New Jersey Nightly News; New Jersey Nightly News Episode from 11/24/1981

Some like your post. With downturns. Many good evening. Good news for New Jersey consumers the rate of inflation has slowed down. Bill Perry says it's Princeton night and Swartz you'll hear from Frank Navarro and Pete Karylle that in tonight's closer look without a neighborhood that keeps the original spirit of Thanksgiving alive and well. Inflation in October was the lowest in more than a year according to figures released today. The Federal Consumer Price Index rose point four percent the smallest increase since the summer of 1980. Steve Taylor reports. The big difference was in housing where prices actually dropped a little after 15 months of soaring inflation has been pushed by home price increases for several years now pushed enough to offset other items which have never risen much. One seasonal

example is the Thanksgiving turkey old newspaper ads show turkeys selling for no more than 61 cents per pound in 1952 when a house like this might have sold for $15000. Today the House could cost 90000 but the turkey can be bought for less per pound than 28 years ago. Now that tells you something about turkeys for instance that they're made more efficiently than in 1952. But it also tells you something about the consumer price index that it's an average made up of lots of prices and it within the average. Some prices are rising and others are falling. In recent years the risers have far outweighed the followers but this month they're closer to balancing. Experts say the small October increase means the inflation rate for all of 1981 will probably be below 10 percent for the first time in two years. I'm Steve Taylor. Today was to be the deadline for final development plans for that 1.2 million dollar mini city envision for the Hackensack Meadowlands but the Barrys Creek project is in disarray the entire

development in serious jeopardy. All because of a bitter family feud. So the Meadowlands Development Commission today extended the deadline giving the developers at least one more month to settle their differences and get to work. Sandra King has more of the vote for extension it was unanimous but the threat implicit. If this is ALL MEN family which owns the building site can't bury the hatchet there massive project could die for the commission. That would mean starting again from scratch on a plan that's been years in the making. At stake is a major shopping complex a convention center and hotel. Several high rise office buildings. More than 4000 units of new housing and 22000 permanent jobs. It was just last June that the Commission accepted the tentative plan with today's admission to have been no more than formality. But in the interim a family squabble has escalated. It began last year with the death of Jerome settlement and it's led to a bitter split. Selig and his mother on one side his five sisters and their husbands on the

other. The fight is over who will call the shots. The results at least seven lawsuits and earlier this month the public withdrawal of Rose associates the project's developer. But at today's public meeting both sides told commissioners that a truce is in the making. This is been a great hardship and great heartache. I wish to say at this time that we have achieved great progress in settling all these issues and that we feel that within a very short time all the problems will be allayed. And I agree with Mrs. Wells that it is unfortunate that we cannot present to you today the management group agreements that the commission seeks. We're hopeful that within a short period of time that will that will be possible. Commissioner Michael Breslin said the family has until December 17th to put the project back on track. In the interim him DC staff will be exploring possible

alternatives ranging from further extensions to condemnation and seizure of the system and land. Another possibility is that we will have the developers agreement before December 7th 1981 and. One of the questions that the staff will have examined what this commission would become. But even if the family makes peace so the developer may not go along with a spokesman for his associates today said that firm stands by its decision to pull out of various Corey. When asked if that could change. Their response was NEVER SAY NEVER. And there were. Times under OK. A member of the Hackensack Meadowlands Commission resigned today saying he was the victim of vicious lies. And when Jerry Doyle a commissioner for seven years announced his resignation at the close of today's meeting last week a witness in a federal trial in Newark testified that Doyle y county councilman had solicited a 10 percent kickback. Doyle is not charged with any crime. Yesterday Governor Byrne withdrew his

renomination of the oil to another five year term citing questions on Doyles residency qualifications and it is tragic that as so often happens in public life one has no defense against this kind of charge. Tragic but a fact. Despite seven years of unblemished service that the H and DC I feel my usefulness here is at an end. To fill the vacated post governor Byrne has named Angelo SAA fella a partner in a Bergen County fuel oil company to succeed Doyle the three judge panel overseeing the recount of the gubernatorial race indicated today that if the recount is not completed by December 1st the State Board of Canvassers may certify the original results. Those results showed Republican Tom Kane with a sixteen hundred seventy seven vote lead over Democrat Jim Florio. The special elections panel said however the certification may be withdrawn depending on the outcome of the recount done. By Decree of Pope John Paul the second central New Jersey will have a new diocese and a

