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THE YORK DISPATCH WEDNESDAY AUGUST 20 1986 47 4t Special Webster show eyes crime of life There is something people can do when they get together: neighborhood watches safe houses for children school crime prevention programs cleaning up graffiti anti-vandalism teaching kids about drugs and Bird says The reason was chosen for prime-time series debut is that it is a show which parents and children routinely watch together McGruff tries to get kids and parents to talk about issues that may be sensitive is not scare says Bird is fighters He explains they can do something about crime McGruff is a creation of the National Crime Prevention Council which spreads the message that we are not helpless against crime everyone gets together you can actually turn around the says Allie Bird director of program development for the council peer pressure with drug abuse: If enough kids find OK to say no they can turn around the existing culture It takes some bravery in the beginning is not an inevitable fact Pefer FAVORITE GIRL Miss America Susan Akin of Mississippi will be on hand at Convention Hall in Atlantic City NJ to crown her successor in the thrilling finale of this Miss America Pageant the 33rd live telecast of which will be on NBC Saturday Sept 13 (10 pm to midnight) Is television news moire confusing? RADNOR Pa (UPI) The fast-paced nature of television news often makes the stories appear to blend into one another confusing viewers despite a cutback in the number of stories that appear on each newscast TV Guide reports In its Aug 23 issue the Radnor Pa-based magazine said a survey of one week of television news from 1976 and one week from 1986 found that TV news today is faster paced and offers more lengthy features but covers fewer headline news stories and lasts a shorter period of time Mark Levy a broadcast-journalism professor at the University of Maryland said the fast-paced nature of the news causes stories to blend into one another often leaving the audience confused research shows that as a general rule fewer and longer is better in terms of he said But he added that the trend toward a kaleidoscopic picture-magazine approach may offset the advantages that longer stories offer ry a stigma the mentally handicapped and racism kinds of shows are always a little explains executive producer Bruce Johnson want to be in the documentary message business difficult in 23 minutes to get out an entertaining show with a beginning middle and end a lot of jokes and a responsible In this episode Webster and his classmates are being terrorized by a bully who extorts lunch money from the kids There is also an epidemic of graffiti in the classrooms The kids want to rat on the bully so they pay up and shut up parents played by Susan Clark and Alex Karras hear about going on and invite McGruff to visit the elementary school McGruff played by officer Larry Manley wearing a dog costume in his first television role signs up the kids as junior crime founders when the wife publishes a bestseller ffi V'z (1947) Elizabeth Taylor Mary Astor Overcautious parents are too protective of their spirited young daughter who wants to pursue her musical interests 1:10 CD Kirlian (1983) Nancy Snyder Ted Leplat Kirlian photography techniques in which plant are registered on film1 are employed in ajmur-der case 1:30 CD Shop Around The (1940) James Stewart Margaret Sullavan Two lonely people find each other through their letters (1946) Rita Hayworth Glenn Ford The wife of a South American casino owner falls In love with her right-hand man 2:45 CD (1937) Katharine Hepburn Franchot Tone A young woman attempts to embarrass a former suitor fitter she loses in love 2:50 CD (1942) William Powell Hedy Lamarr A dignified diplomat who is an amnesiac discovers that he has led a very scandalous past 4:15 CD I Were (1933) Irene Dunne Nils Asth-er Two people each unhappily married to others meet and rescue each other from the brink of desperation Thursday Afternoon 12:00 3) Vi By (1952) Barbara Stanwyck Paul Douglas Out of loneliness a