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children TV for more and better seeks WASHINGTON (AP) The television Industry nas failed to meet It obligations to chlldreniand should be required to set aside minimum amounts of programming for them, the staff of the Federal Communications Commission sold today. -v The staff, in a report to the commission, said the Industry has not complied with voluntary FCC guidelines In effect since 4974 and "Is unlikely without further government action to Increase voluntarily the amount of educational programming for children." The report recommended that commercial stations be required to offer at least 2'A hours of programming directed at school-age children as well as 5 hours aimed at Programs and commercials aimed at children have been an Issue since 1960, More than 100,000 letters were received by the commission after it launched an Inquiry in 1971 at the request of the private, Bos- ton-based Action for Children's Television. That inquiry led to the guidelines issued in 1974. Stations were given until Jan. 1, 1976, to comply.

While the FCC has no means of enforcing the. standards, It can take them into account in renewing stations' licenses, a review broadcasters must submit to every three years. The guidelines ask stations to: Provide a variety of programs for children, Including shows furthering their "educational and cultural development." Aim various shows, particularly those that are educational, toward specific age groups. Change schedules so the majority of children's shows are on weekdays. Limit commercials to 9'4 minutes per hour with clear separations between the programs and commercials.

Eliminate the practices of promoting products within a show and of having a character from a show promote a product during a commercial. is separately investigating television advertising aimed at children, suggested the FCC await that report before taking any action Itself. While children's television has been scrutinized and criticized for decades, FCC Chairman Charles D. Ferris said earlier this year It has not improved as he had hoped. "Television is a child's work, play, fantasy, best friend and source of information about the world.

We as adults reserve our highest expectations for children's programming. We expect it to entertain, excite, enchant, enhance, and educate our children. We expect wit, humor and sensitivity, as well as truth," Ferris said. preschoolers week. All would be on weekdays under the staff proposal.

The staff report saw little hope for improved children's programming on commercial television beyond meeting any mandatory, minimum time requirement, and urged the commission to encourage alternative program sources such as pay and cable television. The report also called on public broadcasters to IncreaWChlldren's programming. The report, compiled by a staff task force, said the IndustrV has by and large complied with the commission's 1974 advertising guidelines. And 'the staff task force, noting that the Federal Trade Commission a is voz: The Daily Paper of Racne County Racine, Wis. 634-3322 36 Pages 6 Sections 20c Oct.

30, 1979 Woes plague Ponmit Beachr. Ziomi A-pIaim4s Wisconsin Electric Power Co. and Commonwealth Edison Co. are having problems at their nuclear power plants. The Associated Press says Wisconsin Electric reported it is having a continuing problem jwith deteriorating steam tubes at its Unit 1 nuclear power plant at Peijtf (Beach and might have to steam generators.

Commonwealth Edison's problem involves nozzles in generators at the company's Zion nuclear plant. One of the generators has been shut down because of possible cracks in the nozzles. The Point. Beach unit, one of two, had been taken out of operation Oct. 5 for refueling and routine maintenance and to inspect the tubes.

It was found that 75 tubes had to be Deprogram abduction claimed TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) Leon County authorities are Investigating the apparent kidnapping of a Florida State University student who says he was held for three days by several men Intent on "deprogramming" him from his religious beliefs. Peter William Steuer, 23, a junior from Milwaukee, told police Sunday he was taken to a fish camp in Wewa-hitchka In rural Gulf County last Wednesday and held against his will by men who bombarded him with questions about his religion. "Believe it or not, it's on the level," said Tallahassee policeman Mitch Miller. "Everything (about "Steuer's story) fits in.V The sheriff's department took over the investigation from the Tallahassee police Monday.

"No arrests have been made," county spokesman Dick Simpson said "We're still in the process of investigating the incident." Steuer was unavailable for comment but told Miller earlier he was a member of a Wisconson religious group called "The Way," which was described as a non-denominational Bible study group. Steuer said he comes from a strict Catholic family that believed he was involved with a religious group similar to the Unification Church of Rev. Sun Myung Moon. Neither police agency would say who was suspected of hiring the alleged deprogrammers. Steuer told Miller he had just parked his pickup truck in downtown Tallahassee Wednesday when he was grabbed by two men and forced into the back seat of a car.

He said the men told him they were taking him to see his father. Steuer told of being taken to a fishing camp at Dead Lake in Gulf County and locked in a room at all times when he was not being questioned by the five men. He said he escaped Saturday evening after four of the five men left the house after watching the Florida State football game on television. He called some Tallahassee friends from a phone booth. The friends picked him up and brought him back to the Campus Sunday morning.

