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Show Seamstress Cuts Police Uniforms And Tax Outlay CHARLESTON, W. VA. With her fast flying sewing machine, Mrs. Adana Summers is saving money for West Virginia taxpayers. Her job is to alter and make over uniforms uni-forms worn by state police officers. Each rookie trooper before going on duty receives $326.65 worth of clothing, including a number of articles arti-cles discarded by older policemen. Mrs. Summers alters these leftovers to fit their new owners, at the same time checking to see that they are completely equipped with the buttons but-tons considered so essential to a smart looking officer. Mrs. Summers, who worked' as a machinist in an industrial plant during dur-ing the war, admits that her job i sometimes tedious and exacting but insists that she prefers it to that of a secretary, taking shorthand note or pounding the keys of a typewriter. type-writer. How well she is doing her job is shown in Capt. Harry C. Meyers' estimate that during a six-month period alterations and mending of uniforms saved West Virginia taxpayers tax-payers approximately $2,000. |