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THE HARTFORD COURANT: Saturday, September 28, 1985 B5 WHCT Going on Air Monday Despite Unsettled Legal Battle Wethersfield) and Continental (East Granby, East Windsor, Enfield, James vf7 Endrst General Manager Richard P. Ramirez is well aware that just because WHCT is on the air it doesn't mean smooth sailing from here on in. A formidable legacy of legal entanglements has yet to be ironed out. of programming as WHCT wilL Added to the difficulties is the fact that United Cable, which will take control of the Hartford CATV cable system on Tuesday, is adopting a "wait and see" attitude about whether to carry the station. It wants to see the results of a subscriber survey taken in the Plainville area and to be completed in the next week or two.

Hartford CATV reaches 55 percent of the television households in Bloomfield, East Hartford, Hartford, West Hartford, Simsbury and Windsor. Before an FCC's must-carry rule was eliminated recently, the cable company would have been required to carry WHCT, that's no longer the case. WHCT's radio advertisements in recent weeks have implored potential viewers to call their cable companies to demand they carry the station. Some cable systems, such as Cox (Glastonbury, Manchester, Newing-ton, Rocky Hill, South Windsor and when controversial preacher W. eu-Gene Scott signed off last January.

WHCT will fill the hours with reruns of "Dallas," "Knot's Landing," "Flamingo Road," "The Best of Saturday Night Live" "Second City Television," "Mission Impossible," "Columbo," and "The Avengers." Miniseries such as and "Lace II" and movies such as "The Martin Luther King Story" are also planned. The station will be on the air 18 hours a day. But Ramirez is well aware that just because WHCT is on the air it doesn't mean smooth sailing from here on in. A formidable legacy of legal entanglements has yet to be ironed out, and this could send the station back into darkness within a couple of months. Astroline, a Saugus, company, purchased the station last January for $3.1 million from Scott's Faith Center Inc.

of Glendale, Calif. Scott, who had been in a running battle with the Federal Communications Commission over violations of FCC regulations, bailed himself out ber, Shurberg says. "Astroline's Channel 18 could be the shortest run of a TV station in history," he says. "The way I see it, they stand no chance of keeping the license." Ramirez prefers not to talk about legal matters. He is more interested in talking about "our commitment to be the most noticed station in the market." That may be difficult considering the station's standard selection of reruns and movies in an already crowded market of six commercial stations, two of which are independents that offer much the same type ON TV Richard P.

Ramirez leans back in his chair, slips a cassette tape into a deck, draws on his cigar, smiles proudly and begins tapping his foot as the machine starts playing his song. "What you wanna see, on your TV. Right now. You want it. Right now, HCT." The jingle is upbeat and with-it, just the way the 31-year-old general manager of WHCT (Channel 18) in Hartford and controlling general partner in Astroline Communications would like the public to see the station.

On Monday WHCT which was Hartford's first TV station when it signed on in 1954 as WGTH will return to the Connecticut airwaves, filling the evangelistic void left Musicians By FRANK R1ZZO Courant Rock Critic I YORK The music industry was urged Friday to take a more active role to help end the apartheid policies of South Africa. "At the New Music Seminar, a three-day annual gathering of more than 4,300 representatives of the rock and pop music industry, record companies were asked by musicians as well as black leaders to divest themselves from business interests in South Africa. Musicians were also asked to join the cultural boycott against that country. The cultural fight is a vital factor for our struggle for freedom in South Africa," said South African poet Dennis'Brutus at a panel discussion on apartheid and the international music industry. Apartheid is South Urged To Act Against At the New Music Seminar, musicians were asked to join the cultural boycott.

Africa's policy of racial separation. "When we say isolate apartheid," said Neo Mnumzama, chief representative of the African National Congress of the United Nations, "we say disarm apartheid so that we can deal with it more effectively." He added that black musicians and workers in South Africa would welcome the "temporary sacrifices" imposed by the divestiture and boycott because it would help lead to apartheid's end. The whole business goes back to soap and water, and your grandma knew all about them. Soap-making boiling animal (and sometimes vegetable) fat and caustic alkali (lye and wood ashes) Hand Washing Will Help Prevent uranDy, Haruana, somers, Stafford, Suffield, Union and Windsor Locks), are already planning to carry the station. But even the ever-confident Ramirez admits, "I won't know for sure where we're on until I turn on the set Sept.

