New Jersey Nightly News; 02/14/1979

New Jersey night. With the Baucus bill in Trenton and Clayton Vaughn in Newark. Good evening. In the news tonight Shell Oil says it's pulling out of the oil exploration race in the Baltimore Canyon. New Jersey doctors are banned from giving up but a means to people who want them as pets or diet pills quite bold bottom line in the sports we're board will have highlights of last night's New Jersey Nets win over the Kansas City kings. And on a closer look listen in on a debate between an assistant state attorney general and a spokesman for the state liquor industry over liquor price deregulation. Shell Oil Company today pulled out of the Baltimore Canyon area off the New Jersey coast with the announcement that its third test well came in dry. Shell was the grower for a group of six companies that invested more than 200 million dollars in the Baltimore Canyon drilling all of the wells drilled there so far only one of Texaco well shown any sign of commercial amounts of oil on the gas. She

also said that it's closing its office in Atlantic City and will release its offshore drilling rig for other projects. There's another lease sale schedule soon for more tracks in the Baltimore Canyon. Michelle held out the possibility at least that it may try to get back into the area. We're back with. The State Board of Medical Examiners today decided to outlaw amphetamines and similar drugs as prescriptions for weight control and the T and said It means it's sometimes called speed and they do have legitimate uses but it's tale of reports it was the illegitimate use of amphetamines that was the reason for the new rule unfed of NS can suppress appetites so they have been used by dieters and amphetamines can bring about a temporary rush of energy so they have been prescribed for fatigue. But the new rule was written because too many so-called dieters in 15 cases were only interested in the rush. And too many doctors were obliging them with prescriptions that in fact means particularly. Because that's a potential for abuse

that should be recognized by every licensee this board will allow doctors to prescribe amphetamines only for these medical problems not a let's see hyper can he says drug induced brain dysfunction epilepsy and depression. But the Board stated explicitly that diet and fatigue will not be proper reasons for prescribing amphetamines. The new rule should take effect within a month. Despite the unanimous vote there was criticism from people who said restricting doctors is not the best way to fight amphetamine abuse. This is Margot Johnson who lives in Middlesex County she's been taking amphetamines for several years now originally for weight control but now she says she needs the drug to mute the pain of some drug related injuries. Are there any other drugs you can take. Your own health or do you feel about today. I need a few condoms and I think. It's just. As a help. Because I

was doing that as a child and I have improved. And I can not. The new rule will have some effect on the illegal street sales of infamies Because some sort of speed comes from doctors offices. But I want more of that comes from crooked pharmacists and drug tests. And the new rule won't have any effect there in Trenton. I'm Steve telling. Beginning May 1st working women in New Jersey who are pregnant will get up to six months of disability benefits when they give birth. Attorney General John Degnan says a new federal law gives women more benefit time and pre-amps an existing state law which only allows pregnant women eight weeks of disability benefits. The new federal law is an amendment to the Civil Rights Act and prohibits discrimination on the basis of pregnancy childbirth or related medical conditions in employment benefit programs. Clayton a search bar Rumson woman for mother's milk for her sickly foster son has been met by calls from new mothers from all over the country. Joyce

all of them need colostrum. That's a substance found only in mother's milk to fight infection calls have come in from as far away as California. One woman in Florida whose baby died last week told Mrs. Sullivan that in the nation. Good give meaning to the baby's short life. A team of researchers from the State Department of Health and Environmental Protection will set up shop in a trailer in Woodridge tomorrow. It's an attempt to find out if mercury contamination of the side of the now demolished chemical plant is endangering the health of those who live and work near the site. The area is said to have the highest levels of mercury pollution in the world. And while State officials say they do not believe the mercury poses a threat to health they'll be testing hair urine and blood samples taken from those who have been exposed. Just to make sure that they are right Rebecca. As expected New Jersey builders are fighting governor Burns moratorium on building in the pine lands. The state Builders Association says it will file suit this Friday in state court asking for a preliminary injunction against the governor's executive order. The builders say the

