1949-09-05 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1949.

PICTORIAL

NEWSFRONT

WATER RETURNS TO WATER-To keep overflow from undermining the dam structure, surplas water at Fontana Dam, North Carolina, drops down 480-foot tunnels, hits a concrete backboard and issues as a cloud

of moisture to settle on the riverbed.

AGE,

119 YEARS William Pringle (above), of Johannesburg, South 'Africa, who recently cele

brated his 119th birth- day, is still active and hopes to live for. many years,

BEAUTY · · QUEEN- Lady ce Cameron, of Chelsea, Massachusetts, 5 feet 7 inches tall and 122 pounds, is a candl date for honour as queen Dí carnival week at Hampton Beach, New Hampshire.

IF THE SENATORS ARE GENTLEMEN-Males seek- ing mail will get it with a lovely smile nt Crosswicks, New Jersey, if President Truman's appointment of a new postmaster is confirmed by the Senate. The appointee is blue-eyed Barbara Ann Grosskreuz, 22. She rated 94 plus on her civil service test, and it appointed will be the youngest postmaster in the state.

COPS MAKE FIGURES—The motorcyle police drill team of Miami, Florida, cuts a figure eight in practice for its exhibition in American Legion convention parado at Philadelphia.

ACTOR-SALESMAN-Ignatz Bierling (right); an actor in four Passion Plays, sells programmes to Mrs Kenneth West (left), Lakeside, Arizona, and Lt, and ́ Mrs Ned F. Baughman, Dayton, Ohio, for Bach's "St. Matthew Passion" at Oberammergau, Germany.

HOUSE BUILDER-- Maj. Gen. Glen E. Eder- ton, retired army' en- gineer, is executive direc- for of the Joint Congres- sional Commission on Re- construction of the White House.

PRIVATE GRANDSTAND-This couple turned" (the rear of their sports car into a private grandstand dur- ing the road races for foreign cars on the runway of

Linden, New Jersey, airport.: V

CALISTHENICS BEFORE SWIMMING_Students of Ikegami High School, Japan, on a seashore outing at Kurihama Beach, form a calisthenies class before

... entering the water.

'IN SPITE OF PAINTER-Arnulf Stegman, head of a publishing house in Munich, Germany, called "In spite of," which gives jobs only to disabled persons, works on a sketch with pencil in mouth. His arms have been para- lysed since childhood.

'BAILING OUT AT 15 FEET-The propeller wind stream sends this trainee out of his plane into the bail-out net in ground practice at the U.S. Naval Air Station, Alameda, California.

THREE DRUMSTICKS-A, bargain

walls the pur- chaser of this chicken at the Maple Heights Poultry Shop (in: Maple Heights, Ohlo. But Andy Hocevar, operator of the shop, expects to keep Chanticleer as ́a peti, Andy Bays the Museum of Natural History calls

ok his find “very unusual

MAIL BY TRAM-An attendant, empties fastened on a tram by Hamburg, Germany authorities, in an attempt to speed hovame

through city,

ilbox

HEAVY DOLPHIN Barbara Deans, test weight of a £851⁄2 Borind dolphin taken by Paul Dixon of Greensboro, North Carolina, off More. _head CityUauni, dolphin

weight is 10-12 pounds.

OFF ON A 2,485-MILE RIDE I

Sof * 2.485-mile motoreyle rids to the International