new bishop. Jim McQueen has that story. He was Bishop John Reese which Trenton diocese was being split in half to greet the newly touchin diocese who introduced its new bishop there on the carriage Sillery bishop of the Archdiocese of New York. The Trenton diocese had been the largest in the state covering eight counties and eight hundred eighty thousand Catholics. Forming the most touching Diocese of the four northern counties Middlesex Somerset hundred and Warren it becomes the first new diocese in the Northeast in 20 years. This year the trend in Dies is celebrated it's 100 anniversary. It was divided once before in one thousand thirty seven to create a Camden diocese. The new Central Jersey diocese joins Camden Trenton and Paterson Plus the Archdiocese of New York. It was created for several reasons. Basically the Diocese of Trenton had grown so large and so beautifully in the last few years that in order to give people the opportunity of

relating to their own bishop more on a local level the Holy See felt that you could take these four northern counties of the Diocese of Trenton about 400000 Catholic people and give them their own vision their own shop and the stroke of the pen creating the new diocese also elevates the home of the new bishop. St. Francis Church in bitachon Saint Francis Cathedral accessibility was the reason given by church officials as to why it was chosen as the diocesan seat over New Brunswick or Perth Amboy. Imma touch and I'm Jim a queen. In Fairlawn tonight a rally is planned to protest a recent wave of vandalism aimed at that community synagogues both Jewish and non-Jewish residents have expressed outrage at the acts. Diane docker has more on the front of the Fairlawn Jewish community center the faint outline of a swastika. This was done November 12th. Here the same was true for two other Fairlawn synagogues. There are about 12000 Jews in this community. That's one third of the total population.

And we think we live in a free country where everybody can. Express their opinions and their neighbors. When one assumes that everyone feels friendly until you see this kind of thing and it is very disturbing shocking kind of thing to. Face some Jewish residents say the vandals were adults who knew perfectly well what they were doing in a way. But Fair Lawn police think the vandals were teenagers this far in the investigation. We find no indication that it's an organized group that's involved in the recent incidents. Chief in Houghton says extra manpower will be on hand for tonight's rally especially in light of bomb threats at five churches. Those church leaders agreed to join in the protest. The Jewish community hopes the protest will put an end to sites like this. And Fairlawn police say arrests in the case will come soon in Fairlawn. I'm dyin doctor. Meanwhile police in Elizabeth say they have no suspects yet in connection with a break in yesterday

morning at a local synagogue. Burglars stole five Torahs valued at more than $7000 each several silver items and a crown used to adorn the Taurus. That 71 year old George Katz has died and with him charges never proven in court that he was involved in the Abscam affair and was a friend of organized crime. Katz of Paterson was a friend of many powerful politicians and a long time Democratic Party fundraiser who made his money in the garbage hauling business. He was indicted in October of last year along with Senator Harrison Williams and former Camden mayor Angelo Eric Katty in the federal Abscam conspiracy. But he never went to trial because of ill health. He had heart disease and diabetes. Katz died yesterday in a Fort Lee hospital often investigated and indicted in 1974 on charges of rigging highway contracts. Katz was never convicted and claimed his innocence of ties to the mob. Don. Headlining City Public Safety Director Willie Clayton has promoted himself and four others to the rank of Deputy Chief and critics say Clayton is just feathering his own

nest. Atlantic City residents voted to change their form of government starting next year and that may mean Clayton who is a city commissioner could be out of a job after the new elections three city commissioners accused him of preparing for that possibility by giving himself a $38000 job he won't lose in the police department hierarchy. Well Clayton denies those charges and says the promotions are just part of a long planned police department reorganization. Atlantic City's crime rate by the way is second in this nation only to Miami is. The federal government's Kaye witness in the trial of State Senator William Musto has implicated governor Byrne in a plan to assure Musto a loan from the Housing Finance Agency. Well for lending money a contractor who received a seven and a half million dollar loan from the agency to build an apartment building said that Union City Board of Education President John Powers told him that must go phone the governor insisting that the project be built or land being testified earlier that he had been told the project was shelved and admitted he gave payoffs to powers one of seven co-defendants in the trial. A spokesman for Burns said there would be no

comment until the testimony at today's trial was studied. The defendants are charged with racketeering fraud and bribery. Ever since the pine lands plan was adopted local and state officials have been under some pressure to come up with a way to compensate landowners whose property values decreased under new restrictions. Well now here's a Burlington County will be the first to institute such a plan. Dan Hodson has the story. Under the Burlington County plan if you own 30 million acres in the inner pylons preservation area are marked by number one on this map you automatically own one development credit. You can be sold for $10000. Basically you will be selling your right to develop the land you get a credit exchange with then sell the credits to land developers. If a developer buys a credit the pilots commission will allow him to increase the density of his developments in special regional growth districts by 50 percent. Those districts are marked on the map with a five pound builder in one of these areas could add one more house per acre where he already had permission to build two houses. If you want property in pilings areas sold for agriculture you can sell development

