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TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Friday, April 20. 1956 ' ' " - 41 . i LOIS JEAN BILES 4-H Member of Month Lois Jean Biles Is Named 4-H Club Member of Month Lois Jean Biles, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Veltie Biles, Rogue River, has been named 4-H club member of the month. Lois, now in her 10th year of 4-H, is a member of the Gold Hill Livestock 4-H club. She began club work in 1946 as a member of the Sams Valley Live stock club with projects of a Duroc hog and registered Short horn. Since then, she has . had dairy, sheep and swine projects. Miss Biles' first 4-H club lead er was George Lofton in Sams Valley. The next two years her father'led the club,' and in 1950 the family moved to Rogue River ujid Lois joined the Gold Hill club, led by Normal Gail. Junior Leader . The past two years she has been a junior leader of the group and has worked with younger 4-H club members who have swine projects. Miss Biles' con tribution to her 4-H club and assistance to members is among' the most outstanding features of her 10 years as a member. She has held several .offices In the club and served on many . committees. The club sponsors the Gold Hill Lamb show each year. The Gold Hill livestock club has been active in county live stock events. The club won the La Pine Livestock Herdsman ship trophy 1931 through 1954, and members have done out standing work in showmanship contests. In 1953, Lois was the first girl to win the grand champion showmanship award In the swine division. Swine Projects Lois has had swine projects ever since 1947 when she had her first swine 4-H project. In 1951 she exhibited the grand champion fat hog at the county 4-H fair. Lois has had sheep projects si.ice 1950. She has raised grade southdons and shropshires, and now has 11 sheep in her flock. In 1954 she placed first in sheep showmanship and had a reserve champion in breeding stock and a reserve champion pen of lambs at the Jackson county fair. Miss Biles had a registered milking Shorthorn as a dairy project for five years. In 1954 and 1955 Lois attend ed 4-H club summer school at Oregon State college. She has also gone to ' county 4-H club camp at the Lake o' the Woods. Active Brothers Her brothers, Jim, 14, and Dick, 20, have been active 4-H club members. Jim, an eighth grader at Rogue River, is in his sixth year of club work and be longs to the Gold Hill Livestock club. He has projects in dairy, sheep and swine. Dick, now em ployed in Grants Pass, was a 10-year 4-H club member. He won a trip to National 4-H club Congress in 1952 as an outstand ing dairy club member. The Biles family lives on a 20-acre farm. Lois' father is a salesman for Purina Feed. Lois is a senior at Rogue River High school. Music is her major extra-curricular activity and she was a member of the high school band for three years and sings in the high school coir. Infantry Division On Biggest Manhunt Fort Riley, Kan. (U.P.) Vet erans of the 1st Infantry Divis ion (Big Red One) think they may be on the biggest manhunt in his tory. The Society of the First wants to contact as many as possible of the more than 250,000 men who have worn the insignia cf the division since 1917. One of the reasons for the manhunt.' of course, is to swell attendance at the annual reun- j ions of the '"Fighting First." This vear's meeting will be held in Boston, Aug. 24-26. LONG DUET Worcester, Mass. (U.R) Speaking of love songs, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Love, both 78, have been singing duets at special oc casions here for most of their 53 years of married life. Bead and I'm Claisified Ada. . . Arcturus Brightest Star In Constellation Bootes Br FAV VAN SCHOIAK "When Zeus has finished six ty wintry days after the solstice, then the star, Arcturus, leaves the holy stream of Ocean and first rises brilliant at dusk," wrote Hesiod, a Greek poet, al most 3,000 years ago. Zeus has now finished more than "sixty wintry days" since the winter solstice (Dec. 21) and Arcturus twinkles in the even ing sky like a beautiful golden yellow gem. It is the brightest star in Bootes, one of the oldest constellations on record. (Pro nounce Bootes like saying go-over.) Many ancient writers have mentioned either Bootes or its brilliant Arcturus, one of the brightest and most famous stars in the celestial sphere. We find it spoken of twice in the Book of Job and it was also referred to by the Greek poet, Homer. Received Attention Arcturus has received a great deal of attention by both modern and ancient astronomers. Recog nized as a harbinger of spring, the Greeks