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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.
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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.
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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.
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