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New Jersey Nightly News with Sandra King in Trenton. Good evening. And the news tonight the woman who police say killed and beheaded her mother has been charged with murder. She's in psychiatric care and we'll have a report. In Camden County a break in at a sewage plant could have dangerous consequences and hundreds of visitors are flocking to see a huge display of model trains. In sports rectors gets knocked off in basketball and the Eagles prepare for tomorrow's playoff. Paul Butler will have all the sports and on a closer look tonight. We'll get a different perspective on a new budget crisis and other stories of the week. Police charged 48 year old Jean Zelinsky with homicide today. Zelinsky is being held in the security wing of the Trenton State Psychiatric Hospital after yesterday's bizarre incidents in front of the state house. Phelps Hawkins has the story. Police are now saying that Gene Wolinsky 78 year old mother died of strangulation. What the workers at the state house in Trenton. All they saw at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon was the mother's had just after Jean Zelinsky drove wildly onto the front steps of the

Capitol and then threw the head in a bag at an approaching street policeman. She yelled. Merry Christmas. She hurled it at the trooper. According to police she then tried to slit her own throat with a straight razor but was restrained by the trooper. She was taken to Trenton State psychiatric hospital after receiving treatment at a local emergency room for a minor neck wound. Officials at Trenton State report the doctors began a psychiatric evaluation this morning. There are no indications what the final report on Wolinsky will actually say and psychiatry in private practice were reluctant to comment on the case. But Dr. Edward Chafin agreed to talk generally about the often delicate human personality. Christmas is a stressful time for almost everyone in some degree. You see within a message of joy that the holiday carries. There is always a melancholy note that can be the alienation of a friend can be a lover's quarrel and be it. Fager can

get a promotion or to attain a goal. It can be anything that causes a hurt. This has to do with feelings of love hate denial anger revenge and ultimately depression. One outlet for depression is a crisis intervention hotline here in Trenton It's called contact. It's just a phone number to call but workers there all of whom are volunteers say just talking helps. The first thing we try to do is to maintain our listening status and to understand how they're feeling their anger or their depression perhaps. And then we attempt to during the course of the conversation find out more about them where they are exactly the kind of trouble that they're in but the context people said they've never received as violent a situation on the phone as yesterday's beheading.

Most calls dealing with violent tendencies are possible suicides and there are only a couple of those a month on the average. However they said there is a large increase in calls during Christmas and the problems become more serious. This afternoon detectives continue to search the Zelinsky home for evidence. But neighbors say they don't have any clues as to why there was no warning no indication of trouble. And as yet no answer there probably won't be until the doctors psychiatric report. As one neighbor said apparently she had difficulty dealing with people near windows in Huntington County. I'm Phelps Hawkins. And yet another family tragedy. A 28 year old Mount Holly woman has been indicted for the murder of her infant son. The baby's body was being mauled by dogs when neighbors found it in the woman's garbage strewn apartment. The mother rose Marki own is being held in the New Lisbon minimum security facility pending psychiatric evaluation. And

in Butler Morris County Children playing near a cave discovered the skeletal remains of friendship. Martin who was 17 years old when he left home two years ago telling his parents he would not be returning a shotgun with one rounds fired was found near the body which was identified through dental records. Authorities have ruled the death a suicide. An unknown number of intruders broke into a Glocester County sewage treatment plant in Camden County this morning breaking windows and snatching two bottles. The problem is that the rocks hurled by the vandals were treated with a poisonous enzyme that authorities say can cause lockjaw. In just five hours and the stolen bottles contain poison that's said to be lethal. Police say the intruders believed to be youngsters may be in danger of their lives. Anyone with information concerning the incident is asked to contact a local hospital or police. Efforts by a black community leader from orange to win his freedom from prison have won support from several prominent New Jersey politicians memes Hockett who is serving a 30 year sentence on a kidnapping and

assault conviction claims his jailing was politically motivated. Backing Hackett's demand for a new trial is a committee headed by state senator Frank Dodd and Essex County executive Peter Shapiro. Hackett's conviction came in the case of a man who said he was forced into a car pushed to the floor hit with a gun and repeatedly questioned about his role in neighborhood break ins. Hackett was indicted for the crime just one week before the orange municipal elections in which he was running for a seat on the city council. The former controller of a now defunct anti-poverty agency and Union County has been indicted for embezzlement and a 27 count indictment returned yesterday. Thomas Waialua Belfort was accused of stealing $17000 from the Union County Community Services of Elizabeth. The agency was dissolved after federal officials uncovered sloppy bookkeeping and mismanagement. Two masked men held up a service station on the turnpike this morning making off with about $10000. Police say the men walked into the manager's office at the Exxon station and the Grover Cleveland service area near