Poison gas use by Viets claimed Chicago sanitation workers used rake cared for a sick friend during the day and shovel to remove 10 tons of carhapp ch haH nn in iob. irh plugged and iakea put of service. That 17 years of mess 'tors were $30 million to $40 million. He said that, if replacements had to be manufactured, it would take two to three years for their fabrication and installation and the unit would have to be down for six months for the replacement work to be done. Burstein said it was possible that the unit would have to remain shut down until the replacement generators could be installed.

He said Unit 1 represents about 12 percent of Wisconsin Electric's system capacity and produced 20 percent of its energy requirements in 1978. Any reduction in the unit's output would mean that replacement power would have to be supplied by the company's fossil-fueled plants or purchased from other utilities, he said. Burstein has said that the corrosion problem in the tubes does not present a significant safety concern. The corrosion has been attributed to phosphates Used to condition water. The utility believes that the difference between the rate of leaks in the two units has occurred because phosphates were used in Unit 2 for two years, compared with nearly four in Unit 1.

Unit 1 went into service at Point Beach in 1970 and Unit 2 began operating in 1972. A Commonwealth Edison spokesman said Monday the utility stopped Unit 2 generator Saturday after an inspection revealed the possibility of cracks in nozzles on the other generating unit at the site. The spokesman, Jeff Kratcz, said there was no radioactive danger posed by the possible cracks. The nozzles carry nonradioactive water. tum tiasu a n-ycur ane woricea nignisas a cleaning iaay.

from the home of Mary McCarthy, left. (Story on Page 4C.) The woman stated that because, she Ap wirephotos Dalton trial near en orougni xne numoer ui piuggeu tuucs to 326 of the 3,260 in the generator. No radioactive materials are' Involved, the company said. Executive Vice President Sol Burstein said the utility has ordered metallurgical analyses of the tubes in an effort to end further degradition. But he said Wisconsin Electric also is looking at reducing power.

"We are including replacement of the steam generators as one option," he said. If replacements have to be manufactured, he said, two to three years would be required for their fabrication and installation. Unit 1 was, not scheduled to return to service until Nov. 12 and now will remain shut down until repairs or replacements are made. Burstein said preliminary 'estimates for the cost of replacing both genera- By Dennis Hetzel Journal Times Staff KENOSHA Lawrence Dalton never intended to kill Blanchie Penna.

He "intended to hold her and make her one of his girls," Dalton's attorney told a Winnebago County jury Monday. The attorney, Myron Keyes, made his opening statement just before he began calling defense witnesses Monday. 1 Keyes wants to call three psychiatrists to testify as to whether Dalton's mind was so depraved that it limited his ability to form an intent to kill Daniel Bell family suing for $265 million Testimony has shown that on the day of the murder, Lawrence Dalton picked Blanchie Penna up at her house at 3407 17th St. and took her to 12600 Sheridan Road. Karen Dalton and Filipski testified that Dalton dominated them through the use of physical abuse, blackmail, threats with pornographic pictures and threats to their children.

They again recounted Dalton's "bizarre sexual habits with them and other females, including a 14-year-old Brooklyn, N.Y., girl who Lawrence Dalton, Karen Dalton and Filipski are accused of sexually abusing in their Waukegan, 111., residence this year. When the girl escaped and got to police, authorities arrested Filipski and Karen Dalton and learned about the Penna murder. Keyes asked the two to describe how they treated the 14-year-Old girl. Both said they performed some sexual acts with her at Lawrence Dalton's demand. They also said they hit her several times because she was misbehaving.

They denied that Karen Dalton shaved the girl bald. They called her "the Little Princess," they testified. Responding to Keyes" questions, neither said they were jealous about the girl's relationship with Lawrence Dalton. (Turn to DALTON Page 2A) However, Dr. Leslie Fai, Kenosha, said he believes Dalton was capable of forming an intent to kill.

Fai said Dalton's personality disorder did not interfere with his "capacity to understand if his actions were wrong or right." ti It presented a thorny legal problem for Kenosha Circuit Judge Burton Scott, who ordered two lengthy recesses to consider whether jurors could hear the psychiatric testimony. Scott and District Attorney John Landa, who wanted the testimony excluded, indicated the judge's decision would be in a murky area of Wisconsin law involving cases in which psychiatric testimony is offered about "mental depravity," but not insanity, in cases involving possible verdicts of second degree murder. Scott had not ruled on the question by 11:45 a.m. today. If jurors hear the psychiatrist's testimony and accept Keyes' defense, they will convict Dalton of second-degree murder instead of first-degree murder.

Dalton is not expected to take the witness stand. The jury could begin deliberating the case sometime tomorrow, officials indicated. Keyes began his defense Monday by recalling Karen Dalton, 25, the defendant's fourth wife; and Barbara Filip-ski, 27, his girlfriend who was at the Sheridan Road residence on Aug. 31, 1977, the day Penna was strangled. Penna, a 23-year-old Racine woman whose body was found buried in front of Dalton's former residence at 12600 Sheridan Road.

