ASTRONOMY NOTES ;
By OLAF HALVERSON
Of outstanding significance this
fall is the prominence of the red
planet Mars. This planet has been j
remote and inconspicuous for two
years. Now it is playing an out
standing role in the starry celes
tial sphere.
Early in the evening you can
see this red planet low down in
the northeastern sky at seven
o’clock. By nine or ten o’clock
it is higher up and in an easterly
direction. It so happens that it
can this year be easily .located
from the position of the constella
tion called the Pleiades or Seven
Little Sisters.
The Pleiades are a smal clus
ter of stars arranged like a small
dipper. Mars is located a short
distance below the Pleiades which
makes it very easy to locate this
interesting, fast moving planet.
The superstitious people in' an
cient times believed that Mars
was a foreboding of war and
strife.
HI-GLOSS HEN —
WPNNE, Ark., UP>—Mrs. Claude
Brawler put a nice fat hen in
the oven to bake, then dashed
off to the beauty parlor.
When she returned, she took
down a pint jar which she thought
about basting the bird.
Ever taste varnished hen?
Mother Of Three
Wins Utah Horse
Racing Marathon
ROOSEVELT, Utah, (#! — A 32
year-old mother of three children,
Dorothy Luck, won a 140-mile
horse race yesterday in tradi
tional style — by a nose.
Mrs. Luck’s thoroughbred edged
a part-Arabian, part-thorough
bred ridden by Bryan Branthorne
of Elm John, Utah, by half a sec
ond in the race from Salt lake
City to this eastern Utah com
munity.
The Roosevelt, uftih, woman
was in the saddle for 16 hours.
Some 50 horses started, but
many dropped out.
Mrs. Luck earned a $3,000 first
prize.
H.S.T. Declares GOP
Admin. Brought Recession
CHEYENNE, Wyo., W — Reces
sion and unemployment have been
brought by the Republican Party
to almost every state in the
union, former President Harry S.
Truman charged in a speech at
Cheyenhe Wednesday night.
Truman said, “The truth about
this Republican administration
is apparent in a stagnant econ
omy and a lagging national
defense.”
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Spiritual Truths
Gleaned From
The News
Contributed By
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From LeTourneau Tech’s Now
The Piano Technicians Guild,
Inc., held its first annual conven
tion recently in New York City.
A professional piano techni
cian who was present said the
trouble with piano tuning as a
profession is that it may destroy
love of good music.
“I don’t listen to music much
anymore,” he sadly admitted.
“I’ve been, more or less, spoiled
by piano tuning, I guess.”
| He explained that he literally
hears vibrating waves rather than
musical sounds. That is the way
modern piano tuners work.
By this “equal tempered” meth
od of tuning, pianos can be tuned
down to the precise vibration,
“closer than any human ear can
distinguish.” It all works into a
t mathematical pattern of vibra
tions.
The tuner said, “I don’t hear
the musical note, I hear the vibra
tions that it creates. When the
church bell rings, I hear vibra
tions that shake the furniture.
It’s terrible!”
This confession makes us won
der if something similar doesn’t
happen to cronic critics of preach
ers. Instead of seeing a messen
ger of the Lord, they are criti
cizing the man’s personality, his
clothes, his mannerisms, his voice
and his grammar. And as the
piano tuner said about the ring
ing of the church bell, “it’s ter
rible!”
When a certain preacher was
told by a parishioner how many
grammatical errors he had made
in delivering his message, he
said, “I am sorry, for I want to
be exact in what I say; but on
the other hand, God saves sinners
by grace, not by grammar. What
about the message itself. “Oh,”
said the destructive critic, the
message — uh, uh, I didn’t get it.”
He, so to speak, was listening
for vibrations, instead of hearing
and believing the gospel message
that “God so loved the world, that
He gave his only begotten Son,
that whosoever believeth in Him
should not perish, but have ever
lasting life.”
“Incline your ear, and come
unto Me; hear and your soul shall
live,” said the Lord through the
prophet (Isaah 55:3).
Yugoslav Coal Mine
Disaster Kills 27
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, OP) —
An explosion in a coal mine at
Pevdis has taken the lives of 27
miners and two others are miss
ing, the government announced
Thursday. One hundred and forty
other miners have been brought
up alive.
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