NJN News; Monday September 29, 1997

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seniors and our candidates gaining more respect these days on the campaign trail angie and news for monday september twenty nine nineteen sixty i'm committed to serving customers sprinkling the unions are dedicated to providing care jeff brady reporting

good evening the fbi has joined state and local police in the search for an eleven year old ocean county boyd missing since saturday so far there's no evidence of foul play edward werner vanished were going door to door in his jackson township neighborhood selling candy and wrapping paper for his school rich young is at the police command post in jackson township with more on the search rich quick and right now there are about fifty police officers here the commitments and at least that many still looking for eleven year old edward warner police say they're treating this as a missing persons case they won't say whether they think the young lawyer was abducted they still think he's somewhere in the area and we're continuing with an intensive search trying to find search crews from the fbi the state police and several ocean county town spent the day scouring the mic at concrete looking for some sign of eleven year old edward werner this was why kerry is about a half mile from this neighborhood for he was last seen on saturday evening

police took away evidence possibly clothing from the sea but they would not give specifics on what they know there's something has been found but at this point we have to confirm exactly where it is there was an article found nearby they become part of our investigation would not speculate whether it belonged to him or not again italy that were to follow up on warner lets iran claridge street in jackson on saturday was going door to door in this neighborhood selling feared being different for a school fundraiser he was let's see around five thirty events warner was caring passionately about two hundred dollars of his role as her mother says she's not sure what she's waiting for his return a few just afraid to lessen my faith has come on we want you in some really simple reason so the young boys described as being for foot six inches tall medium build about sixty pounds with a crew cut i'm a recent saturday night

police have searched every year on the ground in the water or in residence of also posted fliers are up your father's are actually driving around looking for the boy helping with the search and try to help them with the device you know so that's what we think about something or missing for suppliers now cover this town the other residents have been dropping off food and drink here for the officers who have come from as far away as bergen county we're told there is a prayer service tonight at seven at the boys' school and police have taken and some evidence they're calling a development they won't confirm reports that it was a black t shirt young lawyer was wearing a black t shirt and it disappeared in the meantime the search continues for now live in texas township former chairman jay and who's going to get rich a new jersey based testing service that lays claim to being the world's largest is under fire tonight that after a sunday new york times article alleged serious cheating problems and security lapses but princeton

based educational testing service says the times article gives an unfair portrayal of the company and the alleged problems the times uncovered jim tucker has more it shouldn't come as a surprise that a company that builds its business and reputation on the exams of wrightson of ministers would be bent on secrecy for the times's article claims e t s stepped over the line by withholding information on some cheating incident from the public and local officials among the allegations the time said immigrants who speak no english past english tests administered by ts for the federal immigration agency and in louisiana copies of an exam given to teachers or wannabe school principals were found have circulated around on the state's questions for graduate schools admission test have to memorize by test takers and one time zone then fed to others in another at us officials say they address and at problems as soon as they found out about them and aggressively pursued them on top of that the officials add any testing problems cited by the times' amount to less than one percent of more than nine million exams administered by

the nonprofit manual and furthermore each yes officials say they alerted authorities and made public the problems long before the times did in each instance we discovered it and not discovered it but were alerted to it and took out after the persons who were involved in the case of the graduate school fraud et has handed the issue over to federal authorities who later indicted one of the alleged conspirators in the immigration case cps voluntarily shut down twenty three community based testing sites in new york city and installed new management security measures at the world trade center with all of these allegations that you know the test because it just running rampant with with this cheating first of all we know we don't see any increase in the average scores the newspaper said as at tests reading and masculine valuations taken annually by millions of high school students have not been affected by significant levels of cheating jim harker nj and news

hundreds of students had to be evacuated from a monmouth county school today authorities say a couple of thorny middle school students build bleach in a chemistry lab this morning several of the middletown township youngsters had to be treated at a nearby hospital after being overcome by bleach fields school officials say the evacuation was a precaution the fifty eight year old man is under a rest tonight and under suspicion of setting fire to his own apartment building id say felix ortiz started the fire in his apartment and finally towers analyst the senior citizens' housing complex fourteen people were hurt and one hundred residents were forced out on to the street and away from the heat and smoke that engulfed three floors of the building firefighters managed to confine the flames and the damage to ortiz his apartment in the giant tennis hand that extremely well made a decision to house people in the church of latter day saints any emergency medical technician was with them all evening in case of any emergency conditions for the seniors the building houses

three hundred senior and disabled residents to one hundred residents who were evacuated spent the night in makeshift shelters tonight everyone is back home a burlington county community may soon be tapping into something new there's a push to allow alcohol sales unwilling barrow township township has been dry for thirty years supporters are now getting signatures on a petition to put a referendum on the ballot in november referendum would allow for up to six and side liquor licenses in the community there's more news i had denied and nj and to former new jersey governors discussed the gubernatorial campaign much political muscle independence senior political correspondent michael allen takes on what's next the players because of this

