New Jersey Nightly News; 01/29/1982

New Jersey nightly news with Don Tarns and Kent Manahan. Good evening. This is one of the best of the bulletin and the ramifications in New Jersey for all newspapers will have a report. Elaine Zayak goes after another national figure skating championship. Bill Perry will have details tonight in sports and the Pasey County jail has been cordoned off. The sheriff there says the facility is ready to blow. The Philadelphia bulletin, a paper that circulates widely throughout South Jersey, passed away today at the age of 134. One of the many factors that hastened its demise was suburban newspapers, which abounded New Jersey. Also abounding are some of the fatal problems that plagued the bulletin, as Jim McQueenie reports.

After the press is rolled for the last time at the bulletin this morning and its New Jersey offices in Cherry Hill were deserted by reporters, the paper's obituary was being written in newsrooms by some hearty survivors. This suburban South Jersey daily and assist a Pennsylvania paper were examples of what the bulletin ran up against in trying to expand outside the city. The growth and diversity of New Jersey's suburban delis in recent years have largely warded off suburban circulation pushes by the New York Times and daily news, the latter of which is now facing bulletin type financial problems. We found our niche, so to speak, city papers by definition have to be more diffuse. We provide the national, international news that the city papers do, but we go one step further and provide local news, which they did not. And it's a formula that seems to work. New Jersey is a state of communities and each community has its own daily. We have nearly 30 daily newspapers in New Jersey, which is a remarkable number for a fairly

small area state. And I think the competition among them, in a way, helps them prosper. But New Jersey paper is big and small alike, so far haven't faced the direct and broad TV news competition that helps kill off a bulletin, often leaving only a single big paper survivor. Trend toward one newspaper city seems to be accelerated mostly by the advertisers. At some point, along the line, they decide to tilt toward one newspaper or the other. And when that tilt begins, it seems very hard for the downside paper to recover. Two papers in the state capital are locked in such a circulation battle, one that has the older Trenton times the loser in recent years. And there are other papers, also on the defensive, struggling to break out of their city bases for greener suburban areas. In New Jersey's biggest city, the star ledger, a decade ago, prevailed over the demise of the evening news, becoming the state's largest paper, partly by making the break for New Siberia, a territory which has proved lucrative for other papers too.

All tolls survey show two-thirds of New Jersey's dailies last year made money or held their own against rising labor, energy, and material costs. But technological advances that brought computers into the newsroom are also bringing unprecedented competition to the suburban newspapers, in the form of cable TV, able to deliver local news too. It's a challenge the papers are bracing against. It's going to have to become stronger, more interesting, more vital, again, in more detailed and television can provide. However, all this mattered very little today to one of the bulletin's New Jersey workers whose family had worked for the paper since 1870A. For our family, it's the end of an era, in addition to the end of a newspaper. I think when I go through the door for the last time, that's when it'll hit. And Cherry Hill, I'm Jim McQueenie. A renowned environmental group is taking on the issue of ocean dumping and making New Jersey the focus of its protest, Diane Dr. Reports.

It is sunrise at Perth and Boy Harbor, and the ship belonging to the environmentalist Root Greenpeace has been anchored here all night. Crew members, like the one who provided our crew with taxi service, have begun a protest against the ocean dumping of acid waste by NL industries of Saraville. The Greenpeace ship, the Rainbow Warrior, is their trademark. The old fishing trawler has been around the world helping to launch protests against nuclear weapons, the slaughter of whales and seals, and now the pollution of oceans. Greenpeace is there to use civil disobedience tactics to focus public attention on the issues. The tactics include using inflatable boats to chase after a barge operated by NL industries. Last night they followed the fully loaded barge out to Raritan Bay, and today they followed it back. Waving banners and chanting slogans, Greenpeace members sped alongside and in front of the barge.

