New Jersey Nightly News; New Jersey Nightly News Episode from 01/18/1980

If the federal government kicks into New Jersey's Pinelands preservation fund in sports Rutgers and Seton Hall of the garden will have the results that the highlights two New Jersey car factories will stay closed another week while business is booming at a third. New Jersey Nightly News with Karen Stone and Bill Berry with sports. Good evening I'm Steve Taylor Karen Stone is off tonight. New Jersey's Pinelands preservation plan got shot in the arm today in the form of a federal check. The event was significant enough for a top Carter administration official to deliver the money personally can't manage hand reports. When U.S. secretary of interior Cecil Andrus came to Trenton he was a rich man. But

he's headed back to Washington one hundred thousand dollars poorer. The secretary presented the governor with the first of a five part installment amounting to $500000 to help the Pinelands commission develop a management plan for preserving sections of the pines. And as the governor put it that's not the end of his newfound wealth. The State Department of Environmental Protection will match the funds for a total of one million dollars. The pylons Preservation Act signed into law by the governor last June divides the 1 million acre tract into a preservation and protection area. The Act calls for a limited building moratoriums throughout the entire region with a stricter interpretation of the moratorium in the preservation area. The whole question of preservation of the pines has been a controversial issue among environmentalists developers and landowners since the 50s. One of the commission's jobs will be dealing with those problems. One of the major issues will be determining under what circumstances we will reimburse property owners. For rights which have been taken away

from them as far as that of an element of their property or another one would be to what extent will there be reimbursement from federal or state sources for tax revenues lost with respect to the lands which are required for permanent preservation. The commission says they have a lot of studying to do before they formulate a final management plan for preservation of the pine region. But they will be finished in August when the plan is finalized the counties and municipalities in the pine lands region will have to adapt their future development plans accordingly. In the mean time the commission is the only authority in the state that can approve development in the pines. Steve Kent is there much construction going on in the plans right now. Right now there is very little construction going on and those building applications that are being granted by the Commission are only being granted under certain conditions. The commission will grant building applications will approve building applications for buildings

in cases where there is hardship in cases where there is a compelling need for a particular facility to be built or in some cases of a developer can prove to the commission that they will not in any way impair the environmental area of the pine. How is the commission going to use the million dollars. Well the commission says that they need that money in order to acquire lands for the state so that they can set aside certain areas of the pines as preservation areas. The rest of the money they say they need to set up studies they are employing separate groups who were doing studies on soil on endangered species on water who are studying ways to control and different things which are clickable to the Pinelands area that they say is very expensive and they say it's absolutely necessary in order for them to complete their master plan. OK thanks very much. About 200 faculty and staff members have struck the Camden County Vo-Tech schools in Pennsauken and in Gloucester Township teachers have been working without a contract since June and they say the school board has blocked all attempts to reach a settlement. The two schools stayed open today

with administrators and some teachers conducting questions. In Cranford the local teachers association is suing the superintendent of schools charging him with recording private phone calls among school employees and then using the tapes as weapons against them. Also named in the suit are members of the Cranford Board of Education. The teachers say the superintendent also hired a private detective to gather information later used to fire four school employees. The price of gasoline is up once again the State Energy Department says the maximum legal price for a gallon of gas jumped anywhere from two to five cents a gallon over the past week. That Department publishes a list of the maximum prices each week and this week the cheapest of those maximums is Chevron regular at a dollar three a gallon. The most expensive is a tie between Texaco premium and soon all those top grade both at a dollar nineteen point two. Hudson County is the guinea pig for an energy conservation project that could go statewide. It's called the industrial energy audit program for no charge a team of efficiency experts will audit a company's energy use

and suggest ways to conserve. The first energy audit took place today. Phelps Hawkins has a report. At economy bookbinders in CARNEY The energy audit includes a company vice president and engineer from the Small Business Administration an Energy Department expert. The mayor of Carney and the chairman of the Service Corps of Retired Executives or score which is coordinating the New Jersey energy audit program. This plant was built in 1940. Lots of windows high ceilings an energy conservation nightmare. The energy survey team zeroed right in on the heating problems of this plant. There are six huge furnaces like this one. But on a cold day they have a hard time keeping the temperature here at 65 degrees. Also each one of these units cost 80 dollars an hour in fuel costs to run. The answer could be infrared heat. The energy analysts know that relying on patriotic feelings is not enough. They've got to

sell conservation show that money can be safe which in most plants is easy. Make an economic justification should you or should you not circulate the heat. Most often you. Let me start you know you don't notice the windows all around the building. They are ending internally. The extra plastic sheeting to capture air with air is a very good insulator. When trapped. Like many manufacturers economy bookbinders uses a lot of heat. This paperback binder uses gas flame to dry the binding blew. Much of the heat is then wasted instead of being recycled. As I mentioned before just building a small duct work to can recapture some of this heat is very very low but it's nominal. So it's really a matter of engineering ideas. For you this is the bottom line concern. Absolutely absolutely indeed. Earl Lovering estimates the company will save about $70000 a year by applying some of the simple

