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Home Shopping Network to buy Channel 65 By the Associated Press starf reports Home Shopping Network, the national shop-at-home service, says it will buy WSJT (Channel 65), an independent television station, from Press Broadcasting Co. for an undisclosed amount. Press Broadcasting of As-bury Park, which is owned by Asbury Park Press Inc. in Neptune, also owns WMOD-TV in Melbourne, an independent station that covers the Orlando-Melbourne-Day-tona Beach market, and radio stations WJLK AM and FM in Asbury Park. HSN Chairman Roy M.

Speer said in a prepared statement Monday that the Florida company has signed a contract to purchase the Vine-land-based Channel 65, sub-j to Federal Communication Commission approval. Speer said the station serves about 2.6 million homes in the Philadelphia and Atlantic City area. "Philadelphia is the fourth largest market in America," Speer said. "This acquisition puts HSN one step closer to our goal of owning 14 UHF TV stations in the top 20 markets in America." Press Broadcasting bought WSJT for $3 million in 1984, when the station was in bankruptcy. "At no time was the station for sale," stressed Robert McAllan, vice president of broadcasting for Press Broadcasting.

"The station was substantially on target for a startup operation, and had posted significant gains in revenue over the past year. I am quite pleased that Home Shopping Network has chosen two stations licensed in New Jersey, WSJT, serving the Philadelphia marketplace, and WWHT, licensed to Newark and serving the New York metro area, to demonstrate an exciting new concept in programming as HSN 24-hour shop-at-home service," McAllan said. Alfred D. Colantoni, the Press' vice president for corporate services, said home shopping would provide a unique service to the southern New Jersey-Philadelphia market. Speer has announced within (Continued on Page 18) Staff photo Joe laconelti Channel 65 (WSJT), is scheduled for purchase by a national shop-at-home service, the Home Shopping Network.

Vineland Tuesday nm Cloudy Details on page 8 U.S. dismisses bid for test ban 'if, vi as propa August 19, 1986 Twenty-Five Cents Mikhail Gorbachev Fine, probation for man blamed in '83 car crash By LAWRENCE R. IIAJNA Stafr Writer BRIDGETON A man who has admitted causing the 1983 car accident which seriously injured two prominent, elderly Vineland women was sentenced to five years probation and ordered to pay $12,000 in restitution. Dennis Darminio, 35, of 1197 Sharp Road, also had his driver's license supsended for five years by Superior Court Judge Steven Z. Kleiner.

Darminio will have to retake and pass his driver's test after five years in order to have his license restored. Darminio, who pleaded guilty in June to causing the car crash severely injuring the two elderly women, must also continue to receive therapy for vocational training which he has undergone since a separate car accident in 1978. In a June plea agreement arranged by Cumberland County (Continued on Page 8) ganda ML Contractors review data on LSA plant By JEFFREY ADAM BAXT Staff Writer Contractors interested in bidding for the job of building the Landis Sewerage Authority's new wastewater treatment plant are being given the opportunity today to review the designs, technical specifications and contract conditions for the facility before submitting their bids. This morning, representatives of CH2M Hill, the engineering firm the LSA hired to oversee the new plant's construction, held an "information session" in the City Council chambers answering questions from about 47 firms including general contractors, subcontractors, and suppliers interested in either bidding to handle the contraction job or supply construction materials. This afternoon the potential bidders are being treated to a two-hour tour of the LSA's existing facility and the site of the new plant "so that they can acquaint themselves with the nature of the work," explained Jimmy W.

Otta, who is CH2M Hill's liaison with the LSA board, and who co-chaired the meeting. All of the contractors interested in bidding have paid the LSA $350 for copies of the plant's specifications and designs, which are required for the bidding process, Otta said. "We don't expect bids from all of them," said Robert Forbes, CH2M Hill's assistant project manager, who also chaired this morning's conference. "It's not unusual for that many documents to be out and only get five or six actual bids," Otta said, "because they will evaluate what projects they're working on now and whether it fits into their overall schedules." The CH2M Hill officials said contractors "from Florida to California" have expressed interest in the project. "It's getting national attention so we expect to get some active bidders," Otta said.

Bids are tentatively due in by the end of the month and the construction contract will be awarded by Oct. 31, according to the LSA's construction schedule. Construction is to begin by Nov. 1. CH2M Hill of Corvallis, which designed the new facility to be located in Vineland, was selected by the LSA board two weeks ago as its Step 3 engineer to oversee the plant's construction.

