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Show The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, AprU f 9, 1978 VfM" ': '&' '? M ,. Students Grades Thrive Best on Diet of Low-TBy Chris Ronnell nationwide math test, the National Assessment of Educational Progress Associated Press Writer reported Saturday. fiO 'WASHINGTON More than The study was based on a questionof the nation's percent' naire given 10,000 students who took the five than a less on hours week spend homework, and most watch at least one test in 1070 The National Assessment a is "hpur of television on school nights, a research group, funded by the federal government but run under contract new study shows. with the Education Commission of the ' The more homework the s States, which is based in Denver. did and the less television they Thirty percent of the watched, the better they fared on a said they do 5 to 10 hours of homework -- -- teen-ager- percent spent five hours or more in front of the tube nightly. weekly, and 6 percent said they spend more than 10 hours. Slightly more than half reported doing less than five hours, while an additional 7 percent said they didn't do their assigned homework, and 6 percent said none was assigned. Nearly half said they watched no television or less than one hour on school nights iSunda through Thursday), but 35 percent watched from one to three hours nightly, 12 percent watched three to five hours nightly, and 5 Federal education officials estimate the average child has watched 3,000 to 4,000 hours of television before entering first grade, and up to 15.000 hours by c ge 16. That is more than the time spent in classrooms Roy Forbes, director of the National Assessment, expressed surprise at one of the study's findings: contrary to the GOP Counts Its Wealth j&s Demos See the Red By Don McLeod Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON The Democrats jare even deeper in debt than they had feared while Republican coffers continue to swell, according to a Federal Election Commission report on 1977 jHilitical finances - The FECs report, released Saturday, 'also shows rapid growth of political action committees fmnied by special Interest groups. These committees took 4n some 133.2 million last year, almost much as both the major parties combined. i. ;The new figures were based primarily on quarterly reports filed with the commission through Dec. 31, also took into account monthly Reports through Feb. 28. year's end, the Democratic Party ?v Number Down lln Migration From Farms tC By Don Kendall zg Associated Press Writer The government WASHINGTON laid Saturday that the migration of 6ple from farms slowed a bit last ear after spurting up sharply in 1976. 1A report by the Bureau of Census and Agriculture Department said that in $T7 approximately 7,806,000 persons iyed on what federal experts classify tij'farms, a decline of 450,000, or 5.4 Ifrcent from the 8,253,000 residing on aijns in 1976. IJowever, the flight from farms was drastic in 1976, when farm papulation decreased 6.9 percent, or $1,1,000 from the previous year. This tQected in part the high cost of firming and shrinking profits that have pegurred since commodity prices drop-frotheir record levels in 1973-7Another Light liviewed in another light, the 1977 farm population represented only 3.6 percent (the U S. population of 215.9 million. Iiy S970, when 9,712,000 persons were on fgrms, they represented 4.8 percent of HjaU.S. population of 203.2 million. tThe report said that since 1970 the farm population has dropped an aver- of 3.1 percent a year. But within that period some of the declines were trailer than average, and in one year U J972 the farm population actually piined almost 2 percent. IjBy government definition a farm can t as small as 10 acres and produce as hftle as $50 worth of products for sale $nnually. It also includes persons living ogless than 10 acres if they sell at least $260 worth of products a year. Number Declines The report said that from 1970 to 1977 tle number of blacks on farms declined ip. average of 10.3 percent a year against 2.5 percent for white farm residents. There were 849,000 blacks on farms in 1970 and 397,000 in 1977. W'hites limbered 8,775,000 in 1970 and 7,349,OoO fast year. Vera J. Banks, an Agriculture De pgrtment demographer who worked tle report, said the decline in farm population since 1970 contrasts with renewed growth that has been for the population as a whole during that period Ms. Banks said her personal view is that the movement of many industries and businesses to smaller cities and tons in open country" of rural inareas the has been an important factor farm population decline of recent fcjore tit 1 widely-reporte- ytars. Just Give Lj Up As more employment opportunities become available, these people who are farms are on small, I1 $ble to get employment elsewhere." she said. A lot of them just give up fcrming entirely." This also fits the pattern of the sharp online of blacks in the