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VI Democrats pick a treasurer State committee names nursing-home executive to post Broadcast Notes Two new sitcoms aim for sex appeal By John Laidler SPECIAL TO THE GLOBE In its first meeting since the election last month of Rep. Joan Menard as party chairwoman, meanwhile, the committee voted unanimously to revive the $18,000 salary of the party chiefs post. Former state committee chairman Steven Grossman had opted to forgo the salary. Noting that Grossman had been able to refuse the pay because he is independently wealthy, Menard said of the post, "I wouldn't want it that people wouldn't be able to do it without the salary." The meeting was held at Salem State College following a pledge Menard had made while campaigning for the job, to bring the committee to the northern suburbs. The Somerset lawmaker said she hoped to schedule other meetings in regional locations'in an effort to ener- SALEM The Democratic State Committee yesterday chose a nursing home executive and vet-.

eran party fund-raiser to serve as its next treasurer. Following his unanimous selec-! tion, Alan D. Solomont announced plans for an aggressive fund-raising drive to wipe out a $54,000 deficit in the state party's accounts, and to raise $1 million during the upcoming two-year election cycle. "We need to come out of the gate quickly," said Solomont of Weston, the president and founder of ADS Management a health care management firm that operates several nursing homes. continue going to law school and the whole family can relive its rivalries and neuroses.

Everything seems on the verge of rigor mortis. The premise is not only familiar (a better new ABC comedy, "Getting By," features a similar full house), but seems less a vehicle for comedy than a vacuum starved of it With one exception, the performers resemble nothing so much as well-groomed robots programmed with adolescent one-liners and mechanical body language. As Matt's lazy workmate and buddy Walter, Dan Schneider is a relief: He has the rumpled, chubby charm of a young John Candy and is able to put some eccentric spin on even the most generic jokes. Lights out at ABC ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK A slow-running control room clock fooled producers of ABC's "World News Tonight" last night, delaying the broadcast about a What did viewers of the top-rated newscast see? "Sixty seconds or less of black," acknowledged Arnot Walker, an ABC spokesman. ABC News producers realized the error as they were preparing to go on the air and saw their network competitors already in progress.

Anchor Peter Jennings opened the news show as usual before explaining what had happened. when Bob Newhart was a therapist on the old "Bob Newhart Show his dentist friend Jerry worked down the hall.) But it's easy to appreciate their combustible sitcom potential. Already Long has raided the waiting room for one of. Treat Williams' divorce clients, a woman who says she's "married to a guy with a heat-seeking missile in his pants." While scarcely subtle, the writing by creators Jacobson and Norma Safford Vela generally manages its funny business smoothly and without being so puerilely literal. The characters are already well-defined and the actors have them in gear.

The same cannot be said for "Home Free," which has about it an air of desperation. There's even something depressing about the timeless sitcom kitchen where the show uncorks much of its fizzless repartee you know you've been here even before anyone speaks. "Home Free" is about the extended Bailey family, gathered by necessity and inertia under one roof. Grace (Marian Mercer) is a not-. born-yesterday widow who speaks in wisecracks she italicizes with wide-eyed doubletakes.

Her 22-year-old son Matt (Matthew Perry) is a reporter at the local one-horse paper, and when we meet them, he and mum are in the kitchen digging into each other's sex lives (but without actually using the word). Before you can pop an antacid, Matt'8 recently divorced older sister Vanessa (Diana Canova) moves in with her two youngsters, so she can By John Koch GLOBE STAFF Two new sitcoms debuting this week can't keep their minds above belt level for long. In "Home Free" (tonight at 8:30, Channel 5) and "Good Advice" (Friday at 9:30 p.m., Channel 7), the litany and level of silly sex jokes is staggering. The difference between the two shows is that one, "Good Advice," starring Shelley Long as a respected marriage counselor, is occasionally amusing and has genuine entertainment potential. Sex and marriage counseling coUple naturally enough; "Good Advice" multiplies its heavy-breathing yuks by putting Dr.

Susan DeRuzza (Long) in. the kind of personal predicament: that clouds the marriages of her clients. After a long tour promoting a popular self-help book, she returns home in this week's pilot to find her husband entertaining a half-clad woman. The situation, and the irony, are predictable, but Long's combination of innocenctf and resilience makes it work comedically. She allows the emotional, damage to seem credibly human but not so severe as to swamp the hum6r in melodrama.

Her colleagues back at the workplace including an unmarried divorce lawyer (Treat Williams) and a domesticated chiropractor (George Wyner) minister to the good doctor with free advice and TLC. It's hard to imagine a professional group snaring an office suite and receptionist. (At least Weather New England News Boy, 7, pulls girl from icy brook JEFFERSON, N.H. A 5-year-old Jefferson girl has her 7-year-old friend to thank for saving her from a swollen brook. Casey Ron-hock broke through the ice on Mill Brook after attempting to cross it Sunday afternoon.

Her friend, Tommy Estabrooks, ran across the ice and jumped over the open section to get to the opposite shore. He then lay down and stretched to grab Casey's hand and pull her to shore. "He thought quickly, which you don't expect" of someone his age, Tammy Ronhock, Casey's mother, said yesterday. (AP) Judge rules on fund-raiser case A Suffolk Superior Court judge yesterday ordered a union representing corrections officers and two professional fund-raisers they hired to pay $32,000 to the state for engaging in misleading fund-raising prac Mostly sunny and breezy, gize the party's grass roots. Solomont, 44, is a former president of the Massachusetts Federation of Nursing Homes.

