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BEFORE LAUNCHING This is an actual photo of the
Russian earth satellite Sputnik mounted on a stand. The
photo was made directly prior to the launching Friday,
Oct. 4, and was released by Tass, the Russian news
agency. The Russians did not reveal where the photo
was made.
Several Planets Visible
In Heavens in October
By FAY BENTLEY
October skies hold much of
Interest for those who observe
the celestial dome. First to ap
pear in the evening twilight, and
most outstanding of the starry
host, is the planet, Venus. This
namesake of the goddess of love
and beauty becomes visible low
in the southwestern sky imme
diately after sunset and sets
about Hi hours after the sun.
Venus Is gradually brighten
ing and by Oct. 15 will reach
magnitude -3.7, which is many
times brighter than our bright
est stars. However, it does not
attain its greatest brilliancy un
til Dec. 23, when it reaches mag
nitude -4.4. At this time it will
present a truly magnificent ap
pearance and be a beautiful re
minder of the Christmas star.
Because the path followed by
Venus is nearer the sun than
the orbit of the earth, Venus
goes through phases similar to
the phases of our moon. Like
the moon, this planet is invisible
to earth-dwellers when directly
between the earth and the sun.
As the planet moves away from
a point directly in line with the
earth and sun, more and more
of its lighted portion becomes
observable to people on earth.
By Oct. 15. 65 per cent of its
liehted surface will be visible.
Man Disappeari
The planet. Mars, which dis
appeared beneath the western
horizon during the last of July,
will be observable just before
daylight in the eastern sky by
the last of October or the first
of November. It is rising about
one hour before the sun, and
may be seen at the present time
by using binoculars. By the last
of October, Mars should be plain
ly visible to the naked eye. It
will be about as bright as the
North Star or magnitude 2.1.
Jupiter, the king of planets,
as far as size is concerned, has
also entered the morning sky,
and should be visible low in the
east to the unaided eye about
Oct. 21.
On the morning of Oct. 13.
Mars, Jupiter, and Mercury will
be near each other, low in the
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eastern sky, just before daylight,
but it will be necessary to use
binoculars or a telescope to see
them. Mercury will rise 40 min
utes ahead of the sun and will
be just above the brightest glow
on the horizon. Mars and Jupi
ter will be just to the right or
south of Mercury. By Oct. 16,
Mercury will have passed the
other two and Mars will be the
first to rise.
Two Degrees
On the mornings of Oct. 13 to
16, Mars, Jupiter and Mercury
will be within two degrees of
each other. This is less than half
the distance between the Point
ers in the Big Dipper. In order
of brightness these planets will
be: Jupiter, Mercury and Mars.
Back again to the evening
sky we find Saturn, the ringed
planet, low in the southwest. It
becomes visible at dark and sets
about 2l2 hours after the sun.
Saturn is very slowly moving
eastward in the constellation
Ophiuchus.
On the evening of Oct. 20,
Venus will pass about four de
grees south of Saturn. This is
just slightly less than the dis
tance between the Pointers in
the Big Dipper. Venus will be
much brighter than Saturn.
Planets can always be dis
tinguished from stars by their
steady non-twinkling light. Of
course, when near the horizon,
the light of a planet twinkles
more than when the planet is
high in the sky. However, the
twinkling of the stars is much
more noticeable than the similar
movement of light from a planet,
no matter what the conditions
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IKE NOT SHOWING CATTLE
Washington W President
Eisenhower isn't ready yet to
show his herd of Aberdeen An
gus beef cattle. Officials of
Pennsylvania's first National
Livestock Exposition to be held
at Harrisburg Nov. 12-16 said the
President had turned (Jown an
invitation to show some of the
herd, which has mostly been
gipen to him. He said he wanted
to wait until he has bred some
cattle before showing them.
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Monday, Ociober 14. 1957
Grange Notes
Roxy Ann Grange
Roxy Ann Grang held it's reg
ular m eeting Oct. 4, with Over
seer Orie Moore in the master's
station in the absence of Master
Al Sims, called out of town by
the death of his mother.
Mrs. Clarence P f n i s ter wel
comed every one and remind
ed them to save their sales slips.
Mrs. Paul Dalton reported her
Cub Scouts would have a bottle
drive the first of November and
for every one to save their
bottles for them.
Fourteen members plan to at
tend the dedication of Upper
Applegate's new grange hall on
Sunday, Oct. 13.
The display table was of in
terest with cards from all ever
the world collected by Mrs.
Bruce Mottatt and an album of
photographs belonging to Bob
Warren.
It was reported that Mrs.
Henry Moeller is home from the
hospital and that Madge Now
lin had been in the hospital a
few days but was home and
working now.
Mrs. Ken Shaw reported that
HEC met Oct. 2, at Madge Now
lin's home with Mrs. Victor Kas
ser as cohostess. There were 18
members and one guest present.
The ladies decided to have a din
ner, cooked food and fancy work
sale at the grange sometime in
November. Next HEC will meet
at Mrs. E. Larson's home at 27
Corning court with Mrs. Orie
Moore as co-hostess.
Next Grange serving com
mittee will be Mr. and Mrs.
