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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (July 9, 1957)
Team of Scientists Announce Discovery Of Element 102 Chicago HP A team of sci entists from three countries to day announced the discovery of element 102. The joint international re search team include scientists from the United States, Great Britain and Sweden. The new element was discov ered by bombarding cirium, ele ment 96, with carbon ions. Argonne Scientists Help Scientists from Argonne Na tional Laboratory represented the United States in the research project. Other members of the group were from Britain's atomic energy research establishment at Harwell, and the Nobel Institute for Physics in Stockholm. Winston M. Manning, director of Argonne's chemistry division, said this was the first time any pf the artificially-created ele ments had been discovered by an International research team. American and British scien- ' tists proposed that the new ele ment be named Nobelium, after the Swedish institute where the actual work was performed. The institute is named in hon or of the Swedish chemist, the late Alfred Nobel. Argonne provided the rare iso topes of cirium used in the ex periments. The cirium was sent to Harwell where British scien tists prepared the material for the experiments. Carbon 13 Provided Harwell also provided a rare Isotope of carbon carbon 13 which was used to bombard the cirium particles. The Nobel institute provided the cyclotron in which the dis covery was made, in addition to some special equipment and a staff of physicists, chemists and technicians. The research team said discov ery of the element and a study of its properties has extended sci ence's fundamental knowledge of matter. Three Accidents - Reported in City Three traffic accidents were reported in Medford Monday, ac cording to city police. No in juries were reported in any of tha accidents. - A car operated by Samuel Gene Bell, Ashland, struck a parted car registered to the Dairy Queen, 450 South Cen tral ave., Medford, on South Riverside ave. between Main and Eighth sts., police said. An accident occurred at North Riverside ave. and Jackson st. involving a log truck operated by Clifford Lee Maddox, Ash land, ad a car operated by How ard Warren Mather, 609 North Rivers? ave., officers reported. A car aperated by Stanley Carltaa Schoen, 101 Crater Lake ave., Medferd. struck a parking meter on Korth Grape St. be tween Fifth and Sixth sts., police laid. County Court Displays Visitors Register The county court this week is displaying the official visitor's register which was a feature of Jackson county's exhibit at the Lewis and Clark Centennial Ex position held in Portland in 190S. Contained in the large vol ume are names of numerous Jackson county residents as well as residents elsewhere in the northwest. The book was super vised it the exposition by Dav id H. Jackson, who was sheriff here at that time. On July 4, the register was presented to the county court by Charles W. Koyl, adminis trator in the estate of Minnie Benice Jackson Koyl of Ash land. Mrs. Koyl was Jackson's daughter and once was owner of the book. Late this week the court plans to turn the register over to the Jacksonville museum. Two Grsss Fires Are Reported in CP Central Point Two grass fires were reported today by Central Point firemen. Neither of them was serious. The most recent occurred at 6:10 p.m. yesterday on Glenn Way within the city limits. Po lice Chief Wallace Bowen said this morning. Two trucks were sent from the fire department. The fire was extinguished before much damage resulted. Cause was attributed possibly to chil dren playing with matches, Bowen said. An earlier fire occurred Sun day on the Snowy Butte road at tha south city limits of Central Point. Little damage resulted Bowen said children playing with matches may have been the cause. Bowen added that none of the fires occurring so far this fire season have been serious. How ever, he cautioned Central Point residents to be careful of trash burning and to keep matches away from small children. Goy. Holmes Signs Mining Resolution Salem HP Gov. Robert D Holmes today signed a western governors' resolution calling for a national policy on minerals aimed at keeping the domestic mining industry economically heilthy. The resolution is based on recommendations of the gover nors' mining advisory council at the Western governors' confer ence in Reno last April. It asks Congress to "rectify th- errors in past tariff reduc tions oy the imposition of im port control, so that the ratio of domestic production to dom estic consumption shall not fall." "TTpless the United States producer is assured of a fair share of the domestic market, he cannot justify continued op eration," the resolution reads. Tuesday, July 9, 1957 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVZlf Antares Thought by Some To Be Largest of Stars By FAY BENTLEY "What Is the name of that beautiful red star in the south eastern sky?" a friend inquired recently. "I've seen it every clear night for several weeks." The star which had engaged the speaker's attention is An tares, thought by some astron omers to be one of the largest stars ever measured. Its diamet er is approximately 330 times that of our sun, or about 285 mil lion miles. Red Antares, twinkling madly, low in the southeastern heavens, is the Alpha or brightest star in Scorpio the Scorpion, most mag nificent of all the summer con stellations and second in mag nitude to brilliant Orion of the winter skies. Antares, a double star, marks the heart of the Scorpion. Be cause of its color ancient people chose for this celestial beauty a name meaning "rival of Mars." But although the reddish hues of the planet Mars and the star, Antares, are similar, the scintil lating light rays from this giant sun could never be mistaken for the steady glow of the "god of war." Mars may now be seen lowl According to one legend this in the west for a short time after sunset as an conspicuous second mignitude object. By the middle of August the red planet will be too low on the horizon for easy observation During the last half of July all five "naked eye" planets will -he observable in the twi light sky. Venus, Mars and Mer cury will adorn the western horizon for about an hour after sundown. Jupiter, in the south west is higher in the sky than thenthree mentioned above, and will be visible for three hours after sunset. Saturn, just above the red Antares, sets shortly after midnight. In order of brightness these five planets will be: Venus, Jup iter, Mercury, Saturn and Mars. Venus, of course, leads in magni tude. The non-twinkling light of the planets will distinguish them from the stars. The Scorpion is unique among the sky pictures in that it truly suggests the object for which it is named. It is a very old con stellation; carvings of the Stone Age show that it was known during that era. is the scorpion that frightened the horses hitched to the sun chariot which Phaethon was try ing to drive across the sky. The high spirited animals had be come almost crazed with fear while passing the Bears, the Bull and the Lion. To see a scorpion lashing its terrible tail was the ."last straw." Complete ly unmanageable, they overturn ed the chariot and Phaethon fell into the River Eridanus. Scorpion Stings Orion Another myth tells us that the Scorpion stung Orion the Mighty Hunter to death and for this reason these two beautiful constellations cannot be seen in the heavens at the same time. To prevent further trouble, Juno wife of Jupiter, placed Orion in the winter sky, while Scor pius is visible during the weeks of summer. To find this brightest of sum mer constellations look to the southeast as soon as it is dark. KOt far above the horizon the madly twinkling red Antares will attract your attention. As mentioned before, this is the "heart" of the Scorpion. About' equally distant on each side of Antares lies a yellow star. The line of three "eelestial candles" is easily distinguished. A line of five yellow stars to the right or west of Antares, lying nearly at right angles to the three mentioned above, rep resent the giant front claws of the creature. This part of the Scorpion is much the shape of a fan. On the left or east of Antares the back of the scorpion curves downward towards the bottom, then up to form the arrow-shaped sting. It is often difficult to see this portion because of cloud iness or haze near the skyline, but the fan-shaped part of this sky picture is visible on any clear night during the weeks of summer. Bobcat Disrupts Power Klamath Falls IP Electrical service along about 25 miles of Copco lines was disrupted early today when a .bobcat climbed a power pole on a ranch and stuck :t paw into a switch designed to cause a cutout in case of emer gency. The bobcat lost its life. Weed Plywood Plant Fire Causes Damage Weed, Calif. HP An early morning fire at the plywood plant of the International Pa per Company's Long Bell div ision today caused an undeter mined amount of damage. The blaze broke out about 5:15 ajn. and was under control by 7 a.m. It was confined to the number two dryer, unfinished plywood products and nearby motors. 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