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LLAS, PENNSYLVANIA
1s. McCaffery
uried Tuesday
Was Daughter Of
Late James Oliver
* Irs. Margaret Oliver McCaffery,
member of a prominent Back
intain family, was buried Tués-
following = largely attended
sral services from Glova Funeral
ne at Harveys Lake.
ervices were in charge of Rev.
n Stahl of Alderson Methodist
rch with interment in St.
:ph’s Cemetery, Danville.
[rs. ‘McCaffery died Saturday
it at 10 at Geisinger Medical
ter, Danville, where she was
®. Tuesday following a stroke
ler in the day while she was
raring to attend her duties at Old
dy Bottom Beach which she and
husband operated.
orn in Dallas, she was the
ghter of ithe late James R.
rer and Alice Hufford. Her fa-
+ was for many years in the
mobile business in Dallas and
James R. Oliver Agency was one
he largest and oldest in Luzerne
nty.
[argaret was valedictorian of the
3s of 1932 at Dallas Borough
h School and like other mem-
5 of her family was blessed with
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a beautiful voice. After graduation
from Geisinger Medical Center, Dan-
ville, she did private duty nursing
until her marriage to Mr. McCaf-
fery.
In 1947 the couple moved to
Harveys Lake where they engaged
in business and developed the Old
Sandy Bottom area, now one of the
leading beaches at the Lake.
She was a member of Danville
Methodist Church, Harveys Lake
Business and Protective Association
and Ladies Auxiliary of Daniel C.
Roberts Fire Company.
Beside her husband, Joseph, she
leaves a son James and two grand-
children; also a sister Madge, Mrs.
Calvin McHose; brothers Kenneth,
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, James
and several nieces and nephews.
Pallbearers were: Thomas Gar-
rity, Lee Zimmerman, Edward De-
laney, Walbridge Lienthall, Ho-
ward Jones and Bert Bainbridge.
Out Of Isolation
Ronnie Richards, who was severe-
ly burned several weeks ago, is out
of isolation and having therapy.
Ronnie has had skin grafts, which
were very successful. He recently
celebrated his birthday and has re-
ceived many birthday and get-well
cards.
Tomato Harvest Now At
Peak In Centermoreland
(Continued from 1—A)
The drought this summer, of
course, has played havoc with the
green tomato crop. Since a grower
gets about three crops per field, and
the fields are planted in a staggered
fashion, it is not now possible to
estimate the total loss from dryness.
Some of the big growers have esti-
mated the loss so far as upwards
of twenty per cent. Smaller grow-
ers, such as Francis Faux of Lock-
ville, hesitatingly place the loss at
some twenty to fifty per cent, de-
pending on the field. With fewer
fields due at different times, the
small grower doesn’t have the lati-
tude of productive area to pick
from.
The labor supply involved in the
tomato industry is enormous. Local
labor is used more prevalently than
is usually thought. Small growers,
who by far outnumber the big ones
THE DALLAS POST, THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1962
in number and acreage, rarely em-
ploy migrants. They cannot afford
to build facilities to house them.
“But the time will come”, Faux
figured, “when we’ll have to start
using them.”
Packing houses vary in their
practice of employment. Sponholtz
uses both local and migrant packing
crews. Dymond appears to have
mostly local workers, but his is a
smaller operation since he packs
only his own produce.. Dymond
Brothers is ‘the only corporation in
the Back Mountain which does both
its own packing and growing.
Carl Sickler grows only for Abood,
but the ‘two remain separate en-
tities.
The migrants almost all base in
Florida. There is where their work
is most of the year. At the various
camps along their route to the
north, they are housed in barracks
by the large growers for whom they
work, houses for families, and trail-
ers. Life for them is not easy. They
are always beset by poverty and
prejudice. On the other hand, the
gypsy-like existence is not one of
invariable drudgery.
One worker, Arthur Flores, 18-
year old truck-driver for Andrew
Prebola, did not complain. His
brother, for example, picked 217
baskets in one day. At 14 cents per
basket, that comes out to over $30
in one day. There is room at the
top in any business for a good man.
Flores’ father is Prebola’s crew-
leader, so the young Texas Mexican
knows the tomato-business well.
“I used to work at this alone’, he
said. “Then 1 got married three
months ago. It’s a lot better, be-
cause this job is very hard, and it
gets very lonely.” He met his wife
in Florida.
Unless you are married, you get
your meals at the camp cook-house
Arthur noted only one exception to
this: a friend of his who is married
and still eats at the cook-house.
Mostly, the young single men
stay home at night, or else they go
as far as Wilkes-Barre for fun
“Nothing to do around here”, he
noted. On the other hand, one get:
up at 5 in the morning to start
work, so it is best to stay home.
At the Centermoreland Methodist
Church, 19 migrants’ youngsters are
taken care of during the day by the
joint efforts of the Pennsylvania
Department of Welfare, Penn State
University, and the Methodist
Church. The children, aged 3 ‘to 14,
are transported by bus from twc
camps around Centermoreland, Dy-
mond’s and Prebola’s. (Carl Sickler
declined use of this voluntary serv-
ice this year.
The tots play games, and stick to-
gether modern art, etc, and the
older ones learn early grade-school
lessons under the supervision of
state teachers: Mrs. Dorothy Brown,
Pine Grove Mills, Supervisor; Ann
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Hege and (Sally Aikens, teachers.
Miss Hege is entering Indiana State
Teacher’s College this fall, and Miss
Aikens is a senior at Muskingum
College, Ohio. Marjorie Willis, a
Wilson College graduate, is social
worker for the state at the school.
Mrs. Brown, a kindergarten teacher
in the winter, has a Master of Edu-
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In general, the tomato industry
is getting bigger and more auto-
matized. But like most truck
agriculture production, it will re-
main a gambler’'s game, work for
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