conservation measures suggested today and they're going ahead with the infrared heaters for local SCORE Chairman Ben wrangle. Whether you're retired or just starting in business common sense says you can't beat a free energy audit that could save you thousands of dollars. When you're a former business manager if if you were in charge of a business today and an energy analyst called you up and said We'd like to come over and tell you how you can save money by conserving right would you say like I'm right I'm glad to have you in CARNEY I'm Phelps Ockham's the Coast Guard says there is no apparent connection between three phony distress calls it's received in the last week. The latest was last night when the Guard intercepted a radio call from a ship supposedly in trouble in the Cape May canal. A Coast Guard vessel searched for an hour but found nothing. Last Friday and Saturday the Coast Guard conducted two other rescue missions in one case using several ships and even helicopters. Nothing was found either time. A Coast Guard spokesman said

today he doesn't think the three calls were made by the same prankster. Attorney General John Degnan says one of his biggest problems is the casino industry in Atlantic City. During a taping for W.A. 13 is Dateline New Jersey the attorney general talked about the licensing of New Jersey casinos. Well I certainly would've been happier had it won the fight to deny resorts a license. I said several times I disagree with the Casino Control Commission's decision to have granted resort to license I don't think it qualified under the standards of the legislation as it was enacted in New Jersey. I do think it was a decision that was made in good faith and I don't question the integrity of the commission. I'm certainly not winning yet. I don't know if it's a question of my personally winning or losing but I do think that the commission over the next couple of hearings will set the standard by which casinos in the state will be judged and by which applicants will be judged. And I think what they do in the Caesars hearing and what they do in the valley hearing for permanent license will be very important in terms of attracting

good operators to New Jersey and discouraging those we don't want the entire Dateline New Jersey interview can be seen this Sunday night at 6:30 on WMT 13. If the high price of gold on world markets has you thinking about trading in your wedding ring or other gold jewelry be aware the division of Weights and Measures says some unscrupulous dealers are using the cover to process them instead of the Troy system to weigh the trade ins. The difference is that the Troy system which is always used for gold and silver has 12 ounces to a pound. The average PA system which is used at the supermarket and just about everywhere else has 16 ounces to a pound. So those unscrupulous dealers are taking in 16 ounces but only paying for 12. The weights and measures people are cracking down on them. Small business owners gathered in Washington this week mapping out strategy on how to keep their businesses alive. The conference was the result of months of research on problems small businessmen and women face across the country. Before that conference we talked to one delegate from South Jersey about his expectations of what would be

accomplished in Washington today. Mary Amor also went back to Burlington County to see if those expectations were met Stanley Fishman's company Beta would laminate so clearly qualifies as a small business it operates out of the fifteen thousand square foot warehouse in Riverside near Camden. Its nine employees make furniture for nursing homes. Fishman who is president of the company knows full well the problems of the Small Business Man major problems are small business people or taxation. Unfair regulations for small business people immense paperwork. Just what fisherman came back from the conference with a new confidence about the prospects for small business in this nation. He had almost sixteen hundred other delegates got to tell the president and the Congress some of the things they need to survive things like tax incentives so that small businessmen can reinvest their

profits. More liberal depreciation credits for new equipment changes in the estate tax laws so that family owned businesses aren't hit with such a tax bill. When a family member dies and the exemption of seasonal and part time workers from the minimum wage laws Fishman says small businessmen got a good response from Washington we felt that the support was actually that there is something that's going to be done and they are going to do it as quickly as possible. Over the years small business people have been apathetic based upon the fact that they were too busy trying to make a living to be concerned about what was happening in Washington. But that's all changing now. Fishman says small business owners came away from the conference with a new sense of their political clout and a new interest in cooperating with the government. In Riverside I Mariama Rosso. The 1979 unemployment figures are in for the state and they read like one of those good news bad news stories the good news is that unemployment is down. It was six point

nine percent last year down from seven point two percent the year before. The bad news is that even with the decrease there are only six states in the nation in worse shape than New Jersey. All of those states including New Jersey are above the national unemployment rate. It will be at least another 10 days before those laid off workers out of Ford plants in MA and the touching will return to their jobs. The more than 50 500 workers were given temporary pink slips two weeks ago because of sagging car sales. Today Ford officials said the situation just hasn't improved enough to reopen the two plants yet. The situation at the General Motors plant in Linden is a much different one. We get more on that part of the story from Jack Conti. At the Ford plant it Batoche in the empty parking lot tells the story. It's the second week of layoffs that have idled almost 2000 workers. That's because Ford Pintos are not having a good year. Their sales hurt in part by negative publicity on earlier models about fuel

