New Jersey Nightly News; New Jersey Nightly News 10/07/1979

See my show that's fine. The two men found guilty in the d'isère case will appeal the Giants yes the Giants defeat Tampa Bay and that's an upset. We'll have highlights and Jane Fonda's on the political trail in New Jersey. And. New Jersey with Jack Kennedy and Tricia Gaspar's with Spoof's. Defense attorneys say they'll appeal the convictions of the two remaining defendants in the Joan Diedre kidnapping trial. It took a jury less than six hours yesterday to come up with a guilty verdict which could send those men to jail for life. Rich Wells wraps up the case. The summations in the case took place yesterday morning in a trial that lasted nearly two weeks. Defense Attorney Albert Pinu low said it was hard to argue a case against the federal government with its unlimited resources. William Bryant if the government prosecutor reminded the

jury of the anguish Mrs. Diedrich suffered during her 47 hours of captivity Mrs Diedrich took the stand last week and recalled how she had been abducted from her home in West Milford and held in a Patterson tenement for nearly two days until her husband Pettersson bank vice president paid two hundred and seventeen thousand dollars in ransom. The FBI traced telephone calls and tailed Mrs. Diedrich abductors when they picked up the money and the FBI recovered that money. Shortly after that the arrests began. Five suspects were picked up Jose fun Saker cooperated with police and was allowed to plead guilty to reduced charges. The remaining four defendants maintained their innocence. Then suddenly last week two of the defendants confessed and were also allowed to plea bargain. The trial proceeded the jury found the two others guilty of conspiracy bank robbery and the abduction of Mrs. Diedrich. When the verdict was read one of the defendants gave antónio Alison Delo reportedly yelled obscenities at the prosecutor. The defense attorney plans to appeal because he says

the government's case did not appear to be airtight. All five defendants will be sentenced on October 22nd in Newark I'm Reggie wells. As many as 23000 people living outside a 50 mile radius of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant could have died if the worst possible accident had occurred. That's from a report of two Princeton University scientists to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The New York Times obtained a copy and the scientists say that a complete core meltdown which did not occur last spring could have forced people living in an area about the size of Rhode Island to evacuate their homes on a long term basis. It was projected 23000 deaths would have been cancer related. But as it stands now scientists say there will be no more than four deaths from last spring's Three Mile Island accident. Three Mile Island put a burst of energy into the anti-nuclear movement. And Jane Fonda is one of the leaders. Fonda and her activist husband Tom Hayden have taken up the cause in their current nationwide campaign focusing on nuclear energy and a long list of economic issues. They were in New Brunswick

today delivering their message. And Diane Lunden reports. The New Jersey committee for Occupational Safety and Health and sponsored today's conference on me and of course the star speaker was Jane Fonda. Thank you. Fonda concentrated her talk on Love Canal in New York State community where radioactive waste leaked and left many residents homeless and sick. I have not seen faces with that look of stunned disbelief. People who seem staggering under the enormity of their tragedy. The only time I've ever seen this before I was in Hanoi in the land of our so-called enemy. The subject of the conference workers safety was left to her husband Tom Hayden. What we want is a right to know Bill. That simply says that

workers on the job have an absolute right to know what's in those bottles with the funny little formulas what's on the floor what's in the air that workers have a right to conduct their own health and safety inspections on the job. This is a basic right. Whether nuclear energy or worker safety the underlying target with big business. Brandon Hayden a touring key presidential primary state. At a press conference later they outlined their plan the forming of a coalition to fight big business interests in the coming election. It's been pretty staggering to see that people whose whose whose lives have been shattered because of corporate irresponsibility. And we feel that we need to build a citizens movement so that consumers and working people community representatives can have some voice in the decision making that is now made entirely by by

corporate interests. After the conference Brandon Hayden We're back on the road headed to Camden then East Orange And finally tonight back to Livingston again only to start again tomorrow in Pittsburgh to finish 20 more days of touring in Livingston. Diane London the Newark Star-Ledger is reporting the federal government may soon be dropping conspiracy and extortion charges against four men indicted with former Newark mayor who had Nizo in 1969. The four never came to trial either because of illness or legal delay. The newspaper quotes sources as saying the government had held onto the case in hopes of prosecuting reputed mob leader Anthony Boito daughter was also indicted in an alleged contract kickback scheme. He died in 1978. And this paper says the government isn't interested in prosecuting the others. One man is dead and a father and son remain in stable condition tonight following a robbery that turned into a shooting spree at a Trenton social club early this morning. 53 year old

