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Jniversii.y Library Ltigonfij O tc • X X X /74C3 JOURNAL 70th Year 43rd Issue The Sugar City Nyssa, Oregon Thursday, October 21, 1976 Vandalism at Town Crier North Park Vandals caused damage estimated at SJOO at North Park over the weekend, according to Henry Schneider, city manager. Toilets in the men's rest room were smashed by a heavy object. The women’s restroom was littered with pheasant entrails and fea thers and a swing seat was damaged. The vandalism occurred sometime late Saturday night or early Sunday morning. Restrooms will be closed for winter as fixtures will have to be replaced. “Park facilities are for the convenience of everyone," Schneider said, “it is hard to imagine anyone getting plea sure out of causing malicious damage." By Pal Savage 1 was appalled to hear of the vandalism at the North Park. Some person or per sons destroyed the toilet bowls In the men's restroom by crushing them to pieces with a sledge hammer or something very heavy. Then either they or someone else cleaned a pheasant, leaving feathers and entrails all over the women's restroom. And to top off the destructive spree, they cut and destroyed some swings. Sad, when some malicious person has to destroy and ruin things for the rest of us. The punish ment should equal the crime. • • • On a happier note. Nyssa now has a new Cub Scout Pack. No official pack num ber yet. but it is sponsored by the lions Club. Thanks Lions for helping us out. There are three dens consisting of twenty boys, leaders and cub master. It is rewarding to know that these parents care enough to help get this pack going. Everyone's efforts are greatly appreciated. • • • Heartiest of congratula tions to the Nyssa Sports Boosters Tram. They beat Vale 14 to 6. thus taking championship honors at the Optimist Super Bowl held in Ontario last weekend. The coaches for this team are Glenn Marcum. Dan Kite. Max Elguezabal. and Larry Wilson and they deserve a pat on the back for taking the time to work with these kids. The Nyssa Sports Boosters Club also gets a thank you for sponsoring the team. Today’s Optimist Champs, a few years from Now. Nyssa High Champs, who knows! • • • It's that special time again. Homecoming of .course. Can't help but find myself as excited as the kids. Guess you never lose that feeling of belonging to good old Nyssa High and wanting to dap your hands and stand up when they play the school song. Maybe this sense of belonging is everlasting be cause we live here and our kids are in school. Can't believe it has been 21 years. Enough for memories and back to ^he present. The Bulldogswill meet Wahtonka on Friday night. The Home coming Queen will be chosen during the halftime cere monies and will be one of these fair maidens. Lori Ferrenburg, senior; Georgia Hust. junior; Janet Lassiter, sophomore; and Sheryl South freshman. Good luck Bull dogs and congratulations girls for making up a lovely homecoming court. Let's all go join in the fun of Home- coming and cheer our Bull dogs on to Victory. Thunderegg Capital POSTOFFICE CLOSED MONDAY HOMECOMING PRINCESSES are Lori Ferrenburg, senior; Georgia Hust, junior; Janet Lassiter, sophomore; and Sheryl South, freshman. One of these girls will be crowned Homecoming Queen at halftime of the Nyssa-Wahtonka game Up With People" Comes To Malheur “lip With People," an international educational pro gram, is celebrating its tenth birthday coinciding with America's Bicentennial. Some 450 young people in five different casts will be reaching out across the USA performing in over 400 communities and 35 states. Additional casts will tour Canada. Latin America and Europe. At the invitation of Mal heur County unit of the American Cancer Society, "Up With People” will visit Ontario November 9 and 10. Public performances of the show featuring an interna tional cast of 80 are sche duled for shows at the Ontario High School audi torium. The advance team will arrive next week and be available to speak to service clubs and other organizations throughout the area, accor ding to Zaneeta Thornfeldt, chairman. She said the entire group as well as the advance team will be staying in homes in the community to learn abenit the people and the area. Tickets are available for the performances in Ontario at Western, First National and U. S. Banks. KYET and the Chamber of Commerce office. At Nyssa, they are for sale at First National and U. S. Banks and in Vale at U. S. National Bank. Payette will have tickets for sale at Idaho First Security Bank and Fruitland sales will be handled through Treasure Valley State Bank. CPR Training Begins Friday Al Carr. TVCC director of community services, an nounced today that the college's cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training program will begin Friday, October 22. "Ray Willy, chairman of the Idaho Heart Association, is providing the manpower to train area instructors." said Carr. "Friday. Fern Ablin will be on campus to train the initial twelve people in the program.” Carr added that the twelve will receive instruction on both Resusci-Anne and a Resusci-Baby. The devices are human-like models used for training in the treatment of heart attack, drowning, and electrical shock victims. After they receive their training, these twelve people will be qualified to instruct the lay community in CPR Technique, according to Carr The training, for both the instructors and area resi dents. will be provided without charge as a com munity service. Friday evening. The Homecoming Dance will be Saturday, October 23, at the cafeteria, with music by "War Eagle.” Dancing will be from 9 p.m. to midnight, and everyone is invited. 