New Jersey Nightly News; 07/18/1983

You. Jersey nightly news is made possible in part by a grant from first jersey Securities. I. Good evening. I can't. Matt I had coming up in the news tonight. The heat goes on. With temperatures in the 90s for the seventh straight day the harder it gets the larger the crowds at this stage sure resorts and heat or no heat. Times are good for New Jersey's minority businesses heat heat and more heat. That's the story of New Jersey past present and future as this summer's longest heatwave continues with no end in sight. Power outages were reported in the Union County community of hillside this afternoon and in various South Jersey towns served by the Atlantic City Electric Company over the weekend. When will it all land. Not

for a while say the forecasters hot humid weather is expected to continue for at least the next few days. But daytime temperatures staying in the 90s for the seventh straight day we've been sweltering. It's almost too hot to work. Temperatures reached 95 degrees and these Brunswick this afternoon the same in Trenton and in Atlantic City where you'd expect some relief. The mercury climbed to a scorching 97 degrees. The weather was a tepid 74. You got some relief though this afternoon when thunderstorms moved through the area cooling things off to a comfortable 70 degrees. The heat wave has put a strain on some water companies in the northern part of the state. Reservoirs are in good shape according to the Department of Environmental Protection. But water is being used quicker than some systems can pump it out as a result. A number of communities have asked people to cut back on their usage. Residents in Oldridge township went on an odd even system today because of pressure problems washing cars watering lawns and

filling backyard pools is now done based on the number in a resident street address and the day of the week. In addition there were also bans in effect in nine Morris County towns. And in some Essex and Hudson County towns as well there's a positive side effect to all of this hot weather. Business is booming in the state's resort areas especially the shore. The State Commerce Department says this could be the best season the tourism industry has had in the last five years. Diane doctor reports in the area. Are we to get warmer tonight tomorrow and Wednesday mostly don't agree. Although it's a week day activity at the shore is up and it's been this way all month. So a lot of area merchants are cleaning up. Sure municipalities are happily tabulating fees from beach tags to parking meters. Asbury Park officials say the city has collected about $160000 so far. That's a 60 percent increase over this time last year. Number one the weather come around for us. And number two the economy a little bit people have more confidence in the

economy this year than they had last year. The State Commerce Department reports last weekend's crowds at many beaches were bigger than those on the Fourth of July. That said profits soaring It pulls bestows souvenir shop. It's been a great year it's been almost like every weekend been a holiday week and Memorial Day Fourth of July every weekend has been really fun and really fun. Merchants here say if Mother Nature continues to cooperate this could be the best summer in recent memory. But even if the weather turns sour Now this season has already outpaced last year. And it's not just booming at the beaches. You see the racetracks the amusement parks the state parks inland some of the amusement parks in land all are recording increases from five to three percent over last year at this time. And the summer is only half over in Asbury Park I'm dying Doctor. How reliable are breathalyzer tests. That's the question a state appeals court will have to answer and its decision could affect the outcome of thousands of drunk driving cases in

New Jersey. Seven motorists charged with drunk driving asked the court today to ban breathalyzer test as evidence because interference from police radios can influence the results. Two lower courts have already ruled that breathalyzer machines that measure blood alcohol levels are unreliable and the results of breathalyzer tests are inadmissible as evidence. A temporary ban on breathalyzer evidence will remain in effect while the appeals court considers the issue meaning that all drunk driving cases now pending will either be delayed or will go to trial without scientific evidence. State Attorney General Erwin Kimmelman apparently watches his Dymes carefully Kimmelman was over charged ten cents on an item he bought at a supermarket. Now the State Consumer Affairs Division is following up his suggestion to investigate Cassar cash register price scanners. The division is randomly testing the scanners at five supermarket change in New Jersey. One finding so far is that many stores are using scanners don't freeze prices on items

that may prevent customers from checking whether the computers actually tally the correct. Prices. Time has all but run out for 48 families who make their home in the Fort Lee trailer park. Eviction notices will start arriving this week. Marci Reitman has the story. After three and a half years of court battles they're moving out some of the people who live in Ray guy's trailer park are giving up but not all. I just don't know at this point what I'm going to do. I have no place to go in my condition as an entity working in one company for 23 years. There's just no way I can walk away from it. I just have to stand firm and see what's going to happen. To make matters worse Pugsley says he's been offered $3000 for his trailer. He says it's worth 23000. The trouble began in 1980 when the former owner decided to sell this property which is less than 10 miles from New York City. The tenants claim the nearest trailer park is an hour and a half away. Enterprise is a

development company bought the land. The tenants have been fighting their evictions ever since. My husband works in New York City. I did for many years and the cost to travel so far away would be prohibitive. It costs a lot. Now a Superior Court Judge Kevin O'Halloran denied any more delays in this case and today he met with lawyers from both sides to set the eviction date. A spokesman for the owners of the property called today Judgment Day. Those that don't have plans that want to fight it to the end will face a forcible eviction. It's just now is the time the judgment has been made and all the hard work and sources of alternative housing for many many people and we feel that the continuance of this mobile home park is consistent with state policy. Penn says he'll be back in court tomorrow to appeal judge halogens decision. But if that last ditch effort fails the families who remain at re guys will be evicted today for the next six weeks.

