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The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning, June 13, 1937
oodburn Fruit Growers. Association Making Good Progress
Berry Acreage
Added Rapidly
300 Members; Prices This
. Year Good but Output
X Extremely Varied .
. By C. GENEVIEVE MORGAN
.Three years ago the depression
almost had a strangle hold of the
Woodburn Fruit Growers associa
tion morale was shattered, price
vsa what you could get and be
glad ot it, contracts had expired,
membership was dwindling ...
Not a pretty picture, but O. L.
DjltIs, president, can smile now
as he recalls It.
. For the Woodburn Fruit Grow
ers association, as everyone who
has followed fruit history knows,
is not only back on Its feet It Is
up on Its toes. Membership hits
the 100 mark, new acreage has
teen added and there would be
a whole lot more potential acreage
right this minute it plants had
been available this spring in
short, Vie. association Is In first
! (nsditlon and at a point
where, it can and will go ahead
and improve Us property, says
Davis, who has been growing ber
ries for 15 years and now has nine
acres In cane fruits. i
Davis has been president of the
association the past three years,
and for about the same period en
ergetic Tim BJelland has been
manager, and to them as well as
to the board ot directors and
Gladys D. Miller, secretary- treas
urer, go bouquets for recent pro
gress of this 15-year-old cooper
atlve.
largest Logan Pool
Bulk of the fruits going through
the association is berries, and in
cluded is the largest loganberry
pool in the world representing this
year the fruit from 280 acres. In
all. the association represents
88 acres of berries, cherries and
prunes, the latter two items be
ing comparatively small and last
year totaling 5396 trees from
which on cherries and prunes
407.295 pounds ot fruit last year
netted th egrowers 12995.83. The
193S prunes were the first of this
fruit handled.
During the 1936 harvest. 2.296,
627 pounds ot berries were picked
from 844 acres ot crops and
netted the growers 398.702.42
and berries last year weren't. the
surprisingly high prices they hare
developed this year.
The 1936 record outstripped
both in quantity and cash, the
1935 berry deal, with $61,409.70
netted the growers in 1935 on 1 ,
812.318 pounds of fruit. And 1935
represented a gain of $22,995.78
over 1934.
But so much for that.
' Grader Installed
' This year a berry grader is be
ing installed at the plant in Wood
burn,, and will be used only in
case of emergency, in which event
the association will barrel its
berries. Otherwise the Woodburn
plant will continue as a receiving
station as heretofore. An electric
scale was installed the past week
and slight remodeling of the bus
iness office will be done soon.
Last year the Woodburn grow
ers made a ten strike for them
selves when they decided to barrel
161 tons of their loganberries on
their own hook. This deal return
ed 5 cents a pound to the grow
ers, or a cent over the going buy
ing price.
All fruit for this year has been
contracted except black and bar
relling cherries, prunes and black
berries. Manager BJelland said
Wednesday. Possibly the cherry
crop will be signed up at the time
this appears.
Boysenberry Gains
With weather conditions, both
last fall and this spring, putting
considerable of a kink in the ber
ry' situation and naturally being
one factor in the skyrocket mar
kets the Woodburn growers re
port at this stage that the Boysen
berry, a newcomer, is showing
other berries up and looks the
most promising crop of the year.
(Marshalls fell way short, partly
due to the heat scald in early
June; ' logans apparently suffered
winter damage, severely in the
case ot older vines and from 20
to 30 per cent in case of younger
vines; there was no set on black
caps, and so on.) -
Most of the Boysenberry ton
nage in the county this year is
around Woodburn. and though
the acreage is small inasmuch as
the crop has been largely experi
mental to this point, a larger vol
ume is expected next year. Max
Gehlar of the Oregon Fruit Pro
ducts holds a corner on the Boy
senberry deal this year, having
purchased the Woodburn crop at
8 cents, the same figure he paid
for the pool's red raspberries.
Gehlhar has expressed the belief
that Boysenberries are a coming
commercial deal.