rights on 39 acres for two credits or twenty thousand dollars. The county says eventually it'll get out of the system and allow the private market to take over its competition forcing the credit price even higher. The bank is an interim vehicle has a life of two years and it's to get the system started. So if a person is sold to the bank they'd sell at a basic level of $10000 per credit. Once the market starts to develop that quarter of the credit could be worth $5000 which would make a full credit worth $20000. The county has one and a half million dollars of bond money to fund the development credit account as developers buy the credits. The fund will be reimbursed and will be able to buy more development credits. Local landowners though don't seem too excited about the plan. Well they say it's better than the nothing they can get for their land. Now. They point out the credit will bring in only about five hundred dollars an acre. Now their land is assessed for taxes. At three to four thousand dollars an acre. If you're going to give us $10000 for 39 acres

how can we stand by it. It's got to equal out here sooner or later and I don't think it's going to do I think the farmer is going to take the brunt. Just like we've been taking it for a good many years with the violence commission says there will be heavy competition to buy the development credits as soon as local municipalities finished drawing up the mast. Plan to decide exactly where the regional growth areas will be. So far of the seven counties and over 15 units of penalties in the Pinelands only Burlington County is working on a credit program. Some say the program will destroy an area's tax base and make the already low valued land with even less. County hopes to have its credit program in full operation by January. No one is sure if it will be successful. But whatever happens will be a major factor in helping other pilots counties decide whether they want to start a development credit program of their own at Indian mills in Burlington County. I'm Dan Hodges. According to a formal statement released by the governor's office the assault a New York City last week of Governor Burns 25 year old daughter Susan did not involve rape.

Miss BURNS attorney former attorney general John Degnan issued the statement stressing that the matter would not be pursued any further or further and the case is now considered closed. A New York City Police Department official had said that Susan Byrne told authorities she was walking to her parked car on the 78 Street in Manhattan on November 19th when two men grabbed her and assaulted her in an alley. They said that Miss Byrne would not be able to identify her assailants because she is disoriented in her recollection of the incident. They've been added that he believes the New York Police Department is closing out their investigation of the matter and the Burne family is now asking for privacy. And now here's a look at the weather forecast tonight will be cloudy and cold with a chance of a few snow flurries. Temperatures in the upper 20s to low 30s partly sunny skies tomorrow with temperature highs in the low 40s and the outlook for Thursday Thanksgiving day partly cloudy and cold. The people who celebrated the first Thanksgiving were immigrants who quite literally wanted to give

thanks for both freedom and material riches they found here in America. Today many Americans view Thanksgiving as little more than a convenient time to begin their Christmas shopping. Still there are some neighborhoods where the original spirit of Thanksgiving lives on. This is a scene which is being repeated thousands of times this week as families throughout New Jersey get ready for Thanksgiving. But for Ed and Val Maurice Thanksgiving has a special meaning. That's because they live in Newark so Ironbound section the heart of New Jersey is growing Portuguese community. More than 60000 Portuguese Americans live in Newark the majority in an area so named because of the railroad tracks and bridges which surround it. The Portuguese

influence is obvious. In fact that influence stretches back more than 50 years. Elise remembers now biking hero 19 26 at that time. There were only about 50 married couples and about 500 men living in boarding houses. I'm back with the population of Portuguese people in the section now of course as you know now there's quite a difference. In some ways the Ironbound is an anachronism and only style ethnic neighborhood in an era when many of those neighborhoods have disappeared. It's a place where the classic American immigrant experience continues. Fernando Farrar is a successful businessman he owns a travel agency sells insurance and is an accountant. Twenty years ago when he first came to America his life was very different.

My wife was pregnant with my second child. She worked for the 15 hours I was out of work for to. Start believing you similarly you probably could come from no but you started to push people I know. That's how we started. Of course the money was not enough to go all the expenses. For today's families tend to be very closely knit. Many parents are anxious that their children all of whom attend American schools also learn to appreciate their ethnic heritage. Race is a detective with the Essex County Sheriff's Department. His wife works in a doctor's office. We're very proud of our heritage and we try to keep it alive in our homes we. We have first of all when the children are young younger. I taught them how to read Portuguese. I have kept my books from school when I

