[AT] Old Tractors in the News

Rob Gray Robgray at epix.net
Sun Dec 18 18:59:36 PST 2005


Below are a few articles on antique tractos or at least somewhat old 
tractor related from the newspapers. The first part of the articles are 
shown below and the remainder of each one can be found in hte link below 
each story:

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Article about old tractors used in movies from Missouri:

Walk the Line' tractor scene has local ties

The Golden Globe-nominated movie "Walk the Line," about Johnny Cash, has 
local ties. A tractor, key to a pivotal scene in the film, was provided 
by Mountain Home, Ark., resident Richard Walker, whose grown daughters 
live in Willard and Strafford.

Walker and his wife hope to move near their daughters soon. They'll need 
enough land to hold Walker's antique tractor collection — between 35 to 
40 — with which he competes in tractor pulls.


	

At one of those pulls, Hollywood folks seeking a tractor for TV movie "A 
Painted House" approached him to help. The same transportation director 
remembered Walker when he needed another tractor for "Walk the Line."

The scene in which Cash tries to dislodge a stuck tractor called for two 
identical vehicles — one to be shot in the mud, the other in the lake, 
says Walker who owned one and painted another to match.

He and his wife were invited to watch the scene being filmed near Memphis.

Rest of article...........
http://www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051216/LIFE/512160334/1093

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The article below from Tennessee discusses members on an Antique tractor 
club working with county government to get a fairground set up


  Fairground backers say site makes economic sense

2005-12-15
by Lesli Bales-Sherrod
of The Daily Times Staff

For Johnny Leatherwood, tonight's Blount County Commission vote on 
whether to purchase property for a fairgrounds is a long time coming.

``I was the one who started this mess,'' he laughed Wednesday.

A member of the Foothills Antique Tractor and Engine Club, Leatherwood 
said he lobbied his county commissioners for years to find land for a 
fairgrounds, the last local one -- located at Five Points -- having 
closed in the 1960s.

In 2002, Leatherwood got tired of waiting and started a petition drive 
with the help of the club. Even before he finished collecting 
signatures, county commissioners took notice and agreed to form a 
Fairgrounds Committee to study the issue.

Now that committee's work is coming to fruition, with tonight's vote on 
whether to purchase the 48-acre Smoky Mountain Speedway for $785,000 and 
convert it to a fairgrounds.

``If Blount County wants a fairgrounds, this is going to be their best 
bet,'' Leatherwood said, listing the amenities that already exist on the 
site. ``Everything else we were looking at was over $1 million for 
property, and then we would have to develop it. This we could walk into 
tomorrow and use it. It's ready to go for us.''

Tractor enthusiasts aren't the only ones who could use the site as is, 
though. Fairgrounds Committee member Danny McKee, who owns American 
quarter horses, said the property is ideal for equine events as well.

``It wouldn't take much right now; very little work would have to be 
done for horse shows and tractor pulls,'' he said Tuesday. ``The 
parking's there, the water's there, the power's there, the stands are 
there. That's why I like it. At least this is a start.''

Money talks

For rest of article, see link below:
http://www.thedailytimes.com/sited/story/html/225350
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The article below from Pennsylvania only has a short mention of an old 
tractor, but discusses a family moving back to the country after getting 
tired of Las Vegas:


    Home Showcase: Home with a horse and hills


      Tired of Las Vegas, a family finds what it wanted all along

Sunday, December 04, 2005

By Lynda Guydon Taylor, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Nearly two years ago, the Edmunds family was living in Las Vegas. But 
for them, sin city was growing old.
It's gotten too commercialized. I hate to say it, but the casinos just 
bring in all kinds of people that I don't care to be around," said Dick 
Edmunds as he walked about the nearly 12-acre spread in North Strabane 
he now calls home.

Fast-paced Las Vegas is a city of transients, said son Rich Edmunds, who 
was looking for the change in seasons the East Coast offers and more 
down-to-earth folk. It was enough to convince him the nearly 2,000-mile 
move to a place he barely knew was worth it.

Dick Edmunds was born and spent his early life in tiny, rural Millheim, 
Centre County, about 30 miles east of State College, before moving about 
the country with family to Detroit and California and settling in Las Vegas.

"When I was a kid, I was raised with horses on a farm. I was pretty 
young then," Dick Edmunds said.

Rich Edmunds was unfamiliar with Pennsylvania, let alone Washington 
County, until he visited his sister and brother-in-law, Janine and Jim 
Zito, in January 2004, for a week at their Chartiers home. On returning 
to Las Vegas, Rich Edmunds decided to sell his house and move to 
Washington County, where he could raise horses and enjoy winter, spring, 
summer and fall.

He never had to list his Las Vegas house, selling it instead by word of 
mouth. He then persuaded his dad, Dick, and mom, Betty, and brother, 
Clay, to join him.

Rest of the article can be found:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05338/615724.stm




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