ARMLESS MAN
DRIVER'S LICENSE ISSUED
XENIA, Ohio, Jan. 21
Paul E. Layton, 21, born without arms, was given the right to drive an automobile by a Common Pleas court decision to-day.
Judge George H. Smith, who went for a 30-minute ride with Layton last month, upheld the Osborn young man's legal right to a driver's license. Judge Smith found that Layton "operates to all apparent purposes as skilfully as 'the average driver." Layton had appealed to the court from the State motor vehicle bureau's refusal to grant him a driver's license. He learned to drive six years ago.
The court found that Layton had overcome his physical handicap "by cultivating an adeptness with his feet and body that enables him to use these members and supplant the deficiency occasioned by his lack of arms."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19885, 11 March 1939, Page 6
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