30." Starting a station he says "is an absolutely tremendous challenge. I respect the folks at Channel 61 and 20 independent stations WTIC in Hartford and WTXX in Waterbury all the more now. It's just awesome." Asked if, despite all the complications and potential pitfalls, he remains confident, Ramirez said, "We have a real belief that this is a very, very healthy television market and we have every expectation that Connecticut's economy, which is very vibrant, will continue." Asked if he feels secure about WHCT's future, he replies with a laugh, "Nothing is secure about this business." Do You Dislike richard wrubel, Wethersfield, features good personal service on fine quality dresses, suits, coats, sportswear! Shop our Fall Sale now! Open Sunday 12-5. Margie's Fabrics-60" wool blends, solids plaids $4.99 yd, many other values! 10-5, 242-1124. Promotional Models Unlimited Inc.

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The idea is to get doctors and nurses back to the basics the simple cleanliness that makes it more difficult to spread one cr more infections from patient to patient by a. white-jacketed Typhoid Mary. And the T. Bear campaign, whose theme is "Hand Washing Prevents Infection It Really Does," is being taken to day-care centers as well as hospitals for two reasons: the people who Work at the centers may net have had grandmas who insisted they wash their hands, and day care centers are a prime place to teach small human beings the rudiments of personal hygiene. of the mess by selling the station in a "distress sale." Under the terms of such a sale, broadcasters can opt to sell their station to a qualified minority buyer at a reduced price instead of facing disciplinary hearings.

Alan I. Shurberg of Rocky Hill, a self-employed computer consultant who has been trying to gain control of WHCT since 1983, remains a thorn in Astroline's side. Shurberg wa3 in Washington, D.C., this week working on an appeal to the FCC's approval of the sale to Astroline. Oral arguments will be heard in a U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington in Novem Dick Griffey, chairman of Solar Records and of the Black Music Association, pledged Friday that Solar Records will no longer be sold in South Africa until apartheid is abolished Griffey also called for an international telethon and radiothon that would raise funds and educate the public on South Africa's "institutionalized policy of racism." WBCN-FM, a leading radio station in Boston, announced that it would donate all its commercial time on Oct.

15 to address the issue of apartheid. Also during the panel discussion, the video of Little Steven's record "Sun City" premiered. The song features more than 30 musical artists including Daryl Hall, Herbie Hancock, Run DMC, Jimmy Cliff and together, and then skimming off the dross, seems to have predated the Romans and was described by Pliny. The art moved across Europe from Rome in the 12th and 13th centuries and remained a cottage project until 3. Lather up with the soap of your choice.

The liquid soaps in pump containers have the advantage of not leaving a residual coating in which bacteria can grow. (Some bacteria can thrive on a bar of soap.) 4. Wash one hand with the other, scrubbing each finger individually with the other hand. A fingernail brush is useful, but awkward to carry around. Instead, use the "grip scrub," cupping the fingers of one hand into the cupped fingers of the other and massaging them together, cleaning the nails as they rub the looser skin on the inside of the knuckles.

5. Scrub your hands for 30 seconds, rinse thoroughly, dry them well and, if desired, apply the hand cream of your choice. Washington Post Join 'Wild all animals that don't live in the water. His specialty is the tiger, one of his favorite animals. Gros was raised in a well-to-do family devoted to wildlife conservation and preservation.

His childhood playground in Duchess County, N. was a natural wildlife reserve that was established and managed by his grandfather. Later, through his teen years, he helped his father raise pheasants, ducks, grouse and partridge for release on an 800-acre game preserve in all, more than 25,000 birds. Then he began his wildlife training career as a volunteer at an animal theme park in Buelltcn, north of Santa Barbara, shortly after returning from Vietnam as a Navy Seabee, an elite corps of engineers that builds and defends bridges and airfields. From Buellton he was invited north to Marine World-Africa USA, starting out as an animal keeper.

Many of Gros' programs, such as hand-raising animals and maintaining close contact with them throughout their lives, arc now being used in zoos and anical parks throughout. Letting the water run across your fingers for a second or two before leaving the restroom is not handwashing. Rubbing your hands together under running water is not handwashing. Thinking about washing your hands after leaving the rest room is not hand washing. The following procedure is hand washing, as explained by registered nurse Diane Hays: 1.

Use the warmest water you can, since dirt is dissolved better at higher temperatures. Use running water, whenever possible, not water standing in a basin. 2. Leave rings on fingers. Their crevices may hide some bacteria, but since you would put them back on after you washed, it is best to give them a token bath.

Apartheid Miles Davis singing in support of the cultural ban. "Every time one of us (in the musical community) plays in Sun City," said Little Steven, who is also known as Steven Van Zandt, "we are justifying this relocation policy in South Africa." Griffey also supported the artists boycott of South Africa, and criticized musicians such as George Benson, Rod Stewart and Frank Sinatra, who have performed at Sun City, a casino complex located in Bophuth-atswana, one of ten "homelands" the white minority government has established for blacks. "When the book is written and the history goes down," said Griffey, "it should read that the people of the music industry were instrumental and were on the right side of morality, of justice and of God." Infection the 19th century, when, under the auspices of the Industrial Revolution, a way was found to make large amounts of soap fast. The soap we have now is essentially the soap they had then: a chemical compound resulting from the interaction of fatty oils and fats with alkali and possessing the properties of sudsing, deter-gency, surface tension lowering, wetting and emulsifying power. There is some difference of opinion about whether soap is a germicide in itself.

