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the ntwi ioctory Store OF HAUPPAUGE Channel 21 Considering Studio at Stony Brook Garden City Eight yean after it started operating. Long Idindi only public television station may finally be on ila way to getting a broadcasting studio. Officials at WLIW, Channel 21, have been looking into possibility of setting up a studio at the State University, at Stony Brook in a building used for campus tlied-drcut television work. Such a move would let the station expand its coverage of Long Island events, and begin dramatic programming for the first time, according to WLIW program director Bob Bell. "Right now, we don't have anything capable of doing production work," he said.

Channel 21 broadcasts from its transmitter building in Garden City and is in the process of moving the transmitter to Plainview. That move, expected to be completed within a year, will cost $495,000, and will put the transmitter on one of the highest points on Long Island, Washington Avenue near the Long island Expressway. A $350,000 federal grant will cover much of the cost of the move, which includes increasing the station's power from 692 kilowatts to 3,490 kilowatts. As a result of the move, the stations signal which now travels as far east as Coram will be able to be picked up easily in Riverhead. An executive committee of WLIW trustees looked into the possibility of setting up a studio at Stony Brook this summer and will discuss its findings with the full WLIW Board of Trustees when it meets on Tuesday.

No decision on the move would be made for at least six months, according to J. Oliver Crom, president of the WLIW board of trustees. He said the executive committee was "very interested" in the proposed Stony Brook studio, but that there are many technical problems to be considered. Nursing Home Hearing Hauppauge A group of state legislators has scheduled a public hearing here Oct. 4 to learn why nursing homes are dosing on Long Island and how the state justifies the Medicaid rates it sets for those homes.

Nursing home operators have complained that Medicaid reimbursement rates are too low to allow the homes to operate. Nine have doeed on Long Island since October, when the state retroactively reduced Medicaid reimbursement rates. On Aug. 10 the Suffolk Health Facilities Association met with a number of state legislators and presented its case. "The consensus was that it was an interesting meeting, but none of us were quite prepared to say, 'Okay, fellas, we believe what you say," said Assemb.

I. William Bianchi (D-Bellport). The legislators decided on a public bearing to winch they would invito state health department official! knowledgeable about setting rates. Patients forced out of nursing homes by closings, said Johnson, end up in hospitals where the cost is, in some eases, almoet $200 a day, compared to $35 or $40 in nursing homes. "The people still have to go somewhere, he said.

The hearing is scheduled for 10 AM in Room 2B-43 of the state office building. Bob Keeler 2nd Robber Draws Term Hauppauge The second of two men convicted of robbing a Patchogue shoe store in December received an ll-to-24 year prison sentence yesterday. DelOrfano, 25, of 605 Medford North Patchogue, was sentenced by State Supreme Court Justice George F.X. Mdn-rney. DelOrfano was convicted of first-degree robbery.

On Wednesday, Mdnemey had given DelOrfano's co-defendant, Kenneth Patterson, 29, of 274 Calrice Holbrook, consecutive sentences of nine to 18 years and 12 Vfc to 25 years, an charges of first-degree robbery and attempted murder. During the defendants' three-week trial in June, a store clerk testified that Patterson and DelOrfano had beaten and hot the manager, Stephen Bemat, 24, of Nesconaet. Bernat testified that he still has vision problems. FAMOUS MAKER SPORT COATS souds fancies en ndttiHlfir'SI hhU FAMOUS MAKER SLACKS 10094 POLYWEAR; WASHABLE FLAIRS SOUDS FANCIES wli Ml fir to 15 EXPERT TAILORING AVAILABLE AT NOMINAL CHARGE MONEY BACK ON ALL BNALTERED MERCHANDISE WITHIN 7 DAYS HUTU CUXtt bUUUUKUttH WEATHER ELSEWHERE Hew York (API Herr on the hlh and low temperature tar the laal 24 homo Awn aeiccled cum around iha world: Photfda in 72 PMtvtaurrh 91' ft P-tlaad Me. 17 45 tland.Orr.

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