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VOLUME XXXIX, NO. 7. NYS&A, OREGON, THURSDAY MARCH 2, 1944 $2.00 PER YÉAR 77ieNYSSA JOURNAL Adrian Quintet Loses Final In ”B” Tournament Antelopes Drop Close Decision To Grant Union High By D. W. Patch The Adrian Antelopes dropped a close 24-19 decision to the Grant Union entry In the championship round of play at the Eastern Ore gon B tournament held at John Day. By virtue of the victory Orant Union will meet Helix-Ar- Ungton tourney winner In a play off series for the right to a berth at the state basketball tourna ment. Adrian's defeat marked the end of the most successful bas ketball season In Antelope history and marked the final competition for seven wearers of the green and white. Senior lettermen In clude Kurtz, Tallman, Wilson, Judd, Lane, Hite and Noris. Adrian tourney hopes were given a severe set-back the day prior to tourna ment opening when Lane, regular Antelope forward, failed to pass his pre-tournament physical exam and Hite, the other popular forward, was called for pre-induction phy sical exam at Portland on the tournament date. The tournament squad missed the service of these two regulars. The initial round of play pitted Adrian against a small but de termined Prairie City crew. The Antelopes looked unimpressive in this contest and edged out a 25- 18 win. Antelope scoring was even ly divided. In the semi-final round Adrian mixed it with the pre-tournament favorltles, North Powder. North Powder, boasting two of the finest cagers in eastern Oregon In Myers and Taylor, had an impressive sea son's record. The game was a thriller from opening whistle to the last second, with North Powder and Adrian lnter-changlng leads. At no point in the game did either team enjoy more than a five (Continued On Page 2) HEIDER’S TEAM HITS LIGHT POLE Art Heider’s team ran away with his scavanger wagon Monday Just before noon and crashed against an electric light pole at Second and Bower streets. While Mr. Heider was in the Eder Hardware company store, the team ran out of the alley and tr aveled only half a block before st riking the light pole. The tongue was torn from the wagon. One of the horses, knocked down by the Impact, was cut on the mouth. Malheur Sixth. In Bond Sales Malheur county emerged in sixth place in the state in the sale of E bonds as compared to quota dur ing the 4th war loan drive, Joe Dyer of Ontario, county war fin ance committee chairman, announ ced. Malheur county went over the top with 142.8 per cent of its EI bond quota. As a result, a group of Payette officials and a delegation will be in Ontario Saturday at 4 p.m. to sweep streets as Payette county reached only 115 per cent of its E bond quota In Its contest with this county. Jefferson county led the state with 221 per cent of its quota. Ot- I her high counties were Sherman, Harney, Union and Gilliam, all of them In eastern Oregon. Mr. Dyer said “ I wish to thank every worker as well as purchaser of bonds In the 4th war loan drive for the wonderful showing made. The efforts shown display to Malh eur county boys in the service that the people at home are behind th em with their dollars and are doing everything possible to bring them home at the earliest date”. County Politics Begin To Sizzle Our Boys In The Service Victor V. Sundgulst, 21, son of Mr and Mrs Alfred W. Sundgulst of route 2, Nyssa, recently received his commission as second lieuten ant at the Hondo army air field, Honto, Texas. Lieutenant Sundguist was one of hundreds of young Americans, who, after 18 weeks of rigid training as navigation cadets pinned on silver navigator wings when they received commissions as either second lieut enants or flight officers. Most of the officers have already departed to join the other mem bers of the all-out bombing team - gunner, bombardier and pilot. Some of the graduates will remain at Hondo to instruct new cadets just entering navigation training. Great Lakes, 111. Mar. 2—Among those graduating from an intensive course of Motor machinists’ mate training at recent service school exercises here was Earl M. Farmer, 25, husband of Winifred F. Farmer, Route 2, Nyssa. This bluejacket was selected for his specialized training on the basis of his recruit training aptitude test scores. Graduates from the 20 spec ialized courses taught here at the service school are sent to sh ore stations, or to advanced schools, for active duty or further training. Sergeant Donald McBain. son of D. L. McBain of Nyssa. has been assigned to army officers candidate school at Amarillo, Texas. Sergeant McBain has been stationed at Am arillo. Texas. Pfc. Earl L. Purvis, husband of Mrs Earl L. Purvis, of Nyssa, Ore gon. has recently been awarded the Good conduct medal for except ionally efficient and capable per formance of his duties. Pfc. Purvis Is now stationed somewhere In the Aluetian area. Vale, Oregon (Special)—With Ap ril 4 the last day for filing for no minations in the May primary, In terest in politics is beginning to