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Those who received scholarships are: Robert K. Bingham '48, Albert R. Childs '49, Charles R. Conklin '48, Frank H. David '49, Joseph D. Everingham '49, Leon W. Green '48, John E. Kneisel '48, James B. Field '47, Richard L. Johnson '47, Richard G. Kleindieust '47, Donald H. Miller '47, Richard...
When Albert C. Childs first went to Mount Wilson in 1922, the mountaintop was owned by James H. Holmes, whose daughter Childs had met and married in Hawaii. The observatory, for which the Carnegie Institution had leased 15 acres for $1 a year, was required by its lease to keep...
Childs cut down hotel expenses, improved the toll road, built a swimming pool and picnic grounds, and advertised. He soon had the hotel in the black. When hotel guests began asking questions about astronomy, Childs built a lecture room, bought a twelve-inch telescope, and began giving evening lectures in...
Wartime gas rationing almost shut down the business temporarily. But since the war, Mount Wilson has taken on new importance. Both television and FM depend on line-of-sight broadcasting, and Mount Wilson is the most accessible clear peak in Southern California. Childs has already sold 320 acres to broadcasting...
With this new drawing card, Mount Wilson will probably get more visitors than ever before. But 65-year-old Albert Childs hopes not to be there to greet them. After 24 years on his mountain (with only two ten-day vacations), he thinks it is time "to go down off...