All I would say that if any other developer other than can come in and purchase this park the confrontation would have been far more better and the tenants would have had four more right to complain. Kamis did offer low cost housing to some of the tenants but it's not suitable for everyone. We have no place to go. Don't know where we're going to go. That uncertainty is plaguing the tenants who say they have spent their time and energy not looking for a new place to live but fighting for their right to stay at. Guys. In Fort Lee Marcy Reitman. New Jersey officials want 21 more hazardous waste sites in the state to qualify for federal cleanup under the Superfund program. The sites include seven in Burlington County and the former diamond alkali plant in Newark where there is dioxin contamination. The Federal Environmental Protection Agency will not comment on whether it will add any of the sites to the Superfund list but it does plan to add at least 100 around the country by next month. State officials know of 150 major hazardous waste sites in New Jersey. Sixty five of them have already qualified for Superfund

cleanup. A federal judge has ordered Paterson officials to let an adult bookstore open up downtown. The city tried to keep the store out claiming the business did not have enough off street parking to meet Paterson zoning requirements. Attorneys for the bookstore argue the zoning ordinance had never been used before and the city was violating the store owners free speech rights. Today the judge agreed with the bookstore's argument ruling that the store cannot be barred. Patterson has not decided whether to appeal. A title search will get underway this week to determine who owns Jersey city's bridges. But it promises to be a lot more complicated than the usual title search. As Tricia Gaspero explains there are twenty eight. The Hackler bridges in Jersey City. But that's where the story stops being simple. The confusing part is the ownership of those bridges. The city says it owns at least one. The county says it owns at least two. The state admits to a few more. They all say that the railroads New Jersey Transit and Conrail freight probably own the rest.

But no one is sure and that's the problem when it comes time to pay for bridge repairs. The lines of responsibility are not clearly drawn and the title search that begins this week may be long overdue. When we determine the ownership of all the bridges then we will go into court. And sued those those railroads or whoever owns them to repair the bridges five of Jersey city's bridges have been declared unsafe and ordered closed. The Chestnut Street Bridge has been closed for over two years awaiting repairs. The chapel Avenue Bridge has been closed for one year. Here the situation is luckier though. New Jersey Transit and the city have come to an agreement and this bridge will be repaired before the year is out. But city engineers who inspect these bridges are frustrated having to be held up by these bureaucratic problems of determining who owns the bridge and who's going to ultimately pay for the repairs. Makes our job more difficult than we would like to resolve these problems as soon as possible so we can get around to the work that engineers do best.

Now everybody seems to be in agreement on the fact that the bridges do need to be repaired. But what they can't agree on is number one. Who owns them. And number two who pays for those repairs in Jersey City. I'm Trish Gaspar's. A favorite recreation spot for Jersey City residents is now just charred rubble. Fire broke out early Sunday morning on a pier at the foot of 12th Street in Jersey City. It spread to nearby Piers during the 16 hours it burned and smouldered Fire. Fire officials say the blaze might have been caused by a careless pier picnickers the site on the Hudson River was a popular picnic area. The Latin American Hispanic Association of Elizabeth wants Mayor Thomas Dunn recall from office accusing him of insulting the city's Hispanic residents. Last Friday the mayor issued a directive to city employees ordering them to conduct all business all official business in English. The mayor said it was impolite for city employees to speak foreign languages on the job. Although

Dun's order did not mention a specific foreign language Raffael for Harto a member of the Hispanic association's board of directors claims it was directed at Spanish speaking employees. Dunn denies that and blames the adverse reaction on a couple of agitators. As for the recall movement Dunn says he's paying no attention to it and predicts it will fall flat on its face. Well 55 the north south freeway through Gloucester and Cumberland counties was supposed to be completed long ago but local officials succeeded in keeping the highway project tied up in court for 12 long years. Well the long delayed construction finally resumed last month. Now as Dan Hodgson reports yet another obstacle has been unearthed. Construction is well underway on this two mile section of Route 55. Just a half a mile away. And right in the path of the proposed highway state archaeological teams have discovered Indian artifacts ranging from three to 10000 years old. The

