NJ Nightly News: Sunday June 1, 1980; NJN News

Edward Kennedy is back campaigning hard for Tuesday's primaries. In sports the cosmos win their third shootout of the season over Washington and gypsy moths smother a small town in Burlington County. New Jersey 19. With Jack Kennedy. It's worth. It. Yesterday it was Ronald Reagan. Today was Edward Kennedy campaigning in New Jersey. Now in the final way of the race leading up to this Tuesday's big primaries Kerry is trying to prove the president Carter can't win the really important states crucial to any presidential ticket. Kerry feels that if he can make that case Tuesday in New Jersey California and Ohio delegates the Democratic National Convention will have to stand up and take notice. Today he took his campaign to Hasbrouck Heights read Wells reports. Kennedy arrived at this community center in Hasbrouck Heights nearly two hours late. The

crowd didn't have to merely stand around and wait. Kennedy's sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver drove over to this tiny Bergen County community and shook hands and signed autographs until her brother arrived. Unity flew in from Washington after an appearance on Face the Nation finally at 3 o'clock this afternoon as a limousine rolled up and the crowd went wild. Inside the community center the crowd was even more enthusiastic. Kennedy obviously really by the reception was upbeat and a stinging criticisms of President Carter were repeatedly interrupted by cheers and applause. Oh my God. My take was OK. God. Was thanks. Thanks.

It was thank God this meeting hall in Hasbrouck Heights was not air conditioned. Senator Kennedy was so quick. With the reception he got here. Kennedy is campaigning in Ohio this evening. He will fly back and spend the night with his sister in New York City. And then he says he'll campaign along the docks of new work tomorrow morning. Millions of gypsy moths are destroying trees and literally covering houses in Pemberton township in Burlington County because officials decided to ban the use of a controversial insecticide that may cause birth defects. Now those same officials have changed their minds. Manahan reports. The scene is reminiscent of an Alfred Hitchcock thriller The gypsy moths are climbing up the sides of the houses clinging to the bark of just about every tree in sight and swallowing up the leaves until the trees are there as they are in winter. If you stand still for a minute they climb up your feet and fall from the trees onto your clothing.

The rooftops the cars and the streets are covered with signs of the insects. Even as we spoke to some of the residents in the area of the tiny critters were all over us. If you don't see it and stay with it and they with it and get in the morning and phasing and that is one thing you can't leave it. I don't intend to see this again I don't know what I intend to do about it but I don't want to see it again because I cut my yard. And what job it only takes me now I have two hours to close to three to four and the reason being is that you're forever dodging nature. You should have a dodgy nature while you're standing in it every year early in May the state conducts a gypsy moth spraying program for areas that may be affected by the insects. The township decided a month ago not to spray the community with the controversy all insecticide seven because of recent concerns over a rash of birth defects in Cape May County which some have said may have been related to the spraying of seven in that area. Now the local residents desperately want Pemberton's braid but it may be too late in the year to effectively use the insecticide and the state mandates certain requirements before seven

can be sprayed. The Department of Environmental Protection and foreman of the culture have told us that we would have to go through the same process that we went through before holding on the public of the public hearing in the 21 day. Notice to the residents of the affected areas. The township is already done. I feel as though we should be either allowed to spray for self. And or else have the state community pray for tomorrow a township representative will ask for a decision from the State Department of Environmental Protection and agriculture. The mayor says if he doesn't get the OK right away to have the state or a private contractor come in and spray to go directly to the governor on Tuesday in Pemberton township I'm can't mount a hand Nourse fire department have both something to celebrate and something to regret. Today the celebration for the department's past the regrets for its future has read Wells now in Newark. There was an aura of excitement and all the trappings of a festive occasion. This was the scene

of the 13th annual parade of antique fire trucks which culminated in the unveiling of a plaque at the Newark museum dedicated to firemen who have lost their lives in fire. All of the antique fire apparatus entered the event has been maintained or restored to perfect working order and fire engine buffs from all over the state converged on Newark for the festivities. But on the other side of town the mooted Engine Company Number two was somber. The city effective today demoted 33 men and is dismantling three engine company. Engine Company Number two is located less than a block from the city's largest taxpayer and nearly 500000 people work in the five block area around this firehouse. But this engine company was in process of packing it in today. This truck is being taken out of service and the men who man it will be transferred to other firehouse. 33 men in Newark 900 member fire department will be demoted from officer status to rank and file firefighters.

