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Pa4ge FAg,S THE MOUNT VERNON, IOWA, HA'tVKEYE-RECORD AND THE LISBON HERAId) Thursday, November j |.ill . ii ill . l lm i i The Land Of Sunshine By F. M. McGaw Interesting Visit To Mount Wilson Conservatory In recent years the observant reader has seen many notices of the casting of a large piece of glass at Corning, New York, to be used for a new telescope being constructed on Mount Palomar in Southern California. These references have produced a sort of astronomical consciousness in the populace. We have become reconciled to what are called "astronomical figures" and "astronomical expenditures" in these days because we take it for granted that we have truly a new deal in all departments of life. There is a thrill in trailing billions and trillions into one's conversa- tion. I remember as a ~boy in learn- ing to write checks, I experimented e's PHONE 4312 MOUNT VERNON Deliveries at 9 and 11 a.m.; 2 and 5 p.m. Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Artichokes, each 10e Pears, dozen 35e Cranberries, lb tPc Avocado,s, large, each 1Pc Endive, at its best 8c Jersey Sweet Spu&% 7 lbs 25c Cauliflower, h ~td, 15c to 23c TomatOeS, Ib 8c Pascal Celery, blmch 10c Radishes, bunch 5c Cucumbers, each 8c Bru~,~eU Sl)rOuts, 1 quart 21c Tokay Graims, 2 pounds 15c Pink GraI~efruit, 6 for 25c Oranges, Calif. Juice, ,~ dozen 19c, 29c, 33c, 39c Hubbard Squash, Lettuce, De- licious Apples, Cabbage, On- ions, Idaho Baking Potatoes. BIRDSEYE ]~RO S~PED FRUITS AND VEGETABLES Week-End Grocery Specials Brazil Nuts, lb 18c I~'amily Mix Salted Nuts, pound 13c Bunte's Bridge Mix, Chocolate Nuts, pound i lsc Monarch Krumbled Kernel Peanut Butter, 1 lb jar 21c Spam, Lunch 3rleat, can 25c PINEAPPLE, Dessert Cuts or Cr~tshed, No. 2~ can 21c I,'RUIT COCKTAIL, reg. 17c 2 cans 27e GWC Garden Run Peas, 2 ean.s 25c ~onarch Imrge Sweet ]Peas, 2 cans 27c COFI~E, All popular brands, 2 lb can 49c Heinz Bread & Butter Pickles, Jar 23c Cr(~s & Blw~kwell Onion or Noodle Soup, large cans, 2 fur 25c ~Vheatie~% 2 pkgs 23c Wheat Gernb can 20c Graham Crackers, 2 Ibs 23c T. C. Pancake Flour, 5 lb bag 15c ~[onarch Gelatin, 4 pkgs 19c ~Ionarch l~rge Prnnes, 2 lb pkg 25c Hershey's Chocolate, ~'6 lb pkg 13c Bleached Raisins, plqg 12c ~iorton's ,%alt, 2 tubes 17c ~ot Towels, 2 pkgs 23c lvory Soap, 3 large, 1 meal. 31c P & G ,~rmp, 5 bars 19e Jay Granulated ~ap, ~ 15e and MARKET DIAL 3121 MO JNT VERNON, IOWA PERKO COFFEE, V ac Packed, lb 15c HORTENING, 39c Jewel, 3 Ib can OYSTER box23C CRACKERS 2 Ib MACARONI AND SPAGHETTI, 2 lbs 15c CHeF 15c 13c SUGAR, 2 lbs NAVY BF- NS, 19c 4 pounds LONGHORN CHEESE, Ib 19c OATMEAL, Quick or Reg. 5 lb bag PEACHES, Golden City, 2 can 10c MARSHMALLOWS, 1 lb pkg 1 lc SHUEYVILLE O'7 SORGHUM, Gal O, OCCIDENT $1 55 FLOUR, 49 lbs . RAISINS, Thomp- son Seedless, 2 ibs 15c CHILE, Van Camps, 1/t 1 pound can IUc NORTHERN qC TISSUE, 5 Rolls LoC CLEANSER, Light House, 3 cans IUc CRANBERRIES, Quart 17 GRAPEFRUIT 10for 25c PORK SAUSAGE Lean, pound 15c you about introductory offer on New and Improved JAY Granulated Soap?" COUPON This coupon and 15c entitles holder to one regular 23c carton JAY GRANULATED SOAP--Richer in cocoanut oil for suds---made by improved flak- ing process for quicker suds. Take This Coupon To the Following Dealers MT. VERNON STORES Pringles Kalibans Clover Farm Store Dilley's Josephine's City Meat Market LISBON STORES City Market Kaliban's Clover Farm Store Fouse Grocery Sankot Grocery West End Lunch and Station Jaynes soap and Chemical Co. 1 MT. WILSON OBSERVATORY in writing a check for one thousand r of glass was removed from the disc, i dollars to a fictitious friend. It was I a ~tisfactory surface was obtained. :a harmless, extravagant school ex- ]This was covered with a silver film l ercise then. The tyro in bookkeep- ]for reflection. ing now-a-days would sniff at aI Mr. Andrew Carnegie was then teacher's assignment which dealt in ] interested in the matter, and he such mediocre amounts! I provided funds for the purchase This article is intended to dis- Hand erection of the machinery. The , cuss telescopes and some of the I machinery for dome and tube were [ revelations coming from them. Es- made in Massachusetts and shipped pecial reference is to the installs-]around Cape Horn to California. tion on Mount Wilson, just above t The total cost of the instrument Pasadena. and its dome has exceeeded $600,- Some readers will doubtless know of the progress made in America in producing lenses and relating in- struments. It may be pardoned, however, if the writer ignores all that and proceeds to write about the matter. Dr. George E. Hale was Director of the Yerkes Observatory belong- ing to University of Chicago, and situated at Williams Bay in Wis- cousin. Considerable interest had been aroused in the question of the amount of radiation from our sun, whether