New Jersey Nightly News; New Jersey Nightly News Episode from 09/08/1980

The summer drought could mean mandatory water restrictions for nearly a million New Jerseyans. And tonight I'll take a closer look at efforts to increase high technology in New Jersey industries and in sports giants and Cosmos highlights. New Jersey and nightly news with Catherine star. Correspondent Gus Henning. And Bill Perry with sports. Think some 800000 residents of northeastern New Jersey are facing mandatory restrictions on their water use. The emergency is the result of the current drought affecting most of the northeast. But adding to the problem is people using too much water. Has the story. This is what Cliff Lake normal capacity just under 1 billion gallons of status. Empty. This is Lake Japan normally holding almost three and a half billion gallons status. Empty they are two of the four reservoirs owned by Hackensack water company and at the company's

headquarters today pointed out that even with the enforcement of a total ban on outdoor water use in the 60 municipalities it's Or the weather is the only real safe. It will take a considerable amount of rainfall through your reservoir situation to break actually. Sure but we really need soaking rain not just showers over a considerable period of time. Both company officials and state public utilities commissioners pointed out that an existing water project ready to go but stalled in the courts could have alleviated the supply problem. It's called the two bridges project and would divert water from the Passaic and Pompton Rivers. The city of Paterson has been fighting the project because of the water it would take from the Paterson falls but that's already under the bridge to water company officials who now are faced with a much more immediate problem. Would you characterize this as a water emergency right now.

I think it is yes. There are degrees of emergency obviously and we are not at the ultimate degree as yet but it could it could become so if we do not get some conservation and shaving the water so that we can conserve what we had all summer long the water levels have been falling steadily and now the water company's storage capacity is at about 37 percent in its four reservoirs according to State Public Utilities Commissioner Edward Hines. People are going to have to accept that like energy water conservation is not just desirable it's imperative. Look at the weather it's sunny prognosis for the next week sunny and we may be required to go to even more serious restrictions on the use of water within people's homes at Lake depan in Rivervale belts organs. Tomorrow the Casino Control Commission will begin to decide whether the boardwalk in Atlantic City should be granted a temporary permanent casino license. The Regency is owned by Caesars world of Las Vegas Steve Taylor reports New Jersey investigators have some complaints about past dealings by the parent company

that city's second gambling palace opened on June 26 1979 having received a temporary license from the Casino Control Commission hearings on a permanent license we're supposed to have started last February. But Abscam and then the fight to set up a new full time Commission delayed things. Now the fighting is over and four new commissioners have joined Chairman Joseph. And tomorrow morning in this room being prepared in Trenton the commission will begin hearings on a permanent license for the boardwalk Regency. One condition of the regencies temporary license was that Clifford Perlman chairman of the board of Caesar's world had nothing to do with the Atlantic City operation. The state's Division of Gaming Enforcement was investigating Perlman and that investigation is now complete. According to the division's report Perlman and Caesars had business dealings with associates of reputed mobster Meyer Lansky. The report also says one Perlman deal involved a contractor once convicted of conspiracy in the Jimmy Hoffa Teamsters pension fund scandals. There are other charges against Caesar's in the report some involving business deals with ex convicts.

But the investigators didn't say the boardwalk Regency shouldn't be licensed. Instead the report recommends that the commissioners impose some sort of restrictions on the company if it gets the casino license. One restriction might be that Perlman be kept out of the Atlantic City operation permanently. The hearings here probably will take from four to six weeks. The state will lay out its charges in detail. Caesar's lawyers will try to refute the allegations and then the commissioners will decide. In Trenton. I'm Steve Taylor. And the Brighton hotel the fourth casino to be legalized in Atlantic City has been sold Holiday Inns purchased the Brighton today marking the first time an operating Casino Hotel in New Jersey changed hands the Brighton which cost 69 million dollars to build just opened August 13th. Its sale had been rumored by the state's second largest pre-paid health programme the crossroads health plan is in serious financial trouble. It's suffering from a two and a half million dollar budget deficit. And as a result all

