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The Daily Independent from Murphysboro, Illinois • Page 6

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SUNSHINE VALLEY Mrs. Joe Bryant Science Gets 'Giant Eye Those who enjoyed ice cream allf cake at the home of Mr. and 2ni tSNEW MT. PALOMAR TELESCOPE IS A MAN-MADE MACHINE js.pr.3 Puleher, Mr. and Mrs.

Bernell and little daughter, Mr, and Reiman ancl family. and Mrs. Cecil Puleher and AS BIG AS A SKYSCRAPER, AND AS DELICATE AS A-WATCH By PATT WATTS Artist's drawing shows what Mt, Pslomar Observatory will look like when the 200-inch mirror is placed in this silver dome. Note how 'insignificant astronomer looks (lower left) family, Mr. and Mrs, JohnTOTwder family, Miss Vivian Morris.

and Mrs. John Bryunt Sr. -Mr. Mrs. John Ilryant, Jr.

and sons, if Mr. William Sondusky and Mr. Mrs. Joe Bryant and sons. Mr.

Louis Puleher and grandson, ICvans, reurned home Satur- affer several days visit, in East dinner guests tlie of Mr. and Mrs. Bryant family were Mr. Gill 14 Mr. and Mrs.

Homer Edgar of I HilL route. Mrs. Iva rlprs. St, Louis, Mo. and Mrs.

Luke LStricker and son, Jimmie. ol' "cago. Mr. Walter Russell and son Paul Dean, of Ava route, visited there in ihc evening. That's the Mt! Palomar telescope, and even after seeing it.

1 cannot comprehend that engineers porting heavy parts up the moun- NEA Staff Correspondent tain. PASADENA. Aug. G-i A ew S0 wil1 care the (NEAl-Imaglnc a man-made ma- i Palomar community, which has chmc- the. size of a skyscraper and provided with ail'modern util- as delicate as a Swiss watch.

ilies including a private telephone exchange and radio communication with the university. In order to have perfect refiec- and scientists conceived such a "ons in the foot pancake mir- "Slnnt eye." If a bridge were built temperature and humidity as big as the telescope's tube. it must be kept constant in he build- could sag several inches and stiil ln wlle is. mounted. Variables be usable: the Palomar tube can uneven expansion of the mn- not varv more than one-sixteenth of imperfect re- an inch flections allcl Produce deviations Mt.

Piilomar, near San starts operations late this I the path of light rays. Diego, i ar I The specially-constiucted room I The 200-inch telescope mirror is at Cal Tecl1 the giant mirror now in a special optical at ls hem 01 5 has thick con- California Institute of Tech- walls without windows, so nology in Pasadena, where sclen. i he mirror will remain lists arc polishing its surface to room nas Us own re- near perfection. Derating ar.d I system. On the ruased Palomar mountain plateau, workmen are finishing but to ohsel ve from a controls on the 500-ton telescope' visitol i at ronn behind heavy mount.

In a few months trucks will ass pands ths eyt haul the mirror up the mountain momuedi sito wm not and install it in the silver observa- be allowed near it? becauS( lhe tory dome atop. ATMOSPHERIC CHOICE cl to onter the heat om thelj to es dis- Mt. Palomar was chosen as the tort the surface of the mirror. The disc arrived at Cal Tech in 1926, and rough grinding waa start- Ice Cream Weather Is Really Here. some at our fountain or take some home.

Curb Service. lrD'S to 5 DRIVE-IN 22nd and site because atmospheric comli- tions on the 5500-foot high plateau ed. For two years the disc was aid clear observations. The moun- shaped to the right form. More tain's remoteness from urban areas than 10 tons of abrasive were used means no city lights will interfere.

to remove over live tons of glass. Good roads are available for trans- Visitors will never look through Properly Transfers Tiff Minton. et al to Homer Minton, Land in 35-10-3. Loyd M. Bradley to Shirley Cannady, Land in 17-S-l.

Louise M. Jones to Maude D. Leake, Land in 9-9-2. Karl PI. Weinberg to Jess R.

Land in 22-7-3. Ida M. Joiner to Theo. Taylor, Lot 15. Elk.

1, Edw. Bouscher's DeSoto. Alvin Lange to Ed. Langc, Land 15-7-4. Daniel S.

Grecnlec to Lorraine L. Thompson, Lls. 30, 31 32, Anna L. Russell's Murray Jackson Glenn to William Anderson, in 30-7-3. ter, Lots 24 25, Blk.

