Driving Lesson That Bore Fruit
TOT It was fun for Dickie Kenney, aged nine, of Salisbury, Connecticut. when his father showed him how to steer the family car. But soon afterwards Dickie was in a school bus with 30 other children when the driver fainted and slumped to the floor. While the others screamed as the bus headed for a ditch. Dickie clambered into the driver’s seat and straightened up the wheels, just missing a telegraph pole. He did not know how to stop the bus—his only lesson had been on steering—so he ran it intq a snowbank and the 31 children clambered out—all unhurt. Recently the Boy Scouts' of America gave Dickie a medal.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 41, 21 September 1949, Page 8
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