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■ I ■ ' h'KINS >hy Dn rings te of psy- ists are a eduledto ney Gen- Pornogra- the chair- iion said mpressive id mg usy- sociolog- research- ications dson, the said. 20 wit- > victims ar before iion. t censor- ir mission i at type of presents rnmenda- iblem can Wednesday, September 11,1985/The Battalion/Page 17 CETERA Funky Winkerbean by Tom Batiuk Townspeople react to death Student a victim of abuse Associated Press POPE, Miss. — A marble tombstone is all that this small town can do now for Paula Houston, a 14- year-old honor student whose death has embroiled the state in contro versy over its response to child abuse cases. “The tombstone she’s going to have will be the nicest one out there,” said Sandra Martindale, who helped raise nearly S500 for the monument which will he placed on the grave Thursday. "We’re not looking for a star in our crowns, but we’re proud we did it," Martindale said. “We don’t want a big to-do about it.” The ninth-grader’s nude body was found June 3 in a dump near her home — two days before she was to receive top honors in English, sci ence and history at her junior high graduation. The body was found hours after her mother, Judy Houston, 37, had reported her missing. Mrs. Houston was charged with murder and later indicted by a county grand jury for capital mur der. An autopsy determined the child hcid been strangled with a belt, and Panola County Sheriff David Bryan said at the time of the arrest, “This looks like a long history of child abuse. There were prior beatings of this child.” Although Bryan said in June that she had confessed, Mrs. Houston has pleaded innocent. She remains in jail in nearby Oxford and is sched uled for trial Dec. 2. The death outraged many of the 200 residents of this northwestern Mississippi community. ide School au thorities said they made five reports to the Panola County Welfare De partment over nine years that the girl was being abused. Carlock Broome, principal of Pope School, and Martha Lynn Johnson, the girl’s guidance coun selor for five years, said Paula some times showed up with bruises and other ailments. Welfare Department records, however, showed only two reports, neither of which was substantiated. The case spurred investigations of child-abuse reporting procedures from inside and outside the state Welfare Department, which he is now conducting hearings on child abuse. Welfare Commissioner Donald Roark has used the hearings to out line existing child-abuse laws. Nielsen figures released, NBC first en- is for ry- =R Associated Press NEW YORK — I he pilot lor NBC's “Hell Town." starring Robert Blake as a feisty priest, ranked eighth with its repeat broadcast last week, giving some credence to the advertising agency that judged the series the only new program with clear hit potential for tins fall. Besides the “Hell Town" perfor mance, the No. 1-rated “Coshy Show” led NBC’s four Thursday night comedies into the Top Ten and propelled the network hack into first place after one week in third, according to A.C. Nielsen figures re leased 'fuesday. When “Hell Town’s” two-hour pi lot was first broadcast last spring, it received an 18.2 rating and a 29 share and turned in NBC’s strongest regular season performance against ABC’s “Dynasty.” Last week, with re runs of “Dynasty” pre-empted by the “Inside the Third Reich” miniseries, “Hell Town” had a 17.2 rating, 29 share, winning its time slot. The Dancer Fitzgerald Sample ad agency says, “The show’s Los An geles gutter setting and positive moral values provide sensible coun ter-programming to ABC’s ‘Dy nasty.’” The first regular series instal lment of “Hell Town” is today, nearly two weeks before the begin ning of the official 1985-86 season. “The Cosby Show” scored another clear-cut ratings victory last week. A rerun episode drew a 25 rating, meaning 25 percent of the nation’s TV households were tuned in. Its companion comedy, “Family Ties,” finisned second with a 22.1. No other series did better than a 19.0, the rating achieved by ABC’s Sun day night movie, “Stripes.” NBC’s “Cheers” ranked fourth, followed by CBS’ “Murder, She Wrote” and CBS’ Sunday movie. Museum honoring cartoons Associated Press NEW YORK — Ssshh. Be ve-wy, ve-wy quiet. You’re in the Museum of Modern Art — and it’s wabbit sea son. There they all are, cheek to fuzzy jowl on the museum’s walls — Pic asso, Van Gogh, Degas, Yosemite Sam, Foghorn Leghorn, Daffy, Speedy, Tweety, Elmer and . . . Bugs Bunny. It’s the 50th anniversary of Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons, which combined the bite of adult satire with childlike sight gags and belly laughs as none before or since. The museum is paying homage to these cartoons, recognizing them as the art works that they truly are, in a special exhibit titled “That’s NOT All, Folks!” On hand for the show’s opening Tuesday were Friz Freleng, 79, and Chuck Jones, 73 — names any Bugs buff instantly recognizes as longtime animators of the whole stable of Warner Bros, characters. Freleng, in addition, created the Pink Panther after Warner closed its internal an imation department in 1963. Both are doing only occasional cartooning these days. Their favorite? No surprise, really. “We both favor Bugs Bunny,” said Jones. “He’s the kind of character I’d like to be. Bugs became a sort of male Dorothy Parker, always quick with the one-liner.” The exhibit includes early sketches from the 1930s, when Fre leng, Jones and the other under paid, wisecracking animators toiled unobtrusively in what they dubbed “termite terrace,” a back-alley build ing on the old Warner movie lot. In the golden era of Cartooning from the 1930s through ’50s, Fre leng recalled, six-minute cartoons cost about $10,000 to make. Today cartoons made with the same time, care and skill would cost about $1,000 a second — about $360,000. That pricetag, along with the demise of the movie double feature and short subject explains why they don’t make them like that anymore. But a cartoon fanatic cannot live by art exhibits alone. The museum will run uncut, uncensored Warner Bros, cartoons Saturdays and Sun days through Jan. 26. 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