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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By The Associated Press / The Bulletin
February 27, 2009
SPOKANE, Wash. — Raymond Alvah Hanson, who invented a mechanism that made it safer to harvest grain on the rolling hills of the Palouse, died. Feb. 19 at age 85. The Spokane man held more than 100 patents, including the self-leveling control mechanism that allowed huge combines to work....
