Show j CIRCUS ELEPHANTS HELP ROAD WORKERS When modern equipment bogged in insoft insoft insoft soft spots after several weeks of rain circus elephants were given the job of at helping build a highway between Houston Texas and the coast For the first 12 weeks after the road was I started rain retarded the contractors says Popular Mechanics l magazine Trucks could not be moved through soft places in the right of at way cars on ona ona ona a short railroad spur track could not be switched and other heavy work was handicapped Then the contractors tors made arrangements with a circus near by br and the elephants were put on the job enabling the work to proceed proceed pro pro- at a rapid rate |