farm populabecause they are tion, she said, concentrated on these small farms" hich have been Ijeset with high costs ot) minimal returns for what they are able to produce. Although the study did not mention the actual numbers of farm units, those also have been declining. had bills amounting to some $2.67 million, more than twice what it had on hand, compared with a surplus of $9 million for the GOP. The commission said the Republican National Committee raised and spent $16.9 million during the year, compared with $6 million for the Democratic National Committee The Republican House and Senate campaign committees raised $10 million during the same period while their Democratic counterparts took in only $1.3 million. Republican Income Total adjusted receipts for all national-level Republican groups were $28.2 million, with disbursements of $25.7 million, contributions of $900,000 to its candidates and debts of $420,000 Counting reserves and funds carried over from the previous year, the GOP had $9.4 million cash on hand in early 1978, the report said All national-leve- l Democratic groups, by contrast, raised a combined total of $7.9 million last year, disbursed $7 million, gave only $29,000 to its candidates and wound up with only $12 million cash on hand against a $2. 67 million debt. Most of the debt is a carry-ove- r from the burden the national party shouldered after the 1968 presidential campaign, principally the campaign debts of Hubert H. Humphrey, its presidential nominee that year, and Robert F. Kennedy, who was assassinated while running for the nomination. Campaign Drain Democratic National Chairman John White had been talking about a $2 million debt when he assumed office in January, saying he hoped to be able to pay it off this year. But W'hite conceded last week that the drain of financing 1978 campaigns may prevent that. t An earlier FEC report covering of 1977 had shown the Republicans with $8 million cash on hand and the Democrats with only $800,000. This sparked an abortive attempt by congressional Democrats to limit the amount parties may give their House and Senate candidates. That fight resulted in killing, at least temporarily, the entire election reform bill, including an effort to convert congessional elections to public financing. Public Financing Citing the influence of special inteest money. Common Cause, the citizens interest group, asked House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill and other Democratic leaders last week to give the House another chance to vote on public financing. During the past few days, the entire nation has heard Tongsun Park place a Congress for Sale' label on the U S. House of Representatives," Common Cause President David Cohen said in a letter to the Democratic leadership. "Should Congress miss this historic opportunity to clean up its election financing, it will be saying that Congress remains on the auction block, " Cohen said. only-par- Lawyer Rakes TV in Courts A leading WASHINGTON (LTD Pennsylvania lawyer said Saturday he is against televising trials because the presence of a camera in the courtroom includwould tempt the participants to ham it up before the ing the judge viewer. Judges are human and if they are elected, they will have to keep one eye on the TV image, said Donald L. Bery of the Allegheny County Bar Association in Pittsburgh. Shaking before an American Bar Association group. Very said dtlomeys a much larger also would have audience Only the exceptional advocate will resist the impulse to play to the galleries," he said. William Seymour of Morgantown. W Ya who represented the National Press Photographers Association, and Norreporter Izu Paris of WTAR-TV- , folk, Ya., disagreed Seymour, an associate professor at W'est Virginia University, suggested the funding of a study to dispel some of the doubts about televised trials , In Panama letters to foreign and a similar document circu At issue in muted disap-prttv- govem-iants- , latfcd to United Nations missions, of a ijfeiiervation contained in the first trea ty which was approved by the Senate Uh only a single vote to spare The reservation, sponsored by Sen Dennis would allow U s. poUoncim. trdbpp to move in if the canal was shut ' dow by a strike. IM onciiii said Friday that he was puzzled by the Panamanian move, and added he was considering demanding a clarification from Panama on whether his reservation would be accepted However. Rvrn said that supporters of the treaty had not come to him to request a clarification from Panama on the issue The first treaty guarantees the canal s neutrality, while the second deals with turning the ualerwav over to Panama in the year 2000 (Copyright wawrijPjWiiWi Lifetime 25-Ye- ar Another suggestion was Department Health, Education and Social Security, Miles wrote, but as soon as a career man alert to acronyms pointed out that its initials spelled HESS (Adolf) Hitler's deputy to whom Mein the proposal Kampf was dedicated was dead " HEW's share