The Journal-Record - Bicentennial Edition Thursday, July 1, 1976 Section D, Page 2 QUESTION REMAINS ON WHO HAD FIRST AUTOMOBILE IN WINFIELD Who had the first car in Winfield? That one question will create more differences of opinion than almost any other question of early history. Many confronted with the question immediately said, "Marvin PEARCE," but Mrs. PEARCE said that her husband had the first car in Marion County but that they did not live in Winfield at that time. His first car was a Cadillac, which he bought in 1910. Mrs. R. E. MOORE, Sr. said that she had always understood that Horace ROBERTS had the first car in Winfield, and many others stated that William (Bill) PERRY had the first. A card from Willard DODSON of Wyandotte, Michigan, former columnist of "With the Miners," stated that he had been told for years that Clarence WHITEHEAD brought the first car to Winfield. It was said to be a Metz or a Stuts Bearcat but he believed a Metz was correct. He was a brother to Paul Cliff, and Ted WHITEHEAD, and was "Quite a man about town" according to Mr. DODSON. Fulmer HILL of the HILL Drug Company said that he remembered Clarence WHITEHEAD as having the first (and a Metz) as he recalled that periodically the businesses of Winfield, would close for an entire day and all citizens would go out and work on the roads leading into the town. He said that he and his brothers would always help on the road leading to Glen Allen and to his Grandfather LEE's and he remembered their working this special day that Clarence WHITEHEAD came along in his Metz for the first time. He tried to make it up the hill and the chain slipped off in the mechanism and the car began to roll backward near where the boys were pitching out rocks from the road. After several tries, the boys pushed the car up the hill.