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Murdoch SCIENCE The purchase price for KSBY was $17 million said George Lilly president of the privately held SJL The 85 employees were told of the sale at a staff meeting Friday morning Murdoch refused requests fin an interview Friday KSBY Station Manager Scott Evers said she would be in meetings all day and would not be available Murdoch did however tell a Telegram-Tribune columnist that she planned to stay on until at least late January keep the staffs focused on what been doing and to keep on having fun" In a written release meanwhile Murdoch mid Pianim explained the sale by complaining about regulatory that they said have caused a consolidation in the broadcast industry and will hurt "stand-alone small-market stations" "As such we had to decide whether to acquire additional stations or to sell our two stations the statement read the other professional and personal opportunities open to us we have chosen to KSBY reporter June Chan however said Murdoch told staffers a JIO A amerent story "They just told us they got a good offer" Chan said Friday shortly after the 10 am staff meeting "a sales Please see KSBY Bsck Psgc By Ken McCall Telegram-Tribune SAN LUIS OBISPO One tumultuous year after taking the reins of KSBY-TV media heiress Elisabeth Murdoch and her husband Elkin Pianim are walking away Murdoch daughter of media mogul Rupert Murdoch and president of EP Communications announced Friday that her firm has sold the NBC affiliate to the Montecito-based SJL Communications The company also announced the sale of its other television station KSBW-TV in Salinas to Smith Television of Salinas-Monterey Robert Smith one of the principal owners of Smith Television also owns KEYT-TV in Santa Barbara along with four other stations around the country Telegram-Tribune ELISABETH MURDOCH: She said she plans to stay on until at least late January A MOMENT WITHOUT WAR Jet-fiiel residue found in Morro By Maggia White Telegram-Tribune MORRO BAY Fuel-contaminated soil and ground water have been found at the closed Estero Bay jet-fuel storage site in the northern part of town A private drinking water well is just half a mile from the site and homes surround the storage tanks on the west northwest and south But officials with the Defense Fuel Supply Center and other agencies say the contamination a serious concern As part of routine environmental checks the soil and ground water at the tank form have been monitored since before the terminal closed in 1991 Tests in July showed Asad fish stay The saga of the Northwest salmon illustrates how easily humans can deplete nature's bounty and how costly restoring even part of that bounty can be Page E-6 COUNTY Fire bums in Atascadero A graps fire started by a lawn mower burned 19 acres east of Atascadero Friday PacsS-3 Road deal flavored County staff recommends a deal that will let Caltrans straighten a 17-mile stretch of Highway 1 near the Piedras Blancas Lighthouse Pact B-3 Supervisors consider pay County -supervisors Tuesday could cut their pay by 177 percent PagtB-1 A profile of supervisor candidate Sandi Sigurdson PageB-1 SPORTS Big Sky looms tonight Cal Poly Mustangs will try for the second time this season and fifth over two seasons to beat a Big Sky Conference team tonight PageC-1 Official program for the game with Montana State is inside today's paper WEATHER AM clouds highs in 60s to 90s See complete forecast INDEX 1O6 Church E-4 Classifieds C-9 Comics E-5 County B-l Crossword 4 noracopiLro E-2 A5 B-4 B-6 C-l A3 David MiddfacampTelegram-Tribune GEORGE LILLY: He said he would not be looking to come in and make wholesale changes traces of jet fUel in the shallow soil near one of the 125000 barrel tanks around a pipeline manifold pit and near the operations building according to a fact sheet issued by the Defense Fuel Supply Center Traces of feel were also found in water 45 to 50 feet underground near the operations building the pipeline manifold pit and a second tank Although traces of fuel showed up in three shallow ground water monitoring wells just outside the Tank Farm gate on Panorama Drive the concentrations of fuel were very low and are not a concern according to the center The fliel spills inside the facility are also nothing to worry Please see FUEL Page A-9 interviews many questions about Powell remain unanswered not the least of which is whether he will enter the 1996 presidential race and whether he would run as a Republican or independent As Powell launches his 23-city book tour this weekend analyzing his views has become something of an obsession in Washington It is clear that Powell who was raised in a home where Franklin Roosevelt was a hero has little good to say about today's Democratic Party viewing it as too quick to spend and Please see POWELL Page A-9 of wine beer or spirits could put him or her over the new limit of 05 grams of alcohol per liter of blood down from 07 grama The new limit translates to a blood alcohol content of about 0065 percent Most states in the United States consider a person legally drunk when they reach a blood alcohol content of 01 percent although some including California have recently toughened the laws to 006 per cent The new limit gives France one Please see FRENCH Page A-9 Where does Powell fit? Many questions remain about the self-described fiscal conservative with a social conscience WASHINGTON (AP) He believes in free enterprise and lower taxes and is put off by He also supports abortion rights and gun control and was alarmed by a "troubling mix of politics and religion" at the 1992 Republican convention Colin Powell it turns out is an awkward fit in today's politics a self-described conservative with a social He puts himself in the center of the American political and declares allegiance to neither major political party Even with the release of his new book and an accompanying blizzard of TRUE TOY: Dressed in camouflage with a toy gun tucked in his belt a whimsical plaything his pinwheel Friday beside sandbagged shop its newfound calm as the Serbs remove most of their heavy weapons Alcohol-loving French face tough drunken-driving law PARIS (AP) A tough now law against drinking and driving metabolism and other factors drinking more than two glasses Deal paves way for next generation of CDs Associated Press young boy contemplates a more in Sarajevo The city is relishing For more see A-8 CDs on personal computers and many believe the same thing will happen with movie CDs Billions of dollars in future royalties were at stake in the debate over the new CD disc design Since last December electronics companies have been lining up behind the competing designs of Toshiba Carp and Sony Corp which together created the original CD with Philips Electronics NV key hackers were Time Warner Inc and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co the largest electronics company It also won as French as Burgundy with brie declares many people legally drunk if they have more than two glasses of wine Only two? Sacre bleu! say some French intent on shielding their beloved "bon lifestyle from the law that took effect Friday The new law toughens restrictions on blood alcohol content for French drivers The government coupled the crackdown with a media blitz using the slogan: "After two glasses everything speeds up" Depending on a person's size NEW YORK (AP) The electronics industry Friday agreed to a common design for' the next generation of compact discs eliminating the risk that consumers might buy a product that becomes obsolete the way Beta-max videocassette recorders did in the 19608 The new CD will be the same size as the one now commonly used in stereos and personal computers But it will hold about eight times more data meaning a M-length movie or all nine Beethoven symphonies could fit on one disc The agreement marks one of the few times that a standard has been set for an electronics product before it even reached customers The same thing happened with the original compact disc In the 1980s allowing CDs to surpass vinyl records quickly as the preferred format for recorded music you put standardization together with a great product the consumer embraced it" said Warren Lieberforb president of Warner Home Video Inc one of many companies that planB to have movies on the new CDs by the 1996 holiday season think we're on the same pathway hrae" Moreover the new CDs may further reduce the differences between machines that play them It is already common for instance to play music RpPTOP :1 -f fit Bam.