it was constant or var- ied from time to time. Dr. Hale felt that if a telescope could ,be set up somewhere above clouds and mist, and where fairly uniform weather conditions might be enjoyed, much could be learned which would be important in science. SELECT MT. WILSON SITE Sites in several western states were investigated as well as pro- posed locations in Australia and South America. Finally Mount Wil- son in California was decided upon. This mountain is north of Pasa- dena, and has an elevation of a lit- tle over 6,000 feet. Careful ob- servations showed that one could depend upon having well over 250 observing nights in the year. It has turned out that almost 300 days in the year are available for as- tronomical work there. There are no storms with precipitation on Mount Wilson from May to October, ~nd through the winter months days and nights are clear enough for definite work. There is heavy snow during the nights, sometimes amounting to six or seven feet in total precipitation. In the winter of 1903-4, with a three-inch telescope Dr. Hale made a continuous series of tests on the mountain, and was convinced that it was a favorable site for a suit- able installation. The next thing was to get a grant of money for the purpose. The Carnegie Insti- tution of Washington made such a grant, and work was begun. GLASS DISGS ARE I~EAT OF ENGINEERING SKILL In this article a detailed history of progress is hardly Int~ place, therefore we shall be brief and deal with the most noteworthy achieve- ments. The first installation of note was the transfer from Yerkes of the Snow Telescope. This was a horizontal telescope given by Miss Helen Snow. It was designed ex- clusively for work on the sun, studying its heat and light and other radiation. Results were so satisfying that it was felt that a larger reflecting type telescope would greatly increase the efficien- cy of the plant. Accordingly a Tower telescope was erected with a lens of 60 feet focus. W~lth one of these an image of the sun about 17 inches in diameter can be form- ed. The day I was privileged to go in- to the work room and see the image of the sun, there were two groups of splendid sun-spots visible. The regular program of the Tower is to automatically each four minutes take a picture of the sun's image. In this way a library of over 70,- 000 pictures of the sun in regular sequence has been built up, and it is estimated that this will be suffic- ient for some time for study of the sun and its surface changes. Dr. Hale built largely at his own expense a laboratory and workshop in Pasadena on Santa Barbara Street, and this has since become the general workshop and offices of the Mount Wilson Observatory as a part of the Carnegie Institution. In this shop all the remainder of the equipment with exception of some of tbe very large mountings of the telescopes have been made and finished. The important pieces of appar- atus are two telescopes both of re- flecting type, one having a mirror 60 inches in diameter, and the other having a mirror of 100 inches in diameter. The general reader may not realize the size of thes~ pieces of glass, nor their weight, unless he is informed that 100 inches means almost nine feet. Think of a round disc of glass nine feet in diameter, and 18 inches thick with a beautiful mirror sur- face in which there is not a varia- tion from the supposed true curve of as much as one-twenty-thou- sandth of an inch. To make that was a feat of human engineering skill. Anyone who has stood be- fore a really fine mirror may have a faint conception of the great 100- inch. As we drove up to the en- trance gate and paid the toll fee for the car, the gate keeper said, "The 100-inch will be open for visitors at 2:30 this afternoon." People here speak of the "100- inch" as one of the wonders. One should have a picture of this 000. GREAT WEIGHT IS CAR~RIED BY FIKEPATION The telescope as it stands now, weighs 200 tons. The dome adds another 100 tons. It was thought that such an enormous weight on the bearings would produce so much friction that very qnickly the wear on the bearings would militate against aecnracy. Therefore a flo- tation system was devised. Each i bearing supports ten tons directly, ,the other ninety tons being sup- ported the flotation. The float- by ing medium is mercury. Two hun- dred tons of mercury are used in the system. My attention was called to the fact that everything about this telescope runs in hundreds. Motors are used to move the telescope to point to different parts of the sky. A motor of three and one half horse power is the prime mover; and dur- ing observations in order to keep the line of sight trained accurately on a celestial object a motor of about one-eighth horse power maintains a constant movement to counteract the effect of the earth's rotation. We all know that the earth moves on its axis at a regular rate, and