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Nyssa, Oregon Thursday, May 5, 1977
Thund«r«gg Capital
Davis OrdersConference
on Rate Increase
by Pat Savage
Doa'I forget the “WHAT
IS NYSSA“ Pageant tonight
(Tharaday), Friday and Sa
turday night* In the new
achool auditorium, 8 p.m.
a a a
According to Cancer Chair
man, Mr*. Emil Stunz, the
residential area in Nyssa
raised SHOO.02 for the
Cancer Fund.
Isn't that
fantastic? A lot of ladies
worked long and hard collect
ing this money and they did it
willingly and of their own
free will. The biggest percen
tage of all the money collec
ted goes into cancer research
with only 5.2% going for
management or administra
tion service*. So those who
donated will be happy to
know that most of your con
tribution is actually going to
work to help fight this
disease. Many thanks to all
the ladies who worked so
hard that we in Nyssa can
feel proud when our total
contributions are tallied with
the test of the County.
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Mystery Value Days will be
held in conjunction with our
local merchants on May
19-20-21. To be forewarned is
to be prepared, so be
prepared to come to town and
take advantage of all the
good bargains on these three
days.
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Gals, did you know that
you and your husband may
each have your name listed in
the phone book? This went
into effect April 15 and is
available for one year at no
coat. If you are interested
contact your local telephone
company and issue the
request.
a a a
I thought you might like to
know that 125 people atten
ded the dance at the Malheur
Nursing home last Friday
evening. Mr. and Mrs. Carl
Roth played a lot of the old
favorite dance tune* and
residents of the home, family
members, friends, and senior
citizens danced, visited and
all had a good time. Thanks
to Marti Robinson for push
ing the idea. Guess they are
planning another real soon.
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We have the grand open
ing of the Phil-Mar Texaco
and Thrift Shop next week.
Malheur Memorial Honored
by Joint Commission
Oregon Public Utility Com cent, large commercial and
missioner Charles Davis has industrial customers 40 per
ordered a prehearing con cent and irrigation customers
ference on a rate increase 51 percent.
Idaho Power Company,
request from Idaho Power
Company and a hearing on with headquarters in Boise,
the company's request that serves southern Idaho, eas
part of the increase become tern Oregon and a small
effective immediately on an portion of Nevada. Just over
6 percent or about 13,000 of
emergency basis.
Davis suspended the com its customers are located in
pany's proposed rate sche Oregon. Its service territory
dules, which would increase covers parts of Malheur and
Baker counties - including
residential rates 18.5 percent
Ontario and Vale, but not
and overall rates 30 percent.
Baker-and a small section of
A prehearing conference on
the request will be held at 10 Harney County.
The company is proposing
a.m. Tuesday, May 10, in
Room D, Labor & Industries a monthly residential service
charge of S4 and a flat rate of
Building. Salem.
1.77 cents per kilowatt hour.
Idaho Power also has asked
Customers now pay SI.85 for
for a 25 percent rate increase,
up to 30 kilowatt hours, and
effective immediately, until
then a declining rate of
Davis can decide whether any
between 4.5 and 1.05 cents
of the full request is justified.
per kilowatt hour, which
A hearing on the emergency
request will be held at 10 encourages wasteful con
sumption by offering addi
a m. Tuesday, May 24, in the
tional power at lower rates.
Malheur County Library in
A seasonal surcharge of 20
Ontario.
percent would be imposed on
The full rate increase
all residential use in excess of
would generate an additional
1,000 kilowatt hours per
SI.79 million annually in
month during the three
Oregon revenues and would
summer months when de
increase the monthly bill for a
mand is greatest.
typical residential customer
Residential customers us
using 1,000 kilowatt hours
ing between 150 and 500
from SI8.55 to $21.70.
kilowatt hours per month
The interim rate increase
would see a decrease in rates
would generate SI.48 million
under the proposal.
annually and would raise the
PUC Administrative Law
same customer's bill 15.4
Judge Richard Sabin has
percent, to S21.15.
been assigned responsibility
The company is seeking to
for the case and will preside
increase rate* for small com
at the hearings.
mercial customers 4.5 per-
the opening of the West Gate
Barber and Gift Shop this
week and the addition of the
Pet Haven on Main Street.
All of these business are
owned and (operated by really
friendly people anxious to do
business and help Nyssa
grow. Welcome to town,
we're glad you picked Nyssa
to set up your business
establishments.
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MOTHER'S DAY is Sun
day. May 8. Don't forget to
show a little love to the one
woman in your life who will
overlook your faults, expound
on your virtues, look at you
with only the look that a
loving mother can, and
though you get older, to her
you're still only a youngster.
Happy Mother’s Day Io all
»ou Moms, old and not so
old.
TWO NEW BUSINESSES open In Nyssa.
they are top photo. Phil-Mar Texaco and Thrift
Shop owned and operated by Marvin McLane
and his son Mike. They sell gas. gift* and also
have a thrift shop. They came to Nyssa from
Lake Texoma, Texas. They are located on
Main Street across from the Library.
