European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 17, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday. May 17, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 7 to crime s effect held not great Carbondale. Iii. Up some groups arc making too much of the influence of television violence on children two educational researchers have reported. Education professors Charles Flasck and Nancy Quison Berry of Southern Illi Nois University Here said their findings in a two year study involving 341 families with fourth fifth and sixth Grade children seem to contradict the popular belief that television violence has a big Impact on children. There just has t been enough re search done to indicate television has the profound effect on children that Man people Are claiming it has Flasck said. Pat draws Praise one thing our studies and others have shown is that to does affect those kids who Are already prone to violence maybe 20 per cent of the children who watch television he said. But identifying the violence prone Chil Dren is a difficult Job and that is where the research emphasis needs to be Klasek said. Klasek however praised the National Pat and other organizations for their con Cern about television violence. The nation Al Pat recently announced a Campaign to pressure the networks to Cut Down on unnecessary violence in their programs. In the test at nearby Marion iii., All the families recorded their television viewing habits on a daily basis. Some conclusions of the researchers television viewing does t Hurt school achievement appreciably nor does it help much. The family viewing hour concept is nearly pointless Many children regularly watch television Well into the late night or Early morning hours. Criticism that television interferes with religious beliefs appears unfounded. Parents do care about what their Chil Dren watch and Are More sensitive to the effects of television on their children than Many groups  said watching television appears to have had a slightly positive effect on school achievement up until about 10 . But that achievement goes downhill fast with viewing after that hour. The two researchers have conducted workshops on television viewing for parents and teachers in Illinois and elsewhere and will be pan of a Pennsylvania state University research team scheduled to conduct a National research project on the effects of television on children. Juvenile detention Craig Lem inc. Who s one year old does t seem to mind the jail like shop Ping cart his Mother Donna has him Riding in in Albany . Up photo poll labels saccharin ban unjust Washington a in a Survey con ducted for diet food and drink makers. 80per cent of the respondents said the food and drug administration did not have sufficient evidence to ban saccharin As a pos sible cause of cancer. The results of the Telephone poll of a random Sample of 658 adults were released sunday by the calorie control Council an International association of manufacturers and suppliers of dietary foods and Bever Ages. According to the poll while 82 per cent of those surveyed feel the government has acted correctly in trying to protect citizens from health hazards. 80 per cent feel that in the Case of saccharin the government acted before it had enough evidence and 64 per cent Felt More research should have been done the Council said the Fra has announced that starting in july it would ban the artificial sweetener As a fond additive but allow its continued Sale As an Over the counter drug. It took the action after Canadian scientists linked the substance to bladder cancer in Labora tory rat the poll also showed eighty nine per cent of the adults surveyed feel saccharin is Safe when taken without any restrictions or when taken in moderation with  More than 75 per cent of the persons surveyed believe the government is acting inconsistently in proposing a ban on Sac charin As a food additive but permitting its use As an Over the counter drug. Some 17.3 per cent said a ban on Sac charin would create problems for them More than 67 per cent said they did not believe saccharin is dangerous to their health slightly More than 18 per cent said Thul based on what they had seen or heard they fell saccharin caused cancer. Bias against Young males study indicates insurance sexism Hartford. Conn. Lui h a re searcher says thai despite insurance claims to the contrary College age males Are not More inclined to have Aulo Acci dents than their female counterparts. Walter Ziemba. Graduate student at Southern Connecticut state College said that what Slud cols study probably has school hires retarded it banished last fall Ellendale. Minn. Map Roger Johnson a 40-year-old retarded Man who cried when he was banished from the Corri Dors of Ellendale High school last fall is being welcomed Back this time As a paid , who liked to eat in the lunch room and help out with custodial chores was barred by new administrators who were afraid he might upset the students and worried it might not be Legal for him to be  a week or two. Johnson will be welcomed Back to school in this one stoplight Community in Southern Minnesota his Job will include slime Light janitorial work watering the football Field and handing out towels in the locker room. I m pretty excited. I can Tell you Johnson said. I be been missing those  Johnson was told to go Home last de Cember. Superintendent Gerhart Dammel. Who was new in Ellendale. Said the 6-fool-2 Johnson would create a disturbance walk ing in the Halls among the students. If you had a child in the lunchroom would you want someone like Johnson touching him or talking to him Dammel asked Al the Lime. He also said a question of Legal liability could be raised if Johnson became ill or was injured while at school. Johnson s new Job was set up by Bruce Mortonson. A Counselor Al the Lown s Opportunity workshop. He said school officials were extremely agreeable. Before he was ordered to leave Johnson had spent his lunch hours at the school for nine years. He also swept the basketball court at halftime Rode the school bus to out of town games and even got a letter a big a just like the athletes received. More effect on their driving behaviour than whether they re male or female in an interview sunday in the new Haven Register Ziemba said statistics show there is no reason Why males under 25 years of age should pay 60 to 80 per cent More than females for car . Whose master s thesis is entitled College students and automobile  studied the driving habits of 168 male College students and 168 female col lege Slud cols for iwo years the graduate student said the study showed age and sex arc not related to significant differences in automobile  Bui Ziemba said he discovered Junior Sand seniors majoring in psychology sociology social work and special education were in the High Accident group while English speech and social study majors were in the Low Accident group. Ziemba said insurance companies Are using figures 20 years old to calculate insurance rates. He suggested new studies be conducted to update statistics. Djibouti picks Leader Djibouti. Afar and Issac l Pii Veteran politician Hassan Gould Apt Idun has been elected the first prime minister of Djibouti which is scheduled in become in dependent of France on june 27. Gouled the Only candidate or prime minister received the votes of 53 of the 65 legislators of inc constituent Assembly elected May 8 in a double ballot which also included a referendum on the territory s  from France. Ziemba noted state agencies rely totally on the insurance Industry for figures. This confirms my belief he said that very Little is done in the Way of independently monitoring or checking insurance Industry data which is used to determine the Price of premiums for Vari Ous groups of  Bono Coelho plan to marry in november los Angeles a Sonny Bono is planning to marry a 23-year-old Maryland woman in november a spokesman for the entertainer says. Jay Bernstein said sunday that 40-year old Bono who has been married and divorced twice proposed saturday night to Susie Coelho. They have known each other two years Bernstein said. Bono and his second wife Cher have been doing shows near Georgetown in Washington. Do. Cher recently filed for divorce from her second husband Rock Star Gregg Allman. Neither Coli no nor Bono was available for comment. Before their divorce. Sonny and Cher were stars of a popular variety show on lbs television. After they split up Cher starred in her own show but was later re joined by her sex husband. The show has not been renewed for next season