5, Gartsides 3rd Add, M'boro. Virginia Cunningham to Joe Hays, Lot McGuire'sl C'dale. Wm. Albert Leming to Chester Vinson, Lots 11, 12 12, Blk. Elkville.

A. S. Johnson, Trustee to City of in 21-9-1. A. S.

Johnson. Trust.IR to City of Carbondale, Water distribution system. A. S. Johnson, Trustoo to City of dnrbonrlnle.

Lot 17, McGnire Schwartz's O.L. .76 77.. C'dale. John L. Crowell to 1st Nafl Bs'iik.

C'dale. Lot 7, C. Burlison's i Add. O.L. 1-11.

C'dale, i Grace Throgmorton to John L. Miironysboro, "Jllnoli Page 6 Wednesday, August 6, 1947 Mabel Pulliam to Robert G. Crowell. i.ot 7. C.

L. Burlison's Add. i Don't keep it to yourself! Place an ad in The Daily Independent's prize Classified Section The Southern Illinoisan. Over 60,000. readers.

Call 34 or 35 and- ask for an ad taker. is, Part C'dale. Charles Reid Troutman to Joe James Manus, Part 100, C'dale. Vincent Genovese, et al to Joseph C. Genovese, Lots 4, 5 Blk.

2, Willis in 33-S-2. Ernest D. Graeff to William 'A. Leming, Lot 1. Blk.

16. Elkville. William E. Lemins' to Ernest D. Graeff, Lot 1, Blk.

IB, Elkville. Lucy Brown to Cullen Ellet, et al, Land in 13 12-10-4. Olive C. Turner to C'dale L. Imp.

Part C'dale. U. S. Army to Homer T. Heapc, Honorable Discharge.

O.L. HI, C'dale. WKI. D. Rushing to Walter B.

Pnrt 110, C'dale. Walter B. Welch to C'dale Nat'l Bank'. Part 110, C'dale. Clyde Tippy to Harold K.

Toler. Pnrt 32. 46, 47 45. C'dale. Harold E.

Toler to 1st Fed. Sa.v. Part 32, 45, 47 45, C'dnle. Clyde W. Tippy to Leslie Buff, 32, 46.

47 4B. C'dale, Joseph M. Lerner.to Lloyd Baltzell. Lot H. L.

Griffith's in I Lloyd Baltzell to Avery Greer, Lot Robert L. Wright to C'dale L. H. L. Griffith's in 5-10-1.

BALANCE MACHINERY this mirror the way they look on indefinitely or is a. I through an ordinary telescope. In-: boundary finally reached? stead, a camera will take pictures What is the true interpretation jot' the skies so scientists may have of the immense speed with which I a permanent record to study. ail star systems appear lo be re! now, after all this sweat'and i ceding from the earth? Is it a to'l f'-om some of the world's most pseudo-speed caused by 1 a purva- brilliant men. after millions of dol-1 ot space or by some property iars have been spent, what ni ht; mankind be able to see through Scientists will learn lhe distance I lit.

Palomar Observatory? from earth lo stars as yet unknown. i There are several theories, but They will know how large those most astronomers won't predict I'odies are and how much light tuey what they expect when they look emit or reflect. ihron the lens to astral distances! In the same way that helium never before visible from lhe earth. was discovered on the sun long oe- 1 fore il was found on earl' Imp. Land in 19-il-l.

State of Illinois to Robert Hotel Certificate of Incorporation. Alvn. Ardell Bycrs to Louis Clay Seal. in 24-0-2. Carl Hugh Byars to Louis Clay Beal, Land in 24-3-2.

Ralph Daniel Byars to Louis Clay Beal, Land in 24-0-2. J. Bert Eyars, el. al to Louis Clay Real. Land in 2-1-D-2.

William Robinson to Louis Clay Beal, Land in 24-0-2. Bessie Hopkins lo 1st N'ut'I Bank, C'dale, Laud in 32-D-l. Thomas Williams to C'dale L. Imp. Pnrt Lot 37, Anna L.

Russell's C'dale. Sam Parker to Gilbert Williams, Lot 131k. S. Mt. Carbon Claude.

Wisely lo M'boro Water Lot 4. Blk. 1, Buster Brown M'boro. Harvey Clover to Clifford Clover, Lot 4, Barton Grand Tower. Geo.

W. Swafford to Lizzie William Hall. Lots 12 13, Blk. 9, Mt. Carbon M'boro.

Helen Carico McDowell to Charles F. Back, Part Lots 5 0-L. M'boro. Charles P. Back to So.

Ill; B. Loan Part Lots 5 O.L. 3, M'boro. Largest Teapot BOSTON. world's largest enough to brew KID cnn'nls at a owned by i lie la (la.

