New Jersey Nightly News; 05/18/1979

Boss Anthony Tony Provenzano The judge however did call the government's case against Tony Pro week. At the New Jersey Automobile Club says planning for long distance car trips is down because of the problems with gasoline. In sports Paul bloodline reports on the opening round of the LPGA tournament in Upper Montclair. And on a closer look we'll hear New Jersey's leading poet. Read some of his work which was inspired by the Garden State itself. The arrest Wednesday of more than four dozen junior high school students in Monmouth County on narcotics charges has prompted officials today to launch a county wide investigation into drugs in the schools there. And as Mike Powers reports those officials are already afraid of what they'll find. The 53 arrests at the Bayshore school in Middletown may be only a peek through the door at drug trafficking in Monmouth County schools. I do not think that the Middletown Township raids are unusual as far as the results are in the county I think that probably Middletown Township is a typical example of what's going on in the major metropolitan areas or the major municipalities in our county.

Lehrer has named a county narcotics strike force to find out more about drug sales and drug use in Monmouth schools. The strike force will present its findings to a meeting of school authorities late this summer. In the meantime lawyers for the children arrested may claim that the youngster's defense has been prejudiced by pretrial publicity because Middletown Police released to the media their videotape of the surveillance at the school. Prosecutor Larry doesn't believe the surveillance violated the youngster's rights but he's worried about the broadcast of the surveillance tape on television news programmes. The problem may arise. There are certain laws as the confidentiality of juvenile names and juvenile identities which can only be released after conviction with a judge's approval. If those things are released prematurely that may raise a problem by dying. Prepared yet to state whether it has been a problem or it has been. LEHRER may argue that the media was just doing a thorough job of reporting the story when it

used the police videotape and that in juvenile court the identity of the children is protected because all of that court's proceedings are secret. This is my power. Lawyers for the defense began their case today in the racketeering trial of four former Teamsters officials in federal court in New York. The alleged brains and power behind an alleged scheme to sell labor peace to the Sea Train shipping company was convicted murderer Anthony Tony Pro Provenzano. But the one time Jersey City Teamsters boss is putting some legal distance between himself and the other defendants in the case. Federal Judge Curtis Maynard today refused a motion to dismiss the charges against Provenzano for lack of evidence. But the judge did say that he thinks the evidence linking Provenzano to the alleged kickbacks paid to Teamsters officials for allowing nonunion labor to drive trucks for seat train is in the judge's words spars. Later a former executive testified that he never discussed any work contracts with Provenzano and denied an earlier witnesses

statements that Provenzano had met with him and self admitted front man. Ralph McArdle for a business lunch the cardio is the key government informant and the only real link time Provenzano to the labor racketeering scheme. The case is expected to go to the jury by the middle of next week. The case against some people accused of making a pornographic film in Point Pleasant last summer is being dropped. A superior court judge has ruled that the raid and the arrests were based on a faulty search warrant a warrant was issued by a municipal judge after a policeman looked into the rear window of a beauty parlor and said he saw the film being made. The superior court judge said that police officer violated the defendant's privacy by looking into that window. The state police are asking for help in identifying the woman whose body was found April 10th near the southbound lanes of the New Jersey Turnpike in East Brunswick. The body partially decomposed was found by a jogger in a slightly wooded area. The victim had been dead one or two weeks. She was white 18 to 30 years old 5 feet for about 115 pounds with brown eyes and brown hair.

She was wearing a rose colored dress and black high heeled shoes and was killed by a gunshot in the back. If you think that you have any information about that woman call the state police the New Jersey Automobile Club says there's been a substantial drop in requests by members for information on long distance pleasure trips by car. This is the time of year when those trip plans traditionally are made by the clubs as members now are being put off by the higher prices for gasoline and the trouble there isn't even getting it at any price on weekends. Jeffrey Hall reports. This is the New Jersey automobile club's trip planning center and floor in park before gas station started closing on weekends and fuel prices continue to climb closer to a dollar a gallon. Club officials said the requests for assistance and mapping trips were up. Well up until this point they have been going much planning to conserve gasoline they've been going the places that they normally don't fact. That are for planning. Who are the first four months of the year is up 25 percent.

