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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1963
Page
5
A reader contest announces Gary Howard of North Syracuse New York as winner. The article explains the eye as a camera with three basic parts the pupil allowing light to enter to enable sight.
The eye uses a lens and retina to form images. Accommodation changes lens shape to focus. Nearsightedness and farsightedness result from improper focus, aging, or injury, corrected by glasses that bend light to the retina.
Charlton Heston recalls clubs and famous hotels denying actors membership or lodging in Madrid London and California while noting anti actor bias persists. He cites Jimmy Stewart David Niven and Victor Mature as examples and mentions Mt Gretna Pa as an actors ghetto as SAG leader.
The lens focuses light on the retina instead of in front of it, making glasses correct nearsightedness whether inherited, age related, or from a too curved eyeball. Glasses improve sight but do not alter the eye's underlying cause or function.
A humor bit features Jane naming marble cake and Jack quipping he will take it for granite, playing on a cake pun for light amusement.
In 1936 Germany produced a cigar 5 feet 7 inches long that would take about 600 hours to smoke but no one tried it. The giant cigar was placed in a museum as a curiosities exhibit.
Hong Kong government declares the refugee packed enclave free of cholera. A total of 114 cholera cases were reported this year and six people died according to official figures.
Wichita mechanic John Crow found a mouse with its foot caught in a car generator while inspecting a customer's vehicle. The discovery came during routine trouble shooting and was reported by the AP aboard.
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