4-H Pride Conference At Sunriver Sharing ideas on possible community improvement pro jects as well as suggestions for implementing those ideas in Malheur County will be part of the 1976 Oregon Community Pride Conference at Sun River, Oregon, Oc tober 24 - 26 according to Carol Knothe, Extension Home Economist. The theme of this year’s conference is "Together We Succeed.” Using this theme, conference participants will work toward developing knowledge and skills in community leadership and decision making. Representing the 4-H youth of Malheur County will be Johanna Moore, Tammy Rumpel. Janis Kuwahara, all of Vale and John Gunn of Ontario. Lauri Smith. West fall and Peggy Carlson, Harper are alternates. Ac companying Malheur's dele gation will be Mr. and Mrs. C. William Moore of Vale. Pageant Entries Due Friday Entries close Friday for the Miss Malheur County pa geant according to Mr. and Mrs. Kerry Iseri. chairmen. A number of girls have already entered but there are some openings left. "This is an excellent opportunity for girls to earn scholarships and is a good learning experience." Mrs. Iseri said yesterday. Entries arc available from Iseri's Insurance and at the Daily Argus Observer. The pageant is scheduled for Nov. 6 at Ontario High School and Shan Moss, the reigning Miss Oregon, will be on hand for the event and to crown her successor as Nfiss Malheur County. A special get-to-gether of contestants and chaperones b scheduled for this Sunday afternoon. WEATHER OREGON STATE DAIRY PRINCESS Tina Russell. Coquille, presents a plaque to Scotty Payne of Vale for "Service to Dairymen Beyond the Call.” The gift, presented at a dinner attended by Dairy Commission officials and local dairymen, recognized his recent retirement from the Oregon Dairy Commission which he served on for nine years. Looking on is Mrs. Paul Hale of Vale who was appointed July I to a three-year ’ term on the commission by Gov. Straub. She is the first woman to serve on the commission. Mln. Max. Date 33 71 Oct. 13 33 72 Oct. 14 32 70 Oct. 15 69 31 Oct. 16 32 61 Oct. 17 29 59 Oct. 18 57 23 Oct. 19 22 Oct. 20 Owvhec Reservoir 10 15-76 426.230 Acre Feet 10-15-75 492.850 Acre Feet The Nyssa Postoffice will be closed Monday, October 25 in obser vance of Veteran's Day. Schools, banks, city and state offices and other businesses will observe the traditional Veteran’s Day on Thurs day, November 11. First National Has Increased Earnings First National Bank of Oregon reported an increase in earnings for both the third quarter and nine months ending September 30, com pared to a year ago. Both deposits and loans were up compared to third quarter 1975, according to Robert F. Wallace, chairman. The bank's total deposits were $2,446.337,000 on Sep tember 30. compared to $2.- 208.785.000 recorded at the end of third quarter of 1975. First National's loans gene rated by 145 branch offices were $1,456,557.000. up from the $1.358.122.000 reported on the same date in 1975. Total loans and deposits for the third quarter of this Nyssa Librarian Attends Meeting Norma Urrv. Nyssa Public Library, was one of three area librarians attending a joint meeting of the Oregon Community College Library Association and the Eastern Oregon Library Assocation. The October 15 to 16 meeting was held at Blue Mountain Community Col lege in Pendleton. Mrs. Urry was joined by Sandra Black- aby. TVCC librarian, and Wilma Brown. Malheur Cou nty Public Library year included $20,512,000 in foreign loans and $17,400,- 000, in foreign deposits in First National's Cayman Is land branch. The funds in the office are being used on a selected basis as an offshore depository and financing branch for the bank’s busi ness customers. Total resources were $3.- 113.052.000. up from $2,- 758.683.000. Income before securities transactions for the third quarter amounted to $5,797,- 000. or $1.09 per share in 1976. compared to $5.076,000 or 96 cents in 1975. This amounts to a 1.5 per cent increase. Income before securities transactions for nine months amounted to $15.482.000 or $2.91 per share, up 2.4 per cent from $15.123,000 or $2.85 per share in 1975. Net income after securities trans actions was $15.413,000 com pared to $15,140.000 last year. This amounted to $2.90 per share compared to $2.85 per share last year. The Nyssa branch reported deposits $15.282.000 and loans of $11.050.000 as of September 30. Comparable totals for the branch a year ago were $14.874,000 in deposits and $9.909.000 in loans. 