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uhertfitsurtex*ingrnmet, his green 10-speedSchwinn, and his own folksy thoughts about being 83 years old and doing something ascrazy as riding a two-wheeler across Iowa.%He acknowledged the polite applause from his fellow riders, ordered a tali water in the coffee shop and began talking.“I’m not all that phenomenalHUMof imlike^cople-iwive-beeft-sftyiftgr1SA(AP)retmngthesal*ionndspbl-re-?ia)line•ice:eil-e a line t it imeHornernayow*(orimehe says. “It's just that I’ve always worked hard — farming, cutting trees, gathering trash — and I’m in good shape.,“Right Time”“Mr, Haul’s idea for this trip hit at just the right time for me. I'm negotiating to sell my farm (160 acres* a mile east ofIndianoia) to the city for a park, and so I figure that any work I do out there now is freeto the. city*“And the wife (Mildred, 78) left today to have surgery in Columbia, Mo. She’s got to have a knee' repaired from a all she took at the Tulip Festival in Fella.aftertheWediHeLabeDaviMouiRi,i?e8* oftw(tomihot“I hadn’t bad any vacation, and so I thought this mightbe a good trip for me to make. Mr,Haul's article in trigued me, I thought riding a Wcyele across Iowa rnlMht be a way of doing some good, ** f don't know just exactlythan seeingwhat good, other than seeing my state and meeting young people,There's no doubt in his mind that he m make the full trip to Davenport, “I go at my own pace, he says, Ma,nd try to slay somewhere near the rest ofmisd Wedi a be Ame whoon hHe of I withwasDist“How, I wp pretty late todaycoming from Ames miles), mi tomorrow might be worse. They say the Thursday hitch is m miies to Williamsburg. I I might feaye to put mycear of ijailUspotTo®nepjnen,m beforeI get tee . get ft shapeis in shape for theWPKAftP—¥tem turn to Pm ¥m 1graCm-lats
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Des Moines Register
Des Moines, Iowa, US
Thu, Aug 30, 1973
Page 14
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