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The Battalion
Thursday, April 5,199i
Elementary students sign
papers to forfeit television
CORPUS CHRISTI (AP) — It’s a time-honored rit
ual for schoolchildren across the country: You get
home from school, drop your books on the kitchen ta
ble, plop down in front of the television. Your mother
reminds you to do your homework, but you put it off
until “Growing Pains” is over. By then, it’s sort of late
and you don’t get much done.
For perhaps 90 fifth- and sixth-graders at the Chula
Vista Academy of Fine Arts, though, the routine will be
very different until the end of the school year. They’re
“When you tell children they’re not
supposed to watch TV during the week,
their jaws kind of drop. It’s almost like an
addiction for some children.”
— Mary Helen Berlanga,
attorney
signing official contracts not to watch any television or
play any video games on school nights.
“We’re all going to do it to get our grades up,” said
the school president, sixth-grader Keith Gardner.
“We’re going to do it so we can party later,” ex
claimed his classmate, Eddie Rodriguez.
“He’s a party animal,” confirmed fluffy-haired Molly
Cox.
Ola Underhill, Chula Vista’s principal, says she
doesn’t expect all 172 of the school’s fifth- and sixth-
graders to participate, but she’s hoping for 50 percent.
“That’s a big commitment for students to make,” she
said. “But I think it’s going to improve academic
grades.”
The pilot program, which started Monday but is still
gaining adherents, is the brainchild of Corpus Christi
attorneys Mary Helen Berlanga and Tony Bonilla. Ber
langa is a member of the state board of education, and
her 12-year-old twins, Monica and David, are sixth-
graders at Chula Vista.
To join the program, a student, a parent and a tea
cher must sign a contract not to watch television on
Monday through Thursday nights. Students may watch
programs if they’re assigned by a teacher, however, and
they can tape their favorite weekday shows for viewing
during the weekend.
At the end of six weeks, students who have complied
with the contract will receive a special identification
card and vouchers from at least seven local businesses
to redeem for treats such as pizza, hamburgers and
milkshakes.
“The reception from the businesses contacted has
been exceptional,” Bonilla, chairman of the Corpus
Christi Chamber of Commerce, said. “I think the ulti
mate objective is for the business community to be full
partners with the school system, and this is but one ex
ample of the types of things a partner can do.”
T he idea, said Berlanga, is to give parents more le
verage in helping their children break what she calls the
“habit” of constant television watching.
“A lot of parents have complained that their kids will
try to do their homework and watch TV at the same
time,” Berlanga said. “In some instances, it wasn’t be
cause the parent wasn’t trying. They tell me, ‘I can't do
it alone. I try to turn off the TV, and before I know it
Someone will have turned it back on.’ ”
But Berlanga knows her concept may take some get
ting used to. “When you tell children they’re not sup
posed to watch TV during the week, their jaws kind of
drop,” she said. “It’s almost like an addiction for some
children.”
Robert Guerrero, a fifth-grader and enthusiastic par
ticipant in the program, says one of his classmates is
pretty addicted. “She says, ‘No way, I can’t do that,’ ” he
said. “She just sits in front of the TV.”
Robert, however, has no such misgivings about the
program, even though he admits that sometimes he,
too, has been known to just sit in front of the television
set.
“I want to improve more,” he said. “What encour
aged me about it was getting higher grades.”
Robert’s mother, Diana Guerrero, is encouraged,
too.
“We’ve been trying to do that with him for a long
time,” she said. “But sometimes children pay more at
tention to outside influences — at least that helps. We
hope it will continue even after this amount of time.”
Program directors and station managers at local tele
vision stations had mixed views of the program.
“I don’t think it’s necessary,” said Donse Steele, sta
tion manager and program director at KRIS-TV.
Steele said rather than dictating what children
should watch, parents and teachers should try to teach
children to evaluate programs for themselves. She
pointed out that poor judgment can affect what chil
dren read or do in their free time, as well as what they
watch.
Max Sklower, general manager at KIII-TV, agreed
that what children do with their time is more important
than what they don’t do.
Gene Looper, program director at KZTV-TV, also
stressed parents’ role in children’s viewing habits.
“The teacher is assuming the parents’ responsibility,”
Looper said. “But if the parents are willing to go along
with it, and the children are willing to go along with it,
more power to them.”
Roy Hammond, vice president and station manager
at public television station KEDT-TV, said that al
though television — public and commercial — offers
valuable programs, people watch entirely too much of
it.
“Television is a good addition to what children expe
rience,” Hammond said. “But it shouldn’t be the only
thing they experience.”
