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...collection of sheep horns, plaster relief maps, Indian blankets, rock specimens, framed photographs, stuffed animals, miners' picks and other objects assembled during the past 20 years, the Yosemite National Park Museum owes its present attractive two-story stone building to a $75,000 grant in 1924 from the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Foundation. Besides the necessary offices for park naturalists, guides and officials, sheep horns and blankets have filled most of the rest of the available space, yet by order of Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, the museum must now find room for these 198 paintings, most...
...then actually two banks, Central National and Central Savings. National failed to reopen after the 1933 banking holiday, though Savings did. As president of Savings and conservator of National, Banker Mount dug in. National's depositors were paid off 100 cents on the dollar and Savings became rock-solid Central Bank of Oakland...
Last week Dane Coolidge made the Jayhawkers' tragedy the starting point of a rambling, formless but interesting account of the perils of gold-hunting in the hottest region on earth, the 500 square miles of volcanic rock, salt deposits, borax mines, poison springs and complete desolation that make up Death Valley. Divided into eleven brief chapters and illustrated with 17 excellent photographs by the author, Death Valley Prospectors is partly an account of Author Coolidge's travels through the Valley, partly history as he picked it up from his reading and his talks with Indians and oldtimers like...
...engineering school, Oliver D. Sledgo, of Austin, Texas, has been awarded the Evoloth Scholarship, while William D. Dickinson, Jr., of Little Rock, Arkansas, has received the Searle Scholarship...
...Blake and Don Reynolds have installed a second tow at Brookline, N. H. The main hill has been widened and the trees at the top of the run, as well as the rock piles below, have been removed. There is a new run, called the Depot trail. The lunch room has been renovated; the town of Brookline is going to clear a much larger parking area this season, and between Jan. 9 and Feb. 22 Norwood Cox, Harvard Coop ski pro, will have charge of the classes and individual instruction every Saturday afternoon and all day Sunday...