The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-02-03
rxpect to Perfect Organization
and Choose Men Who Are
to Manage its Affairs
FEW GROWERS STILL REFUSE
r;ghty.Five Per Cent of Acreage has
Been Pledged to the New
Association

N1neCy-eISuI pei SCnc VI ehS SioW-
ers. who control SO per cent of the
strswberry acreage in the Kennewick
district, have pledged themselves to
.tand together and now only disre-
s.rd of pledges and an eleventh-hour
.nlit over details can defeat the or
s,nization movement. With the ex-
eeption of few salient features, lit
tle attention has been given to details
but next Monday afternoon the organ
i,ation is to be perfected and the men
vho are to direct it's affairs chosen.
The determination of the growers
70 put the organization movement
4hru to a successful conclusion was
again shown by the large attendance
A last Mondays meeting when the
esnvassing committee reported ap-
proximately $50 acres out of total
of 17S pledged to the new association.
Accepting this report as sufficient to
justify organization, the meeting at
once took up the question of details,
which are to be worked out by a joint
committee from Richland and Kenne-
wick, six being chosen from each dis
triet The six men elected to repre-
cent Kennewick are, M. N. Hudnall.
chairman; w. p. Osgood, secretary;
EA. Gray, H. C. Puderbaugh, F. H.
Krug and ]. Ross.
To Adopt Bylaws
The chief duty of this committee
viii be to draft a constitution and by
laws, or articles Of incorporation, if it
deems Incorporation advisable. 1t will
also submit form of contract by
which each member is to obligate him
self to deliver all Of his crop to the
association and will probably offer a
tentative outline of grade and pack
rules.
Mondays meeting, which will be
held in the Commercial club rooms at
l:SO p. M, will be by far the most i'm
pcrtant one yet held. At this time
the men in whose hands will be placed
the entire management of the organ
ization will be chosen and every grow
er in the district is urged to be pres
ent
To Keep Plugging
Altho the roundup" committee
has secured the 85 per cent necessary
to make the pledges binding, it in
tends to continue it's work in the hope
Of lining up some of the few growers
who have refused to come in. Last
weeks canvass brought in several
growers who had been opposed to the
movement at first but who swung In
line as soon as the possibility of any
local mans handling the business was
Eliminated and provision made for
eolecting forfeiture from any MEM:
or who "kicks over the traces" and
iails to deliver his berries to the as
ISOLATION.
Parks Speaks
Mondays meeting was addressed by
r X. Parks, who has had considerable
experience in marketing the fruit
crops of the Spokane district, and by
U. NJ. Furry, of North Yakima, rep
resentative of the Northwestern Fruit
exchange. Mr.. Parks talk was along
lne same line as that of Wilmer Sieg
me week before. He said because of
me early season Kennewick had a
decided advantage over every other
strawberry district in the Northwest
put that for the last two years this
AoVantage had been dissipated because
u lack of organization among the
growers. Not only has this system
u independent and promiscuous sell
'ng made deep inroads on the profits
u the business here but it has left
market for the growers
"a |, the later districts. He came here,
|, ne said, IN the interests of the Spo-
Aane growers who expect to profit by
hennewick-Richland organization.
Organization Necessary
Mr. Furry likewise urged the ne
.esslty OF organization, saying that
experience had depoonsfratod fbof fbo