Red Hearts (with three times
last year's acreage) are another
berry that the Woodburn growers,
in common with those in most !
sections hereabouts, are pinning
new faith on. They look, for the
most part, promising this year and
are replacing the dwindling Et
tersberg. -j
Ettersbergs -Fickle
Pranks the Ettersbergs - have
been playing on growers In recent
years are illusted by report of
on Woodburn grower that on a
three acre, field where he picked
2500 pounds to the acre two
years ago, he last year managed
to get off four crates. In contract
Joe Doran, who has a hillside
farm near Brooks, said while de
livering Marshall the past week
t h a t his Ettersbergs this year
promise a ton to the acre on his
three-acre patch.' ,
Doran, by the -way. Just about
takes county-wide, honors for
gooseberry production this year;
from two acres .he harvested six
tons, or an even two tons to the
acre.
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Judged by the contorted expressions on the faces
of these two Chlcagoans the lady picket was put
tint; up quite a struggle when a bystander snatched
a placard from her In front of the city hall where
And here's the way he cares
for his gooseberries: Sprays twice
before he picks, with a 5-5-100
bordeaux as . the leaves form and
with lime sulphur three or four
weeks before! harvest; and culti
vates four or five times through
the summer. In fact, he empha
sizes cultivation after the harvest
rather than before.
On strawberries, he has virtual
ly no trouble with spittle bugs
probably because clover patches
surround his berry fields. Spit
tle bugs prefer clover to berries!
Estimate Is Close
BJelland says the association of
ficers estimated the gooseberry
crop there at 50 tons; when the
harvest which started June 4 and
ended just before the hot spell,
was all over, the pool had mar
keted 52 tons. -
' Before strawberries are passed
up entirely, let's mention that the
Woodburn pool showed less Mar
shall acreage this year, with 60
compared to 89 acres last year.
Even Marshalls are getting diffi
cult to raise in that section, some
growers find. Red raspberries
cover in all 25 acres this year,
and blackberries. 117" acres. The
latter vool will come under the
new blackberry control board bar
gaming agency. The youngberry
acreage runs over 30, or over half
the peak acreage as much was lost
by heavy frost damage two years
ago. .- :
With the fruit markets and
growing conditions just as much
one fellow's guess as another's in
recent years, the association lead
ers have made no effort to dictate
wnat crops members shall grow.
but simply make an effort to ac
quaint members with situations
as they exist and let growers fol
low their own pleasure or
hunches in production. President
Davis says. s.
Have OO Per Cent
The association board of di
rectors, by the way, includes John
Ramage, R. L. Freeberg, Fred
KInns, Frank Addelman. Davis,
BJelland and Paul Gooding, who
Is also vice president. The assoc
iation members represent about
90 per cent ot the berry growers
in its district, and Include grow
ers from as far away as Sherwood.
When it comes to prognostica
tion on berries, honors at Wood
burn go to H. K. Sargent, who
has Just north of town a 10-acre
ranch from which the chief crops
are berries (from 44 acre plant
ings) and prize-winning barred
rock chickens.
From Sargent came these in
teresting observations and tips:
Older loganberry canes couldn't
take the past winter; for they
show a great quantity of imper
fect berries and many bare places
on the canes.; The latter, Sargent
thinks, more! of a disease, and
probably anthracnose of bark
damage similar to that which
pesters youngberrles.
Younger Ones Better
; He estimates seven-year-old
logan vines will hare a 20 per
cent crop this year; five-year-olds
a 30 per cent crop; and younger
ones better. I
"I use a harrow and get a four
inch loose dirt mulch on top of
the ground for my berries, instead
of dragging) and packing the
earth." Sargent says.
"What's more, in my loganber
ries, I make it a point to set out
three rows each year at the op
posite side ot the patch from
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wives and sympathizers staged a demonstration
criticizing Mayor Kelley In connection with the
killing of strikers at Republic Steel Co, In South
Chicago Memorial Day week-end.
Beiry Fair Plans
For 1938 Started
Success of Recent Lebanon
Fair Elates Residents
and Fair Board
LEBANON. June 12. Members
of the fair board and other bus
iness people are so elated over the
success of the berry fair that plans
are already- under way for the fair
of 1938 with the Idea of making
it the grandest pageant In the
state. Frank Mayer is chairman of
the I committee and will announce
his helpers within a short time. :
ll. E. Heyne, engaged In bus
iness in Lebanon- the past 25
years, has . purchased the Frank
Mayer building on Main street now
occupied by the Santiam market.
