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Tender loving care
for thriving poinsettas
WORLD!
HELLO
Thursday, December 22,1977
Nyssa Gatt City Journal - Nyssa Oregon
Mr. and Mrs. David Hart-
wig. nee Janet Nedry.
___ .. of
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Waco. Texas, are the proud
parents of a baby girl, bom
Sunday, November 27, 1977
at Hillcrest Baptist Hospital.
Waco. They named her Laura
DeAnn and she weighed
six-pounds, three-ounces snd
was 19 inches long. Laura
joins a brother. Tommy, six
years old and a sister Sarah,
one and one-half years old.
Paternal grandparents are
Mr. and Mrs. John Hartwig.
Caldwell; Mrs. Norma Zillig.
Caldwell; maternal grand­
parents are Mr. and Mrs.
Dirick Nedrv, Nyssa.
Great-grandparents are Mr
and Mrs. A. R. Morgan.
Parma; Mrs. Emma Hartwig,
Parma; Mrs. Elizabeth Nedry
Nyssa; Mrs. Margaret Rvser.
Salem; and Mr. and Mrs.
Ben H. Graybeal. Vale.
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Oregon Trail Grange
Approximately 50 Oregon
Trail Grange members, their
families and friends met
Thursday evening. December
15 at the Grange Hall for
turkey dinner.
Guests were welcomed by
Grange Master Foy Sasser
and Lecturer Sadie Metcalf.
Singing of Christmas Carols
and a gift exchange was the
feature of the evening.
The next regular meeting
will be held Thursday eve­
ning. January 5, 8 p.m. All
grange members are urged to
attend.
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Do you know the origin of the lovely plant we have com» Reviews
to Identify with Christmas? These colorful plants were
first introduced to America in 1825, by Joel Poinsett then Proposals
serving as our Ambassador to Mexico, who brought some
16 plants back to his South Carolina greenhouse. He gave
them to friends and botanists with greenhouses who nur­
tured them carefully.
Poinsettlas moved out of doors In the early 1900’s when
a Swiss horticulturist, Albert Ecke, started to raise them
in California for local holiday selling. Now we have come
to enjoy poinsettlas, not only at the Christmas holiday,
but all the year round as well. The most popular Is the
vivid red. but there are white, pink and marbled flowers
as handsome and radiant.
Poinsettlas need specific care if they are to flourish, but
that care is not really complicated. They are happiest kept
at room temperature, near a window, in full daylight, but
out of drafts Water when the top soil feels dry to your
touch, keeping the soil moist but not wet.
If you decide to move your poinsettia outdoors for the
summer. It will need cutting back to help It retain its shape.
To encourage a shorter, fuller plant cut it back between
the middle of July and the beginning of August, and repot
in a pot one or two sizes larger than the original, and
bring indoors again about Labor Day.
Poinsettlas are photo-period sensitive plants that flower
in response to the length of the day. Ten hours of day
light and fourteen hours of darkness will start flowers on
their way, but the least glimmer of light during the dark
hours will abort any flowering.
From about October 1 to mld-December, the plant should
be in complete darkness from sunset to sunup. It can be
put into a closet, in a room that remains dark through
those hours, or under a table that is skirted to the floor
If you have a large enough carton available up-end it over
the poinsettia to keep light out. Unless the plant is kept
in the dark it will not flower.
The colorful bracts that develop from this period will
be ample reward for your tender loving care, and will add
much excitement to your holiday decor.
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Orefo« PubHc Utility Com-
■iaatoMr Charles Davis has
authorized a 4.5 percent rate
increase for Cascade Natural
Gas Company's Oregon cus­
tomers, which will raise the
monthly bill of an average
all-gas residential customer
about SI.73.
Davis accepted the stipu­
lation entered into Sep­
tember 7 by the company and
PUC staff settling all issues
except how much would be
paid by each group of cus­
tomers--residential. commer­
cial and industrial.
He also adopted the staff's
recommendation that Cas­
cade submit schedules that
will increase residential rates
an average of 5 percent, com­
mercial rates about 3.5
percent and industrial rates
nearly 7 percent.
The decision will allow
Cascade to collect an addi
tional $676,450 annually,
instead of the $839,370, or
5.6 percent, it requested. It
will have the opportunity to
earn a 13.5 percent return for
stockholders, although no
amount is guaranteed. The
company had asked that the
figure remain at 14.25
percent.
The new rates will mean an
average all-gas residential
customer using 103 therms
will pay about $33.60 instead
of $31.85. Other residential
customers will pay about
$26.30 instead of $23.10 for
an average 71 therms,
bringing the sverage overall
residential increase to ro­
ughly $2.65 per month.
In the past few years, the
PUC has been moving toward
rates that reflect aa closely as
possible the actual cost of
service, to avoid any group of
customers subsidizing ano­
ther. The idea is to give a
clear economic message to
each user of the burden that
customer places on the
system.
The commissioner found in
this case that strict adher­
ence to such a policy would
mean a disruptively high
increase for residential users.
Rates more closely based on
cost are expected in the
future.
Residential customers wil.
psy $4.50 per month for the
cost of making service
avsilable and up to 10 therms
of gas. Beyond that, all-gas
customers will pay juat under
30 cents and other residential
customers about 33.5 cents
per therm.
This eliminates for each
group a rate schedule under
which customers pay less the
more they use, thus en­
couraging wasteful con­
sumption.
