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TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Is That So? During these bright sunshiny dayg of autumn, lefi look it the nearest star which alone shines by day, our sun. But mind, if you"re going to look into it, use a piece of smoked glass or you may burn your eyes. Reason enough: it's a hot ball. At its surface the temperature is 10.800 degrees Fahrenheit; in side, infinitely hotter, perhaps nearer 46,000,000 degrees! And even at a distance of 93,000,000 miles, the heat is too concentrated. Roughly speaking, the sun s diameter is 865,400 miles, about 109 times that of our earth while its volume is about 1,300,000 times that of our earth. Although a gaseaus incadescent ball, its surface gravity is 28 times that of our earth. That means that a Sunday, October 28, 1958 man of 143 pounds would weigh almost three tons up there. Within the sun tremendous pressures build up: in the heart, perhlps a billion tons per square inch and a density seven times that of lead. In The New Astronomy (Simon and Schuster, N.Y.), Armin J. Deutsch says that atomic nuclei colliding in this, incredible heat and pressure strike each other with such furious violence that one nuclear species may be trans formed into another. The most important of these processes, he adds, build helium nuclei out of hydrogen. By these thermonuclear reac tions, he estimates that 564,000, 000 tons of the sun's hydrogen are transmitted every second in to 360,000,000 tons of helium. Most of the 4.000,000 tons of mass that melt away every sec ond, he explains, are converted into radiant energy. This radiant energy flows out from the sun's incandescent sur face at the rate of half a million billion billion horsepower! Earth Small Target Fortunately because of our distance the earth is but a small target and is struck by less than half a billionth part of the total solar radiation. I say fortunately, advisedly: if we were only 10 per cent clos er to the sun, the heat would be come so intense that it would burn us up. On the other hand, if we were only 10 per cent far ther away our entire planet would freeze up: glaciers would grow rapidly, rains would cease and with the end of the water evele would come the end of plant life. And the end of plant life would mean the inevitable end of man. That's us. What seems to be a bright smooth surface of our sun-star is actually an incandescent at mosphere about 200 miles thick. Yet even when we look at the sun through a powerful telescope. ELECT A MAN WHO KNOWS WHAT HE'S DOING! Allen Curry has lived in Jackson County over 30-years. He knows the people and their problems. He has had over 15 years of experience in county governmental de partments - wos for three years a township assessor in Kansas. Allen Curry has the experience necessary for this important office. ELECT ALLEN D. CURRY COUNTY ASSESSOR. Pi. Ad Jackson Co. BP Central Comm. EUGENE BURNS Hangar-Naturalist the sun seems to have a razor sharp edge. How come? Remember our dis tance. At 93.000,000 miles from the eye piece of our powerful in strumenta, even an atmosphere of 200 miles thick will look like a sharp edge. At that distance, in fact, 200 miles amounts to the same thing as looking at a hu man hair at a distance of 150 feet. Quite likely the sun's chemi cal contents are much the same as that of our earth's: In fact, of the 92 elements known to be in our crust, some 66 have been found in the sun thanks to the solar spectrum. About those 26 still missing, don't worry most of these are so rare on our earth that we do not expect to be able to detect them in the sun. One of the still unsolved puz zles of our sun is its so-called sunspots. They range in size from less than 500 mile across bare ly observable through a tele scoupe, to huge naked-eye see able objects more than 50,000 miles across. The reason they look dark is not because they permit us to look at solid matter in the sun but simply because they are some 2,000 degrees cool er than the surrounding atmos pheric gases. Occasionally these sunspots gather in great groups and then spots covering more than a bil lion square miles result. The big gest recorded blackened an area of more than 6 billion square miles. Small spots last only a few days: large ones may persist over three months. Sunspots come and go in cy cles of an average of every 11.3 years although the periods of maximum spottedness may vary a year or two. Strangely, animal population cycles seem to match this sun spot cycle. Some naturalists have made much of this. Possibly the plants have more vitamins during the least sunspot periods, they say, and with more vita mins animals are healthier and birth rates go up . . . Could be. (Copyright, 1956. by Eugene Burns) (Released by McClure News paper Syndicate) , Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best question on nature and wildlife a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous refernce work in a h a n dsome Sealcraft binding. Each week new questions will be Hearing on Flood Control Scheduled A public hearing on flood control on Rogue river and its tributaries will be held in the Josephine county library in Grants Pass at 9:30 a.m. Thurs day. Nov. 15. the Army corps of engineers announced Friday. The hearing was first sched uled for yesterday, but was post poned because the corps of eng ineers would be unable to have a representative at the hearing. Col. Jackson Graham, district engineer, Portland, said all in terested parties have been in vited to be present or represent ed at the hearing, including considered. Sorry, I simply can't answer your many friendly let ters. Please address your letter to: Is That So! co Medford Mail Tribune, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. representatives of federal, state, county and municipal agencies. Colonel Graham said those at tending will be given an op portunity to express their views cn the extentof improvement de sired. Oral statements will be heard, but for accuracy of rec ord all important facts and argu ments should be submitted in writing. Records of the hearing will be forwarded for consider ation by the secretary of the Army. BUILD OBSERVATORY Tokyo (U.P.) Radio Peiping said Saturday that Communist China has started construction of an observatory on the "roof of the world'' for research in con nection with the coming geo physical year. The site is the Ti betan plateau near Lhasa, 11,667 feet above sea level. Lutheran Church Host lo Teachers Today St. Peter Evangelical Lutheran church, 1020 East Main St., Med ford,' is host today to Sunday school teachers from Lutheran congregations in Ashland. Duns muir. Grants Pass, Klamath Falls and Roseburg. The training rally will start at 4 p.m. Teachers from the congrega tions meet once each year to dis cuss teaching and methods in teaching children in Sunday school. Enrollment, worship activity, aims and the use of audio-visual materials in the Sunday school are among topics for considera tion at the rally. Arthur Philips, chairman of the teachers' group, said atten tion will be given to the role of the Sunday school in combating problems that confront juveniles. RETURN PRISON Landsberg, Germany (U.PJ The U.S. Army said Saturday it will return the grim Landsberg war crimes prison to the Bava rian government at the end of this month. 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