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On Perseid Meteors
Br J. HUGH PRUETT
Pacific actional Director
; American Meteor Society
:.The request lor counts of the
Perseid meteor display of a
month ago brought replies from
observers all the way from
South-Dakota to Oregon. The
observers were asked to make
hourly counts during the nights
of August 10 to 13 and were
advised that the morning hours
at the middle dates would likely
give the best results.
Among the many who ob
served were the veteran count
ers Mrs. Arthur, Goold of Tripp,
S. D., the Misses Eleanor and
Isabel Sandmeyer of Buhl, Ida.,
Miss Alice Jensen of Silverton,
Ore., and Ben Bones of Grants
Pass, Ore. The Sandmeyer sis
ters started as early as August
5 and continued until August 14.
Mr. Bones, a gladiolus grower,
repeated his past performance
of observing from the west rims
of Crater Lake at an elevation
of 7000 feet.
Pleased With Results '
All seemed pleased with the
results they obtained. The best
counts were sent by the veter
ans of many years, who knew
well how to arrange their ob
serving stations so there would
be as little interference as pos
sible. These felt the display was
better than on most years.
Even the experts cannot tell
wnen the maximum number of
meteors will appear. It is us
ually said that at the maximum
50 or 60 may be seen per hour
by experienced counters with
good eyesight. This year the
hourly counts built up gradually
until 2:30 a.m. of August 12.
During the next IVi hours, the
flecks of light were streaking
the sky at the rate of around
90 per hour. It seemed to be
getting better up to the time
dawn began ti dim the celestial
fireworks. ,
Miss Eleanor Sandmeyer
wrote: I can truly say that at
the Perseid maximum there was
the heaviest meteor fall since
the showef (Draconids) of Oct.
9, 1946. It was simply wonderful
and. pleasantly surprising since
the previous night's meteors
were rather few in comparison.
The counts did not lead up grad
ually to a climax as they did
some years ago. There was an
abrupt or sudden rise on the
12th. From about 4.05 a.m. and
on the meteors were thick. I
saw four fall at one time. There
were some doubtful ones I didn't
count.
Pair Bound Over
On Forgery Charge
Donald Keith Simonsen, 22,
Ruch and a Medford boy, 17,
were , bound over to the grand
jury from district cour Thurs
day on a charge of forgery.
The youths are charged with
using an oil company credit card
Sept. 3 to obtain two new tires.
They returned the tires the next
day after the transaction when
Simonsen said - his conscience
On TKO Si(dO V E.V.Durling
Counting Conditions Excellent
Miss - Jensen wrote: - "Condi
tions were generally excellent
for counting. On August 11
many meteors were very short
with little or no spray; the next
night, perhaps half had some
spray and were longer. It seem
ed to me the meteors declined
more rapidly than usual this
year after the maximum was
reached." v '
The Perseid meteors are the
debris from Turtle's comet and
travel in the cometary orbit.
Once a year the earth encounters
this stream. The particles travel
ing 36 miles per second are
heated by friction to incandes
cence when they enter the upper
air and are almost immediately
burned to ash.
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How about a society of south
paws? I believe- left-handed
people should organize with
a view to making their lives
easier. Since I mentioned some
difficulties from which south
paws suffer, I ' have heard of
many ' more- One left-handed
young woman said she was
turned down lor a job as a
telephone operator because all
the long distance operating
equipment was designed for
right-handers. Another said she
was tired of having to switcn
her coffee from her right hand
to her left hand side when served
in a restaurant Still another
southpaw said she was not only
left-handed but left-footed. Tnai
made driving an automobile
difficult Also, the number of
things made for right-handers
but not for left-handers is truly
fmazing.
Waitresses
Owing to the many different
classes of restaurants in New
York City, it is impossible to
cite the "average wages plus
tips" of a big town waitress. A
young woman employed in a
top-flight chain of New York
restaurants informs me her sal
ary is $18.55 for a five day week.
Her tips average from $5 to $6
a day- So she earns from S43
to $48 aweek. It is interesting
to note" that of these earnings,
the restaurant pays the girl $3.71
a day, while the customers,
through the medium of tips, pay
her $5 to $6 a day.
The most brilliantly written
book so far dealing with the
lives and loves of the Duke and
Duchess of Windsor is "Gone
with, the Windsors" by Ties
Brody. In this, Mr. Brody makes
the following observation, "It
is both sad and amusing to see
a 'former king of mighty Eng
land reduced by the woman
he loved to a 'little man,' to the
rank of a meek, husband. What
should one do, laugh or cry when
one looks a the man who was
Edward the Eighth? The ex-
Caesar in the role of handbag
carrying, cavaliere - servente, a
sort of ornament, a woman's
back-ground, is a melacholy
sight." Bad Parts
One good part can make an
actor. How many bad parts
does it take to break him? One
of the worst parts I ever saw a
talented actor struggle with was
that assigned William Demarest
in his recent bow in a TV series
That was really brutaL A few
more parts like that and De
marest will be on the road to
oblivion. Then I saw Brian Don-
levy in a TV play titled "First
Vice President." His part was
unbelievably bad. I like Brian.
