Big Moon on Horizon
By J. HUGH PRUETT
Astronomer, Extension Division
Oregon Higher Education , System
"Breathes there the man with
soul so dead" that he has never
marveled at the gorgeous size
of the full moon as she gently
swells out of the sky line along
the low eastern hills or plain?
The smiling countenance of old
Luna then seems enormous. Her
great width often makes a com
plete luminous backing for the
tall trees behind which she
seems to cling.
But do not stop with moon
rise, a lew nours later gaze
again at our neighboring sate
lite when she has sored high
into the blue firmament. She is
then only a pigmy compared
with her horizon size. What has
happened? Why has she shrunk
so greatly?
Easy Observation
During the next few days the
moon will be at the proper
phase and location for easy ob
servation of this phenomenon.
If clear skies prevail in . your
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Anderson's Market
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Chris Drugs
Jacksonvile 5 & 10
IN PHOENIX
Phoenix Variety
Ray's Highway Market
IN CENTRAL POINT
Paulsen's Thrift Market
Setness Variety
locality, do not fail to do some
original lunar research.
How does the full moon look
to you? Some say, "Saucer size."
Others increase this to a din
ner plate, an auto tire or a six
foot balloon. You can easily
test this for yourself. With one
eye close hold a dime at arm's
length out toward old Luna. You
will find the coin far more than
covers the shining orb before
you. Now hold the dime a little
to the side so you seem to see
moon and coin side by side. The
dime seems much the larger.
If you will cut from a card
board a circle of half the diam
eter of a dime and use as above,
you will find it seems to have
about the same width as the
moon.
No Difference
But you may say, "The disk
that matches the moon when
high in the sky will lack a great
deal of equaling it when on the
horizon. Will it? Try it and you
can detect no difference at all.
Very delicate angle-measuring
instruments will show that the
high moon seems slightly wider.
The apparent huge moon on
the horizon is then just an opti
cal illusion. The old explanation
is that when seen low in the
sky we judge it to be farther
away and since the angle sub
tended is practically the same
as when high, we unconscious
ly assume it looks larger, we
also have objects along the sky
line with which to compare the
moon. Dr. Chant, the Canadian
astronomer, says we do not feel
that the visible sky is sphere
ical in shape, but a flattened
affair with a point in the zenith
only one-third as far away as
one on the horizon.
Recently psychologists tell us
that the moon looks largest
when we view it straight out
from our eye sockets. When we
turn the eyes upward to see
Luna she looks smaller. They
say the moon will look largest
overhead and smallest on the
horizon if we view it when flat
on our back. Try it.
Teenage Shoplifters
Arrested in Salem
- Salem U.R) A teenage
eirl's shoplifting gang was brok
en up Friday when police arrest
ed seven girls, all students at
North Salem high school.
One of the girls told police
the group had taken jewelry,
shoes, sweaters and other items
from downtown Salem stores in
the past two weeks. The girls
had been under surveillance for
some time.
ROYAL VISITOR President and Mrs. Eisenhower pose with the Queen Mother Eliza
beth on the steps of the White House after the royal visitor's arrival in Washington.
Here for a five-day unofficial visit, the Queen Mother will be two -day guest at the
White House before moving to the British Embassy.
'Human Approach7 in Veterans
Welfare is Aim of Officials
Sunday November 7, 1954 '
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE
Camp White Officials of the
Veterans Administration domicil
iary center at Camp White re
port they are making progress
in their efforts to achieve a "hu
man approach" in the veterans'
welfare program.
The effort for a "human ap
proach" has been apparent in
the work undertaken by Dr. C.
K. Todd, chief medical officer
at Camp White. '
Dr. Todd has been putting
into practice several programs
including corrective .therapy, oc
cupational therapy, and. manual
therapy, with the work being
done in cooperation with volun
teer workers and special services
facilities.
Recent Move
A recent move toward broad
er authority for the medical de
partment is designation of mem
bers of the medical staff to have
complete jurisdiction as .officers
of the day. Previously, an ad
ministrative officer also has
served regularly as an officer of
the day.
Service organizations have re
sponded to the revitalized pro
gram of activities with an in
creased amount of attention to
recreational activities in a new
building designated for this pur
pose. An occupational therapy
class is now under way there, in
addition to regular art instruc
tion to a dozen or more talented
veterans living at . The Home.
The art class is instructed by
Vola Tolman, a member of the
Southern Oregon Society of
Artists.
Officials Visit
Two recent visits from top of
ficials have helped spur the pro
gram. M. A. Chapman, VA di
rector of domiciliary centers, re
cently was at Camp White for
a few days, and Dennis Sullivan,
national field representative of
the American Legion, and George
Shaw, rehabilitation director for
the Legion's department of Ore
gon, were here last week con
ferring with Manager E. K. Rick-
er and other officials regarding
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Deer Slaughtered
On State Highways
Bend
(U.R)
Game Com
mission workers reported Sat
urday that the slaughter of deer
on central Oregon highways had
exceeded the 200 mark and
would probably reach 250 by
January.
Heaviest toll, they said, was
on a 29-mile stretch on Highway
97 between Bend and La Pine
where deer graze in dry timber
east of the highway and cross
the heavily-traveled route at
night for water at the Deschutes
river.
Damage to autos has been
heavy but few injuries to motor
ists have been reported.
Another deer crossing which
has proved hazardous to both
motorists and deer in recent
weeks is the stretch near Fort
Rock in Northern Lane county
at the Old Horse Ranch.
High Tides Forecast j
At Lincoln Beaches
DeLake U.R) Lincoln
beaches Saturday were expect
ing an influx of visitors over
the next eight days with reports
that fall tides would reach, their
highest level of the year during
the period.