Supporters of the Chula Vista program agree that
many television programs are uplifting.
“I would assign documentaries,” sixth-grade teacher
Melba Smithwick said. “If the Discovery channel has
something on pertaining to what they’re studying, I
“X
I elevision is a good addition to what
children experience. But it shouldn’t be
the only thing they experience.”
— Roy Hammond,
vice-president, KEDT-TV
would assign it. One of the sixth-grade rooms has been
taping newscasts. Television is fine as long as it’s con
trolled.”
And both Berlanga and Diana Guerrero said their
families plan to spend more time together in other ac
tivities such as board games and sports during the six
weeks. Their children, they said, plan to read more and
spend more time on homework.
Brandon Viamonte, one of Smithwick’s students,
said he now has more incentive than ever to study. He’ll
get $5 from his parents for every A, and $2.50 for every
B. That’s probably worth missing his many favorite
shows, like “The Wonder Years,” “The Cosby Show,”
“Roseanne” and “Coach.”
Besides, he added world-wearily, “TV drains my
mind.”
Greyhound
offers free
bus coupons
DALLAS (AP) — Greyhound
Lines Inc. on Wednesday offered
free bus trips through Easter to
passengers delayed on Northeast
routes in an effort to recapture
business lost in the region during
a monthlong drivers’ strike.
In New York City, a state judge
barred the company from hiring
“strikebreakers.” Greyhound said
it would appeal the ruling
Greyhound’s 6,300 drivers and
about 3,000 office and mainte
nance workers walked off the job
March 2 in a dispute over wages
and job security. It has operated
on a reduced schedule since then
using permanent replacements
and union members who cross
picket lines.
Judge Diane Lebedeff granted
a union request for a temporan
restraining order based on an
anti-strikebreaking statute passed
by New York’s City Council in
1962, but never useu.
It prohibits a company from
bringing in any workers “for the
purpose of having such person
take the place in employment of
employees in an industry or es
tablishment where a strike or
lockout exists.”
The judge said Greyhound's
offer of a $2,000 bonus to drivers
hired during the strike “tends to
corroborate the charge that stri-
kebreakers are being used."
Greyhound spokesman George
Gravley said the ruling wouldn’t
affect the company much. "It
does not interfere with our basic
operations ... we don’t hire strike
breakers,” he said.
Dallas-based Greyhound,
which operates the only nation
wide bus system, has been re
building its system since the strike
began, expanding mainly in the
South and West.
Last week, company President
Frank Schmieder said die walk
out essentially was meaningless in
much of the country. However,
he acknowledged that the North
east, which accounts for about 10
percent of Greyhound revenue,
remained a trouble spot.
Greyhound said Wednesday ii
was improving regional service by
adding hourly departures on Fri
days and Sundays from New
York City to Boston, Philadelphia
and Washington. It guaranteed
seats would be available and buses
would run on-time.
“We promise to arrive within
15 minutes of the scheduled arri
val time,” Schmieder said. “Ifwc
don’t, we will give our passengers
a coupon good for a tree round
trip on the same route.”
The guarantee is good only:
through Easter Sunday, April 15, j
and must be redeemed by June
15.
Lobbyists treat legislators to night out
Sponsor calls fancy dinner,
rock concert typical functions
“X
I he wining and dining of legislators is fairly
common by all of the monied lobbyists. It is an undue
advantage over all those who don’t have those kinds
of resources.”
— John Hildreth,
executive director of Consumers Union
AUSTIN (AP) — Several state
legislators got dinner at an elegant
restaurant, tickets to a concert by
Cher and rides in white stretch lim
ousines paid for by lobbyists, two
newspapers reported Wednesday.
“This is a typical lobbyist function,
the same thing lobbyists do five
nights a week,” sponsor Dick Brown
told the Austin American-States-
man.
The Dallas Morning News said
both lobbyists and lawmakers in
volved defended the evening out
that was paid for by lobbyists for
Phillip Morris U.S.A., a tobacco and
beer company.
The head of a state consumer
igroup said the incident shows how
wealthy special interest groups can
command legislators’ attention.
The affair was hosted on the
opening day of the fourth special
session in which lawmakers are
scrambling to find ways to pay for a
new school finance system. Among
the suggestions is an increase in ciga
rette taxes.
Attending the outing were Sens.
John Montford, D-Lubbock;
Temple Dickson, D-Sweetwater;
Gene Green, D-Houston; and Ken
Armbrister, D-Victoria, plus state
Reps. Pete Laney, D-EIale Center;
Robert Earley, D-Portland; Bruce
Gibson, D-Godley; and Gwyn Shea,
R-Irving, the newspapers reported.
