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Universi*»/ j T Oregon Libr-ary Eugene, Ore. 7ZUC3 X X X X JOURNAL NYSSA *- 70th Year 35th Issue X The Sugar City Nyssa, Oregon Thursday, August 26, 1976 Thunderegg Capital Hospital Board Will Two Street Projects Planned By City Not Resubmit Budget The board of director* of Malheur Memorial Hospital District met on Thursday August 19th to discuss their budget defeat. It was decided to not re submit a budget for voter approval this year. The neat possible election date, if the board were to have another election, would be on September 21. How ever, the county cannot wait to run tai statementa and if the hoapital district passed a Town a / Crier By Pal Savage School bell* will ring out Monday morning, seems it is starting a little early this year. Most of the young people I have talked with arc aniiou* to go back however, a* many arc now asking. ‘"Whai can I do today?" The high school student* are eager to take occupancy of their new building, as are the lunior high. Even though the junior high will occupy the old high school building, it has been remodeled and given a new look I am sure everyone will enjov being in regular school buildings in stead of moving around from building to building • • • Don't you think the beau tificalion spot north of the town that was provided by the Town and Country Garden Club is a pretty and worthwhile attraction? I feel it i* like an oasis amid all the weed* that grow around the road and buildings out there It make* the entrance to town much better looking and shows someone take* the time and effort to care a little. These women planted and landscaped this project and still drag their hoses out there to keep it watered and do the weeding. In the building stages they had help from George Fanning* Indus trial Art* Class and the Nyssa Chamber, and Lion* Club. They want to enter thia project in the National Final*, so. if you appreciate their efforts and concern let them know by writing Mac Schire man. 208 North 4th St.. Nvssa. • • • Have you noticed the bright new look of the Arrowhead Motel? If you haven't, look the neat time you go by as it has a new paint job of yellow and brown. It looks exceptionally nice and I understand the new owner*. Don and Bea Hawkins, have done a lot of remodeling inside. It's nice to have these newcomer* in town and I am sure many appreciate the renovation job • • • There are many in town who have never driven up or down the driveway at Mal heur Memorial Hospital, but for those who have, you must remember how terribly bum py and full of pot holes it was. Well not now. as it has been paved. Many thanks from many people. • • • Congratulations to the winner* at the Malheur County Fair. This requires ( many hour* of hard work to get these project* ready for exhibiting. From the looks on some of the kids faces and the tears it appears that the hardest part of all i* at sale time despite the monetary benefits They are ail to be commended and thanked for taking time to participate in a part of rural America called the "County Fair.” • • « School starts and harvest is underway. so there will be a lot of traffic around school areas and around town. Please drive carefully as these youngsters are not fully aware of the definition of the word Caution, but you as driver* are intelligent enough to know It mean* to be on one's guard, or to take care. So let's take care of our youngster*. Drive With Cau tion. levy in September it would necessitate the county mak ing another complete sepa rate tai run. Beaide* doub ling the county's work, the board felt there would be a negative reaction by property owner* if they were to receive an additional tai notice from the hospital district. Tai revenue* within the districts' six percent imi tation should be sufficient to maintain operation for seve ral months; but additional operating money will be required to complete the fiscal year. Also, physician recruitment and building and equipment improvement pro grams. will be severely limited until funding can be provided. The Board of Directors decided to reconvene its budget board in October for fiscal year 1977-78. A request for additional funds will be submitted to the budget board with the recommends tion that a budget be prepared for submission to the voter* on the January 11 election date. An early approval by voter* would allow the hospital district to borrow against the tai revenues to be received, if current fiscal year operating funds prove to be insufficient to complete the fiscal year. Corn Cannery Goes Full Steam Ahead Nyssa's American Fine Foods corn cannery churned it* way into action last week and is now steaming along 20 hours a day. The corn “campaign” will last about one more month and will end up producing nearly one million cases of whole kernel and cream-style corn. The factory is a huge and noisy set-up which runs on conveyor belts, huge steamy machines and manpower. In one of theae pictures, (in the middle) you can see the stacks of corn which are fed into the factory by these conveyor belts. It is here they are separated into whole kernel and cream style corn. The larger kernel corn goes into whole kernel. Inside, the corn is mechanically shucked. This is the first year that these machines have been in operation. They have reduced the number of persons employed by American Fine Foods. The mechanical shuckers are the large "V-shaped" machines visible near the top of the large photo- Rieb's Hire New Manager Dave and Betty Rich of Rieb's Foodland announce the hiring of Gary Harper, recently of Caldwell, as manager of the store replac ing Doug Patterson, who is moving to Salt Lake City. Harper is formerly from Kansas City. Kansas where he gained his grocery expe rience working for a large