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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 5, 1937)
VERNONIA EAGLE. VERNONIA, OREGON AUTO EXECUTIVE Solar Engine Harnesses Vast Energy of the Sun From riveter, boiler maker and shop worker to executive vice pres ident of General Motors corporation is a brief career picture of William S. Knudsen, General Motors’ prin cipal representa ive in the recent automotive labor situation. Knud sen is widely known in the motor car world, having served for ten years as president of Chevrolet Mo tor Car company. In 1933 he was Dr. Charles E. Abbott, secretary of the Smithsonian institution at Washington, demonstrating the solar en named executive vice president of gine to Dr. Henry M. Jacobson, of New Haven, Dr. Charles T. Knipp, of the University of Illinois and Dr. General Motors, in which capacity L. Yocum, of Gorge Washington university. The engine invented by Dr. Abbott which harnesses the vast he is acting in the present strike energies of the sun, was displayed at the ninety-eighth annual meeting of the American Association for the Ad aimed at General Motors. vancement of Science in Atlantic City recently. Scluneling Honored by German Town Max Schmeling, German heavyweight boxer, (second from left), shown after he was made an honorary freeman of the City of Ben neckenstein at ceremonies held recently. The town is in the Harz mountains. GETS FIRST PENSION Ernest Ackerman, sixty-five-year- old Cleveland street car motorman, shown above, is believed to be the first person in the United States to make application for a lump sum payment due under the old age benefits section of the social secur ity act. Ackerman, who has been a motorman for 33 years, berime ty-five years of age January 2 after having worked one day, u.. s day, under provisions of the social security act. Nature Is Scene Painter in Winter Playground This unusual camera study shows the great crags of Yosemite National park and the little people who have their fun on them. To the right is the famous Half Dome in the distance. New ski trails have been com pleted in the park and the season is now in full swing. Uninvited “Guest” Crashes Into Living Room An uninvited and wholly unexpected ’'guest” arrived in the home of Horace W. Miller, near York, Pa., when the pictured car. driven by M. Carvell Rothrock, broke through the house wall to enter the Miller home. Police allege that Rothrock was driving too fast around a curve, and they reported also that both Rothrock and a companion who was riding with him were unhurt The Miller house, however, was consid erably damaged. Five Years Old, and Still Mixed Up! Jane. Jean, and Joan Parisek (left to right), triplet daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Parisek. of Chicago, whose parents can’t tell them apart celebrated their fifth birthday recently.
