Birmingham News sleeve BN0009352

1. Wiregrass producer's market at Dothan / 2. Walter F. George Lock and Dam on Chattahoochee River near Eufaula / Inspect pre-season squash shipment at Wiregrass Farmers Produce Market, Dothan (left to right) Roy Shipes, Phil Cronkhite, G. C Stuckey, Jr.... Cronkhite is president National Assoc...

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Main Author: Thomas, Sue
Format: Electronic
Published: Alabama Department of Archives and History
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Online Access:http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/amg/id/20917
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Summary:1. Wiregrass producer's market at Dothan / 2. Walter F. George Lock and Dam on Chattahoochee River near Eufaula / Inspect pre-season squash shipment at Wiregrass Farmers Produce Market, Dothan (left to right) Roy Shipes, Phil Cronkhite, G. C Stuckey, Jr.... Cronkhite is president National Association Produce Market Managers; Shipes is a director Dothan market; and Stuckey is a buyer - Winn-Dixie. / (Left to right) Ike Gordy, Winn-Dixie buyer; G. C. Stuckey, Jr. Winn-Dixie buyer; and Buster Garrett, grower, look at top-grade squash. / G. C. Stuckey, Jr.; Phil Cronkhite, Sam Brown (Department of Agriculture inspector); and Foy Kirkland, grower, look at some pole beans ready for market. / (Left to right) G. C. Stuckey, Jr.; Carl Forrester, farmer; Collier Freeman, president Wiregrass Farmers Produce Market; and Sam Brown; look at newly spike tomatoes. / (Stooping) Sam Brown and G. C. Stuckey, Jr. (standing) / Phil Cronkhite, Joel Hooper and Roy Shipes. / (Left to right) Sam Brown, G. C. Stuckey, Jr., Roy Shipes and Joe Hooper in field of tomatoes. Houston County alone has 1,000 acres of tomatoes and the Wiregrass area total estimated at 3 to 4,000 acres. / The sleepy Chattahoochee has been awakened, and within this year this quiet scene near the Walter F. George Lock and Dam will be converted to one of energetic industry as the barges move from Alabama to all parts of the world... carrying agricultural, mineral, and manufactured products and raw materials. / Hugh Steed fishing - from Headland. / Below the dam - crane completing excavation of lock. / [Work orders included]