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pr Advocate Magazine and Picture Page 1A SATURDAY FEATURE A Peek At the Stars Can Provide 4 Hours of Enjoyment for Residents, Local Amateur Astronomer Says (Editor's Note: The following contribution is the first of a series of articles this writer will contribute to the Saturday Feature Page, regarding the science which will enable man to explore the trillions of miles beyond this ear th of ours By MARTIN A. SLOAN 5418 Alexander Drive Escon dido One of the fastest growing hobbies in th United States is Amateur Astronomy. Any. intelligent person with even a small telescope can amuse himself by the hours these nice Summer nights. There are so many things to see, beautiful and awesome beyond compare.

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I II I 4 wind will make fish ay' I DAILY TIMES ADVOCATE ESCONDIDO, CALIFORNIA 10 story one-hundreath part as fantastic as the sober facts that have been unearthed by astronomical science. Radio Astronomers Hear Sounds of Outer Space WHEN GALILEO invented the telescope more than 400 year ago, he did not realize how many people would use his in- vention for enjoyment and for scientific purposes. Without this Italian's contribution, no amateur or professional astronT. omer would see celestial Saturn like this. Igloos With Ice Boxes Is the Last Word for Eskimos In North Canada Li than the sun), I.e.

Alpha Cent-auri (4.3 light-years) would weigh over a million tons! Or, as Dr. Dinsmore Alter, formerly of the Griffith Observatory you could ride a Buck Rogers space ship that would take you to the Moon in one-day (remember, it took 4 days on our last shot at the Moon); it would take you at the same rate of speed 300,000 years to reach the nearest star! steins theories on relativity. But data from radio telescopes will probably help decid between them. Wherever the truth lies, it is almost certain to seem fabulous to laymen. As astronomer Fred Hoyle said, "No literary genius could have invented a POETS EAST ST.

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CORNER (Original Contributions Only) ycycycycycysi Way of Love By CHUCK McCARTHY Route. Three. Box 745 Escondido I live in a house, full of love. Easily seen, by God up above! All together saying evening prayers In our loving room, yes we invite you there. I live in a little haven of peace.

Just hope this joy will never cease. With my family at. my side They are my loved ones and my pride! With Gods help Ill never ever stray But, 1 11 remember to thank Him each and every day. been talking about our own Gal axy the "Milky -Way Galaxy. About 1 a.m.

you can see by eye the Great Nebulae Galaxy in the Constellation Andromeda known as M-31. It contains over 300 billion suns (or stars) and I'm sure that you know by now that suns and stars are the same thing. Close By I wonder how the folks are doing up there in M-31? Are they plagued with cold wars, taxes and sputniks? Radio-waves travel at the same speed as light (the fastest thing there is, outside of thought and it would take 1.500.000 years for a signal to reach them, and then another 1.500.000 years for an answer, making a total of 3 million years before we would know the score Well, I dont suppose that IT be around that long, so let's gee along. Ill bet there arc many millions of planets and many of them inhabited on M-3L Last count I heard about, there are over 10 billion galax ies you take 'it from there: Multiply that by 100 billion suns and nine planets per Sun Now if you think all this is big, just consider space. Let's say that an average star is a million miles in diameter.

On that scale, the dot over an "i (as in this print) the nearest "dot (or Star) is 10-mile away. As Dr. Plaskett once said: "that an ordinary garden variety of spider web strung around the world at the equator would weigh 2-pounds. The sam theoretical spider web strung to our nearest star (other ASTRO-GUIDE Usually an amateur begirc with the Moon and Planets they are the closest and have visible discs to look at. The Craters on thp Moon are an end less study even to the old-timers and professionals.

Three of our brightest Planets are nicely placed these evenings for view ing at about 9 p.m.: Venus to the West, Jupiter in the middle-sky and a little south, and Saturn to the southeast Jupiter, giant of all our planets, is a favorite with amateurs. It is about a half-billion miles out, but with small telescopes the planet-ring3 of bands and colors show up, and you never get tired of following the gyrations of the four Gall lean Moons. Saturn, "the Queen of the skies, is probably one of the most beautiful single objects to look at. The outer ring of Saturn is very unusual, and In my 12 -inch clock-drive telescope I can easily see the three major divisions, and usually from five to six moons. Saturn is about three-fourths of a bll lion miles out, but the huge sombrero-ring is 171,000 miles across making it easily visible in small telescopes.