Dave Winkleman, Mr. and Mrs.
Johnny Dyer and Mr. and Mrs.
E. Larson.
Roxy Ann and their Booster
night Saturday, Oct. 12.
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Br DOV QUIGG
New York OP This is a
rather momentous week for your
correspondent. Greetings have
arrived from both the Internal
Revenue Bureau concerning the
year 1955 and Mike and Liz
Todd concerning a "little inti
mate party for a few chums" in
Madison Square garden.
Indications are that the ef
fect of the party will be so
numbing that the income tax
man's queries will hardly be
felt.
The latest bulletin from the
Mike-and - Liz front supple
ments the invitation with this:
"it seems the party grew from
a few chums to an international
exposition. Therefore, we now
have logistics, statistics, and
other departments functioning
and they want to know, 'are you
coming' . . . sorry, Liz says
black tie, so all the boys should
look pretty. Mike."
A P.S. adds: "girls, if you
want to sit and look pretty, wear
everything, but if you want to
mix and mingle, don't wear a
big blouncy ball gown I did at
one of Mike's parties, and it was
a mistake. Liz."
Eighteen Thousand Expected
This prompted a call to the
Todd office. A Todd flunky an
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iteceived To Sumptuous Party
swered.
Me: "Say, how many chums
are you expecting at this shin
dig?" Flunky: "Eighteen thousand.
Full house. Every seat."
Me: "Haven't you also got the
downstairs floor, where the cir
cus always shows off its menag
eries." Flunky: "No, we wanted to
use the floor to display our gifts
but the garden rented it to some
body else for Thursday night."
Me: "Look, I haven't got a
tuxedo. I only got a summer one.
I had a winter one but it kind
of shrank, and I gave it to my
mother and she made a suit out
of it for herself. What if I don't
wear a dinner jacket."
Wear Black Tie
Flunky: "You might get a
rude stare. You got a black tie,
ain't you?"
Me: "Yeah."
Flunky: "Okay. Wear it."
Me: "It and what else."
Flunky: "Nothing. That way
you'll be sure to make 'Confi
dential.' "
Me: "Is Todd paying you to
warm over stale jokes like that."
Flunky: "He can't afford to
pay me. The picture to date has
only grossed over 17 million
bucks in 66 U.S. cities, not to
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mention London, Paris, Tokyo,
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Me: "What picture?"
Flunky: "Ain't you cut?
'Around the World in 80 Days'
is one year old on Thursday and
Flu Bug Works Havoc
On Land And Water
BY UNITED PRESS
The Asian flu bug Saturday
emerged as an all-around threat
to college and high school foot
ball lineups across the country.
Small, speedy and powerful,
he crumpled defenses of the
high and low, striking the Fight
ing Irish of Notre Dame, weak
ening the orphaned children of
Child City at Mooseheart, 111.,
and in some places wiping out
schedules altogether.
A Coast Guard cutter, the Es
canaba, turned back to port from
1,500 miles out in the Atlantic
when the flu struck more than
half of her 130-man crew.
More than 3,000 tons of post
age stamps are manufactured
each year by the U.S. bureau of
printing and engraving to meet
an ever increasing demand by
consumers.
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SEE YOUR FAVORITE
APPLIANCE DEALER
that's why the party. In one
year Mike Todd has had an Ac
ademy -award picture, become a
millionaire, married Liz Taylor,
had a second child, become an
international figure . . . ."
Denies Liz Struck
Me: "Didn't Liz get smacked
by somebody at the party he
gave at Battersea Amusement
Park for 3000 people at the Lon
don opening?"
Flunky: "In the newspapers
only. Liz was bumped, that's
all."
Me: "I hear you got a big
birthday cake. How big."
Flunky: "Lord knows. It's
getting bigger all the time at
least 25 feet in diameter but the
height keeps growing. We hadda
get engineers in with the bakers
on construction problems. It'll
be iced blue so it'll TV better;
we're on TV 9:10 to 11. We got
movie stars, marching bands,
floats, gifts for everybody; carv
ed ivory, 10,000 cigars, 20,000
hot dogs, champagne, 500 gal
lons apple cider, six female pis
tols from Sweden with pink
handles, a small airplane with
free flying lessons, Italian mo
tor scooters; reporters coming
from all over the world and . . .
Me: "Okay. See you at ringside."
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Longest Fish Ladder
Open On Deschutes
Portland W The initial
stage of ihe world's longest fish
ladder has been opened success
fully at Portland General Elec
tric company's Pelton dam on
the Deschutes river, George
Eicher, PGE aquatic biologist,
said Saturday.
Attraction gates for fish mi
graing upstream were placed in
operation last week and approv
ed by represenatives of the
State Game Commission and
State Fish Commission, Eicher
said. The entire ladder, which
will wind some three miles along
the Deschutes river canyon, is
scheduled for completion later
this fall.
Gloversville, N. Y., has about
200 glove factories.
Attention!
Peoples Market
NOW OPEN TILL 1 1 P.M.
Daily
304 N. Main, Ashland
Across from
Briscoe School
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yke's Floorcovering
227 East 6th
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