New Jersey Nightly News; New Jersey Nightly News Episode from 07/16/1981

Here's Don Torrance. Good evening the Casino Control Commission is predicting a financial emergency for the state's casino industry. The Cosmos a preview of the Meadowlands pace in the summer National's All in sports with Bill Perry. And we'll take a closer look at some New Jerseyans who are using natural energy in their unusual homes. The New Jersey Casino Control Commission says a state of financial emergency could develop in the state's casino industry if the controversial blackjack surrender option is reinstated. The commission had voted just yesterday to allow the controversy or rule to be reinstated. South Jersey correspondent Dan Hobson has more on the apparently contradictory actions. Six weeks ago the Casino Control Commission agreed to allow casinos to stop offering the blackjack surrender option. The option allows the gambler to give up just half his bet and drop out if he thinks he's going to lose the hand. No final decision has been made yet on whether surrender will be eventually allowed. But yesterday the Control Commission decided they had acted illegally by letting casinos reject their surrender option before the hearing was completed.

They say they should have asked the governor to declare a state of financial emergency in order to put a temporary ban on surrender. That's what they did today I think was unusual for a government agency to say we made a mistake and we have to fix it and we realize that fixing it. We're going to create some. Some turmoil some confusion. But I think. That. The agency to deal honestly with an error that the founders have made is much more is more important than the law. In order for the governor to declare a financial emergency he has to be convinced that allowing surrender would be detrimental to the public health safety or welfare. Golden Nugget president Shannon Bybee explained why allowing surrender would constitute such a financial emergency rooms a situation in which none of the Casino Control Commission. Permitted the player to have an edge against the house. In view of the losses which have been reported in the industry in the first quarter. And. Other problems with the profitability of the casinos.

This was creating an adverse climate for investment and for people putting their money into the casino industry in Atlantic City commissioners does not favor the surrender option. But he's the only Casino Control Commission who voted against asking for a financial emergency. I heard one witness who would have said oh I have a hotel casino project I will not build if you do not do this today then I would have voted in with the majority. But I did not hear that I heard all the conjecture and prediction that was not sufficient for me to find that there was an imminent peril. So now it's up to the governor. If he does not sign the declaration by tomorrow at 10:00 then surrender will once again be legal in Atlantic City casinos at least until a final determination is made then probably in September. Late this afternoon a spokesman for Governor Vern said that he had not decided yet whether or not he would sign the measure but also that it was not likely that the governor would sign the measure before 10 o'clock tomorrow. Okay that means there could be some very busy blackjack stables and tell a dozen adeptly doubled in Atlantic City. Dan hots.

The two week strike by Garden State Parkway toll collectors and maintenance workers may be over the 650 member union will vote tomorrow morning on a tentative contract agreement reached after a marathon 48 hour negotiating session. The job action began July 2nd Parkway workers say they want parity with New Jersey Turnpike workers who make over a dollar an hour more. Parkway toll collectors could be back on the job by tomorrow night if the pact is approved. Neither side would discuss the terms of the agreement until it is approved. A deal to prevent Camden from laying off 30 policemen and 17 firemen has fallen through so those public servants will be out of work at least through January. The fiscally strapped city had asked the bargaining units representing city workers to approve a deal deferring some benefits for three weeks. Now that would have saved enough money to keep those police and firemen on the job. Well four units accepted the proposal. The two rejections came from the police and the firemen. The city hopes it will have saved enough money by January to hire the police and firefighters back. For the first time in three years there's no drilling for oil or natural gas off the coast of Atlantic City.

Exxon announced today that it has given up for the time being looking for commercial quantities of fuel in the Baltimore Canyon 100 miles east of Atlantic City. Earlier this month its drilling rig Alaskan star drilled its sixth and last dry hole. That rig is now been moved to new beds off the coast of New England 21 dry holes have been drilled off the Jersey coast so far. The New Jersey based grocery chain has admitted to 2.4 million dollars in coupon fraud village supermarket incorporated in Springfield the 14th largest chain in the nation and that it submitted a discount food coupons to manufacturers for refunds even though the chain didn't get those coupons through sales of the manufacturers items. The company pleaded guilty in federal court to 50 counts including fraud and faces a maximum fine of $50000 village owns 21 Shoprite supermarkets in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Aerial spraying of the pesticide modify and has stirred up a political storm in California where there's an infestation of fruit flies. But no such controversy has arisen in other states including here in New

Jersey where farmers and gardeners have counted on that pesticide for years now. Tom Stewart has more. The threat Mediterranean fruit flies posed to California's crops prompted emergency mollifying spraying there this week leaving many residents worried about the risk of exposure. Some of that suspicion has spread to New Jersey. Despite the pesticides record is one of the safest in use. The problem in California one does wonder about just how much is sprayed and basically because I ate them before I washed them while I was picking them. But for the most part mollifying enjoys a good reputation in New Jersey. In fact you can walk into most garden and lawn supplies stores and buy it right off the shelf. And farmers have been spraying it on crops here for years. It's used for maybe killing the maggots most of all and we have a lot of problems with that. And every 10 days that be sprayed. OK if you didn't have that it would never be really crap you know. It's just the way it's always been you know for years and years and years and we never ever had any complaints or anything like that.

