THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1949.
PICTORIAL
NEWSFRONTE
HE BOUGHT THE PRIVILEGE-In on endeavour to raise some money, the Rotary Club of Middlebury, Vermont, held an auction. Robert Summers, right, bid US$12.00 for the honour of spending a night in gaol and having Sheriff Sweet serve breakfast in bed.
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LOOKING ON-Stephen Jost, six-year-old son of a major stationed at Fort Benning, Georgia,' sits on the muzzle of a gun on a U.S. Army M45 heavy tank while Sgt. Herman R. Hill takes his position. The Infantry School at Fort Benning was giving a firepower exhibition for America's top defence officials, and demon- strating the most up-to-date weapons.
WORKING WHILE HE WAITS While waiting for an artificial leg at a hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, Kalervo Viasanen balances on one leg in the hospital's shop and does his work. A native of Finland, Vlasanen lost, his leg as a soldier in Italy, and now hopes to study engineering.
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HERE'S LOOKIN' AT YOU-Little Irene Streitbacher, aged three, had an elfish twinkle in her eye when she departed from New York with her parents to visit her grandparents in Switzerland.
IT LIES A-WASTING—This lugger, the oldest fishing vessel in trustings, eng. land, hes rotting on the beach of the 8 sex resort town, naving last been retive In the evacuation of Dunk'rt in 1910. Her former owner gave the ancient ship to the town as one of the fow'r maining examples of the "lute stern" lugger, but she's merely being used as a playground for children.
LEADING THE WAY-Major Kay, jockey S. Perez up, pulls away from the field to win the fifth race in the Empire City meet at the Jamaica, NY, race
Mr Jay (5). Ovie Scurlock up, was second, and Musketeer, on the out
side, with Jos Renick up, was third..
track.
A FEAT BY THE FEET-Little David Lee Schube, of Cincinnati, Ohlo, has been able to stand since he was two months old. Now that he's twice that,
be can balance himself on his daddy's hand."
EXPLOSION The storage elevator of a mill in Min- neapolis, Minnesota, goes up in flames after an explo sion ripped off its roof. The damage was estimated KLUS$125,000.
SOME GAL-Beauteons Georgia Leo helped to create a very charming atmosphers while lend Ang her curvaceous charms toa festivo occasion in New York.
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