A long-time fund-raiser for the state and national party, he served as vice president last year of the New England Business Executives for Clinton. Solomont succeeds Ronald Shaich, the chief executive of Au Bon Pain, who recently left the treasurer's post Addressing about 75 committee members and other party activists, Solomont said the party needed to move quickly to build a financial base for the 1994 election year. Noting that the committee has a $21,259 cash balance from last year's campaign, with $75,243 in outstanding debt, he said, "That kind of imbalance cannot continue." Briefs ground fuel storage tanks at 35 stores or service stations once operated by Circle Corp. under a proposed $30 million settlement in bankruptcy court announced yester day. The Arizona-based convenience store chain, which operates under 22 names including Old Colony in this state, will pay to clean up contamination at 2,200 sites nationwide.

E. Boston man indicted in kidnap An East Boston man who authorities say held foster care workers at gunpoint has been indicted by a grand jury. Stephen Peddle, 35, was charged Monday with three counts of kidnapping and three counts of assault with a dangerous weapon in connection with a March 16 incident at DARE Family Services, a fosl care aerencv in Somerville. Peddle was upset over being denied custody of his four children by the Depart- ment of Social Services and surrendered to authorities when he was promised that his case would be evaluated. (AP) V' This piece of lumber ould do the same for you.

Pick up a pencil and take a swing at The Boston Globe's Fenway Home Opener Contest starting Monday, April 5. Just guess the answers to five questions about the Red Sox home opener on April 12, and you could be on your way to the All-Star Game in Baltimore. You'll find your entry blank and contest details in the Sports Plus Baseball Preview Section Friday, April 2. The section is your complete guide to the upcoming 1993 season. It includes a position-by-position report on the Red Sox, analysis of the divisional races, plus an in-depth look at New England as a breeding ground for major-league ballplayers.

So be sure to pick up The Boston Globe this Friday. Because in this case, the pencil just might be mightier than the bat. flie Boston lobe ier highs to 50 SUNNY FT CLOUDY CLOUDY tices. Named in the judgment, issued by Judge Hiller Zobel, are Suffolk County Correction Officers Local 419 and their professional fund-raisers, Jake V. Kinoian of South Boston, who does business as J.V.K.

Enterprises, and Kevin Flynn of South Boston, who does business as Futur-etel Communications. Man is indicted in bribery attempt ARoxbury man was indicted by a federal grand jury yesterday on charges of trying to bribe a Social Security Administration official to give him a false Social Security card. Officials said Carl A. Holloway, 28, was unsuccessful in his attempt, but he is charged with using a false Social Security number to try to obtain a driver learner's permit and identification card from the state. Mass.

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Last Quarter Apr 13, 2:39 p.m. US CITIES end tempi yesterday Teeae Weather and night for today and Thursday National Weather Service 7p.m. EST forecast and highs for Wednesday, March 31 REGIONAL FORECASTS Boston area: Mostly! sunny, north winds shifting to northeast, lyghs 45-50 (7-10 C). Tonight increasing clouds, chancefof light snow and fog, lows 30-35 (-1-2 C). Tomorrow, occasional snow mixed with ram, highs 35-40(2-4 0.

Matsacbasstts, Rhode Islead, Conaectlcat: Mostly sunny, highs 45-55. Tonight, increasing clouds, chance of snow or rain, some fog as well east coastal sections, lows In 30s. Tomorrow, occasional snow north of CTMA border, mixture of rain, sleet and snow southward, highs in 30s to lower 40s. Cape Cod and Islands: Mostly sunny, north winds 10-15 m.p.h., shifting to northeast -late, highs 45-50. Tonight, COLO HIGH clouding up, chance of light snow or rain, lows in mid-30s.

Tomorrow, occasional rain mixed with snow In morning, changing to rain by mid-day, highs around 40. Massachusetts coastal atariae forecast: North to northeast winds 15-25 knots with higher gusts, diminishing to 5-15 knots in afternoon, average seas subsiding to 2-4 feet. Tonight, north to northeast winds 5-15 knots becoming east to northeast and increasing to 10-20 knots after midnight, average seas 2-4 feet. MahM, Ntw Hampshire: Mostly sunny, highs in 30s to mid-40s. Tonight, mostly clear north, increasing clouds south, lows in single numbers north and teens to mid-20s south.

Tomorrow, partly sunny north, snow likely south, highs In lower to mld-30s. VtnmMrt: Partly sunny, highs in 40s and lower 50s. Tonight, thickening clouds, lows In 20s. Tomorrow, snow or rain south, chance of snow north, highs 35-40. EXTENDED FORECASTS Massachasttts, Rhode Island, ComwctlcHt: Friday, chance of rain or snow, lows In upper 20s and 30s, highs In 30s to lower 40s.

Saturday, mostly cloudy, lows in 20s and lower 30s, highs in 40s. Sunday, mostly sunny, lows mostly In 30s, highs In 40s. Mabw, New Hampshire: Friday, fair north, chance of snow or flurries south, lows in teens north, 20s south, highs In 30s. Saturday, fair, lows around 20 north, in 20s south, highs around 40. Sunday, fair, lows around 20 north, In 20s south, highs In 40s.

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