Well asylum is also commonly used to control mosquitoes spraying opponents contend the pesticide may be a cancer causing agent. But most experts agree it causes no known health problems. People New Jersey have been using it for the last 20 years and we've never had any to my knowledge any kind of advice in fact human health or the environment. Just the same the Agriculture Department cautions users of malice ion to follow carefully the instructions printed on the label. In Vincent Allen Burlington County I'm Tom steward. A New Jersey has long been known to have one of the highest cancer death rates in this country but according to a new study done by Rutgers University researchers that's all changing. Susan Moss explains. People used to get to the country to raise a family. Researchers their study shows living in the country does not reduce your chances of getting cancer. In fact the gap between death rates in urban and rural areas. One reason I think is migration of people from the cities to the suburbs.

But I think probably the more important reason is the fact that the suburban population has essentially an urban lifestyle and lifestyle is very similar to those people living in the central cities and therefore one would expect them to have a similar pattern of disease. And Professor Greenberg is popular nationwide not just in the Garden State every day. But the most significant development is the shift in population groups most susceptible to cancer deaths nationwide have risen most sharply among black men in the New Jersey area the mortality rate rose from two hundred eighteen to two hundred fifty eight hundred thousand residents and from a hundred fifty to two hundred twenty six per hundred thousand nationally from one thousand fifty to nine hundred seventy five researchers don't know exactly why the numbers are so high but they think survival rates are lower in white men and women because black men don't seek medical attention early enough. Meanwhile white women who had the highest cancer death rate in the

1930s now show the most dramatic decrease overall the death rate among women has either dropped or stabilized within the next decade. Professor Greenberg predicts cancer death rates will be the same across the country. Unfortunately what that may mean is that not only New Jersey but the entire nation will have the dubious distinction of being known as Cancer Alley in Newark. I'm Susan a Sloss. Drug use among New Jersey high school students is a most pervasive problem. That's a polite way a new report announces that two thirds of high school students polled say they have used illicit drugs at one time or another. The report was compiled by Attorney General James Ali's office and is the first statewide study of drug use in the high schools. Alcohol and marijuana led the list of the drugs most frequently used and most available drugs listed next in popularity are amphetamines cocaine and hallucinogens and half the almost 2000 students polled said they had used drugs during school hours. Governor Byrne has that report now. Kreskin the magician mentalist an entertainer would

like to put the whammy on the state Supreme Court's decision to allow testimony of taint under hypnosis Kreskin who's from West Caldwell in Essex County says hypnotism is just a lot of hocus pocus and he claims it should not be used as a questioning technique in New Jersey court cases. Well to prove his point today he selected 10 subjects and asked them to call traumatic past events one upon later questioning most of their stories were not true. Reston said this is because someone concentrating within a relaxed state of mind which is all hypnotism and intends is can conjure up fabricated incidents especially if those are more vivid. Kaplan says hypnotism is being given more credit than it deserves. The court's decision is happening. Information is no more reliable by that technique than any other method we know. Why should it be brought into court and being given the stamp of approval. Leave it out of the courts. In their ruling Tuesday the justices said the testimony obtained under hypnosis is admissible in a trial only a strict safeguards are employed. All the umpires yelled play ball

today about motion for baseball several dozen contestants turned out to play Bochy ball during practice trials for next month's tournament in Lynn Hurst has the score. Mayor Joseph of Lyndhurst Mayor Dick Moe love Elmwood Park. The mayor of Cliffside Park Carol calibration and Nick Corbett celo the mayor of Fort Lee rolled a few bouncy balls for practice today. It was a combination practice and photo session and some of the photographers even got caught up in the gestures of the game. Ten other North Jersey mayors all of Italian extraction will also participate in the World Series of bacci ball next month. They come from the Neapolitan side of the Italians and they would play a game. Teams would said it would be set up and then the Lewises they would pay for one usually And sometimes the winners of the playoffs in New Jersey and Connecticut will play the bunchy kings of Brooklyn in September. And you don't have to be Italian or a politician to play. But organizers say it helps to play Bochy ball in the spirit of deadly serious fun.

