VERNONIA EAGLE. VERNONIA. OREGON
Gridders Register a Big Kick for Harvard
“Cotton’s looking pretty good,’* was the encouraging report of the
supervisor of the 2,000-acre Roosevelt farm near Warm Springs, Ga.,
A few of the members of Harvard’s 1937 football squad pictured during a recent workout at Cambridge, when pickers began gathering the President’s cotton crop recently.
Mass., as they registered a mighty kick in unison for their alma mater. Left to right arc: Francis F. Foley, They're all busy but this fellow who finds relaxation on a pile of lint while
Francis A. Harding, Robert M. Burnett, Torbert 11. MacDonald, William J. Clothier, Vernon Struck and other members of his family do the work. The President will probably
Charles Houghton.
| get after him.
They’re Telling Tall Fish Stories
Seeks New Speed Reeord With Racing Car
When Jack Dempsey, former world’s heavyweight champion, and
Fin Petrie, winner of the Country Home Magazine’s annual award for
the best rural newspaper correspondence, met recently, they discovered
Capt. George Eyston and his new racing car in which he will attempt to better the world speed record
a mutual interest in fishing. Fin, who comes from Opal. Wyo., has just
asked Jack to join him on an expedition through the Jackson Hole coun of 301 miles per hour, held by Sir Malcolm Campbell, shown at Chiswich, England. The new speed tests will
t be made at Salt Lake City, Utah, when Captain Eyston arrives there from England with his new car.
try. The ex-champ is saying, “Okay.”
LEGION COMMANDER
Island in the Sky Explored by Scientists
Daniel J. Doherty. Boston attor
ney. who was elected national com
mander of the American Legion at
Its recent convention in New York
city. Doherty was born in Woburn.
Mass., in 1894, enlisted in the United
States navy In 1917, where he served
as a warrant offleer during the war.
Shiva Temple, wooded plateau tn the Grand canyon which has been explored by man for the first time In
He has held manv nosts in the Le history. An expedition headed by Dr. Harold E. Anthony scaled the hitherto unreachable island in the sky to
, study animal life believed to bave been isolated for thousands of years.
gion.
LEGION AID
Mrs. Malcolm Douglas of Seattle,
Wash., who was elected president
of the Women's Auxiliary of the
American Legion at its recent con
vention in New York. She succeeded
Mrs. Oscar W. Hahn of Lincoln,
Neb., as head of the organization
whose
membership
comprises
wives, mothers and sisters of Le
gionnaires.