develop around the Malheur county court house. The terms of nearly all county officers expire this year. County Clerk Harry S. Sackett was the only incumbent offical who frankly stated that he would be a candidate to succeed himself in the Republican primary. "Yes, I expect to be a candidate," he said, “ and I ’m going to file within the next .two or three days.” County Assessor Ed Hendrix said he had not yet made up his mind whether to run again or not. "I have several possibilities I am considering,” he added. “I would like to finish this reassessment job I ’ve started, but am not sure yet what I intend to do.” Most surprising rumor was the report that Sheriff C. W. Glenn would not be a candidate again. Glenn has been sheriff for 20 or 30 years and his candidacy Is usually taken for granted. But an inform ant, who declined to be quoted, said he had a “hunch” Glenn had had enough. In that event, his de puty, John Koopman, would un doubtedly be a candidate. County Judge Irwin Troxell said he had not yet made up his mind whether to run again, although most Republican leaders believe that he can be persuaded to file. County superintendent of schools Mrs Kathryn Claypool admitted that she was seriously considering running again and would probably file. Mrs Ora Hope, county treas urer, has told friends that she will also be a candidate. Judge Robert D. Lytle has al ready announced his candidacy for the circuit judgeship. Senator Jim Jones and Repre sentative Virgil Staples are also sure to be candidates. Few challengers have yet appear ed Judge David F. Graham is re ported to be toying with the idea of running again for county judge. County Commissioner John Med- lin is reported to be not anxious to run again but his friends are try ing to induce him to reconsider. COMMUNICABLE DISEASES FOUND Several cases of measles, whoop ing cough and scarlet fever have been reported in the county. Among other families, the Omar Hite family is under quarantine for scarlet fever in the Owyhee dlrst- rlct. Berl Wyckoff, Arnold Darren and Homer Whitman have returned to the naval training station at Far- ragut, Idaho after visiting here. In Boise— Mrs Lloyd Marshall and Mrs Sid Burbrldge spent Tuesday in Boise Tompkins Taiks To Granger^ On Voting Question Resolutions Passed At Quarterly Meeting Of Pomona $200 GIVEN TO RED CROSS FUND Deploring a widespread lack of interest in voting, Morton Tomp kins, Oregon state Grange master, told a group of approximately 200 persons in the Vale community hall Saturday afternoon that he considers it lamentable that a peo ple should hold so lightly the pri- ileges of democracy. Mr. Tompkins spoke at an open session of the Malheur County Po mona Grange No. 33 during its all day quarterly meeting, at which Pomona Master Erie H. Parker pre sided. The state master also touch ed on the public power question, always of interest to the Grange.- Urging the necessity for public po wer expansion during the post-war period, he demanded to know what northwest industry would have done at present without Bonneville and Grand Coulee. Staff Sergeant Carl Scholtes of Brogan, veteran of 50 bombing mis sions in the Mediterranean area, told fellow Grangers of hiS surprise at finding mechanized agriculture practically unknown in parts of North Africa he visited, where far ming still depends on hand labor and the ox team. A 4-H scholarship for last year’s best victory garden was awarded to The Nyssa chamber of commerce voted at its weekly luncheon Wed nesday noon in the Gate City cate to give $200 from the scrap metal fund to the Red Cross war fund, which will be raised this month. The money will be taken from funds received through the sale of scrap metal, which was collected by businessmen and school children last year. The scrap was gathered with the understanding that the proceeds would be used to further the war effort. Adrian Chapter Is Among FFA Award Winners In the food for victory achieve ment contest, Albany, Corvallis, Ad rian and Pendleton F.F.A. chap ters were declared the 1943 winners and received $50 each for having been judged the four chapters mak ing the highest contribution to the war effort in food production, acc ording to Earl R. Cooley, state supervisor of vocational agricultural education. The 149 boys enrolled in vocat ional agriculture in the four high schools produced 90 tons of meat and diary products, 11,216 dozen eggs and 1645 tons of feed crops. Besides the production of food, the boys repaired 224 farm machines and 336 articles were constructed as food production equipment. Over Nelora Reed. Additional prizes were warded to Eleanor Reed, Merlin Parker and Nola Caverhill, also of Vale. A resolution urging emphasis on the re-negotiation of war contracts in an effort to prevent waste of material and manpower was passed. Other resolutions favored state cooperative purchasing of govern ment-owned material and equip ment when it should become sur plus providing feed stations for deer reported starving in