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2D Georgia living The Macon Telegraph Tuesday April 21 1992 Send us camp information Each spring The Macon Telegraph runs a listing of as many sum mer activities as possible to help parents choose places for their children to visit during the seasonal school break If your organization provides a camp for children please send us the pertinent information by April 28 and include it in our list ing on May 5 We need the name of the camp address phone number fees ages that can participate and activities available Mail to Arlette Copeland The Macon Telegraph 0 Box 4167 Macon Ga 31213 WGXA have news when it first signed on Continued from page ID start spending some Although Gerdes and Heald wanted the station to have a mod em hard edged news department the station have news when it first signed on want a news depart ment until we were ready for said Gerdes Rich Klos was brought in from WAGA in Atlanta to start the news department Newspaper clips from the time said the station planned a class aggressive news opera that would be in sports and in weather Klos all the tools and he could work with the equipment we were bringing Gerdes said one in this market knew about our The first newscast aired October 18 1982 It was like many of that day where anchors spent as much time chatting with each other as telling the news But early newscasts were very progressive particularly for a mar ket the size of Macon Channel 24 hired Donna owler who had anchored news breaks on WTBS and recent college grad Dave Nemeth as its first anchor team The station also had the first meteorologist Bob Pope and the first female sports director Ali cia Ames Neither lasted long in their jobs however In March 1983 Klos quit the sta tion because of in man agerial Gerdes said at the time Dodie Cantrell who would later jump to Channel 13 where she is now news director took over for Klos as interim news director Gerdes raided Channel 13 and hired Wildman who had been re porter anchor and producer at the station for about 13 years just going anywhere over there I Gerdes said met with him a couple of times and he just seemed to fit Until WGXA signed on the only way Middle Georgia could get ABC shows was to get cable television and watch ABC affiliate About 65 percent of Bibb County was wired for cable in 1982 accord ing to Cox Cable Middle Georgia of ficials An elaborate and expensive ad vertising campaign was used to launch the station Macon was the slogan but many billboards around town played up popular ABC programs of the time wanted to localize our Gerdes said now had their own ABC station and many of them had never gotten ABC Those early days at Channel 24 were heady times for the employees Many had never been so involved with getting a TV sta tion off the ground was the most exciting job I ever said Stafford now a salesman at Channel 13 learned more there than anywhere else worked I was 26 years old at the time and I really felt like that station was part of me It was real ly Since its sign on though the sta tion has never really challenged WMAZ in the ratings Gerdes blamed that on the fact that Chan nel 13 as a VH station has a stronger signal than its competi tors God created and he said just not a fair fight but we make a living You have to be No 1 to make a Signals on the VH range are usually stronger than those on the UH range signal reach es farther than the other local sta Channel 24 for instance can be picked up over the air as far south as Cordele Channel 13 though goes almost to Tifton During the ebruary ratings peri od WGXA and WMGT were in a virtual tie Channel ratings are about the same as they were in Ju ly 1982 the first time the viewers were counted In the 10 years the station has been in operation Gerdes is most proud of the standing the station now has in Macon you asked someone to name 10 companies that are well known in Macon you leave WGXA off the list And just in 10 But these are tough times for the broadcast industry Cable contin ues its full court press on broadcast television The Big Three networks have seen their audience levels slowly decline recently and rumors continue to circulate that one or more of the networks will be out of business by the end of the know what the future Gerdes concedes of us are going to have to adjust to the but still doing fine going to continue to the di rection that TV leads us So will Channel 24 be around to celebrate 20 years on the air? I imagine we will Gerdes said with a big laugh Blacks getting better TV roles Continued from page ID among ethnic groups in the Nielsen ratings sample Nielsen bases its ratings on 4000 families nationwide and roughly 11 percent of them are black in an effort to match the demographics Recent years have seen a marked increase in TV presence Blacks played stereotyped roles in and in the 1950s and Eddie Anderson was Rochester on Jack Benny in the 1950s and 1960s Dia hann Carroll starred in the ground breaking comedy from 1968 to 1971 and Bill Cosby was the first black to star in a dramatic series alongside Robert Culp in in 1965 In the 1970s black families crowded around Jef and ford and as novel opportuni ties to laugh at other antics But only more recently have feet became more firmly planted in television NBC grabbed an instant black audience in 1984 Happy first birthday with Cosby followed by the spinoff Different Mat and and all black oriented comedies followed And the field has widened or black talk show hosts Oprah in the day Arsenio at night ox has Living a black driven show featuring pointed sa tirical sketches like Damon Way Homey the Clown play who warns kids not to let The Man keep them down Home Box Office just launched an all black stand up comedy series Def Comedy The increase because pro grammers are having a racial awakening says David Rambeau director of Project BAIT (Black Awareness in Television) in De troit With more black made films and the increased network rivalry Rambeau says networks are vying to lure the black market Or to borrow a phrase from Living about money money I Li Mi Jal ij William Alexander Johnson April 21 1991 son of Robert and Karol Johnson Macon William Daniel Mosley April 21 1991 son of William and Rene Mosley Milledgeville notebook Children who He steal need more responsibility The child who lies and steals is perhaps the most provocative and frustrating of all children ca pable of driving both parents and therapists up the proverbial wall These are problems that slip through the grasp that manage to dance through the best