Well this is the baseball strike as I'm going to have to look for alternatives and perhaps the the botching area might be a way we can move to New Jersey bunchy ball eliminations begin in Lyndhurst on August night. Ideally the court has a clay surface and the object of the game is to get the wooden balls as close as possible to the smaller ball or a lino. But in every game of sport someone always seems to improvise in Lyndhurst. I read Wells is a deadly serious look at the weather forecast and I will be fair with temperatures in the low 60s tomorrow should be partly sunny with temperatures in the upper 80s and the outlook for Saturday the weekend partly sunny and warm. Most Americans share the same goals for this land we inhabit. We want a clean protected environment that

also supplies plenty of energy to fuel our cars or heat our homes. Well those goals aren't always compatible. In tonight's closer look producer Robbie honing it I follow some New Jerseyans who are charting a different future one in which nature provides plenty of clean energy for their unusual homes. Solar architect Doug Kildow thinks it's only a matter of time before rising fuel prices visibly affect architectural style. This is one of the first passive solar homes in the U.S. built almost eight years ago soon after the oil embargo. And while prices have soared the energy bill for this house last winter was just $75 Kildow walks to work in Princeton where his firm deals exclusively in energy conscious buildings. He and four other architects continue to refine techniques first used in Cal Those own home which has been widely published. Whatever the project is producer Robby Hoenig learned a concern for energy efficiency does influence his design. The fact that the building tends to be stretched down from east to west. I have a lot of grass on the south have a lot of thermal mass in the form of Masonry inside the building.

To insulate buildings more carefully on the on side to make the skin of the building a little thicker and better insulated. To induce ventilation this summer has some impact on the shape of the building. So there are architectural constraints the energy brings to building design. But they liberate and I think enrich the architecture. We have not found a conflict between good design and energy efficient design in fact we find they want together and augment each other and were able to create we think richer subtler more livable more comfortable environments because of an energy consciousness. The Green House adds natural beauty while allowing the sun's heat to flow into the house. Water barrels and overhead fins are part of the passive solar system but the primary feature is a specially coated wall called the Trump wall which absorbs and distributes solar heat into the living area so an existing home can be enlarged by a passive solar addition. A battle

family in Princeton found that solar features cut their heating costs while blending well with the older architecture. Now those most recent work uses softer design lines. But energy efficiency is just as important. This house nearing completion occupies a standard of 100 by 200 foot lock in the touch and it's pretty much in the middle of the site but it follows the lay of the ground as you can see steps down a couple of feet so that the building hugs the ground. Which is another way to keep the loss down and to keep a billing cooler in the summer. All passive buildings tend to be closely tailored to their site customizing the Cisco house raise the price but solar rising added only marginal cost like installing a hot water heater over the entryway. The economy comes from an estimated fuel bill that's one fifth of what a normal house this size would consume. So how does. This block wall which is solid and covered with delays the arrival of

heat about 18 hours so that the hottest noonday sun doesn't arrive to the interface on this wall until about 9:00 in the evening after the sun is sad and when the building is started to cool down and then you get a radiant heat a fireplace reduces the work of a small conventional first during winter and in summer a ceiling fan pulls warm air up and out of the house. Some things you can do in the city or the suburbs you have to move out into the countryside. It could land you in a home that looks out of this world but is really down to earth. Former suburbanite Frankfurt caso wants to bring people back to nature or even embrace nature just as he is embrace by the Earth and this underground solar home in Sussex County. The circular dome house set into a hillside uses three subsurface greenhouses to supply heat and light inside the home for a cost as designed as given in food and shelter. The basic means of survival is failing. Sufficient and this is a family more and more self-sufficient we have reached a certain level right now. We're here

by rotating a crop that is compatible with the season. And we have bells. Therefore we creating our own energy system. Two common elements. Earth and Sun supply natural energy sources. In summer the earth was gradually cooled in the water actually helps cool the submerged living area. When it's hot outside the greenhouses are partially open but closed again when it's cold to store solar energy. Opening double sliding glass doors brings in heat by natural convection when needed in winter time. Forgot his concept. It's natural and spacious has basically no limits that we know of and we can. Have an advantage over the economic situation because we don't have the burdens of other people that live in conventional houses they have to pay high heating cost high taxes and maintenance costs and so on.

