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Show Page 34—-THE HERALD. Provo, Utah. Wednesday. June6, 1979 FUNNY BUSINESS By Roger Bollen ED AND JOYCE, I'D LIKE YOU To MEET TWO VERY SPECIAL Tell Me Why How Old Is Earth? FRENDS OF MINE / CREEP... SAVE IT FOR YOUR MEATHEAD MAYBE WE ) OUGHTA CHECK. BELOVED Pop! MASTER: [| ON LITTLE CLAUDIA, By A. LEOKUM Win four “Teli Me Why"’ books, (1,500 questions answered. Illustrated). Send your questions, name, age, address to “TELL ME WHY" care of this paper Include Zip Code. In case of duplicate questions the author will decide the winner. Today's winner is: MICHELLE BROWN, 2 LeaneralSt. Rollington Town, Kingston, Jam We are not discussing this from a religious point of view but from a Taga / ARENTYOUGOING TO MES SCHOOL WHEN & SLIMMER COMES 4 — scientific point of view Scientists think that the earth is about 4.500 000,000 years old They can determine the age of the earth because of radioactive atoms in the earth's rocks These atoms break down at a steady rate Thus the atoms are “clocks that tell tiow much time has passed since ucks were years old | formed Very old rocks have been found in west and south Africa They are about 3,000.000,000 (billion) However, these rocks are sedimentary They formed long after the earth's crust formed Thereforethe earth must Le older than these rocks Scientists think that meteorites were formed at the same timeas the earth Using the method of radioactivedating scientists have found the age of meteorites Some of them are 4,500,000,000 years old. This, then. is probably the age of the earth Scientists think that our sun began to SHORT RIBS I HAD NO IDEA By Bob Thaves Ae _- =F NEVER FAILS —EvERY a be formed about 6 billion years ago. It wasa cloud of dust and gas that began to condense. It then began to spin, and WITH C) ee ey ( HUNGRY AGAIN FIVE MINUTES 6-6 MscM. By Ernie Bushmiller WHAT AN AWFUL LIFE I FEEL SO SORRY FOR HIM---LOCKED UP IN A CAGE ales the slowly spinning center condensed to make the sun But the outer parts of the spinning disk were spinning too fast to condense in one piece. So they broke up into smaller swirls, or eddies, which condensed separately to make the planets One of these was the earth. The earth went through a great many changes over the billions of years, in the interior and on the surface, before it becamethe earth welive on today tee FUN TIME Wina Tell Me Why Bookfor Writing About “MY FAVORITE PLACE IN SCHOOL” THIS IG HOW HONCHO PAINTS/ 00 YOU RECOGNIZE IT ? IT'S NOT | HONCHO-WHOEVER HE iS ! KR && DRAWS ! 00 YOU KNOW ABOUT HOWIE 7 THE WAY YOU PAINT. HOMER I- IM AFRAID I DON'T |WANT 1D HEAR ABOUT THIS 7 PRICILLA’S POP OKAY KID LETS GET "EM! REMEMBER eh NO-HITTER GOING / Whatis the one plate in school where youbestlike to be? Write a letter about OF COURSE, HE DOESN'T HAVE To it and you may win a Tell Me Why Book. Entries must be addressed “School,” Tell Me Why, and give your name, age, address tee Answer to yesterday's Puzzle Box Canada (Can add A) DO HOMEWORK, OR TAKE BATHS, OR 7 GET SPANKED This Day Eee BUGS BUNN s Z ” By Heimdahl & Stoffel I PROMISED T’ HAVE TH’ CLOCK BACK IN OPERATION THREE BUT TH’ ’ PAINTON BY Y THREE, 82Z BZZz AN’ THE 6222" WidSerubEs ~ Isn't TH’ HANDS DRY! A pire By Al Vermeer T MEAN, WE HAVEN'T EVEN STARTED THE GAME YET’ KNOCK IT GFF WILL YOU, LESTER? VE GOTA OF BEING AN PREDICAMENT? 4 APPRENTICE y In History REDEYE I HAVE A MELODY RUNNING THRU MY HEAD AND CAN'T REMEMBER THE NAME OF IT TUM-DE-DUM QO cee f (T'S CALLED “THE RAIN DANCE DUM-TUM-TUM ByUnited Press International Today is Wednesday. June 6, the 157th day of 1979 with 208 to follow. The moon is moving towardits full phase The morning stars are Venus and Mars. The evening stars are Mercury Jupiter and Saturn Those born onthis date are under the sign of Gemini. American patriot Nathan Hale aas born June6, 1755. YER “Bone" L/ On this day in history WAS A LITTLE LQON'T CALLER ++ NEIGHBOR: = HERE! WHOM ARE WITH ME NOW! MRS. WORTH FROM ACROSS THE HALL / YOU CALLING ? In 1933, a motion picture drive-in theater opened in Camden, N.J., the first of its kind In 1944, hundredsof thousandsofAllied troops started crossing the English Channel in the “D-Day’’ invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe. The greatest in OFF-KEY, BUT THINK ANY- By Saunders & Ernst NO/ IT WOULD NOT BE CONVENIENT FOR YOU TO STOP IN‘/---I HAVE A HELLO! TULIE NASH ¥ BODY'LL LOOK, HAM! 1---I THOUGHT IT WAS & UNDERSTOOD THAT OUR PERSONAL LIVES WERE NOT TO CHANGE / SO: ++ FORGET IT/ TILL SEE YOU TOMORROW f GOODNIGHT £ vasion in history was supported by thousandsof planes and ships. In 1974, newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst wasindicted for armed robbery in the April 15 robbery of a San Fran- cisco bank In 1978. California voters adopted Proposition 13. which reduced property LISTEN! THEY’ “VE STOPPED! NOW MAYBE: GET SOME WE CAN taxes to 1 percent of their assessed value A thought for the day” Just before he was hanged by the British as a ee calm CASS HAS BEEN (INTHAT = DRESS/N'ROOM FOR AN HOUR! mm *\T WONDER IE (TS GONNA 3 Revolutionary War spy patriot Nathan Hale said, ‘‘I only reget that I havebut onelife to lose for my country __WORLD ALMANAC’S Iceland is compl natural hot 2. 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