Mechanical Bean Pickers Due
For Valley Crops Before Long
Br LILLIE L. MAD SEN
Farm Editor, The Statesman
Just as picker problems brought on mechanical pickers in the hop
yards, somewhat the same difficulty is making headway with mechan
ical bean picking machinery.
Bean processors here in the Willamette Valley say that the me
chanical pickers have not entered the valley bean fields yet, but that
reports from localities on the east seaboard, where mechanical devices
ere being tried out, indicate that i
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thoy will eventually be practical.
Should the mechanical bean
fi Iters reach the Willamette Val
ey. the picture of the valley bean
field would change. The pickers
work on bush beans. Here in the
valley almost the entire crop is
po'e bean varities.
Bean men indicate that the pole
beans have been favored on two
counts: 1, So long as human pick
ers are used, it is less difficult to
get pickers for the pole bean; 2,
Quality of the pole bean has been
better than of the bush bean for
gr-en bean processing.
The latter problem Is on the
way to being remedied, however.
Oregon State College has, for some
time, been making experiments
and is developing types of bush
beans which it hopes will have as
good quality as the pole bean. A
little more work in hybridization
may yet be needed to perfect this
better-type bush bean, one Salem
processor, who preferred not to be
quoted directly,"" said Thursday.
Two valley packers are this year
doing considerable with the snap
bush bean. One of these is the Al
derman Farms at Dayton, where
U. S. Alderman not only grows his
beans but processes them as welL
The other is PictSweet processors
at Albany.
Ronald Beglau, f i e 1 d m a n for
P ctSweet, said Thursday that be
siJes the fact that the bush beans
can be grown at less cost because
of poles, wires and twines needed
for the tallbean, there is still an
other reason for their use.
"They come on earlier. We start
ed our bush bean harvest Wed
nesday. We will practically be
through with them before the pole
beans come on. It is really an add
ed project which fills in between
seasons," Beglau explained. He did
not, he added, expect the bush
bean to take the place of the pole
bean for quite some time, if ever.
Wore work will have to be done
on improvement of the quality, he
admitted. However, the quality of
the bush b e a n is good good
enough, he said, that his company
is harvesting 170 acres of them this
year, the lirst year tried by Pict
Sweet. Beglau said that growers of
the bush bean were expecting
about 5 ton to the acre as against
7' ton average for the pole bean.
While both Blue Lake Packers,
Inc.. and Paulus Brothers Packing
Company at Salem said they had
made heavy cuts in acreage this
year, PictSweet is running about
the same acreage oi poie Deans as
last.
John Johnson, field supervisor
for Blue Lake, said his company
was down from 10 to 12 per cent
tinder last year, and Miss Vada
Hill of Paulus Brothers, believed
that her company had dropped
about 25 per cent. An over-all 10
per cent drop in bean acreage in
the Pacific Northwest is being re
ported. Growers report little or no no
ticeable damage from the heat of
the past few days. Blossoms were
not far enough along to have
brought about blossoms drop in
the pole beans, and the bush beans
were too far along to suffer from
this. , ,
However, a closer check for
damage will be made this week
in both bush and pole bean fields.
Overland Greyhound
geeks Rate Increase
Application for an increase In
rates was filed in the Public Utili
ties Commission here Thursday by
the Union Pacific Stages, also
known as the Overland Greyhound
Stages.
These stages operate between
Portland and Ontario, and farther
eastern points, and are owned by
the Union Pacific Railroad Com
pany. Officials estimated the proposed
increase at 25 per cent.
Cautious Stock
Market Drops
NEW YORK (P-Another of the
familiar quietly cautious sessions
was completed Thursday by the
stock market with a slight sell-off
in the final hour. Volume totaled
1,010.000 shares.
Considerable resistance to any
decline was shown by the market,
but there was a question whether
it was resistance or sheer apathy.
The Associated Press average of
0 stocks lost only 10 cents at
$106.10. The decline Wednesday
was 60 cents.
The industrial component of the
average lost 20 cents, and the
rails lost 20 cents, while utilities
held unchanged.
