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Photograph was edited for publication purposes. Photograph article dated August 14, 1963 partially reads, "Perhaps the best skeet shooter in the Valley is a near-sighted, 16-year-old, 11th grade student at Birmingham High School. Jim Bellows of Encino looks like hundreds of other Valley teen-agers: he's slender, has light brown hair and wears button-down collar shirts. But Jim is different: he's the world's champion at shooting skeet (clay pigeons) with a 12-gauge shotgun. Last weekend, with his mother and father adding their encouragement, Jim Bellows knocked down 550 skeet without a miss to win in the world's championships at Rochester, N.Y." Photograph caption reads, "Skeet shooting world champion - Jim Bellows holds one of his shotguns."
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