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When Jimmie DeBergh opened his Harris Hollow Frozen Fruit Company in the old Washington post office building last month, friends expected that he'd have plenty of raspberries, strawberries, cherries and peaches on hand.
But DeBergh doesn't even have a freezer in the little one-room office—much less any fruit. His tools of trade are the telephone and friendly relationships he's developed with packers throughout the Northwest and California. When Jimmie wants to take home a onepound carton of blackberries, he stops at the grocery store just like everybody else. "In my business. I'm dealing with truckload and railcar quantities of frozen fruit." he explained. And no matter how tightly the DeBerghs' home freezer is packed, there just isn't enough roonv for a 50 gallon drum of Mexican strawberries or California peaches.
Washington's newest businessman is a frozen fruit broker, connecting producers with buyers. "The vast majority of fruit packed for ice cream, toppings, yogurt, jams, jellies and pies is produced in the Northwest and California and most of
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