Vernonia eagle., November 20, 1936, Image 2

VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON
SAVANT KNEADS DOUGH
Workers Dig Deep for Mammoth Dam
Most prolific baker of bread in
America is Lorin H. Bailey, a se­
date scientist in the bureau of chem­
istry of the Department of Agricul­
ture in Washington. For 20 years
PWA workmen excavating for the spillway structure of the Fort Peck dam. a project in eastern Mon­
Mr. Bailey has been baking bread,
testing it and grading it The re­ tana, financed in part by an allotment of $49,881,000 from the Public Works administration. When com­
sults of his work have been pub­ pleted, the Fort Peck project will be the largest earth-fill dam in the world, will control floods of the Missouri
lished in dozens of scientific papers. river and irrigate thousands of acres of now arid land.
Home Gas Masks Tried Out by Frencli
The Countess Galeazzo Ciano, the
former Edda Mussolini, daughter of
Italy’s premier, who, according to
reports, will visit New York and
Washington early this winter. The
countess is the wife of Foreign Min­
ister Ciano, who may succeed II
Duce when the latter retires from
political life.
“EXTRA” IS GRID STAR
Just as an “extra hand’’ when
football season started, Fritz Was-
kowitz, young soph halfback of the
Not quite a peaceful home scene as mother and daughter, wearing Huskies of the University of Wash­
gas masks, continue at their knitting during the recent rehearsal of air ington, has developed into one of
the mainsprings of the squad.
raid defenses in Paris.
“REEL” RIFLE
REPRESENTS IL DUCE
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A novel streamlined trailer carries baby on a ride behind daddy’s
bicycle. The trailer was constructed partly of old bicycle parts and cost
less than $10. It was made by a resident of East Lancashire, England.
Boy Scout Heads Pay Homage to "Teddy’ Roosevelt
Pretty Maurine Kerns, oi Miami,
Fla., shown with her home-made
harpoon rifle, designe t by W. M.
Edwards. The gun operates by
means of stout rubber bands which
discharge a steel arrow tied to a
Daniel Beard, national commissioner of Boy Scouts, places a wreath on the grave of Theodore Roosevelt
fishing reel line under the barrel. during the exercises on the seventeenth annual pilgrimage of the Boy Scouts to the grave of the late Presi­
The fish is speared (if the angler is dent. Left to right: a Boy Scout; A. H. Weytingh. a Brazilian Boy Scout; CoL Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.;
a good marksman) and reeled in. I Commissioner Beard, and Walter W. Head, president of the Boy Scouts.
NEW ARMY UNIFORM
An officer's full dress uniform of
blue which has recently been adopt­
ed by the War department. The
new uniform has a roll collar coat
and light blue trousers, and its wear
is to be optional. Officers who are
in possession of the old blue uni­
forms will be permitted to wear
them without a time limit, accord­
ing to a ruling of the War depart­
ment at Washington, D. C.