However, as the astronomy bug bites deeper, you will soon want to know more about stars, star-clusters, globulars, nebulae and the Great Galaxies that wheel around in the eons of time and space. Half Million Suns If you like pretty star-pat terns, I can think of none better than M-16 in the Constellation Scutum or, the Globular Cluster M-22 in Sagittarius, or the great Globular Cluster in Hercules (where the earth, the sun and all our planets) are headed at the rate of 43,000 miles per hour. There are probably a halfmillion suns in M-13 (and no doubt planets by the thousands); but they are 34,000 light-years from us. (Note: 1-light-year is miles). Anyone writing on astronomy is not limited by data, but is over-loaded by the embarrassment of riches! Actually, I feel that I am a multi-jillionaire I hardly know where to begin.

I could tell you about stars that are fantastically big, or their atmospheres are only 000 the density of our air, or. stars that are so dense that a cubic inch would weigh mfie than a bulldozer (14,000 lbs. per cubic inch). There seems to no limit to the sizes, kinds, colors and densities of stars. Our Island Universe (The Milky-Way Galaxy) and there are millions of them -I contains over 100 billion Suns (or Stars) and planets by the hundreds of millions.

Now, just think, we have only Russian Teacher Won't Quit Garlic MOSCOW (UPI) Pupils at a high school in Shushino, Azerbaijan Repubic, complained to the principal because their instructor eats garlic every day. The Teachers Gazette, a Moscow newspaper, reported on the crises in grade 4A caused by the strange fondness for garlic of teacher F. G. Ruzanov. The chi-Jren complain the odious odor of garlic deprives them of the opportunity to sit quietly in the classroom and makes them hurry to get out in the fresh air, the newspaper said.

Ordered to quit eating the stuff, Ruzanov replied, I ate, am eating and will continue to eat garlic. As a result, the newspaper con-eluded, "The gad aioma still reigns in the sfhoot as an stubbornness an lack of culture. Students and professors from North and South America and the Caribbean area will be meet mg during June and July this year in Trinidad, West Indies, for a seminar sponsored by the 'Canadian and West Indian committees of the World Unhersity Ser Neighbors Now the space that I have just been talking about is only the space between stars that are within our own Milky Way Galaxy. and, of course, other galax-ies, too. Galaxies are on the average seperated by about light years from each other, and they in turn swarm in huge clouds of galaxies known as "Super-Galaxies, such as the Virgo Super-Galaxy.

But lets Just let the Astrophysists" and Coa-mologists worry about all that There is too much to get around to in our local area with our; dandy little telescopes. It's all beautiful, refreshing and wholesome for sure. you have a telescope (or plan to build or buy one) please contact me as soon as possible, as we are in the process of fomw ing an Amateur Astronomical Society of Escondido. The deadline for registering with the Sky and Telescope (A Harvard Observa tory Publication) is the end of this month. So hurry if you are interested.

You will also be a charter member, and we will also -be registered with the Western Amateur Astronomers, As Summer Sings TORONTO (UPI) Eskimo igloos with electric lights, radios and even refrigerators are giving the Canadian Arcti; a new look. It's part of a program by the North Rankin Nickel Mines to adapt Eskimo labor to mechanical jobs at the companys operations at Rankin Inlet in the Northwest Territory. According to Ths Northern Miner, a Canadian mining publication, the experiment has been highly successful with the Eskimos doing well at the jobs given them. 1 Produce Oddities -But the contact with civilization has prompted some oddities in mining camp life, as told by the newspaper: "North Rankin officials (have) built 19 three-room housing units which are being sold Eskimo employes at cost (but) not all Eskimos are interested in living in white fan's type of bousing and there is still a sizeable number of both company employes and other Eskimos at Rankin Inlet who prefer to live rent-free in igloos in the winter and in skin-tents in the summer. "Inside igloos, The Northern Miner found the oddest assortment of purchases made by the nouveau riche of the North.

With no bills for electrical power, freely supplied by the mine, electric lighting is commonplace even in some nearby igloos. A large number of Eskimos own radios and delight any kind of noise which th squeaking boxes produe; others keep screeching record player in constant operation. Not Much Comoetition "Akho there is not yet too "ASTRO-GUIDE" For Sunday, Present For You and Yours Form your own opinions instead of letting your impressions of people be influenced by what others say. Give personal and family affairs priority in your schedule as some areas of activity need adjustment. Accent is on future plans and distant connections.

