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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.
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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
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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.
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Daalen (their teacher) found out
shout it, she'd scold us."
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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.
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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
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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
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salaries, while observing time
for the Sky Survey was provid
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General supervision of the his
toric project has been carried
out by an advisory committee
consisting of Dr. DuBridge and
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California Institute of "Technol
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tus of the National Bureau of
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Gold Hill Slates
Sale of Property
Gold Hill The city council
voted recently to sell three lots
to the highest bidder submitting
a bid over $250. The lots are
located on Sixth ave. across
from the city hall. The Gold Hill
planning commission recom
mended the minimum price.
The council also awarded a
contract to Hughes and Dodd
company of Medford for an oil
mat on Sixth ave. between
eighth and 11th sts. at 60 cents
per square yard. .
Specifications are being pre
pared by the city recorder, Ferd
W. Jones, and the street depart
ment for paving Fourth st. be
tween Gail's Market and Walk
er's Signal station. The council
authorized drawing of specifi
cations for either asphaltic con
crete or straight concrete total
ine about 868 square yards.
No action was taken on a re
quest from Postmaster H. D.
"Bud" Force for a no parking
zone in front of "the Gold Hill
post office between 6:30 and
7:30 a.m. and 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Force requested the no parking
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