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1 MAIL TRIBUNt, Medford, Or. 1 A Wednesday, July 1, 1959 Exhibition Plans For Kiwanis Fair Announced Today Exhibit plans for the 1959 Kiwanis Centennial fair to be held Aug. 20 through 23 have been announced by Larry Hor- ton, coordinator for the ex hibits section. Four departments will be available for exhibitors, he reported. They include food, textiles, floral arrangements, and land products. Theme for this year's event, usually called the Kiwanis County fair, is "Jackson coun ty-1859-1959, century of pro- grass." Horton explained that there is no entry fee for exhibitors, but applications must be re ceived by Aug. 15 from those intending to enter. All rules and regulations governing the Oregon State fair will apply, Horton added. Entries will be taken to the Medford armory Thursday, Aug. 20 between 9 a.m. and noon. First through fifth place ribbons will be awarded in each class and all other en tries will receive a "county fair participation ribbon." Department divisions in clude food, bread and rolls, cakes, pies, and food preserva tion; textile, baby goods, bed room linens, handweaving, knitted clothing, rugs and sewing; floral arrangements, amateur and professional ar rangements; and land pro ducts, tree fruits, vegetables and melons and squash. Medford Men Are Department Officers Two Medford men were among the officers appointed to state duties at the 38th an nual convention of the Dis abled American Veterans held in Salem last week. Pat Graham, past depart ment commander, was ap pointed publicity and public relations director and Edward Branchfield, Medford attor ney, was appointed judge ad vocate. The appointments were made by Dan E. Cole, -Springfield, newly elected depart ment commander. Other officers elected were James Ollilla, Clatskanie, sen ior vice commander; William M. Moyer, Portland, junior vice commander; Frank Barnes, Portland, chaplain; and Arch L. Brewster, Salem, treasurer. Also appointed was Thomas F. Van Lanningham, Portland, adjutant. Bend was chosen as the 1960 convention site. World's Largest Telescope Photographs Ce (Editor's note: The following dis- All Haw thp. rinmo nf thi Kve .ttSbiES of 5T i structure remains tightly clos- Nickel has been used for coins since 1861 when Swit zerland adopted the metal as a money base. Today 34 coun tries use nickel for coins in 90 denomination values. Apples give off an ethylene gas strong enough to wilt cut flowers. United Aircraft Corp.) ' By JOHN H. MARTIN (Distributed by UPI) Wilson, Calif. (UPD - It was 6;15 p.m. Pacific time on Palo- mar Mountain in Southern California. Dr. Horace W. Bab cock was about to participate in a nightly miracle denied to most people. He was going to peer far back into time. He would do this with the "Big Eye," the 200-inch Hale tele scope, This marvelous creation, the largest "telescope in the world, can photograph celestial bod ies in still nameless star sys tems more than a billion light years - or 6,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000 (six billion tril lion) miles away. It can get spectra - patterns two1 billion light years away. In its range lie answers to some of the most basic questions: When and how was our universe. born? What is happening to it now? What is its future? Hops for Answers The Palomar astronomers under Dr. Ira S. Bowen, the director, and Dr. Babcock, the assistant director, hope within five years to come up with some of these answers. These men, who work at the Mount Wilson and Palomar Observa tories, which are operated jointly by the California Insti tute of Technology and the Carnegie Institution of Wash ington, have set themselves an enormous task to get some idea of the observable universe of which our earth is a mere spinning speck in a time and space staggering to the imagination. They also hope to learn how much mat ter is contained in the uni verse, and whether it is ex panding at a slower rate to day than in the past. And they will attempt- to look far back in time, perhaps several bil- ion years, and observe how the universe behaved when it was very young. Appears Possible Dr. Bowen said: "Achieving these objectives, which will mark the culmination of more than 35 years' work, now ap pears to be possible because of the greater accuracy being developed in . the yardsticks that measure the. enormous distances in space;" - The astronomers do not live permanently on their mountain-tops at Wilson, just north of Pasadena, or Palomar, which is 130 miles to the southeast. Dr. Babcock is one of a 15-man team which has a rotating schedule of work with the "'Big Eye." Each man spends three to six nights on Palomar, depending on the type of his assignment. Dr. Babcock, a wiry, dark haired man, had driven down to Palomar in his station wa gon from his Pasadena home. He checked into the "Monas tery," the dormitory where the astronomers eat, sleep, study, and relax, in one of the dozen buildings that dot Palo mar's . peak. The Hale . tele scope is " in a Pantheon-like structure about the height of a 12-story building. ed to insulate the sensitive ap paratus against the sun's heat and the weather. When the sun sinks, the roof shutters are rolled back to expose the vast uptilted frame work of the 60-foot tube. A bank of electric fans cools the 14.5-ton slab of flawless mirror to the same level as the outside tem perature. Now the telescope is ready to peer into space. Palomar is 2,300 miles north of the Equator, but from its elevation the 200-inch mirror can sweep over three-fourths of the sky. Only the sky above the Antarctic zone is beyond its gaze. At 6:30 p.m. Dr. Babcock was ready. The . stars were waiting in a dazzling array. An assistant flidking switch es on an instrument panel on the observing floor set the stage. '. Dr. Babcock, who has been seeking answers in the stars for 13 years, walked up a few steps and entered the narrow, cold telescope room. Adjust ment of the telescope for the astronomer to find a star he wants to photograph is a delicate operation. It has been compared to aiming a rifle at, Umatilla Court Investigation Due Pendleton-dlPD-The Umatil la county district attorney's office has announced that it would conduct an - investiga tion of the Umatilla county court's entire operations." District Attorney Richard J. Courson said he would gath er facts on charges made by - j:. J 3 11 TT i 1 1 inaiviauais. ana me umauiia i County- Good- Government League claiming the county court has missused its powers. Courson said the matter probably would be given to the mid-July Umatilla county grand jury. He also said; the Oregon state police were be ing asked to assist if needed. The Umatilla county court had requested the district at torney's office to present the facts to the grand jury, say ing it "had nothing to hide." Medford Students Make Honor Roll Melva Gebhard, 1519 North Riverside ave.', and Mrs. Viola Russell Harrison, formerly of Medford, were recently named to the spring honor roll of 79 students at Lewis arid Clark college. To qualify a student must achieve a 3.5 grade point average or better while carry ing a study load of at least 15 hours. , Miss Gebhard, a junior his tory major,, was one, of 24 students to achieve a straight A. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Allen Gebhard. Mrs. Harrison is a spring graduate and the daughter of Mr.-and Mrs. John Russell, 204 North, Ivy st. George W. Swinney 1013 West 9th St., Medford WINNER of an Armstrong "Cushiontone Acoustical Ceiling at 1 I i ft) Ifph. SPrinTI Corner of 6th and Fir Streets Ph. SPring 3-5333 Open 8 A.M. to 5:30 P.M. Daily - 8 to 5 P.M. Saturdays - Plenty Free Parking Make Big Pines headquarters for your, home building and remodeling supplies CLOSED SATURDAY-JULY 4th! and hitting, a rolling penny 20 miles away. Time Exposures Taken The astronomer found his stars this night, two identified as HD 32633 and 53 Cam, and began taking time exposures, some lasting as long as four hours. "I am studying particularly the magnetic fields of stars," Dr. Babcock explained. "The magnetic fields of these stars, 4-HCIub News Pig Club The Central Point Pig club held their monthly meeting at the Central Point gymnasium on June 22. Judy Frink gave a report on the potluck din ner. The prefair will be July 23 at the Jackson county fair grounds. The club has a new mem ber. The next meeting will be July 27 at the gym. The club had a tour on June 27 of each member's place to look at their project. Judy Frink, Reporter HD 32633 and 53 Cam, for in stance, are 5,000 times strong er ' than on earth. Magnetic fields of stars are never sta tionary. They move. So, peri odically we photograph cer tain stars and then study any changes." Probably the most notable contribution of the Palomar telescope in its first ten years was to give a more realistic concept of the size and age of the universe. This has result ed in several upward revisions in the universe's age in the past six years. "The latest estimate ranges from seven to thirteen billion years for the' age of the uni verse," said Dr. Allan R. San dage, of the observatories' staff. "The large variation is due to uncertainties that still exist in the measurements. However, the figures are sig nificant because for the first time they are consistant with the age set by geologists bas ed on .the decay of radioactive elements in rocks and meteor ites." Speed Found Slowing Linked with the size and age of the universe is its ap parently expanding state. A widely held theory among as tronomers is that the known universe was born in a cata clysmic explosion that hurled gigantic fragments which have evolved into galaxies and have been rushing away from each other ever since. Study of these unbelievable speeds has been done with the spectro scope, which has been seeing these galaxies as they were a billion years ago! Recently, the men on Palomar-Dr. Bab cock among them-have found indications that this speed is slowing. Astronomy is an unlimited yet limited science, Dr. Bab cock explained. "We try to avoid speculation," he said. "We concentrate on exact measurements and try to con tribute to exact knowledge." Yet astronomy overlaps other fields, especially that of the "celestial mechanics," the space scientists who plan a landing op the moon. "Naturally," he said, "we are interested in what the un manned or .manned expedi- Bodies Billion Light Years Away ; I j: . . .. t- . ... . tions can discover ud above the atmosphere, which so han dicaps our work." Manned space flights face enormous difficulties, but the Soviet Lunik and the Ameri can Pioneer IV instrumented rockets have been added to the solar system as artificial planets. And a spaceship with a human crew could bring back even more information to the astronomers. Dr. Babcock conceded that life may be found in our solar system, although not as we know it on earth. "And there is a probability," he said, "that there is life on hypothet ical planets which we cannot see. We cannot tell since we cannot see planets far outside our solar system. ... "Remarkable strides have been made in astronomy," KRAUT ) said Dr. Babcock, "but in a n't even scratched the edge of sense you might say we have-1 time." Lucas &IHloward! Will Be 5:30 P.M. Friday Instead of 9 P.M. 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