It's terrible to see them in the companies especially the 33 superior officers being demoted if they study for years to have a chance to be promoted. And what the Farlow do you know the workload that we have and the work they should be closing any companies are you Elaine anybody off in the money Bunny the fire the rector was ordered to make cuts by to visit administrators office. What figure of something like $600000. And I first started talking about laying off 55 firefighters but we presented some arguments against that. And with the help of the director and counseling to not lay any firemen off but there are them on 33 people many of the men being demoted say the city was making these cutbacks in the fire department out of spite. The firemen won an arbitration recently which cost the city $600000. The firemen now say the city is trying to get even by ordering $600000 in manpower cuts. City officials deny those charges. The city's business administrator said budget cuts had to be made in the fire department because the federal government cut back on its aid to the cities and Newark was one of the biggest losers.

In any event City officials say they do not plan to restore cuts in the immediate future. And in the meantime firefighters point out that more than 20 people died in fires in Newark last year. And as recently as last week Newark had to call in other communities to help fight. Newark fire. In Newark. I'm right well. New Jersey's chancellor of Higher Education says inferior achievement scores for incoming college freshman may be turning around. Edward Hollander says there's been some stability in the test scores over the last two years and he predicts they may actually improve when the new batch of freshman enroll this fall. In recent years students admitted to New Jersey State Colleges scored within the lowest range of the Scholastic Aptitude aptitude test or as a tease. Hollander says that's been a friend all over the country. He says lately the most able students have been scoring lower than they did 10 to 15 years ago. But he says New Jersey's basic skills test has been a response to that.

While test scores may be improving the incidence of violence in the schools has not. The problem has many educators worried and parents alarmed. But our education commentator Dr. David Weiss Shell says it's time to realize that while some schools are very dangerous most are not. School violence has emerged as a major topic in New Jersey Education the topic however has prompted a variety of responses none of which seem appropriate. On the one hand the State Education Department had required a report of each incident be made to the state agency. Unfortunately the reports came back in such a varied way that they were difficult to assess. Some proved to be duplicate others came on verified and the statistics represented only one year. No data exists for other years. For some the system seemed high and alarming. Some school boards panicked tackling a problem with elaborate alarm systems or uniformed security guards. Thankfully the experiments with

watchdogs have stopped. There's another problem too. All that talk I give parents and the general public the idea that all schools are having problems. To be sure some schools are dangerous places but they are relatively few in number. Obviously they must be made safe for both students and teachers but for the vast majority of New Jersey schools incidents of violence are the exception. Such occurrences deserve immediate attention and action. They do not deserve pre-occupation extensive discussion about this issue probably will continue. It does indeed make for a good speech. But the question over kill may be setting in an educator I spoke to recently noted. If I hear another word about school violence or vandalism I think I'll hit someone. So much for school violence. I'm Dr. David Weiss shuttle. Well the first day of June could have started off better. We had sunny skies warm temperatures with highs in the 80s. But some clouds could roll in towards evening though with a chance of

showers or thunderstorms possible tonight. Lows will be in the 60s. Well partly cloudy skies tomorrow and it will be very warm and very humid. Temperatures will be in the mid to upper 80s and the outlook for Tuesday partly cloudy warm. Now here sports with Bill mon bill a big day for the Cosmos.

