best buys
by Martha Wagner
Need a new swimsuit or a sharp leotard for your dance class? The
Wild Iris, custom sewing by Chris Roady, offers dozens of high
quality ladies and girls (sizes 3-12) swimsuits and leotards at the Satur
day Market. There are seven styles to choose from and many won
derful, bright colors. Fabrics are Lycra or poly-cotton blend, in
stripes, solids and prints. Through the end of July, womens sizes are
on sale for $12.99 or 2 for $25, down from the still very reasonable
price of $15. Girls sizes are $8.
One of the tastiest deals in town are the plump calzone turnovers
now available at Sy’s Pizza, 1211 Alder St., every Tuesday and Thurs
day. A modest $2.75 is all you pay for this pizza-crust pastry filled
with ricotta and mozzarella cheeses, mushrooms, black olives, onions,
a spicy tomato sauce, and for the meat variety, some pepperoni
sausage. One calzone feeds two with a modest appetite or one very
hungry person. If you’ve never tried calzone or Sy’s calzone, try it
soon.
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What’s Happening in the Sky
by Larry Deckman
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Have you ever thought about
why the Moon was said to be
made of cheese? The answer has
something to do with the Milky
Way. This pearly band of light is
a feature of clear, moonless
nights, stretching as it does from
one horizon to the other. The
name Milky Way refers to its
white and slightly curdled ap
pearance, which is the effect
produced by millions of stars
shedding their light from a great
distance. The ancient Greek
phrase for it was Galaxias kyklos
(“milky circle”), from which we
get its other common name, the
Galaxy.
With some casual observation
of the Heavens, it becomes ap
parent that the Milky Way is
best seen when the night is
moonless. Correspondingly, at
full Moon each month, the Ga
laxy becomes invisible amidst
the bright lunar rays.
It was the Danes whose folk
lore put together these celestial
"clues” to give the Moon its
fanciful identity. To their eyes, a
moonless night meant the sky
was awash with galactic milk. As
the roundish Moon was seen to
grow and get brighter on suc
ceeding nights, that milk slowly
vanished from the sky. Even
tually it disappeared completely
while the full lunar disk held
sway through the night. Small
wonder then that their imagin
ings saw the Moon as composed
of the congealed milk of the
Milky Way; that is to say, to be
made of cheese!
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One of the special blessings of
Summer is its nightly namesake.
The Summer Triangle. Compos
ed of three brilliant stars from
three different constellations, it
peeks over the eastern horizon at
sunset on the first day of Sum
mer and rises slightly higher in
the sky every day thereafter. The
brightest of the three, and of the
entire Summer sky, is bluish
white Vega, which can be found
blazing high overhead these days
at 11 pm. Above Vega and to its
left is the white and incredibly
luminous star Deneb, a globe
1600 light years away and fully
60,000 times as bright as the
Sun. Making up the bottom cor
ner of the triangle is Altair, a
pale yellow star which is moving
towards us at the speed of 1000
miles a minute. Look for these
three beacons at early sunset or
during a full Moon, at which
time they are practically the only
stars visible in the Heavens.
Once you’ve recognized them,
the night sky will have a familiar
appearance every Summer there
after.
This Sunday, July 24th, the
Moon becomes full as it rides
low on our southern horizon.
Both interesting and noteworthy
is that its path across the sky is
the very same one the Sun will
take six months from now in
midwinter. Throughout the next
two weeks, we are fortunate in
being provided with a planetary
"bonanza” at sunset. Following
right behind the solar orb into
the western depths is brilliant
white Venus which outshines
everything in the sky but* the
Moon. As it’s lighting up the
twilight, similarly colored
Jupiter can be seen blazing away
directly in the south. Remember,
these two lustrous planets dwarf
any star in the sky in brightness.
Right on a line with Venus and
Jupiter, about halfway between
them is the slightly dimmer
planet Saturn. The only possible
confusion as to its identity is the
whitish star called Spica, which
is found below and to the right
of Saturn. Topping off these ce
lestial visions, the Sun rises each
morning at approximately 6:00
am to joyously broadcast its
Summer light and renew the day.
This Week’s Celestial Eye
Opener (taken from the book
Abyss by C.P. Idyll): “The earth
is very nearly smooth, relatively
speaking. It shows fewer bumps
and hollows in relation to its dia
meter than a billiard ball, which
is often put forward as the stan
dard of smoothness.”
STARS, STARS, STARS :
The skies of the Pacific
Northwest have now been
recorded on a glow-in-the
dark star map. They are
available for 87 from Larry
Deckman or Sloan Heer
mance at 2406 Lawrence St.
in Eugene. Call 343-7166.
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