ban would seriously hurt the construction industry in the state. Meanwhile Governor Byrne has vetoed a bill to raise New Jersey's minimum wage. But that veto was only conditional. The governor says he will sign it after the legislature removes some unclear language. The bill provides for a boost in the minimum wage from the current $2 50 cents and hour to $2 90 cents an hour this year and up to $3 and 10 cents an hour in 1980. Clayton. A federal jury in Washington today convicted three added Castro Cubans from New Jersey in the 1974 assassination of a former diplomat from Chile. The three are from North Bergen who are more noble sample than Alvin Ross Diaz were found guilty of murder. They face life in prison. Your brother was convicted of lying to a grand jury and covering up the crime. He faces a maximum 13 year term. Defense attorneys say they will appeal. It appears the state commission of investigation is going to be continued. Governor Bernie shown his support of the somewhat

controversial agency by naming a new chairman filling two longstanding vacancies. The new chairman is Arthur lane of our burden and the new members are Henry Patterson the second of Princeton and John Francis Jr. of South Orange. If you still drive a gas guzzling car this may be the time to reconsider. Senator Henry Jackson chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee is predicting a rocky road ahead for American motorists with prices increasing supplies decreasing Jackson blames a situation in part on the continuing turmoil in Iran. But he had criticism for the auto industry and public utilities that have continued to use oil based energy as oil imports skyrocket moron Jackson's assessment from a border guard. Jackson said he was going to tell it like it is in this group of business leaders at a $50 a plate executive update. It's a caucus sponsored by fairly Dickinson University came to listen. Jackson warned the group of a possible spillover effect from the violence

in Iran to other East oil producing countries. And he says that if Saudi Arabian oil supplies are cut it will definitely mean gas rationing. Even if it's not the outlook for motorists this year is dismal. But we're going to. Be in a very tight situation in which we are going to have to face the fact that there will be shortages at the gas pump and the price is going up and up and. People will be standing in lines on weekends. In their car to get that. Fuel. New Jersey energy commissioner Joel Jacobson agrees. And he says the state has contingency plans ready. Things like having even days at the gas pump. Perhaps restrictions of hours of sale. Certainly you can't get into the gas station to get gas unless you have under a half a tank. All of these things were designed to meet the responsibilities of the show. At the same time to avoid the oldest

case there are no winds here yet. The prices continue to creep upward and Jackson says its drivers in the Northeast will take the brunt of any cut off of Mideast oil. And that will threaten utilities here too. Like this one and CARNEY That turn to foreign oil when it was cheaper than domestic supplies. So stand alerted the new oral shortage may be right around the corner. In New York. I'm Jack Carter. Republican Senator Howard Baker also made it to New Jersey. He came to try to end the day to help Republican legislators kick off their campaign effort for the upcoming assembly elections. But it also looked as if Baker was polishing up his presidential aspirations. So has the story. Howard Baker is free with his opinions. Just what you'd expect from a national Republican luminaries. No he doesn't think gas rationing will be necessary but if it comes it will be due more to Democratic mismanagement than to problems in

Iran. Yes he feels the Republican Party is split between moderates and conservatives but no he doesn't think that's a divisive split. He's even handed blasting President Carter for miscalculations about Iran and praising him for inviting Richard Nixon to the Chinese vice premier state dinner. But the opinions are just a mechanism for introducing Baker to the New Jersey reporters will be covering him if and when he campaigns in the New Jersey presidential primary. How does he feel that race is shaping up. By any measure I like Ronald Reagan is the front runner in the Republican contest. I think John Connelly is a serious contender as is George Bush. John and. I think Phil Crane is very active and has accumulated a great deal more strength than some people thought he would. I guess in some nation I don't like anybody who has that nomination tied up. A nice political analysis but what if his own chances.

