm 13 . Mr. and Mrs. Glen Walker August 14 - Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wiley August 16 • Mr. and Mrs. Les Robbins Hall is currently based in Tokyo. Japan as a freelance journalist, most often for the Washington (D.C.) Star and liason officer for Howard University. Hall is often requested by diplomatic ser vices because of his language fluency in Chinese, Japanese, German. French and Italian. Mrs. Sahl is a New York City fashion coordinator for Lord and Taylor department stores. Happy Dozen The Happy Dozen Card dub met last Friday after noon with Gnetty Piercy. Guest players were Hazel Schafer. Irma Begeman, Gla dys Newbill and Mary Hatt. Prize winners were Mary Hatt. Mabie Piercy, Thelma Hammon and Hazel Schafer. Owyhee Garden Club The Owyhee Garden Club members will meet at the Fair grounds in Ontario to work on the Fair booth. Tuesday. August 17 at 2 p.m. z IDAHO POWER COMPANY’S 60TH YEAR; Until Idaho Power Company was founded, electric Meanwhile growth in the number of customers, and electric use per customer, reflect directly upon economic developments of this area. More recently electric use has surged with the high cost and threatened scarcity of oil and natural gas. This has been evidenced in the switch to electric heat. New electric pumping loads are adding to the demand. All-hydro until 1974, the Company turned to coal when the Jim Bridger plant began operation. Develop ing additional generation, and meeting the demands of inflation, present problems which can affect every electric user. As your electric supplier, Idaho Power Company continues to apply its best efforts to seek solutions. * NUMBER OF CUSTOMERS: Idaho Power servsd bw than 18.000 customers in 1916, more than 200,000 in 1975. Some 60,000 were added in the laet ten yeare. * RE8IDENTI AL ELECTRIC USE: Average electric nee has increased by almost ten times since 1936, growing from 1,370 kilowatt hours per customer in 1936 to more than 13,000 kwh in 1975. * IRRIGATION PUMPING: The number of scree of electric pumping has almost doubled from 793,000 to 1,500,000 in ten years More than half a million scree were added since 1970. * ELECTRIC HEAT USE: The number of electric heat users has increased more than 3*A times from 9,817 in 1970 to 35,498 in 1975. Another 4,453 were added in the first six months of 1976. * LOW ELECTRIC RATES: Idaho Power ratee are about 40 percent below the national average an th the average cost per kilowatt hour about half what it was 40 years ago in the height of the depreeeion The children of Mr. and Mr«. Alva Amidon will honor them in their 50th wedding anniversary on Saturday after noon. August 14 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. with an open house at the Boulevard Grange. They were married in Ontario at the home of Methodist minister, the Rev. N. H. Lines. They have six grandchildren and six great grandchildren. Their children are Mr. and Mrs. Ray Molenaar. Ontario and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Amidon. Portland. Friends and relatives are invited to attend. Dr. and Mrs. David Sara- zin and family attended the Episcopal family church camp at Cove. Oregon over the weekend. ess Dr. and Mrs K. E. Kerby spent ten days recently at Wallowa Lake. While there. Art and Barbara Bossleman joined them for a weekend. see Virginia Rookstool retur ned Friday evening after visiting in Walla Walla, Othello and Seattle. Wa shington for ten days. Mr. and Mrs. Claude Rookstool brought Mrs. Rook- stool home and visited in Nyssa over the weekend. • • • \ Mr. and Mrs. Glen Mar cum and Sara, and Mr. and Mrs. Max Brittingham and Megan, returned Friday after spending a week at the Oregon Coast. They were at Reedsport, where Glenn's folks. Mr. and Mrs. Murle Marcum are spending the summer. Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Marcum, daughter Sara, and Sally Looney visited their son Bill at La Grande, where he is practic ing with the East team in preparation for the Shrine East-West game Saturday night at Baker. • • • Claude J. Bartholomew and son. Guy. of Santa Rosa, California came for Thunder egg Days, which they en joyed very much. They spent the week with his mother. Mrs. Armitta Bartholomew. They left for home Saturday night, August 7 and arrived home Sunday at 10:30 p.m. HOW WE’VE PROVIDED THE POWER - 1916 - Idaho Power was formed from five financially dis tressed companies. • 1920 * Thousand rebuilt. Springs plant 1921 > Shoshone rebuilt. Falls plant 1927 * American rebuilt Falls plant • • Guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Haroldson last week were their grand daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Budd of Lakeview, California, They spent two days visiting. Their son. Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Haroldson visited on Wednesday and Thursday. A grandson. Mr. and Mrs. Darrell Cook of Firth. Idaho, visited on Wednesday. • • • 1918 - Swan Falls plant rebuilt. 1935 - Twin Falls plant built. 1937 * Upper Salmon units 1 and 2 built. Visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Eastman last week were Mrs. Clyde Whitman and Lillian Lang ford of Mt. Pellet, Idaho. see Following World War II, six hydro projects In the Hagerman to Mountain Home area quadrupled system capacity. 1947 - Upper Salmon units 3 and 4 built. 1948 - Upper Mai ad plant built Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Kiila of Kelso. Washington visited his aunt, Mrs. Do rothy Nolen last week. • • • 1949 - Lower Malad plant rebuilt 1950 - Bliss plant built Mr. and Mrs. W. L. McPartland traveled to We- mme, Oregon in the Mt. Hood area last week where Mr. McPartland attended an administrators work shop at Bowmans Lodge from Mon day to Thursday. They then went to Portland where they visited their daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Friesen retur ning home Sunday. 1952 - C J Strike plant built The Hells Canyon hydro projects again quadrupled system imparity. 1959 - Brownlee plant built 1961 - Oxbow plant built 1968 « Helle Canyon plant built First thermal power: Events Around Adrian a> M> ms 1974 - Jim Bridger #1 built Idaho Power Company A CITIZEN WHEREVER IT SERVES This message paid for by shareholders of Idaho Power Company Amidons Mr. and Mrs. James Baldwin. Jennifer and Erin of Tucson, Arizona have been visiting for several days at the home of her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Gene Stunz. Mrs. Stuart Henigson of Williams burg. Virginia spent the last week in July visiting her parents, the Stunz*. Laurie Stunz of Coos Bay, Oregon came home for a few days to visit with her sisters Suzy Stunz and Betsy Henigson. • • • A report on your electric service reliability in our area was almost unknown. As many as 30 suppliers had attempted to provide service. Idaho Power was formed by consolidating five of them, of which three were bankrupt. The Company began by standardizing rates, which soon started a long decline due to new efficiencies. Plants were improved and new plants built, as shown at the right. To Honor V* I K z ’’ Social Scene Swisher Vacations At McCall Clyde T. Swisher was recently a houseguest of Dr. Ivan Hall and Mrs. Mara Sahl at their summer cottage in McCall. Ivan and Mara are the son and daughter of the late Dr. and Mrs. William W. Hall, former president of the College of Idaho and West minister College. Fulton. Missouri. One highlight of the reunion, first since 1964, was the restoration of a totem pole that Hall and Swisher created in 1946 when they were YMCA campers. When the camp was sold several years ago. the elder Halls requested that the totem pole be removed and relocated on their property. Open House y Mr. and Mrs. Bill Looney, Clifford Looney and boys and David Looney of Eugene went on a fishing trip Wednesday at the Wallowa Mountains. Pishing was very good. They came home Sunday evening. I A ¿ j AU ■ Nedry-Peterson Exchange yows In Portland Judith Ann Nedry and Harry Prager Peterson were married July 10. 1976 at 3 p.m., at Christ Episcopal Church in Lake Oswego. Oregon. The Rev. John Adams Bright officiated the double ring ceremony. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Nedry of Nyssa. Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Peterson, Jr., of Leland. North Carolina, are parents of the bridegroom. Attired in her mother’s wedding gown of cream colored lace, the bride was escorted to the altar by her father. She wore a cream colored picture hat decorated with baby's breath and carried a bouquet of gold, melon, and off-white Peru vian lilies. Tall brass vases containing Peruvian lilies. Oregon grspe. vine maple and mock orange decorated the altar, flanked by brass candelabra. Janet E. Hartwig was her sister's only attendant. She wore a multicolored floor length gown and an off-white picture hat and carried melon and gold Peruvian lilies. Capt Alan Dale Peterson was best man. H. O Peter son, III, and R. Glen Peterson seated guests. All are broth ers of the bridegroom. C. Ed Charman. church organist, played a short concert of classical and contemporary music before the ceremony Processional music was a trumpet fanfare Bach'a Fantaaia in G was chosen as recessional and postlude music Andy Whip ple of Eugene. Ore., was photographer for the wed ding. A reception followed at the Portland Garden Club. Guests enjoyed hot and cold hors d'oeuvres and a variety of miniature French paatriea. The main table was deco rated with Peruvian lilies. Queen Ann'a lace, mock orange blossoms and Oregon grape arranged in a large bronze compote. Paatriea and hors d'oeuvres were served on straw baskets and silver platters. The tables were covered with Indian print tablecloths. Arrangements of vine maple and Oregon grape adorned the mantle and entry hall. Out of state guests in cluded Mr. and Mrs. David Hartwig, Tommy and Sarah, Waco. Tex.; Mrs. H.O.Peter son, Jr., mother of the bridegroom, Leland, N.C.; Mrs. Robert E. Barr, aunt of the bridegroom Wynnewood, Pa.; Capt. Alan Dale Peter son DVM, Ft. Sam Houston, Tex.; R.Glen Peterson, Le land, N.C.; H.O. Peterson. Ill, Wrightsville Beach. N.C.; Mr. and Mrs. Duncan R. Hay. Mill Valley, Calif.; Mr. and Mrs. Peter Heide, Hamilton, Wash.; Mrs. Jerry Riebe, Vancouver, Wash. Guests hurled cauliflower and radishes at the bride and bridegroom as they left the reception. The bridegroom's mother entertained 23 guests and relatives at a wedding brunch Sunday morning, July 11, at the Pettygrove House, a small Portland reataurant. Chicken and almond crepes, accompanied by fresh salad of pineapple, papaya and berries, blueberry muffins, mermosas and coffee were served buffet style. The new couple and their guests were entertained the night before the wedding by Mrs. Emma Ernes, the bride's great aunt, who served a buffet supper on her patio. During the week following the wedding, the Peterson- Nedrys entertained his mother, aunt, and brothers in Portland and the surrounding area. On July 15 the party traveled to Nyssa via Mt. Hood. Timberline Lodge. Madras. Prineville and John Day Friday. July 16. the party visited Owyhee Lake with Mr and Mrs. Dick G. Tensen and enjoyed a barbe cue at the Nedry home that evening. On July 17, the bride's parents hosted a reception for the newlyweds at their Nyssa home. A wedding cake, tea sandwiches, mints, nuts, and beverages were served. Guest of honor was Mrs Britt Nedry. the bride's grandmother from Boise Out of town visitors included Mrs. Emma Ernes of Port land and several members of the bride's high school grsduating class who were in town for their 10 year class reunion The Peterson-Nedrys re turned to Portland on July 18 and are making their home there. The bride is employed at Merrill Lynch, Pierce. Fenner A Smith, Inc. The bridegroom is a quality control engineer at Precision Castparts Corp. The couple plan a wedding trip to the East Coast in the fall. GRANGE NEWS Members of Oregon Trail Grange met In regular session Thursday evening August 5. Grange was called to order by Overseer, Don Somers in the absence of Master Harold Kurtz. Ernie Metcalf and Jim Monroe gave reports on Agriculture. Don Somers reported. Committee thru Progress by Law (CPL). It was discussed pro and con. It was moved and seconded and voted to table the motion until a later date. All members were remin ded of the Fair dates, August 18-21. Each urged to enter land products in Agricultural booths. Lecturer Sadie Metcalf pre sented Don Somers of Idaho Power Co. who gave a Safety Program. A film "Pulse of Life" was shown. Mrs. Mark Morton instructed on mouth- to-mouth resuscitation. Each member tried their practice on "Resuscitation Annie." Everyone expressed their thanks to have this oppor tunity. Two applications for mem bership were petitioned. Insurance Agent, Wilbur Atherton, reported that more accidents were being repor ted by those that had never had an accident. Also the company paid out one and a half times as much as was paid in premiums. The next regular meeting will be September 2, due to Malheur County Fair. A watermelon feed was enjoyed at the end of the meeting.