As an accredited hospital,
Malheur Memorial Hospital
has received recognition from
the Joint Commission on
Accreditation of Hospitals
(JCAH) in observance of
National Hospital Week. May
8-14, 1977. The letter of
commendation, signed by
John D. Porterfield, M.D.,
Director of the Joint Com
mission, states:
“The Joint Commission on
Accreditation of Hospitals
commends your hospital for
its efforts to provide a high
quality of patient care and
services. Your willingness to
participate in the process of
voluntary accreditation dem
onstrate* a professionally
motivated desire to deliver a
high quality of care; and,
your accreditation is evidence
that your efforts toward this
goal have been successful.'*
Accreditation is awarded to
hospitals that are found to be
in substantial compliance
with the joint Commission's
high standards for the quality
of patient care provided. The
standards are considered to
be optimal achievable and
represent goals of excellence
“Red Square”
Nyssa Brandi of First
Notional Bonk Shows
Increased Loans
Deposits at the Nyssa
branch of First National Bank
of Oregon on March 31, 1977
were less than on March 31,
1976, while loans showed an
increase.
The Nyssa branch reported
deposits of S15.417,000 as of
March 31,1977, a decrease of
6.5 percent from S16.481.000
a year previous. Outstanding
loans totaled S10,288,000 on
March 31, 1977, up 8.8
percent from $9,452,000 at
the end of the first quarter
last year.
Police Report
Several Nyssa homes and
businesses were vandalized
early Sunday morning with
damages totaling close to
SI.000.
According to Nyssa police,
four juveniles and Victor
Suarez, 18. Nyssa were taken
into custody. The juveniles
have been remanded to the
juvenile court and Suarez has
been charged with Criminal
Mischief in the Second
Degree, five counts.
This action followed da
mage done when rocks were
thrown through the bedroom
windows of homes belonging
to Glenn Walker and W. D.
Rinehart, the breaking of a
pickup window at the Larry
Hatch residence, the break
ing of windows at Dr. John
Olsen's dental office and the
Beauty Nook Beauty Shop.
WESTGATE BARBERSHOP AND IM-
porta, lower photo opened last week, this new
business is operated by Ben and Darlene
Snyder. Ben has been a barber in Coos Bay for
the last nine years. Besides cutting hair, they
have gifts and plants. They are located on the
West side of the city.
15'per Copy
Everett Heldt Tours Russia
By Everett Heldt
On Sunday. March 27,
1977, Everett Heldt and his
nephew. Clifford Heldt of
Aloha. Oregon joined 175
other tourists at the Sea-Tac
Airport near Seattle on the
start of a chartered flight to
Russia via Pan American
Airlines. Late in the after
noon they left on an approxi
mate nine-hour non-stop
flight to Shannon. Ireland
and then after a short
lay-over on to Moscow,
Russia, a distance of 6600
miles. A total of eleven time
zones are gone through in
this distance.
The temperature was 33
degrees on the ground at
Moscow on arrival at 5:30
p.m. their time. The airport
is located about an hour's
drive from Moscow and after
considerable
time
going
through Passport check and
Customs, the group was
assigned to various buses
operated by Russia's In-Tou-
rist Agency and transported
to Moscow. The Tour Group
was all housed and given
meals at the Russia Hotel
that has 6.000 beds, contains
restaurants, shops, concert
hall and two Cinemas.
The first day a very
interesting tour of the Krem
lin area containing the seat of
the Soviet Government. Pa
lace. churches, etc., all
within a brick wall. In the
afternoon a tour of the City
was arranged, which in
cluded seeing Moscow Uni
versity. New Embassy Ro«,
many landmarks, etc. A tour
of the Armory Museum
showed many things out of
the past, items of the
nobility, carriages, clothing,
table« are. agriculture tools,
housing in different parts of
Russia. Second day Lenin's
Toomb was on the tour,
which had a very lengthy line
of people not only from
Foreign Countries, but Rus
sians from Moscow and other
sections of Russia. The final
afternoon in Moscow was
spent touring the Exhibition
of Economic Achievements
which included displays of
Russia's space efforts and
the various items manu
factured and to be manu
factured under the 5-vear
program A ride on the Metro
Isol
sx stem) with its
beautiful stations decorated
with paintings, statues, etc.
That evening an attendance
at the Moscow Circus was a
memorable experience with
tight-rope performance. Ben
gal Tiger act and a final
acrobatic act with dancers
that kept the audience in
suspense.
On Thursday and Friday, a
bus tour to Vladimir and
Suzdal where many Cathed
rals. Churches, a Monastery
and Museum of Wooden
Architecture are located. A
lot of restoration is continu
ing in this area which is now
known as a tourist centre
located about 220 km from
Moscow. These
Russian
towns have had their start
back to the 11th - 12th Cen
turies. After a night spent at
Suzdal at a new modern
Motel, the group returned on
Friday evening to Moscow
and after dinner at the
Ukrafna Hotel, they all
boarded a sleeper train for an
overnight journey to Lenin
grad.
Housing and meals were
furnished the tour group at
Leningrad
in the new
modern Hotel Leningrad.
