Belated retirement
(N.Z.t.A. -Reuter— Copyright) COALGATE (Oklahoma). Winter takes its toll: America’s oldest newspaperdeliverer has retired. “I hated to give it up, but t’m just getting too old to face the winter weather,” said Miss Mary Johnston who will soon be 89. For almost 34 years she has delivered. the “Evening News” in Ada, Oklahoma, the community in which she lives. ■ ' ; Her route consisted of 164 customers on a 10-mile course she walked five afternoons each week and every Sunday morning.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33712, 9 December 1974, Page 24
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81Belated retirement Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33712, 9 December 1974, Page 24
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