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TUNING IN TO CHANNEL 13



WE AT KERA were delighted with your article, “Is Channel 13 Coming Back to Life?” [September]. We thought that Chris Tucker gave a balanced and complete account of KERA’s major developments and plans since Richie Meyer became president and general manager. As Lee Cullum so eloquently pointed out in her “Editor’s Page,” KERA and public television deliver more high-quality cultural programming than any other medium. That’s something we are very proud of.

We would like to clarify for your readers one statement that was made in the “Editor’s Page.” During our capital campaign, KERA will seek to raise from public contributions $12 million, not $18 million, to finance new production facilities and operations. In addition, we would like to correct one error in the story: It is the Hillcrest Foundation that has provided major funding for Here’s to Your Health since its inception.

Bobbi Wedlan,

Director, Corporate Communications

KERA/Channel 13

THE KERA ARTICLE was extremely well-done. The only fault I could find was my being cast in the role of Channel 13’s most persistent critic when at the most I’ve been Richard (“Just call me Richie”) Meyer’s most persistent critic. There are a lot of dedicated people working at the station with whom I would not want to be cast in an adversarial role. I simply believe that local programming-coverage of issues of import to the area served by KERA-is vital.

Jerry Diggin

Dallas



SILVER SCREEN INVESTMENTS



I READ WITH interest your September article, “So You Think You Want a Piece of Hollywood?” The funding of the movie industry is of personal and professional interest to me. If, as your story notes, one-shot, one-movie packages are like wildcat oil wells, then what several major motion picture houses are doing to finance their productions can perhaps be likened to Gulf Oil or Exxon. It’s interesting to note the success of Columbia Pictures International’s Delphi project, an investment program for all of Columbia’s pictures within an 18- to 24-month time period. Our brokerage firm, Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis Inc., has been quite active in bringing together Dallas investors with Columbia.

There’s quite a bit of successful local investing in motion pictures going on in Dallas, even if it isn’t 100 percent Dallas-invested, produced, filmed and acted. Please keep up your coverage of film-and all arts-in Dallas!

Bobby Hatfield

Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis Inc.

Dallas



SCHOOLS, STUDENTS

AND SUCCESS

IT WAS MOST enjoyable to read your short piece [“Inside Dallas,” September) about the Hiser children and the success of both the teachers at Woodrow Wilson High School and the DISD in regard to their education.

However, I think it should be pointed out that all of the credit should not go to the DISD; much of the credit must go to their parents. As a former neighbor of the Hisers, I remember well the fact that the Hisers did not have a television while the children were growing up and that they spent many evenings watching movies that had been checked out from the Dallas Public Library. In addition, Marigold Hiser spent untold hours supporting her children’s activities at Woodrow Wilson. The point is that education is not only the responsibility of our school districts but also the responsibility of parents.

Al Ellis

Dallas



THUMBS UP TO Ross Perot [“Inside Dallas,” September]? Wrong! While the adults in control of public education are busy deciding what to do about the state’s educational decline, they are forgetting one important aspect of the situation: the students. If an adult’s life is his occupation, a child’s (or teen-ager’s) life is school.

As a sophomore at Piano’s Vines High School, I feel that if our whole life-our “occupation’-is going to be totally transformed, we should be acknowledged. Just about the only reason anyone even goes to school is for the extracurricular activities. Cheerleaders, athletes, drill teamers, drama and choir students, etc., all have to get good grades in order to stay in that activity. I’m not sure if our government is getting greedy wanting our academic scores to be the highest, or what. But I am sure that if we do end up going “back to basics,” we might have kids who used to go to school for the activities that accompany it not being interested anymore.

Beth Liebman

Piano



YOUR AUGUST feature on the DISD [“A Generation at Risk” ] was excellent. However, I was appalled that you foiled to profile the largest group of people accountable for education: the parents. It must be acknowledged that it is each parent’s responsibility to monitor his child’s academic progress (or lack thereof) and that no matter how competent a school might be, it cannot control the academic influence a child should receive at home. Parents should collectively shoulder some of the blame for the current educational problems.

Sherrie S. Reed

Dallas



RATING THE

RESTAURANTS

I HAVE SUBSCRIBED to D Magazine for a year now and am writing this to inform you that my subscription will not be renewed. The reason: your obviously tainted and biased reviewing of Dallas restaurants. I am speaking of the “tie” you declared between Uncle Tai’s and Taiwan [“Dallas’ Winning Restaurants,” “September]. I have eaten at both frequently and consider Uncle Tai’s far superior to Taiwan, but this is my personal preference. What disturbs me is the way your magazine played down Uncle Tai’s so badly and played up Taiwan.

I think your magazine serves a useful purpose to help newcomers become familiar with Dallas more quickly than they otherwise would. But your readers deserve a fair, unbiased picture of what restaurants in this town are really like.

Keith A. Dennis

Dallas



FLASHING THOSE

PEARLY WHITES

I AM DISAPPOINTED that the usually well-informed D Magazine, in its article “Smile, Please” [September], used as its source of information only one dentist and proceeded to make it sound as if he were the only dentist in Dallas who does laminate veneers and/or tooth bonding procedures.

My husband has been doing these procedures for at least four years, has had more than one training course, learned a better technique than the original laminate veneers discussed in your article and has many, many dramatic slide results.

Mrs. Richard Zweig

Dallas

YOUR COVERAGE of cosmetic dentistry in “Smile, Please” was excellent. But the article is several years too late! I have been using the ultraviolet light and adhesive since 1974 and the acrylic bonded caps from 1978 to 1982. In late 1982, I traded in my ultraviolet light for the new white or direct light, which gives a deeper cure on the bonding agent. I have done many acrylic veneers in years past and have done about 300 teeth with the new bonding techniques this year. Dentistry changes daily! Laurence H. Melton, D.D.S.

Dallas

YOUR EXCELLENT article, “Smile, Please,” helps to improve the image of dentistry’s concern for its patients. I offer a word of advice to your readers: Practically every dentist whose head has not been buried in the sand for the past 10 years has the skills and ability to offer veneer capping and bonding, but it is not a panacea. The article mentions one dentist’s success with 12 patients. My experience, after treating nearly 350 patients with this technique, clearly shows that some veneers will be beautiful and last a long time while others will present problems in a short time.

EarleH. Yeamans, D.D.S. Bedford

COMPLIMENTS TO

A COLUMNIST

I READ BOB Wilson’s editorial [“Insights”] in the September issue with tremendous interest. I think he is a splendid columnist. I liked the way he picked a subject and developed it with multiple examples. I wasn’t aware that he was writing a column for D, but now that I’ve found it, I shall look forward to future issues with his pieces in it.

Stanley Marcus Dallas

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