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Because pickers couldn't keep up with ripening, five tons of berries in this field dropped to the ground. At least another 15 tons will go unpicked. The situation is critical. (All agricultural photos by Eggen studio) THE BEANS ARE RIPE Growers must get their beans picked in the next few hours. Unless the beans are picked, they become over-mature and canneries won't accept them.

Pickers are not available to take care of the work. At least another thousand must. be recruited immediately, and even the most optimistic growers feel the problem is beyond any solution. This is a panoramic view of the William Long field, chosen as a typical example of Tennessee district appearance. UP THEY GO AND AWAY TO THE CANNERY William Long uses his TD-6 Cat with fork lift made at the Hobbs Machine Works to load 1,000 pound boxes of beans onto the truck for delivery to cannery.

Long hours for the growers are failing to get the work done. To aid in recruiting more help, Long week is rushing to completion several cabins at his bean field for itinerant workers coming into the area. The tonnage this season is one of the heaviest in many years, and the anticipated loss of crops from lack of sufficient pickers is expected to setvan all time high mark. County Court House Records By Bess Martin ALBANY William Warren Haney, 26, of Scio, was fined $175 in district court Tuesday by Acting District Judge John A. Boock after pleading guilty to a charge of drunk driving.

He is held in the county jail pending payment of the fine. Haney was arrested on highway 99E, south of Jefferson, by State Policeman Robert Rissman. Eleanor Gould has filed suit for divorce front Charles Gould, to whom she was married in Lebanon June 20, 1953. She requests custody of their son, 8 months old, and $50 a month for its support. Ira W.

Collins, 57, of Lebanon is fin the county jail awaiting a hearing on a charge of driving an automobile while under the influence of alcohol. Bail is set at $500. The offense is alleged to have been committed Saturday east of Fairview, on U.S. highway 20. Those who have applied for marriage licenses at the office of County Clerk R.

M. Russell were: Merritt Donald. Van Atta, 23, and Gerri Betty Atkins: 23, both of Lebanon; Donald Edmund Hoffman, 22, and Louise Land, 17, both of Sweet Home, and Terry Dale Picknell, 24, Cottage Grove, (Continued on Page 8) OF LIBRARY EUGENE, OREGON The Lebanon Express MONDAY PUBLISHED TWICE WEEKLY THURSDAY SIXTY -EIGHTH YEAR NUMBER 62 LEBANON. OREGON. THURSDAY.

AUGUST 11. GROWERS FACE HUGE One Grower Reports 20 Ton Loss in Raspberries Due to Picker Shortage SEVERAL BEAN FIELDS MAY BE ABANDONED used ed The Lebanon area summer agricultural year is the worst in history, with Agnew growers losing tons of raspberries and with the or cre2 of beans almost sure to suf- Mercury ter an even worse blow. At least 1,000 more pickers are needed immediately in the year. area's 325 acres of beans to prevent huge losses. Typical fields are the William Long acreages just east of Gore school in the Tennessee district, More than five tons of ripened raspberries have fallen to the ground because pickers have not been able to keep up with the crop.

Now that beans are ripe. Long is forced to pull the remainder of his raspberry pickers off to work beans. Saturday will be the last raspberry picking the grower said a minimum of 15 tons will still be on the vines. He plans to salvage what he can by ing the heavily laden patches Sunday to the public on a U-Pick basis for only 5c a pound. Similar situations exist throughout the berry region.

Figures given to the local state employment office by bean growers indicate that a- bout 40 acres of the crop will be lost this week end. The beans will -be overmature before pickers can get to them- unless help comes from some unexpected quarter. Lebanon junior chamber of commerce members 'are' planning to enter the fields at 6 a.m. and work to 11 a.m. this.

Sunday, but will be absent from the fields in the afternoon to attend the annual Elks picnic. Like all other growers, Long needs more pickers immediately. He has 125 pickers now, but requires 300 to handle. the crop, one of the best in many years. Other growers face the same uation.

Pickers Get Per Pound Pay is a pound, with a bonus to pickers staying through the season. Wednesday a family composed of a man, wife, and two sons aged 9 and 7. picked 750 pounds at the Long patch. In order to secure housing for itinerant pickers. Long this week is rushing to pletion a farm labor camp at his residence.

A dozen cabins are nearing completion, and all are equipped with water and lights. Unless more pickers come into the area, or local residents respond in their free time, a huge tonnage in beans will be lost. Two Tennessee district growers are seriously considering abandoning 50 acres without even a first picking. Growers Pay Transportation Long and a neighboring grower, Jack Ayres, have commenced paying gasoline expenses for drivers coming and going from patches if they bring a load of pickers with them. Other growers are adopting this plan.

