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ll 3 O 9 o a c o 3 O 2G o SO O, O 3 TWOMEDFORD (OREGON) e O ' Astronomer George Abell (right) gui'les Big Schmidt t;!e scope at Palomar Observatory that after seven years' work has mapped the heavens out to 600 million light years. Above, ail exploding star or nova caught by the Sky Survey flares in space, releasing some 10 sep tillion times as much energy as a hydrogen bomb. The atlas of the heavens, a q joint project of the National Geographic Society and the Cal ifornia Institute of Technology, will be furnished to astronomers nd observatories around the world, President John Oliver La Gorce of the Society has an nounced. Redlands Sawmill Destroyed by Fire Oregon City u.K Fire de- troyed th Hamilton Brothers sawmill- at nearby Redlands, (J)re., last night. Cause was not (lietermined immediately. Trucks and crtws from the Clackamas county fire depart jnt fought the blaze for sev eral hours. Redlands is about six (ihiles east of here. IIP T On Your Old Watch &Sh& CHAPMAN'S 1 65 I MAIL TRIBUNE yt&M vs wz Photos Portland Machinists Accept Wage Boost Portland (U.R) Machinists at the Screw Machine Products Company here have voted to ac cept wage increases offered by the company and the plant is ex pected to reopen within three days. George Salmon, business rep lesentative for the union, said pickets were removed from the Thursday, August 18, 1955 Copyright Xationel Geographic Society) plant. The strike was called four weeks ago. The agreement calls for a 5 cent hourly wage hike for ma chinists and a 4-cent raise for procruction workers. The firm also acceded to union demands for an insurance committee for employees. The contract would be in ef fect until June, 1957. Sourdough Association Reunited at Eureka Eureka, Calif. (U.R) The 24th annual reunion of the In ternational Sourdough associa tion met here yesterday to com memorate the 59th anniversary of the Alaskan gold rush. The San Francisco - Oakland Sourdough club is host to the convention, which is dedicated to the late Skiffington S. Mitch ell of Eureka, one of the original goldseekers from California. Del egates from the Western United States, Canada and Alaska are attending. LOGICAL Grand Rapids, Mich. U.R) Juvenile officials, questioning two eight-year-old girls who ran sacked four rooms in their ele mentary school, asked why they hadn't entered their own class room. "Well," one of the girls replied, "we thought if Miss Van Daalen (their teacher) found out shout it, she'd scold us." Sale tads August 27th Buy one quart of 'reody mixed" Boysen Rvbberglo flat Wall Finish $180 of tegular price of I (SPECIAL COLORS SLIGHTLY HIGHER) Get second quart for on yott can also save money on these other Boysen Paint Specials: , Tne ore not It soe items) BOYSEN 100 PURE HOUSE PAINT PLASOLUX-AMERICA'S FINEST GLOSS ENAMEL BOYSEN OLD COLONIAL PORCH, DECK AND FLOOR ENAMEL BOYSEN ODORLESS DREEM SEMI-GLOSS ENAMEL BOYSEN SHAKE AND RUSTIC PAINT BOYSEN REDWOOD FINISH First Section of Giant Universe Atlas Being Prepared at Palomar Observatory Washington The first section of a giant atlas of the universe, farthest-reaching map ever at tempted, is being published from Palomar Observatory after almost seven years' work. Observatories around the world are being sent the first 200 photo sky charts, revealing millions of new stars, galaxies, and systems of galaxies far out in space. The total atlas, expected to help solve many mysteries "of the universe, will comprise 1,758 photomaps when finished in 1956. Price per copy, covering cnly printing costs, is S2,000. Nearly 100 have been ordered. Sky Survey The National Geographic So-ciety-Palomar Observatory Sky Survey, begun in 1949, has mapped three-quarters of the sky all that can be seen from Palomar out to ' an unpre cedented depth in space of 600 million light years. One light year is about six million million miles. Many of the space regions photographed in detail by Palo r.iar's 48-inch Big Schmidt tele scope have never been seen be fore by ' astronomers. Now an over-all picture of the universe has been provided to distances beyond range of all but the largest telescopes. '"We regard the completion of the Skjf Atlas as a mapping milestone," said Dr. John Oliver Ld Gorce, president of the Na tional Georgraphic Society. "It will yield inestimable advances in astronomical knowledge." "I am persuaded that it will stand for many decades as a momument to mankind's quest about the unknown and perhaps the unknowable," Dr. Ira S. Bowen, director of Mount Wil son and Palomar Observatories, said. Voyage in Space The atlas offers new clues to the size of the universe, how it is made up, how old it is. New celestial bodies comets, asteroids, stars, and island gal axies like the Milky Way have been found. The skies have been carefully photographed for all objects down to a brightness only one-millionth that of the faintest star the naked eye can see on a dark moonless night. ' From the Sky Survey, astron omers