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LIFE Ann Landers: 3D Entertainment: 4, 50 Health: 6B Comics: 7B Statesman Journal Salem, Oregon Wednesday, May 23,1990 IQ) Educators wonder- if Bart sends the wrong message Healthline From staff and wire reports Bart Simpson, the eoegle-eyed car toon kid with a corrugated hairdo, is catching flak from educators in Salem and elsewhere in the United States who say his smart-alecky attitude on The Simpsons gives children the wrong message. Bart, "with his overbite and hnr.ktfllk achiever: And Proud of It, Man," T-shirt. The shirt also was banned at Cambridge Elementary School in Orange, and last week in Kentucky, Prin-cipal Lonnie Watts of Taylor Mill Elementary School declared the Bart shirt a dress-code violation. The Bad Bart movement hasn't had much of an effect at Salem's high schools. I think we have more Ninja Turtles," North Salem High School Principal Judy Patterson said.

Bart, she said, "just didnt take off as being popular. Personally, I think he's stupid." Across town at Sprague, the lack of movement is about the same. "I haven't seen many (T-shirts)," principal Tom Pickens said. "And I don't know if I would be that upset if someone was wearing one." promises Bart dolls and action figures among more than 200 Simpsons products entering stores. This summer, Burger King launches a Simpsons-based ad campaign.

In essence, Bart is fast becoming the fictional youth that U.S. children identify with most But Kolb said that adult humor satire, for example was often misunderstood by younger people. What is brushed off as just humor by adults can be picked up and misconstrued by youngsters. "It's eroding what we are doing," he Baid. "It'si a little frightening to me." While not a big movement at Waldo yet, Kolb thinks it will be, particularly if it continues into fall when students buy new school clothes.

Then the trend can be more damaging, he said. Last month, Principal Bill Krumnow of Lutz Elementary School in Ballville Township, Ohio, banned Bart's "Under- school scene yet, but he has shown up enough to cause concern in some areas. During student elections, one student at Waldo Middle School used one of the cartoon character's more questionable slogans "Eat My Shorts" on a campaign poster. "We had to have it removed," Waldo principal Mike Kolb said. "It put us in a situation that it had to go, and I felt real bad." Kolb and other educators have problems with the Bart Simpson philosophy, particularly the statement, "Under-achieven And Proud of It, Man." "It's an attack on the values that we think are important," Kolb said.

"Academic values are important." Besides being a scene-stealer on the runaway hit TV show, Bart also stars in Butterfinger candy bar commercials, and there are plans for a starring role in a Nintendo video game. Mattel Inc. Problems with exercise may not be in your head Do you have an aversion to exercise? It may not all be in your head. Muscle energy defects such as McArdle's disease in which muscle cells are not able to properly utilize fuels such as fats and carbohydrates produce an exercise intolerance that is biological rather than psychological origin. University researchers are working to improve the diagnosis and treatment of such muscle energy problems.

They evaluate patients using magnetic resonance spectroscopy and exercise monitoring techniques. Treatment includes dietary changes and special physical conditioning. "Dont have a Bart Simpson cow, man!" is this bad boy too bad? fast becoming an icon of U.S. pop culture. He's helped along by a multimillion-dollar merchandising blitz from Fox Broadcasting Co.

Bart hasn't taken over the Salem A continental quiz dlSHffc Drug for fast heartbeats will be tested on children A drug approved recently for use on adults with dangerously rapid heartbeats now will be studied on children with the same illness. Adenosine, approved in November for use on adults, will be given to children in a trial at the University of Florida. They suffer from a disease called paroxsymal supraventricular tachycardia, which affects 80 percent of children with irregular heart rhythms. It causes their pulse to soar from about 100 to 200 or more beats a minute. Computers help doctors check up while in traffic Because physicians spend a lot of time in their cars commuting between home, office, hospital and classroom chances are good that a patient will need them when they're stuck in traffic.

