The Gazette from Cedar Rapids, Iowa • 17

i li Htw TV firm nfirltlnmint Section Two SUNDAY, JULY, 19, 1959 0 nt i Investigation NfiV Plcffl Set on Iowa Road Expense Is Shift Fayette Open House Is In Honor of the House By Laurie Van Dyke. FAYETTE In 1859 Grandmother Samantha bought a house. One hundred yeara later, the anniversary of that event la being celebrated by her The open house 1 riday will be just that because It Is actually "The Paine House" that is being honored. Two of Grandmother Sant an thaa granddaughters, Amy Leigh Paine and Margaret Paine, now live In the house. They conceived the idea of celebrating the home centennial several year ago.

And the celebration will actually start tomorrow when relatives begin arriving. There will be a luncheon Friday noon at the Col-grove-Walker dining room on the Upper Iona university campus for about 39 descendants of Grandmother Samantha. They will be here from various parts of the country. In the afternoon, more than 200 persons who have at some time or another had oc mantha Kent, widow of Hel mer Kent, and her youngest daughter. Margaret, left their island home at South Hero, in 1859 and headed west Two daughters and 2 sons oi Mrs.

Kent had already mover to Fayette county, la. Margaret attended UIU, as have nearly all of Grand mother Samanthas descendants since that time. First Graduating Class. Margarets husband, Jason Lee Paine, was a member of, the first graduating class, in 1862. A Methodist minister, he was on the schools board for many years.

Alny Leigh Paine, By I'd Hrlnt. DES MOINES (U PI) The federal, state and local gov ernments spend nearly $200, 000.000 a year in highway construction in Iowa. There is a question whether Iowa residents are getting their money's worth from the spending. An 11-member Iona highway study committee, made up of legislators and state and county of ficials, will hold its first full scale U1 Of Policy By William Eberllne. DES MOINES (AP) A new list of priorities for construction of the interstate highway system is.

being pondered by the Iowa Highway Commission. The new plans may com up for approval by the commission at its next meeting July 29. The priorities acre explained to the commissioners this week, but engineers hadnt yet worked out cost factors. The commission requested information as to how far anticipated Interstate funds will go toward completing Mie program in the next 5 years. I meeting here Monday to start an Investigation aimed at answering that question.

Sen. D. C. Nolan (R-Iowa City), chairman of the committee, wants to make the study as broad as possible, in order to give the 1961 legislature a complete picture of the states road building program. Under the Joint resolution passed by the 1051 Nolans committee can go to just about any lengths to get Information.

A host of criticism 1ms been heard from various sources, complaining that one segment of the population or another isnt getting its "fair share of the road money. Iowa cities complained to the Iowa legislature that they werent getting enough money to repair and build city streets because too much money was spent on farm roads. Outti Btvolo by Ctrl Franks Policy Change. The new commission, which took office July 1, decided to complete interstate 80 from east to west before concentrating on north south interstate 35 and 29. Thu is in accord with the wishes of Gov.

Herschel Loveless, who appointed all 5 commission members. Thats a departure from the policies of the commission which completed its term June 30. It had been building interstate highways piecemeal, with major attention to the heavy traffic areas first. "The Important thing about the policy shift," said Gerald Bogan, executive secretary of the Iowa Good Roads "is this: New Facility. "The new commission wants to build the interstate daughter of Jason and Margaret Paine, is a member of the board now and has been since before she retired from school teaching in 1937.

She taught and was a school principal in Iowa and several nearby states, concluding her career with 17 years of teaching in Chicago. The Paine house is really a part of Upper Iowa history, too, because for many years it has been the scene of the first faculty coffee hour at the beginning of every college year. There have been many other col-lege gatherings at "the house" loo. One famed graduate. Dr.

John R. Mott, 1948 Nobel eace prize winner and honorary life president of the Worlds Alliance of the YMCA, recalled regular Sunday night visits to the Paine house while he was a "homesick boy on Upper Iowa campus. Preaching Assignments. The Paine family was away rom the house at times, when the Rev. Mr.

Paine had reaching assignments at towns like Cresco and Post-ville. Among the articles open ouse visitors will see Friday will be "covered wagon lairs chairs that the Rev, Mr. Paine and his wife took with them to sit on in their covered wagon when they made their trip to South Da kota, where he was a mis' sionary. They always returned to the house, though. They observed their 40th and 50th wedding anniversaries there.