woman marries the skipper of a fishing boat but soon turns her attentions to his best friend Vi Terminal (1974) George Joan Hackett Based on a novel by Michael Crichton A man becomes a guinea pig involving electrode implanting when he suffers from blackouts which make him violent ffi (1937) Greta Garbo Charles Boyer Europe is disrupted by the obvious love affair between Napoleon and his Polish mistress Countess Valewska 3 BOB NEWHART THE ROPERS ffi CD WILD WILD WORLD OF ANIMALS BENSON ALL IN THE FAMILY VICTORY TODAY 8:00 BASEBALL PM MAGAZINE CD ED MOVIE PERFECT STRANGERS (3 WALTONS LIFESTYLES OF THE RICH AND FAMOUS: THE SUPERSTARS NATIONAL GEO GRAPHIC IN 700 CLUB 8:30 MOVIE BOSOM BUDDIES 9:00 MACGYVER 3GUNSMOKE ffi MOVIE AND TAMMY CD ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL SPECIAL COUNTRY CELEBRATES AMERICA 10:00 NEWS HOTEL (3) INN NEWS CNN NEWS 10:30 FTV 3 TWILIGHT ZONE IN THE FAMILY RICHARD ROBERTS NEWS WKRP IN CINCINNATI COMIX 3 HONEYMOONERS THE PRACTICE ZONE ffi TOO CLOSE FOR COM- FORT 11:30 0 BENSON CD BEST OF CARSON BARETTA NEJ YORK (UPI) A crime-fighting dog and a policeman from Redondo Beach Calif have teamed with ABC and a network sponsor to bring an unusual episode of to the screen tonight The special progam at 8:30 deals with kid crime graffiti school vandalism and lunch-room extortion and stars McGruff the nationally known police safety dog cartoon character whose motto is a bite out of The McGruff episode airs in the heat of the summer rerun season and before the new fall season an unusual place for a new show Even more unusual the network approached the producers of and asked whether they would be interested in doing a show on crime prevention In the past the series starring Emmanuel Lewis has addressed such issues as latchkey kids child molestation diseases that car Tonight 8:00 CD CD CD 9 Vi (1982) Meryl Streep Kevin Kline In 1947 a young writer from the South takes up residence with a Polish immigrant a victim of Nazi persecution and her intellectual Jewish boyfriend 0 V4 And (1976) James Brolin Jill Clayburgh Thirties film stars Clark Gable and Carole Lombard discover that neither the movie moguls nor the American public are ready to accept their illicit off-screen romance CD Vfe Girls In The (1979) Susan Saint James Barbara Eden Four young women working at a huge new department store must choose between love and success 8:300 (1978) Robert Urich June Allyson A Las Vegas private search for a runaway teen-ager turns into a murder investigation 9:00 CD The True (1973) (Part 2 of 2) Michael Sarrazin James Mason Dr Frankenstein creates his image of the perfect man and woman 11:30 CD Vfc (1968) Joachim Fuchs-berger Uschi Glass When two murders occur at an exclusive school Scotland Yard sifts through clues that include a hooded man and an unknown toxic gas ffi York New (1977) Liza Minnelli Robert DeNiro During the big-band era a dedicated musician finds his devotion torn between his music and his songstress wife 12 (1972) A group of deep-sea divers encounter treacherous coral reefs and deadly sharks when they set out on a photographic expedition 12:40 CD CD ED (1984) Stuart Whitman Meredith MacRae A series of murders coincides with the arrival of a dying relatives at his Acapulco home (R) 1:00 CD Vfe And The Married (1977) Joanna Pettet Barry Newman A contemporary marriage Copyright 1986 TV- Data Inc Tonight CD G) ED 63 NEWS HAPPY DAYS CD GOOD TIMES (3) DICK VAN DYKE PRIVATE BENJAMIN MACNEIL LEHRER NEWSHOUR BEWITCHED BUCK ROGERS BLACK SHEEP SQUADRON 6:30 NBC NEWS TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT CD CD CBS NEWS AND SON (3) ONE DAY AT A TIME ABC NEWS A LIVING I DREAM OF JEANNIE 7:00 WHEEL OF FORTUNE NBC NEWS DAY AT A TIME NEWS ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT NEWLYWED GAME ABC NEWS $100000 PYRAMID MATT HOUSTON (3) MARY TYLER MOORE BARNEY MILLER BOSOM BUDDIES BUSINESS REPORT HEROES ffi MORK AND MINDY GTV SPECIAL ALIVE 7:30 JEOPARDY NEWLYWED GAME MASH PM MAGAZINE PERFECT MATCH CD PRICE IS RIGHT EVENING MAGAZINE COMEDY CLASSICS 4 not at all sure that television is any