payments to participating doctors and hospitals have been stopped. So last reports. Crossroads health plan was story in Essex County two and a half years ago to provide residents with still high quality medical care. The program has already attracted 28000 residents. A big reason for its present financial dilemma. Officials say only 60 percent of that number was figured into the original budget. Since no one could have known the program would become so successful. Many of the county's hospitals and doctors have a contract with crossroads and are reimbursed according to services rendered. Much like Blue Cross Blue Shield The main difference though is Crossroads is a health maintenance organization better known as an HMO which combines insurance with service functions. That is especially concerned with preventing illness. Physicians say what makes cross-road unique is it offers a much wider range of benefits benefits that help the community and the medical profession allowed an

expansion of benefits to include services particularly in preventive medicine such as well baby care and occupations and routine checkups which were unavailable through certain reimbursement mechanisms up to this time. I think the benefits are stations where that allows them to practice in their own office settings. On a one to one relationship with their patients a doctor patient relationship was maintained exactly as it had been before and allowed them to be reimbursed in a fair and equitable way. Officials here at the crossroads East Orange office wouldn't talk to us on camera saying they're much too busy. Doctors who use the plan say the reason they're tied up is that program administrators are working with voters to find out exactly where they stand financially. Until a formal audit is released the future of crossroads and its 20000 subscribers remains in limbo. In the meantime doctors we spoke with say they don't plan to drop any patient who's on the plan even though they realize they may not be reimbursed for a while in Springfield. I'm Susan nice loss.

A federal judge in New York has signed a consent order settling a dispute between the U.S. Labor Department and Prudential Insurance. The Labor Department tried to strip that insurance giant of one hundred eighty million dollars worth of federal contracts by barring the company from federal business. At issue was a professional's refusal to release tapes of employee information credential retaliated with a lawsuit and that a federal judge blocked the Labor Department's actions as a result of today's decision Prudential gets to keep its government contracts providing it releases minority hiring information. Newark public schools reopened today after last week's strike by teachers. They ratified a new two year contract over the weekend. That matter had reports. Classes at the Louis Spencer Elementary School seem to be going smoothly for the first day back. Attendance was lighter than expected but the teachers were teaching and the kids seemed to be paying attention. Members of the Newark teachers union ended their three day walkout this weekend by overwhelmingly ratifying a new contract providing for

salary increases from 20 to 30 8 percent spread over two years. Salaries for top scale teachers will rise from one thousand thousand nine hundred dollars to twenty one thousand six hundred ninety one this year and to twenty three thousand seven hundred fifty two dollars next year minimum salaries will go up by about $500 this year and by about 11 hundred next year. We're happy that it was a brief strike. We're sorry that it had been and we figure that the salary is there and it is true comparative to the other districts in Jersey. Any percent of the funding for the New York school district comes from the state the rest from local revenues to pay for the teachers salary increases the board of education plans to ask the city for. Million dollar advance for next year's budget. 81 82 year that will be a difficult year and we will have to look at fewer numbers on the payroll now that does not necessarily mean cutting staff. We do have declining enrollment like every other school

system and the recognition that I have already started a manpower planning and forecasting program the teachers went on strike last Wednesday causing most of the kids to stay out of the city's 88 schools while the teachers picketed city hall. Both the Union and the school board called the settlement a fair one. Considering today's economy and now that the summer is over everyone seemed glad to be back in school again in Newark. I'm can't manage. Meanwhile a strike was averted today at Camden County College when a tentative agreement was reached with 115 non-teaching union members and the administration. Some progress was reported over the weekend between teachers and administrators at Gloucester County College as well. But at Union College in Cranford still no new talks are scheduled before Wednesday. The strike there is in its second week of classes have been canceled for 6000 students. And about a presidential candidate John Anderson will visit Rutgers University tonight. He'll attend a campaign rally there and then tomorrow will tour Hackensack and union. And

