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Show heir fets Farm Plan nger Z Attracts Many hard Farming is no cinch--as an;. now .-cer will tell you. But there -t lots of folks who just nat-idlly nat-idlly jally like to live in the countn west zi raise crops. Some of then :e born farmers. For others ii )Sper is time--and circumstances any- ':v, out tne'r ive fr tnr S we A seriously disabled veteran--! n(J i:'s call him Ray--vho hoes . iown row and asks no sped a: tlOW- aors, was like that.. Eorn ir. J Sgg i;!se, Ida., he got into th( iephone lineman a good one ivhen Wold War 11 started war- :ay did the same thing million; leans : Ms fellow Americans did. Hf 2, has arfully dropped his civiliat naval s and entered service, lining Good telephone linemen don'; and jw on every bush so the jrting -my was glad to keep Ray a from i chosen occupation. He waf-mean waf-mean -at overseas where fellows lik J were sorely needed to in -ill and maintain wire com Jrains pmication. He served in Italy States. :iium, Luxembourg then in -many. ' Germany was tough going, bv I '.eArmy pushed ahead. So du' 1 -!' with his climbing equip "at His ambition was "to gi I - Ho Berlin," but he was 5f "ies short of his goal when hi-, hi-, -"k went sour. An enemy she) .wed to be tougher than Rav explosion dealt Ray a vk-:' vk-:' paralzing blow. It d: ?d him of the use of bot! us legs. fey learned plenty about hos ;jl life. But, ont thing remained Utmost in his mind to ge' 11 as soon as possible, and tr ;! Jo work. He learned to ck s walking" n a wheelchair " , came the big decision : Hov newant to and how couk am a self-reliant livinp' where?- Ray took his p-r. m to the Veterans Adminisrra Va's vocational rehabilita 11 expcrts agreed with Rav . tarmmg was the thing for Kay had seniority anc! ; J1 1 have gone back to a desk ln,,.the telephone com ;", his long. suppressed Si u 'arming won the deci-,.a deci-,.a enrolled for institutional -i ic raining under Publi; f nl j or disabled veterans, d ;C, ln with an Arkansas roads are not tasy to P " ed But heelchaif. he dis- :!l 6 ne furrows, up and dowi. bTS across the pasture to 3r (J1 Pond. 55 aerherdecided t0 Pnt hali 'KnlS Sweet Potatoes, hif e encZ yer was doutf ul. But ; 0Ufaged Ray, Loaned him m " speolii d helPed him build V l'te? thse potatoes. 1 9n am law Ray is entitled ;e Goverml!10bile paid for b Z7m,fnl The law "ses ul " conveyance." Ray :narv cuonveyanee" in the ."auLv??1 seled it. tttfe" he Said' 4 ,rek if t either a tractor -''heiob' ; have'to 'it down "S a!avs J, g.oine to be a job wanted to do." |