It certainly was Jack and what an exciting game of soccer at JFK Stadium in Washington for the third time this season the cosmos went to a shootout and for the third time they won the cosmos beat Washington today two to one with and with a cosmos of yet to lose a game since tennis wise Wyler came on as coach. With just over 22 minutes left in the first half. Washington scored first on a Johan Cruyff header but the goal was wiped out on an offside infraction on the replay. We see a perfectly placed corner kick by Joe Horvath Croyde gets good position and heads it in. About five minutes later the diplomats drew a penalty kick and beat Burke and Miller to put in put Washington up 1 zip in the second half with 33 minutes remaining Georgiou canal you tied things up at one apiece. As we take another look we see that George O is moving toward the goal. He takes a pass from Carlos Alberto and it goes that was canal used 500 career goal to sudden death overtime periods followed after tiebreaking attempts failed in regulation. The score still not at one after overtime the game went into a shootout on the diplomat's third attempt Marcantonio missed by inches as the

ball bounced off the board finally Ladislav bogus of its came to the line. His kick was good and it was all over for Washington. The diplomats had another goal called back because of interference in the second half. Again it was the cosmos with the win two to one in a shootout. Well the Yankees game winning home run came off the bat of Reggie Jackson in the 11th last night against Toronto in a physics final but that wasn't the only shot of the night involving Jackson. About 2:00 this morning Reggie got in an argument with a 25 year old Manhattan man over a parking space. A heated discussion followed and two bystanders came to Jackson's aid the 25 year old Angel Vieira fled and Jackson and the two other an unidentified persons chased after him. Police said Vieira pulled out a 38 caliber gun and fired three shots at the trio. All three shots missed. The Arab was arrested the Yanks be Toronto this afternoon. Eleven to seven. Fighting both the rain head the threat of darkness the NJ FIA managed to complete the 1980 high school track and field championships the boys and girls competed at Rutgers stadium yesterday in the boys group one Pau

Mara took first place followed by Roselle Park and Florence in group 2 Derek Roberts claim to first place is to help Clifford Scott when Scott had four first overall Monmouth high school plays by Greg Maurice was the winner in the boys group 3. Maurice won the 110 intermediate hurdles and the 400 meter hurdles in group 4. It was Plainfield high would score the most points all day with a total of 36. Plainfield won the 400 meter race the 16 hundred relay and the long jump over in the girls division in group 1. Highland Park scored a whopping 53 points to take first place followed by Bernard and Clayton Haddon Heights was the winner in group 2 with 28 points. Kathy Rankin's walked away with three firsts in the 100 yard dash the 200 and the long jump Long Branch High took first place in Group Three with four individual first places. Would play second followed by Randolph an in-group for willing Barlow led by Carroll Lewis took first place position with a total of 34 points Lewis won the long jump and 100 yard low

hurdles. Plainfield in Montclair followed with 23 and 18 points respectively here we see Carol's jump of 18 feet 8 inches. Her best jump ever was 21 4 and this was the first time the boys and girls competed at the same site. Things are quite hectic and the effect was felt by the athletes. I asked Carol what it was like to prepare for a meet like this one you don't know where but I get there because there are a lot of events here now all running together and I just finished a hard over how they went through long ago and if they would have been for about 100 more trials I want to do that right in the middle too. So you have to like me already to do everything at once. You find that that has a bad effect on you. Preparing for each event psychologically and not like a lot of us physically because after the hurdle that you know I ran I ran hard you know and I was pretty tired to go into the pit. And what would a Girls Track Meet be without Columbia's Joetta Clark. She coasted to an easy win in the 800 meter run in a time of two all four point five 11 seconds better

than teammate and second place finisher Gayle Bryant age 11. How about a meet that combines both boys and girls at the same site. It was a good idea to begin with a lot of the day and night day. I think the movie man. Well OK Joe whether you had an excellent performance here today even though no one was right behind you pushing you. I don't know what happened with not requirement but it was my best time to be able to approach them. It's bed time and if I did it here OK Jack that's the shape of sports back to you. Thank you Bill. It's been some times as novelist George Orwell wrote 1984 a totally negative vision of the way things might be just four years from now. Orwell's characters live the frightening existence in a police state where they were watched constantly and stripped of all freedom to disagree. In short they were robots living a surreal existence in a very real world. But just how real well Orwell's world be in 1984. Reporter Spencer Michaels and

WGBH TV in Boston has some thoughts on. Right code day in a box. Thank you Becky. That's the eerie beginning of 1984. A gloomy picture of a negative utopia that foresees a regimented totally repressive society of the future where individual ality of human beings is a thing of the past. The dominating symbol of 1984 is big brother constantly watching forcing permitting no deviation is omnipresent weapon the telescreen there is no way of shutting it off completely telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment how often or on what system the thought police plugged in on any individual was guess what was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time.