It was pointed out that any youngster over 12 years of age is capable of picking 250 pounds ot beans daily if he applies himself to the task. Lee Huntely, farm representative of the Lebanon OSES office, guesses that about $369,890 will be paid to pickers of various crops in the district. Pickers who harvested about 820 tons of strawberries from 205 acres at 5c a pound earned $82,000, he estimates. Other Crops Equally Valuable Other estimates by Huntley are 140 acres of raspberries totaling 560.000 000 pounds at a pound, blackcaps, 225 acres at tons per acre, 6c picking price, bush beans, 50 acres, seven tons per acre at per pound, pole beans, 313 acres, 10 tons per acre, 2.75c per pound, $172,150. So, Huntley points out, these crops are big.

business and it is the best interests of the area's economy to see that they are harvested. Growers appreciate any help given them. Many persons are spending their week ends in the fields to help save crops, and a large number of people are going. out early in the mornings to work two or three hours before going to regular jobs. INSURANCE FIRM OPENS LOCAL OFFICE Roland B.

Heusser, New York Life insurance company, representative of Tillamook, has opened an office in Central Lane in downtown Lebanon. Mr. and Mrs. Heusser and their three children have purchased a home at 1605 Wagon Wheel drive. Heusser represented the New York Life Insurance in Tillamook for the last six years and qualified every year for the company's largest production club, according to a company official.

He will represent the company in Lebanon, Sweet Home, and Brownsville and is fully qualified to handle all phases of the company's life, group, and accident and sickness insurance. He is specially trained in business insurance, programming, mortgage protection and- all of the special services, the company official continued. 1955 16 PAGES PRICE CROP LOSS Mercury Dealership Opening in Lebanon CLARENCE New Mercury Dealer The Lebanon Mercury dealership will be located at 1780 S. Main, former location of Lebanon Auto Repair. Complete remodeling of the present structure was started this week, and when finished, will include a repair shop, offices, and display room with double corner windows facing oncoming traffic from the north.

A large graveled area immedlately north of the building will be graded and asphalted for the firm's used car lot. Hysom has moved his family 10 Lebarion, where they are now living at 960 Hiatt street. The new auto dealer was truck manager for the George Grandy Ford company at Vancouver, before he became associated with the Albany firm. The Lebanon dealership is one of the 18 new Mercury dealerships being authorized in northwest states. Shop employees and sales personnel will be named within a few days, Hysom stated.

FIRST AID KITS Lebanon police have received emergency first aid kits which are being installed in the city police cars, said Chef Ned Crippen. All officers are trained to administer emergency first aid land give care to injured. DIGGERS DISCOVER 35,000,000 YEAR OLD CLAMS BURIED IN LAVA NEAR LEBANON Clams are found in the strangest places, telephone company contractors discovered when they dug some up on Peterson's butte, six miles southwest of Lebanon, 1000. feet above sea level. The clams were imbedded in soft sandstone about 10 feet low ground level and were found when Malarkey contractors, were digging footings for a microwave station in the chain which the Pacific Telephone Telegraph company is building across Oregon.

Samples were brought to Portland, by telephone, company en- Lebanon Anglers Take Big Trout From B.C. Water terrific, reported Ken Mayer Mike their return yesterday from week's The 100 body of water produced over pounds of fish and another by catch that was brought home packed fresh in The Lebanon angler and his left here and were met at the lake where the road by pair of Lebanon fishermen, Bert Bellinger and Harry Howe. The four traveled 50 miles by boat to Bellinger's cabin. During their stay at the cabin they were visited by. moose and timber wolves, evidenced by tracks a- round the cabin.

Mayer said at this time of the year it unsafe to venture far, from the -cabin without a gun, less you are attacked by a grizzly bear. With the exception of a few small 14 to 18 inch long rainbow caught for pan fish, all angling was done at the 400 foot depth, using a minimum of 000 feet of leaded -line and slow troll. Water is still eight feet above criormal for this time of the year, due to late snow in the region and a runoff that is still evident in all streams. The area is approximately 900 miles from Lebanon in the heart of the British Columbia country. The usual 16 to' 20 pound rainbow trout that bite in August have not yet showed signs of activity, and angling for these fish should reach a peak in late AugSeptember, said.

Mayer. 'Bellinger and Howe, remained behind, but expect to leave there in time to reach Lebanon this week end. Flames Destroy Brewster Barn A barn filled with new hay on the Marvin, Barrows farm a mile east of Brewster went up in flames late Monday afternoon with a loss estimated at $4,000. It followed by. just one day the disastrous $100,000 fire that leveled the historic Tallman grain elevator.