But now that the fuel pinch is beginning to take hold Durham says club members have cut back on travel plans. They already have in fact they're down 20 percent over the first two weeks of May. Even though there appears to be a decline in long distance driving the majority of Triple-A members of the Automobile Club are still planning long trips. This woman is having her automobile trip to Hilton Head Island in South Carolina mapped out. That's about an 18 hour drive from North Jersey. Does she have any fears about the availability of fuel along the way. Yes I do. We're just hoping that we'll make it. So while some motorists are cutting back on long distance driving plans we're still. Any more wine driving adventure. Regardless of the risks involving the availability of fuel the price at the pumps. I'm Geoffrey HALL The state insurance commissioner James and Sharon has filed a lawsuit against Kemper insurance charging camper with charging higher rates for car insurance and the

state has approved insurers some 31000 motorists here in New Jersey. The port authority says 100000 Bridge and Tunnel monthly commuter tickets are missing from a shipment to the George Washington Bridge. Although they normally sell for $20 a book the missing ones are worthless since they're numbered and those numbers have been posted by toll collectors car dealers in New Jersey say their sales are down because of the energy crunch too many big cars on the lot. Not enough small cars to sell. And as Phelps Hawkins reports the dealers don't think the federal and state governments are doing enough about the situation. It's easy to sit behind a desk and tell us what's wrong. Why don't you get out in the trenches and find out what's wrong. What's wrong Howard wiggers says is that new car sales are dropping through the floor. But according to the State Division of Motor Vehicles it's not quite that bad. In fact the number of new cars sold in the first four months of this year is significantly above the number sold in the same period last year. However just for the month of

April this year sales were about three percent less than in April 1978. So the dealers are being hurt and the gas shortage is not the only culprit. According to a senior burn administration economist those car sales figures aren't of much concern right now at least to the state especially since they represent only a one month dip in sales. And the analyst says that while the energy crunch is a factor. The big consideration is the current general downturn in the economy. People just don't have the money. But General Motors doesn't agree. Company is reporting a 10 percent increase in small car sales in the last year roughly the same as other auto makers. Are small car plants such places momentum in Tarrytown. Oklahoma City will run Michigan. They are all operating on. All shift over time. To. Help. Meet some of the demand.

For our small business. But dealers like Howard will say they can't sell the big cars and can't get the smell of cars from the factory. And it's those small ones that sell best because of their good gas mileage and low price. When you're at capacity and you can't get any more cars out the door and it's a hot selling vehicle then naturally there's going to be shortages in from one dealership to another. That's what they say today. They're increasing their chefs. But for them to work it through you'll see a change to the dealers are cutting off their shipments and they got a more bills at the present time they're backing up we can sell it. I'm Phelps Hawkins. Because of new federal guidelines as many as 8000 SEATO workers in the state could lose their jobs by this fall. The guidelines were written under the Comprehensive Employment Training Act. The new rules say public employees in certain programs should not be on the government payroll for more than a year and a half although waivers are possible if a sponsor can show that US on child services are at stake. The Federal Council on wage and price stability has

notified three companies in New Jersey that they may have violated wage price guidelines that companies have 10 days to respond. The allegations are confirmed. The companies could be disqualified from bidding on government contracts. The companies are Amerada Hess of Perth Amboy in New York an oil company Warner-Lambert of Morris Plains the pharmaceutical manufacturer in American heart of Somerville a chemical manufacturer spokesman for Amerada Hess could not be reached today spokesman for the other two so they believe their companies are in compliance with those guidelines. An explosion and fire today at the chemical plant in Woodbridge the explosion occurred in a boiler in one of the buildings in the complex there were three workers in the building at the time. Luckily they got out OK. The historic Windsor Hotel which had been closed since 1973 was destroyed by fire today. It was closed because it was considered a fire hazard but it remained one of the areas outstanding examples of Victorian architecture by fundamentalist radio preacher Carl Macintyre.

Weather forecast for the state looks like a weekend of nonstop rain starting tonight we'll have light showers or drizzle throughout the state with low temperatures in the lower 50s tomorrow. It will be cloudy and more rain is expected high temperature of tomorrow will be in the upper 60s through the lower 70s and the forecast for Sunday is for continued cloudy skies and mild temperatures. Call it country rock folk or swing Austin City Limits. This year takes in more of the country than ever before. It's authentic it's exciting it's here. PBS. Watch Austin City Limits Saturday in the New Jersey Public Television.