supermarket. Bob'* Thrift- wav. He is a graduate of high school in Turner. Kansas, and served four years with the U. S. Marines, mostly in overseas service. He and his wife Jeanette have one daughter. Shanna, aged lb months, and plan to move to Nvssa as soon as they can find suitable hous ing i* shucked, cobbed and cooked it is squirted into empty cans which roll down a roller-coaster-type chute. Just after the corn is plopped into the can. the can is topped. A woman watches over this process and one next to her (the one visible in the lower photograph) places lids in a machine which seals the cans. Finally the cans are brought to the warehouse where they are labeled (American Fine Foods labels many different brand* of corn), boxed and stored for shipment. School Board Renews Liability Coverage City of Adrian Grant Approved Ihe City of Adrian has received official confirmation from the Federal Govern ment that a grant in the amount of $250,000 has been approved to develop a well, reservoir and pipeline into the city, according to Mavor George Cartwright The approval of this grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Develop mem (HUD) is conditional upon the completion of an environmental review. Cartwright said thai this is the result of two years of work on the pari of city officials and Bob Taisev. assistant director of the IDA ORI Regional Planning and Development Associa tion. Taisev will assist the citv in developing the re quired environmental review Tentative plans call for drilling a test well on the George DeHaven propertv west of the city. Mr. and Mrs. DeHaven have agreed to give a parcel of land I ?5‘ \ ISO’ to the ettv for a well site and reservoir. Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Mackey also gave the eilv a potential well sue west of the Adrian Council Meets Sept. 2 The City of Adrian will hold its second reading of an ordinance to establish the rules and regulations of the sewage system, and the installation of private sewers to the city sewer lines. This is a regular meeting of the city council to be held next Thursday, September 2. at 8 p m. and the public is invited to attend. 15* Per Copy DeHaven property, but if water is found on the latter property it will be less expensive to the city. Can wright said. There is a possibility that both properties will be used. Engineer* say that three or lour wells may be needed for sufficient water The en gineering firm of CH2M Hill is advising the city on the proper methods o develop an adquaic water supply, .mil city officials are proceed ing with the necessary steps to complete the project Nyssa Police Hire Officer Slide Show For Onion Growers I hi Soulhwi-v ld.i i. Mai licui i oiinti Onion Growers XssiKiaiionv »ill sponsoi slide show ol lii onion crop ill thi N. > $ ork .1 no Michigan pi.Hluviion area Ibis is being presented st that onion growers can gel a first hand look at whai thi onions look like in these maior onion production areas lhe presentation will take place at VIp's Cafe In Ontario al 8t<M) p.m. on Tuesdav. August J|. Stephen Buchtel Nissa Police Officer. Scott lefferies resigned August 16. and will be moving to Utah whete he will enroll in Law School at BYU Officer lefferies has been employed b\ the Police Department since August of 1975. His replacement will be Stephen Buchtel, who has been employed bi the City since June of this sear as a code enforcement officer, funded through CETA. Mr Buchtel is a recent graduate of TVCC and holds an Associate Degree in Law I ntorcement. Train-Cycle Crash Claims Nysscr John Igieles Padilla, and Jose Alcaras Garcia |s both of Nvssa. died in a motorcycle train accident ' p in. Fridav at the crossing of Alameda Avenue and the Union Pacific-Burns track near Ontario. State Police investigated the accident w EAU I ER Ihm •8 las. \iljt IS \llg 20 21 Ami j » IM ’1 ?4 is ». 1 h i • S ’’s M ’ Prec. Mln. 46 4' 4" 48 5b -ih 15 54 .05 54 i rvoir Sti »rage 60 Acre Feet ’ sO Acn Feet "4 "9 ‘A) 9J '4 'M Mu 1- The Nyssa School Board took care of some insurance business Monday night when they accepted a bid for liability insurance coverage and appointed a new insu rance agent of record. The Hartford Insurance Company bid $5,511 to extend their current policy for one year. Last year's coverage cost $J.J01. but W. L. McPartland, school su perintendent and Adnanna Kunkel, a school board member both mentioned how lhe Ontario school district's policy had tripled in price just recently. It was the only bid made and while school board members were upset that they only had one bid. they felt little could be done. “It is increasing)» difficult to get liability insurance. " Gene Stunz. a board member, said. He said many municipalities have had trouble getting any insurance coverage at all. This w as the first year that (he Nyssa school district had to open up insurance cove rage to bids. Until this year they divided the insurance coverage among the four agents in town. However, new Oregon laws require that all insurance policies over $5,000 be open to bids and advertised in the local paper. Ml insurance policies over $10,000 must be advertised in a statewide journal and be open to bids To meet the higher than expected cost the School Board added $1,500 from their emergency fund to the $4,000 they had already allotted for liability insurance coverage. The Board then named Jim Robinson of Nvssa as the new insurance agent of record. I he agent of record has more work to do now than ever before because he must orepare advertising for bids as well as advise the Board on insurance matters. This concerned the Board because the new agent must, in Board Chairman Bill Schilling's words, "solicit bids from his competitor* and he may not get the contract.” Robinson knew this and said. "It