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Del Rio News-Herald Wednesday, June 10, 1998 COUNCIL SLrcet. Section 3 Payne Avenue from Irene Avenue lo Cora Avenue; Irene Avenue from U.S. 90 East to Payne Avenue; Cora Avenue from U.S. 90 East to Payne East Adobe Street from U.S. 90 East lo Morales Street; East Street from Specrs Street Uo Railway Street; East Viesca from Vitela Street to Aguirre Street; East Viesca from Sartwelle Street to Railway Avenue; Vilela from East Bowie to East llylorin; Riojas Street from to Fajitas Street; and Barren Street from Canal Street to Cisneros Street.

Beau Nettlelon, superinten- Vdent of the Water and Sewer 'Department, said all work would be done by city workers. With the Qontracl start date of May 11, Nel- 'tleton said the crews were on schedule. Section 4 Stanley Street from 'Zacatecas Street to Ash Street; Pine Street from Stanley Street to dead end; Canon Street from Hill Street to Holmig Street; Hill Street 'from alley to Canon Street. authorizing contract for services with the Boys and Girls Club of Del Rio, for the Youth Summer Recreation Pro- grain. The club has 300 children enrolled as members; as of day, 220 were part of the summer program.

There are 10 employees -with 15 more supplied by the JTPA. Garza questioned insur- coverage and was advised that of the $5 enrollment fee, $3 were for insurance. authorize change Border No. 2 for the San Felipe Improvement Project. authorizing participation with Region of the Texas Water Development Board for a continued from 1 proposal of a hydrology study and, water master plan of the Edwards-Trinity Aquifer.

A public hearing will be held June 25 in Rocksprings with discussion to center on defining the scope of services for the water plan. The City of Del Rio will furnish Iransporlalion for a number of council, commission, or staff members who would wish to attend. Gonzalez staled lhat it would be beneficial for all councilpersons who could, to atlend. Region 'J' includes the counties of Bandera, Edwards, Kerr, Kinney, Real and Val Verde. authorizing the director of finance to adjust the accounting records of the City of Del Rio to reflect the accurate financial position of the Loan Repayment Fund.

This resolution affects the ($2,000,000) federal grant money which the city loaned to Gates Apartments contractors to fund the extension of water, sewer and gas utilities to the apartments. City records reflect that no payments were ever received on this note. A lawsuit ensued and was ullimalely dismissed. There is no hope that the cily will ever receives any paymenls on the note receivable-Gates. Eby proposed writing off this amount from the books and a resounding acquiescence was sounded, which is reflected on the city's books as 100 percent uncollectible.

A work session to discuss bud- gel for Fiscal Year 1998-99 has been scheduled for Tuesday, June 16 in council chambers al 6:30 p.m. Astronomers peek behind obscuring curtain of dust SAN DIEGO (AP) Astronomers for the first lime have cracked a curtain of interstellar dust known as the Zone of Avoidance that blocks Earth's view of a fourth of the universe. What they found, said Patricia A. Henning of the University of New Mexico, were 102 previously unknown galaxies and the lanla- lizing hint of cluslers of galaxies forming an immense S-shaped slruclure beyond the Milky Way. In a report at the nalional meeling of the American Astronomical Society, Henning said a team of European, Australian and American astronomers penetrated the dust cloud in the cenler of Ihe Milky Way by using radio telescopes to detect faint signals given off by hydrogen atoms in the distant galaxies.

The solar system is in one arm of the spiral structure of the Milky Way. When astronomers look toward the center, their view is obscured by a clouds of cosmic dust, making it impossible to see beyond the galaxy. Since no stellar objects can be seen through this blanked out area, it has been known since Ihe 1920s as Ihe Zone of Avoidance, a place in the heavens that stars seem to avoid. Henning said her group penetrated this zone by focusing on a minute signal given off by hydrogen gas atoms. These atoms have protons and electrons that spin in one direction, but occasionally they will shift directions.

This gives off a long wavelength radio signal that can be detected on Earth. Hydrogen gas is a major component of stars and galaxies. The astronomers focused radio antennae in Europe and Australia on portions of the Zone of Avoidance and searched for this hydrogen signal. All natural radio signals are recorded as wavy lines on graph paper. "We look at thousands upon thousands of these squiggles, looking for the signature of galaxies," Henning said.

She said astronomers have not before used radio telescopes to look through the zone because detecting the faint hydrogen signals takes a long time and available hours on radio telescopes are very limited. Henning said the team now has discovered a lolal of 143 galaxies, 102 of which have never before been delected. The new galaxies help to fill in an immense S-shaped structure formed by clusters of galaxies that stretches for more 300 million light-years on the olher side of the Milky Way. i A light-year is the distance that lights travj- els in one year in a vacuum, or about 5.8 trillion miles. "It is enormous," Henntng said of the galactic structure, "but it was only hinted before we found the hidden galaxies." i Optical telescopes could see only the outejr curves of the she said.

The new findings suggests the curves are connected. Henning said her team will continue to search for hidden galaxies and expects by late next year to have found more than 2,000 star clusters never before detected. Already, she said, one thing is clear: Thte Zone of Avoidance is not empty, but seems to contain a population of galaxies, filled witji billions of stars, just like the visible areas of the heavens. Astronomers find new class of starlike objects IMAGING IMAGING is a system that vastly improves the processing, retrieval, and storage of checks. Most banks use microfilm to keep records of their checks.