To meet this need, a manufacturer of health care information systems has developed a system whereby a doctor, using a lap top computer hooked to a car phone, can access patient data and relay instructions to the hospital. 8 identify the ibcatlons'tlil 1 represented by alllliilMif ppftpifWf sIBw number on t9 'f' 4 'Hl'fl '01 6 xiV 1 yy fi oiiuootuoa UBiujag 'g ipueiod 'MptS -9 4Ui V- 0MPV8 Pip IQ funded was by paid religious programming and by donations," he said. "Those two combined never met the budget. Jimmy and Joanne Thompson have had to subsidize it from South Carolina." Lewetag said the five remaining workers were paid Friday, but he didn't know about this week's checks. Becker predicted that if the station returned, it wouldn't have the same staunchly religious programming, "I don't think the donation base is here in the wake of the Bakker and Swaggart scandals of recent years," he said.

"If it had gone on the air in 1985 or 1986 more the salad years of Christian television the donations could have been' raised a lot faster. Now, people are a lot more cynical and distrust-! ing." Dove broadcasting has stations in Greenville, Columbia and Myr-' tie Beach, S.C, and Monroe, The Thompsons host the Nite Line program which is the evening programming anchor on Dove. Channel 31 broadcast a localized' Northwest version of Nite Line. Py Hank Arends The Statesman Journal After a little more than a year on the air, money woes have silenced KUTF, Salem's UHF television Channel 32. Chief engineer Ken Lewetag said Tuesday that the non-profit Salem Christian station stopped broadcasting Thursday night, but it might be back on the air soon.

The station is owned by Dove Broadcasting Inc. of Greenville, S.C. Dove founder and president, the Rev. Jimmy Thompson, is expected to decide in a few days whether the station will resume broadcasting, Lewetag said. Thompson could not be reached Tuesday.

The Rev. Carl Becker served as the station's part-time general manager until resigning on Friday. He is the pastor of the Victory Christian Fellowship of Salem and said he needed to give his full attention to the church. Becker had served as director of local operations since October. He said that programming, personnel and financial decisions were made in Greenville.

"The two ways it was being GNS graphic Many of us don't know where in the world we are Mexican author sees tense times ahead By Dawn Jackson The Statesman Journal CORVALLIS Carlos Fuentes has a way with words. Poised before his audience in in malls can be accurate Cholesterol screenings at shopping malls can produce fairly accurate results if performed by trained individuals with good quality control. A sign of a poorly run screening is when one person is doing everything: collecting money, doing a medical history, taking the blood sample, reading results and providing counseling. To get a good sample, the first drop of blood should be wiped off and the finger milked for a second drop of blood. Rest is best medicine for problems with voice Most vocal problems are a result of use, abuse and overuse.

Common complaints from singers include throat pain, soreness, hotness and strain. Rest is the best treatment, and a singer still may be able to rehearse and perform, but only after consulting a physician. Sudden hoarseness and swelling may indicate a vocal hemorrhage. Salem fatigue sufferers meet for support group The Salem Chronic Fatigue Syndrome support group will meet at 10:30 a.m. the first Tuesday of every month at at 2074 Browning Ave.

S. Information: 363-1141. to point out Miami on a map; 8.5 percent could not. More than half couldn't locate Chicago. But on Wednesday and Thursday, we hope to do better.

Participants in the society's Geography Bee are students in grades 4-8. Competing for college scholarships will be the cream of the crop from the 35,000 schools that entered the competition. Last year's winner was Jack Staddon, 15, of Great Bend, Kan. He went home with a $25,000 college scholarship. The decisive question: "Name the flat intermoun-tain area located at about 10,000 feet in the center of the Andes." The answer: Altiplano.

Staddon's learning experiences were unique. He was one of only six students attending a Seventh-day Ad-ventist Church School. But nationwide, students are not faring as well. Daniel Jacobson, geography professor at Michigan State University in Lansing, sees three reasons why U.S. citizens especially the a pnnoprvntivfi i.

4 3 r. Gannett News Service Looks like we've got another lost generation. The first one "The Lost Generation" described U.S. writers who gathered in Paris after World War I. This one refers to our knowledge of geography or lack of it.

This time, we're losing the war. While some of the nation's best young geography whizzes are competing in the 1990 National Geography Bee Wednesday and Thursday in Washington, D.C., many of the rest of us are flunking out. Fourteen percent of us quizzed by the Gallup organization could not even locate the United States on a map. Consider these facts: The Pacific Ocean is the largest body of water on the globe. At its widest, it extends 11,000 miles almost half the distance around the world.

