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Show Celebrate "Model T'S" Twentieth Birthday . . . . . ' ., p - , r ' (fv..ir;' "'. -. yj1', V " ' I ' '-. . ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ": ' ' .K' , ' i " ' Knute Endresen and his Sister, Mrs. Anna Cochran, of Sugarville with the 1926 Ford sedan which has served them for two decades. Knute's car is well known to Delta people,includingToots, who ,' has the following to say l )ear Suzy, 1 It seems to me that Detroit has- r l't got anything on Delta in this 1 'lusiness of celebrating the golden 1 iuhilee of the first autos at least ' they haven't got the edge on us by 1 more than thirty years. Henry Ford " drove his first car back in 1896, & ' he bulit Knute Entlresen's some 1 thirty years later, but Knute's still 5 runs and that first Ford spends ' most of its days in a museum, and they only get it out about once in 1 ten years for a parade of some- ' thing. They might get it out oft- 3 ener, only it takes a long time to ? start it after they decide to, so they don't put the eTfort very often Knute, on the other hand, hasn't j had any trouble starting his Ford i since Chris Gronning put a high j tention distributor on it fifteen years ago. j Chris, who has seen a flock of babies come into the world and grow up, served as "midwife" at the lime Knute's Model T Forder first gurgled, sputtered and then took off back in 1926. Chris figures fig-ures there was more real spunk in a Model T than there ever was in one of those fancy new school busses bus-ses for which he now acts as the chambermaid, Anyway, you've got to hand it to the Model T's. They did a lot of things nobody else could do, and when Knute's 196 Fordor was invited in-vited to join the Snciety of Ditch Mumpers who didn't make it, it de- - clined because is was really a puddle pud-dle jumper, and always made it. One day back in 1925 the Ford plant turned out ten thousand of 'em in a day, and wouldn't they like to match that one in 1946? In fact, if they don't hurry and get those assembly lines rolling I'll I forget how to drive. I Let's get a horse, Toots. |