Maine apples lure Jamaicans to Northeast
AUBURN. Maine (AP) - The
business is apples and the aim
is money, but in the 10 years
Jamaicans have picked apples
for Eugene and Lois Walling
ford, the profits have extended
beyond the ledger.
In addition to dedicated work
and easy-going friendliness, the
Jamaicans have brought the
Wallingfords a new under
standing of a culture foreign to
Maine
For the past 10 years. Maine's
24 largest apple producers have
hired about 450 Jamaicans for
each fall's apple harvest More
than 6,000 work throughout the
Northeast apple region, picking
for the basic wage of $3.44 an
hour, but working fast enough
to earn up to $50 a day on the
additional piecework pay.
The New England Apple
Council arranges work for the
Jamaicans through a Kingston
based organization called the
British West Indies Central
Labor Group.
Americans and Canadians
used to do the job. but Amer
icans got lazy and Canadians
have turned to more profitable
industrial jobs, says Eugene
Wallingford, a slight, wry,
50-year-old Maine farmer who
grows apples where his father
grew them since the 1920s
"The Jamaican is the best
picker I've ever seen," Walling
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ford says "They're like Amer
ican labor was in the '30s and
'40s They've never seen wel
fare They like to work There's
pride In what they do "
Wallingford says he was the
second grower in Maine to em
ploy Jamaicans Two men from
the 1971 crew come back year
after year because of the bond
they have with the Wallingfords
Lois Wallingford is a robust,
47-year-old woman with spar
kling blue eyes The Jamaicans
call her "Mum " While her hus
band talk6 about the Jamaicans’
value as hard workers, she
speaks of the cultural impact
they have made on her family
and her community
"They'll come into work in the
morning so cheerful that they
lust cheer me right up," Lois
Wallingford says "It’s been
great for our kids more than
anyone else The Jamaicans
saw the kids playing kickball
one time and showed them
soccer It's given the kids the
opportunity to learn about
another culture "
The people in the Auburn
area have learned too, with
some mixed reactions, she
adds She recalls the first Sun
day she took the Jamaican
workers to church and they
brought along beer, a West In
dian custom No one in the
congregation seemed to mind,
she says
After they finish picking ap
ples, most of the Jamaicans
head south to cut sugar cane in
Florida until the spring, when
they finally head home to
Jamaica for several months with
their families before returning to
Maine to start the cycle again
Accused
killer claims
conspiracy
EUGENE (AP) — Lawrence
Moore had an intense, piercing
look in his eyes as he fired into a
crowded Salem tavern, killing
four and wounding 20, wit
nesses testified on Thursday
The witnesses' comments
followed arguments by Moore's
lawyer, Michael Callahan of
Salem, who said Moore believed
the tavern patrons were Jews,
millionaires, whores and bank
tellers involved in a conspiracy
to poison him and take his
money
Moore. 25, an unemployed
lumber mill worker from Scio.
east of Salem, has pleaded in
nocent by reason of mental dis
ease or defect
He already has admitted in a
court document that he walked
into the Oregon Museum Tavern
on May 7, a Thursday ladies'
night, and began firing an au
tomatic pistol
A jury of six men and six
women is hearing the case in
Lane County Circuit Court
where the trial was moved
because of extensive publicity
in the Salem area
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