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Show Hartford Growers Plan Fair for Migrant Labor HARTFORD, Mich. A special four-day fair late in June, designed for entertainment of migrant fruit pickers in southwestern Michigan, was authorized recently by the directors di-rectors . of the Van Buren county fair. Fair officials said the observance will be timed to take place between strawberry and cherry harvest The festival will be advertised in advance in home communities of fruit pickers in the south to encourage encour-age them to come to this section of the country to work, Paul Richter, Jr.. secretary of the fair, said. Richter expressed the belief that this is the first time that a festival of this nature has been attempted In Michigan. : |