The most recent textbook for nurses on the subject to Asepsis," by Marie M. Seedor) states flatly that the sudsing action in hand washing the mechanical flushing away of the germs is all that counts. The old reliable Encyclopaedia Britannica will tell you flatly, "Soap itself has germicidal power against some organisms, and many of the cationic synthetic detergents are strongly germicidal." D'Angelo, who grits his teeth and scrubs full steam ahead, tells us that soap does have germicidal and viricidal action, but not against all bacteria and viruses. Grandma would have said she didn't care, she just wanted it clean. Kingdom' the country.

He also was instrumental in designing the way spectators view the animals at Marine World-Africa USA by putting the visitors on rafts that meander through waterways dotted with islands on which the animals roam. In a sense, Gros said, the humans are in cages while the animals run loose. Gros is acutely aware that this job adds a certain new dimension of hazard to his already dangerous life. But he believes the risks are minimal. He has "complete confidence in the abilities and experience" of the, Mutual of Omaha film crew, who, he says, have "been everywhere and seen everything" in the world of wild animals.

Although Gros has never been seriously injured, he has had to make more than a few trips to the hospital for tiger bites, bear claw slashes and monkey nips. "Most animals tigers, for example are fairly easy to read. There are a lot of body language signals you learn to read. But monkeys are unpredictable. They just bite you for the hell of it." The only problems he has experienced so far with the show are some quick attempts at television dialogue.

During a recent tryout shot in Louisiana, where they were filming a show about alligators, Gros took 30 takes to get through his opening line, "Here we are in Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge." Explained Gros: "That's a difficult line to say, especially with feeling." The television show fits neatly into his long-term goal, he said, of making the world more aware of the need to protect and preserve wild animals. Specifically, he wants to breed many species of wild animals in captivity and then, when environmental and political conditions improve, reintSWuce them to the wild. Zoo Director Named To At 6 feet 4 inches and 200 pounds, Gros looks the part of a wild animal trainer. His work at Marine World-Africa USA is similar to what Perkins once did in that he is part zoo director, part animal trainer and handler. Gros trades, buys sells and borrows animals from zoos around the world, often for breeding purposes.

He also is in charge of training all animals that don't live in the water. His specialty is the tiger, one of his favorite animals. GUSOEDIiai By MICHAEL McCABE Newspapero 'toer the past 12 years, Peter Gros has been gnawed at the kness by-tigers, bitten about the body by monkeys and sat upon by a 600-pound black bear. "But as director of land animals for Marine World-Africa USA in Redwood City, that's part of the All in the name of "establishing rapport" with trained please don't call them tame wild animals at the Redwood City theme park. Now he has a new job: Chasing untrained wild animals in their own territories, while trying to establish rapport with television viewers.

Gros, 36, recently was named the newest member of "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom," one of television's longest-running series. For an undisclosed salary, he joins Jim Fowler, longtime co-host with Mar-lin Perkins of the wildlife adventure show. Gros' appointment follows the recent decision by Perkins, the program's founding anchorman for 23 years, to ease up on his week-to-week responsibilities because of age he is 80 and a 15-month battle with cancer. is going to be a real education for me," said Gros during a recent interview in his office at Marine World-Africa USA, where he had just returned after a fast-paced media tour in New York arranged by officials of Mutual of Omaha, the television show's sponsor. "I just got back from Africa with Fowler where we worked on my first show it was fantastic.

I always wanted to go to Africa." Gros will spend about 10 weeks a year working in eJrctic locations around the world for the show. The rest of the time he will be back at his regular job at Marine World-Africa USA, which moves to its new park location in Vallejo, on Sept. 29. "After years of being Martin's sidekick, this is Jim's chance to order someone else around," Gros said, grinning broadly. "Now I'll be the one who has to sit in the blind on the river waiting to wrestle with the big alligator." Gros got the job with Fowler mainly because of bis national reputation as an innovative trainer and handler of wild animals.

He met Fowler when both were showing animals on a Johnny Carson show, and Fowler later recommended him to Mutual of Omaha officials. At 6 feet 4 inches and 200 pounds, Gros looks the part of a wild animal trainer. His work at Marine World-Africa USA is similar to what Perkins once did in that he is part zoo director, part animal trainer and handler. Gros trades, buys, sells and borrows animals from zoos around the world, often for breeding purposes. He aiso is in charge of training i.