In 2J4 50 to THE LITTLE SHAVERS Clarence's young square dancers, the Little Shavers, were busy Wednesday evening advertising the coming Clarence Centennial Days July 31, August 1 and 2. The children, all 1st graders, are from front to back, Monica Robison and Ricky Elijah, Joyce Ingram and Kevin Kelly, Ann Joslin and Robert Niermeyer, and Jane Kay'Wallact, Bill Tenley and Robert Tjiies. The children were part of a group of Clarence residents who visited Stanwood and Mechanicsville to advertise the centennial. (See more pictures on page 3.) 1 Mattie Has Been a Doctor for 59 Years djD POO I Hard Life for a Woman but Lots of Pleasure in Relieving Pain 4 From a physical standpoint doctors today have it Easier, Dr. Mattie believes.

"A woman, to be a doctor, cant be lazy, said Dr. Crain. "She must be self-reliant. Oftentimes she wont have somebody to lean on. 5, I cjh 1 ,1 as a brand new facility for high speed, through traffic.

The old commission sought to build the interstate segments as replacement highways for outmoded primary roads in heavy traffic areas. The priorities drawn up by Traffic Engineer Carl Schach to meet the new commissions policy give the emphasis to the portion of interstate 80 between the Mississippi river and Des Moines. Grandmother Samantha casion to eome into contac with "The Paine House will tome back to visit The open house will be from 2 to 5 p.m Open for Inspection. The 12-room house will be opened for inspection with some articles of special in terest tagged with historical information. Tags will iden tify such articles of furniture as a cherry and fiddleboard maple chest of drawers and a black walnut aumbry brought from Vermont by Grandmother Samantha in 1859.

In the afternoon there will be a program during which a sextet will sing a song about the house composed by Dr. W. LeGrande Maxwell of Upper Iowas music depart ment. A niece of the Paine sisters, Mrs. L.

H. Austin of Portland, will read the history of the house. Guests at the open house will receive a printed brochure with "The Story of the House" written by Amy Leigh and Margaret Paine. The brochure tells how Sa Complaints. Owt-of-state drivers complain because the primary highways in Iowa arent all wide, modern roads.

Everyone, down to the home owner with ruts in his street or farm lane, has said something against highway builders at one time or another. i But, until the committee was formed this spring, the road system in Iowa was something like the weather everyone talked about it but no one did anything about it. Nolans committee plans to do something. The Republican senator frankly favors1 exchanging the present 3-man Iowa Highway Commission with a single full-time By Phyllis Fleming. AulkUnt But Editor.

EEP RIVER-Mattie Crain will tell you that being a doctor is a pretty hard life for a woman. And Mattie should know; she has been a doctor for 59 years'. Fifty-six of those years have been spent min istering to residents of the Deep River area. But Mattie has liked being a doctor. She says there is a "lot of pleasure being able to relieve pain." Dr.

Crain and her husband, Dr. L. F. Crain, pfac ticed together until his death years ago. In 1953 the own honored them for their years of medical service the community.

Only Doctor. Dr. Crain, 85, is the towns only doctor. But the town isnt as large as it once was. When the Crains came? here from Illi The portion of the house that stands at the corner was the original section of the You learn to lean on your self," she said.

A doctor "just cant pick up and go on vacation" but the Crains did travel over a great share of the country Dr. Mattie "likes to travel." On Schoolboard. Dr. Mattie Crain has "never run out of jobs. She was on the Deep River school board for 9 years and on the county board of education for 20 years.

She was a member of the Deep River Presbyte rian church board of trustees for 30 years and treasurer of the aid society for 40 years. She still walks to church every Sunday, Dr. Crain believes that teachers are better prepared now. She will also tell you "we (Deep River) had a good school until they broke In on us." Deep River has been part of the Deep RIver-MHIersburg school district for a little over year. The Crains had 2 daughters.

They are Agnes Trout of East Lansing, and Marian Larson of Clarendon Hills, a suburb of Chicago Dr, Crain has 5 grandchil dren and 4 great-grandchildren, (Continued: Page 2, CoL 3.) nois, it was a thriving town with a railroad. The railroad is gone now but the little white building at the end main street with the names of Dr. L. F. Crain and Dr.

M. Crain painted on the window is still used by Dr. Mat tie as her office. She doesnt go out on calls any more. If she did, the traveling would be a lot easier than the horse and buggy and Model-T days she She did some of the driving-on calls then, but more often had a driver.