You had to live did live from habit came instinct in the assumption that every sound you made was ever had and except in Dr S every movement scrutinised. Such devices exist of course today. Their stated purpose of security in 1084 children become monsters. A far cry from today's specimen of children was systematically turned against their parents and talk to spy on them and report the deviations. The family had become in effect an extension of the thought police. The art of nursery rhymes becomes lost and only the party can remember the words are inches and lemon said the bells of St. Clemens. You Emmy three farthings say the bells of St. Martin's. Today's children of course keep old traditions alive. Or do they think we decree got the mass right and caught. Near. Lake Titicaca the well trained gun can go into town how would you like your art. I think I

can. Oh Little Piggy was born on a hill in 1984 the freedom to disagree so obvious on the streets of 1980 is gone. Hatred not an unknown emotion these days is institutionalized in the Two Minutes Hate a hideous ecstasy of debt and vindictiveness a desire to kill to torture to smash faces in with a sledgehammer seem to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current cutting one even against one's will into a grimacing screaming lunatic. I even had a hit song roared out by hundreds of voices to the tramp of marching feet it was terrifying. America has its own hate songs these days but they contain something unknown in 1904 as Oceana humor. There mister are you know we know you call us young black. How. About if you will be. Like yourself young man. The one

on the asylum Yeah there's gonna be an all slicked back where the man you see me with Big Brother Looking on How could any deviation be allowed yet. Orwell allows pornography to thrive in 1984 upon a sick subsection of the fiction to attend cheap anaglyph A for distribution among the pros. It was nicknamed muck house by the people who worked in it. Titles like spanking stories for one night in the girls school to be bought furtively by proletarian youths who were under the impression that they were buying something illegal. The probables the vast majority of our welly in society were not subjected to the unforgiving rules that enslaved Party members were. They could drink beer do what they wanted. The others toiled in faceless monolithic buildings rewriting history every prediction made by the party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct. Nor was any item of news or an expression of opinion which conflicted with the needs of the

moment ever allowed to remain on the record. It was not even forgery. It was merely the substitution of one piece of nonsense for another. Every facet of life was controlled from sex for procreation. Our duty to the party to exercise in knowledge is the physical jerks. Thirty to 40 group take up places please. Anyone under 45 is perfectly capable of touching his toes. We don't all have the privilege of fighting in the front line but at least we can all keep fit America in the 1980s is not 1984 despite its obvious failings and flaws. If you want a picture of the future your rights are well imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever. It may seem hard to believe these days but teacher strikes are a relatively new phenomenon. It

was not until the hectic turbulent days of the 60s that militant teachers unions were able to convince a normally conservative occupational group to hit the bricks of negotiations with the school board broke down. Such strikes of course are illegal. Teachers face fines and jail sentences if they refuse to cross the picket line. Here in New Jersey teachers strikes have become merely a rite of fall. A disturbing reminder that teachers and school boards can no longer agree on who should run the schools that will educate a future generation of Americans. Last week reporter Karen Stone took a closer look at the problem. And tonight we repeat that report. Teacher strikes are never pleasant. They're the kind of thing just about everybody would like to avoid. They're also illegal in the past writing teachers are routinely ignored injunctions and other court decisions ordering them back to work and on more than one occasion striking teachers have been sent to jail. But it's children who are the real losers in a teacher strike. No matter which side is right or wrong the end

