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professors urge improved child care
By KIM GRIFFITHS
Reporter
Between 37,()()() and 43,()()() chil-
|ren under the age of 6 spend an av-
rage of 34 hours a week at home
with a family child care provider,
ccording to estimates by Dr. Ben
guirre, Texas A&M University as-
lodate professor of sociology.
Aguirre’s findings come from a
idy — the first to examine family
hild care in Texas — conducted
through the Public Policy Resources
Laboratory here.
According to the September
udy, state and national studies
have documented that child care
providers are second only to parents
in the number of children they take
care of and in the average number
of hours of child care they provide.
“Our culture is greatly concerned
with the fate of children and their
rights to healthy lives,” Aguirre said.
“But if you look at what we know
about family child care in the United
States, there is an almost complete
absence of information.”
Heightened concern over the
quality of care and education given
to children, particularly in their
early years, has come none too soon,
said Dr. Douglas Godwin, a profes
sor of early childhood development
at A&M.
“In the day-to-day routine of work and family, the aver
age father spends approximately 20 minutes with his
child, of which only about 43 seconds are spent in nu-
turing and affection.” — Dr. Douglas Godwin, a profes
sor of early childhood development at A&M.
In a study conducted in 1981,
more than 43,000 children under
the age of 6 were found to be wan
dering the streets unsupervised
while parents worked, Godwin said.
It is generally agreed that a child’s
personality has developed during
the first four years of his or her life,
Godwin said.
“(If) love and trust are not suc
cessfully learned by age 4, then they
may never be learned,” he said.
Contrary to popular belief, the
quantity of time spent with a child is
just as important as the quality of
time, Godwin said, particularly as it
relates to time spent in terms of af
fection and love.
“In the day-to-day routine of
work and family, the average father
spends approximately 20 minutes
with his child, of which only about
43 seconds are spent in nuturing
and affection,” Godwin said. “And
the same pattern is being observed
in the working mother.”
The role of the child care pro
vider then becomes necessary not
only to the well-being of the child
physically, but psychologically as
well, he said.
“It is important to note, however,
that the care provider can never to
tally replace the role of the mother
and father,” Godwin said. “The
child of working parents must be
made to understand that they are
working for him and not because of
him.”
Taking all of this into account,
Aguirre suggests that the efforts
made recently in Texas to improve
our educational system need to be
expanded to incorporate these child
care providers.
Aguirre also says in his study that
the providers become educational
agents of our people, so they may in
troduce and guide the children dur
ing the earliest and most important
period of socialization in their lives
to the excitement of education.
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Comparing long-distance services
can save you money on phone bills
By VIVIAN SMITH
Reporter
If you’re like most college stu-
pents who can’t resist the temptation
i pick up the phone and call family
|nd friends in a faraway hometown,
rou can save money by using one of
the area’s long-distance services.
Bryan-College Station has three
najor low-cost long-distance alterna
tives to General Telephone Com-
pany: Call America, Star Tel, Inc.
and MCI.
“Any of these long-distance serv
ices are going to save you money off
the GTE rates. Exactly how much
you save depends upon an individu-
il’s needs," Dr. Larry Gresham,
fexas A&M Marketing Society advi
sor said.
MCI and Star Tel have used the
Marketing Society to market their
services to students this fall, Gre
sham said.
He said rate tables for each com
pany are difficult to interpret.
“Sign up for more than one serv
ice and then make calls to fre
quently-called locations at same
times of day and for the same dura
tions,” he said. “Then simply com
pare the rates to determine which
service is best for you.”
Call America, with 27 locations in
the United States, is based in Califor
nia. Its only Texas location is Bryan.
Mike Miller, vice president of Call
America, said his company stresses
quality. Call America only leases the
highest quality telephone lines avail
able, he said. You can call anywhere
in the continental United States and
gel a clear connection, he said.
T he cost for residential service (5
p.m. to 8 a.m. weekdays, and all day
and night on weekends) is a $10 ini
tial access fee and $5 service charge
per month. For 24-hour service
there is a $20 initial fee and a $10
monthly charge.
Call America offers lower rates
outside a 50-mile radius and a 1-800
service. Miller said.
“Call America is designed for the
student who wants quality and has a
high monthly phone bill,” he said.
“We advise people that the break
even point for the residential service
is a telephone bill of about $25 and
$45-$50 for 24-hour service.”
Star Tel, in business for three
years in Bryan-College Station is the
oldest resale company in the area.
Star Tel has experienced many of
the growing pains other long-dis
tance companies haven’t, Star Tel
President Bill Stephenson said.
For a limited time, Star Tel has no
monthly charges and no hook-up fee
is charged, Stephensen said. Star Tel
guarantees a minimum of 20 per
cent to 50 percent savings on long
distance calls, he said.