Mattie McCIune was born on a farm near Deep River almost 86 years ago. Once when her mother" was 111, a real nice doctor came to see her. "I was 7 or 8, Mat-tie said, "and as I watched lim work with the little bot ties of pills, in his bag, suddenly said Id like to be a doctor. He said, "I guess you could. Little Mattie an swered him by saying "I guess I will be a doctor.

M. D. Degree. From that time, an M. D.

degree was her goal, and she earned it In 1900 from the Northwestern university womens medical college as Dr. Mattie McCIune Crain. Sha and her husband were married May 30 before their graduation from separate medical colleges June 14. She met her husband, a native of Illinois, while they were both attending Northern Indiana Normal school at Valparaiso, Ind. She taught school for 3 years then attended college and obtained a pharmacy degree because "doctor had to keep their own drugs then.

Dr. Mattie Crain then started medical schooL She and her husband werent in th! same school because they (school officials) just didnt want women in the mens classes. Her husband attended Rush medical col- of DR. CRAIN college, they set up practice in a small Illinois town tfhd were there for 3 years before coming here. The young doctor didnt have to intern in those days.

Surgery in Home. Like all old-time doctors. Dr. Mattie remembers performing surgery "right on the kitchen table and delivering babies with the help of lamp and flashlights Iowa City had the closest hospital when the Crains came to Deep River but unless the surgery was very serious, a surgeon came out from the hospital and the 3 them performed the operation in the home. If a patient did have to go to the hospital, he went by train.

Dr. Crain remembers severe winters and sleigh rides across fields to pa-tlenUbomes; He outlined plans earlier for hiring the Automotive Safety a -ington, D.C., to run a sur vey, of the states highway system. Besides the engineering survey, the committee was urged by the legislature also to study the "adequacy of highway revenues. whether the present highway revenues are handled in a sound and efficient man-ner and whether laws should be changed to "enable highway administrators to do a better job. Committee Members.

But rather than starting at the east and building west, they call for building first the segments adjoining portions already completed or under construction both in the Des Muines area and in Eastern Iowa. There are a few departures in the proposed prior-ties from the commissions announced policy. The engineers say these are dictated by good sense. Low Priority. Chief Engineer John But-er also pointed out that nhough a relatively low priority is assigned to completing the portion of interstate 29 from Onawa to Sloan, grading and bridging on this stretch will be completed by the end of this fall.

It would be desirable, he said, to pave it without waiting toolong. With one exception, the first 10 proposed priorities call for construction on Interstate 80 between the Mis- -sissippi and Des Moines. Heading the list is a segment from interstate 35 north of Des Moines east to highway 117 north of Colfax. -Second priority would extend this segment to highway 6 east of Colfax. Number 5 would push it to highway 14 south of Newton.

Priorities 3 and 4 would go to the stretch from highway 38 north of Wilton Junction to highway 1 just east of Iowa Clfy. The only work among the first 10 priorities proposed for a north-south interstate Cel 2.) Dr. Crain lists sulfa and penicillin and other antibi otics as among the greatest advances in medicine during her years as a doctor. Epidemics of smallpox, influenza, typhoid, arent common now, but Dr. Crain and her husband encountered an epidemic of typhoid shortly after they came to Deep River.

1 "Know It AIL" If Mattie had it to do all over again, she would still Besides-Nolan, the committee members from the legislature include Sens. Carroll- McCurdy (D-Oska-loosa) and Gene Hoffman (D-West Grove) and Reps Russell Eldred (R-Anaipo-sa), Neal Pierce (R-Russell) and Merle Hagedorn (D-Royal). Also on the committee are 2 Representatives from the Iowa League of Municipalities, one from the big cities and one from the small communities, one from the Iowa County Supervisors one from the' Iowa County Engineers Assn, and one from the Iowa Highwayl Commission. I Damaged Boxcar Dragged 2 Miles ELDORA (AP) A damaged boxcar was dragged by speeding northbound Minneapolis A St Louis freight for more than 2 miles Saturday. I A pole is believed to have rolled off a car ahead of the boxcar and then was caught underneath.

A set of trucks under the car wasjtorn off and dragged along the tracks. Tracks were torn up or damaged along the route but no other cars wera derailed. 1 HONOR OF A HOUSE Standing before the bouse fbeir grend mofher bought 400 years ago are Margaret (left) end Amy Leijh Paine of Feyette. They will bold enf open bouse Friday in honor of the ICO years the family as owned tfje home. lege, also connected withjbe a general practioner.

Northwestern university. MYod have to know it ail for After 4 years of medical practice, she says. I A f' r..