Wednesday, December 9,1987/The Battalion/Page 5
kES specialist says toys for kids
should involve their imagination
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By Kim File
Reporter
When choosing playthings for
oung children, it is important to ask
the toy will invite action on the
liild’s part rather than just generat
ing a performance for the youngster
) watch, a Texas Agricultural Ex-
msion Service family sciences spe-
ialist says.
ftaJioi Battery operated toys — including
ays 1)6 ;orytelling stuffed animals like
eddy Ruxpin — may not be the
lest gifts for young children, Dr. Sa
il) L. Anderson, TAES specialist,
iys.
In fact, toys that “don’t do any-
ling" are preferable because they
ontribute more to a child’s devel-
pment than playthings that auto-
itically move and maxe noise, An-
erson says.
“It’s best if a child can actually do
jraething — not just sit and watch a
)y,” she says. “Young children from
bout the age of three or four like
“It’s best if a child can actually do something — notjust
sit and watch a toy. Young children from about the age
of three or four like toys they can be actively involved
with.”
— Dr. Sarah L. Anderson,
TAES specialist
toys they can be actively involved
with.”
This is one reason the inanimate
Cabbage Patch doll was so success
ful, says Anderson.
Young children are able to inter
act with the doll by using their imagi
nations to make it come alive, she
says. Even babies were able to relate
to this doll by dragging it around
and chewing on it, Anderson says.
“The Caboage Patch dolls, besides
being ugly, really didn’t do anything
— they just laid there and they
didn’t cry or wet,” Anderson says.
“But what’s important is that the
children were able to pretend with
them.”
On the other hand, automated
toys or “high-tech toys” usually tend
to limit a child’s involvement, she
says. When a child engages in play
with these toys he becomes more of
an observer tnan a doer and this lim
its a child’s productivity in imagina
tion, Anderson says.
One example is Teddy Ruxpin, a
teddy bear with a cassette player
concealed inside its body. The bear
tells storys as they are taped from
the cassette. This toy doesn’t encour
age verbal growth because it does all
the talking, she says.
It would be better if the youngster
could talk for the bear and then talk
back to the bear as himself, Ander
son savs.
Not only does the child have a
greater chance of becoming bored
with a toy of this kind, but the costs
of high-tech toys of this type seem to
be steadily increasing, she adds.
To further a youngsters’s devel
opmental growth, Anderson recom
mends some old stand-bys such as
erector sets, building blocks and
paints that children can use for
years.
“We want to encourage original
thinking so children can find solu
tions to problems rather than having
things set for them,” she says. “You
get to the point in life where there
isn’t someone to give a solution —
you have to be able to find it.”
And she adds, “Books are always a
wonderful gift for children of any
age, even infants.”
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Police chief: Officers fired
for behavior, not shooting
DALLAS (AP) — Dallas Police
Chief Billy Prince maintained that
his department was sound Tuesday,
hours after two officers involved in
the wounding of an unarmed 16-
year-old were fired.
“We don’t have a crumbling police
department,” Prince said. ‘T have
never hesitated to take disciphnary
action against officers accused of
misconduct.”
Officers Eva DeChoudens and
Larry Pope, both 24, were fired after
an expedited internal investigation
into the teen’s shooting. Officials
said the officers were not fired be
cause of the shooting, but because of
other improper actions.
Allegations probed included falsi
fying documents, falsifying reports,
failure to arrest an alleged felon and
conducting an illegal search. De
Choudens also was accused of using
greater force than necessary, offi
cials said.
“I’m tired of a few officers contin
uing to ignore our rules and regula
tions,” Prince said. “There are offi
cers who try to go a little too far in
their actions and it’s unacceptable.”
Reserve officer M.L. Edwards was
relieved of his duties in connection
with the wounding of the teen-age
girl, who remained hospitalized
Tuesday.
The police department’s deadly
force policy has long been the center
of controversy, and the teen-ager’s
shooting prompted another round
of angry outbursts from black lead
ers.
