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| Gaston Best Transcribed and Submitted by Natasha Miles Columbus County, NC  |
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State Port Pilot 22 May 1935 Walks Eighteen Miles Each Night And Just Thinks Nothing of Feat Gaston Best Perhaps Has Made More Mileage On Foot Than Any Man In This Section Of The State In Year's Time He Walks 6570 Miles Three Times Distance From Atlantic To Pacific Covered By Employee Of Lumber Company At Hallsboro Each Year Walking 18-miles every night remains a feat which Gaston Best, employee of a Hallsboro lumber company accomplishes every night and thinks nothing of it. In making his rounds looking after the property of the North Carolina Lumber Company in Hallsboro, Mr. Best covers the amazing distance which in a year's time, providing he works every night, will run up to 6,570 miles, or three times the distance across the North American continent. Mr. Best walks 40-hours every week. In that forty hours he covers 126 miles, exactly the distance from Whiteville to Raleigh. In arriving at his speed, it was estimated that the Hallsboro man makes something like three miles per hour. Asked if he could strike out and walk eighteen miles on a straight stretch, Mr. Best said he doubted it, because walking around the lumber yard, which in itself is about a mile around, was different from steady walking out on the highway. Interviewed by newspapermen some time ago with reference to his unusual feat, Mr. Best said that the exercise kept him in tip-top shape physically all of the time, and he was hardly ever sick. |
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