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Show 90-YEAR-OLD TWINS WORK KANSAS FARMS LEAVENWORTH. Kan.. April 1, friends of JamM nd Joel riu-atwood. twins who celebrated their ninetieth birthday anniversary last October 11 on the farm Of the former, near here, are prone to dispute the claim of the Wood-llle. Wood-llle. i. twins. William H. Sr. and Henry Burns, to the title of ' oldest liv-Ing liv-Ing twin In the United State at the a& of 88. Tho recipe for long life of the Kansas Kan-sas twins la slmilnr to that of the Oh loam lo-am "Work " Encii of tho Cheatwrod twins owna a farm and works on It dallv. still beina aide to k..ep pace with a farm worker "three-score and ti n' voars tvieir Junior. Pleas of relatives for' the twins to retire always have provoked a protest- "Our chief enjoyment iri life Is working on our farms If v.e hadn't kept busy all these ears we probably would I in . e died lonjc ago." At a part given by the twins m their ninetieth birthday, Jim remarked. "I'm goln(f to keep rlKht on Working and whistling whis-tling a nine as long as I can. So sti Iking Ik-ing Is the resemblance between the y'neatwnod twins that when they don their "Sunday clothes" and have their beards trimmed. It Is difficult to tell them apart Like the Burns twins, the Cfreatwooda also are pioneers, having settled In Kansas In tho late '50s Kof P3 years they have lived on the farms they now occupy . |