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12 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. B Thursday, June 18, 1959 FOOTBALL PROSPECTS Lorain, Ohio -UPD- High school football coaches may be missing a lot of gridiron tIent by ignoring the coeds, ys Ivan P. Lambert, a pub lic school psychologist. Girls in better physical condi tion to play football at the fges of 16 and 17 than boys re, according to Lambert, heir muscles develop earlier id their joints are "smoothed off' at the 16-year level, the psychologist explained. He didn t advocate, however, that (prls take up football. About one-sixth of Ameri ca's flowering plants are found in California. mm THE fOlli QUALITY! fioo in PQICE Long-time Legend of Hoffman's Comet Verified After Research Ashland No more excit ing, dramatic, or fascinating story has appeared during Or egon's Centennial year cele bration than the attempt to verify a long-time legend, "Squire Hoffman's Comet" by Dr. Arthur S. Taylor, South ern Oregon college professor Combining an entry in a pioneer journal of 1853, a shining object in the Western skies during that same year, and research experts from SOC and Harvard university, the tale opens with these words in Squire Hoffman's own handwriting: "Aug. 25, 1853. We left the west branch of Raft river at we have traveled sometime past. A comet has appeared in the west for a week past POWER STEERING ' Washington (UPDThe air craft industry has developed an electronic power steering system for supersonic fighter bombers that makes takeoffs and landings at speeds of 200 miles an hour as easy as steer ing the family automobile. Planes, official publication of the Aircraft Industries Associ ation, says conventional me chanical steering systems were too slow to cope with the high speed of the latest aircraft. A half-second delay in re sponding to the pilot's signal could send the jet plunging off the runway. The new system, which was . tailor-made to match the average pilot's physical reactions, guarantees complete control of the jet on the ground at all times. 7 o'clock a.m., and proceeded 10 miles to lunch, then on ward to Rock Creek, 8 miles farther, making a distance of 18 miles for the day's travel over tolerably good road. Crossing several streams of water. We are encamped about 2 miles ahead of the other two trains in whose company Rediscovered Comet To Be Seen Cambridge, Mass.-(Science Service)-A comet expected to give a good display of me teors this fall has been redis covered by Elizabeth Roemer of the U.S. Naval Observa tory in Flagstaff, Ariz.' Although it is. now much too faint to be seen without a : very large telescope, the comet will brighten suffic iently by late October to be visible with binoculars or a small telescope. Known as Comet Giacobini-Zinner, the object is remarkable for the showers of meteors it pro duced in 1933 and 1946. The comet will be within about 30,000,000 miles of the earth on Nov. 7, and the me teor display is expected about the same time. News of the comet's redis covery when it is only a faint magnitude 20 was reported to a-onomers in the Western Hemisphere by Harvard Col lege Observatory here. ! , New Zealand has about two and one-half head of cattle per capita. J GOH'-FOOD STOKES OPEN 9 A.M. to 9 P.M. - 7 DAYS A WEEK 1475 Siskiyou Blvd. - ASHLAND 3 SPECIALS GOOD THRU SUNDAY Soran's Oregon Grown Pan Ready Si)0 OAYEMLOMS BAUBERRIES El POTATOES I 3 QGL1CIA ICE CREAM 4 Colored cubes Shut-fresh. 5 lb. '239 crate 10 lbs. 75' a . sot. 69 3 $7.00 5.l.00 Pin, 29 10 . . 79 QULQDE MED. AA EGGS PELQICn MARGARINE G0TTA6E CHEESE fiflCY F68D Cerber's Strained O.U. COFFEE - ': r 2 lb , J.29 ALDEQ'S CORN MUFFIN MIX 10' PEAS Santa M.ri. No. 1 10$1.00 MUSTARD GREENS IS 7M.00 TOMATOES ... 