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Birmingham Pret-IIerald Friday August 10 199Ql" Features Ap IBesrgellehMg Fox move could boost WTTO-TV By Cherry Rich Poat-Hanld lUpartar Fox decision to turn 21 could nudge the Birmingham independent station Into the No 'C a Rupert Murdoch-owned network announced Wednesday that it is dropping its affiliation with WDBB-TV Channel 17 and bringing aboard Birmingham station WTTO-TV Channel 21 The changeover will occur Sept 1 Penny Haft general manager of WTTO said decision is a good move already in most time periods the No 3 station in the marketplace and very possible with the strength of Fox primetime programming that we could be No 1 or No 2 several nights a she said Charles Roundtree general manager of Channel 17 said that he too is taking a positive view of things know if this is a setback Everything has its pluses and minuses With Fox going to five nights this fall and within 12 months to seven nights they (an independent station) are controlled by the Fox is changing its current three-night-a-week broadcasting schedule to a five-night broadcasting schedule thisfalli Ms Haft said that with five nights of Fox prime-time shows WTTO will be able to reach people it haa not reached in the past Something to pay dose attention to this fall will be the battle between the favorite animated family and the already in most time periods the No 3 station In the marketplace and it's very possible with the strength of Fox primetime programming that we could be No 1 or No 2 several nights a week' Penny Haft WTTO general manager NBC hit Cosby when they square off in the same time slot Other Fox shows such as With and Living also should draw viewers to Channel 21 Ms Haft said As for the folks at WDBB Round-tree said the station wants to continue its focus on the community are moving forward into news (broadcasting) and we look forward to continuing to improve our Club1 and being involved in the community through he said is a children's show aired Monday through Friday from 6 to 9 am and 3 to 5 pm on Channel 17 The show highlights children in the community who have achieved academic excellence and teaches children about social responsibility Roundtree said the station also plans to revive its news show at 9 pm extending its coverage to an hour BookJeviews Politic! of Rich aid by Kevla PhUllpa Ru-dom Hone $1115 In a perfect world the Impact of a book should depend on what it says not on who said it But this such a perfect world Politics of Rich and Poor" subtitled and the American Electorate in the Reagan argues that American fat cats have groi increasingly bold in grabbing an obscene share of the wealth That should not surprise us after bestowing the presidency on Republicans for five of the past six terms because to quote from the introduction Republican historical role has been not simply to revitalise US capitalism but to tilt power policy wealth and income toward the richest portions of the Now the pigs have been at the trough for so long and are slurping and belching so conspicuously that the lambs the non-millionaire rest of us) are ready to rebel If the Democratic Party can produce a candidate capable of harnessing the growing populist rage the two-decade Republican stranglehold on the presidency might end This is a fine if familiar analysis face it though: If it came from the pen of some established anti-establishment activist like Ralph Nader some populist Democratic presidential aspirant like Jesse Jackson or some rad-lib economist like John Kenneth Galbraith many people would yawn But this book comes from former Nixon strategist Kevin Phillips a certified Republican whose biggest claim to fame is his 1969 book Emerging Republican in which he correctly predicted that Richard 1966 election was the beginning of a Republican White House dynasty So new book is getting a lot more attention His book forcefully argues that too much wealth in our society is concentrated at the top and mat the government has become a willing accomplice The argument is backed up with an ocean of statistical indices For example Phillips reiterates the by-now-familiar print that only the richest 10 cent of US families got any I efit out of Ronald tax cuts He makes the more novel and more subversive argument that the rich have benefited from the growth of the federal deficit by owning the high-interest bonds sold by tbe government to finance that debt The number of millionaires in the United Rates tripled during the Reagan administration (there are now more than 16 million of them) but peanuts Phillips argues Mere millionaires can hardly even be considered rich in st-Reagan America The num-t of billionaires counted by Forbes and Fortune magazines shot from ooe in 1978 to 51 In 1988 In 1987 a year with just 4 percent inflation CEOs of top corporations surveyed by Business Week got average raises of 48 percent Meanwhile the wages of workers during the Reagan wR have a new Enjoy the precious minutes of babyhood! Young mom regrets time spent wishing daughter would grow in essayV: -5 Fiction 1 Burden of Proof" Scott Turow 2 From Nsm" Daniels Steel a Tony HHerman 4 Stand: The Complete and Uncut lU- oiepnon King 5 Robert Parker 1 at George Wil 2 "Dave Barry Turns Dave Bany a Without Charles Givens 4 at the Gate: The Fal of RJR Nabisco" Bryan Burrough and John Hriyar a Son Co: My Life at IBM" Thomas Watson Jr and Peter Petra 1 and Present Tom Clancy a Innocent" Scott Turow a Piars of the Earth" KenFoOett 4 Always Something" Gilda Radnor 5 "White My Pretty One Sleeps" Mary Higgins Source PubMwraWnMy yean lost ground to inflation In addition to being a numbers junkie Phillips is a history buff His book draws analogies between the 1980s and the taro previous eras of what he calls Republicanism" the 1880s and the 1920s Both those riods of plutocratic excess rought on populist backlashes: the Populist revolt of the 1890s led by William Jennings Bryan and the New Deal era of the 1930s which ushered in a period of Democratic domination of the White House that lasted until 1968 