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Sunday, Aug. 23, 1959
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DR. M.C. BRADBROOK
Scholar at Festival
English Scholar
Visits Festival;
Attends 4 Plays
Ashland - Dr. M. C. Brad
brook, English scholar and
faculty member of Girton col
lege, Cambridge, England,
was a guest of the Oregon
Shakespearan Festival's Insti
tute of Renaissance Studies
last week, and attended the
four productions of Shakes
peare. "Of course I have heard
and read about the Festival
for years," Dr. Bradbrook
said; "and have long hoped
to come here.
"The fast playing style
here is most striking," she
added, "and the free move
ment from scene to scene is
really beautifully done."
On Thursday Dr. Brad
brook returned to southern
California to complete special
research at the Huntington
Library. She has been in this
country for a year, working
in several library collections,
including that at the Folger
Library, and has also attend
ed conferences at various col
leges. Productive Scholar
An active and productive
scholar, Dr. Bradbrook is the
author of many volumes, and
has made a significant contri
bution to the field of English
Literature. Among her several
works are "Elizabethan Stage
Grange News
Enterprise Grange
At the last meeting of the
Enterprise Grange Mr. and
Mrs. Earl Temple were re
instated to membership. They
had been members of the
Trout Lake Grange in Wash
ington. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hurley
were obligated in the first
and second degrees and will
accompany Master King to
Gold Hill for complete in
itiation. Mr. and Mrs. Hurley
visited Oregon several times
before moving from; the San
Fernando Valley to Evans
Vallev.
A discussion of flood con
trol and irrigation, in refer
ence to past flood damage and
current water shortage,
brought out the necessity of
firanee members taking a
more active part by attend
ine the Rogue Basin Water
Eesources and Flood Control
association meetings.
Douglas Hart, who has been
elected chairman of the Rogue
River Community Chest, ad
vised the Grange that appoint
ments of Grange representa
tives should be made as soon
as possible so the Community
Chest work may be organ
ized. Mr, and Mrs. Jimmie
King have served on the com
mittee for several years.
- During the report on agri
cultural, it was noted that a
new theory concerning bloat
in cattle has been advanced
Bloat may be an hereditary
factor and follow lines of
breeding, and the farmer is
advised to cull cows to im
prove herd resistence to bloat.
" A small raise in Grade A
milk prices was announced
but the drop in milk produc
tion caused by dry pastures
and the increased cost of
prices, will keep the farmer
from realizing any profit from
the raise.
The Home Economics club
held a reactivation meeting
at the home of the chairman,
Mrs. Gladys Boulter, recently.
The date for the annual
fall carnival was tentatively
set for Sept. 19, at the En
terprise Grange hall. The com
mittees have not yet been of
ficially announced but all
members are urged to - be
ready with ideas and sugges
tions. The. next club meeting
will be held early in Septem
ber. Refreshments were served
during the social hour by
Mr. and Mrs. King and Mri.
George Barrie.
Conditions," '"Themes and
Con"entions of Elizabethan
Tragedy," "Shakespeare and
Elizabethan Poetry," and
"The Growth and Structure
of Elizabethan Comedy."
To honor the Queen's cor
onation, she compiled an an
thology of Tudor verse for
the Royal Society of Litera
ture. Called "The Queen's
Garland," the collection was
presented to Elizabeth II. Cur
rently Dr.- Bradbrook is gath
ering data for a forthcoming
volume on Elizabethan actors,
After spending considerable
time touring Ashland, she
commented on the "fresh
look" of the town, and was
especially pleased with the
Festival's new theater and the
rare books and manuscripts
collection at the Ashland Pub
lic Library.
Attt nds Dinner
Last Tuesday, prior to the
"King John" performance, In
stitute Director Dr. Margery
Bailey entertained Dr. Brad
brook at dinner. Attending
were Joseph Withey, fellow
in the 1959 Institute; Dolora
Cunningham, Institute Pro
tector for 1959; Jerome Clin
ton, Dr. Bailey's assistant
and two Festival actors who
have studied recently in Eng
land - David O'Brien and
Dion Chesse.
