The story behind the Yakima Valley’s connection to World War II General and U.S. President Dwight David Eisenhower begins with the story of a young man who began his career in the local fruit industry in the early 1920s. C. Paul Lucas moved from Kansas to the Yakima Valley in 1912 with his family, subsequently became a bookkeeper for ­various packing houses on Fruit Row in Yakima, and eventually went into ­business for himself in the mid-1920s as a fruit broker and trader. He was successful in the industry and by the mid-1930s was able to enter a partnership with […]