Woodbridge at 4:30 this morning armed with a knife and a gun and demanding cash. They escaped on foot after climbing over a back fence. Well it's thought to be the largest train display in the world. The train's on model trains. The display is in Mammoth County and along with hundreds of holiday tourists Ridgwell Wells was there. When you arrive at Boyd Mason's house in the little town of has. You know we've got model railroading in his blood inside. Mason keeps a watchful eye on a model train layout. It has taken him 35 years to build. This railroad network has six transformers and a myriad of switches to activate the various accessories such as the drawbridge. Or skater's on the pump. And this model village even has a waterfall. There are more than 1000 feet of track on this platform with nine sets of train synchronized to run simultaneously.

Boyd Mason got his first train set when he was 10 and he says he doesn't like to toot his own whistle. But since then he says he's built more than your average basement display frame. But the display is probably one of the largest operating Leinil layouts in the country. We've never had a body dispute it. We carry operating accessories back from the early twenties right up to the present day and no matter who walks in here they can find something in here that they had when they were a child such as the. Blue Comet. Running on the lay out in the 1930 Blue Comet running around a Christmas tree. Mason started collecting trains as a hobby. But as the display got bigger so did the crowds of curiosity seekers. So now he charges an admission fee of a dollar. Quite a business for himself. And on an average weekend. More than a thousand people crammed into this basement to see the display. And the younger people seem to be the most captivating. So if you're a model train buff where you'd like to take your youngsters to see a display you're not likely to find at a department

store. This display is open to the public any day of the week year round. Boyd Basin's has looked Drange shock. It has looked. I'm Radziwill. The mode of transportation most popular this time of year is not the model railroad that the automobile shoppers were busy scurrying for the usual holiday gifts and last minute needs the large suburban shopping mall seem to be the most favorite congregating place on this eve of Christmas Eve. They traveled under cloudy December Skies with a rainy holiday in the forecast. The National Weather Service is calling for increasing cloudiness tonight with temperatures dropping to around 30. Tomorrow the skies will stay cloudy with rain developing by the afternoon possibly beginning as snow or sleet in the North and Northwest. Temperatures will climb to the upper 30s to low 40s in North Jersey. Slightly warmer in the southern part of the state. On Christmas Day. The weather outlook is rather gray. Cloudy. And turning colder. In.

Catching on to that contest I know it times imagining things. In episode 6 of Dominic Miss Sarah can no longer allow Dominic to move. Now that I have to watch I don't need the boy anymore. Expose them for the on the 25 spoons. Don't miss it tonight at 6:30 on New Jersey public television. I'm not a very good night for Rutgers last night. Paul line will have the town saying that he really wasn't that was upset time in Piscataway last night unheralded St. Peters of Jersey City knocked off Rutger's 67 to 58 when the two teams met a year ago Rutgers won it by 38 points. But St. Peters was anything but intimidated last night.

Right at the start of the game number 15 Jim brandin put St. Peters on top two to nothing with a steel and a lay up. Brandon scored 10 points in the first half as the game was back and forth for about the first eight minutes or so but then a little bit later coach Tom Young's Rutgers team pulled away toward the end of the half. Number 54 Kelvin Troy came up with three buckets all off of rebounds. Troy and the rest of the Scarlet Knight front line tried to pick up the slack for all Americans Senator James Bailey who had to sit out last night's game with a leg injury. And they seem to be doing just that at the half. Rutgers was up by 29 22 the second half though the to St. Peter's and number 13. Kevin Bannon Bannan was scoreless in the first half but came up with 16 points in the second. Coach Bob Kelly's team finally took the lead with five minutes left. It was Kevin Bannon's three point play which did it. And put the peacocks on top 53 to 52. They never trailed again. The Rutgers bench could only look on helplessly as St. Peters put the game out of reach with some exceptional foul shooting. It was an