therefore objects are displayed in the sky an amount of 15 min- utes of are during one minute of clock time. Mounted on the mainI axis of the telescope is a large gear ' wheel 17 feet in diameter with teeth cut in its circumference. There is one tooth for each minute of time, and therefore 1440 of them altogether for a complete revolu- tion through one day. These teeth had to be exactly accurate, so ac- curate that after the 1440 teeth had been cut the cutting device must fall precisely in the first tooth cut. The expert workman from the l Pasadena shop set up his gear cut- ter, and he was told that if his work varied as much as one-five-thou- sandth of an inch from truth, the wheel would have to be rejected and a new one cast. He set to work, and cut his teeth. When the result was tested, he was "out" less than one-one hundred thousandth of an inch. That is surely some engineering." The 100-inch telescope is used entirely for photographic observa- tions. The photographic films of today are far more sensitive than the human eye, and it is by photo- graphic means that the wonderful pictures of the depths of space are obtained. Exposure time runs into many hours, sometimes as much as one hundred. The reader will ask, "How can an exposure of one hundred hours be made when a day has only 24 hours in it." The answer is in the gear wheel just described. The telescope is run for an observing night, then stopped, and the next light start- ]ed again just where it left off. The photographic image is perfect, which it would not be if that gear wheel were as much as one-five thousandth of an inch defective in one of the teeth. State Regent Speaks At D.A.R. Meeting Balliet chapter D.A.R. had the~ pleasure of entertaining three state officers of the organization at their meeting on Wednesday eve- ning. Mrs. O. S. Von E:rog, state regent, of Eldora; Mrs. C. A. Gar- lock, state auditor, of Ft. Dodge; and Mrs. R. P. Ink, state historian and a member of the local chapter. A dinner at the Baker house at 6:00 o'clock honored the state officers, who were presented flowers. Mrs. lYon Krog was presented a gift from the chapter. Following the dinner the group adjourned to the home of M'rs. Ink where they were joined by 35 friends for the meet- ing. Mrs. Von Krog addressed the members and guests during the I evening, and several selections were sung by a male quartet from Cor- nell college, including Gordon Myers, Eugene Ferris Edgar Schmiel, Robert Grunewald. Mrs. Edwin A. Bradford of New York City is expected to arrive Fri- day to be the guest of Dr. and Mrs. Francis F. Ebersole. Too Late To Classify Turn to Page 7-fore'Regular Classified Ad ,~ct~on FOR SALE: Five good Hamp- shire boars also one yearling Berk- shire boar. Reasonable prices. Rex Brady, Mt. Vernon. 2-p FOR SALE--Modern house. For Rent and sale, farm. G. G. Wolfe, agent. 2-p FOR SALE: Having installed a coal stoker, a Thermostatic draft instrument to look at as he reads control and time clock for sale. John B. Bryant, phone 2761. 2-2tp cottage home, a dandy, all on one floor, new oak floors, all for $1400. Can deliver in thirty days. J.N. Kyle. about it, and I am asking Mr. Mc- Cutcheon to print one for us. The start of this mirror was the inter- est that Mr. John D. Hooker, a business man, took in the enter- prise. He gave a preliminary gift of $45,000 to defray the cost of get- ting the piece of glass from France. No one in America could make such a casting. The disc arrived and was 101 inches in diameter. After six years of work in grinding and polishing in the shop in Pasa- dena, during which more than a ton 2p --~(()RYGAGE PROTECTION. Life I Insurance can safeguard your in- vestment against mortgage fore- closure, so ALL your property will go to your family. Get information on this plan. Ralph V. 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Raymond Mallie Yield Of 114 Bushels Entered In Contest A certified corn yield of 114 bushels per acre, harvested by Raymond Mallie on his farm north of Mount Vernon, has been enter- ed in the 1940 DeKatb national corn growing contest. DeKalb 606 seed was used. George Vislisel has entered the contest with a yield of 109 bushels to the acre. Market Reports Hogs, Chicago top $6.50 Cattle, Chicago top $14.75 Sheep, Chicago top $9.75 Hogs, Cedar Rapids top $5.90 Chicago Grain Corn, per bu 60%c Wheat, per bu 84 %c Carter, Oats, per ,bu 34 e Two Great Shows This Week TONIGHT - FRIDAY -SATURDAY One of the finest pictures ever made. The story of a great American, a great guy, a great coach, a great picture--- THE BIG SHOW OF THE SEASON MARCH OF TIME AND CARTOON SUNDAY, MONDAY, MATINEE, SUNDAY, 2:30 SUNDAY EVENING SHOWS 6:30 and 8:30 The popular players of "Victoria the Great" in another fine his- torical pK~ure of tile life and times of E~gland's famons Queen Victoria. 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