Louis Santiago was shot in the head. He's 22 year old son Pedro was shot in the leg. The dead man has not yet been identified. Police are still searching for the two men they say robbed the Tropicana social and civic club on Broad Street and then began shooting. A new federal law now severely limits the number of foreign medical school graduates who will be allowed to practice in the United States. A special report by the state commission on professional Health Services says that's not good for New Jersey and will likely result in staff reductions and service cuts at state hospitals. The commission also says that the new quotas on foreign doctors will act to reduce health care in urban hospitals and that will have its greatest impact on the poor state Health Department figures show New Jersey employs the highest percentage of foreign medical students in the country and off again on again rain. Put a chill in into today's late autumn weather and the clouds kept the day on the edge of greatness. Those clowns should give way to clear skies with temperatures quite chilly with lows in the low 40s to 45 throughout the state. Tomorrow expect mostly sunny

skies and pleasantly cool temperatures in the low to mid 60s. And the forecast for Tuesday and it's back to cloudy and cool with a chance of showers. And that's just about what we had today. Even so several hundred people turned out for the last day of the Liberty Park festival in Jersey City. The two day event celebrates New Jersey's diverse ethnic heritage 40 different ethnic groups performed offering a festival of entertainment. And it was a festive day too in New Brunswick for the sixth straight year in October. It was held on Church-State a German beer fest was kicked off at noon with a procession and dancing to an pop band. Doesn't end until 7:30 tonight. Clean up it's underway. Sandwiched somewhere in between was everything from Irish folk songs to a magic show. And of course the German food and non-German food kept everyone happy and well-nourished. Well today some visitors from the South got a grim welcome in the rain the Giant Stadium.

That's a long overdue good news for the Giants and Trish Gaspers is here with the incredible story. Trish. Well thanks Jack. As of today there aren't any more undefeated teams in the NFL. The Giants pulled off a major upset at the Meadowlands today they beat Tampa Bay 17 to 14. It was a sweet victory for the Giants their first of the season. And Dan Noonan has this report. He started his first game for the Giants. He connected on his first four attempts but his overall history statistics weren't very impressive. However there was no need to worry because it was Billy Taylor day at the stadium. The Giants had to write 28 in the NFL in scoring points but the third year player at Texas Tech led the way number 38 to express stored in the backfield had a great day. He rostro 144 yard just the most by joining us this early in 1967. Tell us who are the first TV early in your second period. The Giants surprised the Bucs with a 7 0 lead. Onto the next position or just keep interested in it. Doug

Williams Yes he kicked it off on the books 35 took it down the sidelines to the 11 yard line. Five players later tell got the Colgin did lead to the extra point was good. And the Giants lead quick teams zip the books on passes for Williams to Larry Muckler to Jimmy Giles. But in between Joe Donnelly kicked a 47 year old field goal and that turned out to be the difference. Giants 17 Tampa Bay 14. I'm Dan looney. And another NFL action today we already mentioned the Giants 17 over Tampa Bay for a team that surprised everybody. And it's Philadelphia 28 over Washington 17 Wilbert Montgomery scored four touchdowns in this one. The Eagles are now five in one and in the third period. It's Baltimore 10 over the New York Jets 6. In college football it wasn't a very good day for two New Jersey colleges yesterday. Princeton lost to Brown 31 to 12 and Rutgers Lost Temple 41 20.

Temple's offense was awesome and Rutgers defense well was dull. Rutgers is now three in two and Temple is four and one. Last year when Temple faced Rutgers temple dominated the game but left it 13:10. This year temple was out for revenge and got it by completely ruining Rutgers homecoming yesterday. The score at the half was 21:7 tempting. Her while it looked like Rutgers might even get up early in the second half. The lights made it 21 14 on a two yard touchdown by Dave Dorn. It was during second to your touchdown of the day and he finished with 100 yards and one or two attempts. The extra point was good and the Scarlet Knights had hope. But tempo quarterback Brian Broomhill the fourth leading passer in the country to slash that hole hit Wiley PIDs for 17 yards and soon after Pitt snuck in for his second touchdown of the day making it twenty eight to 14. Early in the fourth period Sherman Myers number 40 scored a 1 yard touchdown 35 14 temple but

Rutgers wasn't finished yet. Lester Johnson to yard touchdown made it 35 20. And if Rutgers had any further idea of narrowing that lead Brookvale quickly put a stop to them with a 28 yard touchdown pass. We take pride in our fights and you know we keep hoping that we can can contain. I. I would say that as I've said before the game it was going to be an offensive show I thought we'd be in trouble. Rutgers plays Connecticut away this Saturday for the seventh year in a row. Princeton University has won the ECAC Tennis Championships 18 teams competed in the three day event Princeton and first place had 43 points followed by Harvard with 34 and navy with 23 points. Princeton's Jay Lapidus won his third title in a row. He beat Harvard's Don Pompei on six to seven six. And other Princeton when Steve Meister beat Mike Turner of Harvard six to seven five and in doubles today Princeton's Adam chaat and Jim Zimmermann beat Kevin Skelly. And Larry Grossman of Harvard 6 3 6 4. Also

