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...memories take me back to a big basement kitchen in a New Jersey farm house where the preliminaries took place that preceded the next-day's stirrin'. Down in one corner of the orchard was a group of apple trees known as "Yellow-Sweets." These were par-excellent for making sweet-cider and indispensable for making apple butter. The day before, a big load of cull apples went to the cider press and a dozen bags of the finest, to the basement for the grand apple peelin...
Photographer Mingalone picked Old Orchard Beach, Me., for secret experiments in overhead photography from a cluster of 30 hydrogen-filled stratosphere balloons. He had successfully ground out several reels over the local country club golf course while a ground crew towed him from spot to spot when suddenly a stiff gust snapped the 200-ft. sash-weight cord anchor line...
Locker-Boy Thomas Bowman jumped for the trailing fragment of anchor line, stumbled when he was about to grab it. As Aerialist Mingalone rose speedily, so did the alarm of his fellow Cameraman Philip Coolidge and his friend, Rev. James J. Mullen, Old Orchard priest, golfer, aviation enthusiast and expert skeetshooter who was watching the experiment...
...crowd of spectators cheered lustily. The non-strikers in their cars rattled toward the mill. The pickets rallied to shower them with rocks, but another volley of grenades put them finally to rout, sent them fleeing down the road and across an orchard, many of them abandoning their cars. Members of the crowd joined in the chase and beat up several pickets whom they caught. Several others were rescued and released by the well-organized deputies. Taken into "protective custody" was Fred Mayberry, leader of the pickets who was seated in the car of the police chief...
...send men out from my orchard to sell fruit and instruct them in one of these hard-boiled towns to be sure and leave the Marshal and Mayor a bushel of fruit...