of In a quarter-centurthe federal budget has soared from less than 8 percent of a $71 billion budget in fiscal 1954 to 36 percent of the halftrillion dollar budget for fiscal 1979. Its s payroll has grown from 34,000 By Chris Connell of Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - Twenty-fiv- years e after its creation, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare has infant grown from a $5.4 billion-a-yea- r to a $181 billion behemoth that spends of every federal more than dollar. It will celebrate its silver anniversary without fanfare this week while the Carter administration unveils details of its plan to take the "E" out of HEW by creating a new, separate Department of Education. James McIntyre, director of the Office of Management and Budget, will spell out for the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee on Friday what President Carter wants in the new department. Only half the federal education programs are presently administered by HEW. HEW Secretary Joseph A. Califano Jr. fought to keep his department intact, but lost. One joke around town had Califano, the former aide to President Lyndon B. Johnson, saying he didnt want to be the first secretary even a of HEW to lose a war one-thir- d VK' h m . ' " " 4v hlA Good to Be Alive Its Golden lion vive WASHINGTON A Associated Press Laserphoto bureaucratic one. Plans Open house Califano is planning a two-da- y open through captive breeding house celebration of HEWs anniverNatprogram at Smithsonian sary next month, with the public invited ional Zoo, which recently feted to a series of music, art, drama and birth of its 100th marmoset. But education workshops on May the only thing on tap for the actual birthday, Tuesday, is an award ceremony for HEW employees. HEW dates back in form, if not in 'name, to before April 11, 1953, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower named Oveta Culp Hobby, former commander of the Womens Army as its first secretary. Corps, coffee a at hotel shop ing Washington with a group of Israelis who had The department was a direct descenaccompanied Defense Minister Ezer dant of the Federal Security Agency, Weizman to Washington. which Franklin D. Roosevelt created in 1939 to coordinate social programs and Bryen acknowledges the meeting. to avoid a with Congress over Sabas sworn affidavit contends that whether it wrangle deserved Cabinet status. A as the conversation progressed, "he Roosevelt adviser, Louis Brownlow, (Bryen) appeared to be advising the and others had recommended creation Israelis on a strategy of how to deal of a Department of Social Welfare. conflict. with the current Israeli-AraObjection to Welfare Saba took notes as he eavesdropped. In his 1958 memoirs, Brownlow reNotes Pronouns counted, The Federal Security Agency His affidavit, a copy of which was was named security instead of made available to UPI, said, "What welfare because the vice president, was the fact John Nance Garner, told the president really surprised me that an employee of the United States that there was a great objection to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee terms welfare, social welfare, was using the pronoun we to embrace public welfare, etc. in Congress, that his own position ai J that of the Israelis, its use could only lead to a continuation and the pronoun they to describe the of the welfare activities of the governCarter administration and the US. ment, which should be stopped as soon as possible, but there was no objection governments position. But Bryen countered. It is a fact of to the word security because it looked as if the Social Security Board might be life that in this town, we frequently speak in terms of us, the Congress, a pretty good thing. against them, the administration. Rufus A. Miles Jr., a former assistant Sabas charge turns on the administHEW secretary and now a Princeton ration's proposal to sell 60 warpUniversity professor, noted in a lively lanes to Saudi Arabia. history of HEW that in the 1930s, meant economic security. It In the affidavit, he quotes Bryen as security was a clear, strong word, with nothing I have the Pentelling the Israelis, tagon document on the bases, which but good overtones for most of the American peoole you are welcome to see. Documents Noted When it came time to name the new in 1953, Miles related. DepartPentagon officials say there were two agency documents sent to the Senate Foreign ment of Welfare was rejected on the Relations Committee about the air base advice of Sen. Robert A. Taft. So was Department of Human Resources, a at Tabuk. in northern Saudi Arabia. totalitarian" One. about 200 pages long, is highly name some considered classified. A summary of that but which has since found favor with many states. paper is unclassified. marmoset, species of small monkey threatened with extinction in native Brazil could sur 23-2- FBI Probing Allegations Of Data Leak to Israel WASHINGTON (UPI) The FBI is investigating allegations made by an