Business
ST. PAUL, Minn. Consolidated
net sales of Gould-National Bat
teries, Inc., for the fiscal year
ended April 30, rose to a record
high of $56,886,246 from $52,065,
480 in the preceding year. Net pro
fit after taxes was $2,866,483 com-
ared with $3,055,320 the preced
ng year, Albert H. Daggett, presi
dent, said in the annual report.
The company has a plant in Salem,
Oregon.
Net earnings after taxes and pre
f e red dividends were equal to
$8.23 a share on the 337,200 com
mon shares outstanding, compared
with $9.12 a share on the 335,000
shares outstanding a year ago.
Working capital was increased
to S16.727.037 from $12,288,312 in
fiscal 1951-
The contract for construction of
the embankment on the west ap
proach to the new Willamette
River bridge system was awarded
Thursday by the state highway
commission to the E. L. Kennard
Co. of Enumclaw, Wash.
The firms low estimate on the
work was $58,816. The contract
calls for construction of .37 mile of
embankment along the west ap
proaches to the two bridges.
The contract was included In
$1,223,561 in highway construction
awarded to low bidders by the
commission.
Included in bids which will be
opened by the commission today is
one for construction of the east
approaches to the Center Street
bridge over the Willamette River.
The east approach will have an
electric heating system embedded
in the concrete to eliminate haz
ardous icy conditions during freez
ing weather.
Another contract awarded by
the commission Thursday was one
for $153,885 for construction of
viaducts over the West Portland
Hubbard highway between Tuala
tin and Wilsonville which went to
Birkemeier and Saremal of Port
land. Largest of the jobs up for bid
grading and paving section of the
Columbia River highway in Wasco
County vras referred to the com
mission's engineer for further
study.
The commission. In other action,
voted to consider improvements of
the Dayton - Amity cutoff and
Three Mile Lane, between Dayton
Junction and the new Yamhill
bridge.
The commission told the Mult
nomah County commissioners it
would withhold construction of the
proposed Benfield Expressway at
Portland unless the commissioners
withdrew their demand for an
underpass.
They also discussed joining oth
er groups interested in acquiring
land in the Columbia River Gorge
to preserve its scenic attractions.
Wheat Moves
Lower; Sales
Activity Slow
CHICAGO Wheat futures
moved lower Thursday on hedging
sales in rather dull trading.
Corn featured the market, how
ever, moving upward around a
cent and then backing down.
Oats were mixed and soybeans
dipped after moving ahead around
2 cents at times.
Corn buying was Influenced
partly by reports of the sale of
three cargoes of domestic corn to
Austria.
Receipts were lighter, also, at
54 cars. Cash corn prices were
about a cent higher.
Wheat closed t2 to m cents
lower than the previous finish,
corn 4 higher to H lower, oats
5s higher to lower, rye un
changed to 2-2 lower, soybeans
IV4 lower to 4 higher, and lard
7 to 15 cents a hundred pounds
lower.
Many traders stayed out of the
market pending the government's
monthly crop report, which was
issued after the lose of trading.
Women 'Thrilled
And Petrified' by
Convention Bus
CHICAGO The women - folk
with the Oregon GOP Delegates
would be wholly thrilled if we
weren't half petrified" with fear
when their police-escorted bus
screeches through Chicago traffic
at 60-or-more-per.
That was the comment of one
of them who said she didn't dare
be quoted because she wasn't ac
tually a delegate and therefore
didn't want to "steal the public
ity." The police-escorted bus was ar
ranged, at $5 per head for the
week, by Delegates Gordon Orput
and Jess Gard.
The same informant told The
Oregon Statesman that the Beaver
State's delegation was "all and
still for Eisenhower" even after
Lowell Paget of Portland, a Taft
leader, entertained an Oregon 1
group at the swank Illinois Ath
letic Club.
She also said that those with
out credentials allowing them a
seat are learning to be "quite ,
nonchalant" when they appropri-
ate a gallery seat belonging to
someone else only to be "firmly
removed" by official ushers.
"Jura" Is the name of a depart
ment of France, a European range
of mountains and an island near
Scotland.
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