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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.
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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.