Whitecotton, Don & John Deere - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Don Whitecotton of Waveland (left) is shown looking at a 1959 John Deere tractor at the Company's Tractor Works in Waterloo, Iowa.  He is visiting the company's plants in Iowa and Illinois this week as part of one ot the biggest airlifts ever held by a farm equipment manufacturer.  During the course of the winter more than 2,000 dealers and salesmen of John Deere tractors and farm equipment will be flown to Waterloo and Dubuque, Iowa and Moline, Illinois in chartered 58-passenger United Air Lines planes with their wives for three-day all expense tours.  The 2,000 salesmen and dealers who are making the tours were awarded the trips for exceeding their quota of sales for 1958 tractors.  The group flew to Waterloo, Sunday and will leave Moline to return home Wednesday afternoon.