7197 Mississippi St., Merrillville, Indiana 46410
Clinton tank-cooled gas engine built by ‘Industrial Iron
Works’, Clinton, Missouri. It is about 1900 vintage and carries
nameplate, 16 HP. It is owned and shown by Joseph J. Hinds, 401
North Third Street, Clinton, Missouri 64735. Joseph would like to
hear from other owners.
All roads to the Ozark Reunion are scenic. Our choice of
highways varies from year to year.
We always leave Merrillville, Indiana a couple days early so we
can take pictures enroute and enjoy the trip.
Ozark people like their show and they give it full attention
before and during the event.
New ideas crop up and are a part of every show. It’s a
continual program of projects designed to perpetuate their unbroken
record of betterment.
When you arrive at the show grounds on set-up day, you can see
that Hollis VanZant of Jackson, Mississippi has already given the
grass in the show area, a first class styling job.
Hollis, like many others, thinks of the event as ‘Our
Show,’ and it gives him a welcome respite from his pressing
duties with Delta Airlines. Believe us, you can unwind here.
The 1976 show held September 16, 17, 18 and 19, was the best yet
and will be better this year.
Ozark Reunion Branch #16 of the ‘Early Day Gas Engine and
Antique Tractor Association will be host to member groups for the
National meeting in 1977 – and they are ready. The member visitors
will be subjected to hospitality which is not easily matched.
In 1976 we had verification of visitors from ten states and
Canada.
Television, radio and newspaper coverage attests to the
newsworthy character of the 1976 success.
Each day offers narrated parades, threshing, sawmilling, corn
shredding, Baker Fan and other demonstrations of old power
machinery at work.
You may see power produced by steam, gas hot-air and wind-driven
equipment.
Of real importance to some visitors is the abundance of good
reasonable nearby motel facilities.
We used some of these accommodations and found them very
satisfactory.
Seasoned show devotee, Frank Warnock of Peoria Heights,
Illinois, had this to say, ‘I’ve never had a better time at
a show, these folks really went out of the way to make me welcome
and a part of the activities.’
Pictures included as part of this article will attest to the
cross-section of exhibits.
This is the man who will greet all you gas folks at Ozark Show
1977. He is R. B. Hayes, of Clever, Missouri, president of Branch
#16 E.D.G.E. & AT. Assoc.
A visit by you will give first-hand enjoyment of real Ozark
hospitality.
May we see you there on September 15, 16, 17 and 18, 1977.