Spontaneous combustion is suspected as cause of Monday's fire. The barn was valued at $2500 and contents at $1500. For almost a half hour it was feared that 8-year-old Ronnie Barrows had been trapped in the flames, but the boy was later found down the county: road where he had hidden. The youth explained to his frightened parents that the excitement had scared him. Lebanon firemen were called to the blaze, but the entire building was blazing when trucks arrived.

Joseph Gable, Barrow's fatherin-law, had just pulled a wagon load of hay into the yard with. a tractor, and gone inside the house to. await Barrows' arrival from the Cascades Plywood mill when flames broke out. Barrow spotted the 'smoke while driving home. NEW SWIM SERIES BEGINS MONDAY Swim school for Scio children will commence at the Lebanon swimming pool Monday at 10:30.

The classes are being given by the Red Cross. Children who will receive lessons, and others who will drive the cars bringing children to the pool, are scheduled to meet Monday morning, 9:30, at the Scio grade school. Lacomb and Crabtree area children are invited to join these classes. Any Lebanon area children who have missed earlier lessons given here, may also join this class. All persons who passed and advanced classes held earlier this summer will receive certificates in the mail, providing addresses are known by the Red Cross.

Others, with addresses not known by the Red Cross, can pick up their certificates at the pool, said Peg Hatfield, Red Cross board member and chairman of the blood program. Are- of Motors, erosion exposed the sandstone and 'its clams, revealing a story of the long past. A number of fossil finds have been made in the area, said. Mason. The microwave station which the telephone company is constructing on the butte is one of the smallest in the chain which will run from Portland to the San -Francisco bay area.

It will be 4 a tone-story building with a foot tower. The tallest will be at Eugene on Blanton hill, 150 high. The nine Oregon stations will be done in August, next year. Lincoln until dealer. outing ice THURSDAY NIGHT TWIN GAMES PIT SHAMROCKS AGAINST VENEER CLUB By Brownie Valdez Mill City shut the door on Lebanon's entry in the district softball finals last week with a pair of, shutout games hurled by the Shamrock's ace twirler, Lloyd Buttgenbach.

Tonight the victors and the conquered Western Veneer team hook up in another nocounting doubleheader at' Riverside park in Lebanon starting at 7:30. Western Veneer will be seeking some measure of revenge for the twin losses, while the Shamrocks will be getting into shape for the upcoming series with Randle Oil of Salom that opens in Mill City Saturday. Winner of a two out of three series in that fracas will go to the state tourney in Tuesday is Blood Donor Day at Elks Next Tuesday. is bloodmobile day again for residents of. Lebanon.

The headquarters will again be set up in the basement of the Elks lodge from 1.30 until 5:30. Entrance to the headquarters is through rear doors of the building. A need for blood is becoming acute in the Oregon district, 'it was pointed out by Mrs. Peg Hatfield, county chairman for the Red Cross program. A quota of 150 pints is sought at Tuesday's visit.

Eugene. In tonight's twin offering, the Shamrocks will send their hurler, -Buttgenbach, against Lebanon's Milt Lehto. Lebanon will also be striving to collect their first- hit off the Mill City club in three games. In the nightcap, Mill City will use Don Carey on the mound against Western Veneer's Kenny Lehto: No admission charged, but a donation will, bel taken up between games. All money will be used to help defray doctor and hospital bills for Bob Monroe, Vebeer player injured in the first Lebanon City playoff gaine last week.

Flash Furnace Fire Brings Smoke, Firemen A flash fire caused by dust and lint which had gathered around a floor furnace brought the Lebanon fire department into action at approximately 10 a.m. this morning. The fire occurred in the home of Kenneth Christensen, 2660 Porter street. Damage was limited to smoke in the Christensen home. IT'S A MAN'S WORLD During July Linn county recorded 104 births, 58 boys and 46 girls.

In deaths during the month, males led by a 21 to 11 count. EVERYBODY IS HELPING OUT Regular pickers, merchants, civic club members, and citizens are turning out to aid in the harvest. George Neavall weighs a sack of beans for Mrs. Gus Cruise, left, while an unidentified youngster waits his turn at right. bean harvest is a family situation, with everyone from Mom and Dad to the tiny tots plucking rows of fast ripening crop.

Anyone able to help out, even if only for a few hours a day, is urged to apply at the ifelds. Week end help is especially desirable, the growers point out. Every little bit helps now, they said. gineers for examination by Ralph Mason, mining engineer of the state department of and mineral The clams, he said, are some 35,000,000 years old. They are of the Spisula type.

Around the sandstone peak lay large quantities of lava rock. Mason, pointing to a picture of. the clam in a book on the subject, pictured the time when the see covered that part of Oregon and Peterson's butte was at the bottom of the ocean. Later the butte was raised by volcanic action and I partly covered with lava. Finally,.