Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-05-26 | Page 43 | New York Sees First Woman Truck Driver of United States

NEW YORK SEES FIRST WOMAN TRUCK DRIVER OF UNITED STATE S r I I 1 z- z y N i 4 at I J I I 4 The picture above e Is of or Miss Myra Sp driving a giant blant ton five Indiana truck Miss JI 8 Spin Spindler Iller learned how to handle the truck successfully under the i direction of or Paul Campbell New York Tori I Isales sales saleH a agent for or the Indiana truck and she Is 14 now operating It tc regularly and antl I I with l entire success A short time Urn ago aJo Mr Ir Campbell decided that as competent men drivers were heIng be being he- he ing inc taken In lar large c numbers for or United States Stales arm ann army service elVice that tho the time was right to experiment with wom women n drivers rs Miss lIss Spindler was formerly engaged as asI conductress on the Twenty-third Twenty cros crosstown cross cross- I I town line and was S an eager r a cr applicant nt I Ifor for the position She had no difficulty In learning the tho art ait artof of driving and can han han- dle ihie the truck equally a as well a 35 nu drivers CIs So o far as known she Is js N t Yorks York's first woman driver of a n motor truck The Indiana truck Is distributed di in ii Lake by ly the Grady Motor com company pan a an anIt It is very er likely that some of the o ou women o of this city will li bo given 1 tU opportunity o of learning the art of tr driving