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twenty two news MAY 20, 195 CRIME BUSTING TEAM Handsome motion picture star John Howard and rugged Walter Sande will be seen in an exciting mystery series on KFAZ-TV, Channel 43. Howard plays the role of a public official who often finds it necessary to out-shoot, as well as out-smart, his criminal opponents, Sande backs him when the situation threatens to get out of hand. TV Cuts Down Conversation, Reading; Keeps People Up Henry Ford is said to have scattered the American family all over half acre; now television is bring it back together again. Repeated surveys and sociological studies show that statement is not much exaggerated. Take these random comments by television owners from a recent U.

S. C. study, as reported in Survey magazine by Frank Riley and James A. Peterson: family now stays at home all the time and watches television. We turn it on at 3 p.m.

and watch it until 10 p.m. We never go husband was always restless and never wanted to stay home, but now wants to watch sports on Families Visit Less Or take the finding, in the same survey, that two-thirds of television families do less visiting than formerly, while only one-sixth of non television families reported less visiting. Two-thirds of television families also said they were doing less reading was down in only one-fourth of non-television families. It to be true that television not only keeps the family at home, it also cuts con- versation between family members, at least during viewing hours. Advertest Research of New Brunswick, N.

found that it was not materially affected by tele- vision, but magazine reading was down 25 per cent. The Newell Emmett Advertising agency of New York, in a continuing study of a community of 40.000 people, found that 78 per cent of the children and teen-agers see television on an average night, but that only 48 per cent of grown sons and daughters, and 70 per cent of adults, watch it regularly. Sets Tuned Four Hours Even after three years of television in the community, the comparison between television and television families was about the same as in the U. S. C.

study, where television was new. The average set was tuned on four hours at night. A study in the Chicago market means more to low income groups than to high income families. One- fourth of the low income families said they visit taverns and bars less frequently since they got television. Television has also been called poor Paul Witty, professor of education at Northwestern university, said the average grade school pupil in Evanston, 111., spends 3.12 hours daily watching television.

Pupils in non-television homes spend 1.69 hours daily watching television generally for their children. Teachers are somewhat more critical of television than are parents. About 75 per cent of parents in Dr. study either liked television generally for their children. or liked specific programs.

Nearly half of the teachers, however, were critical of the low quality of television programs for viewing by children. Sociologists are worried about the negative effect of television on playtime. While there may be nothing wrong with a watching television they point out. the result may be damaging if the time is taken away from active play. Youngsters may also be losing too much sleep.

Los Angeles surveys showed that one program had 110,800 children in its audience at 10 p.m., and another program had 13,300 kid watchers at 11:30 p.m. Responsibility of parents for getting their youngsters to bed is sharply pointed up by these figures. Several studies point out that television has the effect of reducing active participation in sports and increasing vicarious (spectator) participation. Television is also having its effect on social customs. Arbiters of etiquette say that unannounced guests, calling at a home where a television show' is in progress, should quietly find seats and watch the show without making any conversation.

a little remote from traditional rules of hospitality. I People are also urged not to go calling during hours when much- viewed shows are on the air. If quality of television shows keeps going up, that means that evening calling will be out between the hours of 6 and 11 p.m. any night. Or will it? One writer holds that while television may always hold the center of the stage in the living room, radios will crop up in kitchens, bedrooms, dens and workshops.

Who can imagine the breadwinner of the family bolting his breakfast while he watches an early morning television quiz show? But he can still catch the news on the radio while he scalds his throat with coffee. L. R. GUYON Prep Man Is Important At New KFAZ-TV L. R.

Guyon will handle all props for the staging of'shows over KFAZ-TV, which, in itself, will be a full-time job since these backgrounds will have to be changed with no slip-up or delays, A resident of Monroe for the past 28 years, Guyon came here irom Jena. He has previously worked as a Deisel engineer for the Ayers Machinery Works of New Orleans, outfitters for sea-going vessels. He is married to the former Miss Blanche Tradewell, also of Jena and resides at 1608 Florida Street. Baltimore Tries TV Teaching As Schcois Closo Nearly 20 per cent of all the television and radio receivers made in the United States are produced in the Chicago area, reports Admiral Corporation. Philadelphia ranks second in TV and radio production, followed by New York and Syracuse.

BALTIMORE Researchers have been diving for the answers to a raft of ques ions which bobbed up from dramatic experiment of teaching school by television. They made clear at the outset they probably will answer to 21-INCH DE LUXE CROSLEY CONSOLI The Executive. You get and keep a clear, steady picture thanki to Crosley's Automatic Focus. Built-in VHF ond UHF antennas. Proper antenna automatically selected.

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trying to find out what those values For three days after the 1952-53 Christmas vacation, 60 per cent of Baltimores 177 public schools were closed by a strike of janitors. Accepting an offer by television station operators, school officials embarked on a plan to salvage some of the lost teaching time by beaming TV lessons into the living rooms of 100,000 students. Reporting to their unheated schools on the morning of Jan. 6, Baltimore students received home i assignments, were told to dial certain TV or radio programs in connection with their studies, and then were dismissed. The broadcast lessons included everything from spelling to a demonstration on the flight of an airplane.

They were staged for every age and class level from first- graders to high school seniors. Adults watched too. heard of one said Fischer, had never gone very far in school. He turned on his TV set and told his wife, the store, please. time for my class on Then there was the housewife whose friend telephoned to ask whether her children were school via television.

children she ad- Oscar Has A Sister, Emmy heard of symbols of top achievements in the opinion of the Academy of Motion Pcture Arts and Sciences. Now Oscar has a sister award from the great new entertainment mitted, my mother Response to the televised lessons was immediate and heavy, says Fischer. Typical was one caller who said the shows had given him a new slant on modern teaching methods, which stress learning by doing rather than by rote. The caller said the TV lessons had convinced him the new ideas after all. A teachers college in the Midwest asked for details of the plan.

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The yearly awards were created to encourage research and high levels of artistic and scientific achievement, according to ATAS. Last month in Los Angeles a dozen of the graceful, winged fig- urines were distributed in recognition of top TV programs and talent. Lucille Ball was a double winner, sharing one award with her husband. Deal Arnez, as co-stars of the CBS-TV situation comedy Love Her other honor was as best comedienne. Best dramatic show was the NBC TV Montgomery Show of was named the best variety program.

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