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DAILY NEWS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1976 41 NEWS BRIEFS Printer Types it Y. Is. Font City SE: 3m no. General Electric has paid" $3 million to the State Department of Environmental Conservation to help clean up PCB pollution of the Hudson River, Environmental Commissioner Peter Berle has reported. 1 The $3 million payment was part of an agreement that ended state prosecution of the company for allegedly polluting the river with the chemicals.

Under terms of the agreement, GE must also spend $1 million for research into fthe PCB problem. Robert Carroll i Indict Nursing Operator The owner of two Bronx nursing homes was indicted yesterday on charges of stealing $374,000 in Medicaid funds. Charles J. Hynes, state special prosecutor for nursing homes, identified the defendant as Chaim Zelmanowicz, 53, of 1401 Mace Bronx. The 16-count indictment charged the defendant with filing fraudulent claims from 1970 to 1975 for expenses that had nothing to do with patient care at the home.

News photo bv Frank Russo By ROBERT GELINE A major financial printer signed a 11-year lease yesterday to consolidate and expand its operations in 120,000 square feet of space in the former Port Authority headquarters at 111 Eighth Ave. Top officials of the Sorg Printing joined Mayor, Beame in a champagne toast at City Hall to the firm's vote of confidence in New York. Sorg, which prints financial statements on stock and bond offerings for Wall Street firms, will occupy its new quarters on 1. The company's manufacturing, sales and administrative facilities are now spread through six sites occupying 90,000 square feet of space elsewhere in the city. Robert L.

Sorg, the company's chairman and chief executive officer, said Sorg's primary reason for staying in New York wa "to consolidate its operations under one roof here." "Learned Lesson, He Says" He said the company had "learned its lesson about decentralizing out of the city" in 1963, when Sorg moved part of its manufacturing operations back to New York from Westbury, L.I., after a three-year stay. Sorg said his company which among other things printed prospectuses for the Municipal Assistance Corp's most recent bond offering has 400 employes and an annual payroll of about $9 million. Last year Sorg had sales of about $25 million, up about $2 million from 3974. As Sources See It Real estate industry sources said Sorg was paying less than $3 square foot for its new company home. The old Port Authority building has about 2.3 million square feet of industrial and office space.

A spokesman for Sylvan Lawrence the building's owner and manager, said that the facility will be 75 rented when Sorg moves the re in January. Tlse Trek Of ilie Cat Belgrade, Mont. (AP) Eight Ball the cat is home 800 miles and six months aftei his owners last saw him. Betty Polhemus and her family took Eight Ball along to visit relatives in Colorado last spring and the' cat disappeared in Colorado Springs. Now, Mrs.

Polhemus said, "He won't go outside at all. He just sits with me and purrs." Robert L. Sorg, Mayor Beame and Deputy Mayor Osborne Elliott (1. to join in champagne toast at City Hall yesterday. Couple Called EtHlers si 0 laughter's Beating By THOMAS COLLINS and ROBERT CARROL An unmarried Harlem couple were charged -with homicide yesterday after tne fatal beating of the woman's 4-year-old daughter.

The death followed by less than 24 hov the fatal beating of a 22-month-old girl in Broklyn. The boy friend cf the child's mother was charged with homicide in that case. Charged with homicide in the death found a leather belt, an electric cord and a heavy ruler believed to have been used in the beating of Shawand. In the Brooklyn case, 22-month-old Fhanta Joseph was pronounced dead at 6:30 a.m. Monday at the apartment at 537 Clinton Ave.

where she lived with her mother, Donna Joseph, 20, and James According to the medical examiner, the child died of injuries to her spinal column, spinal cord and liver. Police said the child was beaten with a section of a glass fishing rod fashioned into a makeshift riding crop. According to the police, Crafton, who was charged with homicide, beat the child when she failed to respond to toilet training. of Shawand Anthony, 4, were the youngster's mother, Nadine Silas, 23, and Anthony Armstrong, 26, the man she lived with at 2 W. 120th St.

The child was found at 10:15 p.m. Monday by police responding to a call reporting an injured baby. According to the cops, Shawand was found lying in the hallway of the apartment and was taken to Harlem Haoital, where she was pronounced dead. Her Injuries Are Described Detective Michael Casale said that the child had a fractured arm, a fractured skull, cigaret-type burns over her body, blackened eyes and what appeared to be human bites on her face. In the apartment, Casale said, police The claims allegedly included personal expenses for improvements on a summer home ana money for a no-show 'job held by his daughter.

