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Show Public TV: New experience which needs no explanation; 4:30 p . m. , "Today ' s Special ," an entertainment-teaching presentation for tots ; and ' 'Square One TV , " a new entry that teaches math skills to pre-teens. Utah's other public TV. station, KBYU (Channel 1 1) offers viewing of comparable quality. Okay families, here's a challenge: chal-lenge: Swear off commercial stations sta-tions for a week and watch nothing but the two public TV channels. I dare you. Nauseated by mindless TV shows that provide a succession of casual killings, sleazy scenarios, forced humor, contrived car chases and hopelessly predictable plots? Then try something different. It's called public television, and it provides a new experience for many of us intelligent programming. program-ming. Besides, public TV has something some-thing for many from symphony concerts to science shows for sixth-graders; from World War II documentaries to George Gershwin Ger-shwin specials; from a nature production pro-duction on the desperate plight of African hippopotami to an English mystery story; from a series aimed at increasing children's interest in reading to a news presentation that digs deeply into whatever it digs into. That last item is the McNeill-Lehrer McNeill-Lehrer News Hour, which features skilled interviewers who get at the day's issues with intense, probing, don't-evade-the-question interviewing. inter-viewing. Kids' shows? Beginning at 2:30 p.m. each weekday on KUED (Channel 7) is "Threw-Two-One, Contact" a science program; at 3 , p.m. is "Zoobilee Zoo," a show that teaches children social skills; 3:30 p.m.; "Sesame Street," |