INSIDE tg AP Laserphoto Casino patrons walk by unused sandbags' irf'Atlantic City Monday as Hurricane' Charley threatened but passed the city by. -A- Charley veered away from N.J. coast but county emergency team was ready SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's call for the United States to join a superpower nuclear test ban is being dismissed by President Reagan's top aides as a propaganda ploy. White House spokesman Larry Speakes, speaking only minutes after Gorbachev delivered his speech Monday in Moscow, said the United States had not dropped its opposition to joining in the test ban.

He derided the Soviet proposal as a public relations gimmick that cost Moscow little, arguing they had gained an advantage with tests made before their ban, went into effect. 7 "The Soviets, in essence, are not giving away much in extending for seven more months the moratorium that they have proposed," Speakes said. He argued that the issue of a test ban treaty cannot be handled in isolation, and the matter must be discussed by Soviets and Americans along with a "broad range of issues," such as human rights and overall arms control. The United States "would have to look at what's going on in the arms reduction front" before going forward in the test ban area, Speakes said. Gorbachev, who first announced the self-imposed moratorium a year ago, used his speech to announce an extension of the moratorium until Jan.

1, 1987, and he challenged Reagan to agree to a test ban treaty. Even though the administration says a verifiable and com- rehensive test ban treaty is a ong-term objective, it has repeatedly refused Ub join the Soviet initiative, arguing that America's nuclear testing is needed to respond to the Soviet military buildup. "A nuclear testing moratorium is not in the security interests of the United States, our friends or our allies," said Speakes, who had traveled West with Reagan on the president's three-week vacation. The spokesman said that "a moderate level of nuclear testing will continue to be required" in order to deter Soviet agression. By J.

MICHAEL GARRAHAN Special Writer wire service reports As the high winds and heavy rains of Hurricane Charley drew nearer late Sunday night and a hurricane warning was issued for South Jersey, the Vineland and Millville Offices of Emergency Management geared up for action. "When we went into an alert phase at 10:49 p.m. Sunday, we checked out our communications and trucking equipment and made sure that everything was ready to go in case we were needed," said Captain Jack Carr, director and coordinator of Vineland's Office of Emergency Management. Fears that the hurricane would strike the state during an evening high tide, causing massive flooding, were snuffed out by noon, when the National Weather Service lifted the hurricane warning placed on New Jersey late Sunday night. Gale warnings remained in effect later Monday for winds up to "When we went into an alert phase Sunday, we checked out our communications and trucking equipment and made sure that everything was ready to go in case we were needed.

Capt. Jack Carr Emergency Management office coordinator 55 mph from Delaware Bay northward to Cape Cod in Massachusetts. At midnight Monday, the center of the disturbance, which had been downgraded to a tropical storm six hours earlier, was 75 miles south-southeast of Nantucket Island, Mass. It was expected to continue moving north-northeast, away from land, the Three-year delay likely in cleanup at Nascolite weather service said. And, although the hurricane turned away from the area and the alert was called, the Emergency Management Office was prepared for the worst.

"We have four designated emergency shelters in Vine-land," said Carr. "We have one at the Vineland 9-10 building, a (Continued on Page 8) actual cleanup will not begin until another IVi-year design phase is completed. "It will be three years before the contaminated soils are gone and the groundwater pumping system is implemented," Farro said. "Actual groundwater cleanup could take 15 years." Nascolite is a defunct plant that made acrylic sheets for 27 years at the 17.5-acre site on Doris Avenue. Methyl methacrylate (MMA) was the main raw ingredient used in the production process and is the principal contaminant of soil and groundwater.

MMA is not a known cancer-causing agent, according to federal health standards, but at low levels can cause irritation of the (Continued on Page 18) in. i i. mill Veteran police officer Al- bert Barnabei was honored for 30 years of service to I Vineland at a weekend re- tirement dinner. Story, photo f) on page 3. )' i.

I Exchange takes a 1-0 lead in the Vineland Little League I City Series with a 9-0 win over Gagliardi Demolition. See todars sports section for to- iv c- IntheTJ Jack Anderson .....6 Editorial ....6 Focus 4 Comic 12 ObhuariM 8 1 i I CfOMwon" Sporti 9-11 Albert Barnabei By FRAN SHEEHAN Stafr Writer State environmental officials told Millville residents what they wanted to hear Monday night that contaminated soil and groundwater from the Nascolite Corp. property will be cleaned up. But if they wanted immediate cleanup action, the residents were disappointed. Following a lVfe-year, $500,000 investigation by TRC Environmental Consultants Inc.

of East Hartford, DEP representatives came to Millville to brief residents on the plan and listen to their concerns about the cleanup. Anthony Farro, assistant director of the Division of Hazardous Site Mitigation, said that the Staff photoAdrian Wecar Lucretia Villano, owner of Nascolite points out a photo of an underground tank she claims was vandalized on the plant site..