How can Phillips who helped usher in the era of Republican hegemony now sound so angry about it? He subscribes to a cyclical theory of US political history Bv 1968 the Democratic Party had become too comfortable in power too arrogant and had begun to advance a policy agenda offensive to the majority of Americans what happen when one party is in power too long Phillips argues But now the Republicans who have become the arrogant establishment who have begun looking after the interests of their own core constituency (the wealthy) to the exclusion of the rest of the population The day of reckoning is coming for the current crop of profiteers Phillips warns because for so long will strung-out $35 0004-year families enjoy magazine articles about the hundred most successful businessmen in Dallas or television programs about the life-styles of the rich and -Erie Black Scrippa HowardUiaaeapolia-SL Paul Star Trlbeae ham Audubon birders and photographers will share their expertise on bird species fOund in the area Programs will feature raptors ducks and geese warblers birds at feeders bluebirds and hummingbirds as wen as nest box construction and how to deal with bird orphans and iqjurtes topic is Egrets and other Wading by BAS President Paul Franklin Sharing the Over 200 Easy-to-fix Heart-healthy redpes! ment Never again will your heart be so full All my love Mother Gem of the Day: After accepting J' an invitation to a dinner party Mark I Twain learned that be was to be the 13th at the table cau- tioned a friend bad luck! Twain replied The following day Twain met the friend again were right about' -that he said was bad luck There was only enough food tot You can write to Aon Leaden Pa Box 11562 Chicago BL 606111 0562 Starting Sept 1 the Simpson family motherhood You and I will have our share of heated words and angry battles in the years to come There will be days when we will find it impossible to please each other I will secretly wish that you would hurry and graduate from high school so I could send you off to college and be rid of you Life rushes by all too rapidly my darling daughter especially the lovely days and the beautiful times Be smarter than your mother was let a single moment slip away unsavored or unappreciated These days are priceless and afford you the greatest opportunities for fulfill Classified first I found myself wishing only she would start And then "If only she would start One day I suddenly realized that you were out of diapers You were indeed walking and talking and pretty soon you would be going off to school I remember the morning your father and I brought your baby sister home from the hospital You and I had been apart six days When the door opened I saw you standing there with your angel smile You seemed so big compared to the baby I was holding in my arms It was hard to imagine you were once that I suddenly realized how much of your babyhood I had wished away Being a mother is demanding It rota you of so many freedoms and I resented the fact that I had so many added responsibilities And then I looked down at your soft curls and your trusting eyes Suddenly I felt so ashamed My heart almost broke I cannot relive those first four years but I have been trying to make them up to you and to myself I hope and pray that when your first child is born you will be wiser and more mature than I was I hope you will enjoy every phase of your growing up and not wish they would hurry and pass so you could be free of the of Celebrate the PGA with Golf related Items from VilUft ob Lorei Outline Village WORKS Programs on bird watching offered Dear Aaa Landers: I clipped the the I enclosed article from Angeles Times many years ago when my twin daughters were babies I have had it taped to a kitchen cabinet in every Elace that we ave lived It has become part of my life To my knowledge this ay has never eared anywhere else I feel strongly that every mother young or old should reflect on the wisdom of this message I have applied it to my own life since I first read it Please share it with your readers Sign me A Faltkfal Fan Dear Faithful: Thank you for sending this heart-warming essay I am sure it will move millions of mothers as it moved me Here it is: Dear Daaghter Although you are only 4 years old and will not snder-stand what I am saying I feel the need to write this letter and put it away for you to read many years from now When you were an infant and the newness of being a mother wore off I wait until you grew up At opening program will be Helen Kit-tinger wildlife photographer and speaker who will show her slides of those species and explain techniques for photographing birds For those attending who wish to see those big birds of the wetlands and possibly photograph them a follow-up field trip to Lake Purdy will be offered For more information call 967-0809 849-9202 or 879-7709 Friday August 10 pjn The Shops of Colonnade 1-459 at Hwy 280 Open 9-9 Manday-Saturday 967-HMO 252-1411 Starting Sunday the Birmingham Audubon Society once again will offer its monthly series of introductory bird-watching programs Teaches sessions will be presented at 2 pm Sundays at the Alabama Wildlife Rescue Service headquarters in Oak Mountain State Park In collaboration with Wildlife Rescue Service Director Anne Miller and her staff well-known Birming- red may fade into sunset after research on colors laaocistid Ptmi CORVALLIS Oregon The days of red and blue may he numbered new evidence that old thinking on the moods colors can create may not hold true A recent Oregon State University study determined that for short periods at least the color of a space has little or no effect on mood or performance the study conducted in one-hour segments could have Implications for areas such as waiting rooms and fast-food restaurants says LoEraa an assistant professor Ms Simpson collaborated on the study done by graduate student Rebecca Ainsworth in OSlPs college home economics Meet Authors Nedra Wilson Susan Wood and sample redpes from Delicious Ways To Lower Cholesterol ($1995 Oxmoor House) athan Benton -VJ A.