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
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' 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
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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
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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."
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