Tea Co. ot Boston. Weighing 41)2 pounds, it can hold Edna Tindall to Benjamin E. Por-3S gallons. Tljc exclusive use of tne a 1 in many I Icntiing concert artists is ample reward to the infinite patience ana of three generations Ol craftsmen.

It Is injecij today's ffrcat piano. Draper Fanniure Co. Court Square Murphysboro is fire inn Dr. Edwin P. Hubble, Pasadena astronomer, says- the In a specially-constructed room, the "giant eye" is now getting its final polishing at California Institute of Technology.

Attendant standing below the ribbed mirror must wear a lintfrce uniform and special shoes. giant eye will determine whether intelligent life exists on Mars. Some scientists have reported seeing canals on-thai planet and others scoff al the idea. "The canal systems, if real, would almost necessarily imply the existence of intelligent beings on Mars," he says, so what Palomar reveals should settle 70-year-old controversy. Other science's greatest riddles muv be.answered.

Do slur sys- lists may find 'new elements on oth- er planets. But astronomers do not really know. Man has never peered into i the heavens farther than 500,000 light years. Palomar will potential- i ly double this figure. A lipht year is the number of miles that light travels in a year's figure is six followed liy 12 zeros.

So the total distance the i'aloinar Observatory scientists will be able to- see is six, followed by IS miles. NDARD Oil COMPANY CUTLER By Mrs. C. E. Monteith Mrs.

Chloc (Harding) Jenkins, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Harding (deceased) died Monday, wedding. She was a former Culler girl, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

T. J. Rednour. the family having been moved tu Wilmington four years Miss Hope Stevenson of Culler July 21st at Sparta hospital, after land John Fullertcn of Coullerville wmi't be disturbed next if you prepare your 'heating equipment nuw! Now -la tne time to have the furnace -inspected ami still time OUR 'MSN KNOW HOME HEATING CO. Phone 415 illness of several months.

Henry Jacoby, a mail carrier of Cutler, attended the State Carrier at. Rock Cord last week. He was selected as a delegate to the were married at the United Presbyterian Church Parsonage at Cutler Tuesday evening at o'clock by Rev. T. C.

Hay. The 4-1-1 Clul) members attended VALLEY strated the preparation or a vege- table salad. Ey Mrs. Joe Bryant I The Home Bureau (Randolph Mrs. George Owen and duughl.cr.

'county unit) is sponsoring a trip Judith Ann of St. Louis, and Mrs. next Wednesday to the Municipal Hubert Bildcrback of Ava, attended opera presentation of "Sally" in Sunday school and church at Pleas- Louis. Buses will pics up those ani. Hill Sunday morning, 27.

'nltenciing in the Lunch- Carrier National Convention at Tampa, Ho and family i pinekneyville. Ann Bro plan to leave hero August Gth to at- was selected as having the tend the convention. Mr. ancl Sheridan Pulchsr eon will be In the Forest a county meeting Saturday at ami family and Messrs. Alfred, Joe park in the i am Ardell Puleher.

all of jEast neat- Carondolet and Mrs. Lula Levin ot i id ATiss Ann Brown, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Amos Brown, was selected from Perry County as the delegate to the -i-H Club convention at Lake Bloomiiigton this week, She received the high rating in cfficien- I ey. educational sewing and accuracy.

We are very proud of as is one of Cutler High School student and active in church organizations. James Birchlcr was hostess Tuesday to the Home Bureau members. Mrs. A. B.

Ervin is the president of this organization. Charlie Stout was injured at Cutler mine Saturday. He is recuperating at Murphysboro hospital. Word was received here by ij friends this week of Miss Mnreella I Rednour and William A. Klein- stubor of Wilmington, Delaware, attended the funeral of their brother'iind uncle.

Alex Puleher in Ava that afternoon. The "Willing Workers" Sunday School class of Pleasant Hill enjoyed an ice cream social, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John LevanJ Wednesday night. Mrs.

Lela Garvey of Chicago, who has been visiting her sister and and Mrs. John Doetch and family, returned 11 UVl i-l il JU -ITT 1 Thursday, with a delicious I The Happy Hour and Girls' clubs. Held a joint achieve- Let uy help you with your plans, designs, estimates, contractor, building materials, etc. 316 N. 12th St.

PHONE 1194 lest made'drcss on the Project ami she has the honor of being selected to go to Slate Fair and lake he- dress, for display; also we are proud of Darlene Thompson as her dress selected for good straight seams and neat sewing. It will also bo on display State Fair, Grace Clclaud received honors on a good looking dress suit she made. Therefore three garments will be sent to Stale Fair. Mothers attending the meeting, Mrs. Walter Eaton, Mrs.