bill libertarian mary's abrams approval for public matching funds has put more focus on the third party candidates for governor there are eight will generate more interest this year than in the past you're rattling off from the green party candidate for governor so what are you doing on a monday morning five weeks before the election of montclair state university classes without any different launches a long time environmental activist who lives in flanders kaufman film about last year in new jersey of ralph nader's vice presidential running mate one percent of the votes were doing this in order to build after the

momentum from the campaign last year and also to put in place a viable third party that's an alternative to the democrats and republicans that promotes the clean and healthy environment in all aspects of the work reached his lowest the conservative candidate for governor state wipeout last year in the us senate race and got two percent of the vote computer consultant who lives in free old he too says he's running in order to build a viable third party one central issue is giving voters the power to pass ballot initiatives they're delighted when they hear about a thing called initiative referendum that they thought that was a basic right when we tell them that it isn't in that were working for they say have that bryan curtis very strongly and the amazing thing is they're out there working campaigning a few experts expect them to get many votes with the possible exception of murray's sabre and retired rutgers professor steve sell more says third party candidates fare best when times are tough or the major party candidates get nasty some party candidate really takes the place of the

item on the bow to have a nevada not only about i felt safe that this not really about feeling it's going to be that widespread here i think that can really in which candidacies are coming heart much better than played by a few of the torricelli the extras to protect lincoln's win either that expect truman to win either in the past six gubernatorial elections the number of third party candidates those range from four to seventeen and their vote total has never gonna hire as a group than two point five percent with savory qualifying for the televised debates that could be different this year michael aaron indians and nj and is we'll take an even closer look at the independent third party candidates running for governor this year when we present the independent candidate's forum on sunday october nineteenth at six pm a key endorsement for governor would win tomorrow the state policemen spill level an association will throw its weight behind the republican incumbent the pta has thirty two

thousand members in the state that stick to the issues that's the assertion of a new jim mcgreevey at kristi hines mobile's be inaccurate as what the new york times called women's first attack on jim mcgreevey this is the second tv spot for the democratic candidate it accuses the governor of negative campaigning and also answers some love whitman's criticisms of the previous record does woodbridge mayor and state senator and it attacks the governor are property taxes school standards and car insurance and with the election just a little over a month away the campaigns are beginning to move into high gear former governors tom cane and brendan byrne have their own ideas about how the campaigns are fairing i recently sat down with them at drew university for some chat the economy is good that republicans control the legislative and executive branches of government get christian women can't seem to crack the fifty percent mark in the polls that must be a concern to the campaign why what humans as it comes close to the election there's always new jersey's

huge number of undecided voters like of the mine until before the election there are those who compare by jim mcgreevey to jim florio dan in terms of his persona perhaps use quick answers to questions can not be a problem in this campaign can overcome mcgrady has been effectively attacking the wooden record as of now but what he's got to do now is service thomas's own image and i think that uses images been described by some people as a young jack kennedy whether it's that or not he's got two of these cuts to come through was jim mcgreevey the man is going to solve problems from new jersey and not just for those saws didn't really raise the issue of what her insurance a new jersey and someone said the governor responded perhaps too quickly making that a key issue perhaps the issue in this campaign was a tactical error on her

part i think of the caterpillars she's kept in addition to explain the issue to people so that people don't misinterpret what she's done she's got some good proposals that would have connected by the legislature allow insurance rates to some extent and she wants one that people can the auto insurance to find this campaign in terms of issues says jim mcgreevey perhaps is trying to do well the talk is just done and said the high interest rates from four three anomalies as we got a state where cars soon be bumping into its old time i think the issue is a lot more complicated than that and i think the people are saying we are willing to accept the fact that women they can't really do anything except may follow proposals so i think they're looking through the crew to come up with some determined efforts to lower interest rates if he's going to be a close election i don't think so i think that you and women of

action of substantial victory long on the senators and what we're set up to fight on and i think he's really convince the voters that is served at a credible time in the tournament's face them and hasn't done much when we come back a look at today's visit the bergen county investment company makes it called the health and say goodbye to another family owned business in the morning the details coming up next nice fb so big is this wave of color of cool video and almost a billion

dollars the ads recorded he would settle over based real estate investment trust or not all his moving beyond the world of strip malls and retail properties without also today that it is purchasing two major names and refrigerated food storage and distribution business we're not allowed a partner will buy america whole corporation of portland oregon and you are as logistics of atlanta in a deal valued at nine hundred fifty million dollars while three thought highly of video beating up or not i'll start more than twenty one percent in value today after that are now close to seventy one dollar and eighty one cents a share up more than fifteen dollars for the demand for year round produce imperishable foods is making companies which can deliver a store those commodities safely excuse the pun hot properties just two weeks ago you recall ingersoll redwoods with lakes acquired refrigerated truck equipment maker from okay all this family owned company has been sold federal brian's has been a part of no work since nineteen forty seven to

