1949-10-12 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1949.

PICTORIAL

NEWSFRONT

FARM BEAUTIES From this bevy of beauties, one lucky lass will he chosen as queen of the Los Angeles County Fair, to be held in Pomona, California. A lot of farmers are going to wish they could have such pulchritudinous milk maids around their property.

YUKON SOLVES HOUSING PROBLEM-Quonset hut, left, and the three-storey log cabin represent diversified housing at Whitehorse, Y.T. This rapidly growing sub-Arctic community is a stopover for Alcan Highway tourists, and a jumping off place into Keno Hill area where men and machinery are being moved in a rush for lead and silver. Lead prices have jumped because of a world shortage,

THANKFUL BUTCHI-And no wonder he's grateful. Ho chased a cat under a aldowalk in St Louis, Missouri, and got stuck. Humano Society officer, Glenn Martin, finally extricated Butch who readily indicated that he

knew how lucky-ho-was,~-

GETTING THE LOWDOWN She was mending 30 years before he was born, bui 63-year-old Mrs Jess Jenkins of Rantoul, Illinois, admits that 17-year-old Pvt. Wyn "Red" Schell, of Dearborn, Michigan, is an old hand with a loose button. Mrs Jenkins, though suffering from neuritis in her sewing hand, is on deck at the USO every Wednesday night to sew on stripes, buttons for the airmen of nearby Chanute Air Base.

OOH, LA LA!-Before joining the other beau- ties in the Atlantic City contest, Theresa Gorgean, "Miss Chicago 1949,” had a good time in Miam! Beach, Florida.-

LOOKING UP-This corrugated steel tube into a coal mine near Cumnock, North Carolina, provides a safe entrance, ander the river, to the 36-inch vein where 14,150,000 tons out of a total of over 100,000,000 are already completely drilled and mapped. After a 75-year history of failure and tragedy, this mine expects

soon to safely produce 500 tons of coal each day.

STYLES FOR THE YOUNG-These are sturdy out- door sweaters of youngsters who play hard. The sleeves are made a little full to allow room for add!- tional clothing as autumn days got crisper. It also helps to keep active elbowe from poking out.

NEAR COMPLETION-The University of Michigan's new observatory at Portage Lake, Michigan, is almost finished. Equipped with a 24-inch Schmidt-type reflecting telescope, it will be used in research on the earth's structure and external galaxies,

SAD ENDING--Unlucky crew members of the Fiesta I, owned by Henry J. Abreu, are rescued after their boat capsized in the first spinnaker run of the International Lightning Championship held in Biscayne Bay, near Minmi, Florida. Five bonts were swamped when hit by a heavy rain squall,

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