were advised to prune their grape vines before this star appeared. They feared Arcturus, due to the mistaken belief that it was nearer the earth than any other star, yet though that a child born under its influence would obtain hon or and riches. The Eskimos, who call this star, "Sibwudle," and the Arabs Mother's Overseas Trip for Child Has Tragic Ending Metz, France (U.R) A sor rowing American mother said she would appeal to the U.S. State department in Metz today to help regain the 13-year-oid daughter, who refused to em brace her. Mrs. Melitta Real, San Diego, said she also intended to file suit for legal custody of the child. Mrs. Real's 6000-mile journey from California to reclaim the child taken away from her by the Nazis 12 years ago ended in heartbreak at the Voelkingen, Saarland police station yester day. The girl, Ursula, clung des perately to her foster mother, Mrs. Maurice Ferry, and refused to kiss Mrs. Real. Mrs. Ferry in sisted the reunion take place under the watchful eyes of the police to make sure the child was not taken from her by force. Father Drafted Mrs. Real was born in Yugo slavia. Her daughter was born while she was working at forced labor in the Voelkingen steel mills in 1943. The child's father was drafted into Hitler's army before they could marry, Mrs. Real said. The child was taken from her shortly after birth and given to the Ferrys by German authori ties. After the war, Mrs. Real and was divorced from an American serviceman. She now is married to a San Diego mason. She first learned Ursula was alive through a letter from her brother who lives in Voelkingen. Glass has been manufactured for about 4,000 years. who designate it as the "Keeper of Heaven," can tell the time of night quite accurately by ob serving the position of Arcturus in the sky. Astronomers at the Yerkes observatory in Wisconsin used beams of light which had left Arcturus in 1893 to switch on the electric current at the Chi cago World's Fair, in 1933. So far distant is the great sun that it's light, traveling at the rate of 186,000 miles per second takes 40 years to reach the earth. Astronomers tell us that the distance between Arcturus and the earth is 40 light-years or approximately 240 trillion miles. Locating Arcturus How can we locate Arcturus and the constellation, Bootes, in which it is located? Start with the last star in the handle of the Big Dipper. 'Then go on in a slightly curved line down and to the east or right till you come to a very brilliant star, which oushines everything in that part of the heavens. This is Arcturus" Just to the north or left of the glittering Arcturs are five much less brilliant stars. Together, these six stars form a kite lying on its side with Arcturus at the point where the kite string would be tied. This kite is the constellation, Bootes, which is almost half way up in the east ern sky by 8 p.m. Each evening it rises a little higher and dur ing the months of summer. will be visible in the northwestern sky. Ancient people .thought of this figure as the inventor of the plow, or the Plowman, but not as a kite. The name, Bootes, means Herdsman and sometimes Bootes is represented as hold ing two dogs in leash. The two faint stars on either side of Arcturus and not in the kite are the two dogs. . Because the dogs seem to be chasing the Great J3ear (Big Dipper), Bootes is also called the Bear Driver. Father's Fortune Bootes, older son of Ceras. goddess of the harvest, inherited his father's fortune. Plutos (not Pluto), the younger brother secretly raised an ' army and drove Bootes out of his palace. Bootes, who did not care to fight then made a living by tilling the soil. After .much thought and experimentation he invented the plow to which he hitched his bullocks, and so pre pared his fields for. planting in less time than anyone, had ever done before. K-':- "I was not born to rule over men. I am happy in my farm ing and only ask you to bless my fields before you go," an swered Bootes when his mother offered to help him regain his lost possessions. "You have chosen wisely, my son," replied his mother. "The gods will reward you for your great service to mankind." When Bootes died, Jupiter commanded that Mercury take him to heaven instead of the underworld and there in the northwestern sky he drives his plow during the. night of summer. 5l ASTRIDE A WINNER waving ms check, jockey Bill Pearson sits astride a television camera in New York after booting home a winner. He received top money on TV's "The $64 - I 000 Question." 'i Morse Cancels Visit; Hitchcock Assumes Credit Portland U.R) Sen. 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