I feel that I got as good a chance as anybody's got in Trenton. I Mariama Rosso. Senator Bill Bradley says he's afraid the state may lose millions in federal aid if it doesn't get an accurate census. In 1980 Bradley says business and civic groups in the state should help count New Jerseyans to get the highest total possible besides a share of 50 billion dollars a year in federal aid. The state stands to lose some of its congressman to the number of congressmen in a state that a state has depends on its population. And some of New Jersey's 15 seats in the house could be lost to growing Sun Belt states. The future of basic training at Fort Dix looks bleaker tonight at least in the eyes of South Jersey congressman Edwin Forsyth Forsyth claims he has information that a Secret Army study of the base deliberately puts it in a bad light. Forsyth told New Jersey nightly news today that there's been a tilt in these studies that indicates Fort Dix will lose basic training. The state's congressional delegation has asked the Army to release the report and an answer is expected tomorrow.

The judge today refused to dismiss murder charges against Robert Roldan although the journey claimed the Rolands attorney that is that the charges should be dropped because the victims two women were killed in New York State. The Bergen County prosecutor argued that although the bodies were found in New York State there was sufficient inferences that the two women Demarest were killed in New Jersey. The body of a 3 year old boy who was reported missing by as mother in Pemberton more than a month ago was found in a shallow grave. The mother 23 year old Linda Luciana and her 22 year old boyfriend Brian still been charged with murder. Billy's recovered the body after the little boy's 5 year old sister told relatives that her brother had been beaten and held underwater in a bathtub. An autopsy indicated the boy died of massive head injuries. Jersey City Public School Number 30 heavily damaged by fire today arson not suspected there was no one in the building when the fire was discovered some firemen suffered frostbite fighting the flames in the subfreezing weather but there were no other injuries or rooms in the

building were damaged and classes there today were canceled. We're back in. At 2 o'clock this morning Newark International Airport recorded a low temperature of 1 degree above zero that's a new record for Valentine's Day. It's cold enough to chill a few hearts. This is the fourth consecutive day that record low temperatures have either been broken or equalled at the airport and that's another record breaking three consecutive days of record lows for February. That was set back in 1934 and again in 1943. The cold weather will continue but it won't be record breaking and the forecast for it to die calls for mostly cloudy skies with a chance of light snow. Temperatures will start off anywhere from 5 to 9 degrees and then slowly rise into the teens. Tomorrow it will be cloudy with a good chance of snow. It won't be quite as cold as today. Highs in the north will range from the mid 20s to near 30 and from the upper 20s to the mid 30s in the south and the outlook for Friday snow ending in the morning followed by partial clearing with milder temperatures.

Bending it to reforest hips I hear there are lives of pygmies lifestyle has remained practically unchanged for millennia. Contacts with fellow Jews. And some modern conveniences. Of the pygmies prefer their forest ways. Children of the forest. Next time. Watch the children of the forest. Thursday at 8 New Jersey Public Television. Paul Budde lives here with a story on the latest this is just the end literally. The Giants have just called a news conference for later on tonight. The speculation is that they'll be naming a new director of operations to replace Andy back in December. More on that story tomorrow and the burned down Garden State racetrack may remain closed for quite a

while. The Bank of New Jersey said today it will foreclose on the mortgage held by Edward Ellis Jr. Ellis had already begun to rebuild the Cherry Hill facility. It was almost two years ago when Garden State Park burned to the ground more than a year after that Edward Ellis purchased the track for sixteen point seven million dollars with the hopes of rebuilding by 1980. In fact back in October Ellis unveiled a model of what he hoped would be the new grandstand. But a problem cropped up Ellis had hoped to borrow 57 million dollars to complete its construction. But investors have been very hard to find as a result the Bank of New Jersey has apparently decided to foreclose on Ellis and try to find another buyer. More than likely the entire issue will be decided in a courtroom. Pro-basketball last night the New Jersey Nets made it four wins in a row beating the Kansas City Kings 111 to one hundred two. Nets coach Kevin locker re-elected to play most of the game without Number Twenty-Two Bernard King had arrived only five minutes before game time after having car troubles. So in the first half Kansas City rolled to a five point lead

