No Change

Critics have often charged that radio aims at "twelve-year-old minds." Last month, New York City's independent station WNEW decided to go the whole hog by putting on the air a nine-year-old sportcaster named Charlie Hankinson. Last week another New York station, WNBC, continued the trend with Children Should Be Heard (Thurs. 7:30 p.m. E.D.T.). In the new show, youngsters from 7 to 14 talk over and diagnose the ills of the world.

Hankinson, discussing a player trade between the Chicago White Sox and Washington Senators, saw the White Sox as the better bargainers. On the other hand, he admitted, "five or six months might show that the Senators got the better of the deal." In giving her views on the cold war, twelve-year-old Stephanie observed: "I think that now we are either going to have a war or we are going to have peace . . ." Adult listeners, weighing such comments, were forced to concede that except for their piping, treble voices, the young pundits sounded a good deal like their radio elders.

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