better today in telling complicated he said The study which appeared in the Aug 23 issue of TV Guide also said a revolution took place in television news during the decade between 1976 and 1986 That revolution in technology has made immediate live pictures available from Beirut Moscow or Tokyo Ten years ago it took weeks to prepare for live coverage have come to expect up-to-the-minute reports by satellite from all over the the magazine said TV Guide said the news philosophy of all three networks had changed from 1976 when Walter Cronkite dominated television news with his concept of-a headline news service that told viewers what happened Burton Benjamin who produced CBS Evening News in 1976 said the show was hard news oriented We were much more Washington-conscious interviews or talk shows the magazine said debating style demands succinct and pithy comments preferably in 15-second chunks or as they are called Robert speech patterns include long pauses between words or phrases that can serve with great effect on the floor but- are deadly in the sound-bite the magazine said In the House Speaker Tip D-Mass is good on television and is only man who looks like he ought to be Speaker of the House He is credible and TV Guide said House Majority Leader Jim Wright D-Texas while a great debater is theatrical for the magazine said works in debate on the House floor exaggerated gestures overstated rhetoric work for it said Senators adjust quickly to TV Goff MD 1 Sometimes the blood is a midrange color Doctors call this the and it may reflect bleeding from the small intestine or upper colon Small amounts of blood may be invisible to the naked eye Tiny quantities of bloody leakage from polyps or small cancers may become diluted by and mixed with the stool so that no discoloration is noticeable In such cases the chemical stool-blood analyses become exr tremely useful For this reason many doctors are now urging patients over 50 to have regular screening tests for blood in the stool The tests are cheap reliable safe and easy DEAR DR GOTT Does cigar smoking do as much damage as cigarette smoking? DEAR READER Tobacco is tobacco dangerous whether it is smoked sniffed or chewed Cigar and pipe smokers generally inhale so they are statistically at less risk than are cigarette smokers However cigar and pipe smoke when inhaled can do as much harm as the cigarette variety Non-cigarette tobacco users have an additional problem: an increased incidence of lip mouth and throat cancer DEAR DR GOTT My daughter gets migraine headaches that her doctors say are the worst seen Do you have any suggestions? No drugs seem to ease the pain' DEAR READER Some forms of migraine seem to be triggered by stress temperature change and certain foods Your daughter might have to experiment a bit to determine if these factors are contributing to her headaches In addition many patients can reduce the severity and frequency of attacks by taking the prescription medicine propanalol Finally your daughter might be helped by a referral to the headache clinic at a teaching hospital Ask her doctor about this DEAR DR GOTT What is alopecia areata and what causes it? DEAR READER Alopecia areata is a disease of unknown cause that is characterized by round patches of baldness on the head and other body areas Although the condition' can clear up within a year it tends to recur Questions may be addressed to this column care of The York Dispatch 15-17 Philadelphia St York Pa 17401 Judds vying for award i NASHVILLE Tenn (UPI) The Judds and Reba McEntire got five nominations each for the 1986 Country Music Association awards it was announced and George Strait and Randy Travis were nominated for four awards each The announcements of the five finalists in 12 categories were made at a news conference at the Grand Ole Opry House The winners chosen by vote of the membership of the industry organization will be announced during a nationally telecast show in October The Judds daughter Wynonna and Naomi were nominated for Entertainer of the Year the top award and Vocal Group Single Album and Video awards The