THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1968
THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL, NYSSA, OREGON
PAGE SEVEN
: OSU Attempts To Build Machine
; To Pick, Decap, Destem Berries
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I •' Oregon State University’s attempt to build a workable
• ^mechanical strawberry picker is being matched with equal
- -effort to find a mechanical method of decapping and destemming
- -the berries once they reach the processing plant.
- - Dr. Dale Kirk, OSU agricultural engineer, feels that the
- ¿development of the two must go hand in hand if the needs of the
;. ¿Oregon strawberry industry are to be met.
Hand pickers now decap berries in the field and some
• -processing plants are using machines to take off caps and stems
•. -the pickers miss. But processing berries picked by machine
3s a different story. Dr. Kirk said that a Canadian machine
J ¿tested by OSU engineers this season capped up to 90 per cent of
• ¿hand-picked berries but dropped to 30 to 50 per cent on
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•mechanically-picked berries.
• With the Canadian machine,
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berries are raked over a series have looked at machines made
in the United States and
of alternating rubber and fluted Germany and plan to investigate
'metal rollers which grab the
an Italian built machine next
;stems or caps and pull them year. It has an added feature
‘through. If the berries are over that de caps the berry with a
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ripe or damaged, sometimes it knife if the stem is not taken
•pulls them through, too, accor off by the time the berry reaches
ding to Dr. Kirk. In addition, the bottom roller.
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•if long stems or runners are
One major problem, accor-
left on the berries, they have dint to Kirk, is that present
a tendency to wrap around the Northwest varieties are bred
rollers, causing stoppages.
for yield, disease resistance
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Kirk said OSU engineers also and color, texture and flavor
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LOCAL STUDENTS WHO HAVE SUCCESS-
FULLY completed the one-year Practical
Nursing program at Treasure Valley Com-
munity college. They are (1 to r) Gladys
qualities, but are not bred for
easy capping or stemming.
There are two approaches to
take in solving the problem,
says Kirk.
One is to look to plant
breeders for new strains or
varieties, such as those grown
in eastern states or Ontario,
Canada, which cap and stem
more easily. The other is to
develop new concepts in
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mechanics of stemming and
capping. One idea would be to
BEAUTIFUL WITHIN
find a way to place the fruit
in a cell or trough with the
Some folks in looks take so
stem end exposed and pinch much pride, they don’t think
or cut off the stem and calyx. much of what’s inside. Well,
as for me, 1 know my face
“The present system of ran
can ne’er be made a thing of
dom tumbling and pinching
grace; and so, I rather think
between rollers does not appear
adequate for present Northwest I’ll see how I can fix the inside
of me, so folks’ll say, “He
berries," Kirk noted.
looks like sin — but ain’t he
beautiful within!” - John Ken-
drick Bangs. - House Of
Sunshine.
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Oregon State University, Oregon’s oldest state-supported
institution of higher learning, has announced plans for its
100th Year observance beginning this fall.
Mr. and Mrs. Garry Bybee
The Centennial celebration will begin on Charter Day, Sunday,
of Scottsdale, Ariz., became the
Oct. 27, according to President James H. Jensen. It was on
parents of a son, Garry Todd,
that day in 1868 that the Oregon Legislature officially designated
born July 25, 1968, weighing
tiny Corvallis College as the state’s land-grant college.
seven-pounds, three-ounces.
A public convocation is planned for 2 p.m. in Gill Coliseum to
Grandparents are Mr. and
launch the school-year-longobservance. Representatives of other
Mrs. S. P. Bybee of Nyssa,
U. S. colleges, universities and learned societies will join with
Mr. and Mrs. Ron Buttars of
OSU faculty members in a colorful academic parade pre
Logan, Utah.
ceding the convocation.
The Bybees recently moved
Convocation speaker will be
into a new home at 8530 East
Dr. Fred Harrington, president tury” — will carry 100th year
Mulberry street, Scottsdale.
of the University of Wisconsin. designations. Special Centenial
Garry is an employee at the
The speaker for the Centennial Year awards will be presented
Motorola manufacturing plant.
also
to
those
who
have
rendered
dinner that evening will be Dr.
W. Robert Parks, president of outstanding service to the uni
Mr. and Mrs. William B.
versity and to society.
Iowa State University.
(Virginia Lewis) Mannewitz of
Special
exhibits,
films,
publi
Like OSU, those universities
Dallas, Texas became parents
are land-grant institutions that cations and open houses are
of a daughter, Christine Marie,
planned
to
acquaint
Oregonians
developed from the Morrill Act
born May 28, 1968. She joins
signed by President Lincoln in with the accomplishments of the
a 14-month-old sister, Mary
1862. The act provided federal university during the past
Elizabeth.
land grants to the various states century and its goals and plans
Grandparents are Mrs. T. R.
to help finance public colleges for the future, Jensen said.
(Dorothea) Mitchell of Nyssa;
Rodney
K.
Waldron,
librarian,
and extend the opportunities of
is chairman of the Centennial Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Mannewitz
higher education to all.
of Dallas.
Committee.
The winter term highlight
will be a Symposia Series in
February. Some of the nation’s
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top leaders in OSU fields of
specialization will come to the
campus for lectures and dis
cussion sessions.
Climax to the year’s events
will come at the 100th
commencement June 8, 1969.
Diplomas of graduates — mem
FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY
bers of “The Class of the Cen-
TNEAIK
AUG. 2, 3, 4
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Somers, Jeanne Hardman and Suzuko Hori.
Graduation exercises will be held at 8 o’clock
Thursday evening, August 8, 1968 at the Weese
building on campus.
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