They carefully avoided doing anything illegal. The action they stressed was not a blockade. Greenpeace doesn't just want to stop this company from dumping. They are claiming the Environmental Protection Agency plans to relax its standards on ocean dumping. They say the agency is looking the other way, while illegal dumping continues. Greenpeace says this is the first in a series of protests against alleged illegal ocean dumping, both in the United States and in Europe. And this is the first time the group has brought its operation to New Jersey. Representatives from two state environmentalist groups, including the American Lateral Society of Sandy Hook, were delighted by the support. We feel that the ocean dumping is bad, we feel that the cumulative effect is dangerous, and we've pressed our point in hearings. The fact that Greenpeace is here with the ship provides an opportunity for getting more public exposure to the dangers of this kind of action. NL industries dumps an average of two million tons of acid waste into the ocean each year. A company spokesman says government and private research shows no long-term adverse effect

from the waste. The company says it is operating completely within the law. Greenpeace had charged NL failed to meet a government deadline for eliminating part of its dumping operation. NL says the government was advised the deadline would not be met, and the company was told they could continue dumping in the interim. This ship will remain here probably throughout the weekend. The protests will continue, although Greenpeace won't promise every demonstration will be peaceful. A board the rainbow warrior in Raritan Bay, I'm Diane Doctor. The Crowded Pasey County jail is ready to explode, according to County Sheriff Edwin Engelhart, and he has ordered the facility closed. Engelhart said late today he has had his men working overtime to cool tensions inside the jail, and those men are worn out. The jail is supposed to hold 227 prisoners. Right now the jail is holding 493 prisoners. Richard blames the emergency order, which allows state prison inmates to be housed in

County Jails. Paseyic now has 142 of them, and the sheriff says that they are the ones who are causing the problems. The closing means that there will be no visitors over the weekend, and no new inmates will be accepted. Done? Jersey Central Power Light Company today asked the state for a $97 million rate increase. This latest request comes even as the state board of public utilities is considering an earlier request for a $238 million rate hike. JCPNL officials say $60 million of today's request are the direct result of the shutdown of Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania. JCPNL owns 1 quarter of Three Mile Island, and has had to buy replacement power, which is much more expensive. It also wants customers to pay for the cleanup of Three Mile Island after the accident there. If this latest hike has approved the utility 700,000 customers will pay about $4 more per month. 775 Westinghouse Electric Corporation employees will be out of work later this year when the company closes its incandescent lamp manufacturing plant here in Trenton. Westinghouse officials cited decreasing market demand for special application incandescent

lamps is the reason for the closing of the facility. The Trenton site is one of 13 lamp manufacturing plants in North America. Some of the Trenton production will be transferred to other plants. Senator Harrison Williams, who was recuperating from hernia surgery at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York, was moved into a different hospital room last night and may be moved into yet another room this evening. According to the senator's Washington staff, the room shuffling was necessary because of an incident with an intruder in the senator's hospital room last evening, while Mrs. Williams was visiting her husband. JCPNL left the senator briefly, and when she returned, a large, burly man was in the room. Mrs. Williams threatened to scream. The man left the hospital room accompanied by a second man who was apparently waiting in the hall. The senator was then moved into another hospital room where there was a guard. And he has said that he may be moved into yet another room because of some problems with a private telephone line. Senator Williams is in good condition.

He's recovering from emergency hernia surgery, which was performed last Tuesday, and he should be home this weekend. The operation has delayed his sentencing on abscim, bribery, and conspiracy charges until February 9th. Thomas Manning, charged with a murder of state trooper Philip Lamanico, has been put on the FBI's 10 most wanted fugitives list. The FBI has charged Manning with an unlawful flight to avoid prosecution for murder. Trooper Lamanico was shot last month while patrolling Root-Aidian Warren County. Police are also seeking Richard Williams, who had been living with Manning in connection with that murder. Smoke detectors, they've been required in multi-family housing for statewide now for just about a year. The state has instituted that designation to allow people to allow landlords to provide an early warning system in case of fire. And state officials are charged with enforcing that law, say that it's working, Sunder King reports. An apartment house once stood on this Bayon vacant lot. But in November 1980, two months before the smoke detector law took effect, it burned down.

