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1 story matching committe
Scanning errors are common in old newsprint. Also try:committ, commit, committeeman, committeemen, subcommitte, commiss
- The Fumigation Didn't Take: Live Scale Found on Japanese Oranges
A King County fruit-growers' committee inspects a shipment of imported oranges that the state's own commissioner had fumigated, finds the mealy bug and scale still alive, and demands stricter enforcement before the fruit goes on sale.