While planning to accommo
date visitors come to see the
water displays created by high
waves, beach dwellers were con
cerned about the possibility of
damage to beach properties if
the high tides should be accom
panied by strong inshore winds.
On Nov. 11, a record-breaking
ten-foot tide is expected at noon,
the high point of the period.
Tides will begin to mount Sun
day and increase through Thurs
day, Veterans day.
Dead line Sunaay Classified is at'
noon Saturday : 10 a.m. Monday for
Monday: other days 5:30 Drevious day.
Legion recommendations for
Camp White.
Among the recommendations
made by Chapman was one for a
trainee schedule for member em
ployees at Camp White.
The American Legion policy
is summarized in a statement
made recently by Eugene Orr, of
Medford Post 15, a member of
the national rehabilitation com
mittee: "Human Approach"
"Our present administration
has insisted that the human ap
proach, rather than the cold case,
work approach, be made toward
veterans and their problems.
This resulted in a reorganization
of the Veterans Administration
along functional lines, giving
veterans and their dependents
faster and better service at less
overhead cost."
In a review of the scope of
member activities and interests
at Camp White, Frank Glon
ning, the present special services
head, states:
"The management and special
services staff at this station are
mindful of conducting a bal
anced program of spectator en
tertainment combined with ac
tive participation by members ap
proved by the medical staff.
Interest Shown
"It is in the latter field that
we are placing the most em
phasis, and it is encouraging to
note that great interest is being
shown by members in joining
groups in art work, fibre flow
er making, occupational therapy
and diversified passive game ac
tivities. "The entire program has as
its objective the teaching of
wholesome use of free time that
is enjoyable and constructive;
also to restore to a certain extent
elasticity of mind and body and ;
to develop team work and good
fellowship.
"We feel that the program
under way is a start in that di
rection and we are hoping that
the fine people comprising our
volunteer workers corps will as
sist in furnishing the special
skilled leadership needed to in.
stigate many more activities that
will prove beneficial to our domi
ciled members."
Uncertified Seed
Said Substituted
As Certified Lois ;
Corvallis U.P.) "An attempt
ed substitution" of uncertified
seed for certified lots has been
uncovered by seed certification
specialists at Oregon State Col
lege, according to Dr. D. D. Hill,
Oregon State College farm crops
head and chairman of the Ore
gon Certification Board.
He said it jwas the first viola
tion of its kind in the history
of Oregon's seed certification
program.
He said the case involved sub
stitution of mixed common and
perennial ryegrass seed for cer
tified perrenial ryegrass lots.
About 40 per cent of the sample
lot was the substituted, uncer
tified mixture, it was reported.
Workers at the seed certifica
tion laboratory noted certain
lots of ryegrass seed did not con
form to certification standards.
They notified H. E. Finnell,
head of the Oregon certification
service, who ordered an investi
gation. The certification board
in turn suspended 'the warehouse
from which the seed was ship
ped while the investigation is
underway. Identity of the ware
house was witheld. "
The seed in question was
grown by a large number of
growers for one warehouse and
had been contracted for and
sold by a number of Oregon
seed firms. To -protect the grow
ers and dealers, the certifica
tion board approved a plan for
a committee from the seed
trade to lake over the ware
house temporarily while the
settlement is made.
ARTICLES FILED
Salem (U.R) Articles of in
corporation have been filed here
for the Lions Club of Medford,
Inc. . Signing the papers were
Robert D. Dames, Alan H. Jew
ett and Leland J. Knox.
Texas has 15,670 miles of rail
ways, more than in any of the
other states.
Endurance Pilot Killed in Crash
Portland (U.R) James C. '
Rinehart, 46-year-old Alaskan
bush pilot who made an endur
ance flight of -16 hours over
Seaside, Ore.', 26 years ago, was
killed Friday when his twin en
gined seaplane crashed into a
peak aboui 75 miles northwest
of Sitka, Alaska, his father here
was notified late Friday.'
Rmehart's two passengers sur
vived, but were badly injured.
They were Mr. and Mrs. Charles
$7,824,644 Slated for
Oregon, Washington
Portland U.R) Oregon
and Washington will receive a
total of $7,824,664.06 as their
share of receipts from national
forests for the fiscal year ended
June 30, Regional Forester J.
Herbert Stone said Saturday.
Stone said Oregon's share will
be $4,988,206.78 while Washing
ton will get $2,836,437.28 in pay
ments representing 25 per cent
of receipts from timber sales,
grazing of livestock, land use
and other uses of the national
forests.
Joseph Sr. of Sitka. A Coast
Guard rescue crew reached the
scene late Friday and an attempt
was to be made today to get a
helicopter to the area.
Rinehart was the son of Dr.
Jackson Carle Rinehart, Port
land, and Mrs. Rinehart. He
was senior pilot for Alaska
Coastal Airlines. He learned to
fly at the age of 16 in planes
which he patched together him
self.
In 1928 he set an endurance
record of 16 hours aloft in an old
OX Travelair over Seaside. He
went to Alaska in 1934..
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State Prison Escapee
Sought by Authorities
Salem (U.R) State police
joined prison authorities Satur
day in a search for Leonard W.
Dow, 44, rapist who escaped late
Friday while forking with a flax
detail outside the walls of the
Oregon state penitentiary.
Warden Clarence T. Gladden
said Dow was serving a 30-year
sentence from Douglas county
after being convicted of rape in
1952. , , v
Dow is 5 feet 4 inches tall,
weighs about 132 pounds, and
has brownh hair and blue eyes.
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