There were no serious injuries, but 52 people did lose their homes. And experts say if there had been smoke detectors here, the building would probably have been saved. In 1981, there were only two serious fires in this Hudson County City, but in both cases there were smoke alarms. So there were no injuries and only minimal damage to buildings. But here, the law is strictly enforced. The city assigns two inspectors to do nothing but check for compliance. We're finding that perhaps a half of the buildings inspected have already complied before even being told. Before being ordered to do so, right? And those that haven't complied? And those that haven't complied will receive a 60-day notices. They will be ordered to comply within a 60-day period. Inspectors say this Bayon building is in compliance. The apartments here have the battery-operated alarms allowed by state law, but the public areas have the more sophisticated electrical units required by that law. The benefits are obvious if there is a fire here, even the smallest amount of smoke will

do this. The law covers any residential building with three or more units. statewide, that's a total of 100,000 structures, 700,000 apartments. And from the state government, there's word that compliance has been good. We've inspected about one-third of the apartment houses in the state. All of those that we've inspected are installing them. And more importantly, when we began inspecting last year, we only found about 10% of the houses actually had them installed already, and now it's between 30 and 40%. State fire deaths statistics for last year are not yet compiled, so it's not yet clear whether deaths decreased since the law was enacted. But even in a city like Patterson, where fire deaths last year rose 300%. Fire officials say things would have been worse. More lives lost if not for smoke detectors. In Newark, I'm Sandra King.

And here's a look at our weekend weather forecast. Tonight will be clear in mile the temperature in the low 30s, mostly cloudy skies tomorrow, with rain likely in the evening, the temperature again near 40, and the Outlook for Sunday, more rain. For the past five years, Atlantic City's police department has been widely criticized for putting up a weak battle against the city's high crime rate.

Since a major reorganization of the department a few months ago, however, the crime rate has been going down. But as Dan Hudson reports, the criticism of the police force is still going strong. A major feature of the Atlantic City police reorganization is the 30% increase in officers on patrol, most in one man car patrols like this one. The plan went into effect in mid-October. In November, target crimes of robbery, burglary, theft, and muggings went down by 4% from the year before. In December, the rate decreased 15% from the previous year. The first two weeks of January showed further decline. It shows that we have substantially decreased the crime in Atlantic City. Our apprehension record is high. So we're not only have we reduced it, we're catching the criminals. And we've done this with a drastic decrease in course. Let's bring the city higher the private non-profit police foundation of Washington DC to evaluate

their police department. Made a number of recommendations, some of which were included in Clayton's reorganization. But despite the declining crime rates, the police commissioner's critics still say his reorganization plan is badly flawed. They say he has only picked out minor points from the police foundation study, ones that he personally likes to implement. The author of this study is Patrick Murphy, former director of the New York City Police. He spoke to Stockton State College students today, but refused to comment on the Atlantic City reorganization plan. But in the past, he's been quoted calling it a disaster. He said problems of having too many supervisors, not enough management training, and being disorganized have not been corrected. He has said having numerous patrols is not necessarily an effective way to combat crime. City commissioner Joseph Pesqual, who has also had significant police experience, agrees. He says the lower crime figures since reorganization are misleading, because street traffic is down from a year ago. People are not driving here.

They're taking these buses for $10.50. They go to Casino, and they leave in the bus. They never see the city. That's the difference. He won't admit that, but that's the story. It should be noted, Pesqual is one of several city officials considering running for office when the city adopts a mayor council form of government this spring. The whole issue has become a political football source. We'll have to wait, at least until the election, to find out who's winning. In Atlantic City, I'm Dan Hudson. The finals of the state spelling bee were held in trend in today, and the word that chose the winner was colloquial. Steve Taylor has some more words. It was one of the exquisite little tortures we devise for our talented youngsters. Twenty-four boys and girls from all over the state, all in 6th, 7th or 8th grades, gathered at the State Museum in Trenton, under the auspices of the New Jersey Green Association. Carol Nethery of Stockton got the first word. And from there it went on at better than a word a minute, and getting harder with each

