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Show "tip 18 The Salt Lata Tribane, Tuesday, June S, 1971 By Johnny Flart B.C. By CMc Young Blondie Ml TnK c Im AN APTBKVKi YONl&ETSS rAWAiwLMwm D y 4a:rvfeaTMKS. By Mell By Gus Arriola Have a Question? Ask Andy Gorgonians Inhabit Watery ands fet complete t the World Book Encyclopedia to Wayne Moidenhauer, U, of Norfolk , Neb, for his question: Andy ft hat are the gorgonians? They belong in the warm world of green-blu- e water, speckled with sunbeams and M freckled with shifting shadows. Their world is one where colorful undersea garden.. are stocked with delicate foliage molded from stone and populated with dainty fishes that rival the rainbow. The gorgo-niaare at home in the wat- ery wonderlands of coral reefs and in the tidal pools and lagoons of ocean islands. Every skin diver yearns to beheld the beauty of an underwater coral reef. Only there can we see the gorgonian and other coral structures in their ratural colors. For when the stony artwork is broken off and exposed to the surface Shoe Repairing im air, it soon loses its garden hues. Only a few, including the one called precious coral, Coral-Ree- Wonderland f Each gorgonian polyp has a gristly body with an eightcanals of living tissue that sided pattern. He pokes a in the colors link their all members of the colony circle of eight tentacles retain dry air. In the water, a gorgonian together. The pliable center of through his stony door and structure may look like a the stony structure allows its digests his food in a stomach spreading bush of rich purple. graceful branches to bend and with eight partitions. The tenOn land it turns to pasty bow, wave and weave with tacles that look like flowerly the moving water. white, though the stiff strucpetals are actually hungry finture retains its shape for a The branching gorgonians gers, fitted with mild stingers. often tower above the lower They grab scraps of drifting long time. coral formations, like tall garseaweed and stun small creaHouse Coral Polyps den shrubbery. One gorgonian tures that happen to swim by. The gorgonians belong to is the sea whip, with long Then the little fingers stuff branch of the the skinny branches that lash the food through a mouth in coral class. Their stony struc- around with the stirring tides. the center of the petal-lik- e tures are actually a handsome Another is the magenta-colorecircle. apartment house for a large sea plume that waves Solid Ernguienfs colony cf coral polyps. Each like a languid feacher. The little polyp has specialmember builds his own single Dainty Twiggery ized cells in his thick ouier unit of limestone fragments. The gorgonian polyps build The most delicate gorgolayer of jelly. They extract a family house around a core nians are the chemicals from the sea water of fibrous, homy material. and mold them into solid fragsea fans that build The entire structure is riddled designs of dainty twiggery. ments of limestone and homy The limey structuies are built material. These fragments eight-side- . with tunnels of circulating sea water. h.any are lined with Jj H-I-i! it! Scamp By Walt Disney Andy Capp By Reg. Smythe d d multi-colore- d half-circl- e IfBROKEP At home i: minutes AniiifiK tu w (Jink I ix ripurx brokm pi ids. IiIK in ir.uks and re plans mill like mw last las d mi' No spi lal tools mulul orkt is cri me or sour moms back (1UIK-F1Denture Repair Kit from pasty-colore- are calcium d carbonate and the color is added by living polyps. . I K EXCUSE ME, ANEW, BUT I'M PENNILESS, btSA3TERlS , STARIN' ME IN ) THEFACy AW, used to build the stony branches and pliable center of the gorgonian structure. Is this the perfect Datsun? SPEED QUEEN COIN OPERATED WASHERS & DRYERS FURNISHED Full Bottoms on Western Boots ... Special At ODERN RHQE naminn mr r itinrfBrfni 117 lest 3rd South i2 APARTMENTS, TRAILER COURTS, INSTITUTIONS FOR Genvroui Commltiio"! DIAL- 4842444 COIN METER WASHER Sedan BIO 2,170 SERVICE 1450 South West Temple POE Ask the expert. Your Datsun dealer is the Small Car Expert. Let him show you what makes the 510 Sedan a perfectly great economical family car. Tinted glas 6uch .Mpi : 4L , fS .Reclining front bucket seats Whitewalls Overhead cam engine Vinyl upholstery Safety front disc brakes Independent rear suspension Is this the perfect Datsun for you? Try it. Drive a Datsun. ..then decide. Orphan Annie I . fir--' POOR S OPEN NOBODY'S HOME coiy U SCiiETTLER-iiiLLIAi- S, 702 South fAiin M it t- - . mere for the Jrr-- 1 BEDPIN P.ui Trcv.portaton, falei Tax and licania O rtQ y DOWN Ph. 322-566- 3 IP -- I WASN'T WC:tD.lH HOW SOYAWfl TIRED WHO SACKS dp HCKA COME THEY TOOK Of P ltflVin5 fill. TIE BEDS NAPE HEY SOMEBODY LCST'vt Lb-- T DOOROPfHt I THE WAS THE LAST OUT OF ) ONE ronn.pflH REMEMBER gri 1.1 f inUJ'9 lC. Ii K THE CXs'l il LMJ this shack WONT MINO MY PRODUCT OF NISSAN fTTiv i vT I - guess whoever Jb K. 4 -- oM Owns uwmo I 4, s 'OMIXJKJ , fcial tU l"' .4... L -. Wur1 6bi 'i.'l |