New Jersey Nightly News; New Jersey Nightly News Episode from 07/16/1981 6:30 pm

Here is 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 Hodgson has more on the apparently contradictory actions. Yes 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. The agency to deal honestly with an error the fact that it made as much more is more important in the long run. 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. It's a situation in which the. Rule 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 a new and adverse climate for investment and for people putting their money into the casino industry in Atlantic City 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 said I have a hotel casino project. I will not build it if you do not do this today. Then I would have voted in the majority. But I did not hear that I heard all the conjecture and protection. That was not sufficient for me. If either 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 stand surrender will once again be legal in Atlantic City casinos at least until a final determination is made. Stan Lee in September now and late this afternoon a spokesman for Governor Burns 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 tables until he does win a definite double digit lead a city named Dan hots of the two week strike by Garden State Parkway toll

collectors and maintenance workers maybe over 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. 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 of 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 is 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. But Reg is now been moved to new beds off the coast of New England. What he wants dry holes have been drilled off the Jersey coast so far. A 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 manufactories 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 modifying 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 on 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 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 a day every 10 days they have to be sprayed. OK if you didn't have that it would have been a 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. Malice island 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 kind of adverse effects. Human health or the environment. Just the same the Agriculture Department cautions users of malice to follow carefully the instructions printed on the label in Vincent town 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 with a good life 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 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 a lifestyle Professor Greenberg claims is popular nationwide not just in the Garden State. Smoking fast every day stress and hazardous work. 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 area the mortality rate rose from 200 to 250 per 100000 residents and from one hundred fifty to two hundred twenty six hundred thousand nationally from one thousand fifty two thousand 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 1980s 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 the 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. 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's Supreme Court's decision to allow testimony of 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 bolt from matic past events. When upon later questioning most of their stories were not true. Preston said this is because someone concentrating with in a relaxed state of mind which is all hypnotism of intent is can conjure up fabricated incidents especially if those are more that it happens as 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 on the Empire's 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 Lyndhurst Wells has the score. Mayor Joseph Hurst Mayor Dick Moe love Elmwood Park. The mayor of Cliffside Park Carol calibration and Nick Corbett Selo 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 wine usually and sometimes with 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 look for alternatives and perhaps the botching

area might be a way we can move to New Jersey bunchy ball eliminations begin in Lyndhurst on August 9th. 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 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. But 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 Elbot 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 Intel Those own home which has been widely published. Whatever the project is producer Robbie 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 glass on the south. I 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 in the summer has some impact on the shape of a building. So there are architectural constraints that energy brings to building design. Point 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. An existing home can be enlarged by a passive solar addition. The 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 lot 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 it growing 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 costs 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. More than the. 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 this fall until about 8:00 in the evening after the sun is set and 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't 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 even embrace nature just as he is embraced by the Earth and this underground solar home in Sussex County. The circular don't House set into a hillside uses three subsurface greenhouses to supply heat and light inside the home for CASA was designed as given in food and shelter. The basic means of survival. It's a fabulous feeling to. Make Ourselves official and this is a family. More and more self-sufficient we have reached a certain level right now. We're

here basically by rotating a crop that is compatible with the season. And we have eliminated or else. Therefore we creating our own energy system. Two common elements. Earth and Sun supply natural energy sources. In summer the earth was gradually cool during the winter actually helps cool the submerged walls and 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 for council calls his concept of living. It's natural and spacious has basically no limits. 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 that have to pay high heating costs high taxes cost 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 cost $80000 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 and belong to everybody. You don't have to buy them or you have a little bit of creativity on your part and you'll benefit by taking advantage of the sun and the earth the earth being the moderator and a 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 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 and 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 cosmos need an outright win the two foreign teams enter to both go into the cosmos and Seattle are 2 1 0 the 2 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 cosmos Georgios goal bogey and remember all the assists then just three minutes later Cosmo's make it 2 0 she go ball how will get the ball off the nice feed from bogey. The rookie from Bellville and with five minutes left in the match Southampton job blah Chelsea boiled Hubit book in my ear shot up at the cosmos 1 2 1. It's the Meadowlands pace tomorrow night at where else the Meadowlands the field is set. Computers 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's favorite horse ever as much your last year as the tour this year in the West Coast. Did he really just keep getting better stronger and you know. He's going to be at the Meadowlands. I'm Trista Gasper Now I always thought the Summer Nationals at Raceway Park in Englishtown the tree a little bit of information which certainly enriched my life was at the opening of the 12th Annual Drag Racing Quest. Turns to right. Then it's time to. Let. The summer National's roar down the quarter mile stretch.

One of the favorites. Don the snake competition and the fastest didn't have a pretty good handle on what we were into this new year and this afternoon the crew were repairing a $10 park that shut down the $20000. That's where the importance of the motor and the car and it's very it's teamwork. Come Sunday don't be surprised. Thanks boys. Six summer nationals one of my titles they sleep. Mark I've got 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 times to sound. 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 I swirled in toto want us to 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. Four others one back. Hero with even the worst round of his career in.

Caldwell County is offering a unique summer school program for children 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 trying to change that image through an experimental two week workshop your active participation 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. I like TV a lot more. I watch it more carefully than I did and I don't watch live TV. Why. Because I'm not afraid to be honest. 3 You have to keep going over things over and over again until it's perfect so it's a lot of work. But as grammar says 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 Don Torrance in Caldwell. I'm Susan the Sloss Barkley is too short to see over the desk otherwise I'd be in big trouble. That is the news for Bill Perry on Don Torrance Good night from all of us of New Jersey nightly news tonight. New team of 13 on the program is going to ask me and I'd set at 6:30 p.m.

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