Atlanta Daily World

Woman's
'Greatness'
Sends
Man
And
Horse To
Shame

MEMPHIS, Tenn.—(INS)—A woman can do the work of a man and a horse and do it quicker.

That's the theory city officials here based their action on when they created ten new jobs for women that will be filled during March.

The women will replace ten men and five horses as members of the Memphis police department.

For many years the department has used mounted patrolmen to police parking meters in the downtown area of the Bluff City.

Police Commissioner Claude Armour said watching a patrol man dismount to write out a traffic ticket, then remount and start the routine over again, made him decide there should be a change.

Commissioner Armour added the cost of feeding and housing five horses to the salaries paid the patrolmen who rode them. The figures were impressive.

The commissioner made his move at once, and got an okay from the City Commission to substitute the men and horses for women.

The horses were advertised for sale at public auction. The patrolmen who had been riding them were notified that they would be assigned to other duties.

Their feminine replacements are expected to be on the job by the end of March. They will wear regulation police uniforms with skirts substituted for trousers.

While they may be assigned other duties, police department officials say they will be used mainly to patrol parking meters. They will be officially designated as 'meter-maids'.