early Christmas present for Bob Kelly's team. Now five and four on the year the final St. Peters 67 Rutgers 58. Rutgers is now four and three definitely struggling. And guess what their next outing is the holiday festival with St. Johns Ohio State and top ranked due. In California last night. Seton Hall won its opening round game and the cable card classic seventy nine to 68 over Santa Clara. Tonight the hall takes on Tennessee for that tournament championship. Well three years ago Armand Hill was leading Princeton to an Ivy League Championship. Now Hill is the starting guard for the NBA's Atlanta Hawks. Now in his third year with Atlanta Armand Hill seems to be coming of age in this game against the Nets a week and a half ago hill at a typical performance 17 points five assists in that assists Department Hill is ninth in the entire NBA with an average of six a game. But statistics are secondary. Armand Hill's main job is the quarterback the Hawks offense.

My role as a point guard just trying to get everybody to the game as it were an option breaks down and we go to third or fourth and I have to keep notes just trying to run it. Right now the Atlanta Hawks are 16 and 16 on the year. Last season the team also played 500 ball finishing at 41 and 41. That was good enough to land the hawks though in that diluted NBA playoffs. Naturally the team is hoping for that again. One of the keys will be the play of Armand Hill one of three Princeton grads in the NBA. As for playing in Atlanta. Hill says he's happy with the Hawks. Are you very few quid pro quo in these areas. Well you know. You know as a young kid you always want to play and you know that that's always going to be my very favorite player. Armand Hill and college football this afternoon Texas won the sun bowl the Longhorns crushed Maryland forty to nothing. And then the Liberty Bowl right now it's Missouri 20 LSU nine that game in the fourth quarter and professional football tomorrow was a big big

day for the Philadelphia Eagles. The Eagles will make their first playoff appearance ever against the Atlanta Falcons in Atlanta. Philadelphia finished the regular season at nine and seven. Their record was due in large part to the running of number 31 Wilbert Montgomery. Here Montgomery broke a long win against the Giants a week ago when a 2:33 eagle when Montgomery finished the season in fifth place among all National Football League runners picking up more than 12 hundred yards in scoring nine touchdowns. Wilbert Montgomery will be the main weapon in the Eagle Arsenal tomorrow afternoon in Atlanta. But certainly not the only one the Falcons will also have to be wary of the Polish rifle. Quarterback Ron Jaworski. He tossed the 16 T.T. passes this year. Eight of them to his favorite giraffe. Six foot eight inch Harold Carmichael. Carmichael has the ability to catch just about anything. This one off Otis McKinney of the Giants is a perfect example. Here's the replay. Jaworski to Carmichael tough to defend against defensively the Eagles will try to pressure Atlanta quarterbacks the bark Caskie much like they pressured the Giants Jopek Serchuk last week.

Number 78 Carl Harrison is one of the big men for the eagles up front and when the Falcons do get time to throw Philly coach Dick Vermeil has the hope that some plays like this one by linebacker Frank webmaster in June. The Eagles defense team up with 28 interceptions this year game time in Atlanta at 12:30 tomorrow. The Nine and Seven Eagles against the nine and seven Falcons The winner will play the Los Angeles Rams as the National Football League playoffs continue. And the other playoff game tomorrow the Houston Oilers and Earl Campbell will play in Miami against the Dolphins and that sports for tonight. See you tomorrow. One of the things that we do I know it's a local I get around to visiting interesting people around the state. And this month on our Christmas program we have a very special visit with the real Santa Claus old crap.

You know you're about to learn where it all began right here at Barstow. So Joy is Christmas Eve in New Jersey and it will be our special present for you for the whole of Earth. Oh watch. New Jersey local Sunday at 8:00 on New Jersey public television. STATE SENATOR JOHN Skaven is demanding that Attorney General John Degnan investigate the roles played by the American Cancer Society the National Institute of Cancer and the American Council on Science and Health lobbyists in this state. Skaven says there's a conspiracy by industry designed to brainwash the Public into the acceptance of cancer as an inevitable inevitable byproduct of our way of life. The senator says the conspiracy theory is supported by a recent article in the morning news of Paterson reporting financial ties between the American Council on Science and Health. And the petrochemical industry. Scott then chairman of a special state Senate Commission on Environmental cancer said he would ask Attorney General Degnan to determine whether any state laws particularly those concerning

