Extraordinary family rides high wheel across America on highway 30
Ed Berry a 26 year old UNM senior on an 85 year old high wheeler bicycle retraces Thomas Stevens 1884 across country from San Francisco to Boston aided by his wife Erlinda and daughter Maya. He averages 70 to 75 miles a day on the road through Nevada Wyoming and Nebraska with a goal to reach Boston by July end promoting anti pollution and bicycling as transportation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed Berry
San Francisco
Boston
Mass
Sacramento
Wyoming
Sidney
Nebraska
University of New Mexico
Union Pacific
Thomas Stevens
Stevens
Berry
Cook
Erlinda
Maya
New York State
Berrys
Nevada
Burns
Wyom
Ogallala
Interstate
Chappell
Sidney natives listed in military service and training
Navy Petty Officer Second Class William D Printz, husband of Patricia Cox of Sidney, deployed to the Western Pacific aboard the USS Puffer based at Pearl Harbor. Marine Second Lieutenant Byron D Wicks, son of Clark and Mrs Wicks, commissioned after Marine Officer Candidate School at Quantico. Navy Fireman Apprentice Kenneth L Childers, son of LeRoy Childers, graduated Boilerman A School at Great Lakes. Second Lieutenant Mark J Anthony, Sidney native, earned silver wings after navigator training at Mather AFB and assigned to Ellsworth AFB for SAC duties. His wife Terry is daughter of Bernard Gass. Navy Airman Apprentice John J Smith, son of Kenneth Smith, graduated recruit training at San Diego.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pearl Harbor
Navy
William D Printz
Patricia A Cox
Palomino
Western Pacific
Puffer
Quantico
Byron D Wicks
Clark E Wicks
Merric R Robinson
el Rancho
Sidney
Marine Officer Candidate School
Marine Corps Base
Kearney State College
Kearney
Great Lakes, Ill
Kenneth L Childers
LeRoy E Childers
Route 2
Naval Training Center
Sacramento
Calif
Mark J. Anthony
Raymond F. Anthony
US Air Force
Mather Afb
Anthony
Ellsworth Afb
S.C
Strategic Air Command
America
Sidney High School
University of Oklahoma
Lackland Afb
Tex
Terry
Bernard H. Gass
John J. Smith
Kenneth Smith
San Diego
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Minatare
Bill Rischling
Harold Kraupie
Cheyenne County
Edward Asche
First Nat'l Bank
Schuyler
Nebr
Army
Gerald E. Matzke
Ted Houser
Newt
XACO
Bagby’s
Texaco
Illinois
Bob’s
West Texaco
Sidney, Nebr
Peeante
Fox
TH As
C.c.ryder
Ann -Margret
McGoo
Geraldine Elizabeth Page Hartman
Western Nebraska Vocational Technical In
A. Sai
Pratt&lambery
Hlinois
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