explosions in rear end collisions. Here are the General Motors plant Ltd.. The product is what Sharee cars Cadillacs like these for instance and the market for these cars is down right. Yes again this plant is running at full steam. So busy in fact that many workers are still getting overtime boosting some salaries along the assembly line to almost $30000 a year. All that despite the fact that these cars cost between 30 and $20000 each and will never run the risk of being labeled economy cars. We feel the market for these automobiles will remain strong. The reason for that is a traditional luxury car buyer is strongly attracted to them. They haven't downsized as much as a thousand pounds lighter. Up to 20 inches shorter. But where is the market for these cars in this year of double digit inflation.

Even the sales people are surprised. It's been very hard for us to understand also but what I think probably you know the high medium high income person is still in the market buying his Cadillac if you want to. I think that's why our sales have been better than they have been the previous year. And that is keeping the production line in limited very busy. This plant produces all GM Cadillac Seville and Eldorado as well as Buick Rivieras and Oldsmobile Toronado was not even a medium priced car in the arsenal. But the story in sales is that luxury cars are in higher gas prices and energy conservation don't seem to matter. And whether they sell in oil rich Kuwait or suburban New Jersey The fact is those sales are keeping nearly 6000 assembly line workers on the job. And I'm hopeful. The next gas. Don't burst their bubble. It lived it. I just can't.

Now here is the weather forecast for the stage tonight will be cloudy and cool with periods of rain ending my morning. Temperatures will be in the low 30s skies will be clearing tomorrow. It should be partly sunny with highs in the mid 40s and on Sunday it should be partly sunny and mild. It's time for sports and filling in while Bill Perry is on vacation.

No thank you Steve. Well it was a wild night for two New Jersey college basketball teams last night in Madison Square Garden in an exciting doubleheader. And while both teams gave their fans their money's worth neither gave them a win. Rutgers was down by Long Island University 68 to 67 and Seton Hall dropped a close one to Nevada Las Vegas and a 67 65 final. Let's take a look at the records and why. Game or late night had a comfortable 52 39 lead with less than 10 minutes remaining in the game to be over confident. That's when you capitalize the blackbird's came roaring back with John Nelson Bailey leading the way. He was the game's high score with 27 and I just dropped into one of their scoring slumps and netted just one field goal in the last six and a half minutes of regulation play. Golden Boy tentative desperation twenty two quarter at the buzzer. Nowhere near its more workers should have retired at the end of regulation time overtime was disastrous for the night. They had more missed shots and three turnovers. Bailey stole the show for NYU his team was down 67 66 and the

final buzzer sounded. Let go when he. Pulled her from the corner. All. Right. Somewhat better for Seton Hall in the second game against Nevada Las Vegas at the garden but the end result was the same. Hall was defeated in another exciting squeaker 67 65 Seton Hall in Nevada exchanged baskets for the duration. Seton Hall took a 33 31 late into the locker room at the half that pick and it was the game's high score with 22 points. Teammate Darrell Devereaux added another 20 game could have been put on ice when Billy Cunningham was fouled with 12 seconds left. It was one on one with the score 67 65 Novato Cunningham missed giving Seton Hall the chance to tie it up the hole called timeout with six seconds appearing on the clock. The ball was inbound and past the Devereaux but his left hand hook shot was no good it was. Don't bore with one second remaining time you want to see the whole. And tonight the New Jersey Nets will try to make a comeback after being blown out by Kansas City last

Wednesday the nets will take on the Philadelphia 70 Sixers at the Rutgers athletic center. Well the floundering New Jersey American soccer team hasn't been able to crack the exclusive Giant Stadium contract and it looks as though the team will be forced to head south americans owner Joe Raymond says his team is a winner and it has star players. But Raymond believes that without the right stadium he can't make it. The Americans now play at the rector's stadium the team is on the verge of being sold on a Florida group is the leading candidate for the first presidential series was kicked off last night at the Meadowlands the opening like carried a $30000 purse the presidential will run on for the success of Thursday's The final will go for about sixty eight thousand dollars. Lobello was the winner last night followed by Peter own Ned and Walton Royale. Thirty six Pacers have been nominated to the presidential including several $100000 winners in 1979 and former heavyweight boxing champ George Foreman was arrested last night in Tomball Texas. He reportedly refused to leave a school where revival was being