The policy was the subject of a
congressional hearing this summer,
and earlier this month a state district
judge slapped the city with sanctions
after he found officials had not been
cooperating in a lawsuit involving
the 1986 accidental fatal shooting of
an Addison police officer by a Dallas
officer.
“This is as clear a case of discovery
abuse as I’ve ever seen,” Judge Joe
Burnett said last week in the lawsuit
brought by the widow of officer
Ronald Cox.
The 16-year-old’s shooting Nov.
27 was the third controversial action
by officers in November. On Nov. 4
a cocaine-intoxicated man died after
officers tried to restrain him with a
neck hold and on Nov. 13 a 62-year-
old man was fatally shot at his home
when he allegedly pointed a gun at
officers serving a search warrant for
illicit alcoholic beverages.
Police spokesman Ed Spencer said
four people have been killed so far
this year in police gunfire and 14
others were wounded, compared
with 28 shootings during the same
period last year, including nine kill-
mgs.
Police determined in the case of
the wounded 16-year-old that, be
fore the shooting, the officers in
volved illegally entered and
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searched an apartment in the same
complex where the shooting oc-
cured, internal affairs Lt. Dt
Kowalski said.
They then went to another apart
ment and told investigators that the
shooting occurred after DeChou
dens saw the 16-year-old, who had
answered the door, reach to her
waistband and produce a shiny ob
ject, Kowalski said. She was then
shot in the leg.
In fact, Kowalski said, the officer
neither observed the 16-year-old
reach to her waistband nor did she
reach for a shiny object.
DeChoudens also was among sev
eral officers investigated by the de
partment’s internal affairs division
in connection with the alleged beat
ing of a prisoner in August.
The report awaits final action by
the department, Prince said, who ac
knowledged it was one of those re
ports that just took too long.
Former Mayoral candidate Jim
Buerger said DeChoudens and three
other officers made no attempt to in
tervene when a fourth officer alleg
edly beat a handcuffed burglary sus
pect.
DeChoudens also was suspended
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was found to have participated in an
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AUSTIN (AP) — Texas Supreme
<)urt Justice William Kilgarlin on
jfoc uesday fired back at Gov. Bill
lements for saying the court hurt
le state business climate by not hav-
[ e s i ng a hearing on the $ 11 billion
.n i judgment against Texaco.
“When I went to law school, I was
old that you decided cases based on
(,ili he law and on the facts,” Kilgarlin
j pi )ld members of the Society of Pro-
essional Journalists.
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bird element... I suppose based on
diat he has said, we are to decide
,. s fuses on the law, the facts and how it
j ffects the business economy in the
,j: fate of Texas,” Kilgarlin said.
Kilgarlin also criticized as slanted
CBS “60 Minutes” television pro
gram on the Texas judiciary.
The program also was criticized
by Pennzoil Chairman J. Hugh
Laedtke but praised by Clements in
separate appearances Tuesday.
Clements last week blasted the Su-
E reme Court for deciding against
earing Texaco’s appeal of its $11
billion Toss to Pennzoil.
The award, which was made by a
Houston jury and upheld by a lower
state appeals court, was made be
cause or Texaco’s alleged interfer
ence in Pennzoil’s planned merger
with Getty Oil.
The court found no reversible er
ror in the lower courts’ rulings in the
case.
Texaco, which has filed for bank
ruptcy protection, has said it will ap
peal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Texas Supreme Court does
not have the authority to adjust the
size of a lower court award, Kilgarlin
noted.
He said the court pondered the
Texaco-Pennzoil case for four
months.
“To say that we just refused to
hear the case without study is a total
misrepresentation of the facts,” he
said. “More study went in on that
particular case by the Supreme
Court (than) on any other applica
tion for writ of error that we’ve had
since I’ve been on the court.”
Connections exist between Tex
aco and “60 Minutes,” Kilgarlin
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