when doubles day Lapidus and Leafs Cyrus beat Dartmouth's John Steele and Greg Hartmann 6 3 6 1. So Princeton wins the ECAC seven years in a row. And that's sports for today Jack. Thank you trash. These are not easy days for our educators. National test scores continue to skid classroom discipline is a growing problem. And so are efforts by politicians and parents to get a better hold of and control over the types of people allowed to stand in front of a classroom or education. Commentator Dr. David Washo has some thoughts on that. And a warning about unrealistic expectations. Bernard Shaw Woody Allen and Billy Carter have a commentary on teaching. Chalk with those you can do the rest teach. Woody Allen added those who can't teach teach physical education. Billy Carter kept the idea in noting that Edward Kennedy is a poor presidential candidate who quote couldn't even teach driver education in Georgia unquote. New Jersey critics of

teaching have also been busy. Year that something is wrong with a profession he's fired only a handful over the last decade for incompetence. Many firmly believe that youngsters in New Jersey are not learning simply because teachers are not teaching. The media has also revealed that teachers are no longer R-Miss. Brooks and Mr. Novak. Teachers are shown to have the same weaknesses and flaws as the general population. This fact seems to alarm and upset people. People are disturbed that some teachers want higher salaries and strike their employer. But others live together on married professional homosexuality or divorce their spouses. But some have gotten into legal trouble. Breaking a law committing a crime. That others decide to enter politics. At some houses in Dallas even have difficulty passing basic skills test. The public is upset and and. When teachers fail to live up to some imaginary ideal. An ideal which no other group of individuals could live up to that either. The point is that teachers are human.

They have all the beauty marks and words which other humans have. Perhaps another critic will soon be offering worried parents yet another commentary on teaching. You want your children taught by humans. I'm Dr. David why some. Political analysts are telling New Jersey politicians to be prepared for a record low voter turnout this year. But that's not slowing the efforts of the state's Democratic Committee. Executive Director Peter kirtan says Democrats will be using sophisticated computerized data on each of the state's 500 election districts to help Democrats maintain their edge in both houses of the state legislature. Democrats currently enjoy more than a two to one majority in the Assembly and of course the computer campaign is aimed at keeping that margin that kind of Democratic concern may be justified. Republicans here are getting some outside help. It's called the kiddie corps commandos. A half joking reference to a group of professional campaign workers from the Republican National Committee. There are about a dozen of them all in their

20s and they describe themselves as campaign junkies energetic technical and very organized. They've targeted some 15 districts for things like direct mailings and new political strategies because despite recent GOP financial problems in the state they say they can see a real chance in New Jersey to win some seats. It's the biggest ever at the Republican National Committee will make anywhere in the country this year. Well a tinkering player piano brings back images of the past old time music shiny upright pianos and craftwork. Rarely seen today except that is in a small Louisiana operation that specializes in bringing back the past by restoring pianos. Here's a report from correspondent Ron blog. That's not your usual piano music coming out of the old shop on Main Street in downtown Baton Rouge. It's music made by pedals and pumps and other valves of rubber hoses and rolls of paper. And it's music made by Cressman.

Coppersmith works on the inside. Well his brother Bobby works on the outside and together the two of them restore play pianos and Nickelodeons and memories. Some of these pianos date back to the turn of the century when home entertainment was something for the eccentric or the well-to-do. These overgrown music boxes were the product of the mechanical revolution to change the way of life. It started out as simple little music boxes you know like the head loops playing music boxes to work simply on some guy I'm sure. So why don't we try this in you know and then just you know what we. Do. From that base. So. Restoring a piano or a piece of furniture that no one else will touch often means tackling an old hulk like this one with rotted wood and peeling veneer. But Bobby coppersmith takes on all the impossible projects as a sort of personal challenge taken an old face.

Not any good at all. Some people but it has. Mean something to the people and just because I allow you maybe longer grandmother or their mother or somebody and I can say it and I Karger start out with something this bad. And when I'm done and what it's like came out of fact and it gives me a personal feeling I guess that I've accomplished something for myself as much as for the people I'm doing. You can't help but feel something. Do most of these read these pianos haven't played for. 20 or 30 or 40 years. And it's it gives you a funny feeling you know to crank on. It's you know been used in so long. Of course none of us can turn back the hands of time but some like the coppersmith brothers have kept a little of the past alive. It is a tribute to the endurance of a craft. Well this may not surprise you but according to government studies 8 out of 10 small businesses