Malheur and Baker counties and additional sugar allotments for farm families who do their own baking. Support was also given a resolution from South Malheur Pomona urging co unty road funds be allotted for work on the road from the I-O-N highway to Arock and the road th rough Antelope valley to Danner. Additional numbers on the pro gram presented by Mrs Blaine Gir- vin, lecturer, were skits by Arthur Antrim and Clarence Hill of Bro gan, a group of women from Bou levard Grange. - and Edwin Walker and J. B. Woodcock of Vale; a musical number by Mrs McCutch- eon of Oregon Slope; a reading by Mrs Aldrich, Boulevard, and a ser ies of tableaux given by Donna Jacobson, Helen Culp. Valeda Pur vis and Betty Feldtman, Vale. Thirty-one members were initiat ed during the evening sesion, when the fifth degree was conferred by $46,000 was received by the students from their home supervised farm ing program. The food produced was sufficient to feed 270 men in uniform or 484 civilians for one year. The vocational agricultural inst ructors of the four winning chap ters are John Welbes, Albany; St anley Green, Corvallis; John. E. Johnson, Adrian; and William Mc Kinney, Pendleton. The food for victory achievement award is spon sored and financed by the Sears, Roebuck foundation. The Adrian chapter with 49 me mbers produced ,^96,962 pounds of meat and dairy products, 1.569,980 pounds of seed, feed and truck crops and cooperatively purchased 8401 pounds of protein supplement and minerals. The boys repaired and constructed 27 farm machines and 60 articles of commodity equip ment. The 49 members have a total of $11.280 invested in livestock and eq uipment and received a labor in come from their supervised farming program of $8938.89 during 1943. Victory Garden Talks Planned In order to make available the most current information on vege table gardening, a series of meet- Pomona officers. Nine of the 12 ¡ngs has been planned for Malheur subordinate Granges of northern Malheur county were represented by 160 members during the morning session with a much larger attend ance later in the day. county. One meeting will be held in the Adrian high school building at 1:30 p.m. Monday, March 6. Other meet ings will be held as follows: Will- owcreek schoolhouse, 1:30 pun., Ma rch 7 and the agricultural room of the Ontario high school building, 8 p.m., March 6. The meetings will be serviced by Robert Reider, a specialist of Ore gon State college, who will discuss Emil Stunz has been appointed | planning of the garden, insect con- by Mayor Herschel Thompson asitrol and other phases of successful Stunz Selected As Councilman city councilman to fill the unexp ired term of George Sallee, who re signed recently because of moving to Paytte. Mr. Stunz, operator of the Stunz Lumber company, will serve only until January, 1945. unless he seeks elecyon this year. As successor to Mr. Sallee, he will serve as street commissioner. The appointment of Mr. Stunz was made with the approval of the other city councilmen. NYSSA M.I.A. TO PLAY IN BURLEY gardening production. Anyone in terested is invited to attend the meetings. Victory gardens for 1944 seems more vitally important for civilians than in 1943, County Agent R. E. Brooke said. Lend-lease supplies provided by the United tales have included vast quantities of canned goods which have in the past few months included a larger percent age of canned fruits and vegetables The most recent information ind icates that the demand will increase during the coming months, thus decreasing the supply for civilian use at home. The Nyssa M.I.A. basketball team will go to Burley, Idaho Saturday to enter a three-day tournment The winner will enter a tourney held annually in Salt Lake City to determine the championship team of the church. Nyssa won the right to go to Bur ley by taking the Snake river valley title. Nyssa has wins over New Plymouth, Payette. Ontario and Emmett. The Nyssa players are Cass Callahan. Calvin Wilson. Dean Fife, Leon Child. Darwin Jensen. Rose) Anderson and Lloyd Lewis. Retain From Trip— Mr and Mrs Merlyn Fagan have returned from a visit in Utah. ADRIAN CLUB AID TO BLOOD BANK The Jolly Jane club of Adrian has secured the 13th of April as the date on which to take 15 blood donors to Boise to aid in the Boise blood bank. Several Adrian resid ents have already signed up and anyone interested is asked to see Mrs Howard Hatch for details and instructions. The Boise blood bank is spon sored by the American Legion, Jo hn Regan Post No. 2, and in writ ing to Mrs Hatch, C. J. 8chooler, chairman of this project states that the response by the public had been so good that they are booked up many weeks ahead. Bulldogs Close Hoop Schedule With Loss, Win Nyssa Defeats Payette And Loses To Emmett * Quintet The Nyssa high school basketball team concluded a fairly successful season last week-end with a record of 9 wins and 7 losses for a per centage of .563. Emmett won the Snake River Valley championship with 15 wins and one loss for a percentage of .938. Weiser was the only team to defeat the Huskies. Other standings were as follows: Weiser, 12 wins and four losses, percentage. 