round. anxious parents and friends watched contestants relieve to get words they knew, contestants in agony sounding out unfamiliar words, contestants sulking to their seats after a mistake, any mistake, and always more words. After more than an hour, Carol Nethery, the first contestant, was still spelling, and there were only two others. Tom Rubin of Flemington spelled Wednesday correctly, but he forgot the capital W. That left only Ken Lampert of basking Ridge between Carol and Victory. Ken's word was colloquial, and Carol took a moment to realize it when Ken forgot the U. That made Carol the state champion an instant celebrity. The object of applause, the subject of photographers, and like a true heroine, becomingly modest in

her triumphs. Well, I saw everybody spelling hard words, and I was just glad I didn't get any of them. You didn't get any hard words? No, I didn't think so. In Trenton, I'm Steve Taylor. While Governor Kane may not have been late for work today, but he did have a long wait for his bus, the governor was standing by to inspect one of the new longer buses the state is testing, but a state trooper had pulled the bus over for a non-scheduled stop, seems the new model bus is longer than what state law allows. So the governor says he'll have the length regulation changed. That way he'll save the state the $160 fine for driving a long bus. New Jersey Transit, by the way, plans to buy 117 of the buses this spring. And when we come back, Bill Perry will have this sports report. Thank you. Are you ready, Bill?

Take it away with us. Well, you can't. Most of us have been doing some ice skating across parking lots, right? Well, yeah. Bad, bad. After the two phases of the three-phase U.S. National Figure Skating Competition, and in the Annapolis, Elaine Zayak of Paramis is in position to repeat as national champion after the compulsory and short program competition, Elaine is in second place behind Priscilla Hall. But tomorrow, Elaine skates in the freestyle where she is normally sensational, so it is expected that Elaine will repeat. Just three weeks ago, Elaine Zayak won the Eastern Championships held here in New Jersey at the Men in Sports Arena right here. Our Trista Gasper has report on Elaine. A lot has happened to Elaine Zayak in the last few years. Two years ago, she was chosen as an alternate to the Olympic team. Last year, she was the national champ and placed second in the world championships. And now, at sixteen years old, Elaine Zayak has been credited with revolutionizing figure skating.

With her spectacular triple jumps, she's taken it from ballet on ice to athletics on ice. But in doing that, she hasn't escaped controversy. Critics say her movements and triple jumps might show athletic prowess, but they also say she doesn't have the style and grace of former champions like Peggy Fleming and Dorothy Hamill. What does Elaine have to say about the controversy? I think it's over. The ballet is definitely changed, you know, and let a lot of the kids that are coming up now are because the kids that do good are the ones who do the jumps. And that's what the judges look at now. So everybody's going to definitely keep trying them until, you know, unless somebody doesn't want it, you know, the judges will mark it down for it. But they haven't been. It's who can do the most jumps. And doing the most jumps is something Elaine doesn't have to worry about right now. She usually does seven of them in one routine. That's more than any skater, male or female has ever done. She's counting on those triples to help her place first in the

national championships. That competition is going on right now in Indianapolis. I'm Trishti Gasparis. Thank you, Trish. Ron Earhart. It was fired as head coach of the New England Patriots after a two and 14 season has been hired by the Giants as offensive coordinator Earhart and Ray Perkins work together as assistant coaches in the wing one back in the mid 70s. The next time we're going to be playing, we're going to be playing with a few players. We'll be playing tonight. Some of the people coming up this weekend, Princeton plays at Penn tomorrow night at St. Petersburg and Fordham tomorrow on a double header. At Rutgers, the men against road aisle and at three, they are you women meet Maryland at one and we'll have the double header on the New Jersey Network, tape delay starting at eight tomorrow and nine men's game first. Followed by the women's game. The Rutgers woman of 148 straight games at home this year. The lady nights are 12 and two and ranked third nationally. Maryland is 15 and two and ranked sixth. Maryland has defeated Rutgers three straight times. And if you go back to 1978, and after that game, are you on their current streak? It will be tough for Rutgers to keep it going tomorrow. Top scorer June Alkowski is very doubtful after injuring a knee last week against Tennessee. Well, it will be a tough game. Maryland is always one of our