problem according to local historians is that the state is trying to cover up the discovery and continue with construction of the highway. We can't get very much information out of the Deity hard archaeologist alone. We would like to know what they are getting out of here because I'm also a member of the Gloucester County cultural heritage commission and one of our functions is to protect the heritage of the county and. We don't know over the local Heritage Commission say the state has ignored federal requirements to consult with local officials before deciding where to put the new highway. Probably the best thing you can say about it is that they know what the regulations are and they know how to get around the local heritage Commission feels the land should be preserved as a historic site. State officials say that it's not necessary that this site is no different from hundreds of others across the state. And they say archaeological teams are on the scene and will have time to gather whatever artifacts should be saved. That construction will start once the archaeologists have completed their clearing operations and the sites are then turned over to the contractor for his operations. He has been that the contractor has been

restricted from those sites until such time they are cleared. State officials also say they have complied with all the laws requiring local input in deciding where to put the highway. But the county Heritage Commission says it will go to court if necessary to stop construction until they can make a more thorough evaluation of whether the land should be preserved. In Deptford. I'm Dan Hodson. Nurses at Zurb Berg hospital in Burlington County are coming back to work after a marathon bargaining session this weekend ended with a new wage agreement. More than 300 nurses walked out on May 10th and have sent some of them have found jobs elsewhere. ZUBER hospital has two divisions one in Riverside the other in willing. Both divisions closed floors during the strike. They'll now be reopened as needed labor and management both say they want the National Labor Relations Board to drop unfair bargaining charges against the hospital. We sure could use some relief from all the hot weather we've been having. Here's a look at the forecast for the next couple of days. Clear to

partly cloudy skies tonight with the slight chance of a thunder shower or two. Those will be near 70 degrees up north and in the mid 70s in central and southern areas tomorrow will be sunny and hot again with highs in the low to mid 90s. And the outlook for Wednesday a mixture of clouds and sun with more high temperatures. New Jersey is called the Garden State but a more appropriate name might be the

corporations state 8000 corporations make their homes here. Most of the state's labor force works for big businesses. Those with more than 100 employees but small businesses those with fewer than 50 workers are still alive and struggling in New Jersey. As producer Frank tells our reporter Sandra King found out. That in these days of the giant multinationals many of us in New Jersey still think small. We dream of owning our own business being our own boss but it's a tough life. Half of all small business starts will fail within their first four years. Julius Williams Fried Chicken franchise folded he says being black didn't help. There is no clear blueprint. For minority business people to follow. And there is no way that is really. Interesting. Let's say there are insufficient people that are really carrying people through that process. Of course there are success stories.

I can't say that I ever had a bad day. Amelia Stewart opened her doors 34 years ago. Back then she did it all. I did wash dishes I didn't screw up and therefore I did the same thing. Mrs. Stewart's son John does most of the cooking now waitresses bust the tables. Amelia can relax. I have a three bedroom house in Florida and I don't ever expect to live there but I want to go there and see the months when the snow coming. I want to be able to get to France before I even move out on the West Side of New York. Businesspeople in the Vail's burg area dream of similar good fortune. But economic and social realities sometimes stacked the deck here in the city of New York. We have to pay our insurance premium. For security. We may have a more difficult time. And training. A way of saying you may have to

pay a high interest rate. I can't even get into the ring to present my package. On a racial basis. It's not as if I consulted my Google gold is money to borrow money. Of course each business has its own focus its own unique set of problems but there is one universal bottom line. The need for capital and when you're in business there's only one color that really matters. Greene. Charles Whigham is New York's own minority greengrocer. He helped found the City National Bank of New Jersey 10 years ago. Regan is now president. The bank boasts assets of 28 million dollars that may be because Charles Whigham understands his clients problems all too well. I would never try to start in Dubai again. We started it was the latter part of 68 to 73. And that was a lot of time simply because there was no one to tell us was the road could go.

GM's road is still a little rocky. In a recent letter New Jersey's budget and accounting director explained why state monies were no longer being deposited in city national the deposits he wrote would have to be by public transportation because of parking problems. The bank is located in a high risk area. The bank sits directly across the street from New York City hall and police headquarters. We just had the governor came up in a very sweet on the 21st of this month. He indicated that he's going to the state to make substantial additional deposits in the bank that we believe the government has sometimes played a negative role in minority business. It's also attempted to do some good. Certain federal laws encourage minority business growth that critics charge those laws are often poorly enforced. Randolph businessman Keith body here in New Jersey we estimate that 10 to 12 companies this year will get 3.5 billion in federal contracts. We have concluded from past experience that

less than 5 percent. Of that amount of money is will go to minority business. So an owner of a pollution control business spends his off hours as coordinator of the minority business brain trust. The organization's 60 member businesses try to foster growth but according to body Trenton has to set the pace. That could happen soon. New Jersey government in the next two weeks will be developing an executive order and I think Governor Kaine has seen that this is a mandate. For his own. Political future that there should be a black and Hispanic minority business policy. No state policy help. Jimmy Brantly by flowers by Shelby. Now at age 30 Brantly plans on expanding. Last month he created Newark's wedding of the year. Five million dollar lottery winner Curtis sharks. Of course not all his clients are as well heeled. Which brings us to another reason

