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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 4, 1921)
THE OREGON STATESMAN. SALEM. OREGON SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 4, 1921 WOMEn PARTICIPATE in mm bib Many Actually Engaged in v Road Work to Attend - ' Chicago Convention That women are beginning to 'Invade another field which here tofore has been exclusively man's estate Is shown by , the fact that numerous ' women, actually en gaged In highway construction and in the promotion of the good roads movement generally, will participate In the 12 th American good roads congress and 13th national good roads show to be held at the Coliseum in Chicago January 17 to 20, next. The American Road' Builders' association, under whose auspices .the. big congress and exposition wllTbe held. Is taking cognizance this year of the feminine Invas ion of the road building arena ana is extending special invita tions to women, fullv realizlne that they are voters, taxpayers ana road-users, and when once Interested, in a .patriotic . move ment are indefatibable in its be half. , The surprising extent to which ; women are invading the field of highway construction is shown by a Jong list of feminine road builders invited to the congress. Among these is Dr. Jennie C. Murphy, the only woman street commissioner Irf the world. Dr. Murphy bosses the construction gangs and street , cleaners at Yankton, S. D., and has held the job to the entire satisfaction of her constituents and the credit of her city for several years. As a "contractor," Mrs. Axel Holm, of South Range, Wis., has just completed four and a half miles of state highway through Pattlson State park, near Super ior, Wis., doing a job that would do credit to any man. The road which she has just completed forms a part of the great Missis sippi Valley Scenic highway from New Orleans to Canada. Mrs. Holmes handles the finances of Give A Bicycle 9 r her company, bosses a gang of 57 workmen, cooks their food and looks after the welfare of her ma chinery and 20 teams t horses. Two daughters, Vivian and Verna, keep her books and asstat her in her work. Another contractress. engaged in road work is Miss Eva Cressey, president and general manager of the Cressey Contract ing company, at Everett, Mass. Road machines manufactured by Miss Cressey are used in many states of the uaion for spraying oil, tar and asphalt in road work. At the presint time Miss Cressey has machines working ; on con tracts as far south as Texas, in addition to many in the eas'. and middle west. It was Miss H. M. Berry of Chapel Hill, N. C, who as secre tary of the North Carolina Good Roads association, did more to "put over" the $50,000,000 bond issue for the splendid new roads now being constructed in her state. She is expected to attend the congress. An Invitation has also been sent to Charlotte Rum bold, Cleveland, secretary of the Ohio state conference on city planning, and another has gone to Katherine F. Butterfield. high school student at Weiser, Idaho, who won the ; Firestone good roads essay college scholar ship contest last year and received her certificate direct from the hands of" President Harding himself. Along with Dr. Murphy, the woman street commissioner, del egates to the congress and visi tors to the exposition will greet Dr. Lou Alia Melton, said to ba the only woman bridge engineer in the country. Dr. Melton grad uated in civil engineering last year at Colorado university and is now connected with one of the district offices of the United States bureau of public roads. She is the only woman engineer in the employ of the federal gov ernment. The Gift of a Wise, Big Heart DAD is a fellow who knows a lot about Christmas. He says:. "A bicycle combines 'most all the best features all other Christmas presents put together!" And he's pretty nearly right, too. You can't find any- ; thing ior your children that will make them as happy or that will do'tjieir growing bodies more good. Let us showvyou our Christmas models. ! Other Gifts Too Bicycle Accessories, Tires, Flashlights, Roller Skates, ' .': ' j Tricycles . LLOYD E. RAMSDEN 387 Court St. left for him to do except smile stoically and bid his roadster a fond farewell. A sorry- looking sight, soaked with grease and mud as well as water, the car was finally dragged out into the light of day. As he Numerous demonstration tests j found that the expense of cleaning of road building machinery will be included in the exhibits at the show, with the machinery in ac tual operation. Reservations of exhibition space have broken all lecords, the entire lower floor of the coliseum and annex have al ready been engaged, necessitating the leasing of adjoining buildings In order to house the overflow. The exposition will be the largest of its kind the world has ever seen. Eight sessions of the congress will he held. If is expected that at least 20,000 delegates will at tend. One session will be devoted to a discussion of comparative de signs in road pavements, another wUl be devoted to a discussion of the problems involved 1b highway traffic, especially truck transpor tation, safety on the roads and f u- and reassembling the car was com paratively small, however, the owner took the chance. To his f urpriae, after a thorough cleaning the enamel was as good as before the Hood, and the roadster ran like a new car. Of 40 or 50 cars in the same basement, the Dodge Brothers car was the only one which did not require repainting. As Mr. Spiilar :ays, he feels that he now has "a car that has stood the acid test." George A. White, adjutant gen-.and wait while the interpreter eral. , The decoration was conferred upon Colonel White at general told it In English. Among those who are familiar with both languages, it U said that headquarters In France when he j the French language has shades was with the American expidi-jof meaning that are very difficult tionary forces. While Colonel to express in English what the It has been figured out that . there will be a minion and a naif, marriages in the United States In1 the present jear, Thetw are thrw reasons for thismotion pictures, the rnoto car and prohibition, not -to epeak ot the gtrli hemselTes. White's Decoration Has Attention of Marshal Foch At the reception held Thursday in Portland for General Foch, there was one decoration that at- White was with General Foch. Thursday their conversation was mostly on the weather, as It re sembled greatly that experienced by the troops in northern France j wehn it rained most of the time. j In his address at the Multna- j mah hotel where 500 ate dinner with the general, and at the eve- J ning address, his talks were inter- j preted by an officer of the 1'nited states army. At the evening address, the general would talk about one minute, and then it would require the interpreter about two minutes to express in English what the general said in French. Then Foch would talk another minute general expresses in French. T7m hii It's a good shop to go for repairs Where you can get better work in his line for less money Try my shop I please KING BARTLETT Expert Auto Repairs , Rear of 175 N. Commercial St. Phone 723 TIRE REPAIRING That Stands the Wear We are proud to show our customers the proof of our rapidly in creasing business as proof of the quality of our work HOFFMAN & ZOZEL Tire Experts Katt'y Korner Marion Hotel Phone 471 Fid III GETS SEVERE TRYOUT Three-Day Bath in San- An tonio Flood Gives Proof of Construction With the excitement and tur moil of the recent San Antonio nnnri t its heietat. D. B. Snillar, of the Exchange Sawmills Sales company, recalled that he had left bis Dodge Brothers car in a stor age garage and they had placed it in the basement only the night before. As the flood grew worse, and thA car had been submerged for three days. Spiilar made up his mind 'that there was nothing BOYS tracted the attention of the een- ture laws and regulations govern- jeral. This was the Knight of Le ins highway transport. A third ; f Honor, worn by Colonel session will be devoted to taxa tion, bond issues and problems of highway administration and fi nance. The Portland Cement associa tion, Chicago, 111., the Asphalt as sociation. New York, the National Association of Paving Brick Man ufacturers, Cleveland. O., and other organizations of road ma terial producers are cooperating in the arangements for the con gress. One session, to be held un der the auspices of the Portland Cement association, will be de voted exclusively to a discussion of proper methods in building the various types ot concrete roads. Another session, for which the program will be prepared by the Asphalt association, wil lbe de voted entirely to the construction of asphalt and other bituminous types of streets and roads, and a third will feature brick and other types of pavement. One session will be devoted exclusively to a discussion of the latest methods evolved in the construction of the common types of roads such as gravel, macadam and earth. 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