750; Vale, 10 wins and 6 losses, .625; Nyssa, 9 and 7 for .563; Adrian, 8 and 8 for .500; Pay ette 8 and 8 for .500; Ontario, 6 and 10 for .375; New Plymouth, 4 and 12 for 333 and Fruitland none and 16 for .000. In the Nyssa game in Emmett Saturday the Nyssa boys suffered from an “off-night”, losing by a score of 33 to 12. Larson of Emmett, who played in place of Reed, lanky Emmett cent er, was high point man with 14 po ints. Coach John Young used all of his players in the game. They were D. Wilson, Moore, Billings, Bybee, H. Wilson, T. Church, Steinke and Morgan. The Bulldogs defeated the Pay ette Pirates on the Nyssa floor Fri day night by a 18 to 27 score. • Nyssa took a six-point lead in the first three minutes and then Pay ette’s Grant scored. The quarter ended 12 to 3. After the score went up to 18 to 6, D. Wilson registered another field goal and Coach Young sent in St einke. Bellon. Morgan and Marsh for Billings, Moore, H. Wilson and Bybee. The half ended in a score of 23 to 11. The Bulldogs continued to pile up a lead in the last two quarters as they ran circles around the in effective Pirates. Dale Willson, scoring ace of the game, made 16 points. The Payette B squad thumped the Nyssa B’s by a count of 46 to 36 in the preliminary game. Nyssa took a lead of 8 to 4 in the first quarter, but Payette overcame the margin and held a 20 to 17 lead at the end of the half. The Nyssa players were Toombs, Bellon, Root, R Church, Weeks, Cleaver, T. Church and Sakamoto. Disease Topic Of Discussion A laxity in morality seems to ex ist during wartime, said Dr. L. A. Maulding of Nyssa, county health doctor, at a meeting of the Lions club in a talk on venereal diseases Monday noon. “Because we are going to be kill ed tomorrow does not give us a license to be different than usual”, the doctor said. He added that Ny ssa has led the way in eastern Oregon in trying to "clean up" cer tain elements. The doctor stated that the health department is try ing to do something about control of communicable diseases and ven ereal Infections. Dr. Maulding expressed the be lief that venereal disease can be reduced by an educational program and suggsted such a program in the high school. For such instruct ion among high school students a person especially trained for the work is needed, he said. The physician said the problem of transient labor makes control of infections difficult. DAIRY MEETINGS ARE SCHEDULED Through the county agent's office a series of meetings will be held two days this week, attended by E. R. Jackman, farm crops special ist, Oregon State College, who will discuss pasture management, past ure mixtures and other up-to-date information on forage production; and Roger Morse, extension special ist in dairy husbandry, who will discuss the dairy outlook and other factors affecting the dairy program. He will also discuss management and feeding and the production of quality milk and cream. The first meeting is to be held in Vale, Starting at 1:30 p.m. today and the second is to be held In Nyssa Friday. March 3, starting at 1:30 pm. Fanners throughout the county are invited to attend these meet ings and take advantage of the in formation provided by specialists in their fields. I Road District To Be Organized Although City Rejects Program SGT. J. ATKESON COOL UNDER FIRE Medium Bomber Station, Eng- land--Contributing to the success of B-26 Marauders in hammering nazt airdromes, marshalling yards and also other installations in France. Belgium and Holland is Tech. Sgt. James Atkeson, 24, of Nyssa, Oreg on, who has served as an engineer- turret gunner on 29 of the trips the twin-engined bombers have made to enemy-occupied continen tal Europe. For his work with the Marauders Sergeant Atkeson was recently aw arded the distinguished flying cross. The citation accompanying the a- ward relates that he "displayed co urage and imperturbable coolness under intense concentrations of en emy anti-aircraft fire and enemy fighter action”. In addition to the distinguished flying cross, Sergeant Atkeson also wears the air medal with three oak leaf clusters. Both Sergeant Atkeson’s wife, Mrs Nell M. Atkeson, and his par ents, Mr and Mrs A. L. Atkeson. live at Nyssa. Sergeant Atkeson is now serving with the RAF. Red Cross Fund Drive Started The Red Cross war fund drive was started Wednesday and will be continued thioughout the month. Mrs Dick Tensen, Nyssa chair man, said solicitations will be sou ght only by letters, which will be mailed this week-end. Persons who do not receive a letter are asked to send or take their contributions to Mrs Tensen. The county quota is $10.000 and the Nyssa figure is $2500. As the Red Cross hopes to collect $200.000,000 in the United States, the usual $1 contribution for a me mbership in the Red Cross will not be sufficient. Many persons will have to give considerably