President Carter will make his premier campaign visit here tomorrow. He'll attend the opening of the Raritan River steel mill in Perth Amboy. Mariam also has a story on the new plateau and why the president wants to be there. They were sprucing up the streets and pro-Saddam boy today and putting up the greenery that will greet the president when River steel is good political capital for President Carter. A new plant made possible with state and federal assistance that means 400 more jobs for the area. It is essentially a recycling plant which will take scrap metal junk cars and produce six hundred thousand tons of steel rod each year is virtually pollution free. It's energy efficient and it represents the biggest single industrial capital investment in new jersey in a decade. The president's visit here tomorrow is especially significant because Carter is trying to win back the support of labor support he lost through inflation fighting policies that have pushed up the unemployment rate. The president moved a step forward last week when he won the support of the

National AFL CIO. But in this and future campaign stops he'll be trying to convince the industrial northeast that Reagan sweet sounding economic policies are just bad medicine in Perth Amboy I Mariama Rosso. New York has a new low fare airline appropriately named New York air. The new airline is the first to locate that city in 34 years. And today officials announced plans to provide low fare passenger service to 15 cities including Newark Boston and Washington New York where plans to begin operations in December. That company officials say they expect to compete with other airlines by offering frequent flights and air fares 20 to 50 percent lower than the competition. Now here is the weather forecast for the state tonight will have their skies with temperatures in the upper 50s to low 60s. We'll have increasing cloudiness tomorrow with highs in the upper 70s to low 80s and the outlook for Wednesday Cloudy With A Chance of showers. It is time now for tonight's sports with Bill Perry. Take it away Bill. Your welcome back first. Thank you.

Giants did super enjoy that last year at the Giants four games to score 41 points after four games in 1979 the Giants had 43 points How about Ray Perkins for Coach of the year and get your Pro Bowl reservation certainly Phil Simms Ernest Gray and Gary duty we're going to be there. Not to mention perennials like Dave Jennings Harry Carson and Brad Van Pelt. All right Perry calm down it's only one ball game but will it debut in St. Louis the Cardinals with a quick 7 0 lead scoring on their first possession yesterday and it looked like a long day but these are the 1980 Giants rookie Alvin Garrett right here going sixty six yards with a punt from the Giants 29 to the St. Louis 15 as the cardinals had to punt on their second possession super super run. Three plays later Bill Simms 16 of 31 for two hundred eighty yards with his first of five touchdown passes 10 yards to earn His Grace 7 off defense second quarter Gary Jeter with the sack Jim Hart coughs it up Mike McCoy recovers but the Giants miss the field goal. The fence next saying it was possession. Terry Jackson with the interception. Next play sims to grade 37 yards 47 St. Louis tied at 14 in

the cards fumbled the second half kickoff. Giants took a 17 14 lead on a job in a field goal. St. Louis took a 21 17 lead on a notice and some TV after the Anderson score. The Giants retain possession on the stall drive Dave Jennings with the Oscar nomination running into the punch of the Giants keep the ball next play sims to Johnny Perkins 58 yards 24 21 Giants up for good. The defense Don Harris Rutgers man with the hit with the flexion interception by Mark Haines. Next play sims to great 42 yards touchdown. Isn't this fun we don't get to do this last year 31 21 after St. Louis close to 31 28 the Giants went 77 yards and 15 plays taking eight minutes Simms gets a touchdown from the 20. So Gray 38 28. St. Louis scored to make it 30 35 but a late another field goal accounted for the 40 135 final. Come on Ray smiled giants back home next Sunday against Washington the Skins host Dallas tonight.

