[AT] Old Tractors in the News

Sun Dec 18 21:18:02 PST 2005

Well I saw the movie "I walk the line" last week and it's a good one, 
especially if you liked Johnny Cash. I, however, will have to go see it 
again as I thought there were three (3) different tractors in the film. The 
first seine shows Cash on a tractor that is stuck but only shows Cash and 
the hood of the tractor which shure looks like a Ford to me. The second shot 
taken from a distance shows Cash trying to unstick the tractor and it  looks 
like a wide front, maybe an International. The last is of an Oliver half in 
the water. Looks like an Oliver 70 RC.
 I liked the one shot of Johnny Cash himself that was blended in. Good Film, 
gota go see it again to see if I'm seeing things.   John Grant in Michigan
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> 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
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 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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