He is one of my favorite actors
and a nice fellow personally. I
hate to think he may be in need
of money. I can't see any other
reason for his consenting to take
such a ridiculous part Of course,
some very fine actors don t know
& good part from a bad one- Then
they snould be protected by
their agents, their loving wives
or their real friends.
Phil Alpert's place on East
Houston Street, New York City,
offers for sale 367 different
kinds of cheese from thirty
seven countries . . . Those ex
cessively large ear-rings make a
woman appear overdressed. No
woman with a sense of elegance
ever wears such exaggerated
jewelry.
The WACs are reported to
have their figure bulges well
under control because of a re
cently prescribed diet and sys
tem of exercise. That's fine. A
well streamlined WAC is a re
freshing sight- But how about
the women Marines? How are
they doing? During the last war,
the girls in the Marine Corps Re
serve had a reputation of being
unusually "hippy." I don't know
began to bother him. The credit
card was stolen from the purse
of the owner, allegedly by a
friend of the 17-year-old boy,
who gave it to Simonsen.
whether ii was because of their
diet, or the type of work they
did or Just a case of girls with
broader figures preferring to
serve in the Marine Corps.
Please Ness y
You - probably know places
where hay fever sufferers get
complete relief- Oh where asth
ma disappears and even those
having arthritis feel better. But
can you name a place where
dogs don't have fleas in the sum
mer time? There 4s such para
dise for pups.. It is Reno,. Ney.
Not 'only are the local pupa free
from fleas but, if a visiting dog
arrives in Reno full of fleas, he
is free of them within forty-
eight hours. Seems the -fleas
can't stand the Reno altitude
Anyway, if while on a trip with
your -dog you visit Reno, don't
be surprised if he doesn t want
to leave-
She hasn't had her wedding
ring off in fifty-six years. That's
the record of Mrs. A. L. Elzel of
Linthicum, Md. ... Some people
who should know better, keep
referring to Cleopatra as a "red
haired Egyptain-" Cleopatra was
a Greek, end a brunette.
Pharmacy 'Brains'
Joined in Wedding
Lawrence, Kan, U.PJ The
smartest paid in the University
of Kansas school of pharmacy
have joined forces.
Walter Haskins married Mar
garet Follett recently. They are
seniors who almost have a cor
ner on scholastic honors in their
chosen field.
Haskins has a scholastic aver
age of 2.06 of a possible 3.00. An
outstanding high school athlete
at Kansas City, Kan., where he
set and holds the record in the
discus throw, Haskins has made
all "A's" at K.U. His lone "B"
came while he was ,a pre-phar-macy
student at Kansas City
Junior College and he gradu
ated first in his class.
, Mrs. Haskins has a 2.90 aver
age. She made tw6 "B's" in three
years of college work at the
same two schools.
In K.U., the Jthen Miss Follett
took top honors in the sopho
more class, while Haskins went
ahead in the junior year.
Who will win this year?
"We don't care," Haskins said.
"Our main object in school is to
learn as much as we can and do
the best we can."
The couple expects to live in
Lawrence the next three years
while Haskins works toward a
Doctor of Philosophy degree in
chemistry. THe bride expects to
graduate next, spring and then
work as a pharmacist
Additional Words
On Traffic Signs
Iowa City, la. (U.PJ Traffic
safety experts are considering
putting an additional word on
traffic signs.
They think it necessary to say
"full stop" instead of just "stop"
and "bad curve" instead of just
"curve."
In fact, Bert Woodcock, an
low State - Teachers College
specialist in driver education,
pointed out in an Iowa peace of
ficers annual short course at the
University of Iowa that many
"no smoking signs" had to be
come "positively nonsmoking" to
get results.
He said maybe the same thing
is necessary in traffic work.
Woodcock said many drivers
thing that by simply slowing
down at a stop sign, and sweep
ing each direction with their
eyes they are playing safe.
"Our eyes don't have a com
plete semi-circular field of vis
ion," he said. "Like cameras, our
e'yes focus on each of a series of
pictures with gaps in between,
or with a fast twist of the head,
we see only one long blurred
field of images."
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Of Savage R
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apids
llov Hearing End !
Rehabilitation of Savage Rap-.
ids dam on the Rogue river hear
the Jackson-Josephine ' county
line is expected to be partly com
pleted late this month, according
to Grants Pass Irrigation district
officials. v ?
After replacing the south sec
tion of the dam, crews will move
to the north portion,1 where they
will not be hampered by nec
essity of permitting uninterrupt
ed irrigation service.
End Irriganoa Oct.. 1
Victor BoehL chairman of the
district board, states that wea
ther conditions usually- permit
ending Irrigation service by Oct!
1, and that is the present plan
for this year.
Boehl pointed out that, in ad
dition to work on the dam, the
revetment in the Pierce -riffle
area, built by the Corps of En
gineers in 1948, is in precarious
condition. A third of it was
washed out during a flood in
January of this year.
Ifo Funds Available
Engineers have estimated that
adequate revetment .to protect
the gravity canal owned by the
district will cost $129,000 to
$150,00Q. The district has no
such funds available, Boehl says.
Financing arrangement . al
ready . well developed involve
use of some $75,000 expected to
be left over from the dam rehab
ilitation appropriation by the
federal government An appli
cation to the Corps of Engineers
to provide the balance of the
cost from its emergency funds
is being processed,' Boehl stated.
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