The building is 20x70 and will be
remodeled and made strictly mod
ern. It will be occupied by Mr.
Heyne's gift and music store.
The Santiam Fish and Game as
sociation at their meeting in Leb
anon Wednesday went on record as
favoring a closed season in Linn
county this year on both quail and
pheasant. They also arranged for
the completion of the pheasant
pens under construction on the
L. E. Arnold poultry ranch. This
was the last meeting of the asso
ciation until autumn. :
Lions Klect
At the business -session of the
Lions' club, following a banquet at
Hotel Lebanon Wednesday night,
Lester A. Wilcox, city school su
perlntendent, was ! elected presi
dent; Harold Irvine, vice-presi
dent; Ralph Reeves, treasurer;
Dr. J. G. Gill, lion tamer; Hiram
Groves, tail twister; Dr. Joel C.
Booth and Vernon Reeves, direct
ors.
There was a decision to back
Dr. Booth for gcrvernor of the Ore
gon district ot Lions' clubs, 't
The women of the Church of
Christ, who sent a barrel of 200
pound weight to a Kentucky town
in a flood stricken area, hare re
ceived a note ot thanks saying
that In the town of 1000 lnhabi-
whlch I take out three tows so
I never have an all-new field." In
short, he always has berries to
market. (Which Is necessary be
cause he runs a fruit and fryer
stand at his place and finds this
not only a good business but an
interesting one.) .
He uses a hand Vaughn tractor
an Oregon product, too which
is not much larger than a plough
but Infinitely cheaper than keep
ing a horse and mighty handy on
the small acreage. What's more,
he can't use over 30 cents worth
ot gasoline a day with it, he says.
Another Sargent tip: , In , the
non-growing season, he builds his
chicken yard around the goose
berry plants and that means no
worms, which is something.!
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furniture, woodwork and toys with this wonder
ful enamel. Anyone can use if One coat does the ob ' . .
covers solidly, dries In four hours without a trace of brush
marks. And how It brings the sparkle of newness to old
today. Try It tonight. '
We have Enameloid
In 16 bright spark
ling colors.
R. L, Elf strom Co.
Formerly Nelson Bros. Paint and Roof ins: Dept.
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Woman Picket
tants not ope escaped disaster and
the goods which were divided Im
partially meant much, to the
town.
The "Years' 1 Resume . ot the
Wesley Foundation In Japan"
contains a picture of Mr. and Mrs.
Jack Bellinger. Jack Is a former
Lebanon boy.' The Bellingers are
under contract to teach English
two years at the Methodist col
lege, Aoyama Gakuin in Tokyo,
but it has been arranged for them
to give some time to the Wesley
foundation in which they were
very active during their college
days here.
Refunding Bonds
i Sale Authorized
By - City Fathers
MONMOUTH,"' June 12. At a
special council meeting Wednes
day night, an ordinance was In
troduced to sell bonds in the
amount of $60,000 to refund the
same amount of water bonds held
in the state treasury since their
date of Issue in 1919. The state
treasurer had expressed willing.
ness to retain the bonds at a low
er interest rate. Legislation reduc
ing the official rate of Interest
was passed at the last session.
Last year an attempt to refund
the bonds at lower Interest, was
made but only one bid was receiv
ed. Rules were suspended Wed'
nesday night and the ordinance
given three readings and passed.
Annual Pioneer Reunion
At Eola Will Be Speaker;
; B. F. Irvine Will Speak
EOLA, June 12 All pioneers.
descendants and friends are in
vited to attend the annual Eola
Polk county pioneer reunion to
be held here Sunday. A basket
lunch will be served at noon and
for the afternoon an Interesting
program has been arranged.
B. F. Irvine of Portland will
be the main speaker; Dr. H. C.
Epley will be song leader and
Miss Ruth Bedford, pianist. Mrs.
B. I. Ferguson is president of the
association.
Child Injured, but not
Seriously, as Knocked
From Tricycle by Auto
WEST STAYTON, June 12
Friday morning as Edna Mae
Brown backed her car in turning
around she backed into Truman
McClellan, son ot Mr. and Mrs.