The cosmos are on the way to the conference finals just one step away from soccer ball 80 last night at Giants Stadium the cosmos lost Game two of their playoff series to Dallas 3 0 and that caused an immediate mini game cosmos 1 3 0 0 0 this is the regular game 1 0 Dallas off the corner kick in the cosmos. Sense of terror in front o more. Gomez the goal getter now at midfield. The centering pass will come off the long run. Again the goal get are two to nothing rapt with the goal by his first 30 games for the three all final whereas the defense that's a given. So it went to a mini game that's 2 15 minute halfs pressure. The winner advances cosmos 1 0 blasting the flaxen 5 25 into the mini game then Giorgio took over with two goals it was three to nothing this is a beauty Giorgio controlling it off his body and connecting so the cosmos advanced to meet L.A. in the conference finals game one will be played Wednesday night and although the cosmos were shut out for the first time at 73 home games for the first time ever at Giants Stadium

it didn't cost them as they won the mini after L.A. soccer 80 and finally Jim Brandon the star forward of the St. Peters basketball team last season has been invited to the Boston Celtics pre-season camp Brandon was drafted by Utah this year. Jazz during rookie camp but Boston wants to take a look at sports here. Thank you Bill. Arguments were heard today in New Jersey Supreme Court in the case of Sparta parents who want to have their mentally retarded daughter sterilized. The parents want to have a High Court affirmed a lower court ruling that would allow their 19 year old daughter to undergo a tubal ligation. The case was brought to the Supreme Court after officials at Morristown General Hospital refused to perform the operation in the lower court decision the judge ruled the parents with responsible medical advice would consent to such an operation. But in the current case both the state Public Advocate and the attorney general are arguing against the procedure saying it could only be considered should only be considered as a last resort. And a New Jersey woman has filed suit against the Central Intelligence Agency. She's asking for

damages for eight years she spent in a Cuban prison for being a CIA agent. Forty four year old Carmen Macao Skee formerly of Perth Amboy is asking for one million dollars in damages. She says she can track him tuberculosis in jail and suffer from amnesia and a hip tumor. In addition she charges the CIA failed to adequately train her for her assignment and never gave her promised pay raises and fringe benefits according to documents filed in Trenton federal court Mrs McCaskey enlisted in the agency in 1964 then was captured in 1969 and sentenced to 20 years in prison. She was released from Cuba in 1977 after an ease in diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba. Officials say Mrs McCaskey still lives in New Jersey but they declined to say where. 10 days ago President Carter announced a new economic plan designed in part to

stimulate high technology investment. Tonight producer Carl Sears and correspondent Gus Henning Berg take a closer look at the United States slipping technological lead and New Jersey's efforts to reverse that trend. Here's Gus in Newark. One could say the fear that the US is losing its position as a world leader in technology is symbolized by New Jersey with its aging in this. Nation riddled incomes. Technology is an American tradition as familiar as your morning newspaper. This earth station at the Wall Street Journal New Jersey a printing plant near Princeton stand ready to print pages by satellite. It's one of seven among the journal's 12 regional plans. The nation's largest daily newspaper. It's a high technology consumer. Earlier this summer a congressman from Washington came here to lend her first New Jersey to learn firsthand how technical innovation can rebuild economic strength and erosion of U.S. industrial power concerns Dr. Jason Solsbury of American spy intimate

company. Our problem in this country is not with ideas or inventions. It is with turning them into new techniques systems and products that change the way we live for the better. Congressman Harold Hollenbeck of New Jersey is ranking minority member of the Science Research and Technology Subcommittee. We certainly have in this country the ability to innovate and we certainly have the ingenuity to come up with new technologies but I think that the industry and the working man needs a little more help from government in regard to parity with our foreign competition like Labor leader Daniel Callahan who represents workers at the bendix corporation agrees. I think that the government should go hand in hand where corporations and unions are going through this kind of re-education process for the workers the ones on the bench. That they should assist them financially assist them and also technically assist

the declining American ability to compete stems in part from lower spending for research and development. Since the 60s U.S. industry has been a smaller percentage of gross national product for R&D from 2.1 percent in 1964 to about one and a half percent last year. In many cases U.S. inventions of mass produced overseas partly because of lagging U.S. investment in modern plants. In the 70s. U.S. investment averaged only seven and a half percent of gross national product. Germany averaged eight point eight. Japan tops 17 percent. Aging plant and equipment contributes to the low U.S. productivity industrial output per man hour grew only one point six percent from one thousand seventy three through 79. Foreign competitors registered annual increases over twice as high as the U.S. here along New Jersey's Route 1. High technology firms are thriving. The chemical pharmaceutical and electronic

