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About The Bonneville Dam chronicle. (Bonneville, Or.) 1934-1939 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 8, 1937)
FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1987 T H E BO N N B V I L L E D A M O H R O M C l E Scenes and Persons in the Current News THREE Season Calls College Stars W ith b a sk etb a ll succeeding football in the in te re s t of a th le tic fans, lead in g college an d u n iv e rsity fives a re e n te rin g a stre n u o u s season. P h o to g ra p h shows C oach A rth u r ’‘D u tch ” L onborg of N o rth w e ste rn u n i v e rsity , E vanston, 111., a s he d ia g ra m s p lay s for his first s trin g sq u ad . L eft to right, stan d in g , a re : V oights, T ran k le, M cM ichaels, S m ith and V ance. 1—G eorges B onnet, fo rm e r m in is te r of finance, now sla te d to b ecom e F re n c h a m b a s s a d o r to th e U n ited S tates. 2—C erem onies in London a t w hich the Duke of Y ork w as officially p ro c la im e d K ing G eorge VI of E n g land. 3—G en eralissim o C hiang-K ai-shek of C hina who w as re c e n tly k id n ap e d an d held c a p tiv e by riv a l w a r lords. Solons Gather for Congress Opening Lindbergh and Eckener at British Pilots’ Dinner Vice P re sid e n t Jo h n N. G a rn e r a n d U. S. S e n a to r J a m e s H a m ilto n L ew is of Illinois, w hip of the sen ate, a r e seen c o n fe rrin g o v er p lan s fo r the opening of the new Seventy-fifth congress. Scene a t the B ritish E m p ire A ir P ilots guild d in n er held a t the In n h o ld e rs’ h a ll in London rec e n tly in honor of C apt. F . E . G uest, C. B. E . Show ing, left to rig h t: C apt. G uest; D r. E c k e n e r; A. C. L am plugh, deputy m a s te r; an d Col. C h arles A. L indbergh. D r. E c k e n e r flew fro m G e rm a n y to a tte n d the din n er. Capt. G uest is a fo rm e r a ir s e c re ta ry of G re a t B rita in . Wins $2,000 Argentine Air Trophy Night Turned Into Day on Golden Gate Span T he v o rld 's la rg e s t sodium lighting in stallatio n , the first com p leted section of th e G olden G a te b rid g e to O akland, looking to w ard San F ra n c isc o fro m Y erb a B uena island. N ine h u n d red an d tw enty-four sodium lig h ts, th e e q u iv a len t of 35 full m oons, m a k e the h ig h w a y so b rig h t th a t m o to rists cro ssin g the b ridge a re a sk e d to tu rn off 'T dim th e h e a d lig h ts of th e ir c a rs . D ew ane L. W allace, W ichita, K an ., (c e n te r) rec e iv e s th e $2,000 A r g e n tin e tro p h y , m a jo r prize a w a rd of th e ninth a n n u a l A ll-A m erican a ir m a n e u v e rs a t M iam i, F la ., re c e n tly . W allace won th e 25-mile ra c e fo r p la n e s w ith m o to rs of 500-cubic inch d isp la c em e n t. A w arding the p riz e a re th e o rig in a l donors, M r. a n d M rs. A. A. Silva, of A rgentina.