The Bank Trust uses CD-ROM with IMAGING. This enables us to pull up any check, no matter how old, in a matter of minutes, for FREE. SAN DIEGO (AP) Large balls of gas failed slars lhal glow fainlly like dying embers are a new class of slellar objecls and may be the most common bodies in the Milky Way, astronomers say. A group of California experts said Tuesday they call the new objects dwarfs and that their discovery will force revision of a century-old system of classifying stars based on chemistry and temperature. J.

Davy Kirkpatrick said he and his colleagues at the California Institute of Technology discovered thai some objects that glow very faintly in visible light have a surface temperature three times lower than the sun, a mass about a third of the sun and a diameter about like Jupiter. He announced the discovery al the national meeling of the American Astronomical Sociely. 'They are radically differenl and require a new classification," said Kirkpatrick. He said they have distinctive temperature and chemical characteristics. "These look like stars," said I.

Neill Reid, part of the Caltech team, "but they just haven't managed to get enough mass together to start nuclear fusion (the process that makes stars The objects are thought to have heated as they formed from the gravitational accumulation and compression of gas. But this heat is slowly fading, like dying embers. A star is created when the mass is great enough to compress the gas to a point thai fusion fires are igniled in ils core. Kirkpalrick said the learn discovered 20 of Ihe objects in a survey of just 1 percent of the sky out to about 100 light-years from the sun. A statistical projection of this number suggests that about half of every 2,000 stellar points of lighl in Ihe Milky Way galaxy may, in facl, be these dwarfs, he said.

A lighl year is the dislance lighl travels in a year in a vacuum, about 5.8'tril- lion miles. "Ls are the most common type of objects," said Kirkpatrick. "There are just about as numerous as all of the other types combined." By splitting the light into colors, or spectrum, astronomers can determine the distinctive chemistry of stellar objects. This allows them to calculate the temperature and mass of the objects. Using this technique, astronomers since 1817 have divided stars into classes based on the spectral characlerislics.

At first, the star classes were designated alphabetically, A through but some were dropped due to duplication. And in 1901 a Harvard astronomer, Annie Jump Cannon, arranged the remaining classes by temperature, from hottesl to coolest. Cannon's work produced a sequence of classes identified, in order, as OBAFGKM. Astronomy students have been taught for decades to remember this sequence by using the mnemorj- ic "Oh Be A Fine Girl (or Guy), Kiss Me." I Kirkpatrick said that since the object his team has discovered (s the coolest, it would follow the class the spectral sequence objects. He proposed that they carry the letter creating a new hottest-to-coolest sequence (Jf OBAFGKML.

For the mnemonic, patrick suggests "Oh Be A Fine Kiss My Lips." Kirkpatrick said the spectra of six of the new objects show presence of lithium. This reading disappears if objects are cooler than 4.5 million degrees anti too cold to ever achieve the nuclear fusion process of This means they are actually not stars, but "brown dwarfs," a type of failed star that is bigger planet, but smaller than a stai such as the sun. Over millions of years, the-L objects will cool, like dying embers, and eventually becorrte too cold to be detected from Earth, he said. ot Microfilm takesfresearch and costs you dollars! IMAGING is instant and costs you nothing! THE COMPLETE PACKAGE Complete eye health and vision evaluation if: prescription, jfbr glasses 1 Panel suggests dollar coin 1 inspired by Indian TRUST tilt June 30 MEMBER FDIC Where IMAGE is PORTALES OPTICAL YOUR CONTACT LENS CENTER Evei ing! PHILADELPHIA (AP) Nearly two decades after its last dollar coin flopped, the Treasury Department is trying again, perhaps with an Indian guide leading the way. An advisory panel voted 6-1 on Tuesday to recommend to Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin that the new dollar coin bear the image of "Liberty, represented by Familia Mendoza Cazares da gracias a familiares amistades por haber asistido al funeral el Sabado 30 de Mayo 1998.

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.7 Rubin, who appointed th'e committee to pick a woman women none still alive on the coin, is expected to accept the recommendation. The choice was a compromise between panel members who wanted to honor a woman of history and those who favored allegorical symbol. Finalises included Eleanor Roosevelt and black aviation pioneer Bessie Coleman. Because of a recent best seller about the Lewis and Clark expedition by historian Stephen Ambrose and the Ken Burns documentary that followed, the mint had received letlers and e-mails backing Sacajawea. 'The suggestion of Sacajawea was essentially in the air for months before we convened," said U.S.

Mint Director Philip Diehl, the panel's chairman. The new coin would replace one that honored suffragette Susan B. Anthony. The Anthony dollar was minted from 1979 to 1981 and widely disliked because it looked too much like a quarter. Supplies are expected to run out by mid-2000 and legislation for a new dollar coin was signed by President Clinton in December.

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The one question that Mota answered concerned the fourth agenda item hiring of coaches-- and signaled the end of meeting: "We offered the positions to three coaches, but were turnejd down by all three." Mota said, i At present there are sLx coaching positions in the school islrict and no applicants for the.