. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. SCENES of the annual picnic are seen on this and the following page. (CRANBERRIES photos by Carolyn Caldwell) Groovers picnic groivs yearly By CAROLYN CALDWELL The sky's the limit, or so it seems, as the Cape Cod Cran- berry Growers Association's annual picnic continues to grow in displays and turnout each year. Some 475 people attended the recent chicken barbeque and viewed everything cranberry country has to offer from prizewinning cranberry cookbooks to helicopter lifting demos and the largest water reel U> enter the state of
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. SCENES of the annual picnic are seen on this and the following page. (CRANBERRIES photos by Carolyn Caldwell) Groovers picnic groivs yearly By CAROLYN CALDWELL The sky's the limit, or so it seems, as the Cape Cod Cran- berry Growers Association's annual picnic continues to grow in displays and turnout each year. Some 475 people attended the recent chicken barbeque and viewed everything cranberry country has to offer from prizewinning cranberry cookbooks to helicopter lifting demos and the largest water reel U> enter the state of Massachusetts. Chip Morse of Morse Brothers earned a $100 noncommercial award from the CCGA for his 8 self-dumping cranberry wheel-off rig- Joe Brigham of Wiggins Airways won a commercial plaque "for outstanding achievement in presenting equipment for the cranberry industry" with his helicopter lift adaptation. To the cranberry crowd scattered around the state bog, he showed his smooth, efficient technique in lifting material by copter from bog to shore with a net fashioned from chain link fence. George Peck of Cranebrook Co. was the lucky winner of the Proto tool set given by Shuster Corp. of New Bedford. UNDOUBTEDLY, growers were already counting their barrels during this tempting pre-season equipment spectacle. A record cranberry crop of million barrels was forecast by Charles Hammond of the USDA Crop Reporting Service. Growers were told Massachusetts will jump 8 percent from last year to million barrels. Guest speaker "Cranberry Ed" Gelsthorpe, who joined Ocean Spray 19 years ago in the summer of 1963 to lead the coop "during a very tumultuous time," warned growers not to overspend and to prepare for lean years while prosperity is here. Gelsthorpe was chief executive officer of Ocean Spray for five years at the time "cranberry juice went natural and brought the turnaround of the cranberry industry after the (continued on p
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