Paul McClellan. The child was on
his tricycle which was badly
smashed. The boy was bruised and
scratched but it is believed he Is
not seriously hurt.
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Donate Over $700
To Memorial Fund
Improvement of Cemetery
and Grounds of Church
Association Aim
SCIO, June 12. More than
$700 had been subscribed to the
Providence Memorial association
a few days ago, according to R.
E-Peery. originator and one ol
the prime movers, in the organ
ization.
"The association has made
very satisfactory progress in the
past year in Its effort to fi
nance its plan of ; general im
provement of the cemetery and
grounds ot historic Providence
church, Peery said. It. was ex
pected that the amount would
be considerably increased within
the next' few days, he . added.
Two separate funds are main
tained, the fence fund and the
memorial fund.
; Permanency ' In character of
improvements has been signally
planned by the committee in
charge, Peery pointed out.
i Members of - the association
have offered to donate flowers
shrubbery in season for planting
on the church grounds near the
gateway to give it a park-like
appearance.
Peery stated that officials and
members of the association are
"profoundly grateful" to the pub
lic for the "fine support" of the
undertaking, and "especially to
the present officials of Provi
dence church , for the exceeding
ly fine cooperation and help in
this work,"
Program Planned
The third Sunday in June each
year was established many years
ago as the date of the annual
home-coming at this historic
shrine. An elaborate program
now is in the making for this
year's memorial to the founders
of the church.
It was in 1853 that Joab Pow
ell, early-day circuit rider of this
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FORD "60" OWNERS REPORT
22-27 MILES PER GALLON
First built for England and France, two years ago. the 60-horse-power
Ford V-8 is writing remarkable mileage records on
American roads today. Private owners, fleet operators, and cab
companies, alike report averages of from 22 to 27 miles on
gallon of gasoline.
You can fill the tank of your Ford "6QT and drive all day
300 to 400 miles without stopping again for fuel. Besides
costing less to run than any other Ford car ever built, it sells at
the lowest Ford price in years. That's double economy 1
The '60 delivers V-8 smoothness and quiet at speeds up
to 70 miles an hour and its famous older brother, the "85,",
gives top performance and greater gasoline mileage this year
"than ever before..',-'-' '' . ; '-. : "',:'
Both engine sizes are built into the same roomy car. of the
aame advanced design, with the same modern features of
comfort and dependability that make the 1937 Ford V-8
unquestionably THE QUALITY GAR IN THE LOW-PRICE FIELD.
part of the Willamette valley.
and a few associates established
the Providence church, Jocated
seven miles southeast ot Scio
Mrs. Iva Abbott of Scio is a
granddaughter of Elder Powell.
Changes Are Made
In Training Staff
MONMOUTH, June 12 Sever
al changes in the Oregon Nor
mal's training school faculty are
being made. Pearl Eyre, super
visor of lower grades at Rick-
reall is resigning at close of this
term.
Mrs. Delia Keeney, supervisor
of teaching in the eighth grade at
Independence, . Is taking a leave
of absence for one year for
study. Miss Myrna Fletcher is
replacing her. :
Mary Donaldson, recently re
turned from securing a master's
degree Jn California, has resum
ed wore in the Independence
school.
Ida Mae Smith is taking a
year's leave from! Oregon Normal
staff teaching, te secure a mas
ter's degree at Teachers' college,
Columbia university, N. T. Miss
Lavada Reed will replace Miss
Smith. , , -
Lucille Wall, absent at school
last year, has returned to Mon
mouth as first grade supervisor.
Anne O'Neill; will spend this
summer traveling fn Europe.
Eleanor Leonard, who has
been teaching in the grades at
Independence, will have a simi
lar . position in Monmouth this
summer.
Elolse Buck of the ONS. Eng
lish department will be back I
next fall. '
If jroa bar stomach triors. fM, tMartfeurm.
uium, r othr distress aim to szeaas acid,
cat UDOA -today. Dsssd oo stomach spaelal
Ut's prescription. Ortr M.000 psopls hav
wrtttsa lett.ra of praise. Try package of
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Sirs. Mumford Is Guest
BRUSH COLLEGE, June 12.
Mrs. Lillian Mumford is a guest
here this month at the home of
her brother and elster-in-law. Dr.
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