| Show Oldsters Aged 80 00 to 1 00 Make News the World Over Life may begin at 40 but the centenarians are crowding into the news all over the world They just wont won't take a back seat for youngsters any more Medical science is saying that lon lon- longevity long longevity g vity is increasing and aDd the news ne s columns bear it out a tournament tournament ment was held at Daytona Beach Fla for octogenarians Sixteen players with their ages a account account- accounting ing for 1367 years of living com com- All were over oV r 80 years old At Caribou Maine Jeremiah Campbellton who will be years old next August is again fit as a fiddle after falling down a flight of stairs at his daughters daughter's home re re- recently From Moorland Ind comes a re re- report report re- re report port of a blind man 99 years old who operates a farm alone He is David Rhoades who guides himself to the carpenter shop barn and gar gar- garden garden garden den by kinky hay wires which he has strung up I like to be kinda kind a independent he says blinded for forthe forthe forthe the past 16 years Just Like a Woman Exercising her womanly prerogative prerogative prerogative tive Miss Shepherd of ot Rhuddlan Rhuddlan Rhuddlan dlan in England insists that she is only years year's old But pension officials say outside Miss Shepherds Shepherd's hearing that hearing that she is real real- really really really ly The Rev Theodore B. B Farry totally deaf recently spoke at the Joplin Mo First Methodist church churchon on the eve of his birthday His subject was A Clean Life as Exemplified by Daniel In Warrenton Ore modern ma ma- machinery machinery machinery chinery proved the downfall of Clar Clar- Clarence Clarence Clarence ence who died from auto auto- automobile automobile automobile mobile injuries at After being struck down however he battled grimly for 10 days before giving up Each days day's news carries its stories of older people who have found that 80 or 90 or even years is not so unusual today as it was a few decades ago |
