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Show For Better or For Worse By Lynn Johnston The Sail Lake Tribune Ask Andy Saturday, June C7 25, 1983 Process of Vision Is Like a Camera Andy tend the (tar Wars Question and Answer Book About Space to Grace Benjoj. min, 14, Rock Island, III, tor her question: How do we iee? Vision is the ability of the eye to form an image of an object and send Jordan Board Approves Pay Contracts Special to The Tribune The Jordan Board of Education approved contracts for classified and administrative employees this week. Pay increases will be provided only to those employees who receive Increments and lane changes (job advancements) and to lunch workers, who will receive a 2 percent raise. The district also will pay the increased costs of health insurance. Among classified employees are secretaries, bus drivers, janitors, lunch workers and others who are not professional educators. The school board also agreed to award diplomas marked "special to handicapped students who complete individual education plans instead of regular high school graduation requirements. In other matters, the board: Approved a beginning string program in violin, viola and cello for sixth graders in 17 elementary schools in the northeast part of the district. Community residents will be hired temporarily on a part-tim- e basis for the classes, which will be offered twice a week during the school day and once a week after SANDY Aiinle By Leonard Starr HOW'S IT COMING, ANNIE' ALL PACKER "PAPPY" MR. HOX ALREAPY m TAKEN MY BAGS DOWN Apartment AN'JUBE FINISHER E- H- J NAVE AFRAIP YOUlL M TO CHANGE INTO PRESSlN' IN Fy 60ME ROUGHER CLOTHES. MINI TP i ;51ST1 By Alex Kotzky 3-- G DO YOU KNOW WHAT WORRIES ME, LU ANN? THE POOR MAN'S TERRIBLY VULNERABLE AT THIS POINT IN HIS LIFE. HAVING LOST A WIFE AND DAUGHTER'! PERHAPS YOU SHOULD TELL HIM THAT JULIA AND MARIA COULDN'T POSSIBLY FILL THAT VOID f Judge Parker By Paul Nichols IAEANVMHILEJ AWRFY T.M TFRHIHLV SORPTY THAT WE WON'T BE ABLE TO MAKE IT NEXT TUESDAY I RAYMOND HAS SOME SORT OF A BUSINESS MEETING! - the image to the visual centers of the braia The process is very much like taking a picture with a camera. With vision, light rays from the object pass through the cornea, the aqueous humor, the pupil, the lens and the vitreous humor, and finally reach the retina. When light hits the cells of the retina, they stimulate the nerve cells. The optic nerve carries the message to the visual cortex, or seeing part of the brain. When light rays hit the curved surface of the cornea, they are partially bent toward each other. This bending of light rays as they pass from one substance to the substance of different density is called refraclight-sensiti- After leaving the cornea, the light passes through the aqueous humor, then through the pupil. The iris regulates the amount of light that enters the eye by changing the size of the pupil. If dim light enters, the pupil expands to admit more light. If the light is bright, the pupil contracts to shut out unnecessary glare. Light rays that pass through the pupil bend toward each other still more as they pass through the curved surfaces of the lens. After passing through the vitreous humor, the rays hit the retina. The point where the light rays should meet is called the locus. If the focus is located on the retina, a clear image is produced. But if the focus falls behind or in front of the retina, the image will be blurred -- B ARIES MAR. 21 motion-pictur- e TAURUS I Awards so to boys and girls 7 to 17 when their question or answered In the Atk Andy column. Send your question on a post cord to Ask Andy, The Salt Lake Tribune, P.O. Box 847, Salt Lake Ctty, Utah 84110. X CLAY R POLLAN- - Your Daily Activity Guide LIBRA JM i According to the Stars To develop message for Saturday, read words corresponding to numbers of your Zodiac birth sign By C. H. Uoren and Omai vulnerable, as South you hold KJ95 VK1073 0AQJ9S Partner opens the bidding with one spade What do you respond? as Q. 9 Both vulnerable, South you hold. 1054 S7KJ3 0 7 4KQJ853 The bidding has proceeded-NortEast South West 1 Paso 2 Past ? 2 0 Pm What do you bid now? Q.l-- As South, vulnerable. Q.l-B- oth you hold. K87 t?KJ4 Q.5-- OQ98 410765 2 4 Pass T What action do you take Neither vulnerable, as South you hold: A7 VAQ10762 0 A 410762 The bidding has proceeded: North East South West 1 4 Pass Pass 2 ? 