53 to 48. But in the third quarter the nets came on strong especially number 23 John Williamson who finished with a game high 26 points. Also looking good Rutgers grad Eddie Jordan who had for 20 since the nets traded Eric money away Jordan is the team's only small guard as he told Bill Perry he's happy about that situation. When you feel secure you very happy and I feel more secure in their career. I have to thank cable market for his giving me that carpenters or the rollout where. You said you were the guard at your show and since the Great It's your show the team's forno. Well that's what we want to do and people are. Last night's final again the Mets won 11 Kansas City 1 0 to the Nets play in Milwaukee tonight and college ball tomorrow night it's showdown time in Madison Square Garden. Rutgers and Seton Hall will go at it in their interest State rivalry. Rutgers won both meetings between the two last year in fact the Knights have beaten Seton Hall for the last five. Usually

when Rutgers and Seton Hall play it's for the unofficial championship of New Jersey. But as Rutgers guard Tom Brown says not this time around. What a room because St. Petersburg last in the US will be seen also right now the number one team in New Jersey so to speak but you know we need to begin for both teams and I hope we will come in time for that to happen Rutgers needs a good performance out of James Bailey and they must find a way to stop the Seton Hall tandem of Nick galas and Danny Callan drill a couple of outstanding guards put against St. Johns he looks about the same it takes a lot more. Intelligible. Is good for him and passive but I don't get them much. Rutgers sounds confident tomorrow evening we'll have a report on Seton Hall Upsala college has been selected to host the first round of the NCAA division three tournaments that will be coming up the weekend of March 2nd and 3rd. Last night Uppsala won its 13th game in a row beating Montclair State other game St. Peters lost in overtime to Catholic University. Jersey City State

raised its record to 19 and 3 also last night the ninth ranked the Rutgers women lost for only the third time of the year falling to Cheyney State and repeating the Giants have called a news conference for later on tonight. It's expected that they'll name a new director of operations to replace Andy belly who quit back in December more and that again tomorrow. And that's sports Rebecca. Thanks Paul. Did resort to the underworld figure commission money when it bought slot machines for its Paradise Island Casino. That question is one of the 17 objections against resorts that could mean no permanent license for the casino. In the twenty fifth day of hearings the head of resorts security division a former federal Justice Department attorney testified that resorts did not pay any commission on slot machines to Deano Giulini an underworld figure in a reported associate of Meyer Lansky. Meanwhile state attorney general John Degnan whose office had a written regionally brought the charges against resorts said yesterday that denying resorts a permanent license would quote encourage good clean operators to come to Atlantic City.

Help is inside for a badly congested area of the Garden State Parkway. The area is a seven mile long section between the union toll plaza and the East Orange interchange. The New Jersey highway authority will start adding a fourth lane to the parkway environmental studies on the project are scheduled to start soon and the authority says work on the parkway could be completed as early as next fall. Great. Another sonic boom in northwest New Jersey last night. Apparently it was due to another landing in Washington D.C. of a supersonic Concorde jet from Europe. Sonic booms can travel great distances when all the atmospheric conditions are just right at a 51 year old furniture dealer from Toms River as become New Jersey's latest instant millionaire. The drawing following the millionaire lottery held today the winner Salvator Jr. who wanted the drawing you says when curiosity got the best of it. He says he buys two lottery tickets a week. Now you can buy more. He gets $50000 a year for the next 20 years. When I will of course says he

has cause for celebration so is taking his wife Maxine out to dinner tonight. Happy Valentine's Day. Fire. Him. I'm glad. I never said. That. But I'm. Really do you. If you. Think. That's country matters Thursday at mine or New Jersey Public Television. There hasn't been anything like it since government agents on the Jersey Shore. This time the battle of the booze pits the state attorney general's office against liquor dealers.