Zelmanowicz operates the 200-bed Eastchester Park Nursing Home at 2700 Eastchester Road and the 240-bed Split Rock Nursing Home at 3525 Baychester Ave. Marcia Kramer Say Sharks' Got 150 What was allegedly one of the city's largest loan-sharking operations, with borrowers charged 150 interest a year, was described in Brooklyn Federal Court yesterday at the opening of the trial of seven alleged organizers of the scheme. One defendant is Paul Castella-no, brother-in-law of the late Carlo Gambino. 2 Cops Hurt in Crash Two police officers were seriously injured yesterday when their radio car colloded with a gypsy cab at 191st St. and Wadsworth Ave.

as they were responding to an "assist patrolman" radio call. Police officers John Senise and William Brosman were headed north on Wadsworth Ave. when they collided with the cab, driven by Acevedo Delga-do, 31, of 617 W. 190th St. Senise- was admitted to Columbia Presbyterian Hospital with a concussion and Brosman was admitted with a concussion and a neck injury.

Delgado was not issued a summons. Daniel O'Grady S.f. Rep's Mother Robbed Florence Murphy, mother of Staten Island congressman John Murphy, was robbed in" her Staten Island home yesterday by a man with a knife who stole $25 and fled. Mrs. Murphy, of 150 mada West New Brighton, said a young man who "looked like a college boy" came to her door at 11:45 a.m., asked for directions and asked to use her phone.

After the call, he took out a big carving knife and demanded money, she said. She gave him $25. "That knife; I don't think I'll ever forget it," Mrs. Murphy said. Audubon Honors Oakes John B.

Oakes, editor of the editori' al page of The New York Times, was presented last night with the top conservation award of the National Audubon Society at the society's annual dinner ath the New York Hilton. Oakes was cited as "the architect of the conservation policy of The New York Times." Audubon officials said Oakes has consistently championed the cause of environmental protection, even in the early years before, "environment" was a household word. State A gency Blamed in Lunch Abuse By CLAIRE SPIEGEL The blame for the scandal-racked summer lunch program was pukat the doorstep of the agency that administered it the state Education Department in a comprehensive report released yesterday by the Community Council of Greater New York. The council called for public hear general administrative confusion," the report said. Nevertheless, council recommended that the state continue to administer the program next summer, since the department "has to have learned a great deal from its errors." Ms.

Goldman said that if the program had been administered according to the current guidelines as it was in New Jersey, for example it would have worked well. She said that the council's recommendations would further strengthen the program. The council is mainly worried about the enforcement of whatever regulations are finally adopted, she said. Investigations Continue Meanwhile, investigations by the U.S. attorney's office in Brooklyn, are continuing into a number of participants in the 1975 and 1976 summer lunch programs.

About 30 of the 150 sponsors who participated this past summer will be barred next summer because of violations cited by the program's monitors, Calvin said last week. different sponsors delivering for the same 100 kids on the lower East Side," Ms. Goldman said. Sponsors should be community-based groups that serve the community on a year-round basis, she said. Groups such as the B'nai Torah Institute of Brooklyn, she said, would be prevented from setting up food distribution sites throughout the city and across the country, as they did last summer.

Vendors, such as one Long Island company that admitted reaping $1 million from the federally funded program over a nine-week period, would be through closer supervision of competitive bidding procedures and improvement of food quality from making windfall profits. Supervision of the lunch program last summer was "so abysmally bungled that mismanagement, ripoffs and scandal were inevitable outgrowths of the ings before plans for next years program are approved, and for the establishment of a congressional or state body to oversee administration of the program by the Education Department. In its 80-page report, the council made about 20 specific recommendations. The coordinator of the report, Kathy Goldman, said she could not "hang a price tag" on their cost. Insufficient Funds Thomas Calvin, administrator of the summer lunch program, testified at a conference last week, that he had had insufficient funds to run the program properly.

The council recommended that the State Education Department prepare for next summer's program by determining how many children in which parts of the city are eligible for the program, and by distributing the food accordingly. "This summer yoir had: 12'.