2 NT Pass What do you bid now? Q. 4 4K93 7Q854 0AQ1063 49 The bidding has proceeded. North East South West I 4 I 0 Pass Pas I NT Pass 7 What action do you lake? NOT. 21 - Three plague deaths have been reported thus far this year, the first such deaths in 20 years. SAGITTARIUS MAT 21 NOT JUNE 20 DEC 4 5l r CAPRICORN JUNE 21 DEC JULT JAN. . IF 22 WALLACE, Idaho (AP) agreement - Helca joint-ventu- re with AMAX Explo- ration Inc. for exploration and mining in Judith Basin and Cascade Counties, Mont., officials said Wednesday. The Hughesville Project in AMAXs Barker mining district will include exploration for base and reclous metals on the Queen of the E ills vein, a spokesman said. n 5 AQUARIUS LEO m KM AUS. 22 88 4f" PISCES VIRGO AtG.22 'M SEPT. MAR. 20 22 2- 362-70-83-8- 31 7 6 If' ML SATURDAY HOURS: O The Arizona Health Services De partment has awarded a $3,000 contract to the Fish and Wildlife Service to conduct blood tests on coyotes and foxes trapped in northern and eastern Arizona. The animals are trapped regularly under a program to aid ranchers in the control of predators. LADIES1 SPORTSWEAR Special to The Tribune RICHFIELD Royalty will be named Saturday night in two major pageants in southern Utah. The Miss Richfield Pageant will be held Saturday in the Richfield High School auditorium with 12 girls seeking the crown, while the Miss Wayne County Pageant will also be Saturday in the Wayne High School ' auditorium, BickneU. Winner of the Miss Richfield Pageant, along with two attendants, will reign over the citys July 4th celebration July 1 through 4, and will compete in the 1984 Miss Utah Pageant. The winner of the Miss Wayne will also compete for Miss Utah next year. She and two attendants will he featured at various county functions during the next year. - Under the agreement, Hecla must pay at least $350,000 for exploration during the first year and may pull out any time after that. After Hecla spends a certain unspecified amount, it would pay 51 percent of the costs and AMAX would fund the rest. Hecla is one of the nations largest domestic producers of newly-mine- d silver and has operations or mining interests in the western states. 1QA.M.-6P.- ENTIRE STOCK Goren-Doublea- Richfield, Wayne Choose Royalty Hecla, AMAX Sign Joint - Venture Pact Mining Co. has signed a 22 50pGl? SOtoPdfey Have you beea running into double trouble? Let Charles Gores help you find your way through the Due of DOUBLES for penalties and for takeout. For o copy of hia DOUBLES booklet, teed S1.85 to care of this newspaper, P.O. Boa 259, Norwood, N.J. 07648. Make checks payable to Newspaperbooks. Q.6 East West vulnerable, as South you hold: 95 ?K 109872 0 865 4 K3 Partner opens the bidding with one heart What do you respond? Agency Hopes to Check Plague The U.S. Fish PHOENIX (UPI) and Wildlife Service will conduct tests on coyotes and foxes in an effort to control an outbreak of bubonic plague in northern Arizona. SCORPIO Look for answers on Monday. you hold The bidding has proceeded North East South West 1 0 Pass 1 NT Pass YS 4 Sharif South, vulnerable, As h&l 4- - OC7. CANCER An article on the Heidelberg Restaurant in Thursdays Tribune lists Answers lo (Jorens Weekly Bridge Quiz 22 OCT MAT 20 VZ7-- , Willard Richards as the grandfather of Clara Richards, Farmington. It should have read Franklin Richards. It was he who built the rock mill, which since has been converted into the restaurant V'H SEPT APR. 20 GEMINI Jordan. Boundaries affecting Builder Named projector r APR. 19 Approved only part of the prosed boundaries for the new Columbia Elementary School in West dis- A throws about 24 still pictures on the screen each second. But we see a continuous movement. Each picture to the eye before the previous image in the brain fades out. Television also depends on persistence of vision. STAR GAZER O Hills. Oquirrh Elementary will be cussed further there light-sensiti- tion. school. Appointed Sidney J. Beveridge, assistant principal of Indian Hills Middle School, as coordinator of student services to replace M. James Macfarlane, who died last month. Dennis Johnson, an Eastmont Middle School counselor, was appointed an administrative intern at Indian When the light rays finally reach the retina, they pass through the nerve cells to reach the rods and cones. The cones lie mainly in the macula, a small area near the center of the retina. The cones do most of our seeing in daylight or fairly bright light. The rods produce vision in dim light. Another thought on the cells: the long, thin rods and the wider cones. The rods lie toward the edges of the retina and the cones are near the center. Nerve fibers attached in front of the rods and cones come together from all parts of the retina to form the optic nerve. This large nerve passes through the retina and other layers of the back of the eyeball and goes to the brain. The brain does not see a light until about a tenth of a second after the light is turned on. The image persists or lasts about a tenth of a second after the light is turned off. This persistence of the visual image explains why a glowing match stick seems to leave a trail behind it when thrown away in the dark. pa-tea- iwsnn Interior Plant 'Designs SEMI-ANNUA- L DOCK SALE 331 W. PIERPONT OPEN HOUSE CABIN SPECIAL Down will hold the price 'til Summer of 1983 10 IfeSA J fi (250 S.) 2 Blocks West of the Arts Festival Beautiful Plants at Wholesale Prices Ss!5.Tig5 SELECTION hone Orders Available 531-621- i 9 Save today off our entire stock of regular priced or d ladies' sportswear. red-line- PINE OAK TREE 20'x24', 8' Sidewalls Exterior Shell 16x24 Exterior Shell Exterior Shell SEASONS CABINS ALL PACKAGE READY TO BUILD mon-- day Supervision Delivery $1.50 per Aiile 4890 9980 PRE-E- 1 HIDEAWAY' TREE 20x28', 8' Sidewalls 6990 ..IDE CURRENT SELLING PRICE oVd?splay Floor, Wall. 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