fail in their first five years of operation. It's tough to get a small business off the ground. But those same figures also show the businesses owned by women are doing better than those owned by men. Reporter Diana London now takes a closer look at some new jersey women who have made that step into the business world or are trying to. Today you can get a loan any time just because you are a woman. Well if you have enough assets and if you have the proper things that they want. I go to the bank now get all the money I want not that long ago when a woman owned a business it was usually because a husband or a father left it to her or she simply wanted to dabble a bit in the working world. Those days are gone and now women in business mean business. Women are needing air to support themselves in increasing numbers. As a matter of fact 43 percent of all working women are the sole support of themselves and their families. If they have a family. So we're clearly not working for pin money. There are many many more women owning businesses of their own but the best news is that they're

succeeding at twice the rate of men who start their own businesses. And some of those women gathered together last Saturday. They attended an all day conference for women in business expo 79. It is the external factors that are the main problems we find the money learning to start and manage your business isn't an easy job for anyone. But many of the women at the conference said they had particular difficulty. I. Knew. Nothing and I don't advise that anybody start a business that way at all because. Mine was. HUNT. And Peck. It's very easy to say if you need something take it out of one pocket put in your pocket not control your money. You should love control. Time to learn to work smart is the highest level. Going to have today. We in fact have not been reared to be comfortable with the kind of competition that business ownership involves. We have not most of us been reared to

take the kinds of risks which a business owner must take and I'm talking about moderate risk not jumping off a cliff. I think we don't understand the kind of commitment that business ownership is going to take in terms of our family obligation. I think it's crucial that you sit down with your family and you say all right this is what I want to do. But do you think about it when they say boy that's a great idea. Then you say OK but do you understand that this means that I may not be able to drive you to tennis the way I have or I may not be able to pick you up at the same time. I may not be able to be there in the afternoon when you come home. The latest federal government's census on women in business is seven years old. It says a little over 400000 women own their own business but that figures never been broken down. And at this point no one knows just how many women business owners there are in New Jersey. Even accounting and that's one of the things that we are trying to accomplish by developing a list of women business owners. We have had to reach out to all kinds of sources in order to find the

people that we've had here today and last year and we're putting them on lists and we hope that we'll get more and more as the time goes by. If you want to find out about a particular business you know the one that you're going into you know who do you talk to. Have you ever contacted your trade association. So are you going to go into the widget business. Have you been in touch with the New Jersey Association of widget dealers you might want to know how to find them. The expo is useful to women getting started. Women already in business said it helped their business to grow. Basically it got me started in business full time up to the point I'd been working part time in terms of the number of clients that I had. But the response was tremendous. I had a full time. After this exposition. Women are still basically doing what they know best taking skills they've learned at home and moving them into the marketplace. And despite high enthusiasm and optimism at the conference leaders say there's still the harsh reality of making it in a male

dominated business world. A trend in State College on Diana London. That used to fall on October 12th. Not anymore of course an act of Congress changed all that. And now to ensure a three day weekend Columbus Day is celebrated on a Monday. Tomorrow was that Monday. This year in almost all federal state local and I'm sorry federal state and local government offices will be closed. Public school classes will be suspended. There'll be no mail delivery and banks across the state will be closed too. But Conrail trains will run on their regular schedule. And the American the New York Stock Exchanges will be open as well as almost all stores many holding Columbus Day sales. As we said the holiday is tomorrow. Thousands celebrated it today. And Newark Roj wels has that story. Thousands of people turned out for the Columbus Day parade in Newark today. They were antique cars. Scores of politicians. A superstar from the sports world and more than 35 marching bands.

The. Parade honoring Christopher Columbus used to be held in downtown Newark. Each year the crowds got bigger. The festivities were eventually moved to the north ward. Where most of the city's Italians live. Parade route traveled up Bloomfield Avenue which today was named something else. The grand marshal was. Paul DiMaggio the man known to his friends and baseball lovers as Jolting Joe or the Yankee Clipper grandma before in other places but this one really takes the cake. Maggio stayed for the entire parade and reviewed every marching band and float that passed along the three mile route. The crowd like both sides of Bloomfield Avenue three and four deep. The organizers of the parade say they are gratified by the turnout and hope one day to have one of the biggest Columbus Day parades in the country. So.

Joe DiMaggio Boulevard in Newark. I'm Ridgewell. Recapping today's top stories. Lawyers for the two defendants in the Diedrich kidnapping trial say they'll appeal Jane Fonda and her husband Tom Hayden made the rounds in New Jersey today preaching against nuclear power and big business. In sports the Giants once own five upset Tampa Bay which was once five in all the happy days in the Meadowlands ended with a 17 14 win for the Giants. And the weather clearing skies tonight and sunny and cool tomorrow. Well that's the Sunday edition of New Jersey Nightly News for Trisha Gaspar's and all of us here on the weekend shift. We thank you for watching. Jack Kennedy hoping you have a very pleasant week. Goodnight. New Jersey Nightly News is a joint presentation of New Jersey Public Television and

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