of traps pearl earrings been looking for were under your mat tress Susie How did they get do you mean you know? You must have put them did they just walk into your room and climb under your mattress all by know And up the wall you go You tell Susie her punishment will be worse if she continues to lie She continues to lie You tell her you punish her if she tells the truth She continues to lie You banish her to her room until ready to tell the truth She outlasts you You scream cry spank promise her a new bicycle if just please please tell the truth She continues to lie Some experts say children lie and steal because of low self esteem Others say a means of controlling the family of win ning a power struggle Some say all of the above Some will tell you they know Parenting 7 5 '3 Eg? John Rosemond Trying to explain why a child lies and steals is at best an exer cise in speculation Explanations furthermore often get in the way of solutions or those reasons I generally vote for know On to solutions! irst trust your instincts Then ask no questions If past denying the problem exists and you have a good for your child going to know at least 90 percent of the time who and when being told a lie When you discover your ear rings are missing instead of ask ing Susie if she took them say finished with my pearl earrings please put them back where you found them When you feel being told a lie say sounds like a lie to me When ready to tell the truth let me know and we can continue this Put the ball in the court and walk away Experience should tell you nothing will be accomplished by trying to catch this elusive butterfly In fact pur suit only adds fuel to the fire Next let lies distract you bump you off track The earrings are the immediate issue not Su lying next time you want to wear my earrings Susie just tell me If not planning on wear ing them Punish the deed (but only if the deed truly deserves punishment) not the lie promise things will go better if the child tells the truth threaten to make the punishment worse if the lie con tinues Stay on track Lastly provide the child the op portunity to become a more re sponsible member of the family Stop spending so much energy trying to catch lies and concen trate instead on helping the child adjust to performing a daily routine of chores around the home I find fairly consistently that the more responsible these kids become within their families the less they lie and steal Why? I know Who cares? John Rosemond is a family psy chologist in private practice in North Carolina Questions of gen eral interest may be sent to him at the Charlotte Observer PO Box 32188 Charlotte NC 28232 Calendar Cooperative Play Group 9 am noon sessions for Tues days and Thursdays or Wednes days and ridays for children ages 2 5 ree Call Elizabeth Vane at 477 5516 or Margaret Rantze at 471 6219 Tutoring sessions 4 6 pm Monday riday for grade school children at East Macon Park and Unionville recreation cen ters Tutors are students from Mercer University and Northeast High School Call 751 9282 Camp Joycliff spring break 8:15 am 5:15 pm this week ee: $12 per day Call 743 5468 Teen Makeover Morning 10 am 12:30 pm today at Macon College for students 12 years and up ee: $12 Call 471 2770 Hair and skin care fashions and makeovers In cludes a pizza party National Youth Service Day Picnic 5 pm Tuesday April 28 Central City Park Spon sored by Macon Youth Alliance and Junior City Council Enter tainment will be the at the band stand in the park ree refreshments Call Rox anne Burnham at 751 9282 for more information Sun At Night 7 9 pm Wednesday April 29 East Ma con Recreation Center Call 751 9271 An evening is for jazz lovers and those wanting to become more familiar with jazz ormat will be radio broadcast hosted by George Saunders SAT Seminar 6:30 9:30 pm Wednesday April 29 at Macon College ree Call 471 2770 to register New mommy finally realizes importance of new daddy Babytalk fl Getting to know your baby is the neatest ex perience in the world My husband counted toes and fin gers when she was bom I looked deep into her eyes to see her reaction to this new world Once home I ran to check on Natalie at ev ery cry My husband sat it out until he was sure the crying was going to last (She needs to toughen up he said) I watched the American on the amily Channel and Kevin watched a program on how to save for your education I was reacting to emotions and the and Kevin was dealing with the practical and the future The childbirth process is one area where men and women will never be equal It is a medical fact Men will never give birth and they will never nurse their children Because of this easy to alienate husbands from the whole experience of our early months My thought process was carried this child for nine months (and five days you dare forget those five days) I gave birth to this child and I am her food source Therefore I Brenda Raines Procter am the only one that can meet this inally a light bulb went on in my head I need to do EVERYTHING Diapenng bathing cuddling and playing are some areas in which men HAVE achieved equality We women just need to let them practice My husband was certainly willing been offering for three weeks Suddenly I realized that Natalie was also his child and he should have more input in her daily routine What a revelation! The very next Saturday I handed her to Kevin and said need to eat for three hours Check you And I was off to the mall I wish I could say I give them another thought but I kept wondering if she was crying or if Kevin was giving her enough attention However I made myself stay away 272 hours And to my surprise they were both down on the floor on a blanket playing when I walked in the door getting to know her daddy really well Because not working I spend more time with Natalie but when Kevin is home he spends most of his time with her Kevin may not have experienced labor and he may not be feeding her but he is equally her parent Just the other day she was crying and as soon as she heard voice she looked up at him and calmed down And just to think I almost deprived them of that early bonding Brenda Procter is a former features copy editor at The Macon Telegraph 1 1886 Personal Ads with a Personal Touch Your message may not include your own telephone number or address After you dictate your message you can choose to review it erase it and rerecord or send it So don't worry if you make a mistake you'll have a chance to do it over When you'rehappy with your message press to send it! 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