jibe/jive, needs washed

[FRITZ JUENGLING]

>jive for jibe (to be in accord, agree): "We've got to make sure the finished
>art jives with the art manuscript."
>Is this a common substitution that other people have heard?

Hear this all the time and it drives me batty.

>Also, does anyone know if the following is a usage specific to the Midwest,
>because this is the only place I've heard it used (or noticed, anyway): the
>dropping of "to be" after needs -- "my hair needs washed," "the clock needs
>restored," etc. I wouldn't have a problem if the gerund was used instead --
>"needs washing" or "needs restoring" -- but I like it best with the "to be
>washed" phrasing.

My wife and her family say it all the time.  I hear it from many people as well.  Don't know where it originated, but it is alive and well here in the Mid-Willamette Valley (and other places in the US, as my in-laws relocate).
Fritz  in Oregon