industries are particularly strong but businessmen complain that inflation government restraints high taxes and limited venture capital discourage long term investment. They help provide incentive. New Jersey has created a special agent in the office while promoting technical innovation. So far up he has loaned low interest money to five independent scientists and small businesses. Director Richard Stocco says ah payoff is more than just money. There's a multitude of reasons why an inventor finds it difficult to sell and sell his idea and I think our office gives him credibility. We give him credibility by having third parties do an analysis a critical analysis of his invention opti recently loaned $50000 to Dr. Nathan thousand founder and president of surface technology here at his Princeton New Jersey plant. Dr. Feldstein demonstrates a new process

to code machine parts with diamond dust to increase their hardness. He also calls plastic automotive parts with metal to make cars lighter and save gasoline. Dr. Feldstein points out the difference between large and small high technology companies large companies any funds that are being sponsored for lease of development mainly in markets which could lead to sales of at least 100 million dollars and above. However you have to. That in any. Large System. The backbone. Is Jemele many inventions of a smaller magnitude that Feldstein added that small companies like his own are more willing to undertake product research aimed at a smaller market. There is also competition among states and bringing high technology to the marketplace. The two outstanding centers in the world and in the world perhaps or the Palo Alto area in

California are in the Boston I want twenty eight. We certainly are pushing for New Jersey to become number three or even surpass these two. The Route 128 beltway skirting Boston is home base for over 12 hundred advanced technology companies. Massachusetts based Digital Equipment Corporation for example is the world's largest maker of small computers. It was founded by MIT researcher Kenneth Olson and now employs 35000 people. New companies continue to form around technology that MIT and Harvard develop. But high density high taxes and real estate prices are pushing some firms to expand beyond the Boston area and New Jersey officials hope they will come here. The state office proximity to major markets and a favorable investment climate in New Jersey. The technology link between Princeton University and industry is growing. For instance fire style center is located on a sixteen hundred acre tract along Route 1.

So far about a hundred million dollars and commercial office and research space is completed or under construction here. RCA American communications president Andrew Amos explains why his company came to New Jersey. We wanted to locate in the area or our engineers could have the benefit of the educational and research facilities of the Princeton University where they would be in a community of like minded people. Angus this company owns and operates our CA's domesticity communications satellite system. This laboratory at the fire stars center simulates the satellite control center in Vernon New Jersey to RCA satellites are in orbit. Twenty two thousand three hundred miles above the equator two more will be launched by 1982. First stations transmit audio visual and data signals via satellite sending these signals to outer space and back.

It's cheaper than sending them across country by land line products and speed and economize information are also the business of the Remington Rand Corporation headquartered at the Princeton peristyle Center here in New typewriters are being tested for products like. Remington Rand President William Lee of technical innovation is increasing. Before you even GET READY TO GET ONE product out there's two more things right in behind it I think you're seeing as. Well see as big a revolution you off school. Your next five years as we've seen in the industrial side of the business over the last 20 years it's that active. Many observers are convinced that this country has no choice but to accelerate new products and process development. What's at stake here is U.S. economic power in the 1980s and beyond. Everyone we talk to businessmen labor academics and technicians agree that New Jersey can help by nurturing the independent scientists and reinforcing the incentive to invest in high technology.

Karen thank you Gus. Recapping our top stories some 800000 residents of northeastern New Jersey face mandatory water restrictions as a result of the current drought. And President Carter is scheduled to make a campaign stop in New Jersey tomorrow he'll attend the opening of a steel mill in Perth Amboy. That's the news for tonight for Gusen in Bergen Newark Bill Perry here in Trenton my parents down tonight for the New Jersey. Which is a joint region nation of New Jersey Public Television and 13. Reverse direction. And go into the pickup side. And round and round it go. Cross your fingers everyone. Just watch the ball.

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