FOUR The Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday February 22, 1979
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February has become a great month for changing
holiday dates. A few places began celebrating Lincoln's
birthday on Monday, Feb. 5, others held with the usual Feb.
12, which happened to be on a Monday, too. Valentine Day
and Oregon's birthday thankfully seem to stay on Feb. 14, but
I personally got confused and decided that came on Thursday
instead of Wednesday this year.
This week many calendars tell us that Monday, Feb. 19,
was Washington's birthday, but history books say he was
born on February 22. It is pleasing to see that Heppner
merchants are prompting a Real True Washington Sale
beginning today and continuing tommorrow and Saturday.
Now I notice that the changing of holiday dates seems
slated to continue next month, too. The Catholic ladies in
neighboring Condon have announced that they will have their
annual St. Patrick's dinner and celebration on March 11.
How nice to learn from Heppner's St. Patrick's Church
Altar Society President Marian Bronson that Heppner's
celebration of its special saint's day will be on Saturday,
March 17, as it should be. The Altar Society ladies are hard at
work on their plans for another tremendous Irish Stew family
night.
They would like to collect many white plastic Cool Whip .
bowls, in the large eight ounce size, to use for their super
stew. They say they can use some of the smaller size for
children's portions. If you can help, take bowls to either
Eleanor Gonty at the Gonty Shop on Gale Street or to Pat
Gentry at the Bank of Eastern Oregon. The lids are not
needed.
Last week at least three community-type meetings were
superimposed on the regular winter month schedule of
second-week-of-the-month meetings. It is pretty difficult to
try to get more than three or four evening meetings during a
week and an evening class, too. Also, I'm finding several
good TV series that make staying home more attractive.
Hope you noticed Anna Mae Steagall's good letters in the
February Ruralite which tell of her son Tommy's interesting
hobby of collecting calling cards. Anna Mae thanks people
from many parts of the world for responding to Tommy's
request for the little cards everyone used to have and use, but
which only salesmen and politicians make much use of now.
Lois Allyn, Lexington, has explained to me how the new
phone books are being distributed in our south county. Lois,
Merlyn Robinson, Anna Schwarzin and Mark Peterson are
employed by a distributing company that is contracted by the
phone company. They are not phone company employees.
Some people are receiving phone books through the mail.
Most of the books in the area will be in homes and businesses
by the time you read this. You will note that C.C. and Delpha
Jones are not listed. Somebody goofed on that.
Last week Judge D.O. Nelson was explaining the
county's efforts to warn folks of the dangerous places on the
roads in the area which are breaking up from the effects of
severe freezing and thawing. He said that the limited number
of bomb-type flares had been put out and that very soon a
great many of these flares were removed and some of them
were broken up. Somehow this doesn't sound like a "kid
prank." It smacks of adult vandalism and of citizens
interfering with a branch of their government that is trying
to help and protect them.
Why does anyone want to collect road flares? It should
be hard for them to sleep realizing that some family could
really be hurt because of their vandalism. All good citizens
and flare-buying taxpayers ought to really try to apprehend
these theives. How about substantial fines or even jail terms
for them?
By now you have read much about the spectacular total
eclipse which is coming here next Monday, Feb. 26. I heard
County School Superintendent Doherty mention that the
timing, 8:15 to 8:20 a.m., is posing problems for our schools.
Many children will be on buses or walking to school about
then. Everyone is warned not to look directly at the eclipse
because this could cause severe damage to eyes.
Sunglasses, smoked glass and other filters will not
provide proper protection. I have not heard exactly how the
schools are going to solve the problem of helping everyone
witness and appreciate the unusual and rare phenomenon
without any harm to any eyes. Surely parents will help their
children understand the situation.
All astronomers are very excited about the eclipse
because they can make certain studies only during solar
eclipses. Years ago, for example, some astronomers thought
that a small planet might exist between Mercury and the sun,
but they needed an eclipse to test their theory. Investigations
done during the eclipse showed that there was no such planet
and disproved their theory.
The great Albert Einstein predicted that the effect of
gravity caused light from stars beyond the sun to deviate
from a straight path as it passed the sun. This deviation
would cause an apparent change in the position of stars that
can be seen near the sun during an eclipse. Careful study
during an eclipse proved that his theory was true.
By observing the spectra of the corona and the
chromosphere or outer layers of the sun much has been
learned. For example, such studies during an eclipse
revealed that the corona has a temperature of over 2,000,000
degrees Farenheit according to R. William Shaw who wrote
of this in World Book.
Solar eclipses occur in series. Each eclipse in the same
series occurs in a cycle of time called the saros which equals
18 years and 11 and one-third days. The ancient Chaldeans
discovered the saros, or pattern or repetition of eclipses. A
total eclipse can be seen only in certain parts of the world,
and its path is never wider than 167 miles.
The shadow of the moon, as it comes between the earth
and the sun sweeps across the earth at speeds ranging from
1,100 to 5,000 miles an hour. The eclipse may last as long as 7
minutes and 40 seconds. The longest total eclipse of modern
times took place in June, 1955, and lasted 7 minutes and 7.8
seconds. Next Monday's eclipse will be less than one-fourth
that long during its totality.
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