Women Given Auto Testing Jobs; 'Get Along Just Fine'
Attempting to beat manpower shortage and rapid payroll turn over, Police Commissioner Richard Jepsen has hired four young women as employes at the city auto testing station on an experimental basis.
The feminine workers, who will replace men in operating headlight testing apparatus and pasting stickers on cars, are: Miss Pauline Swengil, 2917 Bristol street: Mrs. Vernoa DuPont, 1011 North Twenty-ninth street; Miss Marjery Needham, 3912 South Twenty-fifth street, and Mrs. Margaret Howard, 3324 Fowler avenue.
Men to Police Force
Men formerly on the job are among 14 appointed to become probationary policemen Tuesday to fill vacancies caused by retirements and leaves for military service.
Patrolman Joe Bonacci, testing station superintendent, said the women workers "got along just fine" on their first day.
Drawn from the American Women's Voluntary Services, Miss Swengil said she and her co-workers "are thrilled to be able to help do jobs that make more men available for war work."
Jepsen said he decided to make temporary appointment of women because "there are less men applying for civil service tests than we need to cover our turnover." Sixteen changes have been made in recent months, due in part to low wages the city can pay, Jepsen said.
Get $20 Weekly
Women will draw $20 weekly, the same as men. If they prove satisfactory, women wil1 be admitted to civil service tests later for permanent jobs, Jepsen said.
The 14 new policemen named by Jepsen are: William R. Andrew, 5335 South Thirtieth: Joseph Benish, 2917 T avenue; Charles R. Chleborad, 3123 North Fifty-fifth; George Dworak, 5109 South Twenty-third; Robert A. Hickey, 4504 South Thirty-second; John S. Regner, 2218 South Eighteenth, and Paul H. Slinkard, 1306 0 street, all promoted from testing station jobs: William S. Pattavina, 1216 South Tenth, son of Morals Squad Lt. Al Pattavina; George V. Belitz, 4221 South Thirty-ninth avenue; Edward J. Dropinski, 3930 South Thirty-third, son of the police jailer; James E. Dworak, 603 Dorcas, son of a retired policeman; Lloyd M. Hutter, 2424 1 street; Clarence H. Klinger, 2415 Pinkney, police traffic department civilian worker, and Walter F. Wilson, 1704 North Twenty-first avenue.
