Show Mini sketches 0 of maxi living THE OLD CARS IV The old Model T Ford was wasa a lightweight In more ways than one over It had a small engine engine en en- gine and a light frame It broke down easily and was easily re repaired repaired repaired re- re paired sometimes and It didn't weigh much when compared compared compared com- com pared with today's complex heavy cars In fact one little ton half-ton up pick-up truck was such sucha a lightweight that a boy of or 17 turned it side right after it had been flipped nipped upside I Wasn't strong for tor pound boy so I may have had the benefit of an extra shot of adrenalin oozing through my body Ive I've heard tell that moments of fear and stress canso can so sometimes met i m e s produce extra adrenalin that can In turn provide people with more than usual strength When I was a senior at Ephraim Ephraim Eph- Eph raim High School I lived with my brother Sheldon and his wife Gwen now Mrs A A. A I I. I Tippetts of Springville One day in March or April 1925 some of our livestock a cow cowand cowand cowand and a horse wandered away from our farm about a mile west of ot town down the lane west of the old Dreamland Hall Isn't It called Little Lane Our old farm may still be Identified by the willow trees around the edge of a tiny puddle-pond puddle that thatis thatis thatis is fed by a small artesian well These trees I was told when I was very young grew from slips my brother Grover stuck in the mud perhaps 60 or 65 years ago I took Sheldons Sheldon's Model T ton half-ton truck to look for the animals and toward late afternoon afternoon after alter noon I ended up In Big Lane thinking no doubt that the cow or horse might have wandered north from our farm I probably went as far as the feed yards west of the River bridges before I gave up and turned back toward town I always did enjoy the sight and smell of the fresh waters flowing under those bridges and the animal I was presumably looking for COULD have wandered wandered wandered wan wan- dered over to Big Lane On my way back the old flivver got tracked into the ruts that had been worn deep into the spring mud of the road The steering wheel must have had a good six inches of play and the old truck was therefore easily diverted from its proper course courser Evidently I was going too fast last for such precarious conditions for somewhere along the rut-filled rut road the steering wheel spun a few inches the truck gave a violent jump to one side and flipped nipped over I landed under the truck bed and the truck landed up up- up side-down side on the roadbed I crawled out from under It felt fell various parts of my body to see whether I was badly damaged and discovered to my surprise that I was not But the truck was damaged I cannot recall how badly but I knew it would take some fixing before it could be made to run again I knew I could not leave It on the roadbed roadbed roadbed road road- bed and wondered what I could do to get it off With youthful optimism and some panic I thought I 1 would try to turn It up right and push it Into the barrow- barrow pit pH I wa war wac no doubt surprised when I succeeded It must have been tilted a little in my favor on the downward slope of the grade ode At any rate it was out of the way of whatever traffic Lane might go up or down Big Of course I stopped looking for the lost livestock for I felt I must get word to Sheldon that I had completed in ma a minute or less a project we had been working on little by little for fora of time a considerable period reducing the old truck to a state of uselessness I walked from Big Lane to our farm on Little Lane caught one of the theold theold theold rode old riding horses there him Wm into town and broke the sad story to Sheldon I have often orten rationalized that the disaster to the truck turned blessing in disguise disguise disguise dis dis- dis- dis out to be a valuable guise for I learned a lesson about how not to drive in deep ruts at least Ive I've never had a wreck of at that kin kind I since that day and Sheldon traded the remains of the derelict derelict derelict dere dere- truck for a good Jersey cow that provided us with mild milk mil k for a much longer longe r an antime and d cream time than the truck could have hav e provided us with transportation n hadn't hadn t l if I such as it was flipped it over R SCHOOL BUS HERE a. a A 1 t |