Aspects are almost universally favorable. Past On July 26, 1788, New Yor accepted the U.S. Constitution and became a state. but action was nearly defeated by land owners who feared higher taxation (a suspicion which, time reveals, was not wholly a SATURDAY JULY 25, 1959 much competition among refrigerator salesmen in the Arctic, two Eskimo mine employes have actually purchased them. In the case of head-Esklmo Sheenik-took the mine manager suspects that the purchase was made only to show that if the white man can have a cold-box, the Eskimo can have one, too.

"Other Eskimos have imported washing machines, large electric clocks, and most cf them now use frying pans, electric kettles and even percolators. Hudson Bay Company "Altho most local needs are supplied by the Hudson Bay trading post, with nearest competition nearly a thousand miles a way, Eskimo miners arc quickly learning to use mail order catalogues and make their purchases thru the mine offce directly from southern department stores. "While the Eskimos are anxious to learn everything they can from the white man, they refuse to imitate his eating habits. They despise ham and beef, but supplement their caribou meat and fish diet with canned vegetables. They delight in carbonated drinks and have exhausted in four months a years supply of pop stocked by the Hudson Bay post.

Theres no limit on your stay at privately owned guest-castles in Germany. About forty of these survive, ranging in age from 50 to 1,000 years, in price from a bout $4.50 a day and up, everything included, says Holiday magazine. Moated boardingcastles also take paying guests in lom-cost Austria, for as little as $2.30 day. By Ceean July 26 Future Vtl soon be importing ball point pens that glow in the dark. Weve written over butter and under water, so why not in the dark? LIBRA Sept.

23 to Oct. 22) Yon can find the answer to year prob-km prayer. Try it SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) Prepare for he coming week, leaving everything in order for clean start.

SAGITTARIUS Nor. 72 to Dee. 21 Be generous, but not if your sole aun it to impress others. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan.

20) Yctr are very fluent, so express your. --h frtelT 4t athenng AQUARIUS (Jaw. 2 to Feb. 19) Make wry minute count as radiations are too good to let them go to waste. PISCES fFefc.

20 March 20 1 Use aa imaginative approach to yeurjeb instead of staying tt the same old rut W) lO'O FtrM Fntprnnon, Tnc. WASHINGTON Scientists listening to the heavens with radio telescopes report the sun roars in bums, while the moon rustles softly The Milky Way the galaxy to which the sun and its planets belong hisses steadily. All the sounds resemble tae rushing "hash that irritates- ladio listeners sometimes, but to scientists it ia the music of the spheres. The sounds from space have given astronomers a wholly new tool for learning about the cosmos, the National Geographic Society says. No one knew the noise existed until 1931 when a telephone engineer made the startling discovery that some radio static originated in the Milky Way, about 26,000 light-years from the earth.

Find Invisible 'Stars A wave of discovery lollowed. Astronomers found that Mars, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn also send out radio waves. And there are sources of radio waves that are invisible with optical telescopes. Some 2.000 such "stars have been located. Thcit nature is unknown.

A powerful transmitter is the Crab Nebula, a star that exploded violently 900 years ago and is now a rapidly expanding blob of gas. Even more spectacular is Cygnus the scene of stupendous collision of galaxies, each a mighty system of stars and gas. The stars are bypassing each other with minor disturbances, but the gase are meet ing violently and producirg radio waves. Radio telescopes come in several shapes. Some look like huge saucers aimed at the sky.

The dish shape of the antennae helps concentrate the sound. Usually, the bigger the dish, the fainter the sounds that can be heard. Great Britain unveiled a 250-foot monster antenna in a cow pasture in 1957. The Soviet Union reportedly has a 350-foot titan in operation. The United States Navy is building cne bigger sllU a colossus more than 400 feet across in a quiet pocket of the West Virginia mountains.

The scientists hope to gather six billion light-years in space three times as far as the most powerful optical telescopes can reach. Seek Universe Origin Radio telescopes may eventually give scientists the observations they need to between two conflicting theories about the origin of the universe. Some astrononrs believe the universe was created in a great cosmic 'explosion billions of years ago. Others hold the universe is in a steady state, with new galaxies constantly being born. Both theories present astonishing facets.