will more clearly deter mine the shape of the Milky Way, earth's home galaxy. It is now regarded as a great flat wheel of stars, slowly spinning in space, with "arms" of stars, gas, and dust spiraling off its rim like a Fourth-of-July pin wheel. Far beyond In outer space there are galaxies similar to the Milky Way. Sometimes they group into clusters. Whereas only a scant three ' dozen such clusters were known before the Sky Survey, now more than a thousand have been found. They may point to a new general law of nature governing the organiz ation of matter in the universe. Temperature, color, and bril liance of distant stars will be better known because the Sky (12 houllful colors) Ho limit lo quontity) J Survey has photographed each section of the sky twice, once in blue light and again in red light. More may thus be learned about the "novae" and "supernovae," stars that suddenly explode into millions of times the sun's bright ness and burn themselves out quickly. In contrast, dark clouds of gas and dust in space, first seen clearly on Sky Survey plates, may show stars in process of being born. Guide for a Century Years of study by astronomers will bring many discoveries. Dr. Lee DuBridge, president of the California Institute of Technol ogy, predicts the new atlas will be "an astronomical ' bible for 100 years." Work with other telescopes, such as Palomar's 200-inch Hale, will use the Sky Survey as a guide. This is the primary pur pose of the atlas, to be a treas ure chart showing astronomers where to dig for discoveries. - By analysis of light from the distant clusters of galaxies dis covered on the Survey's photo graphs, for example, more evi dence already is being obtained on the intriguing question of whether the entire universe is expanding, with objects racing outward like fragments from a bomb. Dr. V. M. Slipher of the Lo well Observatory and the late Dr. Edwin P. Hubble of Mount Wilson and Palomar found three decades ago that this apparent recession obeyed a simple law speed seemed to increase in di rect proportion to distance. To test the law, galaxies farther and farther away must be measured. GOOD BUYS at U.S. Choice Beef Roast Tenderized HAM rst STANDBY-NO. 303 CANS Apple Sauce 233c DEL MONTE-NO. 2 CAN Crushed NALLEY'S FRESH Cucumber HONEYDEW Melons SEEDLESS Grapes 2.bJ9c Dr. Milton L. Humason, work ing from Sky Survey plates, has found clusters of galaxies re ceding at about 38,000 miles per second a fifth the speed of light itself. Mysteries Yet Unsolved Ages of the stars, and of the universe itself, will someday be better understood because of the new atlas. Already differing "populations" of stars have been recognized and studied by Dr. Walter Baade at Palomar. Is the universe of uniform structure? Did it have a def inite beginning in space and time? Does it have an end. or does it extend outward endless ly? Could the sun itself ever blaze out as a nova, Burning the planets of the solar system to cinders in a few seconds? Such are the questions astron omers look to the Sky Atlas to help answer. The 48-inch Sky Survey cam era, the Big Schmidt, maps a section of sky as broad as the bowl of the Big Dipper on each photographic plate. The 200-inch Hale, although it "sees" about three times as 'far, only encom passes a field one-quarter the area of the full moon. The 200 inch would have taken 10,000 years to map the entire heavens; it would have been somewhat like charting the ocean bottom by lowering weighted lines. Universe on Tennis Court Each plate of the sky atlas is 14 inches square. Laid out to gether, the whole map would be the size of a tennis court. Priceless - original plates are now locked three floors under ground in Pasadena. A duplicate MEATS 45e SKINLESS FRANKS Round-Up Brand 49',b. lb. 59',b GROCERY DEPT. Pineapple 245' Chips 1 j5; 2 5C FR UITS & VEGETABLES RADISHES OR GREEN ONIONS S' lb. 3 Bunches For Start saving two ways Shop Oakdale for quality - Get Valuable Premiums Free With Northern Stamps . See the Display at Oakdale set is safely buried beneath the huge dome of the Hale telescope at Palomar. Copies being mail ed out, to institutions that order ed the atlas before a deadline last October, are negative prints on double-weight photographic pa per. Stars and other bodies in the heavens show as dark spots against a light background. As tronomers find it easier to mea sure the brightness of objects on such charts. The National Geographic So ciety has borne the costs of ma terials as well as astronomers' salaries, while observing time for the Sky Survey was provid ed by Palomar observatory. General supervision of the his toric project has been carried out by an advisory committee consisting of Dr. DuBridge and Dr. Bowen representing the California Institute of "Technol ogy, and Dr. La Gorce and Dr. Lyman J. Briggs, director emeri tus of the National Bureau of Standards, representing the Na tional Geographic Society. DR. CORNELL SABO ANNOUNCES . 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