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Show Sawing Proves Easy as Sewing, Woman Insists JACKSON, MICH. Although she has made her living for years as a dressmaker, Mrs. Myrtle Ann Dibble Dib-ble is as adept with a hammer and saw as with a needle and scissors. For proof, she soon will have a seven-room house completed practically prac-tically entirely by her own efforts. Faced, with a housing problem, Mrs. Dibble decided that if she could cut and sew dresses she also could "run up" a house for herself and her two young daughters. Work was commenced last May when the basement was dug, the only time Mrs. Dibble called in professional pro-fessional help. She mixed her own cement, the two daughters, Lauretta Laur-etta Lee, 13, and Mona Mae, 12, hauling the blocks while she set them. More than 1,000 blocks were required for the basement. A mason, inspecting the work, described de-scribed it as a "pretty good job." As the next step, Mrs. Dibble purchased pur-chased green oak logs and had them cut into boards at a sawmill. She fitted them herself, displaying blistered palms as evidence that green oak "saws plenty hard." Driving naMs into that wood was "the hardest job I ever took on," she adds. Mrs. Dibble did all the electrical work in the basement and plans to wire the entire house. She also will do her own plumbing. A divorcee, Mrs. Dibble used her life savings to start the house. With expenses running higher than anticipated, an-ticipated, Mrs. Dibble was forced to return to dressmaking to get money to finish the house. |