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...outstanding aspirants. R. G. Ames '34, Freshman intercollegiate champion and undefeated last year, should hold down the 175-pound berth. The 165-pound weight will be the most disputed one on the team; R. R. Levin '32, M. A. Keyser '32, Stanton Whitney '34, and C. B. Burbank '34 are some of the contestants for this position, all of them having wrestled on their Freshman teams...
Dress at the dinners will be informal as a rule. Professors J. H. Williams '18 and H. H. Burbank are among the Faculty members who are expected to be present at dinners in the near future...
...birthday party Pilot Ovington was to fly the mail again, this time in a commodious trimotored Fokker of American Airways, Inc., from United Airport, Burbank, Calif., near his Santa Barbara home. With him in the plane, besides a half dozen bigwigs, was to be former Postmaster-General Hitchcock. They were to fly to Tucson, Ariz, where Mr. Hitchcock is owner and publisher of the Daily Citizen...
More famed even than the Burpees are the Starks who came less recently into the Burbank activities. Judge James Stark, home from the War of 1812, founded the company in the territory explored (1806-07) by General Zebulon Pike which then stretched from the Mississippi to the Santa Fe. Today the Stark organization maintains the oldest nurseries in the U. S., the largest in the world. On 3,992 acres, in plantations located in seven States they propagate fruit trees, roses, shrubs. In France, too, they maintain nurseries. They employ nearly a thousand men and women. About 15.000 commission salesmen...
...Starks took over the Sebastopol Burbank Test Orchards which they now maintain for development and test of Burbank fruits which Burbank never had time to introduce. Most important result of their work is Burbank's Elephant Heart plum, a red-fleshed plum almost as big as a, baseball, the first freestone, blood-fleshed plum ever developed. Trees to bear this luscious giant planted two years ago (from Wisconsin to Alabama, California to New York) have lived and borne this year despite dry summer and hard winter...