Montford, who said he paid for
his own ticket and dinner, and
Laney head legislative committees
studying revisions in laws governing
the relationship between lobbyists
and lawmakers.
Stan Schlueter, a lobbyist for Phil
lip Morris, said that about a dozen
people, including the lawmakers and
their guests, were taken by six limos
to dinner at the Green Pastures res
taurant in Austin and then to the
concert.
Top seats at the concert went for
$36 and meals at Green Pastures
generally run about $50-$ 100 a per
son.
Schlueter, former chairman of tilt
tax-writing House Wavs and Man!
Committee, resigned from the Leg
islature last year.
He said that the representativesol
Phillip Morris did not directly dis
cuss a proposal to raise the state tai
on cigarettes that Lt. Gov, Bill
Hobby and others have mentioned
as revenue for school ref orm.
But, Schlueter said, his company
is like many others that are con
cerned about possible tax increases
under consideration.
“We talked about a lot of business,
but I don’t remember specificall)
bringing up any tax,” Schlueter said
“You don’t go to dinner or lundi
without talking about taxes.”
John Hildreth, executive direetdf
of Consumers Union, said that suck
lobbying is not unusual for lawmak
ers.
“The wining and dining of legis
lators is fairly common by all of the
monied lobbyists,” he said. “It is an
undue advantage over all those who
don’t have those kinds of resources.
“A heavy sigh is perhaps the only
real response,” he said.
Former POW proves archives incorrect
AMARILLO (AP) — As Japanese bombers
soared overhead, Joe Gear watched his ship sail
out of Manila Bay in 1941.
After five months of combat and about four
years as a Japanese prisoner of war, Gear re
turned to the U.S. to find his records indicated
that he missed the USS Holland.
It took 48 years for Gear to convince the Navy
that he didn’t miss the boat during the Japanese
attack of Manila Bay.
“That kind of made me mad,” Gear said.
“They thought I was on leave or on the beach
drunk, and here I was over in the Navy Yard get
ting blown away.”
Last October U.S. Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, D-
Texas, notified Gear that the Naval Archives are
being updated to reflect that Gear was denied
permission to board his ship, the USS Holland, in
December 1941.
“I just wanted to get something in writing,”
Gear said. “Somewhere in my records, it says I
missed my ship.”
Gear, now 69, was a sailor in Manila, Phil
ippines, when Pearl Harbor was bombed on Dec.
7, 1941. The boatswain’s mate had been in
structed on Dec. 5 to transfer from the USS Can
opus, an old submarine tender, to the USS Hol
land, a newer submarine tender, a ship that was
used to service and lend support to submarines.
The sailor went on liberty before reporting to
the USS Holland early Dec. 7, as the alarm was
sounded signaling the attack on Pearl Harbor
and the almost-forgotten two-wave air assault on
Manila Bay.
Gear was immediately ordered to go on watch
in the Cavite Navy Yard, which was promptly
wiped out by Japanese bombers. Gear stopped to
pick up a U.S. flyer who had been shot down into
the bay.
By the time Gear returned to the USS Hol
land, the ship was under way.
“They told us to shove off,” Gear recalled.
“They weren’t going to fool with nobody. They
went to Australia. They gave themselves emer
gency orders.”
He was part of a contingent withdrawn from
Manila to the Bataan Peninsula to help hold the
morale of the U.S. Marines. When Bataan fell on
April 9, 1942, he went to Corregidor, where he
was captured by the Japanese in May 1942.
He was presumed dead and his obituary ran in
the Amarillo Globe-News in May 1942 with a
joint listing of Texas Panhandle war dead.
Gear was a Japanese prisoner of war for about
four years, until September 1945.
Gear, who now is legally blind and is confined
to a wheelchair, was shot in battle and suffered
burns from a phosphorus bomb. As a POW, he
suffered from beri-beri, malaria, dysentery and
severe starvation. Gear spent most of his prison
time in hospitals and suffered a memory loss that
wiped out many of his trials.
Gear was aboard a hospital ship in the Tokyo
harbor when the armistice was signed. The
sailor, who had spent most of the post-war years
recovering from his prison ordeals, began in the
mid-1960s his quest to set the Navy records
straight.
Having not spent much time on the USS Hol
land, it was difficult to find sailors who might
have witnessed his denied access to the ship.
“It kind of got to be a challenge to straighten it
out,” he said.
About three years ago, Gear tracked down an
Austin man who had seen the incident, but he
died before Gear could get a statement from
him.
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