Show Washing Was king Machine M ach ue Motor MotorS S Propels Cripples Cripple's Car T 1 j I IS S 4 4 4 4 4 2 47 S. S S i V I i I S S r r I S. S Byron T T. Jones Strange Vehicle Transports Barney T. T Jones to Many Sports Events MIDVALE MIDVALE More More than 2000 miles have been covered by Byran Bar Barney Barney ney Dey T. T Jones South Locust street in his home made motor driven wheelchair Crippled by Illness lUness 22 years ago Mr Jones has since made his way front rom town to town on this strange vehicle created by his son law Henry Anderson He attends every sports ev event nt of f any importance within with with- in n a radius of 20 miles negotiating the tie distance in his chair I r wont won't miss a baseball or football foot foot- ball all game for almost anything in the world Mr Jones said smiling You see ee I I enjoy enjo any sport thoroughly thoroughly- used to be active in th them myself when a youth Now that I have a gasoline motor on my chair it is quite easy for or me to travel from here iere to Draper Riverton Salt Lake City ily or even Provo I can make as high as seven miles an hour in it and nd time doesn't mean a lot to me anyway My son law designed the whole thing using a hospital chair and an anold anold anold old washing machine motor to start with he continued proudly de de- de scribing the thc mechanisms of the crude vehicle Two levers operate the contraption con con- one one to guide with and theother the theother theother other for acceleration and brakes It starts with the momentum of the chair Mr Jones makes his living selling balloons trinkets and other ers at rodeos and fairs During quiet days he hc solicits subscriptions to newspapers news news- papers Winter months are long and tedious tedious tedious te te- te dious dious' to Mr Jones While his machine ma ma- chine makes good d time even even through deep snowdrifts exposure to the cold irritates the illness that stilled his joints so many many years ago For Por that reason he must stay within the four walls of his small home during the coldest |