make special the metal's use the pumps vowels power transmission and machine tools a buyer battles usa of houston would not disclose terms of the acquisition but did talent and business says it expects to make no changes in federal grants your company has about fifteen police radio based louis some technologies has completed its one point eight billion dollar acquisition of cocktail communications corporation or you may not be familiar with the name hot tell which you certainly know their product before was known as art tell the milpitas ca a california company invented the voicemail technology can you loosen is already a major force in the field of message storage and retrieval with his band the audit system longer a canadian manufacturer of window shades and accessories is setting up shop in lakewood sort of enterprise so blind to gold montreal got a four point three million dollar package of loans and grants from the state to build a new assembly and distribution center there according to the state commerce department lives that will create five hundred new jobs in ocean county well blossom bullishness for the

stock market today ahead of the quarterly earnings reports due out in a few days the dow average gained sixty nine and a quarter cause the seventy nine it while only an adviser that thirty five the nasdaq composite rose twelve three quarters the s and p five hundred topped out today points higher the day barnes traded mostly lower the benchmarks or your usual off not quite a quarter point in price you get six points create perceptual find out a few days whether that does wishful thinking on the part of the stock market or vocal supporters in forts and whether the bloodshed bullishness and so if an idea set of our forecast is coming up in hearing that reason jackson penchant for a little dog that's right the public from the first injury involved option that it's been so jerry where are you standing there in the tv cop well to get their money at the brain and as you well know all you have to do is tell a golfer full day of golf

especially a particular national and you got half the battle one night they're such was the case today in the first nj and goff challenge one's been the weather was perfect your ability to go on for the water authority golfers teeing off this morning and afternoon they represented a host of corporate sponsors four universities including super bowl rutgers fairly depicted and mun rivers head basketball coach kevin bennett was in the mix and had his moments ago she does stay with me all day with the camera performs better for the camera doing it i know about him is to shot for what the young fighter it's a great day is a gorgeous course in a lot of the time people from around the state and it's great to be a parcel that helps and dance on rotting deer we pay for that but they you know so that you wind up recruiting in all its up because you're going to look for you well you know that the time's coming know a lot of things in place but the bottom line is a couple weeks after the head to head with john thompson and jim day i am and jim calhoun and so this is one more way antarctica too much about and drive myself crazy the event is the brainchild of indian foundation trustees george

riggs was also chairman it's an obvious success in the sense that we managed to pour off getting the four universities to operate in a sporting event is none of these cars they're naturally competitive but it's a very good spirit and i think we're nice turnout it definitely isn't a prophet event for nj and so with all that line i think it's a it's a success or hopefully you'll be more successful each year not financially but emotionally it's a big success joining me now is a president of delaware new jersey little r and then of course your company is just one of the major sponsors for this event to talk about the corporate support terror or delighted you're very successful a first term in here that really benefit the network and also to benefit the year coverage of university sports so on behalf of all black and other corporations is really aired gets two hits force if you will has been a funder now your honorary chairman of a lift the artery chairman's post whenever i think your group won one of the one for what would turn is one first was all about the obama will say we just heard george ryan talk

about this being an ongoing event every year what you thought about that reduces go you know the biggest challenge is always the first year we're going to start as george or is it about two and half months ago and had a boat ride or unfairly golfers i think will net about a hundred twenty two hundred thirty thousand dollars which is great for a first year we will become probably double that would proceed next year so i think we have a long tradition starting her tell me what was the response from the golfers of course is a beautiful activity car got a very challenging apple what how'd you find today of course with the way are tough with a win but that is a fabulous golf course and these children being in the officer were very happy so i always take it as you well know that the that so that's what from here annette jackson turn to the bigger national golf course came back to you we like that means being in the office to thank you are well aware and cloudy starvation her to the data dead but the sun finally did come out and we saw nice pleasant conditions temperatures state mainly in the seventies today freezing conditions throughout new jersey and this was the scene of the new york city skyline from the south mountain reservation in essex county as far as our

pollution pollution watch goes for tomorrow called green or good air quality is expected state wide and here's a look at the forecast in north jersey for tonight partly cloudy with loans in the mid fifties to mario cloudy with a chance of a shower of highs in the lower seventies in south jersey tonight partly cloudy with lowe's in the fifties tomorrow cloudy condition showers likely a hive seventy so who are the wealthiest new jersians well according to forbes magazine the wealthiest is donald new house the sixty seven year old media mogul is where four point five billion with a b dollars under new jersians on the list include jacqueline mars vocal the kennedy era's she's worth three point three billion and johnson and johnson beneficiary barbara johnson at one point four billion that number pales in comparison though to the richest person in america bill gates his first entered nearly forty valium or try to eight hundred million the horse country

and that has more than doubled in just the last year and those apparently plenty of money to go around one force magazine first started its wealthiest americans back in nineteen eighty two there were only thirty two billionaires now there are one hundred and seventy to forty billion dollars a week on what should honor our higher math and forty nine critically i get that and thank you for being with us will see you again tomorrow night the position data it's been linked

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