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Show LEGLESS IN REAL OPTIMIST; DRIVES JITNEY 'Bill" Gannaway Invents Control Con-trol He Can Use and Earns Living Bj ED WTO I. RID! it . i vafr Correspondent. KANSAS CITY. July 19. In W H Qannasroy there's a whole sermon on optimism. Gannaway I perhaps the only legless leg-less Jitney driver In America. In a wreck near Kansas City In 1910. Gannawa, a brukcmaii. suffered suf-fered both his legs cut off Just above Ihe knee Did he give up life's iirug-gle iirug-gle as many similarly afflicted do and start bogging on the street" v l i! 1 1 li ILL OVER Not "Bill" Gunnaway' He Just started all over again. For three rears he ran a little hotel, but this life wasn't active enough for an old railroader .-. fie invented special controls for a Ford ami became a legle.s Jitney driver. From the clutch he had a wide Iron band extended to tho edge of the seat so that hi can operate It by pushing with his left stub." All the other controls have special iron hindle extensions that lie work with his right hand while steering with his left. The new controls are his own Inventions. I V PERT DRI1 BR. c in -aid to bo on of the moot careful and expert driver in the city. Many 'who live out Troost way wait for Gannaway to come around BUI has a cheery outlook and Is happy In his new work. Me has never had an . accident. "Speedtn-don't "Speedtn-don't pay." he says, "juat gets you toro up." |