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for OVERHAUL1 Channel 55 New Cable Connection By Leo Seligsohn NDERSTANDABLY Michael Pas-cucci president of WLIG 55 Long only commercial broadcast TV station was elated when it was announced last week that Cablevision the giant cable operator had agreed to feed his channel to another 300000 Cablevision subscribers we can have one blockbuster after says Pascucci can become the best-programed independent station in the a laudable goal for a station that just a year ago was up for sale and whose viewing potential was always impaired by a weak signal and limited access to Cablevision subscribers But the new Cablevision connection is not just a good deal for Ch 55 also good news for TV viewers The channel programs a heavy mix of movies and vintage TV shows that should satisfy couch potatoes And movie buffs should also be pleased: Ch 55 airs four flicks a day usually of high quality Tonight at 8 for example it airs the Barbra Streisand-Robert Bedford favorite Way We and at 11 with Frank Langella and Laurence Olivier In between at 10 the' TV goldfen oldie: Much vintage TV programing also occupies Ch schedule with such oldies as to the Bottom of the Three and to scattered throughout the schedule The station is spiffing itself up already On Jan 19 Oprah Winfrey began airing daily at 7 pm an opportunity fin: people who work during the day to see the highest-rated syndicated show on says station manager Marvin Chauvin (The show also airs daily at 4 pm on- WABC 7) Other TV and movie are being considered as the station according to Chauvin continues to re-evaluate Some sort of overhaul seems in order in light of the blight that creeps through schedule Its listings are currently pocked with half-hour segments of Shows like and Can Look are nothing less than 30-minute orgies of commercial advertising NIELSENS Nine NBC shows scored among the Top 15 prime-time programs far the week of Feb 5-11 including "The Cosby Show" at No 1 Here are the primsfime ratings campled by A Nielsen Co The 1st indudes the ranking season-to-date ranking in parentheses rating tar In week and total homes tuned in A rating measures the percentage of the nation's 921 mKon homes with TV 1 (2) Hm Casby Show NBC 229 rating 211 mMon homes 2 (3) Chews NBC 228 rating 21 mAon homes 3 (1) Reseanne ABC 225 rating 207 giiSon homes 4 (4) A Different World NBC 219 rating 202 mlion homes 5 (7) America's Funniest Howe Videos ABC 214 rating 197 mlion homes (5) Golden Girts NBC 203 rating 187 mWon homes 7 (7) Wonder Tears ABC 201 rating 185 miNon homes I (35) NIC Sunday Movie Faith" Part 1 199 rating 183 mWon homes 1 (14) Who's the Bess? ABC 189 rating 174 mlion homes 10 (I) Minutes CBS 187 rating 172 mUon homes II (17) Unsolved Mysteries NBC 184 rating 17 mtton homes 12 (I) Empty lest NBC 182 rating 168 miMon homes 13 (13) LA Law N8C 179 rating 165 mlion homes 14 (10) Grand NBC 178 rating 164 mMon homes 15 (11) Murder She Wrote CBS 171 rating 157 mMon homes INSIDE Ann Landers 19 Arts on the Island 11 Books 6 Bridge 19 Calendar 24 Comics 14 Crossword 15 Ctyptoquote 19 Dear Abby 21 Entertainment 7 Horoscope 14 Kidaday 17 Movie times 23 Radio 9 25 Television 9 25-27 PART III FOOD Rating the new non-alcoholic beers 14 PuH out after page As part of 50th anniversary celebration Bennie Bookbinder takes a weekly look at what made news on Long Island Plandome becomes the first woman to be nominated for a major political office to Nassau when the Republican County Commmitee last night designated her to run for one of four newly created state Assembly seats Strong a party worker for 28 years and president of the Nassau County Federation of Republican Women is named a candidate tor the 3rd Assembly District comprising the Town of North Hempstead She would go on to win the eiection July 7 Nassau County Agricultural Agent Howard Campbell reports that a six-week dry sped without promise of relief has created a drought of serious proportions that threatens the county's com and potato crops Aug 29 Dr Earle Brown Nassau -health commissioner announces that 25 new cases of infantile paralysis reported last week bring the total to 82 compared to an average of 15 polio cases over-the past six- AP Photo Eleanor Roosevelt years The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis Issues a call for additional nurses of Hempstead 24 is reported killed in action at Anzio Italy without ever having seen his 3-month-old son Otis Jr The tragedy eerily duplicated the World War I death in prance of father who was killed without having seen him Also reported missing in action and presumed dead was Navy Ensign Warren Jay McNamara of Hewlett a star athlete at Wood mere High School and captain of the US Naval Academy baseball team in 1943 7 May 8 Eleanor Roosevelt wife of President Franklin Roosevelt has paid her first official visit to Nassau County to attend a review at the US Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point and to dedicate two residence halls for the Nurse Corps at Adel phi College June 16 Genesis Strong of Jan 21 Louis Valle 143 of Floral Park was electrocuted at Sing Sing Prison for stabbing to death his 15-year-old daughter Florentine a year earlier in a jealous rage over her dating young men' Valle a 100-pound waiter also was convicted of killing his sister-in-law Mrs Nicholas Seelig to the same incident March 2 A Win Wrigm triple-threat Freeport High School and Cornel University backfield star is crowned Nassau County's athlete based on purchases of more than $100000 to War Bonds by his supporters March 18 Army 11 Otis Webb Oavey 1.