15’Per Copy 7VCC To Ask For Tax Base November 2 Treasure Valley Com munity College will ask voters to approve a tax base for the school November 2, according to Ed Haynes, dean of instruction. Haynes said that the tax base, which would not go into effect until the 1977-78 fiscal year, would give the school six percent more than what the voters approved last spring for the 1976-77 fiscal year. “That compares," said Haynes, “with an average budget increase of 11 percent over the past five years.” The current budget is $859,- 400. A six percent increase would bring it to $910,964, pretty much in line with the current rate of inflation. Haynes stressed that un der Oregon law, a tax base can increase a maximum of only six percent per year, so TVCC is not asking the voters for a blank check. "Nor are we asking the voters to relinquish any control over TVCC," Haynes said. "A budget committee of 14 taxpayers would still have to approve the budget annually, and public hearings and publication of the budget would continue." What the tax base does offer, according to Haynes, is stability. Rather than going through the costly process of approving a tax base every year, the college would have a guarantee that it could continue to meet the needs of the entire Treasure Valley community. A tax base would also enable the school to do better long range planning. Haynes added that the college enrollment has pretty well leveled out. There are currently 1100 full-time equi valent students at TVCC, and the school does not foresee any appreciable increase in the future except in the adult education and part-time fi gures. “We feel the school can accommodate 1200 FTE’s without any significant cha nge in staff," said Haynes. "So it would be possible to operate within the tax base." The tax base proposal is ballot number 13 and will appear on the November 2 general election ballot. TVCC Enrollment Same As Last Year Dick DeBisschop, TVCC dean of students, reported that total enrollment for fall quarter stands at 1,250 students, about the same as last year. Addressing the TVCC Board meeting October 18, DeBisschop emphasized that the figures are not complete, but indications are that full-time and part-time enroll ment appear to be close to last year’s statistics. “We won't have the exact figures until next week," said DeBisschop, because some classes are still forming and we haven't yet calculated several others." Hunting Accidents Two accidents were repor ted during the weekend, according to Alvin Allen. Chief of Police. Albert Lewis. Reedsport. Oregon was tteated for buck shot wounds in the neck Saturday at Malheur Me morial Hospital and released. Marine Wonser, Bend, suffered pellet shots in the lower leg and ankle Sunday and was treated at Malheur Memorial Hospital and re leased. DeBisschop also informed the board that there are currently 200 students living in the dormitories, down slightly from last year at this time. "That is due mainly to the fact that Albertson Hall is still not finished. When we open that up, dormitory occupancy should be in line with past figures.” In other business, the board approved a low bid from Mathews Chevrolet for the purchase of a 12 passenger van. A bid of $3,252.50, subject to a price increase not to exceed $283 was submitted by the dealer. James Roberts, business manager, reported that the Oregon State Police labora tory is now operating. The remodeling has been com pleted and there are cur rently two employees in the lab. The board also agreed to accept a resignation from James H. Lehman, photo grapher instructor. Ed Hay nes. dean of instruction reported that Lehman s clas ses would be taught by Ken O'Connell. Charles Bogard, and Mike McGuire until the end of the quarter. Several prospects are currently being considered to replace Leh man on a full-time basis, beginning winter quarter. The new Oregon State Librarian, Marcia Lowell, addressed the group and discussed long range plan ning for library development in Oregcn. Panel discussions w ere held on library accredi- dation and innovative sys tems. The meetings were coordi nated by Sandra Blackaby, TVCC librarian, president of EOLA, and Roy Tidwell. Portland. OCCLA president. Dian Walster of Pendleton was elected the new presi dent of EOLA. Air Force Recruits Nurses Captain Karen Harrington. Air force Nurse Recruitment Officer, will be visiting in Boise on November I, to present Idaho nurses the employment opportunities and benefits available to them under the auspices of an Air Force nurse. Interested nurses may make arrangements to meet with Captain Harrington by calling MSgt Herbert or TSgt Donnelly local Air Force representative at 208-343- 6861. JIM LESLIE NIGHT was observed by about 150 members of the Treasure Valley Chambers of Commerce and their wives Monday evening at the East Side Cafe in Ontario. The honored guest is shown here with his wife Marguerite and daughter Laura Jo. who works for Boise State University. Telegrams were read from their son Roger, a senior at the University of Colorado; and from their daughter Rosalie, who lives at La Cresenta, California. The veteran banker will retire at the end of this year, after serving the First National Bank of Oregon for over 40 years. He has ip Ontario since 1950. coming there I from Nyssa where he was president of the Nyssa Chamber of Commerce. Mrs. Leslie still teaches in the Nyssa Primary School. Leslie was honored for his long public and civic services to the entire Treasure Valley, as well as to Ontario and Malheur County. He is a retired Lt. Col. in the Oregon National Guard, and has served as chamber president and treasurer, as well as many civic and fraternal organizations. His replacement at the Ontario bank will be Tom Stenkamp, another former Nyssa banker, who is now branch manager at Prineville.