was a child and I have the books with me and I don't them how to Portuguese. We speak Portuguese at home most of the time. We try to do that because we want them to. We don't want them to forget the Portuguese we want them to continue using it so that they can speak to the grandparents and it's easier for them to commune with communicate with grandparents. Who speak only Portuguese. Annual celebrations like the feast of St. Anthony play an important role in the social life of the Ironbound. They also point up the strong role of the Catholic Church in the Portuguese community. I am. Property values have soared in the Ironbound over the past 10 years. One of the chief reasons is the Portuguese who have taken old rundown buildings and painstakingly

rehabilitated them since bank loans are often hard to come by in urban areas like Newark. Most of this work has been paid for out of family savings. It was affordable housing and the promise of work from men in the construction industry or factory jobs and work as domestics for women which first brought the Portugese to Newark. It is their strong sense of community which induces many to stay. If there is any wants in New Jersey I think it's right down. When the iron bound section I really mean that. It's a pleasure to go out and people stop you know and talk to you. You can see in their expression that they're happy to see you back in again. We help each other to do when the occasion arises. As proud as the Portuguese are of their heritage they are also proud to be Americans. That's why a holiday like Thanksgiving has a special meaning to them. Thanksgiving is I should say almost my favorite holiday.

Well we've been very thankful for all we have. And. We do have much. I came I came from a very poor family my father being a fisherman. Just barely making a living. So I'm very thankful first of all that he came to the United States and then later on sent for my mother and I and that we were. Able to live in the United States. Here's Bill Perry with tonight's sports. Bill what's the question. OK thank you the question is just like I told

them. Will he or won't he the cosmos are doing the asking the cosmos open their NASL indoor season December 8th in Chicago and the question is about your joking alue today the moz scrimmage the Brooklyn Dodgers the national semi-pro champion Giorgio scored eight goals but still can now is not committed to playing on the indoor team the cosmos of course are hoping to convince Giorgio to play. We'll put the rap on Rutgers football that's rap with a W W r a p and not just are a fake. Listen it was a tough season and this kind of sums it up Saturday against Boston College it was 7 all second quarter and it looks like Dan Erica has gone off the interception 98 yards. But this one was called back because of an offsides call so instead of leading by a touchdown it stayed even but not for long on the next play you'll see Steve straight Chan broke it all the way for a touchdown 24 yards it was the Eagles by a touchdown and they go on to win 27 21 that's how it went for Rutgers who finished with five straight losses in a 5 and 6 overall record I mention the Brooklyn Dodgers before. As the old Brooklyn Dodgers used to say wait till next year. Princeton Meanwhile as I mentioned last

night had the good year finishing 5 4 and 1 but 5 1 and 1 in the Ivy League and last night at the Tigers postseason banquet. Next year's captains were named the route a bushell linebacker and John Schultz ice off of tackling Johns from the Keansburg New Jersey. What about Bob Holly was named team and V.P. He won the John Paul award and I asked Frank Navarro the other day if we can expect to see holly in the NFL next year. If you don't know who's going to make it in the NFL but he's got the heart and got the touch and he's a classic quarterback you have to start now the way you did Frank getting blown out by Delaware 61 8 you candidly now you don't really expect to finish the strong get it. I knew we'd win some games and beat some good people but no I did not expect this type of finish and in fact I didn't know where we'd go from there and the next week we came back and beat Brown 20 to 17 on a late game drive and then I knew we had a team. Princeton will have a basketball team this season that you can be sure of they are always competitive and that's because

Pete Carroll is there Pete was my guest on sports insight last night we talked about his staying power Pete will be starting his 15th season with Princeton when the Tigers open with all Roberts this Saturday night. Fifteen years. Is a long time I. Know that if. I won the World the all the 15 years of gun seems like just yesterday. Here I start a stop by 55 here that is kind of an interesting. Observation. It's interesting you say it seems like it's all yesterday most people have been in a job for 15 years. It seems like I've been there for 30 forever but you say it seems like it just started. That's interesting. Well. Yeah that's because I like to say you're able to maintain the enthusiasm. Yeah. Yeah. The TV sets and every once in a while but it does fit to you and you know and age. You know. But. It's it's been it's been in the last 15 years. You don't think or does it all as a coach. Hey how many other coaches fill the balls up before practice. All right feet and that sort you stance and I think that's where only three out

West losing to Golden State Portland Seattle now they'll try with three games in Texas they've got San Antonio Friday night and Saturday night. That's our Sports. OK. Tomorrow night you talk about all that football on Thanksgiving Day. Maybe that's the news for tonight for Don Torrance Bill Perry and the rest of the nightly news. I'm not of him wishing you a good night. That's not after. The joint presentation of the New Jersey network 13. The program is broadcast weeknights at 6:30. Channel 13 and up seven on the New Jersey network. There was a repeat broadcast that the network ended seven the following morning on channel 14. Portions recorded.