GOOD NEIGHBOR: For years jokes have been...

GOOD NEIGHBOR: For years jokes have been made about Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood but not by day-care operators. KOCE-TV (Channel 50) in Huntington Beach recently held a conference for them about how to use the TV show as a teaching tool. There was such demand that, with more than 100 on a waiting list, the station is scheduling another session. . . . “We laugh at Mr. Rogers, but it’s incredible the breadth of subjects important to preschoolers that he covers,” KOCE-TV’s Nancy Lambing says.