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Show Laughs at Advancing Years and Blindness A slxty-soven-year-old blind pastor, who muBt travel nearly 100 mile each session day to serve, I clinpluln of the Connecticut senate. lie Is Uev, Edward P. Ayer of Branford, now serving hi third term In the otlice. Despite his years and affliction. Ayer la strong and active. In his youth before excessive study robbed him of his sight, he was captain of the Amherst college from Yale Divinity Div-inity school. The blind chnplain bends an organization known as the Society for the Handicapped, a group which seeks to alleviate the misfortune misfor-tune of the blind In Connecticut. During Dur-ing the World war he donned overalls and managed a sizable "war garden " In Addition, he milked Ave cows, fed three yearling, two calves and twenty-five hens and raised ninety-two chickens. Indianapolis New. |