Now here's Paul Budde line in front man tonight sports hall. OK. In today's rain did not stop play at the Upper Montclair Country Club the first round of the LPGA Coca-Cola Classic got off as scheduled after one round there's a tie for THE LEAD. One of those later is a legend in women's golf. Mickey Wright shot a three under par 70 today she's in a tie with Kathy Hearn Mickey Wright as eighty two tour with career wins that's a record she hasn't won though since 1973. They're one stroke ahead of Beverley Plas and at 71. Two strokes behind at one under par 72 Debbie Rhodes more on her in a moment. And Laurie Garbus a couple of big names or even par 73 Nancy Lopez and Kathy WHITWORTH. Bill Perry was covering today's first round he has a report in a couple of contrasts thing players superstar Nancy Lopez who without even par 73 today and unknown Debbie Rhodes has two shots behind the leaders.

A rain soaked crowd got it out to follow defending Coca-Cola champion Nancy Lopez Nancy's Navy had to suffer along as Lopez had her only problems on the first hole Nancy bogey after hitting her second shot over the green. As you can see it was porn. On number two Nancy but yet again she was in the bunker in two and then she just missed the putt which would have saved par whom Lopez had ground to make up. Meanwhile unknown Debbie Rhodes who hasn't earned a dime on the tour this year was to one depart going to 18. This is her fourth shot on the par by finishing hole. But I had a good shot of to the green and had a four hour and about six feet from the hole. But honest upright it ran down and so badly. And but. You know things could have been worse I guess. That's for sure. This is a young lady who isn't used to being up on the leaderboard her 1 under par 72

has her right in it. It looks like more rain for tomorrow's second round the weather forecast calls for a 70 percent chance of showers after tomorrow's round. The field will be cut and the tournament will wrap up Sunday at the Coca-Cola Classic This is a moist Bill Perry reporting. That's strike by Major League umpires is now officially over the regular will be returning to work tomorrow. And college baseball today Seton Hall's game at St. John's was rained out they'll try that again tomorrow. Well there's a new service being offered to New Jersey boxers. A detailed fitness examination using the most modern equipment. The exam is being given at college in union. This room is called the Advanced Center for the scientific study of boxing. The center is just over a month old it's the idea of Dr. Max no bitch Dr. No which was the ringside doctor at the last three Olympics. He set up the center with the idea of testing boxers before they step into the ring. First of all we get time in the way of fitness a lot. Dr..

Psycho we can profile him. The last gram of muscles from. The right measure on this day the subject of the fitness examination was New Jersey heavyweight champion Scott Frank. Much of the testing was very basic such as blood pressure. One time before. Which is a normal blood pressure. Then there were measurements taken by Dr. Walton Zell who runs the Center along with Dr. No bitch. The measurements are anti-German a boxer's percentage of fat but the most important part of the exam is the treadmill stress test. The subject starts out at a leisurely walk speed is gradually increased until he's running at a pretty fair job on an incline. All the while the heart rate is monitored electrocardiogram is being taken an exhale there is stored in a huge bag for later analysis. A trained specialist like Dr. Ansell and then tell a boxer his level of cardiovascular fitness and possibly suggest training to correct weak spots.

And this service is being offered for free to any licensed New Jersey Boxer pro or amateur. For more information you can call Dr Nova chat 2 or 1 4 4 2 3 0 7 0. By the way New Jersey heavyweight champ Scott Frank was judged to be in very good condition. And tomorrow morning at Soup basketball superstar and Donovan will be announcing where she'll be attending college. Chances are the Paramus Catholic senior will choose Old Dominion the national champions and that's either wild world or Long Branch is going to be added to the two previously proposed. I live in New Jersey State Senator David Friedlander says he will amend his bill which would allow Franzen's only in Jersey City and Camden but there shouldn't be more than three towns in the state. The bill does go through the legislature and then is approved by the voters. It would be up to the Commission to choose between Wildwood and Long Branch. The movie The China Syndrome is set in California and concerns a nuclear power plant accident. But commentator John McLaughlin