for Brantly success. I think I'm just Shiva's around and prices too. One thing I'd do I'd shop around for my prices. Then I don't buy too much around the city I go out in the suburbs and stuff like that. I can drain because I can get $60 for a spray. And Pan top dollar wholesale for flowers. So I have to try to beat the prices. So where do you now say to another black man or woman who wants to go into business do it. Go get a job. But you are doing well and yet you would tell someone else. Don't cry. Well. That's from me. I struggle. Do you want the generation today is not me now. I want to work as hard as I work for. Well for some people hard work has been basic to success but surely that can't be all there is to it. Is there another golden key. According to Charles Wiggum there is the state capitalist philosophy.

You're going to be thinking of ways of being profit motivated. If you can't make a profit there's really a sense of you really trying to run a business. Or something just because. You're. Short vacation. Bill Perry is in our New York studio with tonight's sports report. Bill back to work.

Thank you very much Ken just like me the cosmos were off last week. Last night the most returned to action and they were pretty good. How do I look. Tell you what if I look half as good as the cosmos did last night. I will take it. Cosmos 3 tell us nothing at Giants Stadium at midfield cosmos control the ball and the bogey man bogey with his 19th assist of the season gets the ball to Roberto Kabbani his companions to Steve Moyer's going number seven for Steve one nothing. Thirteen fifty six. That stood up at halftime. Watch the goal to make it to 0 to 29 into the second half. ROMERIL to DB Bernardo took a bomb. Yes a spectacular in the air reverse right footed flick. Number 14 for Kabbani Yes Angelo De Bernado and Roberto Kabang is my guest tonight on Cosmo's close up new jersey network live at 8. It's the way to nothing at 9:13 to play Eski on the run took a bonniest to J.C. Romero. Nice assist from my brother on watch Chasey make sure right here. Nice move. His fifth goal of the year and ubat Brooklyn my I registered his fifth shut out of the season third straight at home Cosmo's over Tulsa three zip the biggest drag race on the East Coast. The summer

nationals wrapped up yesterday at Raceway Park. Pat Scanlan tells us it was a scorcher in more ways than one in a large crowd and high temperatures blasted by the summer national finals yesterday for cani co-lead in the White Way it got hotter with the the turned green. Co-leaders car toured orange with waves that knocked him out of the semifinals he was on hurt when his car cooled off. Tony made a little hot. The other semifinal featured Joel Votto back to the finals with gied Snow's car went up on one wheel. Snow was only injured in the final of the top field category Amado outdistance Jody smart putting in a record five point five nine seconds at 250 miles per hour the first time he went the quarter mile in less than 5.6 million the race was that it was a bigger thrill. You know it's really nice to look back on the 5:55 five time and I know the car had more potential but winning the races the overall bigger a troll. You know it's because it's from. The shows for the whole

team. I was super team and you know and it makes everybody look good in the prostatic final total is Frank Canio beat Lee Sheppard. Sheppard left before the light turned green. I Canio won with a seven point eight five elapsed time. I don't have any trouble. Mechanical problems ran OK. Just the. Gist of the track was a little tricky. I always like to win here. Look forward to it. Don't try to put it in a little extra effort into it. Glad it's all over. I was in a funny car championship went to Mark Gause wall with the kiddie and used car in the right lane glued together with a poxy Boswell beat John Ford with a five point nine to elapsed time at 251 miles per hour at all Raceway Park i-Pad Skidmore. And the thing you have to remember that those cars are not air conditioned. Meanwhile it was an emotional victory for Balan's Mustafa Hamm show who dedicated his fight Saturday against Wilfred Benitez to his late manager Paddy fraud for 12 rounds. These middleweights fought primarily in benítez corner with Hamshaw the aggressor and Benitez swept no

fewer than four times in a wild third round Hampshire who beat want to use Bobby Chad's last time out in November of 80 to stun the three time world champion and as benítez goes down again. Hampshire added that for good measure. Tough sledding in the ring in Vegas Saturday referee Davie pleural right here hits the canvas in the eighth round Hamshaw easily outdistance benítez for the decision up his record to 37 two and two. Afterwards an emotional Hamshaw talked about his late friend and manager Paddy for. I always wonder how you were going to beat him because I'm still on the Froment. Oh my god is it all me. And what do you do with the flood passed away suddenly of a brain hemorrhage earlier this year in case you missed that the US public links golf championship sensibility routine to thing over the weekend and baseball the Phillies have fired manager Pat Corelli's general manager Paul Owens takes over as G.R. deviation from manager of the Phillies can't. And that's our news for tonight. For Bill Perry and the rest of the nightly news team I can't Manahan.

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