held. Smokin Joe was slapped with violation rather violating a city ordinance and he was released after posting bond. Steve that's the shape of sports. Back to you. Thanks Bill. What would be the result of a plan by the FCC to deregulate the nation's radio stations. In tonight's sound off our media commentator Richard Nixon examines the effect that plan could have on the almost one hundred radio stations in New Jersey. When I first learned that the Federal Communications Commission was planning to deregulate the nation's more than 80 600 radio stations I was upset because it would mean the broadcasters could get away with no responsibility to their communities. Historically the FCC has assumed that anyone using the air the atmosphere we all own are essentially private gain such as commercial radio and TV broadcasters should be subject to government regulation. The FCC requires broadcasters to operate in the public interest. Many New Jersey observers believe that the state already ill served by New York and Philadelphia TV stations would be severely affected by the FCC s proposal to deregulate radio

stations. Under the commission's plan the requirement that radio stations broadcast news would be dropped. And each station would present news only if it wanted to. At present the FCC requires every commercial radio and TV station in the country to broadcast news some broadcast more than others and some of course are more responsible than others. My initial upset waned considerably however when I started to add up the number of AM and FM radio stations licensed in New Jersey. There are 70 commercial and 24 noncommercial stations. Thus I agree with the FCC s contention that the sheer number of stations guarantees competition. And that news is one way to compete. Also we must remember that radio is essentially a local media more local Even the newspapers which in New Jersey are greatly outnumbered. Radio station. The basic reasoning for regulating anything is to help ensure diversity. As far as New Jersey goes radio broadcasting is already widespread and diverse. Deregulation may provoke more public interest

programming. If the public demands it from their community stations. I'd like to see our radio stations so challenge. This is Richard Nixon. A couple of unusual stories passed our desks today. One is that a municipal judge in Camden County Herald Gleaner has been arrested in a raid on an alleged house of prostitution. The other is from Atlantic City where can go words the former assemblyman who drives a sports car with the Incredible Hulk painted on the hood has troubles of his own. He's told police that three women hookers he says robbed him of more than $8000 in jewelry while they were all spending some time in a motel. Now the candid judge says the police are all wrong that he was simply dropping off some papers at the establishment when the police showed up but Goward says he was just doing what hundreds of thousands of people do all the time. When asked if he thinks his little indiscretions will hurt him politically Goward said no. Have you ever seen what goes on at those League of municipalities conventions.

While it's Friday and we've got some ideas for things to do this weekend for openers the New Jersey State Opera will be taking a bow. Here's Diana LUDDEN to tell us about the weekend's happenings including an exhibit for everybody in Monmouth County the New Jersey State Opera moved onto its second production of the season this weekend with Bill Ynys passion a drama Norma.

Norma is one of the leads most successful operas depicting the tragic consequences of a love triangle. Metropolitan Opera Singer Jill the crew's Romo will star curtain goes up on Sunday at 7 at 10 20 Broad Street in Newark. And the Newark museum has dug into its collection of 300 patchwork quilts. They've come up with an exhibit entitled for a long winter's nap. They're showing 21 of their favorites all dated from 1820 to 1968. All of the quilts are from the original makers and owners many of them from New Jersey. One of them actually depicts the route of the Erie Lackawanna railroad through New Jersey and Museum is open on Saturday and Sunday from noon to 5:00. That's at 49 Washington Street in Newark. Admission is free. There's another exhibit this weekend one that's especially geared towards children. It's called the every body exhibit with the emphasis on the body museum has constructed a 50 foot is in the shape of the human body. You actually read

through it stopping the different areas such as the lungs and the eyes and find out how they work. The museum is open on Saturday from 10 to 4:30 on Sunday from 1 to 5. That's on the Brookdale Community College campus in Lynn Croft. In Bloomfield the whole theater company will present a special program on Sunday. Irving Caesar the lyricist of tea for two. We'll take you back to the days of vaudeville and early musical theater. We'll be talking about his own life and also sharing many little known anecdotes about well known theatre personalities couldn't goes up on Sunday at 8:00. The theater is located at 5:44 Bloomfield Avenue in Montclair. The theater will also have a lecture the Saturday theater critic Harold Clurman of the New York Times will discuss his own work and different approaches to theater criticism. That's on Sunday at 4:00. Again that's on Bloomfield Avenue in Montclair. Have a good weekend. Once again our top story is U.S. Interior Secretary Cecil Andrus delivered a check for

one hundred thousand dollars to help Governor burn to help pay for the Pinelands preservation. And the State Department of Energy has started a series of audits of New Jersey factories to find ways for them to save energy. That's the news for Bill Bowen and Karen Stone and Bill Perry. I'm Steve Taylor. Good night from New Jersey nightly news. New Jersey Nightly News is a joint presentation of New Jersey Public Television and w o any TV. You're 13. The program is broadcast Saturdays and Sundays at 6:00 p.m.. The New Jersey Public Television and channel 13 ocean's pre recorded.