5 MOO fOUATO SAUCE !' J3I.OO fiHTSUP Snider Hot. SIIILI CON CARHE PEAS Del Monte PEACHES w. Hi,.L Best VaL Rose Cut. GREEN BEANS GREEN -BEANS GRAPEFRUIT JUICE Red Dart. 20-oz 4$1.00 No 300 4$I.OO 303, 6$1.00 411.00 No 303 8$1.00 t 303 6$I. 00 no 8I.OO AND SAVE MORE WITH having a considerably long tail. At times it appears very brilliant." No More Reference Since there was no further reference to the comet in the old journal or in any con temporary accounts, it may have been likely Hoffman in vented the story and specula tion about the interesting en try discloses that "only half of the original journal still exists. The half in which the comet J'legend'' appears was discovered in a handwritten copy of the journal in the effects of the late Professor Irving E. Vining, a grandson, who served on the faculty of the old Southern Oregon State Normal school. As the existence of the com et at this point is based upon somewhat shaky premises, it my be well to bolster up Squire Hoffman's side of the matter by . shedding some light upon the type of man he actually was. - ' . According to Dr. Taylor, all accounts disclose that Wil liam Hoffman, called as a mark of respect, "Squire" by the early settlers, was one of the most interesting men who came across the plains. Peo ple are still living in Jack son county who can recall his tall, straight figure walk ing to his office in Jackson ville from his home in the Griffin Creek neighborhood. Active Life Born in Baltimore, Md., Sept. 6, 1801, the Squire had a remarkably active life, hav ing engaged in a number of successful business ventures in the East. Upon his arrival in Oregon, he soon became a man of consequence in Southern Oregon, having been elected county auditor under the territorial government in 1855, and later serving as county clerk and notary pub lic in historic Jacksonville for many years.- Dr. Taylor, said of Hoff- Sea Cucumber May Become Food Washington-(Science Serv-ice-Sea cucumber chowder may soon be occupying a high place on the fish lover's menu. The white meat of this fleshy relative of the starfish looks and. tastes like excel lent quality sliced clam meats, said John A. Dassow of the U.S. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, Seattle, Wash. In the North Pacific, sea cucumbers may be gathered at any season. However, na tive Alaskans say their qual ity is poor during warmer weather. Preparation of the tube-shaped animal is simple, the scientist reported. After it is cleaned and evis-cerated-by cutting off one or both ends, splitting down the side, and scraping and wash-ing-the thin white strips of meat can be cooked and used as a clam substitute. The sea cucumber can also be canned, frozen, or dried and used in the same way as trepang or dried sea cucum ber of the Orient. man's inventing the story is "Highly improbable. I'll ad mit that he could have in vented the story, but William Hoffman, as you can see, was a man of high character. Be sides, there are no other im probable entries in his jour nal. Other pioneers may have drawn a long bow about their experiences, but not Squire Hoffman." Dr. Taylor said it was "Pos sible, but not probable," the entry made by some other person to "If a spurious en try had been made, there would be a tendency to make it more dramatic." Dr. William M. McKinney, a member of the SOC social science staff, became inter ested in the unusual story. Disclose No Evidence A search of available rec ords disclosed no evidence of such a comet, but the story rang too true inMcKinney's ears to be merely a fascinat ing legend and not a factual account, so he wrote a let ter to the chairman of the Harvard university depart ment of astronomy, Professor Cecilia Payne - Gaposchwin's, enclosing an excrept from the Squire's journal referring to the comet. Professor Payne - Gaposch kin's return letter gave some light on the, subject. "Dear Dr. McKinney: The comet must have been Comet 1853 III, which was discov ered at the Gottingen Ob servatory, Germany, by the estronomer, Klinkerfues, on June 10, 1853. It was a very bright comet,- and was seen in full daylight by observers with telescopes. The descrip tion seems to fit it well." INFANTS' WEAR NEXT? Milwaukee iUPD Miss Lor raine Reider, Milwaukee, was recently made assistant man ager of the bridal department in a Milwaukee department store, and was then made as sistant manager of the mater nity section only three dayi later. Last chance to enter the Bake-Off is June 30 " ' f""'sM "My BEST recip won $25,000 in last year's Bake-Off," says Mrs. Don DeVault, Delaware, Ohio. Here she has just been awarded $25,000 by Art Linkletter. Enter your BEST recipe in PMurymW Bak-Off you can win 25,000 Bui you have o hurry! Yotir entry must be postmarked not later than June 30, 1959. Entry blanks and rules are available now at your grocer's. 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