Whether or not to get rid of price controls on liquor sold in New Jersey. A spirited debate has been brewing in Trenton for the last two weeks. On one side is assistant attorney general and on the other ROBERT Well that's who speaks for the state's liquor wholesalers. Lester the Siani if price controls are lifted what will it mean for liquor prices to the consumer. We believe that there will be a reduction of somewhere between 10 and 20 percent or 67 cents to a dollar and a quarter on a fifth of liquor in terms of the potential saving to the consumer. In sum total we believe that as much as 50 million dollars is involved is being over expended by virtue of the forced market forces pricing in the liquor industry. Mr. Lance do you agree with that. No I don't agree with it. I don't know and I don't think the study that the study made has been sufficiently carried out in order for the state to know. What kind of reduction there would be in the

prices but there would be a right assume there would be a reduction. I do not think that they are justified in coming to the conclusion that it would be a substantial as they say. And. In view of the other consequences that the regulation might have could you mention those. I would suggest very respectfully to the state that before they take what. Is a very momentous step in a very very important industry that. They continue their studies and regard the attorney general study as a beginning rather than as the final study. What other steps steps have consequences if you ask me about any potential. For many many people salesmen for instance losing their jobs for many many stores their taverns or package stores going out of business because of competitive situation. The consequences of which one isn't really sure about. And I mean let me just get guys in language that that I can understand you mean if the prices go down I'll make it very simple if this price deregulation there is

a possibility that the chain liquor stores will cut the prices as severely as the attorney general predicts. If that occurs there are many marginal package stores many marginal taverns that may go out of business there are other recommendations in the Attorney General's report. You mean what you're saying is those other small businesses won't be able to compete. Might I add that among the suggestions of the attorney general there are included certain other market protections that are being offered. For example we would restrict the proliferation of chain stores as they have in California to the state of California recently deregulated in a mere 30 days following a court decision by the state Supreme Court in which their Supreme Court ruled. Illegal in effect as an antitrust violation. A price scheme nearly identical to that in New Jersey. If there's any reason for haste among others there is a very very substantial likelihood that the present scheme that we have in this state

is illegal under the federal and state and I trust that that is possible. It's one thing to have a court. Make an adjudication that something's illegal it's another thing for the administrative agencies to take a system that's been in effect for 40 years which may or may not be a wise system. And issue a report on January 2nd or whenever it was and attempt to effect that recommendation as quickly as the division of Alcoholic Beverage Control apparently intends to effect it. One of the consequences of the recommendation is 55 million dollars in sales tax. Will have to be replace. The Attorney-General suggests that the legislature replace this by doubling the excise tax legislation may not do it. That is not an accurate. That's how I read this report. And it is among a series of suggestions to replace the sales tax revenue that is only one of several alternatives but I'd like to address.

I'd like to just get to one question because we like to have more time but we don't. What about the illegal kickbacks. There were nine companies charged with illegal practices because are price controls being able to compete only by means of accepting. Facts. Are you addressing the question to me that either one of us. I assume that one of the motivations of the recommendation is to and the causes of whatever illegality has existed in the industry. I would hope that the attorney general and the director would examine other alternatives. It may be that there are other ways to prevent illegality than to the entire system. It may be that the remedy for the illegality is worse than the illness. The remedy the remedy that we suggest is normal simple American competition. We're talking about allowing a free market to take you get a normal pool and have a normal. Ordinary American going out of business. And I don't

say that everyone's going to go out of business. I just think more time more study is needed. And I do believe in view of the 55 million dollar loss that it's the legislature that should the attorney general should be assured that the legislature will replace this 55 million dollars in lost taxes before he takes the final step. Gentlemen our time is up thank you both for being with us I'm sure we'll hear more about this issue in the coming weeks as the debate goes on. Thank you again. Thank you thank you. Here's Paul Budde with a special report. Just go to UPI The new director of operations for the Giants is a fellow named George Young who was an assistant coach with the Miami Dolphins for about four years again supposedly according to UPI It's George Young the new director of operations for the Giants. And I just came over. Rebecca. Thank you. And. Good night from New Jersey nightly news at Clayton.

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