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NEWS-REVIEW. ROSEBURG, OREGON MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 1948 NINE Harvest Workers Needed Now In 8 Oregon Areas A late season ha delayed peak demand! for harvest workers un til well along in September, ac cording to reports reaching the Oregon State Employment Serv ice here, but eight areas can use more help at once. Director Earl R. Lovell in his weekly survey of 29 local offices pointed to Ontario, Medford and Portland districts as in most urg- i . ent need of workers, while beans I : and hops in the Willamette Val- i ley will require hundreds of faml- J ! lies In the next few weeks, j With big pear .01 starting f Monday, August 30. the Medford j area will need several hundred pickers Immediately. Z Ontario can use at least 200 1 I men gathering potatoes, sweet ! corn, onions and lima beans. No ! apace la available In the labor I camp. I ' Late cranberries still are com- j Ing on In the Gresham area, east of Portland, while the Hillsboro Y X district to the west can use up to 300 pickera. Beans, hops and cu- : cumbers are being gathered in I j ' Portland! four-county area, j . Albany and Eugene both can use more bean and hop pickers up to September 2U, but the Sa lem district's neak demand will come with late hops starting about September 6. The prune harvest near Free water will need about 330 more workers until mid-September. Hood River expects pears and i apples to start ripening about September 15. Three thousand ; pickers will be needed for at least ; six weeks. Cabins are available, I but some equipment should be 5 brought along, f J Further Information concern. ;.! Ing current labor demands, hous- ing. wages and other conditions ?! may be secured from anv local office of the state's employment service. Director Lovell pointed out. Rodto Competition at Statt Fair to b Keen Henry Christenson of Eugene, Oregon State Fair rodeo super intenent, has Informed Manager Leo Spitzbart more top bronc busters than ever before will be on hand for the local horse show rodeo competition. Christenson explained that competition In all divisions of the All-America cow boy race la very keen and all competitor are anxious to gain points In the various fall produc tions. The rodeo eventi are staged with horse show classes each night of the fair in the horse show pavilion. Entries closed Au gust 25 in the horse show divi sions with a record number of put of state strings on hand. Shortage of Ttachors Won't Lowtr Standards PORTLAND. Aug. 30 (.P) the Oregon Education Associa tion intends to uphold teaching standards despite a shortage 01 elementary teachers. "School boards are becoming alarmed at the shortage and are requesting lower standards for certification," Cecil W. Posey, sec retary of the association s board of trustees, said. The trustees urged that If con cessions have to be made to fill vacancies they be "on a tempo rary emergency basi :." Bet-Keeper in 20th Ytar Of Battle With Boars PORTLAND. Aug. 30 UP- Lewls White, bee-keeper, who feuds annually with bears, said today his 1948 score was up to five bruins, all .dead. He has killed the bears In the last six weeks as they attempted to raid his bee stands In logeed- off land near Vernonia. Three others still are in the hills, and he intends to get them, too. White said he has been battling the bears 20 years. Last year he had to kill only one raiding bruin. But some years the kill goes up to i. Chamber of Commerce Group Gets Close-up of Forest Lure r ...... .., the three classes are expected to be the largest la exposition his tory. Anne Hunt McKennon. widely known Oregon noma demonstra tor who will superintendent the lb M r'-tl- , , ;'V:.J.v: if .... i (Hi v,: , i I A Iff- 3 Quality Feed and Seed Store Short and Burka Sri. 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You have' a choice of three enginesi one for gasoline, one for tractor fuel and a dirsel, a specially designed, farm engineered engine that will be available later. Also, you have a choice of interchangeable cast iron or stamped stret wheels for Row Crop Models to suit your traction conditions. What's more, every mountrd tool is basically interchangeable with every other new Row Crop tractor. When you add the direct drive power take-off of the "77", metered oil system, battery ignition and the several other new improvements you'll realise why the 77" is truly a jermer't tractor. STEARNS HARDWARE AND IMPLEMENT Pacific Hiway Nerth Phene 499J-2 : f - . Tsa Inut photoff pti of the tlllar metrftantttn, fntk rsmm rtnovai, in iwhibi ffhrk hsroah up n4 mi ami. loniitwf MeC IMttOt t full ttUf 4apUk twnlffn, g.. t f k . . Jk t(4&4i ptepand R0T0TILLER POWIR TILLER OF A HUNDRED USISI No crop can be any better than the seed bed that fiedi it. 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The party visited for est lookouts, ranger stations, and vast stands of timber, A vis it was made to the beautiful Twin Lakes, seen in the picture above. The party Ion horse back) Included, left to right, John Todd, vice president of the Chamber of Commerce; Frank Denton, Ray B. Hampton, Ump que Forest staff member; Earl Evans, Jim Myers, end M. M. Nelson, forest supervisor. The picture was taken by Ranger George W. Churchill, who alio made the trip. Hampton, Todd and Denton ere seen (lower left) at Lookout Mountain, one of the oldest lookouts on the Umpque Forest. It will be re placed this year with e new 30 foot tower. The "Bill Taft tree," with a diameter of more than eight feet (lower right), is in spected by Evans, Myers and Denton. Statt Fair Poultry Show To bo Biggest Sineo War The Oregon State Fair poultry show win tie tne largest since tne laie war, manager ieo apnznan said this week. Spitrhart atated Kenneth Jennings, poultry super intendent, had reported entries will exceed both 1946 and 1947. competition will he Ta. Port land. Judeins In all poultry classes will be completed by the time the fair opens on Labor day, will f-AiT-ru LAJlll i-to anu J.' The poultry competition will Judged by J. M. Nichols of coma ana Alan Paviea of Pi Exhibitors Warntd Of Doadlino on Entries Manager Leo Spltzhart warned exhibitors this week that entrlea in the Oregon State Fair cull nary, textile and floral divisions close on septemoer a. tntnes in cooking and textil classes for the first time, hae announced that organ music will be played dally in the department. Daily frozen foods demonstrations will also be given. I'd like to demonstrate this tractor on your farm lit bring a Ford Tractor out to your place, without any obligation. 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