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16 Tht Newi-Revlew, Roseburg, Or. Tuts., Dee. 20, 1949 ... : - City Holds No Lure For Nation's Junior Vegetable Grower Champion By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK UP) When the good earth will pay a fellow $10 an an hour, should he leave the farm for a career In the city? The new king of the natlon'i junior vegetable growera hai de elded there li only one anawer to that onei "I'm staying on the farm." Citv life holds no attraction; for iO-year-old Russel L. Sears Jr., ol (jummlngton, Mass., wno was crowned champion of the Na tional Junior Vegetable Growers association in Washington last week. He won the $300 first prize by raising and marketing $l,dOO worth of vegetables on a two-andone-half acre plot. Several thousand farm youths comoeted in the contest, sponsored by the A. ana r. loon stores. Sears, a six-foot, 200-pound Jun ior at the University of Massa chusetts, explained that ht gross ed me i,juu dv sparetime worK on his father's 300-acre farm. "My father gave me a small Plot to encourage me," he said, ana l worked it during vaca- Melrose By NETTIE WOODRUFF Dwight Coder's car was nearly nemonsnea Monaay mgnt wnen it collided with a car driven by Mr. Lamb near the Melrose cnurcn. Blake Conn, son of Mr. and Mra. K. L. Conn, is convalescing at his home after an appendix op eration ai inercy nospitai jast weeK. Mr. Byers, of Roseburg, has bought the Louis Nichols place at Cleveland. Mr. and Mrs. Nichols and son, Arnold Patterson, have moved to Coos Bay where they are operating a variety store. Jack Trent is in Mercy hospital where he had his appendix re moved last week. His physician Is Dr. LIndell. Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Busenbark have returned from Portland where he attended a nut growers meeting last week. Charles Crlng made a business trip to Portland last Monday. Clifford Wood, of Callahan Trail settlement, was a business visitor at Roseburg Thursday. While at Melrose he made some repairs on the forest service tele phone line, which extends to the Callahan Trail settlement. His mother, Mrs. Gertrude Wood, re turned home with him and will make her home with her son and family. For several years she has made her home with her daugh ter, Mrs. Mayme Black, of Eden bower. Donald Wood, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Wood, student at Hepner high school, will spend the Christmas holidays with his parents at their home at Callahan Trail settlement. When he re turns to Hepner, his two broth ers, Glen and Dick, will accom pany him back for a visit with their uncle and aunt, at whose home Don is staying. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Doerner re turned home from Salem Wed nesday evening where they had visited Mr. Doerner'e mother, Mrs. Florence Doerner. His moth er was Injured in an auto acci dent recently. tion and on weekends horn from college. "My big crop was potatoes. I hired what help I needed, and sacked and sold the crop myself to grocery stores. I put In only 45 hours of my own time alto- geiner, ana tne protit ngures out at better than 510 an hour." In addition he won $100 in prizes at three local fairs. "I also got 3,000 servings for our table from mv garden, said Sears, "and 150 pint boxes for our ireezer and about 300 jars of canned vegetables." His father wants him to take over the family farm in time, and the youth has agreed. He is already employing scientific farming techniques leurned in school. "I had to twist dad's arm little at first," he grinned, "but now nes all lor them. We've alrohotoed the farm to find the best way to conserve the soil by checking erosion. 'By keeping up with the times you can gross $10,000 or more a year on a New England farm sucn as ours. You ought to net better tnan S5.000 Dlus every thing you need to eat except some salt from the store." ! Young Sears wants to eet rid of the farm's herd of 36 dairy cattle because "I don't care for cows they Just take up too much 01 a man s lime." His chief crops will be pota toes, chickens and tourists. He plans to modernize the 23-room old family farm house to attract tne tourists summer fugitives irom me city. 1 aon t want to live in a cllv myself," he smiled. "I've seen a city. I don't like the nace. I here is more independence on a farm. It's eaUer to be vour own doss. And, you know, vou can eet a lot more things done on a farm, because you don t have to change your ciotnes every time you turn around. You can waste a lot of time gettine in and out of a dress suit." CUT HOLLY FOR SALE Wharton Bros. Hardware MS 8. Main Phone 18 Father Of Missing Eugene Flier Offers Reward EUGENE (IP) The father of one of the four persons missing in a lost private plane has posted a $1,000 award for information leading to the discovery of the craft. Tlie award was offere.1 by Wil bur Hyland Sr. His son, Ray, was piloting the plane, which vanish ed Dec. 9 en route from Eugene to Los Angeles. 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