Frank Ernst, second left, and wife, fourth left, with their family working on the Horst Hop Ranch near Independence. He is a carpenter; she is a nurse; they are vacationing. Kids are Johnny, 11 left; Alice Marie, 16, light shirt; Mary Ann, 13, fifth from left; twins Lue and Sue, 15; and Paul, 9, foreground right
Dr. Kenneth Keller, USDA agronomist stationed with the OSC experiment station, discussing hop fertilizer trials during a hop field day on the college experiment station. Photo by R. G. Fowler
Orren Godd, check boss, left, at the Mitcoma hopyard watches Janiece Gerhard, 15, Middle and Jorene Johnson 17, dump a basket of hops into a hopper in preparation for sacking and weighing