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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 13, 1936)
VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON Illuminated Highways Are New Safety Measure A motorist can see a pedestrian a halt mile ahead and a car three-quarters of a mile ahead at night on the illuminated highway between Schenectady and Du^pesburg, N. Y. The 18-mile stretch of road is lighted with 390 yellow sodium lights spaced 250 feet apart by engineers of the General Electric company and the American Road Builders’ association. Lord Mayor of London Has Busy Year Sir George Broadbridge, the lord mayor elect of London (right), shown with Sir Percy Vincent, the retiring lord mayor, on the Guildhall steps after the election ceremony. The lord mayor will have an un usually busy year because of the king’s coronation to be held next spring. | Plans for Labor Peace Fail Recent conferences _>etween representatives of the so-called "rebel” unions and the American Federation of Labor failed to lift the deadlock or to bring peace between the craft and industrial factions of organized labor. Left to right are seen Charles Howard, president of the Typo graphical union; Max Zaritsky, president of the Amalgamated Hatters union and John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America. ) Champion Cow Guest at Dairy Show PLAYS ARCHERY GOLF The world’s milk and butter producing champion, Carnation Ormsby Butter King, shown with Miss Dorothy Keyes, who was “Miss Wisconsin” at the recent National Dairy show held at the Texas Centennial exposi tion at Dallas, Texas. The cow which has an average daily milk produc- tion of 57 quarts was shipped 2,800 miles from Seattle to attend the show. Virginia Grey, film sta. showA playing archery golf, the latest sport to invade Hollywood. The game is similar to regular golf, ex cept that a bow and arrow are used instead of clubs and th* golf hole is changed to a target three feet in diameter. Sentry’s Lonely Vigil at Unknown Soldier’s Tomb “Cinderella” Wins Prize as Novelist House Maid Is Author of Successful Book Sally Salminen, erstwhile kitchen ; maid whose literary endeavors— | notably the novel "Katrinahave been crowned with success. While working as a maid in Asbury Park, N. J., the thirty-year-cld Swedish girl began her novel. She finished I it recently and sent it to Helsing fors, Finland, where it was awarded first prize of 50,000 marks in a tie tion contest. Now Sally has quit the j pots and pans and will devote all 1 her time to letters Critics declare the book has unusual literary merit 1 and that Miss Salminen has a prom ising future ahead of her in the writing world. A large number of manuscripts were submitted in the i Finnish fiction contest. Only in peace will this beautiful tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Washington, D. C., fulfill its purpose. With the spirit of the unknown war hero hovering above Arlington National cemetery, the sentry paces his lonely post as the world prepares to mark the eighteenth anniversary of the end of the World war. River Drops 18,000 Feet The Indus river drops more than 18,000 feet in its 1.700 mile journey to the Arabian sea, to which it con tributes 41,000 cubic feet of water per second. Hint to Applause-Seekers “A man who seeks only popular applause,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “should lay aside his books and learn to throw somer saults."