lobbying had been violated by the council as well as whether the organizations were registered in New Jersey as lobbyists. Oil prices will be going up next year mainly because of the decision of OPEC nations to raise their prices. But Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal has assured President Carter that a fight against overall inflation can be successful in spite of what he calls this negative factor. The U.S. government now says that consumer prices will rise by more than 7 percent next year. Only a small portion of that resulting from the OPEC's decision. It's not much conflict for New Jersey where there's a high dependence on foreign oil and where economic problems are causing a serious crisis in Newark. On tonight's close look Clayton Vaughn another journalist look at this week in New Jersey beginning with the situation in Newark. Newark workers took their case to the streets 3000 strong protesting mayor Gibson's budget cuts and pending layoffs. Teachers meanwhile are going to court to try to stop the cutbacks. And there's talk of a move to attempt to recall Mayor Gibson rally

after a week of mounting frustration in New Jersey's largest city. In turn the mayor and the governor took their frustrations out on Washington. Mayor Gibson made headlines with his angry attack on President Carter Gibson and other mayors appealed to the president not to cut federal aid to the city. His appeal came at a time when President Carter was still caught up in a stir over his recognition of Red China and other foreign policy matters. Gibson tried to break through with the message that there's still trouble here at home. And if we can stand. And issue public statements in support of shaky shores and establish different relationships with China one day we'll have Coca-Cola be able to have an exclusive sale arrangement two days later and I can't get a commitment to deal with two hundred cops in New York that I have a concern about the parties that are issued and discussed at the White House. Oh try to get a perspective on the newer crisis and some other stories of this week with Tom O'Neil of

New Jersey magazine and James McQueen who works for the Newark Star-Ledger. Jim you covered Gibson's meeting with the president in Washington. Do you think the mayor actually did any good there in terms of trying to get to the counter cyclical funds put back in the budget. Well. When I talked to him after the meeting outside the White House he was still very discouraged. And he thought that. This meeting was actually going to produce nothing. He was that discouraged about it. In fact he kept pointing to his notes that he had taken during the meeting with the president showing that the president on the subject of capsicum the way had repeatedly emphasized that there was little chance no chance of passage of a bill even if the administration backed it in the new Congress. And as for other areas of public works neighborhood block grants in all areas like that Gibson said there was no feedback on whether there would be. Any substantial. Keeping levels as

they are preventing further cutbacks in fact. Boston Mayor Kevin White who was a spokesman for the mayor was at the meeting said later that the president offered absolutely no commitment. Just listen. Of course the governor Byrne also met with President Carter on the same day with another group of governors and. The governor's assessment of the president's position was somewhat different. It was a little different. A lot of the governors that were at this meeting were trying to accept the cause of cutbacks is just a fait accompli at this point. What they wanted to do what they proposed and discussed at the meeting was ways to consolidate some of the services that are in the state of them all had better ways to accept the cuts. At the time and one of those steps involves actually serving a lot of those cities powers to accept the money directly from the federal government that the governors wanted to disperse the cutbacks and manage the aid more. Now interesting enough. Governor burn in there. Gibson.

Well the only. Two. The only combination governor and mayor who did not agree with that position. They thought as governor Burns said later the money should still go to the needy. Under pretty much the same formulas that left burn in the minority of the governors who are speaking with the president and he did speak out with the president. But Tom isn't that a moot argument really if the aid is not there it doesn't make any difference whether it comes to the state or the city. The aid is there in its full amount to does make some difference because it comes in some kind of lesser or. It could give governors substantial powers in deciding who gets what and how much of a divide pie up. That's something that's been a matter of hot political discussion since the we owe programs back in the 60s when there was a debate as to whether that money should go to governors or go to mayors or go to community groups or what have you got you know an opinion from both of you about what's going to happen in Newark there's been a lot of talk about the city of fear campaign for instance that the police have waged up there.