Henry Jacoby and Mrs. Ev- c'rette Thompson. Fidelis Bible Class members of the U. P. Church had an enjoyable day basket dinner served at 12 o'clock and lunch at 'i o'clock, at the Country Club at Sparta.

The day was spent swimming, playing games and boat riding. Mr. and Mrs. C. A.

Milligan plan to motor to Harrison, Tennessee week end and attend the wedding of their son. Merle Milligan, and Davis, which will occur at the bride's home August, 11. William Minton, a close friend of Merle, will be the best man. Merle has many friends here who sent many gifls to the wedding shower last week. They will reside at Harrison where he has employment.

Merle served in the Navy for a long length of time. The bride has visited in Cutler and made many friends here. Henry' and wife Cahokia were dimier guests of their father, Mr, Louis Puleher, and brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Ous Pulclier. Thursday.

llc July The Assembly of God church held ll'Bir pior.ic at Riverside Mnrpnysboro, July IS. The Baptist "Sunday School ways give yew 'Mr. and Mrs. James Ilosetti of Louis, visUerl Mrs Reset- ti's parents, Sunday. Mr.

and Mrs. William I ler. 111., visited lisv. ami Mrs. William this end and al tended the Baptist church witli thorn Sunday night.

Meeting of the Methodist Woman's i Society cf Christian Service The Methodist women are studying India in their missionary meet- Las' week, Louis Guiuu was mcint meeting at Heiple school llv it guest speaker, who spoke Wednesday afternoon, July 28. nl experiences there in World Their demonstrations on sewing were all very interesting. Everyone had a nice lime playing They served refreshments to all. Mr. Everette Pierson and children, Jimmie, Palsy and Judy.

Mr and Mrs. Gtis Puleher and Air, and Mrs. Logan Williams and daughters, Barbara ami visited Forest Park zoo, in SI. Louis, Sunday, July 27. daughter accompanied by PERCY By Kenneth Fisk Harry Short is still confined to his bed.

He-has been seriously ill for several weeks. Reuben Willis, son of Mrs. Henry Willis, passed away at St. An- aml i (irew's hospital, War 11. He also spoke about China.

Mr. Guinn was an officer in India natl he had as his army surgeon the famous "Burma. Surgeon" Dr. Gordon Seagraves. Jacoby and family of Percy, plan JH SS Lily Plynn is spending two MT.

GLENN By Wanda Grabow Mr. and Mrs. Bonnie Bloodworth and son of Anna, Fred Reed and family ol" Benlon, and Raymond Harrell's of Gorham all spent Sunday here wtih their father, James Han-ell and family, Mr. and Mrs. N.

C. Tiffany ot Grand Tower spent Sunday afternoon here relatives. Relatives from Chicago arc vis- 'Ring lhe Norris Biggs family. Eddie Sauerbninu and wife of Anna spent the week-end here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

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Edmund Hillis and daughter Several from this vicinity were ill iUdJi i JliUIHU IIU ciiiii i I vention August 12. They will be Sue are visiting relatives In Kan- inj.hc^liss.ssippi bottoms Sunday, gone for two weeks, as they 5 ls lis.iiug. a sight seeing Irip after attending Miss Gladys Rieckenberg. (laugh- lUh and Manning the convention. Mrs.

Marry Brownfield of Willisville a member of the J. O. C. Bible Class of the U. P.

Church, will en- the members at her home Wednesday afternoon. Bible Study will be Job. President is Perhm Rosendahl. Mr. and Mrs.

Charles Seyferth of Vergennes were dinner guests Thursday of the son and wife Mr. ter of Mr. and Mrs. L. H.

won third prize in the 4-Ii club county show at Sparta Thursday Tor a dress she made. This permitted her to exhibit it at the Springfield Fair this summer. and Mrs. children. Denver Seyferth.

and Home Bureau Meeting Four of the 4-H Club members were at the Percy Unit, of the Home Bureau, which met at the home of Mrs. Ray Juergens Thursday iiighl. Two of. them SALLIDATBOHO Mr. and Mrs.

Carl Leek visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Craig oi' Route 2, one evening last week. Mr. and Mrs.

William Carter and children were Murphysboro visitors Saturday evening. A little Classified ft.d may mean a Big Business Opportunity. Call 35 and aak for an 9th and Chestnut 'Phone 11SS 19th and Walnut.

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