The company's last rate
increase was in February,
when the commissioner au­
thorized an increase of 2
percent, instead of the 9
percent requested.
Cascade is a Seattle-based
company with about 17,000
customers in Oregon, mostly
in the northeastern and
central parts of the state,
Avocado trees have occasion­
including Baker, La Grande,
ally collapsed under the
Hermiston and Madras.
weight of their own fruit.
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you have shown.
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Clyde McClung, Nyssa Mgr
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the state It gialafwrs to the
next aeaston.
Skimmer stated that two
items of great coocern are
lack of parking facilities and
an all-weather tract. Because
of increased use on the
Ontario High School track
and the advent of women’s
programs, such a track was a
top priority item with the
citizen's commission on acti­
vities.
The president further poin­
ted out the need to replace
irrigation pipe and the
possibility of having to drill a
new well.
Ed Haynes, dean of in­
struction, informed the bud­
get committee of new faculty
positions the college needs,
in order to establish an
Associate Degree Nursing
program, Haynes pointed out
that one full-time njrsing
instructor and one full-time
biologist would be necessary.
Both the board and the
administration have placed
the establishment of the
nursing program as a top
priority.
Another high priority posi­
tion was that of physici
instructor. Haynes pointed
out that the position was cut
from the budget several
years ago and that hiring
part-time people for the job
has not worked out and has
probably hurt the college’s
retention rate, particularly
among pre-med. pre-vet, and
science majors.
The other posmons the
board was asked to consider
were an instructor to estab­
lish a small business manage
ment project similar to the
college's farm business ma­
nagement program; two full-
time agriculture instructors,
a full-time audio visual
person, someone to teach
instrumental music, and ano­
ther speech and drama
instructor.
Each of these positions
would increase college enroll­
ment, officials feel, as well as
add new offerings to the
college. Over the next few
budget meetings the com­
mittee will have to decide
which, if any, positions can
be included in the '78-79
budget.
The budget committee was
also presented with a preli­
minary budget for considera­
tion. Because virtually no
Cascade Natural
Gas Co. Rate
Increase
Authorized
The bobcat became s fur-
besrer under s new Oregon
tow this week snd esn now be
given the protection it badly
needs, Strange as that
sounds, the bobcat until
recently has been classified
by Isw as a predator and
could be pursued snd killed
st sny time snd by sny
means,
Thst circumstance, com­
bined with extremely high
prices paid in recent years for
bobcat fur, has put the small
spotted wildcat in dire straits
in some parts of Oregon.
Most sought have been the
lighter colored cats of eastern
Oregon with pelt prices going
as high as $350. Unrestricted
hunting and trapping pres­
sure has cut populations to
very low levels.
The darker bobcats of
western Oregon do not
command the astronomical
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The Treasure Valley Com­
munity College budget com­
mittee met for the first time
Monday evening in an
informal session to begin
working toward the 1978-79
budget. The college board of
directors has set March 14 as
the election date and the
budget committee must fi­
nalize a formal budget by
February 9.
In Monday's meeting col­
lege officials presented the
14 member committee with
preliminary proposals which
did not include salaries for
the coming year. President
Emery Skinner listed several
construction possibilities
which he would like the
committee to take under
consideration. Skinner poin­
ted out that although there is
money in the TVCC construc­
tion fund, the board has
guarded those funds for a
possible match in conatnact-
ing a library/learning center
within the next few years.
Indications are that the
proposed building wHI ra­
Law Makes
Bobcats
Furbearers
prfcw* «»eraging closer to
$75 a pelt, so pressure has
been lighter and their num­
bers less reduced.
The new law, which placet
the bobcat under the manage­
ment jurisdiction of the Fish
and Wildlife Department,
became effective on October
4. That day. meeting by
telephone conference in em
ergency session, the Fish and
Wildlife Commission de­
clared a closed season for
taking bobcats in eastern
Oregon and set a three-
month season running from
November 15 through Feb­
ruary IS west of the
Cascades.
Those participating in that
90-day season would have to
have a trapping license
rather than a hunting license
under the new furbearer
status. Hunters, who in the
past could shoot a bobcat
encountered while hunting
other species, are reminded
that this is no longer legal
except during the open
season for bobcats, and then
only for those with a
trapper's license.
The Commission also es­
tablished a split "pursuit"
season in which licensed
hunters or trappers could
exercise and train dogs by
permitting them to chase and
tree bobcats. But none can be
harmed or killed. That season
will run from October 5
through November I this
year and
from March 1
through April 1 in 1978.
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new equipment waa pur­
chased by TVCC under the
terms of the current budget,
expenditures were up slightly
in that area. Fixed coats,
such as electricity, insurance,
social security, and retire­
ment. represented probably
the biggest increase over the
current year.
The committee will now
review the proposals and
establish priorities for what
can be included in the final
budget. The next meeting
will be Tuesday, December
27, at 7:30 p.m.
Budget committee mem­
bers for this year are: Chary
Mires, Ontario; Richard Siam
Nyssa; Mary Wakaaugi, Ore­
gon Slope; Arlene Robb.
Nysaa; Tom Gray. Vale;
Scotty Payne, Vale; and
Kenji Yaguchi, Ontario. They
join the board of directors as
the entire budget committee.
The current board members
are: Max Barlow, Kenneth
(Skip) Thayer. Dr. John
Easly, Wayne Ball, Aranka
Trenkel, Dorrance Standage,
and Ernest Seuell.
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