Judds previously won CMA awards for top newcomers Vocal Group and Single record McEntire was nominated for Entertainer Female Vocalist Single Album and Video She was named Female Vocalist in 1985 Strait a onetime Texas rancher who specializes in traditional country music was nominated for Entertainer Male Vocalist Single and Album Travis a North Carolinian who has already seen his first two single releases reach No 1 on the country charts was nominated for Male Vocalist Horizon (new star) Single and Album Also winning nominations for Entertainer of the Year were Willie Nelson and Ricky Skaggs who won the award last year note: No advice offered in a column of medical opinion should take the place of an examination by a physician or physicians DEAR DR GOTT How useful and accurate are tests that detect blood in the stool? What does blood in the stool look like? DEAR REXDER Modern tests for blood in the stool are highly sensitive They can detect small quantities of blood In fact they are so sensitive that they can show a positive reaction in some people who have eaten red meat the day before the stool analysis was obtained Blood from the upper intestine including the stomach often will color the stool black Doctors refer to this as and the description is accurate The blood turns black because it is digested before it is expelled Bleeding from the lower intestine is often red Bright-red bleeding can be seen in diseases of the colon and rectum including hemorrhoids Tonight LIFESTYLES OF THE RICH AND FAMOUS: THE SUPERSTARS Robin Leach traces glamorous history through footage of film premieres and parties profiles of sex goddesses and gossip columnists real estate tours a fashion show and celebrity interviews including Jane iRus-seli James Stewart and Kirk Douglas CD NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Pernell Roberts narrates this study of the alligator and its relationship with the plants and animals inhabiting the 700 square-mile Okefenokee Swamp In stereo (R) 9:00 CD ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL SPECIAL A veterinarian returns to his Yorkshire home at the end of World War II finding relationships with his loved ones changed and re-adjustment difficult Stars: Christopher Timothy Robert Hardy COUNTRY CELEBRATES AMERICA This 1984 Independence Day concert from the Mall in Washington DC features performances by Roy Clark Janie Fricke Mel Tillis Razzy Bailey and BJ Thomas In stereo (R) a 12:00 12:30 2:00 2:15 2:30 2:45 2:50 3:00 3:30 4:00 4:15 4:30 4:40 TJ HOOKER MASH ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT MOVIE 3 700 CLUB THE PRISONER ffi HAWAII FIVE-0 SWAGGART SCTV WKRP IN CINCINNATI TJ HOOKER NIGHTLINE LATE NIGHT WITH DAVID LETTERMAN SAINT LIFESTYLES OF THE RICH AND FAMOUS (R) 3 MOVIE ffi COMEDY TONIGHT ffi CNN NEWS MOVIE ffi MOVIE NEWS ffi INN NEWS MOVIE HEADLINE CHASERS PRICE IS RIGHT MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE NEWS MOVIE REAL TO REEL TIC TAC DOUGH MUPPETS NIGHTWATCH FORUM FIFTEEN NEWS LUCY MOVIE MOVIE ffi MOVIE INCREDIBLE HULK ffi MOVIE ABBOTT AND COSTELLO ffi GET SMART ffi LOST IN SPACE RADNOR Pa (UPI) Television is a relative newcomer to the US Senate but already some senators are masters of the medium TV Guide magazine says Take Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole for example He may be the most effective Washington legislator on television the magazine says because he comes off as credible cool and Dole just plain effective on CBS congressional correspondent Phil Jones told the Radnor Pa-based magazine knows how to give you a sound cut that is pertinent and has an edge to But other powerful senators fare poorly on TV- because they show distinct discomfort in front of the red light or simply do not have an effective television presence Senate Democratic Leader Robert Byrd while master of his chamber does not do so well in television Homes Bought Sold Here: YORK DISPATCH REAL ESTATE ADS 854-1575 7:30 am James Robison 1130 pm Jimmy Swaggart 10:00 am 800 pm The 700 Club 1230 pm 9 00 pm Jim Bakker Sunday Morning IV -You ri Family A I.