SNOWPLOWS: Whose Idea Was That

(K.S. BROOKS/Chewelah Independent)

CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) workers clear snow at Rocky Mountain National Park, 1933. (National Park Service photograph by George A. Grant)

I was driving down Flowery Trail in Chewelah behind a county snowplow and realized that he was sanding at the same time. What a good idea, I thought, and then wondered who, exactly, invented the combination. I remember days back in Boston when the snowplow would come through first, and the sanding truck second. No more — you get both at the same time now. So. whose idea was…