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The Science Fiction Fan, v. 4, issue 10, whole no. 46, May 1940
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FAN.................................................................................19 [Large illustration of mice riding a spaceship or rocket. Title and illustration printed in blue and red ink. Text and image take up half the page.] Sidelight in "Skow" by James S. Avery (This article was written before Avery was forced out of the fan field - you know that story). It recently occurred to me that it might interest a few fans to learn about a little-known, but active rocket society one-time exist-ing in Skowhegan. To be more exact, it went by the rather tongue-wearying title of the "Skowhegan Junior Astronomical and Rocket Society" or the SJARS for short. The society was formed late in 1936 by four stargazers, three of whom were science-fiction fans. Since then, all but myself have left sciencefiction for various reasons of their own. Among the club activities during its brief year and a half of existence was the carrying on of correspondence with a prominent British astro-nomical society, rocket talks and experiments, and the erection of a quasi-observatory on a fair
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FAN.................................................................................19 [Large illustration of mice riding a spaceship or rocket. Title and illustration printed in blue and red ink. Text and image take up half the page.] Sidelight in "Skow" by James S. Avery (This article was written before Avery was forced out of the fan field - you know that story). It recently occurred to me that it might interest a few fans to learn about a little-known, but active rocket society one-time exist-ing in Skowhegan. To be more exact, it went by the rather tongue-wearying title of the "Skowhegan Junior Astronomical and Rocket Society" or the SJARS for short. The society was formed late in 1936 by four stargazers, three of whom were science-fiction fans. Since then, all but myself have left sciencefiction for various reasons of their own. Among the club activities during its brief year and a half of existence was the carrying on of correspondence with a prominent British astro-nomical society, rocket talks and experiments, and the erection of a quasi-observatory on a fair
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