MCI, one of the largest long-dis
tance companies in the nation, owns
their equipment and telephone lines.
Gresham said this makes it possible
for MCI to have direct lines into ma
jor cities and offers greater savings.
With MCI, you can save 5 percent
to 40 percent on long distance calls
compared to American Telephone
& Telegraph Co. MCI has no
monthly fees or start-up charges. In
the future, MCI will offer a MCI
calling-card service to allow custom
ers to make MCI calls outside the
Bryan-College Station area.
Homeless people injured in Idaho bus crash
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NOTUS, Idaho — A chartered
bus loaded with homeless people
heading to “a new life” with an In
dian guru collided head-on with a
car Tuesday, killing the motorist and
injuring nearly three dozen passen
gers aboard the bus.
Police said the Trailways bus col
lided with the car about 7:20 a.m.
and overturned at a rural intersec
tion 20 miles west of Boise. T he
driver of the car, David Allen Lar
son, 20, of Caldwell, Idaho, was
killed.
His automobile crossed over the
center line and slammed into the
bus, causing it to erupt in flames af
ter it veered off the highway, Idaho
State Police Cpl. Dan McDaniel said.
“God had to be with us,” said Cal
vin Lamont Shannon, 18, of Colum
bus, Ohio, a bus passenger who was
heading to a town in southern Ore
gon headed by Indian guru Bhag-
wan Shree Rajneesh.
“If he wasn’t, we all would’ve been
dead,” said Shannon, who had a mi
nor hand injury.
Church spokeswoman Ma Prem
Sunshine said the bus began its
cross-country trip in Washington,
D.C. Another bus following it from
Houston continued on the journey
after the crash.
“Trailways provided a bus imme
diately for seven (uninjured) on the
bus to continue on,” she said. “We’re
flying people to Boise to help care
for the injured and get them safely
to Rajneeshpuram.”
Shannon said he and other victims
would not be deterred in their jour
ney to the guru’s town, where the
Rajneeshpuram religious commu
nity is located.
“I was headed to a new life, and
I’m still going,” Shannon said.
Caldwell Memorial Hospital offi
cials said 34 of the 41 people on the
bus were examined and four — one
with a severe back injury — were ad
mitted for further treatment. Nurs
ing supervisor Jan Magger said most
of the injuries were slight.
Italian to be tried
for loss of millions
United Press International
ROME — Italian swindler
Michele Sindona was extradited
from New York Tuesday to stand
trial on charges that include insti
gating murder and bank fraud
that resulted in a loss of millions
of dollars of Vatican funds.
Sindona, 64, was taken from a
New York prison where he was
serving a 25-year sentence for
fraud, and arrived in Rome Tues
day afternoon after a stopover in
the northern city of Milan.
He was escorted on the flight
from New York by four U.S. fed
eral agents, who handed him over
to Italian police at Milan’s Mal
pensa airport.
Reporters at Rome’s Leonardo
da Vinci airport said the gray
haired financier looked relaxed
and in good health as he stepped
off the plane.
Officers hustled him into an
armored van and drove him un
der an escort of six squad cars to
Rome’s Rebibbia maximum secu
rity jail, police said.
Italian authorities have been
requesting Sindona’s extradition
since 1981. But the extradition
wasn’t possible until Monday,
when the U.S. and Italy ex
changed ratification of a new ex
tradition agreement signed Oct.
13 last year.
Sindona has been serving a 25-
year sentence handed down in
1980 bv a New York court for
fraud in connection with the 1974
collapse of the U.S. Franklin Na
tional Bank. At the time it was de
scribed as the biggest bank failure
in U.S. history.
The Franklin National Bank
failed after Sindona fled to the
United States to escape charges in
Italy in connection with the col
lapse of his Banca Privata Italiana
with debts totaling $350 million.
In 1969, Sindona became an
adviser to Pope Paul VI and suc
ceeded in persuading the Vatican
to pour millions of dollars into fi
nancial enterprises that later col
lapsed amid huge losses and scan
dal.
The pope and Sindona cen
tered their dealings on the
church’s Societa Generale Immo-
billiare, then Italy’s largest prop
erty and development concern,
owner of the Pan Am building in
Paris, the Montreal Stock Ex
change building and the Water
gate complex in Washington D.C.
Their plan was to have Sin
dona sell the firm while taking
some shares for himself and ad
vising the pope on how to invest
proceeds.
Sindona, it was later discov
ered, took control of the com
pany for himself .
Sindona is also wanted in Italy
on charges he paid an American
hitman $50,000 to assassinate Mi
lan lawyer Giorgio Ambrosoli,
who was shot and killed near Mi
lan.
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