tough nemesis. And they're doing rather well right now. Of course, we'll be without the service of June one side of the league. But the kids have played hard and they've played together. They've done well. They've won two very, very good games. Tennessee and they'll know if we can just play together. Continue to work hard. I'm optimistic about the season. The NBA All-Star game will be played at the Meadowlands this Sunday. Tomorrow with the arena, both the east and west All-Star squads will practice. Then the Continental Basketball Association will hold its All-Star game. And you can attend it all for free. That's right, for free. It all begins at 11 a.m. at the Meadowlands arena. NBA All-Star practice. And the CBA All-Star game. Expect the game to begin around two. I'd be there. But, of course, I think it's going to be a good game. I think it's going to be a good I think it's going to be a good game. We're going to nämlich their That's right. I'm going to hear it all in? Yeah. Let's see here. Thank you. This is that eight days. And then, from the grinning squad, we'll finish that day. ração is at home. All right. All right.

So read down Lukas De Theres principe I'll put it there. It's there, but, of course, Rutgers beckons for the college basketball double header. Beckons. Very good weekend. Beckons. Beckons. Beckons but can't say. Call it out Labour. temporary art, and you won't want to miss it. Over the past two years, the museum's curators have been looking at some of the most interesting works of artists in the urban northeastern part of the state. The Jersey City Museum's 1981 Invitational features the work of ten artists they chose who either live in Hudson County or have been long time residents of the state. It's a group exhibition of contemporary artwork. You can see paintings, three-dimensional constructions, works on paper, and much, much more. The exhibit runs through February 28th at the Jersey City Museum. The museum is open on Saturdays from 1130 to 430. We've been mentioning the New Jersey State Museum quite often lately, and that's because there have been so many interesting things going on there. And this weekend is no exception. Super Science Sunday plus one.

It's a whole weekend of family-oriented science programs. It includes a presentation of NASA Space Mobile. Designed by the Sesame Place playful computer and a special science program conducted by New Jersey Bell. Also included are illustrated lectures about dinosaurs and fossils. Stories about Native American tribes in outdoor life and exhibits of live amphibians and reptiles. Remember, the Super Science Sunday plus one festival is this weekend only. That Saturday and Sunday from noon to five, and it's at the New Jersey State Museum in Trenton. And if abstract art is geared more to your taste than the twod gallery in Plainville may have just what you're looking for. The show, Intervision Abstract Images offers drawings, paintings, and sculptures. The drawings and paintings run the gamut, from delicate watercolors to abstract expressionism. The sculptures range from wall constructions with painted surfaces to large, free-standing pieces using geometric shapes.

The last opportunity to see this exhibit is tomorrow from ten to five. That's at the twod gallery, 112 East Front Street in Plainville. This just seems to be the weekend for budding scientists with Super Science Sunday plus one. And also there's a whole day of activities planned for tomorrow at the Rutgers Geology Museum. One of the activities that might be of interest, a lecture with a slideshow about the search of the Titanic. Now, that's tomorrow from nine to four at Rutgers Geology Museum in New Brunswick. And for a change of pace this weekend, how about the opera? On Sunday, the New Jersey State Opera will present just Seppi Verde's, excuse me, a masked ball that's at seven pm on Sunday at Symphony Hall in Newark. And finally, something for the whole family, square dancing. Your family can dosy-dow and swing their partners this Sunday from two to four at the YM, Y-W-H-A. That's on Northfield Avenue in West Orange.

And those are just a few of the things going on in our state this weekend. Thank God it's Friday. The weekend is just begun. Thank God. It's really worn out after that weekend. Thank you, Rolanda. That's the news for Kent Manahan, Bill Perryon, Rolanda Watson, Don Tarns, Good Night from all of us at New Jersey Nightly News. New Jersey Nightly News is a joint presentation of the New Jersey Network and WNET-13. Boxing is a great place.