The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1922-06-08
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PLANS MADE
FRUIT MEN MEET HERE TUESDAY
Lunch Club Members Are Hosts Com
mittee Appointed to Arrange for
Apple Shipper Visitors

The 300 or 400 apple buyers of east
ern and middle western cities, who are
expected to come to Oregon and Wash
ington mid-CoIumbia fruit districts fol-
lowing the annual convention Of the
international Apple Shippers Associa-
tion at Seattle July 26, 27 and 28, will
be given hosptable greeting, if plans
resulting from collaboration here
Tuesday of growers and shippers from
Hood River and Wasco counties and
from Skamania and Klickitat counties,
Washington, come to maturity.
A special trainload of fruit buyers
will make calls at Wenatchee, Yakima
and Spokane, where growers, shippers
and civic organizations are preparing
elaborate entertainment. Mid-CoIum-
bia fruit men, who will be aided in
their entertainment by civic organiza-
tions. declare that they will not allow
the big Washington sections to eclipse
them in greetings to the interests that
distribute the products of the local
valleys.
Tuesdays meeting was called by P.
+. Clark. who ie a member of The gen.
eral Northwestern committee on ar
rangements. The following district
chairmen were appointed to arrange
for the coming of the apple buyers:
Ira Hyde. White Salmon C. w. Gibbs,
Underwood, Judge 4. s. Cunning, The
Dalles and r. ID. Chatfeld, Mosier.
A schedule Of the itinerary of the dele
gates to the international Apple Ship
pers Association at present calls for
their entertainment in Portland Sum
day. July 80. The next day the Port
land fruit interests will bring them by
automobile to MultnOmah Falls, where
Hood River folk will take charge Of
them. They will be brought here for
luncheon at the Columbia Gorge
Hotel. Thence, following a ride
through local orchards they will be
taken to Mosier. There. after the buy
ers have visited the orchards and have
seen the community packing plant of
the Mosier Fruitgrowers' Association,
they will be taken in tow by a motor
delegation of The Dalles fruit grow
ers. The Wasco county capital will
entertain them over night and return
them on the following day to Under
wood and White Salmon. Growers of
the Washington districts will entertain
the buyers at buffet luncheons at ware
houses. In addition to those named
on committees, mid Columbia fruit men
here for the meeting of Tuesday in
cluded: j. X. Slade, of Busum; Paul
McKercher, Fred s. Baker, A. r..
Mills, G. Reed, c. 7. Dewey and j. w.
Dickey, of White Salmon, and e. L.
Curtiss and w. s. Nelson, of The
The visitors were luncheon guests Of
the Tuesday Lunch Club. the following
giving short talks: Mr.. Slade, Mr..
McKercher, Judge Cunning and Mr..
Nelson. The latter is manager Of the
new horticultural bureau established
by The Dalles Chamber of Commerce.
Mr.. Clark addressed the visitors and
the local business and professional
men,, declaring the convention would
offer boxed apple fruit districts an ex-
cellent opportnnitysof showing the dis
tributing elements OF the industry
their plants.
''Any manufacturing enterprise,
he declared, would consider an oppor-
tunity Of displaying it's factory to the
concerns handling its product of ines
timable value. We have the opportun-
ity to show the apple buying interests
our plant. We must utilize every in
huchCc " tcI IucHH hnOW tuhb tucJ arc
welcome.
1.-THE information has somehow
gained currency that the buyers in Se-
attic for the convention would hurry
home Immediately .he sessions were
over. A canvass among the prospec-
tive delegates, however, shows that
the opposite is true. Most of the buy
ers wild make a vacation of the trip.
They will expect to spend week or
more seeing as muchIof the Northwest
as possible before they go back"
President Murphy. Of the Lunch
Club. expressed an appreciation Of
himself and his fellow members at
having the neighboring fruit men pres
ent. He assured them Of the organic
atoms fullest support in entertaining
the fruit buyers.
Among the visitors here will be sew
eral prominent English fruit buyers.
who have been attracted to the session
in order that they may see the home Of
the Northwestern box apple.
Joe d. Thomson was chairman Of
the Tuesday meeting.