could be a whole lot of work for nothing,” under the new rules. But. he continued, the possible com missions from sales weren't of overriding importance. He fell it was a "community service.” much like working on the School or Hospital Boards. After Robinson was voted in as agent of record, the Board expressed its appre ciation for the service Ber nard Eastman has put in as agent of record for over 15 years. Two street improvement projects are being proposed for the Nyssa commercial districts which will eipidite and benefit farm and truck delivery. Funds for the con struction will be sought from the Oregon State Highway Division and from Economic Development Administration First on the list is a street widening and realignment at the west end of the railroad underpass where First Street jog*. The city owned parking lot on the south side of the underpass can be cut away about 15 feet to allow truck* to turn from Main Street to First without leaving their own lane of traffic. Two posts and fencing of the underpass would have to be removed, needing State Highway ap proval. On the north side, only a portion of the sidewalk would be removed and one light pole. No right-of-way would need to be purchased. Traffic has increased on the south side since two weigh scales were installed on Commercial Street. Coat is estimated at ap proximately $9,000. A second project is to be submitted to the Oregon Highway Division for inclu sion in the Off-Systems- Grant program which is paid 78 per cent by the federal fund* distributed by the state agency and 22 percent local match. This street paving and widening project on Commercial Avenue between Third and Ninth Streets would benefit the truckers who must travel the now unpaved area for weighing and for delivery at the onion packing plants. This project should qualify as a farm-to-market road with unusual traffic and not need local property owner match ing funds. Nyssa had pre viously received $25,000 in small city grant highway and street funds which can be used for the 22 percent match on this project. Henry Schnei der. city manager said. The total cost of the project for widening, paving and curb ing of 2000 feet of the street is estimated at 865.000. City Seeks Funds To Improve Sewers Nyssa City Manger Henry Schneider is preparing three improvement project pro posals for submission to Ida- Ore Development Commis sion in Weiser for considera tion in the new public work* economic development funds to be available this fall. First on the list is a sewer improvement project which will involve building three lift stations (pumps) to move the sewerage to the treatment plant. Two are at the edges of the city in areas which have little slope and which Land Con servation and Development Commission (LCDC) plan- Heart Saver Van Here Today The Oregon Heart Asso ciation "Heart Saver" van will be in Nyssa Thursday (today) from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the First National Bank parking lot. The Heart Saver Van is a mobile testing and education center, and has one job: to travel the State of Oregon, helping to identify people with potential heart prob lems. and to assist in motivating them to seek medical evaluation from their physician. the Heart Saver Van will be under the direction of Mrs. Jane Fonda. RN. and is equipped to do blood pres sure screening, electrocardio gram (EKG) screening, re cord medical history, and instruct the public about the prevention and control of heart disease. Oregon Secretary of State candidate Norma Paulus (second from right) was a Nyssa visitor last Friday, and is shown talking to Joe Hobson. Sal Morgan (left) and Irene Hobson. Mrs. Paulus is a Republican, and is completing her third term in the Oregon Legislature. She is an attorney, as is her husband William, and they have two children, ages 14 and 12. Norma Paulus is interested in Eastern Oregon, having been raised in Burns, and is a graduate of Burns High School. She attended ning has determined will be the direction* of future growth of the city. The need for the third pump is perhaps mote critical. Schneider believe«. It will be placed at the railroad underpass to boost the flow toward the treatment plant at the river edge. "We were having some trouble there and pumped it out last week." Schneider said. In another effort to improve sewer service, the city has made a manhole opening at the treatment plant for septic tank pumpers to empty into. "Such pumpers need a place to dump and we are not forbidding them but we do want to be able to control the flow through the plant.” be said. The city council is being asked to consider a new rate schedule for such dumping. "The city charges residents approximately $21 a year for sewer service and septic tank dumpers should be paying a similar amount, we believe." Schneider said. Cost of the lift station project is esti mated at $85,000.00. Two other projects on the EDA request list include improvement of the First Street curbing and turn onto Main Street for an estimated $9,000 and construction of a metal building to house the fire station for about $41,292. "We are looking toward the day when the ambulance can be housed here instead of at the hospital," be said, "as well as the time, when we will be adding more fire trucks.” Willamette University Law School while serving as secretary to the Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, and was admitted to the Oregon State Bar in 1962. Accompanying Mrs. Paulus on her Eastern Oregon trip was Robert Hamilton, her political campaign advisor; George Shunk, campaign aide; and Teddy Skillern. who is an international award winner in Calligraphy, and who has done the design work for posters and advertising. She is accompanying Norm* Paulus as a traveling companion and aid*.