Racing Champ Slows Down in Retirement Talks
Wellsville’s Walter Collins, 82, once national motorcycle racing champion and Paris International winner, laments hurried modern motorists while recalling a lifetime of speed. He recalls setting a first mile per minute record in 1903 and a Bakersfield dirt track record in 1918, plus travel across the U S and Europe with racing cycles and later engine work. He traveled world twice during racing and now lives near his sister, sharing trophies and memories from Los Angeles to Paris.
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Paris
Incc
Collins
San Francisco
Calif
Gloria Brunelli
Los Angeles
California
Glendale
Germany
France
Italy
Spain
Springfield
Mass
Walter Collins
Wellsville
Stricken farmer turns to mules for farming work
John Starmer near Coffeyville, aged about 75, rebuilt his farming on a five mule system after a stroke six years ago. He refused vibrating machinery, sold modern gear, and now uses riding cultivators and a 30 inch reel mower pulled by mules to till maize. Starmer’s son Wilbur handles much of the machinery, while the elder operates with his trained animals hauling oats and moving grain during harvest.
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Starmer
Coffeyville
Wilbur
Central Princeton Notes Summary
Georgia Finley of New Florence Missouri visits relatives in the area. George Finley and Elmer Sutton families host Mrs. Sutton. Rural Mail Carriers convention held at Fort Scott. Dean Coats and Kenny from Oak Grove Missouri visit Mrs. Coals' parents the Jim Cooks while on vacation from Kansas City jobs. Lloyd Means entertains Kansas City relatives. Coleen Hahner and Patty Wasmund join a Memorial Auditorium Ottawa dance revue. Leo Wiederholt Jr. mails as substitute carrier this week. Dale Hird baled hay for Lloyd Schweitzer. Marvin Morgan visits his sisters in Colorado.
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Dean Coats
Kenny
Oak Grove
Coleen Hahner
Patty Wasmund
Memorial Auditorium
Ottawa
Leo Wiederholt Jr
Dale Hird
Lloyd Schweitzer
Silvana Colantuono Tours America On IFYE Exchange
Silvana Colantuono a 28 year old Italian IFYE delegate from Tollo arrives in New York April 14 and travels to Kansas for a four H leadership conference. She shares jokes about hot dogs and Italian spaghetti names while meeting host families and planning further orientation sessions in South Dakota and beyond. Her eyes on world peace, she notes plans for three delegates from the Communist bloc next year.
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Silvana Colantuono
Silvana
Roy Herring
Williamsburg
America
International Farm
New York
Tollo
Italy
Adriatic Sea
Washington
Kansas
Carl Rishel
Kendall
Kearny County
Rock Springs +H Ranch
National 4H Club Foundation
Lilvana
Iuly
LYYE
Ialy
South Dakota State College
KFYE
Careful father nurses ten kids at home in England
Henry Fisher, 40, quit his job as a stoker after his wife died to raise his ten children at home. The family and government praise the arrangement, noting it saves money. If the children were placed in institutions it would cost at least 40 pounds weekly. Henry receives 10 pounds from the National Assistance Board and 3 pounds 18 shillings in allowances, with eldest Raymond, 17, contributing two pounds.
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Carshalton
England
Henry Fisher
Henry
Nowell
Wnational Assistance Board
Raymond
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United States
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Coffeyville Journal
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Apsleyville
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New
Florence, Mo
George Finleys
Elmer Sutton
Fort Scott
Lloyd Means
Kansas City
Marvin Morgan
Colorado
Amierica
the Herald
IFYE
Haly
Roy Merring
110 Mile Creek
Pomona
Army Engineer
Marais Des Cygnes
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