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...play get satisfaction from the accomplishments of the starters. "It is the people that give meaning to the time you spend on it," says the injured Burns, who still faithfully attends every practice. All he can do is take practice snaps from Weiss and semi-manage the citrus fruit pill distribution, but he treasures the sense of belonging. This spirit, it is important to point out, extends beyond this room to the whole senior class. The players all feel cose to each other, and there are no cliques, such as hurt Harvard two seasons ago. Underclassmen are accepted...
...canned-pear prices have risen 50%, and other fruits are increasing from 25% to 33%. This winter there may also be a shortage of such delicacies as canned fruit cocktail. If so, housewives can blame it on the grounded bees...
Because of the weather and its complications, harvest yields have slumped in almost every variety of California fruit. Bartlett-pear output is off two-thirds, to an estimated 104,000 tons this year. Apples will be down from last year's 297,000 tons harvested to about 192,000 tons. Peaches have slipped from 839,000 tons to 690,000 tons. Grapes, of which California produces 90% of the national total, will be off about 18% this year, to 2,800,000 tons. The weather did more than merely slow fruit formation. Peaches ripened as much as three weeks...
...effects of the bad growing season have rippled all through California's multimillion agricultural empire. Late fruits reached canneries at the same time as on-schedule tomatoes, causing so much of a jam that a great deal of fruit spoiled while it was waiting to be canned. Farmers, with their orchards maturing late, had no schoolchildren available to help harvest the crops, and the supply of temporary Mexican labor has been reduced since the law covering the use of braceros was tightened three years ago. Governor Reagan angered unions by permitting convicts to help with the harvest...
...will have costumed couples in crazy hats selling the apples for ten cents apiece. The apple people are donating the fruit free...