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to the rural community. He also did chores for local farmers, doing work such as harvesting onions for five cents a row. He attended Davis High School, in
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half-sisters, on his father’s side, and one half-brother on his mother’s side. As a boy in
Farmington, he worked as a paperboy, delivering the
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