n that a Senate staff member offered a Pentagon document to the Israeli Defense Ministry. The charges come from Michael Saba, former executive director of the National Association of and now a businessman in North Dakota. In an affidavit filed with the Internal Security Division of the Justice Department. Saha says Stephen Bryen, an employee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, offered a Pentagon document on Saudi Arabian air bases to the Israelis. FBI Investigating Justice refused to say an investigation has begun, but both Bryen and Saba said they were told the FBI is looking into the case. The case highlights an intensifying struggle on Capitol Hill: the fight between Israeli and Arab lobbies for influence over U S. foreign policy and arms sales. A Pentagon official described Bryen as one of the key Israeli supporters on Capitol Hill. This group is more than sympathetic, the official said. Bryen said part of his job is to talk to foreign groups about his area of expertise: the Middle East. He frequently talks to Egyptians, as well as Iranians and Israelis about arms. Form of Terrorism Arab-America- Arab-American- s, Carter arned on W emp-lovee- to 144,500. But as it was 25 years ago, most of the money is spent on Social Security benefits for retired or disabled workers and their families. More than 34 million Americans will get benefits of nearly $95 billion this year and $103 billion in 1979. Costs Listed Medicare for the elderly will cost $29.4 billion next year. Medicaid for (he needy will cost $12 billion, while various welfare programs will cost $13.3 billion, and social services will run to $2,6 billion. HEW Also will spend $20 billion in its programs for health, discretionary education and other activities. camLike its current paign, HEWs actions frequently generated controversy. One of its regulatory agency, the Food and Drug Administration, has been in the middle of uproars such as rat droppings in wheat and disputes over alleged cancer-causinproperties of saccharin. Califano is the 12th HEW secretary. His predecessors include Sen. Abraham A. Ribicoff, John Gardner, Wilbur Cohen and Elliot Richardson. Nelson A. Rockefeller, who eventually became governor of New York and vice president of the United States, was Mrs. Hobby's HEW undersecretary in 1953 and 1954. g g Bergland Plans To Stay at Cabinet Post b . . . 5 A friend of Bryens. another Senate staff aide, called Saba's charge "a form of terrorism, meant to intimidate employees of the Senate " N - Plan WASHINGTON (UPI) Denying newspaper reports. Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland has no plans to resign, an aide said Saturday. Tom Sand, Berglands press aide, confirmed that Bergland felt he might be facing a "frustrating" situation after an incident Thursday involving a controversial farm aid bill. Bergland was told President Carter had given a congressman the impression he would consider a farm bill compromise going beyond limits previously understood by the agriculture secretary. He (Bergland) felt that if the was correct, it was impression . frustrating," Sand said. But Bergland has not submitted his resignation. I do not expect him to do so, said Sand. He will be presenting the administrations position next week and it will be a unified position. Another administration source, who asked not to be identified, said later the White House position as outlined to agriculture department aides Friday night did not actually differ from Bergland's earlier understanding of it. . . GQsqqdq WASHINGTON (UPD Nine members of the House Science and Technology Committee have warned President Carter that a proposed compromise on the Clinch River breeder reactor may he seen abroad as a signal that it will he built. In a letter to Carter, the lawmakers said this could seriously undermine" his efforts to control nuclear proliferation throughout the world. The letter, released Saturday, was signed by Reps Tom Hirkin, George Brown, Timothy Wirth, Richard Ottinger, DN'V Douglas Hamilton Fish Jr R N Y Anthony Beilenson D Calif Thomas Downey. 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At the olher end of the scale, the high 80 percent correct or higher S(.rers "watch less than an hour of television a night and do more than 10 hours of homework in a week who do between Those five and 10 hours of homework a week and watch less than one hour of TV nightly answered 73 percent of the questions correctly," the study added. common wisdom, the 60 percent of students who had a specific place to study at home fared about the same as the 40 percent who did not. Huge Money Diet I Continued From Page One insisted he has had no indication that panama would not approve the treaty if it contained the reservation High-Homewo- rk V, .,jr ' 0 ,'t Steel s .ve- - otter Unit 195 i v i m'j.O 5 it ' V r ' r C ' i ijpt Cv M M-- ny3 Scrapers Romper Tandem ru 9M3 1707'1 RTG RIO 9r 1 tfn iO . . f A n 8 . 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