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Title: Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine
Identifier: cranberriesnatio4345port (find matches)
Year: 1936 (1930s)
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Subjects: Cranberries
Publisher: Portland, CT (etc. ) : Taylor Pub. Co. (etc. )
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''Jake" Jacobson Is Busiest Man In Coast Cranberries A Cranberry Canners Vic(> President and Manager, He was Former Lumber * Boss—Came from Sweden ^ When a Boy. There is none so busy, at least in the use of executive energy, if not in physical labor, none so dead certain of the bright cranberry future of Grayland, none more thoroughly convinced that what the West Coast needed was the boost of Cranberry Canners, Inc., than jovial, aggressive, forward-looking W. S. Jacobson, Grayland manager of Canners and vice president of the Pacific Division. He is on the go from morning to night, tending to the multitudinous duties which his position entails. Flippantly expressed, he is "top man on the totem pole", and thei'e actually are totem poles in the Pacific Northwest. Living at Grayland, he is right in the thick of the battle. Last year he operated the dehydrator plant and will have charge again this year. Right now he is seeing that work is rushed at the new cannery at Markham, which is to replace the one burned. He also has charge of the temporai-y can- nery at Grayland, has to keep in touch with the cannery at Coquille, Oregon, and the big freezer at Long Beach, Washington. He at- tends to the supplies of growers and to their wants. This taxes his time to the utmost, but he enjoys every minute of it, working for Cranberry Canners and for the advancement of West Coast grow- ing as a whole. His assistant is Wilho Ross, whose abilities, especially perhaps his mechanical aptitude, are ad- mired by all. But Mr. Jacobson, or "Jake", as everybody calls him out there, is used to being busy and to executive authority. He has been busy all his life, and for years he had charge of large groups. Ls Ex-Lumberman He is a lumberman turned to cranberry grower. "I had hoped to take it easy, growing cran- berries, when I left lumbering", says Jake, expressively hunching his shoulders. "But I find my self working harder than ever before in my life." He came to Grayland seven years ago. His parents died when he was seven, and he remained in Sweden until he became fourteen and th^n, (Continued on Pai* 8)
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Victor C. J. Lindgren (upper photo with Mrs. Lindgren) has the largest acreage at Grayland, six acres. He is one of the more pi'o- gressive growers of the Coast and as such has been chosen one of the five members of Cranberry Can- ners Pacific Division. Lindgren, born in Sweden, be- fore settling down at Grayland saw most of the world, having been a seaman in both sail and steam. Gi'ayland, he says, is the finest place in the word in which to live, and if travel gives any basis for such a statement he is qualified to make it. He started to earn a living for himself while still a boy, getting a job in a machine shop, and felt he was a mighty lucky lad to be selected for the work, as he says there were hundi'eds of applicants and few such jobs when he was young in Sweden. He found the work hard, hours long, and the company for which he worked ex- tremely rigorous about the keeping of hours, having a rule that em- ployes must be at work before the starting whistle had finished blow- ing. One day, he says, he failed to be at work on the dot, got a "bawling out" from his foreman, quit his job, and before that same night had signed up on a ship and was heading out to sea. He was in sail about five years and spent about 20 years in Alaskan waters. Foi- a time he was partly on shore and during that period commer- cially raised foxes there. His early training in mechanics has stood him in good stead in cranberry growing. He is one of the growers who has made one of the contrivances for sluicing cran- berries off the vines with a hose. In fact, he has two of these, the second an improvised model of this device, which is built some- thing like a mammoth scoop with teeth, into which the growers sluice the berries from the vine-s under high nozzle pressure. These are admittedly labor-shortage de- vices and not the best way in the world to pick cranberries, but, as Lindgren says, with picking help not to be had and a crop to be §«Yen

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