Thursday, October 14, 1976
Nyssa Gate City Journal, Nyssa, Oregon
OUT OF
It ’s a good day to take home
THE PAST
10 YEARS AGO
30 YEARS AGO
Mr*. Wyatt Smith wa*
honored with an all-day party
last Thursday in observance
of her retirement from duties
as a switchboard operator at
Mountain States Telephone
Company in Payette.
The 20-year honoree began
working for Malheur Home
Telephone Company in Nyssa
during February 1946 and
continued here until May
1953 when the utility cut over
to dial.
Henry Jenkin* of Nampa
and Art Hann of Nyssa have
purchased the Thompson Oil
Company from Jesse and
Robert Thompson and have
taken possession of the
business.
Mr. Jenkins and Mr. Hann
will continue to operate the
business under the name of
Thompson oil Company.
The Thompsons sold the
Adrian Oil Company to Bob
Webster, who has been
manager of the Adrian
business since its establish
ment about a year ago.
Webster was employed by
Thompson Oil in Nyssa for a
few year* before moving to
Adrian.
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Mis* Barbara McPartland
and Tom Sallee, Nyssa High
School graduates of 1958,
were the first local students
to place as fins lists in Merit
Scholarship competition.
Miss McPartland was gra
duated in 1962 from Wil
lamette University with a
bachelor of science degree in
sociology. She worked one
year at the State Mental
Hospital in Salem and one
year at Henderson Hospital
in England. She was granted
a master* degree in social
work from the University of
Michigan in Ann Arbor in
1965. She received a grant
from the National Institute of
Mental Health and is now
working in a group therapy
program at the State Hospital
in Kallamazoo, Michigan.
She is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. W. L. McPartland
Sallee received hi* ba
chelor of science degree in
1962 from the California
Institute of Technology at
Pasadena. He studied at the
University of California in
Berkley and was granted his
masters degree in science in
1964. He received his doctor»
degree in 1966 at the
University of Washington in
Seattle. At the present time
he is assistant professor of
mathematics at the Univer
sity of California. His parents
are Mr. and Mrs. George
Sallee.
20 YEARS AGO
Six more candidates* pe
titions were filed on Thurs
day and Saturday of last week
to bring a grand total of
eleven persons who will seek
four positions on the city
council at the general elec
tion. November 6.
Those filing Thursday were
Paul House, incumbent coun
cilman and mayor since
January 1955, and Rex
Voeller, manager of Nyssa
theatre.
Last Saturday saw peti
tions filed for Glenn Mc
Ginnis, North Board of
Control employee; A. Chad
wick, owner and operator of
Nyssa Food Center; Joe
Dority. operator of Dority
Welding Service and Jesse
Rigney, member of North
Board personnel.
First to file for city council
post was Lauren Wright.
Union Pacific office clerk.
Petitions were also filed for
E. A. Gu* Liming, Boise
Payette Lumber Co. manager
Walt Walker Low, incum
bent councilman and head
bookkeeper and office ma
nagerat Amalgamated Sugar
Co. and Grant Rinehart, local
accountant and former city
clerk.
Journal Clasiified«
Bring Results!
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PRICES EFFECTIVE: OCT. 14,15,16
40 YEARS AGO
Transients will not be
certified for WPA work this
winter, but preference will be
given to local people, the
members of the Malheur
County Relief Committee
decided at a meeting held in
the local city hall Wednesday
night. Committee members
present at the meeting were
Mrs. Dick Tensen, Chas.
Flegel. E. H. Brumbach and
T. C. McCoy.
Five new applications for
old age assistance were
received, and three were
approved and two rejected.
Three applications for CCC
work were approved and two
rejected. Three more candi
dates are needed to fill the
County’s CCC quota.
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Pork Loin
ROAST
Thrifty
SLICED
BACON
50 YEARS AGO
Pud Long is the champion
trapper of this neck of the
wood*. In three week» he
trapped 53 coyotes and 15
badgers, and he had just
returned from a honeymoon
trip, at that. No telling what
he could do under normal
conditions. Pud expects to
realize about $10 apiece for
the coyotes, which will net
him a nice little sum.
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Word has been received
from Charley Newbill, who
recently went to California,
that he has signed up to play
indoor baseball. Charles is an
artist at any kind of baseball
and he will show the Native
Sons some of the fine points
of the game.
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I Country Style
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■ PORK
(CHOPS
EGGS
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Nabisco
Kingman Kolony News
CRACKERS
59e
1 lb. box
COOKING OIL ««-
1
Betty Crocker Blueberry
MUFFIN MIX
1316 ox.
SUGAR
FLOUR
4 b. box
25 b. bag
PEACHES »«•
10 b. bag
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BAKERY TREATS
cauliflower
Chiffon Spumate
PAPER TOWELS
SUGAR
98c J $319
Large Heads Local
Western Family CNng
Western Family
Gold Medal
Brown
57C
Ray's Deidous
DANISH
ROLLS
9 99°
Fresh Baked
Western Family
POTATO ROLLS
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PEAR HALVES
3r1
PINEAPPLE JUICE«.., 63C
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HAMBURGER HELPER 59C
TOMATO SAUCE s... 7I$1
Hersheys Instant
COCOA^
GREEN PEAS io«. 4r1
Birdseye
p-x
COOL WHIP <«
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ea.
Betty Crocker 7 ox.
Western Family
d£s 1
PicSweet
Campbells
CHICKEN
noodle soup
q f ¿4
- frozen foods ■
Western Family
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Large AA
Issues for 60 years arc still
missing from our files.
KINGMAN KOLONY •
Frank Rhodes returned from
a trip to Tabor Alberta.
Canada. He is working for
the Agriculture-Lines Corp of
Parma.
Mr. and Mr*. Leroy
Sprague of Nyssa were
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Jim
Phifer for coffee after church
on Sunday.
Mrs. Rex Walters of Boise
spent the weekend with Mr.
and Mrs. Herschel Thomp
son and visited her mother.
Mrs. Ethel Thompson in the
Nyssa Nursing Home.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Jenkins and family and her
parents Mr. and Mrs. Earl
Kygar went deer hunting
Friday evening above West
fall. They succeeded in
getting their deer.
92 £
Russett
POTATOES
20 b. bag
$]19
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