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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1981
page 9
State
One month without television
Tube withdrawal successful
United Press International
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — One
mother resorted to bribery. Her
son countered by threatening to
booby-trap her room.
The high-stakes bargaining was
centered on the family television
— off limits for 53 families who
voluntarily pulled the plugs on
their tubes during November,
part of a private school’s experi
ment to increase reading.
One family had to fight the
temptation of a new color set,
cruelly delivered in the last days of
October.
A mother admitted she couldn’t
break the habit of folding laundry
with the TV blaring.
Many of the volunteers
gathered Tuesday at the private,
co-educational Wheeler School to
discuss their month away from
“Dallas,” “Monday Night Foot
ball,” and addictive daily soap
operas.
Nearly 10 percent of the private
school’s 540 students and their pa
rents volunteered for the experi
ment. None seemed to be suffer
ing any ill effects of video depriva
tion.
The challenge was issued by Pe
ter H. Hufstader, English Depart
ment chairman, who said he was
shocked at the steady erosion of
reading skills.
“The logic behind the whole
thing is to call attention to the fact
that heavy, chronic TV watchers
do not make good readers,” Huf
stader said. “It’s not an attack on
television. It’s time. There’s only
so much time in the day, and TV
interrupts that time.”
Tube withdrawal, although a
painful experience for many fami
lies, was unanimously called a suc
cess by the 75 parents and chil
dren who reported on their month
without TV sitcoms and cartoons.
Most agreed life without televi
sion did not necessarily mean
more reading, but did encourage
more conversation, family-
centered activities and other pur
suits.
Jill Tyler said of her seventh-
grader Jamarl:
“It was hard for him, but not for
me. The TV’s in his room. I bribed
him. I told him I’d buy him a re
cord. At first, he stuck his tongue
out at me. Then he threatened to
booby-trap my room.”
Sarah Whinery, a mother of
two, said:
“It forced you to change your
habits. I think, in the beginning,
we all went madly through our
books. Later, we played games
and talked. There was a sense of
quiet and tranquility, more
talking. ”
Millionaire wins date
with husband-hunter
United Press International
WICHITA, Kan. — A 26-
year-old West German woman
basing her husband-hunting ex
pedition in Wichita chose a self-
proclaimed Ohio millionaire as
her escort for a night on the
town. ^
Regina Leitner of Blomberg-
Lippe, West Germany, and her
chosen gentleman, John De-
Marko of. Cleveland, went to
dinner Tuesday night in a chauf-
fenred limousine along with two
chaperones.
She met more than 50 in
terested bachelors, but it was
DeMarko, calling from Cleve
land, who won her heart.
“He tells us he is a mil
lionaire, said Barry Gaston, ex
ecutive vice president of radio
station KFH, which sponsored
Miss Leitner’s trip. “At this
point we have nothing to go on
but his word.”
DeMarko flew to Wichita
Tuesday after Leitner agreed to
see him. She was scheduled to
return home today.
Asked why Leitner, who ar
rived in Wichita last week,
would choose an Ohio man after
writing the mayor of Kansas’
largest city to help her find a
husband, Gaston said: “He’s
been very aggressive. He appa
rently saw her picture in a
Cleveland newspaper.”
DeMarko told the radio sta
tion he owned -grocery stores,
car washes and other businesses
in the Cleveland area.
Miss Leitner’s campaign
attracted national attention and
letters began pouring in.
Five men Leitner had indi
cated interest in were at a three-
hour reception at an airport
hotel Monday night, along with
50 other bachelors who called
KFH.
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WASHINGTON — Interior
Secretary James Watt has relaxed
rules for coyote control, but he
didn’t satisfy livestock producers
who face loss of cattle and sheep to
the predators.
Livestock officials expected the
Department of the Interior to re
scind a 1972 executive order by
President Nixon that banned use
of toxic chemical compound 1080
on public lands.
However, the officials com
plained that the latest changes put
them back to 1979, before former
Interior Secretary Cecil Andrus
tightened rules on tools used to
control coyotes and other animals.
Sheep and cattle producers said
the announcement last month by
Robert Jantzen, U.S. Fish and
Wildlife director, was too little
and too late.
Jim Barron of the National Cat
tlemen’s Association said that “the
coyote has nothing to fear by this
new announcement.”
Jantzen said the Department of
the Interior requested that the
Environmental Protection Agen
cy register 1080 for use in sheep
collars that give a lethal dose to
animals biting a sheep’s neck. The
purpose of the collars is to limit
exposure of 1080 in the environ
ment.
Jantzen said his agency would
ask the EPA for a limited ex
perimental-use permit for field
trials of 1080 and would permit
denning, or killing coyote families
in their dens, under restricted cir
cumstances.
Jantzen said he would recom
mend that the EPA modify ex
isting restrictions on M44, a
baited, spring-activated device
that kills coyotes.
Don Meike, chairman of the
National Wool Growers Associa
tion, said the Department of the
Interior came up with nearly no
thing after nine months of study.
He said there is no evidence that
the department has made a com
mitment to live up to its responsi
bility to control livestock preda
tion and reduce coyote popula
tions.
Barron said the changes are in
adequate in view of heavy lives
tock losses and possible increases
in consumer prices.
Use of the toxic collar has li
mited value, he said, and livestock
groups are unsure of the meaning
of restricted denning.
“In the meantime, coyote popu
lations are exploding throughout
the West and now even in the
Midwest and East, and the lives
tock industry continues to lose
hundreds of millions of dollars un
necessarily,” Barron said.
Livestock producers said furth
er research on 1080 is unneces
sary, since existing research sup
ports re-registration of the com
pound and insures its safety in ap
plication.
' Meike said unnecessary re
search would delay re-registration
at least two years. In the mean
time, he said, more livestock pro
ducers would be forced out of
business, consumer prices would
rise and citizens would be jeopar
dized by coyotes.
Tye Moore, president of the
Public Lands Council, said: “The
ban on 1080 must be lifted im
mediately.”
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