more if the quota is to be met. Returning soldiers and sailors re port that the Red Cross is held in highest esteem by the servicemen because of its effective work in the war effort. The Red Cross collects blood do nations, operates service clubs ov erseas, helps servicemen receiving dlschargs and also their families, furnishes surgical dressings, acts as go-between in exchange of war prisoners and carries on many ot her tasks. NYSSA INDUCTEES AWAITING CALL Several registrants were sent to the Portland induction station by the Malheur county selective service board for pre-induction physical ex aminations. The men returned from the in duction station and those found acceptable for service will be order ed for induction when a call is re ceived by the board for the partic ular branch of service for which the registrant was found acceptable. Nyssa men included in the list are Eugene F. Pratt, Jay W. Sam ples, Grant A. Lewis, Max Long, Alvin I. Marrs, Max R. Sweaney, Melvin L. Spltze. Leno V. Christen sen, William H. Carren, and Ray mond W Church. Other men include David C. Mal- lea and Antony J. Mendieta of Jordan Valley, Donald E. Hite, and Alvin R. McDermott of Adrian. Donald A. Dasey of Homedale. and Vern R. Hughes of Parma. To Visit In East— Mr and Mrs Frank Morgan left Wednesday to visit relatives in the east. Mr. Morgan will go to Fond du lac, Wisconsin to visit his bro ther, Kent Morgan, who is ill in a hospital, and other relatives. He ex pects to return home in about a week. Mrs Morgan will go to Wash ington, D. C. to visit her brother, who is ill In the navy hospital at Bethsda She expects to be gone for three weeks. Here From Gooding— Mr. and Mrs. Howard Foster and two children of Gooding. Idaho, spent the week-end at the home of Mr and Mrs W. W Foster Mr and Mrs Howard Foster ex pect to move soon to Bridger Montana. Here From Ontario— Mrs Roacoe Kellogg of Ontario visited relatives and friends in Ny ssa Wednesday. IThompson May Not Be Qualified In View Of City Vote Organization of the Nyssa road assessment district was approved by rural taxpayers at an election held here last Saturday. The vote in the rural area was 92 to 11. The city taxpayers voting 22 to 13, refused to enter the district, so that the county court, under the law, will declare the district org anized, excluding the city of Nyssa. Jess Thompson. Ira Ure, Sid Fl anagan and Dale Garrison received the highest number of votes for the positions of directors. Attorney A. L. Fletcher, who has been han dling the legal phase of the matter, expressed the belief that Mr. Th ompson is not qualified to serve as a director in view of the fact that the city declined to enter the dist rict, and that Ure, Flanagan and Garrison should serve as directors. The directors will meet to appoint a secretary, the only officer of the ¡district aside from the directors. _________ . t |County Boxing Tourney Planned The annual Malheur county high school boxing tournament will be held in the Nyssa gymnasium Mar ch 17 and 18 with four schools re presented. The competing schools are Ont ario, Vale, Adrian and Nyssa. Twenty 3-round elimination bouts will be held FYiday night, beginn ing at 7:30, and 10 three-round fi nals will be staged Saturday night, beginning at 8:30. The four coaches in the county, Charles Lovejoy of Adrian, Jerry Cammon of Vale, Del Scott of On tario and John Young of Nyssa, will meet tonight to draft rules and arrange drawings and other j matters pertaining to weights. PUBLISHERS BUY FOSTER BUILDING Mr and Mrs Klass V. Powell, publishers of the Gate City Journal, have purchased the building form erly occupied by Dick's ice cream parlor on Main street from Mr and Mrs 3. F. Foster of Milton. The new owners will repair the building, lay concrete abutments for the heavy machinery and make other changes and improvements before moving their plant into the building. POET’S CORNER Edited by T. CAROL BYBEE DURATION HIBRINATION Like a bear in hibrinatlon, I am out of circulation At least for the duration. If I withstand temptation, Follow all the regulation, I will reach my destination. To some It is vexation, When I show such frlgldatlon I act so imitation. My Cadet in aviation. Is super-excellation. He won a decoration. Like the birds In their migration I would go across the nation To have his association. If I had a slight flirtation I am sure the congregation Would give wrong interprltatlon Which would hurt my reputation. He said, “On graduation. I ’ll take me a vacation And meet you at the station Where I’ll make you my relation Then I'll get more education". When he does some osculation My heart gets palpitation He's the best in all creation So without any hesitation We will start a generation. i Without any degradation Will be this new gestation. Without further explinatton Or any exploritatlon Or even a -citation- w e ll Increase the population. But for now . , no circulation At least for the duration. Cause I'm In hibrinatlon. Waiting for Cadet In aviation.
