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Gen«ra/ Sa'lt;«g provita* fodo'tl furto encouiog* crtuan p*Mleip8?jon m tfelprmir dlacrlmlnallon In rtw uh ol IHn. Nrvfl. Ih* Omen ol Mmnuo Sharing. Wath., O.C.:harvestP“*e ‘-Noriheni Polk Coaoiy News-I*„rsd.y, June 3, 1I7SFamily follows,S Ear‘. If ‘.h.p convo, ,ha‘ left Johnston Wednesday headed for the wheat fields of Oklahoma. Orval (Chub) Kinsey, his twot^.r .1 !r11“l\es Wl” spend ,he next ,hrelt;‘ and 0® half to !u .. . following the grain harvests north to Nebraska and the ItakntaiBy Jeanne HansenMost men and women of Johnston go to their jobs eight hours a day year around, but for Orval (Chub) Kinsey. 5tl4 N.W. 60th PI., and his sons Steve and Chris and their wives, it’s a different story.Bright and early Wednesday morning, they left Johnston headed for western Oklahoma and the wheat harvests. In the convoy was a mobile home, two 510 Massey combines two tandem grain trucks, a utility ’’tonner. a three quarter ton pick up and three smaller trailers For the next 3'* to four months the Kinsey family will follow the harvest north, combining wheat, barley and flax. They plan to work in Oklahoma, Kansas. Nebraska, the Dakotas and perhaps Colorado before returning to Johnston and some custom work around this area.Chub and his boys have been following the harvest for the last four years, but this year Steve and Chris’s wives and Steve’s two children will join the crew The women will do the cooking and Chris’s wife Cindy may drive a truck for them. (Chris and Cindy were married May 15, and there was no way Cindy wasgoing to be left at home.')The Kinseys will hire out to a rancher by the acre and will move about the wheat belt wherever they are needed. A Labor Board is available to match the combine crews with the needs of the farmers, so Chub will check in with them to see where they are needed most.When they return, they’ll have plenty of work to do making repairs, and serving (heir machines to get ready for next year’s harvest.PLANNED EXPENDITURE1*1 CATEGORIES(0) CAPITALi 8*HV*2,203pOiicno»*iKlAI-llMl-rAllONs• UM'Msi niciAiio*lt;st l*AAAllS*t SOCIAL MHVlCfS*C*I *fc«0 C« POORsStanding in front of the mobile home where they will live for the summer while harvesting wheat from Oklahoma to the liakolas I,, to R. are Chris Kinsey, his wife Cindv. and Orval
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Johnston Northern Polk County News
Johnston, Iowa, US
Thu, Jun 03, 1976
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