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Show - Ta-- e t'H 'MIK DAILY 1 1 1 K 1 1 . i jtf'-.V j 23, 1W6 Pnmt. I'tah, Tuesday, January Electric football makes a comeback . t -- ; . , r v u ji . Where else could you see the Atlanta Falcons beat the Houston Oilers for the championship? "The video games think for wy. y 1 - VS-- . . day. t i you. With electric football, you have to think for yourself," said Chuck Jones, 33, who received his first game for Christmas when he was 5 and now customizes his r . , Jr iV's ' - . 18." fr i ... - 5 vantaged children to treatment centers for smaller numbers of troubled ones. He admits that the mailing lists probably had disproportionate numbers of orphans who did well at the institutions and in later life, and who presumably view orphanages more positively. One called the orphanage "one of the best things that ever happened to me. ... I never would have finished high school (otherwise). I think of all the brothers and sisters I would never have known." Orphanages returned to the headlines last year when Gingrich, the House Speaker, proposed denying welfare payments to teenage mothers and using the money to promote orphanages and group homes. When first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton objected, he told her to rent the movie "Boys Town." In McKenzie's memoir "The Home," he explains why he thinks such orphanages worked. McKenzie entered the Barium Springs Home for Children in North Carolina at age 10, in 1952, and lived there for eight years. He describes it as a refuge from the streets and his abusive, alcoholic alumni of three homes. He found more than 24 percent had college degrees, compared to 22 percent of Americans. The orphans had an unemployment rate of 1 percent, compared to a national figure of around 6 percent. And they had a median income 20 percent higher than people in the general population. I ? iir OTiiir ... , i"" iimiiMiii imp in i iniiiiniiiwiiwiiiiiiniiiiM iiimiihiii niiMiiil AP Photo Winter visit World champion figure skater Dorothy Hamill vis- its children at the opening of Mayo Eugenio Litta Children's Hospital at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., Sunday. Along with visits, ( . '. to skate with some of the chil- dren. The hospital has patient rooms that are private and large enough to accommodate "rooming-in- " beds for parents. Hamill took time 85-be- 1 who left before the 1960s, when the institutions changed from homes for large groups of disad- "very favorable." "The conventional wisdom that orphanages ruin kids is off base," said Richard McKenzie, an economist at the University of California at Irvine. "They were far more successful than people believe." McKenzie, who grew up in an orphanage himself, surveyed 600 'n travel. Sales of the game, which retails in stores and catalogs for between ; $50 and $60, have doubled every -year since 1991, said Miggle president Michael Landsman, who has j discovered that many fans never , . stopped playing. "The key ingredient of this , game is the sociability of it," he com-- ; said. "Unlike the hand-hel- d puter or video games, this is a peor product. This is a ? where people get together game and have fun." ',' 1 jjj naires to alumni on orphanage mailing lists. He focused on those By RICK HAMPSON Associated Press Writer Ltjttim Ill.-bas- ed duced electric football in. 1991 after Tudor was bought out.. One addiRg . major change was made a dial that allows more control over which way the plastic, mH. 5 ll . t r t- -- J : I happy memories, and their lives since haven't been so bad either. They were overall better educated than other Americans of the same race and age. They were more likely to be employed and to vote, and more than 80 percent rated their orphanage experience ' ' I if . Sk 1 NEW YORK It's not only Newt Gingrich who remembers orphanages like the movie "Boys Town." A survey of people who grew up in them found most had L"" ' opponent. Miggle Toys Inc., a Highland Park, toy maker, reintro- , lJ ri ' players with paint down to the logos on their shoes. "It's like a real game. You can feel the pressure of being the coach and the player," Jones said. Although many of the fans at the convention received their sets in the '60s and '70s, the game was introduced in 1947 by Tudor Games Co. of Brooklyn, N.Y. It hasn't changed much since then. Would-b- e coaches position tiny plastic players on magnetic bases in offensive and defensive schemes on the charged metal gridiron. When the field is turned on, a distinctive hum is heard and the board's vibrations send the men hopefulsliding down the field ly in the direction intended. A "tackle" occurs when the man with the ball is touched by an You could CHICAGO (AP) almost hear a roar from the cardboard stadium as the metal field began its vibrations and the plastic players began buzzing for greatof elecness in the Super Bowl tric football. Electric football, an American classic which saw its popularity wane with the advent of video games, is making a such a comeback that it has even inspired its own convention and Super Sun- family-oriente- d jFE . old-sty- le And they liked orphanages. Asked if they would have preferred foster care, which has virtually replaced the orphanage, 92 percent said no. "You feel the orphanage will keep you, but a foster home can get rid of you," one orphan said. "A child needs security, a constant. They cannot learn and mature going from foster home to foster home." McKenzie mailed question father. He remembers the home as a secure, stable place where he went to school barefoot but never lacked for playmates, where he worked long hours on the home's farm but had the run of 1,500 acres of unspoiled woods. He remembers house parents who were firm and caring, if not well educated. McKenzie believes that what worked for him might work for other children today. Most child care experts dis-- 1 agree. They feel a foster home is better for children than an institution, where it is harder to I get attached to parental figures. Indeed, one of McKenzie's responj-dent- s wrote that he could "recall vividly the day my father had to take me (to the orphanage). ... The pain of the stay there has never left me in over 60 years." Critics also question McKen- zie's rosy statistics. Eve Smith "of" the Child Welfare Leagu& in Washington, D.C., wjio, has studied orphanages as a social s , policy analyst, says McKenziej questioned too few orphans from( too few orphanages and failed to select them at random. .r h McKenzie admits his survey's,, possible bias, but says it's the best, attempt of its kind so far. It shoys, j he added, "that at least sorhej orphanages knew how to break the., cycles of poverty, neglect and and might be worth abuse" ' '. bringing back. The costs of orphanages, how- - " ever, may render the debate 'over," their desirability moot. Boys Town, the nation's mps.t; l j prominent orphanage, spends $45,000 to $55,000 per year pej child, not including the cost of ' fund raising and construction'-1'- ' much more than welfare or foster' ' ' ' " care. The cost per child at Barium' ' Springs never passed $5,000 per child in 1996 dollars. 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