His wife Josephine enjoys the open kitchen the central living areas flow into each other surrounded by a ring of four bedrooms. There's five thousand square feet of living space and another 7000 square feet of greenhouses. It cost eighty thousand dollars to build a home three years ago less than a conventional house this size they don't need a furnace just a wood stove but they still buy electricity someday for caso plans to install a windmill to make his own power that will move him even closer to true independence. It's very important to take advantage of the natural forces because they're actually free to belong to everybody. You don't have to buy them or you have to use a little bit of creativity on your part. And utilize them for your benefit such as we do here by taking advantage of the sun and the earth the earth being the moderator and the sun being generating energy. Environmental architecture allows a homeowner to live not very differently than the rest of us while offering an option to reduce dependence on traditional forms of energy. What is different is the way the home or building is integrated into the environment and the volume of non renewable energy it uses up

and will have sports with Mr Bill Perry when we return. A. Busy Bill Perry with tonight's Sports Bill. Thank you Dan. The Cosmo's are one win away from their second straight transatlantic Cup Tournament Championship in the title game Sunday night at Giants Stadium. Well it's going to be an all NASL affair of the Seattle Sounders in the cosmos will battle it out and if the game ends in a tie the title will go to

Seattle because of total goals thus far in the tournament so the Kosmos need an outright win the two foreign teams enter to both go into the cosmos and Seattle are two Uno the two NASL teams have wins over the Scottish Glasgow Celtic team and Southampton of England last night with the cosmos two to one over Southampton after a scoreless first half before twenty nine thousand at Giants Stadium 22 minutes into the second half one nothing kosmos Georgios goal bogey and remember all the assists then just three minutes later Cosmo's make it 2 0. Chico boy how will get the goal off the nice feed from Bogey the rookie from Bellville. And with five minutes left in the match Southampton job gel spoiled Hubert Burke and Myers shut up at the Kosmos going to one. It's the Meadowlands place tomorrow night at where else the Meadowlands the field is set. Computers are the favorite and Trista Gaspar's has part one of our two part preview right here. Originally there were 88 but after last Friday's elimination race the field has narrowed down to 12 horses and drivers. The event the one million dollar

Meadowlands pace last weekend the draw for post positions was held on the rail will be Bill O'Donnell driving computer who was Friday night. Favorite if you like a race horse you never raced much your last year is a two year old and this year you are going to radio west coast should you come to the east coast and really come on. They just keep getting better stronger and more easy to manage. He's going to be like a top notch at the Meadowlands. I'm Trista Gaspar. Now I always thought the tree. But at the Summer Nationals at Raceway Park in Englishtown the trees have lights a little bit of information which certainly enriched my life. Dan when Pat was at the opening qualifying session today of the 12th Annual Drag racing. Returns the right color. Then it's time to go. That's exactly how it went to qualifying today the Summer Nationals categories roar down the quarter mile stretch as the quest to reach Sunday's final and one of the favorites.

Don the snake protocol. Summertime summer national competition park in Englishtown and the fastest everything just makes for a good and funny car racing and then we have a pretty good handle on what we hear although we're into this new year and I have to say this afternoon the snake's crew worked feverishly repairing a $10 park that shut down the $20000 engine that's where the importance of the racing crew comes in. Right now change the motor and the car and it's very important you know it's like a team football team baseball team Its teamwork. On Sunday don't be surprised. Thanks boys. Six summer national 25 time they sleep hard. I've had skin. And tennis today the fifth annual Governors Cup tennis tournament at more than 32 companies from around the state participated in round robin play those companies raised

$350000 that money goes to support the Robert F. Kennedy Foundation to help underprivileged kids spokes person and tennis enthusiastic Ethel Kennedy said these New Jersey businessmen are some of the toughest on the court. They are one if a player here two years ago went to the finals at Forest Hills. So. New Jersey should be very very proud. And the winning companies today were E.F. Hutton and SmithKline they advance to that competition this year at Forest Hills boxing tonight at ICE world in total us be a lightweight title fight between Patterson's Curtis Harrison James Martinez of Dallas is the headliner in the New Jersey Open golf tournament after the second round Bucky Earhart who led it after the first round Bucky from Atlantic City has a 139 total 3 under par today at an even par 71 for others one back. Hero with even the worst round of his career is worth a

180. Caldwell college in Essex County is offering a unique summer school program for children these days. Reports it's designed to show youngsters that television involves more than just watching your favorite program. For many kids television is simply a box you watch people talk to you and the pictures are nice. Sister Vivian is trying to change that image through an experimental two week workshop here. TV is not a passive medium that requires a lot of active participation with the camera. When the children are in front of the camera they're in the classroom learning other basic TV skills like how to

apply TV makeup in this case how to look like a clown. And all indications are this course has been productive. You know I like the more I watch it more carefully than I did when I don't watch TV. Why. Because I'm not afraid to be free. You have to keep going over things over and over again until it's perfect so it's a lot of work. As you know for some youngsters the workshop has opened up a whole new career newscasting business like New Jersey nightly news and all that would be something for me to do later on in life. Look out John Torrance in Caldwell. I'm Susan Moss. Barkley is too short to see over the desk otherwise I'd be in big trouble. That is the news for Bill Perry on down times good night from all of us at New Jersey nightly news tonight.