First tour was a bus trip
through the City, in the
Afternoon a tour of the
Ethinographical Museum, re
presenting all sections of
Russia, past and present -
Customs, dress, livelihood,
etc. The tour group were
given a gala night on
Saturday evening at the
Sadkow Restaurant with a
large variety of food and
drink and entertainment by a
group of Balalaika Musicians
and Soloists.
Sunday, a tour of the
Hermitage Museum with its
many exhibits of arts, pre
cious stones, prehistoric arte
facts. etc. The Guide stated
that it is so vast that with
spending three minutes at
each exhibit, it would take 40
years to sec everything with
the tour spending three
hours. This Museum was
housed in the Winter Palace
(Home of the Czars until
1917) and tour connecting
buildings with one building
reserved as a concert hall. A
tour was available and com
pleted by most of the group
that afternoon to Pavlovsk
Palace (Slimmer Palace of the
Czars) and on the way back to
Leningrad a short detour to
see Catherine's Palace.
On Monday morning a tour
of St. Isaac's Cathedral with
its great gold dome, reminis
cent of St. Peter’s in Rome,
and its stained glass art
works, etc. Monday after
noon a tour of the Peter &
Paul Fortress on the River
Neva, originally built in the
early 1700's as a military
installation, later to become
dungeons for troublemakers.
Peter's cottage erected in
1703 for the Czars shelter is
preserved in a stone building
as a museum on this island
fortress. Final planned per
formance for the tour was on
Monday evening with a
three-hour performance by
Russian Chorus and Dancers,
which was excellent and
witnessed by Tourists from
all over the World.
The morning of Tuesday,
April 5th. came with approxi
mately 5 to 6 inches of snow
on the ground falling during
the night and with depar
ture scheduled this date
report was that Leningrad
airport was shut down.
Around two in the afternoon
the planes were landing and
departing and after checking
through Customs, the Char
ter flight left at
7 p.m.,
Leningrad time with stops at
Helsinki. Finland; Shannon.
Ireland and then North of
Greenland over North Pole
through Canada to Seattle,
arriving at 11 p.m. West
Coast Time. All were tired
and glad to be home but with
many memories, experiences
and pictures in their posses
sions.
lions Club Sponsors
Annual Athletic
Banquet
On the evening of Tuesday
May 10, the Nyssa Lions Club
will sponsor its traditional
banquet to honor all those
students of the Nyssa schools
who have participated in the
Athletic Program over the
past year.
Dick Martin. Lions Club
president, says that the
speaker for the occasion will
be Bill Dutton backfield
football coach for Boise State
University.
against which a facility can
measure itself and be meas
ured by the Joint Commis
sion's accreditation survey
team.
Voluntary accreditation has
made a significant contri
bution to this country’s
unmatched excellence in
health care. It continues the
American tradition of self-
reliance and it supports the
belief that positive motiva
tion is the most effective
impetus to change.
The Joint Commission,
founded in 1951, is a private,
not-for-profit
organization.
Member organizations of its
Board are: the American
College of Surgeons, the
American College of Physi
cians, the American Hospital
Association, and the Ameri
can Medical Association. In
addition to the Hospital
Accreditation Program. the
Joint commission has estab
lished accreditation councils
for psychiatric facilities, long
term care facilities, services
for the mentally retarded and
other developmentally dis
abled persons, and ambula
tory health care organiza
tions.
Roy Huffman
Retires
On March 31, Ray Huff
man retired from the Nyssa
Auto Parts store here in
Nyssa. Ray had been with
Nyssa Auto Parts since Sep
tember 1947 when he went to
work for Ted Berrth who at
that time owned Nyssa Auto
Parts. In June of 1950, Ray
and Everett Corn bought the
store from Ted, and Ray has
run it up until March of this
year, when he retired be
cause of disability. The store
is now owned-by Caldwell
Auto Supply.
Ray reports he is feeling
much better since his retire
ment. He and Thelma will
continue to live here in
Nyssa, perhaps spending the
winters in a warmer climate,
and devoting more time rock
hunting.
All students participating
in the Athletic program are
urged to attend this Banquet
in their honor. Parents are
also urged to attend and
sponsor their children. The
Banquet is open to all in
Nyssa. The cost will be $5 per
adult, which will include the
sponsorship of one of the
students. Starting time will
be 7:30 p.m., in the school
cafeteria.
WEATHER
Dal te
April 27
April 28
April 29
April 30
May 1
May 2
May 3
May 4
Max.
74
83
80
79
68
68
59
Mln.
44
44
49
54
55
48
49
39
Prec.
.23
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Uwvhee Reservoir Storage
5.4.77 474.240 Acre Feet
5-4-76 694.120 Acre Feet
POPPY GIRL TRISHA SISSON, Age 4. daughter of Dean
and Jackie Sisson of Nyssa is pictured above presenting Gene
Stunz. Nyssa attorney, with one of the first poppies of the
season. Mrs. Wyatt Smith. Trisha's great-grandmother and
local Poppy chairman would like to remind everyone that May
14 is Poppv Dav.