believes New Jersey may have its own potential China Syndrome or at least its equivalent. And it has nothing to do with nuclear power. It is not an issue sexy enough for a Jane Fonda movie but chemical toxic wastes are more of a clear and present danger to all of us. The nuclear radiation these poisons have been dumped into our rivers and buried underground. They are stuffed in the barrels and dumped on their bridges and railroad trestles or loaded on the tanks trucks and pump in the storm drains in the dark of night. In the case of the curiously named chemical control company of Elizabeth they are simply putting the 55 gallon drums and left to sit around until they feel like exploding. The nuclear breakdown of Three Mile Island got a giant amount of published. But if you want to see a real horror this is scenic Niagara Falls and view love can now watch the poisons percolate before your very eyes talk to the natives about miscarriages. Leukemia and deformed children. Whether New Jersey

will experience a Three Mile Island is an open question. I love canal is happening here and it's happening now. Chemicals is a big industry in New Jersey. There are dumps all over the state like Love Canal. Many have been covered over and abandoned and no one knows exactly where they all are. Chemical control was a small part of the overall problem but a lot of no one knows exactly what's stored in those 40000 steel drums there. No one knows how this stuff got there or where it came from. For generations New Jersey has trusted the chemical companies to dispose of their own waste safely and what they've done is to forget about them once they were off the company premises. That's not good enough either the state itself will have to get into the disposal business or the chemical companies the ones that produce the chemicals are going to have to take responsibility for cleaning up their own garbage. And at some central location where they can keep an eye on what they're doing this will cause a lot of money. So it is

cancer. I'm John McLaughlin. And the New Jersey finals of the great chicken cooking contest on which we reported yesterday you may recall were held today the winner today Sister Mary Agnes Connell of Trenton shown here earlier in the week whipping up what would prove to be the winning end for a something called Golden delight and described as jacket last fall. Sister Mary Agnes now takes her golden delight to South Carolina represent the Garden State of the National Chicken cooking contest in July. Couldn't happen to a nicer spring chicken. Next coming out of control. In our next Once upon a classic special a young boy meets an alien from outer space.

I'm Bill Bixby. Join me for the glitterball are next. Once upon a classic special here on PBS little by Saturday you know you are going to see public television. If New Jersey should ever pick up a poet laureate you would have to be a m Sullivan Sullivan from Montclair has been writing poetry about New Jersey for more than half a century. Much of his work celebrates the hills and streams of the northern part of the state. Monday night New Jersey Public Television will present the Sullivan reading his own work in a program called Songs of the most going to God. We have an excerpt from that film tonight begins with Sullivan's daughter talking about her father the bull. That is going to cure in 1896. He's the oldest of 12 a boy girl. That girl like to go back to Oxford and wander around. Remember the way it was. And. Talk to the people that go there that he knew.

There was something saying to me. God made the world. Said the girl. Or hearing through the picket fence.

God made the sky with a lad of four pointing high or evident and that was hard. God made my apple tree he said offering a windfall from the yard. God made the wind the young man said biting the apple bruised and red. And that was harder. God made me and he made you. He's dead cat dog bird. God made Himself. The lad replied stalking his shadow with these words. That's thought hardest thing to do the hardest thing of all. Where water flow across the dome thing could blow over knuckle bone and I told him I never have and if it had that time to write he was only busy with things that had to be done and he had endless outside interests they were literary

growth the Irish Guards the group. This is the boy I'm about a boy and the boy with me. Many years ago a boy on the crappies hangs by his knees swinging high ceilings low in the morning breeze blowing as fast going slow in an equal sum of space to go and time to where the swinging lad is a pendulum to move the slow gears of the season and turn the years that play concrete. And the boy with me many years ago. You're. You're. The river curves around my dog are the gravel bank. Get under my

door and build into the dank gave a little over a week glory to Russia. Oh I rang. Clear of ale and the rod and they all right. Rose at dawn beneath the bay and the morning the. Songs of the musk gong can be seen in its entirety. Monday night at 8:30 on New Jersey Public Television. Once again our top story is the Monmouth County prosecutor has named a narcotics strike force to get information about drug traffic in that county schools. The action follows the arrest two days ago of 53 Middletown junior high school students on drug charges. The defense today began its case in the labor racketeering trial of Teamsters boss Anthony Tony with the judge. So the government's case against him was weak. And the New Jersey automobile clubs as people have cut down on planning long car trips because of problems with gasoline

and that's the news we're back Isobel will rejoin me Monday night. I'm Clayton Vaughn. Good night for the New Jersey. New Jersey presentation of New Jersey Public Television 30. On Saturday and Sunday the program is broadcast at 6:00 p.m. both the New Jersey public television and on Channel 13. Portions are prerecorded.