Show Saw Sawing ng Proves Easy as Sewing Woman Insists JACKSON MICH Although Although she has made her living for years as a dressmaker Mrs Myrtle Ann Dibble Dibble Dib Dib- Dibble ble is as adept with a hammer and saw as with a needle and scissors For proof she soon will have a seven-room seven house completed practically practically practically 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 Vork was commenced last May when the basement was dug the only time Mrs Dibble called in professional professional professional pro pro- help She mixed her own cement the two daughters Lauretta Lauretta Lauretta Laur Laur- etta Lee 13 and Mona Mae 12 hauling the blocks while she set them More than 1000 blocks were required for the basement A Amason Amason Amason mason inspecting the work described de- de described described de de- scribed it as a pretty good job As the next step Mrs Dibble purchased purchased purchased pur 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 nails 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 anticipated an an- Mrs Dibble was vas forced to return to dressmaking to get money to finish the house |