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Wednesday, October 4, 2006

The simple life

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Waldo McBurney has never been stung by a bee.

Named yesterday as the nation's oldest worker, Mr. McBurney, 104, has been keeping bees and selling their honey for more than a half-century.

Mr. McBurney said yesterday that the simple things in life have kept him in shape.

"Watch your diet and don't forget to take your exercise. You need to think right, too," he said.

"I have never smoked; I don't know the taste of tobacco. And I don't know the taste of alcohol."

Mr. McBurney has worked all his life, beginning when he was a child on a farm in the small town of Quinter in western Kansas.

A 1927 graduate of Kansas State Agricultural College (now Kansas State University) with a degree in horticulture, Mr. McBurney spent 25 years in agriculture, with 17 years as a county agricultural agent, three years as a teacher and three years with the Midwest Cooperative in Quinter.

After his tenures in agriculture, Mr. McBurney began a career as an entrepreneur, doing work such as bookkeeping, tax preparation, sharpening cultivation disks for farmers' machinery, cleaning planting seeds and beekeeping to sell honey.

Although he dabbled in many businesses, beekeeping and the sale of honey is something he has been doing for 56 years.

Mr. McBurney and 52 other older workers from each state, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico were honored yesterday by Experience Works, an Arlington nonprofit that provides job training and employment services for older Americans.

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