Ottawa Herald, The (Newspaper) - January 4, 1992, Ottawa, Kansas The Inside Story Also Inside It may still be a small but todays children face some very large Page Ann 7 9 7 7 3 6 45 The Daily 3 2 Weekender 96 12 January Kansas 2424700 10 Pages 35 Cents Weekend Forecast Turning mostly cloudy Highs around with light southeast Mostly cloudy tonight with a low near Mostly cloudy Sunday with a 20 percent chance of light in the Tube makes no boobs of kids By Harris News Service LAWRENCE Children would live in a world populated by talking pup bad super heroes and stu pid parents if they believed everything they saw on But University of Kansas researchers say child ren can distinguish between fantasy and reality on and they lake reality more Kids are a little more sophisticated than we thought they Our data suggest kids keep separated in their up to a their TV knowledge and their real life said Aletha codirector of KUs Center for Research on the Influence of Television on Huston and John CRITC co arc completing a threeyear study funded by the National Institute of Mental They found that children as young as 7 were able to tell the difference between documentaries or news stories and fictionalized dramas of the same such as the wedding of Great Britains Prince Charles and Princess The children knew on occupations such as policeman and nurse differed somewhat from those in real life and they knew that the explosion of the Challenger space shuttle was real and not an action fantasy like the Star Wars Children pick up certain clues from the format of TV programs that help them tell fact from fic For during the telecast of the space shuttle they noted that the picture was shaky and that the camera seemed too far from the explosions to be part of a fictional Other responses The announcer stopped talk ing nothing happened for a while there was no and you couldnt see their Children also based their assessment of truth or fiction by watching adults reactions to the The childrens comments reflected a high degree of awareness regarding the formal features of television production associated with realistic programming and with dramatic fictional con Huston By fifth Huston children begin to judge whether TV programs seem If take a lot of information from If its a realistic even though children will assume it represents accurate infor Huston In this she child ren observe the ways family members behave to one parenting behavior in different social and ways to settle mid racial and gender But we learned that children dont just absorb everything from TV without filtering she Reality and realism are filters to help them decide which part to believe and which not to Walk on the mild By Ralph Young Kayla daughter of Tim and Nancy Mel seemed to be enjoying the unseasonably mild weather of late while taking a walk with her dad on East Wilson Friday Cloudy skies but continued mild temperatures were forecast for the Bush dons spurs to break recession By TOM RAUM Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON The Bush administration is consider ing a tax credit of up to for middleincome home buyers as it studies prop for reviving the administration and industry sources said The credit modeled on a similar tax break in the would stay on the books only for six months to a aiming to provide an immediate stimulus to the eco nomy and the stalled home building Administration speaking on condition of also said that Presi dent Bush in his 28 State of the Union address and the budget that follows is expected to call for ing the 1990 budget pact with In the administration officials have said the budget agreement is an important spending discipline that should be But with the economy the president is expected to propose using savings from further defense cuts to help finance a variety of tax breaks and other domestic the officials The budget accord sets ceil ings on defense fore ign aid and domestic spending and bars funds from being switched from one category to Bush will urge that the ceil ings be but that the rest of the agreement be modified to permit savings from defense cuts made possible by the demise of the Soviet be diverted to domestic congressional leaders promised speedy action on the economy as they briefly convened their 1992 session on Friday only to recess until later in the Sharp partisan differences over how to end the recession emerged almost Jim chairman of the Budget Com and Paul chairman of the Joint Economic proposed temporarily putting aside deficit concerns to provide roughly billion in new federal But Pete senior Republican on the Senate Budget said adding to a federal deficit already expected to hit bil lion this year would have a negative effect on interest rales and offset the gains we have seen in the last few weeks with the Federal Reserves cut in the discount House GOP Whip Newt urged caution on cutting Pentagon I do favor the maximum cuts that Defense Secretary Dick Cheney and Bush can lie But the purpose of a Continued on page 3 Soviets embrace inflation MOSCOW AP Belarus on Friday became the fourth commonwealth state to free its and most other members pledged to take the same painful step that will send costs soaring across the former Soviet In many shoppers were still not in state stores where goods were priced dramatically higher after Russia freed its prices But some private vendors had lowered their already high saying they looked for ward to President Boris Yelt sins next step By the end of January there ought to be some milk in the because then we private sellers will be able to take over the state said Valentina a teacher selling milk at a private farmers Yeltsin plans to sell off state factories and other businesses as part of his plan to replace the crippled economy with a capitalist Trying to protect themselves from the higher Russian at least six of the other 10 mem bers of the new Commonwealth of Independent States have announced reforms that will bring higher prices in their Like most common wealth members were only par lifting price controls and planned to regulate the cost of necessities such as bread and baby On Belarus raised its prices an average of 300 percent to keep Russians from surging across its borders in search of It freed prices on most while still regu lating the cost of transportation and Finney to pursue statewide school levy By LEW FERGUSON Associated Press Writer TOPEKA Joan Finney said Friday she will ask the Legislature to accept the proposal of a task force she created to have the state set a uniform property tax mill levy to help finance elementary and sec Finney commented briefly on her educational prop following a lunc heon meeting with members of the State Board of Education at Cedar the governors resi dence in northwest The meeting was part of Finneys effort to improve com among agencies of state She previous ly met with presidents of the six universities and said she plans to meet later with presidents of community I just kind of wanted to visit with Finney told the board She also urged them to force fully exercise their power as a constitutionally mandated state and pledged to fight efforts to make the board appointed rather than which is often proposed in the Besides confirming her sup port of a statewide school prop erty the governor said she endorses a recommendation of the Governors Task Force on Public School Financing that local school districts be given extra spending authority for spe cial vocational edu bilingual education and she declined com ment on whether she will sup port elimination of the payment to local school districts of 24 percent of the income tax revenue collected by the state the socalled income tax rebate that amounts to million in the current school The task force did not sped I i cally address the income tax rebate but implied the money should be distributed to the districts under the tion formula rather than simply giving it to the districts where ii is The governor gave no 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