Dalton also is charged with kidnapping and raping Penna. Such depravity is a key to a finding of second degree, rather than first degree, murder. Outside the jury's presence this morning, two psychiatrists testified that they diagnosed Dalton as an antisocial personality. Dr. Vincent Gian-nattasio, Milwaukee, said he does not believe Dalton intended to kill Blanchie Penna, but strangled her because she resisted his sexual advances.

The doctor said Dalton was a sadistic, sexual deviate. His behaviour with young females was pretty consistent," the doctor said. "Either they do it voluntarily or he'd do it against their will he'd gain pleasure by inflicting pain." subsequent inquest, and former Police Chief Howard Johnson. At the inquest, Grady said Bell' lunged at him with a pocket knife and that he shot in self defense. But Louis Krause, Grady's partner, told prosecutors this year that Grady placed the knife in Bell's hand after shooting him in the back at close range.

The Bell family, which received in 1961 in settlement of an earlier claim, is asking for $129 million in compensatory damages and $136 million in punitive damages. The suit also is against unidentified officers and supervisors who allegedly participated in a cOverup of the death. MILWAUKEE (AP) Twelve brothers and sisters of Daniel Bell, who was shot to death by a Milwaukee policeman 21 years ago, filed a $265 million lawsuit against the city and two former police officers in U.S. District Court Monday, i The suit claims that Thomas F. Grady a former police officer who has admitted shooting Bell, and other members of the police department sought to deny Bell his civil rights because he was black.

Named in the action were Grady, who pleaded guilty in August to homicide by reckless conduct and perjury in connection with Bell's death and a ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) Gov. Al Quie, just returned from a trip to Southeast Asia, said Tuesday that some Cambodian refugees made "heavy accusations" that Vietnamese soldiers were using poison gas. Quie was one of seven governors who toured refugee camps in Thailand just before returning to the U.S.

"Among the people there are heavy accusations of poison gas people showed blotches on their skin which they said were caused by poison gas," Quie told reporters. oman judge in line to head new agency On the inside: Government index designed to forecast economic trends showed surprising strength in -September. Page 2 A. said. "I am certain she will be an outstanding secretary." She is now on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in California.

"I have intense concern about the quality of education for all Americans, particularly those in primary and secondary schools," she told the newspaper shortly after her meeting with Carter on Monday. "But I don't have any specific ideas right now about the Department of Education because I simply don't know enough about the entire program." Judge Hufstedler lives in Pasadena, with her husband, Seth M. Hufstedler, a prominent California attorney. She has one son, Steven. Observers of the federal judiciary Willie Mays leaves baseball for a public relations job with an New Jersey casino.

Page IE. for Humanistic Studies. The legislation creating the Cabinet-level: Education Department was signed into law by Carter on Oct. 17, setting in motion the bureaucratic machinery that will lead to establishment of the department. This will be the second Cabinet department established during Carter's presidency.

His administration set up the Energy Department in 1977. The new department will bring together 152 of the government's educa tion programs, absorbed from five existing departments. The largest segment will come from the education division of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. HEW will become the Department of Health and Human Services when the new education agency begins In 1969, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed her to the 9th U.S.

Circuit Court of Appeals, making her only the second woman to be named to a circuit court position and the first to the appeals court level. Her professional life has been devoted to the practice of law. She was born in Denver and graduated from the University of New Mex--ico in 1945 and the Stanford Law School in 1949, where she served on the Stanford Law Review. She began practicing law in 1950 and was appointed a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge in 1961. 'In 1966; she was appointed to the California State Court of Appeals.

She has a strong interest in education, serving as a trustee of the California Institute of Technology, Occidental College and the Aspen Institute WASHINGTON (AP) President Carter today chose Shirley M. Huf-stedler, the first woman federal appeals judge, to be the first secretary of the Department of Education. Carter, in a statement read to reporters by a spokesman, called Mrs. Hufstedler "one of the best minds in the country to fill the Deputy White House press secretary Rex Granum said Mrs. Hufstedler, 54, met with Carter Monday afternoon, when the job offer was made and accepted.

Her selection is subject to Senate confirmation. Mrs. Hufstedler is the third woman named to a Cabinet post by Carter. The others are Commerce Secretary. Juanita Kreps and HEW Secretary Patricia Roberts Harris.

The president, in his statement, said Mrs. Hufstedler "could take a new fresh look at the way we educate our SHIRLEY HUFSTEDLER Ann 4BHoro lrid8e Local IB 5.USin,'""" Obituaries 3D 3D0plnl0B 8A 3CRegonal 3BSport5. I Deaths lBsTf rr. i Dial for 3CState- children." consider her liberal-to-moderate in her "She is deeply committed to the Judicial philosophy; she had been men-quality of education and enjoys my tioned as a candidate to be the first full confidence and support," Carter woman on the U.S. Supreme Court.

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