But in a test sponsored by the National Geographic Society, 23 percent of U.S. residents quizzed couldn't identify it on a map. Mexico and Canada are our neighbors; 14 percent of U.S. residents could not locate Canada on a map; 19 percent could not find Mexi- "Teachers themselves are not exposed to as much geography as they should be. And the time allotted to geography in the schools is relatively little." Daniel Jacobson A geography professor at Michigan State University in Lansing co.

In a test of 3,000 U.S. high school seniors early this year, 13 percent couldn't find Canada; 15 percent couldn't find the Soviet Union. Young U.S. residents ages 18 to 24 finished dead last in a geography test involving Sweden, Mexico, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Canada, the Soviet Union, Japan and West Germany. They only could find an average of 7 out of 16 locations on a world map; their counterparts in Sweden found 12.

A University of Miami "professor asked his students suit, he could have been a company execu- tive or an attor- vv ing and more adaptive to the world of the 21st century." Fuentes has written several books, including The Hydra Head, Terra Nostra, and The Old Gringo recently turned into a big screen film. His writings range from political spy thrillers to a collection of erotic ghost stories, and his latest, Christopher Unborn, is a political satire on the Reagan years. Internationally known for his novels, Fuentes has won two distinguished literary honors the Cervantes prize and the Romulo Gallegos Prize. And some predict a Nobel Prize may be in his future. His accent is distinguished, indicative of his education in international law.

But he speaks about subjects he truly cares about, and ones that he has devoted his life's work to concentrating lately on the troubled relationship between the Turn to Fuentes, Page 2B. ney. But his voice and the passion reflected in it gave his identity away. Carlos Fuentes "I think the United States is very lucky to have all these migrants from Asia and from Latin America coming in," the Mexican statesman, scholar and author said Tuesday at Oregon State University. "It will make your society stronger finally.

It will make your society braver, more understand- Turn to Geography, Page 6B By Patricia Feeny Datebook People Turner's 'Cat' slinks onto TV next season NEW YORK Kathleen Turner, nominated for a Tony Taylor improves, but won't leave hospital SANTA MONICA, Calif. -Elizabeth Taylor was improv Zsa Zsa's wheels get snub at Okla. auction TULSA, Okla. Zsa Zsa Gabor's Rolls-Royce had no Frann turns in sweater to play seducing vamp LOS ANGELES Actress Mary Frann, the sweater-clad TV wife on CBS-TV's fid Newhart, moves from innkeeper to vamp in the Country: Bruce Buckley 8 p.m. to midnight, Don Brockman's Guest House, 4850 Portland Road NE, Salem.

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No date has ing Tuesday in her seventh week of hospitalization for a bout of double pneumonia. The 58-year-old actress has been hospitalized since April 9. Doctors at St. star appeal for bidders at the annual Bennett Investor Auction, who offered less than half the value. Auctioneers said the actress was driving the six-nour NRC-TV Climber's son reaches top of Mount Everest KATMANDU, Nepal One trip to the top was enough for the son of the first climber of Mount Everest.

Peter Hillary says he'll stick to smaller rocks in the future. Hillary reached the top of the 29,029 foot high mountain May 10 with Robert Hall and Gary Ball, all members of a New Zealand team. His father, Sir Edmund Hillary, first scaled Everest 37 years ago and Peter had been trying to climb it for the last eight years. He failed in his three previous attempts due to unfavorable weather and .7 mimsenes based on Jackie Col- I Xf I uns nest sell Kathleen Turner Elizabeth Taylor Mary Frann Zsa Zsa Gabor er Lucky. After seven years of playing been set yet for the start of production.

The video version of Tennessee Williams' play was among 11 new TV movie projects announced by ABC. From AP wires John's Hospital and Health Center said she was near death at one point. Earlier this month, physicians said complications involving new infections would keep her hospitalized until late June. Rolls when she had her run-in with a Beverly Hills motorcycle policeman. She was convicted on charges that she slapped the officer after he stopped her.

The Rolls drew a $23,000 bid, too low to bring a sale. Bob Newhart'8 wife, Frann transforms herself into a seductive senator's wife who introduces a gangster to the joy of sex. See the Weekend Planner section every Friday for a complete list of things to see and do..