Now there are recalls court tests all that sort of thing. What's your judgment on I don't know how that's going to come out next month. Well. There's an even larger question that Newark is related to in this respect there was a civil taxation people from New Jersey were down in Washington recently and they spoke with the president's office of management of Management and Budget people who were working on the last touches to the budget. And they feel that the cap situation that New Jersey is in limitation on spending which makes in New Jersey a little more unique than the other states. We're going to have to accept these cutbacks. New Jersey is between a rock and a hard place when this thing comes when this budget comes to fruition. And Newark especially is going to be in a position I think with the cops. Well of course one of the things no one has mentioned during this whole debate is my memory of the capsule is that there is a provision in there that if the government. Municipal Government wants to spend more than the 5 percent it can put a referendum on the ballot asking that the expenditure of more than 5 percent be allowed. Newark apparently has a surplus. Yet this has not been a matter I've

heard discussed in this debate so far Willow. We'll raise that point the next time we get a chance to talk to the mayor. We'll move on to another area the economic problems in the cities and elsewhere really have taken on new meaning. With this week's news of rising oil prices worldwide. Here in New Jersey some 60 percent of the oil is imported that we use the OPEC nations are seeing to it that their prices paid of course we know that this means rising prices for gasoline and oil. We have to buy. But how about its overall effects as far as the economy of the state is concerned. Well New Jersey is particularly prone to the kinds of inflationary difficulties and recessionary problems that the country as a whole has is. Ken Gibson used to say. But Newark Newark is where the Americ all American cities will be in 10 years from an economic point of view. New Jersey is where all American States will be in 10 years perhaps. So it's going to be tough but we're going to be cushioned in some ways. One of the ways is that we have a particularly high percentage of our electricity generated by nuclear power in the state. It's probably up to about a third now. So that will have less of an effect on electric prices.

For instance to pass through the CNG indicated might come about was much smaller for instance and then a smaller companies like Rocklynne electric. Yes because of the dependence on nuclear power but at the same time and last week scrapped those plans for those four floating nuclear plants. But the reason they scrapped them after many years of resisting suggestions from all quarters that they scrapped them was the demand in the future is just not going to be as high as they thought it was in 1970 or 71 when this idea was conceived at the end. By the way back then they were projecting a 7 percent 8 percent rate of annual increase in electric demand which meant it doubled every eight nine 10 years. This latest projection they've come out with a few months ago says that the electricity demand is going to increase 2.8 percent a year. A significant difference. And they had some real financial incentives facing them by the end of the year which caused it which was the straw that broke that camel's back. One of them being the five and a half billion dollar tax write off they could get on the revenue act of 78. And the other being.

The stipulations that had been made during your last rate increase by the public Advocate's Office which represents consumers that if they didn't write off the floating nuclear power plant by the end of this year it was going to be some real trouble over deciding who was going to pay the expenses. About 300 billion dollars that is the energy is put into it whether it be the ratepayers or the stockholders. Are Getting back to the basic economic question we have a moment or two left. I'd like to get a judgment from each of you about what the. Are. About what this OPEC's. Increase means in terms of new jersey's recovery. From. The recession that we've been in to. For. Well it's hard to tell so far. We know that the price of gas is going to go up maybe one cent a gallon maybe three cents a gallon. We know that it's going to be tough on some industries who use a high. Large amounts of energy to produce what they produce. But New Jersey in general is already an energy efficient state. We use a lot less per capita than other states as industrialized as ours and so the actual

effects of this increase may be less on us and it is on places like Texas. But it's going to slow things down. I think that's for sure. Jim as Tom said slowing things down and one thing about New Jersey is that when it's gone it's a recession. Historically it's gone deeper than other parts of the country and it's been the last to pull out. So if there is an effect it's going to cause all of these severe effects. That's what I think about going into it. That wraps up our discussion for this week. Thank you both for joining us. James McWhinnie of the Newark Star-Ledger is Washington bureau and Tom O'Neil of New Jersey magazine. And that's this week in New Jersey. I'm quite involved in. Recapping our top stories tonight. Authorities have charged Jeannes Alinsky with homicide in the gruesome murder and decapitation of her mother Zelinsky is now in a psychiatric hospital. Officials in Camden County are looking for suspects in the break in at a sewage plant and a Union County man has been charged with embezzlement of funds from an anti-poverty agency.

And that's New Jersey Nightly News the Saturday edition. I'm Sandra King. Bloodline joins me in wishing you a good night and Happy Holidays.