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Mt. St. Helens Hikers
See Rare Specter
Br J. HUGH PRUETT
Astronomer, Extension Division, Oregon Hlgner Education System
Early on August 13, 10 mountain climbers from the Obsidians,
were unseen by any one member
of the party.
Registration Gains
At Parochial School
Silverton Father John
Walch of St. Paul's Catholic par
ish, Silverton, is reporting their
parochial school well under way
for the year's work. With the
six additional to enter this week,
there will be 104 registrants.
Sister Gertrude, Superior of
the Convent, is teaching the
third and fourth grades.
Head of the music depart
ment, with out-of-parish pupils
received, Is Sister Victoria, here
from Woodburn during the past
year.
Sister Edward Mary, princi
pal of the school, is teaching the
Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Thursday, Sept. 29, 19492
This phenomenon Is not quite
a true rainbow, but Is more like
colored coronas sometimes seen
on thin clouds encircling the
moon. Diffraction plays a more
prominent part than refraction.
The name comes from The
Brocken, a mountain in German
Saxony, from which the observ
er's rainbow-encircled shadow Is
said first to have been described
in 1780.
Many legends center around
this mountain in Prussian folk
lore. Long ago it was thought
that evil spirits and witches held
"high carnival" on its lofty sum
mit on Walpurgis night. Some
within sight of the mountain
still retain a slight superstition
regarding the old-time stories.
first and second grades; Sister
Veronica, the Sth and 8th, and
Sister Germaine, the 7th and 8th
grades.
An Arabian alchemist of the
tenth century named Albukas
sen was the first knows man to
mention the distillation process.
an out-door organization well-known in the Pacific coast states,
set out from their summer ramp at Spirit Lake, Wash., intent on
scaling the nearby, snowy-topped old Mt. St. Helens.
the larger number who had not"
attempted the climb.
since the center of the circle
The ascent was successful, and
of which the colored arc is the
late in the afternoon when half
circumference, is exactly oppo
site the observer from the sun
as is his shadow.
wav back from the rounded
summit, the party unexpectedly
came upon the rare (excepting
from airplanes) and striking
A straight line would run
through the sun, the observer
phenomenon long known as The
Specter of the Brocken.
and the bow's center.
That afternoon on Mt. St.
Miss Adeline A. Adams of
Helens, ten visible Specters of
the Brocken were painted on the
the University of Oregon library
staff, greatly enthused over the
if i'i'f Pmti'
gleaming, white fog, but nine
beautiful spectacle, described it
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as follows:
G3Cm DBllcf Lllllan Jarvls and John Marsha, of the Vol
koff Canadian ballet, rehfearse their routine
on a Georgian Bay beach, Ontario, during practice for the
coming season.
Silverton Parochial
School Plans Drive
Silverton With plans In or
der for completing the parochi
al school building of the parish,
a drive for $12,000 is arranged
to terminate on the date of the
late autumn bazaar and dinner,
during the latter part of Novem
ber, for St. Paul's Catholic
church. This amount will fin
ish the brick work on the new
building.
These plans were finished at
a Sunday meeting of the mens'
committee of the parish. Com
posing the committee are Dr. A.
L. V. Smith, chairman, assisted
by Maurice Schroenenberg, Ed
ward Lambert, William Flana
gan, Edward Hynes, Alfred
Schledler, Tom Martin, Jack
Uselman and E. J. DeSantis.
Father Walch Is advisor.
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The bazaar and annual dinner
for the public. Is under direction
of members of St. Monica's Al
tar society. The tentative date
has been set for November 20.
"We were on the sunlit Dog's
Head, a very steep, rocky promi
nence between two mountain
glaciers. The ice below us to
the east was covered with a
dense sheet of fog, the glistening
smooth top of which was proba
bly 50 yards lower that we
were.
"The sun," still well above the
western horizon, was casting
distinct shadows of all mem
bers of our parly on the top of
the fog layer. But the amazing
part of it. something I had never
seen before, was that each per
son saw his own shadow sur
rounded by a complete circle
of a rainbow. He could see the
rainbow only around his own
shadow and not around those of
the others.
"I swung my arm in a half
circle as high as I could and the
shadows of the tips of my fin
gers on the fog Just touched the
rim of my personal rainbow.'
As stated in this column re
cently when rainbow - forming
conditions exist, each person
sees only his own rainbow,
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