Dr. Bradbrook, intensely
interested in theater, discuss
ed the current theatrical "re
vival in England and in
quired into the production de
tails of the Oregon Shakes
pearean Festival.
In traveling here from Pas
adena, Dr. BradbrGok visited
the Redwood country of Call
fornia. She will conclude her
Huntington research this fall
and return home to England
by the end of September.
Everyday Occurence
(Editor's note: This is the
first in a series of two arti
cles discussing the sonic
boom. The material was
prepared by the office of
information lervices, 408th
Fighter Group, Kingsley
field, Klamath Falls.)
By MSGT. CHARLES J.
BENNETT
Kingsley Field
In the growing days of avia
tion the sonic barrier was es
tablished in the minds of
many as some mysterious
wall against which an aircraft
in flight might shatter and
fall to the ground.
With the advent of the jet
engine, it has become an
everyday occurrence for pi
lots to' fly through, the sound
barrier with only a flick I of
an air speed indicator needle
to let them know. It is under
standable that a person on the
ground, hearing the thunder-
like clap, still attaches some
mystery to this sound which
results from flying faster
than the speed of sound.
The sonic boom-man's jet
made thunder clap - has be
come the sound of security in
today's troubled world. And
as the price of increased vigi
lance goes up, so will sonic
boms get louder and be
heard more frequently.
Become Commonplace
In the near future sonic
booms will become as com
monplace as the sound of
trains rattling through the
countryside or trucks rum
bling through city streets.
An explanation of the cause
of a sonic boom is as simple
as nature's law of sound. Ba
sically, sound is created by
wavelets of varying pressure
striking the ear. They are the
result of any surge of energy.
Generally, they can be com
pared to the ripples created
by a rock thrown into a still
pond. Ordinary conversation
is actualy a series of pressure
wavelets pulsating against the
ear, much as the ripples of
water gently slap the shore
of the pond.
Strong Pressure
By these standards, an ex
plosion is no more . than a
strong pressure wave pushed
by a sudden strong release of
energy. Such a tidal wave of
pressure is commonly recog
nized as the explosive sound
of a dynamite blast or the
thunder clap following jagged
streaks of lightning during a
storm. Descriptive of these
strong waves of pressure ijs
their name-shock waves.
In the days of slower flying
aircraft the boom was an iso
lated phoenomenon, a stunt
performed by a diving fighter
pilot to impress a crowd or
test an engine. When the
plane exceded the speed of
sound a loud boom was pro
duced, Wut only in a single
localized area.
Today, airplanes such as
the F-lOlBs assigned to the
Kingsley field, give birth to
these shock waves when in
level flight.
One Major Wave
As the plane's speed reaches
the speed of sound, one ma
jor shock wave surrounds the
nose of the airplane and
smaller waves of less inten
sity spring from the wing,
canopy and tail surfaces, and
remain attached there as long
as supersonic speed is main
tained. Instead of a single
sharp boom, there is. a con
tinuous roar which crosses
the countryside as the plane
flies along.
Certainly, the speed of the
nation's airplanes will con
tinue to increase if the avia
tion industry is to make ad
ditonal progress. It is equally
certain that the increased
speed will create shock waves
and sonic boom of greater in
tensity. Swift fighter inter
ceptors guarding the nation
against possible air attack,
for instance, challenge every
unidentified plane crossing
the nation's borders. They
must make their intercept
wherever the unknown plane
is found and identify it.
The sound of thunder has
become so commonplace to
man that even a thunder clap
in the spring is hardly enough
to make him register alarm
Thunder-like sounds from a
clear sky - aviation's sonic
boom-should become no more
than interesting phenomena
heralding the achievement of
supersonic flight in the de
velopment of military avia
tion.
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