Ed Castillo, 12, left, and Kent Bradshaw, 13 both of Salem, walking with strawberry carriers. Ed picked 18 carriers and Kent 16 in one six hour day, at 42 cents per carrier. L.W. Scoggin Farm, Grand Island district of Yamhill County.
School buses were a primary mode of transporting youth workers. O.E. Mikesell, county extension agent for Linn County, recalled hauling youth by bus: "[4-H club agent John Hansen] and I drove the bus, and we'd pick up about forty or forty-fiveā¦