The so-called "big bang theory holds tha' the present chemical constitution of the universe was decided iiv half an hour five billion years ago. The "steady-state theory argues that the universe had no beginning and will have no end, rhat space well as time is infinite, and that matter is continually being created thruout space. The arguments for and against the theories are complex, involving, among other things, Ein By CLETA CLEMMER 204 East Second Street Escondido Behold, a matron of beauty and grace! Majestically she walks upon the earth, Her smiles reflecting patterns of rare lace. Revealing their ageless intristic worth. Euduring torrid waves of heat that sear, Summer gallantly ings to ease her pain; Thirsting, she splasher color far, and near, Patiently waiting the long-needed rain.

Diligently she adds a gem each day, Her crown to rival the sun, how it glows! Flooding the fertile earth" and hard highway: Proudly she wears it, secretly she knows Soon she must retire to her citadel; Bowing low, she enters in. All is well! For Monday, July 27 Presenf For You and Yours Sundays benefic influences continue, denoting that things will turn out just as you want them to if you make the necessary effort to see the right people. Dont underestimate the importance of gaining the approval of others. In the evening, radiations suggest reading new material pertaining to your Signs of the Time By MRS. BESSIE STONE Route One, Box 703 Escondido if St Past-'- the first strike is said to have occurred in ancient Rome, about 309 B.C, when a Greek flute player called a strike because members of his band wereni allowed to eat their noon meals in the temple where they were performing.

By Ceean Future Jet travel eventually will be less expensive than regular air travel, due to larger pay loads. Week-ends in Europe will some day be a common holiday trip. LIBRA (Sept. 23 to pet. 22) 4,4 News may reach you.

but don't until youve checked the source. News may reach you, but don't relay it SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 27) Short cut fa your work will kee you from winding up the day ower-Ured. SAGITTARIUS (Nov.

22 to Dee. 1 Dont rely too much on tuck. Eftort is the only sure rcute to success. CAPRICORN (Dee. 22 to Jan.

20) Dont fret if things move too slowly for you. Patience as a true virtue. AQUARIUS fs Feb. T9) Dont make vital decisions ow that will affect your prestige or career PISCES Fek 20 Jo Marti. 20) The adage Dont crpect anything end you wont be disappointed' was never truer than new! Field Tnc.

The Day Under Your Sign The Day Under Your Sign Sputniks strange have some to cur land. But we have strength, against them to stand. Missiles and flying saucers flash thru the air While great fire balls around us roll To raise our very hair. Kings are tottering on their thrones, Hearts of brave men fail. Investments winds rage with the storm Followed by failures hail.

Fear not, brave and dauntless world Hold tight to every hope, Keep afloat and struggle on. Well reach the life line rope. Dauntless courage will never fail No matter what the test, Altho the blackest doubts arise Well do our very best. The silvered shafts of sunlight Will soon stream thru the sky. Then all these things well soon forget As back the good times fly.

ARIES (Bom Marefi2l to April f9) ThereV nothin like a fnendir chat to create more cheerful outlook on life. TAURUS April 20 Jo May 20) Do tome research wavs to improve your tJb statue and earning GEMINI M.y2t J. Juw2f) Good contact arc particularly valuable. Dont hesitate to ask lor belpt CANCER Jim. 22 Jo July 2T) Dont attend a gathering that yoe feel will not be to your taste.

LEO (July 22 to-Aug. 2tl This is routine day. Catch ftp cw odds and ends. VIRGO Auq. 22 Jo S.pJ.

22) Listen to pimcns, but make op you own tntnd based on knowledge and etc- cumstances. ARIES (Bom March 21 to April 17) Bo realistic. Dont be lulled into tense of false security by cver-optumscL TAURUS (April 20 to May 2C) Dont be a Go fwt and have a food tune with the crowd. GEMINI (May 21 to June 21) Mmgle freely and you 11 gradually over coma a tendency to be too reserved. CANCER (Jum 22 to July 2 1 You'll feel refreshed if ven a on it teei retresred if vea part of tha day to inspirata dfng LEO (July 22 Aug.

2l A bright week is ahead. retire will increase steadily. VIRGO 22 Follow your impulses, provide they an discreet. Chooe ssocate careiully. vice, 4.