result is the same for a period of days weeks or even months. They cannot go to school. State Sen. Frank Dodd has proposed changes in the laws that prohibit teacher strikes under the Dodd plan. Teachers who violate and injunctions or court back to work orders would not be sent to jail as they can now. Instead striking teachers would be fined from 25 to $500 a day and teachers unions would have to pay anywhere from 1000 to $50000 for each day. They're on strike. Octavius Reed is the associate executive director of the New Jersey School Boys Association a group that supports the Dodd bill and either Fenton is a teacher. She's also vice president of the New Jersey Education Association which opposes the measure. History Why does the New Jersey schoolboys Association support this bill. Well clearly I think the reason is for the same reason that the governor would not like to see teachers go to jail and the reason why I think the general public does not agree with that concept.

It's our feeling that one of the things that's happened as a result of strikes is that when the teachers union has decided to violate an injunction against that strike that the penalty than it has been imposed in jail. Now the concern of school boards in seeking that injunction has been to get the teachers to return to the classroom in effect to decrease the amount of time that they're away from the kids. But the penalty in the past has been to penalize them for not being in the classroom is to be incarcerate them and allow them to be away from the play kids even longer. That seems to defeat its original purpose of what we're looking for is something that eliminates that as an option and to stick solely with fines which is already an option that judges have in this for the Riders of the Association of Teachers of alcohol is such a bill a bill that would prevent teacher from being sent to jail obviously to have had a pleasant place to be. You know that's not a very pleasant place. But I think it's under our Shammai thing help to teachers and students. Because the defining as Ted said is already in the process judges have the options to do that now and in some cases they do

in some cases they don't. I there's nothing here that really would end the impasse of a bar any settlement. There are no measures to improve the recalcitrant board's ability to negotiate when they simply do not negotiate. There's nothing in the bill to work out any kind of a labor solution that would be favorable to the climate of the school. This is strictly punitive and we don't think it can work. What are teachers looking for them. Well of course we do have and had had a bill in which it is our what we call or due process Bill a chance or we would have our day to go to court to explain our side of the schoolyard and possibly the alternative after a very lengthy step very likely steps would be to withhold services. Reaction and certainly I'd love to get back to you but I think the response really had nothing to do with what the bill is involved with. First of all the bill is not proposed as a deterrent to strikes. It will not deter strikes and it will not encourage strikes or to discuss that issue is to toss up a strawman straw

man. When we talk about shams we talk about the business of kind of a process is there to bring the entire bargaining process to some sort of a conclusion. Well there are provisions in the law for instance if a board is not violating the law if it's not bargaining in good faith. We have a legal structure the public employees Relations Commission referred to as perks and a board or the employee group can go to them file an unfair practice complaint. And if indeed the board is found guilty of that then there is a remedy a remedy that isn't forcible through the courts in terms of their water. They don't deal with that issue. I can imagine and I find it totally incredulous that anyone would want to suggest that they would want to oppose a piece of legislation that would prevent them from going to jail and leave the only option but know that fines are pretty stiff and right they couldn't they really break the Treasury. Robert clearly we're talking about the maximum fine not the minimum. Well when the maximum is placed there. I mean if it's going to be any caring for people to withhold everything I'm sure that judge would would then go to probably the maximum fine. You're right it would it would break teachers vaccinating their treasuries it would break Association and it

is really an anti-Labor anti-teacher bill. I think there's something that we likely point out here and that is strikes in effect by violating that injunction is not the only thing that's at issue it's the fact that strikes are not authorized in law in this state and as a result judges have said they're not legal. So teachers are breaking the law. I'm afraid we're going to have to leave it there but thank you very much. Recapping our top stories. Senator Edward Kennedy makes a last ditch effort to upset President Carter in this Tuesday's presidential primaries in New York City firemen are upset over recent demotions and their department and the gypsy moth may have found a permanent home in Pemberton unless the state intervenes. And that's our report for this Sunday. Bill moron. I'm Jack Hardy. Thanks for watching. Good night. Jersey night is a joint presentation of the New Jersey public television would you

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